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I've rated hundreds of movies, and Netflix's recommendation algorithm does get trained. It gets better for sure.

Net flix actually awarded 1M$ US for the best algorithm for recommending movies. So, pretty much, if it still isn't working, it probably never will. Two good ones me likey: Let the Right One In - best vampire movie ever made, but you have to not mind subtitles - and The Broken. But I prefer creepy flicks.

Oh my god, I LOVE it!!!!!! What a wonderfully creative idea!

You look impossibly cute, as is almost always the case. That second pic is priceless.

Happy Halloween!

That's a shame. Fangs and scales sound like a fine combination.

did you go as the creature from that movie Hisss?

Tu es belle avec les lunettes!

You look awesome both has human and vampire!

My closest run-in to those predictions were a dog named Snooki (pre-dating Jersey Shore therefore the dog doesn't get hassled over who it was named after haha) and a dude dressed as a big nerd who later thought it was too hot and basically became an incarnation of The Situation. Who would have thought a small Halloween party could bring that much action at once? Well, I guess it doesn't sound like much but it truly was! haha

Have fun.
I'd expect to see Lady Gaga, apparently a lot of people are buying prefab Gaga costumes, and I'm sure people are making their own.

Was hoping to be in Montreal this year, but it looks likes I will miss that exhibit, looks interesting. Great to see all the love for your set, it definitely deserved it.

Please stop mentioning Alex K. 'cause each time you do, I get the itch to get more work done and he just finished my sleeve

And they don't seem to listen when you tell them 'shut up, i'm thrying to sleep'. They just keep purring...

it's a cat world. we're just necessary nuisances

I'm not fluent in anything beyond English - took some German in HS and a little Spanish in Jr High, but my brain just isn't wired right for extensive memorization. My impression is that mechanical, literal translation can work OK for some simple kinds of writing, although come to think of it, the instructions that come with just about every simple product from China these days really suck, so maybe not even then. But for literature or any sort of writing with an artistic component, literal translations don't work very well at all. Literary translation is more art than science because shading and texture can be so difficult to translate. When you're dealing with a writer who has a very profound command of their native language, the task becomes extremely difficult. I can only imagine the challenge involved with trying to translate someone like Vladimir Nabokov into English, or Henry James into Italian.

In the aftermath of the meeting my face had with a chair-back after tripping in my darkened living room last night, it looks like I'll be able to scare small children with no costume at all this Halloween.

I think the following is a wicked example for a german song text,
translated into english. It kind of plays with the whole translation thing...
For the english version typical german school english is used
(as Im probably using it as well), and its kind of a literal translation,
even with german sentence structure, but at the same time very self-ironic.
For a native german speaker the english version
(knowing the words of the original) is really funny, while the german version
is rather kind of tragic-comic.
But I have no idea, if someone who is not native german speaking
can laugh about it, so that would be interesting to find out.

English version:



German original:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItLGYS7BCAY

V ielen glueck fraulein.

Hope the presentation went well!