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The Simpsons by the Data

Todd W. Schneider

An analysis of the first 27 seasons of The Simpsons, featuring great plots and memes. The analysis covers the most significant side characters, the presence of a pattern of patriarchy, declining TV ratings, and highlights some of the most relevant sentences.

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In search of the least viewed article on Wikipedia

Colin Morris

"Prize for least popular article of 2021 is shared by two articles which received exactly 3 probably-human pageviews."

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A better lesson

Rodney Brooks

"So my take on Rich Sutton’s piece is that the lesson we should learn from the last seventy years of AI research is not at all that we should just use more computation and that always wins. "

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