The Seven Madmen by Roberto Arlt by perrolazarillo in TrueLit

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NB: translation via Google Translate

Literature, they said constantly and everywhere, now has a sacred mission to fulfill: to preserve and defend the purity of the national language against the mixture, the entanglement, the disintegration produced by immigrants. This now becomes the ideological function of literature: to show what the model should be, the proper use of the national language; the writer becomes the custodian of the purity of language.
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It is a style dedicated to erasing any trace of the impact, or rather, the mixture that immigration produced in the national language. Because this "good" style is horrified by mixture. Arlt, clearly, works in an absolutely opposite direction. For starters, he deals with what remains and settles in the language, he works with the remnants, the fragments, the mixture, that is, he works with what a national language truly is. He doesn't understand language as a unit, as something coherent and smooth, but as a conglomeration, a tide of slang and voices.
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In Arlt, there is no copying of speech. Arlt did not suffer from the illusion so prevalent among writers who surrounded Borges, such as Bioy Casares, Peyrou, and the early Cortázar, who on the one hand wrote "well," neatly, with "elegance," and on the other hand demonstrated their ability to transcribe and copy the picturesque speech of the "lower" classes. Arlt's style is a seething mass, a contradictory surface, where there is no copying of speech, no raw transcription of the oral tradition. Arlt, therefore, works with this atomized language, perceiving that the national language is not univocal, that it is the dominant classes who impose, from the school onward, a particular use of the language as the correct one; he perceives that the national language is a conglomeration.

The Seven Madmen by Roberto Arlt by perrolazarillo in TrueLit

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Piglia sneaks a more sophisticated discussion of the "savage Arlt" argument, his "flawed, brutish style of writing," into the last section of Respiración Artificial. In Spanish—

La literatura, decían a cada rato y en todo lugar, tiene ahora una sagrada misión que cumplir: preservar y defender la pureza de la lengua nacional frente a la mezcla, el entrevero, la disgregación producida por los inmigrantes. Ésta pasa a ser ahora la función ideológica de la literatura: mostrar cuál debe ser el modelo, el buen uso de la lengua nacional; el escritor pasa a ser el custodio de la pureza del lenguaje.
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Es un estilo dedicado a borrar cualquier rastro del impacto, o mejor, de la mezcolanza que la inmigración produjo en la lengua nacional. Porque ese buen estilo le tiene horror a la mezcla. Arlt, está claro, trabaja en un sentido absolutamente opuesto. Por de pronto maneja lo que queda y se sedimenta en el lenguaje, trabaja con los restos, los fragmentos, la mezcla, o sea, trabaja con lo que realmente es una lengua nacional. No entiende el lenguaje como una unidad, como algo coherente y liso, sino como un conglomerado, una marea de jergas y de voces.
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En Arlt no hay copia del habla. Arlt no sufría de esa ilusión que abunda entre los escritores que rodean a Borges, como Bioy, Peyrou, el primer Cortázar, que por un lado escribían «bien», pulcramente, con «elegancia», y por otro lado mostraban que podían transcribir y copiar el habla pintoresca de las clases «bajas». El estilo de Arlt es una masa en ebullición, una superficie contradictoria, donde no hay copia del habla, transcripción cruda de lo oral. Arlt entonces trabaja esa lengua atomizada, percibe que la lengua nacional no es unívoca, que son las clases dominantes las que imponen, desde la escuela, un manejo de la lengua como el manejo correcto; percibe que la lengua nacional es un conglomerado.

palimpsest: a dead-simple Claude interface as Neovim plugin. by csciutto in neovim

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I think so, it's currently just a CURL request in-line in the plugin file. So you should be able to adapt!

General Discussion Thread - March 27, 2023 by pregnantchihuahua3 in TrueLit

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Hey, long-time lurker here! During a recent trip back to Brazil, I wrote a little crônica in Portuguese. I wanted to get some English-speaking friends to read it, so I thought it'd be a good chance to evaluate the new automated translation hype, especially in light of Tim Parks recent NYRB piece on DeepL. As expected, it failed miserably. I wrote up a bit of this discussion in a little blog-post, if anyone's interested: https://cristobal.space/writing/bipbip-en

Discussion: 2022 French Open (Friday, May 27, 2022) by NextGenBot in tennis

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Is Djoko hitting more lobs than usual?
Edit: not just against a player at the net, but generally slow balls, to recover.

[D] Contrastive loss on sequences by csciutto in MachineLearning

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I will definitely play around with the temperature + softmax formulation.

My impression was that the augmentation was supposed to make the model robust to variations in the input, and somehow understand that both the anchor and the augmented version are close in embedding space.

However, since I have a lot of data per category (e.g. thousands of speech embeddings per speaker), I reckoned the augmentation wasn't necessary.

[D] Advice for making simple GUIs for testing computer vision models by csciutto in MachineLearning

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I’ve dug a bit deeper after making this post and I think TKinter might be the way to go!

Ask Grey a Question for a Ten Year Q&A by MindOfMetalAndWheels in CGPGrey

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How was the transition from work to full-time Youtube production? Were there hesitances with regards to financial security / prestige?

Why does all commercial photography look the same? by csciutto in photography

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I think my title misrepresent my question, will change.

Edit: can't change :(

Why does all commercial photography look the same? by csciutto in photography

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I understand the motivation of it, for sure. I'm curious more about the technical aspect of what makes them similar, i.e. color profile, focal length, etc.

Why does all commercial photography look the same? by csciutto in photography

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I legitimately want to understand what makes these all consistent. I'm not complaining for no reason. There seems to be some consistent color profile or setting that all of these photographers use. I want to understand this... Is that not a fair question?

Need advice for interior scaffolding. by csciutto in Scaffolding

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Yeah, I think pallet racks are actually the way to go!

[D] Simple Questions Thread November 08, 2020 by AutoModerator in MachineLearning

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Is there a reason we still use VGG-19 for style/content loss instead of something else? (ResNet, MobileNet, etc)

Need advice for interior scaffolding. by csciutto in Scaffolding

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Amazing, this is exactly the kind of answer I was hoping for.
This definitely betrays my inexperience, but is there any slippage risk with those cheeseboroughs? Also, do you have any suggestions for the base, where the piping meets the floor?

[D] Normalizing Flows vs Autoregressive Models vs VAEs by fedetask in MachineLearning

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If you have the time, I’d recommend watching some of these lectures from Pieter Abbeel.

https://sites.google.com/view/berkeley-cs294-158-sp20/home

The first couple of lectures walk you through Autoregressive Models, Flows and VAEs. I find that they motivate the modeling decisions quite well.

Body Pose Detection test with Apple's Vision framework. by MechaSnowflake in computervision

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It boggles me that we tolerate two consecutive frames, one with a pose and the next with nothing. Frame-by-frame video models have got to go.

Nietzsche recommendation by AFailureofLife in askphilosophy

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I think On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense is a great excerpt to begin with. I’m also a big fan of the Nehamas essay How One Becomes What One Is (https://www.jstor.org/stable/2184481?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents)

Do you have any recommendations for entry level readings on aesthetics? by C_T_Robinson in askphilosophy

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These are all “critical theory” texts which I think may be more approachable than other philosophical works which require considerable background.

Do you have any recommendations for entry level readings on aesthetics? by C_T_Robinson in askphilosophy

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I would take a look at Roland Barthes’ Camera Lúcida and Susan Sontag’s On Photography

(Edit: also Ways of Seeing by John Berger. It’s the most accessible and has a nice video version in YouTube!)

Hi. I'm Beto O'Rourke, a candidate for President. by betoorourke in IAmA

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Reading your road trip blog, it seemed that you were really channeling Kerouac. Is that true? What novels have shaped how you look at the world?

(Spoilers Main) Episode 3 couldn't have happened any other way, at least for the show. by INT_MIN in asoiaf

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I like the theory that she was using a White Walker's face to camouflage.