Among the upper class in 18th century pre-Victorian Britain, pubic hair from one’s lover was frequently collected as a souvenir.

Basham, he noted, was smart, knew model tricks about posing and makeup, and used social media hacks such as SEO and A/B testing. (“For example, although her Instagram photos are G-rated, any hint of side-boob adds at least 10% to her engagement.”) 

First, we build a machine learning model that predicts a post’s quality (q) by training a binomial regression model using only textual features extracted from the post’s content, i.e. q is the predicted proportion of a post’s up-votes. This way we are able to model the relationship between the content of a post and the post’s quality. This model was trained on half the posts in the community, and used to predict q for the other half (mean R = 0.22).

We validate this model using human-labeled text quality scores obtained for a sample of posts (n = 171). Using Crowdflower, a crowdsourcing platform, workers were asked to label posts as either “good” (defined as something that a user would want to read, or that contributes to the discussion), or “bad” (the opposite).

Tiger is an insult to humanity. Invisible ball after invisible ball. As if you were the dragon Shiryu, you have to learn to see with your cosmos. Connect quadrangular blindly, one after another.

In other circumstances, he would have been a comic figure, all mouth and trousers, in love with the orotund paragraph.

Psychots are coalescences of psychotic energy. And they hate you.

If there’s one thing we can learn from this, it’s that butternut squash isn’t cheese, and it will never become cheese – no matter how much we complain about it.

Inside every brain, be it that of a communist revolutionary or a bourgeois swine,
there exist a class of proteins called the neurotrophic factors.

In addition to his plays and fiction, Schnitzler meticulously kept a diary from the age of 17 until two days before his death. The manuscript, which runs to almost 8,000 pages, is most notable for Schnitzler’s casual descriptions of sexual conquests – he was often in relationships with several women at once, and for a period of some years he kept a record of every orgasm.

For three solid minutes, we stared at a huge Chevrolet logo. Just stared at it. Nothing else was happening. Three minutes.