#Christine Mitchell

[walrusmagazine]

How Canada Accidentally Helped Crack Computer Translation

A technological whodunit—featuring Parliament, computer scientists, and a tipsy plane flight

Sometime in the mid-1980s, a bulky magnetic tape reel—an early form of data storage—arrived at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, IBM’s headquarters in Yorktown Heights, New York. It contained, by some reports, over 100 million words of text in French and English. It was the sum of fourteen years of Canadian parliamentary dialogue: a computer-readable version of Hansard, the official record of what transpires in legislative debate.

To this day, nobody is quite sure who sent the tape reel or whether they were authorized to forward it to IBM. But computer scientists there started experimenting with the data it contained, wondering if they could use it to assist in their efforts to develop a method for automated translation.

Read more at thewalrus.ca.

Illustration by Raymond Biesinger (fifteen.ca)

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Leprechauns, Gold and Christmas?

The writer reviews 1981’s “The Leprechauns’ Christmas Gold," criticizing its lackluster story, forgettable songs, and problematic Irish accents. Despite these shortcomings, they suggest viewers form their own opinion about the movie.

Getting back to my Rankin/Bass marathon, after a bout of sickness, I’m taking a look at 1981’s “The Leprechauns’ Christmas Gold.” If you know this one, congrats because I’ve tried to mention this movie to friends and have gotten crazy looks. I cannot say I remember this one very well, I just know I’ve seen it a few times. I don’t recall it airing very often, nor do I think it was a movie we look…

[curator-on-ao3]

Okay, so we all know that in “The Cage,” Pike said:

So let’s also remember …

Una

is

in

charge

of

personnel.

[startrekfemme]

Crossposting this from my Twitter

[morgansdeb]

WHISPERS - HALSEY

[pixiedane]

Strange New Worlds 2.1: The Broken Circle

Subtitle: war games (don't make me angry!)

Pixie Recaps Strange New Worlds | The Broken Circle

[rosalie-starfall]

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Subspace Rhapsody - Track List

Star Trek Strange New Worlds Main Title (Subspace Rhapsody Version)

Status Report

Connect to Your Truth

How Would That Feel

Private Conversation

Keeping Secrets

I’m Ready

I’m the X

Keep Us Connected

We Are One

Subspace Rhapsody End Credit Medley

[stemmefemme]

Okay but would anyone be interested in a Strange New Worlds femslash week?

[birdietrait]

the happy family <3

[justreckin]

headcanon that it was Pike's Enterprise crew that started the tradition of Captain's Day because Erica wanted an excuse to give Pike kitschy Father's Day type gifts

[righthandedleftturn]

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ladies

[barryallenisbisexual]

SNW is doing such a good job having a ton of women characters and I really hope they do some cool plots w the bridge ladies this season

Also hoping they do literally anything non romance based for Christine.

Super happy they aren't yelling girl power every five seconds *cough avengers all women shot cough cough* and I'm ready for them to back it up with some deeper explorations of the women characters

[pathlit]

⤷ ✧ @nursc / continued.

shutting up as she'd ordered first would've been the smart course of action here, but cam's zero for two on smart choices today, and why break a losing streak? so, instead, of course he has to point out the flaw in her instructions. ❛ you realize I can't do both, right? ❜ besides, surely it didn't matter what had happened. it was stupid. then again, it's always stupid, isn't it? one trouble or another, and maybe if he'd used a little more common sense, he wouldn't have landed himself in this predicament.

he's grateful, truly grateful, not to be alone on this accursed planet ( actually, quite a lovely planet, except for the fact that they have no way off ). that gratitude, however, stands at sharp odds with the way that right now he might well gladly give that right arm not to have to explain that he had dislocated ( and himself set back in its joint ) his shoulder in a series of poorly conceived plans.

it'll be fine in the morning, he tells her silently, possessing enough sense to recognize that saying the words aloud will only dig his grave a little deeper. it is a lie, he knows, but so long as he's cautious with the arm over subsequent days, the worst he'll contend with is pain sure to be trivial compared to the way his spine flares at him on a regular basis. ❛ I think we should really be focusing on what's important here, which is those fruits. ❜ fruits that had been neither the object of his excursion nor the cause of his injury, but were certainly a silver lining of the whole thing. ❛ because really someone other than me should confirm that they're actually edible. ❜

( for once though, despite his self-deprecating joke, he's certain in his own evaluation. )

[dozydawn]

Christine Dunham in The Firebird, 1992. Photographed by Jack Mitchell.

[morgansdeb]

4.11 "HELLO, DEXTER MORGAN" // 7.10 "THE DARK... WHATEVER"

[pixiereblogs]

Pixie Recaps Strange New Worlds | The Broken Circle