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OPINION: AI is ruining our writing — and the em dash is the perfect example

I still think about the feedback I got on one of my first history essays in high school: “good writing, but you rely too much on semi-colons and em dashes.” It was true — I overused these punctuation ...
IEEE

An Expectation Maximization Sample Transfer Identification Method for Dynamic Systems Under Nonideal Data

Abstract: This article proposes an expectation maximization sample transfer identification (EM-STI) algorithm to address the parameter identification problem in dynamic systems with nonideal data.
Variety

Brendan Fraser Says ‘Batgirl’ Cancellation Is an Example of Movies Being ‘Commodified’ in Hollywood: ‘It’s More Valuable to Burn it Down and Get the Insurance’

“The product— I’m sorry ‘content’—is being commodified to the extent that it’s more valuable to burn it down and get the insurance on it than to give it a shot in the marketplace,” Fraser said. “I ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Ho, H.J., Pyne, S. and Lin, T.I. (2011) Maximum Likelihood Inference for Mixtures of Skew Student-T-Normal Distributions through Practical Em-Type Algorithms. Statistics and ...

ABSTRACT: For an independent and identically distributed skew-t-normal random sequence, this paper establishes the limit distribution of normalized sample range M n − m n . Based on the optimal ...
BGR

Squid Game's Unnecessary Final Season Is Another Example Of Algorithms Trumping Art

There's a familiar TV discourse taking shape online right now, the kind that I suspect will look awfully familiar to you if you remember the way Game of Thrones crashed and burned in its eighth and ...
Variety

Bob Iger Says ‘Thunderbolts*’ Is ‘First and Best’ Example of Marvel’s New Movie Strategy: ‘We Lost a Little Focus by Making Too Much’

Disney‘s CEO Bob Iger has admitted the company’s film slate has struggled in post-pandemic times by focusing too much on quantity and not enough on quality. The Marvel Cinematic Universe, in ...
Rolling Stone

André 3000’s Piano Record Is a Bold Example of Not Knowing Exactly What You’re Doing

In case you had any doubts, André 3000 is living his — or anyone’s — best life. Instead of doing what people want or expect, he’s out here following his muse wherever it takes him. In 7 Piano Sketches ...