Readit Newssidkhanooja commented on Researchers analysed novels to reveal six story types bbc.com/culture/article/2... · Posted by u/rzk
If this article interested you then I'd highly recommend checking out TVTropes (https://tvtropes.org/) (trope roughly means any convention of fiction), if you've not already!
Is there another article, where we can read the content?
Or can somebody summarize the article?
I have no FT subscription :(
sidkhanooja commented on Ask HN: What is the most mind expanding book(s) you have read till date? · Posted by u/optbuild
For this year, mine was Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.
TL;DR - the book explains how humans are predictably irrational and how seeming cognitive ease in decisioning is simply laziness in action since the brain will substitute a tough decision for a similar but easy one! It has made me reflect upon why I think the way I do, helped me to remove most bias from my actions, and also has a great suggestion that you should ask others to check you if you sound stupid, which is not great for your ego but is necessary nonetheless.
Writing is one field that I think won't be able to achieve the 'human' touch anytime soon. Art? Sure, as we have already seen with DALL-E and the like. Music? Doubtful (look up Kandrake-Z for an example), but not sure if it will expand beyond plunderphonics and noise. But writing? Meh.
I don't know if anyone even uses content-generating AIs like this for writing - but I'd be glad to change my mind by seeing some hard numbers. I mean, except for incomprehensible content-generated articles that pop up on searches only because of PageRank's flaws.
There's no need of putting this as a separate post - you can paste the same text in your profile, your Keybase and HN accounts will get linked perfectly fine.
sidkhanooja commented on Spotifree – Free OS X App for Muting Spotify Ads spotifree.gordinskiy.com/... · Posted by u/gprasanth
Most ads on Spotify are not even intrusive - they are (in)famously bad for advertising Spotify's own premium service (try premium for free!).
This is just ridiculous. If you're annoyed by the ads, get a subscription then.
sidkhanooja commented on The Scene: Pirates Ripping Content from Amazon and Netflix torrentfreak.com/the-scen... · Posted by u/Ultramanoid
Tangential, but I've recently noticed that due to huge fragmentation in the streaming industry (Netflix, PrimeVideo, Hulu, Disney+ et al.), I'm only using two - Netflix and PrimeVideo, and a third torrent streaming service (PopcornTime) when I can't find a specific movie/TV series.
I prefer to use the third option as few as possible, but I find myself having to use it more and more often as the years go by - geolocked content, huge swathes of content being removed on the whims of providers (The Office comes to mind), and 'originals' that are beyond even the so-bad-it's-good category that cannot even begin to fill the void left by the good content leaving.
I cannot ever see myself subscribing to a plethora of services - the best case is subscribing to a service when it's absolutely necessary (HBO/Hotstar) and then unsubscribing when you're done, which is not at all conducive to fulfilling long-term revenue plans of such services.
So what is the endgame of such services? Is it simply to build a huge catalog of content that you'll mindlessly devour whenever you're bored? Or something else?
Now I'm planning to read V for Vendetta, The Killing Joke, Batman: Year One, and some more. I've finally come around to comics as an art form, and I couldn't be happier!