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The nine rules of “Freddish”: the positive, inclusive empathic language of Mr Rogers

From an excerpt from last year's The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers, the rules of "Freddish" -- as Mr Rogers' crewmembers jokingly referred to the rigorous rules that Rogers used to revise his scripts to make them appropriate and useful for the preschoolers in his audience.

Rogers' nine rules are a ...

Self-driving car jargon

Bruce Sterling republishes the acronyms in a recent Daimler white-paper on self-driving cars:

Advanced Driver Assistance System Automated Driving System Automotive Safety Integrity Level Automotive Information Sharing and Analysis Center AUTOmotive Open System Architecture Computer Emergency Response Team Central Processing Unit Car Park Pilot Cyclic Redundancy Check Dynamic Driving Task (Statistisches Bundesamt) Federal Statistical Office of Germany Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis Driver-in-the-Loop Deep ...

Movie theater changed “Hellboy” to “Heckboy” on marquee

The Roxy 8 Movie Theater in Dickson, Tennessee changed the title of Hellboy to Heckboy on its marquee. From WZTV:

(Owner Belinda) Daniel told FOX 17 News that she has never displayed any words on the sign that may be seen as profanity, especially since the Roxy is next to Oakmont Elementary School...

“As it turned ...

A madlibs science fiction plot generator

Grether Labs's Science Fiction Plot Generator can sure pick 'em: "You are friends with a talking fireplace, and you are working to solve this ancient puzzle before the creatures consume you"; "You are a cyan-eyed cartographer who is finding the awful truth beneath this false utopia, and who is struggling with the terribly thick ...

Some pretty impressive machine-learning generated poetry courtesy of GPT-2

GPT-2 is Open AI's language-generation model (last seen around these parts as a means of detecting machine-generated text); it's powerful and cool, and Gwern Branwen fed it the Project Gutenberg poetry corpus to see what kind of poetry it would write.

Pretty good poetry, as it turns out.

Scott Alexander (previously) does a ...