Re: what exactly is breaking?

2020-06-04 Thread Douglas Bagnall
On 3/06/20 5:48 am, tbyfield wrote: > everything as *broken* is a world in the past tense; all you can do is > *rebuild* — another word that tracks "is broken" with almost hilarious > precision... > > >

Re: The effect of "Nettime is in bad shape" on user agent ratios

2019-09-04 Thread Douglas Bagnall
On 4/09/19 4:41 am, John Preston wrote: > Thanks Douglas. I like this. I would like to play with this on a > wider scale (listiverse). Do you have a script to scrape out the > headers from the archived messages or something? Not if you mean web archives. If you mean mbox files, then yes -- last

Re: The effect of "Nettime is in bad shape" on user agent ratios

2019-09-04 Thread Douglas Bagnall
On 4/09/19 6:27 am, Tomasz Rola wrote: >> What should seem weird is that one third of us are using Gmail. > > _Only_ one third? Very weird, indeed. Actually what I said was wrong. A third of the *posts* are from Gmail. That is a worthy distinction to make in all circumstances, but in nettime we

The effect of "Nettime is in bad shape" on user agent ratios

2019-09-03 Thread Douglas Bagnall
This year, up until the seventh of June, Nettime had contributions from email clients in the following proportions: |### 35.1% Gmail |#17.2% Apple Mail |##9.9% Thunderbird (Linux) |##

Re: Some background to Christchurch

2019-03-27 Thread Douglas Bagnall
On 26/03/19 9:44 AM, Luke Munn wrote: > Sure, the Springbok protests were hugely formative, but I would say boiling > anything down to one event is placing too much emphasis on it. > > With respect, dating the 'beginning' of inequalities and civil unrest back > to 1981 is also a pretty

Re: Deep Fool

2017-12-30 Thread Douglas Bagnall
On 29/12/17 20:05, Morlock Elloi wrote: > Longer version and remarks: current ML systems appear to be linear, > so it's possible to synthesize diversions even without knowing how a > particular system works. Systems can be fooled to miscatergorize > visual images (turtle gets recognized as a

Re: artfcity: Turbulence.org Going Offline

2016-05-27 Thread Douglas Bagnall
As it happens, according to some measures[1][2], I am the reigning world champion of amateur author identification, a hobby I picked up a couple of years ago in response to a particular political situation in New Zealand. On 26/05/16 03:22, t byfield wrote: > Stylometry tries to measure a tiny