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kewhoon A look at the creative process behind Bluey and Cocomelon (2024)

Bluey is excellence, but I’ve always said Bluey is a kids show for parents.

It’s representation of how the parents behave around, and communicate with, their kids, and the numerous examples of ideas for how to play with your children make the show invaluable to parents.

The fact that kids love it too only reinforces its clever brilliance.

kewhoon AI Thinks It Cracked Kryptos. The Artist Behind It Says No Chance

> What took 35 years and even the NSA with all their resources could not do I was able to do in only 3 hours before I even had my morning coffee,” it began, before the writer showed Sanborn what they believed to be the cosmically elusive solution. “History’s rewritten,” wrote the submitter. “no errors 100% cracked.”

I liked the snark from gizmodos report:

> > The smugness is, frankly, inexplicable. Even if they did successfully crack Sanborn’s code using AI (which, for the record, Sanborn says they haven’t even gotten close), what is it about asking a machine to do the work for you that generates such self-satisfaction?

Hear, hear.

https://gizmodo.com/chatbots-have-convinced-idiots-that-they...

kewhoon "The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab" – a "study"

Was confused about this part the last time I saw this posted online:

> With a mighty Pearson's correlation of 0.091, the data indicates that this could be true!

This sounds like op thinks the data supports the hypothesis.

One would assume a negative result for the hypothesis would occur when there is a bias in the upper left quadrant, where shortest distance and highest score intersect, and looking at the graphs in figures 8 and 9, to me, there appears a bias there.