2016-05-16 @ 16.12.55 ∈ In English

Ping +Kaj Sotala "Our release includes all the code needed to train new SyntaxNet models on your own data, as well as Parsey McParseface, an English parser that we have trained for you and that you can use to analyze English text."

2016-05-15 @ 14.35.12 ∈ Earworm

(Going slightly outside the collection boundaries here)

Australia's entry [1] was my bet for last night's Eurovision winner, but mainly because theirs was the only one I'd actually listened to just prior to the final. After watching the first entries last night Ukraine was the only one besides Australia to stand out musically for me, though I still liked Sound Of Silence better. But listening to 1944 today, at least the official video [2], it sounds somewhat stale. Perhaps their live performance was more vivid somehow? Sound Of Silence still sounds good, as does Bulgaria's entry [3], which I also liked last night.

(Note that I only watched perhaps less than half of the final before going to sleep, and so my comparison doesn't include any of the later entries.)

* [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EG_Jtw4OyU
* [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxS6eKEOdLQ
* [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKsNfccUTuk

2016-05-11 @ 19.31.50 ∈ In English

"In Matthews’ experiments, the most dominant mice — those that win in fights against their cage mates and have priority access to food and other resources — show the strongest reaction to having their loneliness neurons stimulated. At those times, the highest ranking animals search out companionship more fervently than animals on the lowest rungs of the social ladder. These mice also avoid stimulation of the loneliness neurons more avidly than the lower ranking members, suggesting that the dominant mice find it more unpleasant. The lowest ranked mice, in contrast, didn’t seem to mind being alone. Perhaps they enjoyed isolation, being free of their harassers."

New Evidence for the Necessity of Loneliness | Quanta Magazine