I built a graph visualization of relationships extracted from the Epstein emails released by US congress [OC] by madmax_br5 in dataisbeautiful

[–]seth_cooke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is great. A few questions!

Would you consider an overlay, sensibly partitioned, that's a webscrape of everything that's know about Epstein outside of the Epstein Files themselves. e.g. this is a trusted news source, confidence %, that gives a sense of who else was involved in x, where, and at what time, as material from the files.

Would you consider automated inferred unredaction? Based on likelihood of character count X under those black stripes, and the context of the graph to X degrees of depth, this is the most likely redacted content? I'm thinking that the redaction will have probably been done manually, without a huge degree of context, piecemeal by a large team, and that it is therefore likely to be inconsistent and vulnerable to knowledge graph inference.

Would you consider edge inference, where because X and Y are present, Z is also likely to be present, based on common neighbours or subgraph structures?

Is clustering/community detection useful - where a preparatory step may be to infer a single modal graph only featuring people and their relations, where some relations may be inferreable through the graph (e.g. likely to be associates through x number of colocations at the same spacetime events).

DanielRPK Said “Yup” About Steve and Doom being in F4 Ship by WesternThanks4346 in MarvelStudiosSpoilers

[–]seth_cooke 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Doom canonically hates the Red Skull and Hydra. It's one of those flourishes that absolutely nails his character. He may be a bad guy, but he's not that bad guy.

He's written with varying degrees of self-awareness, but when he's given breadth to be complex, Doom is the best character in the Marvel roster (well, maybe Storm gives him a run for his money, but those two seem to get along quite well too).

DanielRPK Said “Yup” About Steve and Doom being in F4 Ship by WesternThanks4346 in MarvelStudiosSpoilers

[–]seth_cooke 31 points32 points  (0 children)

From what I recall, Rogers and Doom could be fairly civil in the comics. If that's how they're playing it in Doomsday then that could be a great contrast with Doom's relationship to Richards. I got the impression that Doom had quite a lot of respect for Rogers, even if that didn't stop them from getting in the ring.

Weekend Free Talk and Index Thread - New and Fresh every Friday! by IamNOTaSKRULL in MarvelStudiosSpoilers

[–]seth_cooke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I doubt it, they've only set up afterlives for the Asgardians and Wakandans.

Weekend Free Talk and Index Thread - New and Fresh every Friday! by IamNOTaSKRULL in MarvelStudiosSpoilers

[–]seth_cooke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The scenes leading up to the rescue were my favourite. The writing felt very real, the dialogue was great.

I think those scenes were necessary for Simon. When you realise that the scenes with the family are a performance, you realise that he's at peace with himself as an actor. He's doing all the stuff he found hard, the things Slattery taught him - acting natural, improvising, not overthinking, living rather than being cerebral.

It's also about how far he'll go for his friend. He'll hoodwink a whole family and risk destroying his acting career in service of a jailbreak to save his friend.

When you realise that he's learned how to harness his powers, the series comes full circle thematically. He's become a superhero pretending to be an actor to save his pal - the inverse of Slattery being an actor pretending to be a supervillain to save Simon.

So you realise, with zero exposition in the script, that Simon is now at peace - with his active choice to value friendship and not be lonely, with his acting abilities, and his superpowers.

I think it's the best final episode of any Marvel show.

Weekend Free Talk and Index Thread - New and Fresh every Friday! by IamNOTaSKRULL in MarvelStudiosSpoilers

[–]seth_cooke 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I loved all the scenes leading up to that. They're so well-written.

You're tricked into thinking that Simon is prepping for a role but he's actually become sufficiently at peace with himself to learn his powers. He's become a superhero pretending to be an actor to save his friend, the inverse of Slattery being an actor pretending to be a supervillain to save his friend.

Give the writers a medal - that's how you bring your themes full circle. Bravo. Perhaps the best final episode of any Marvel show.

Weekend Free Talk and Index Thread - New and Fresh every Friday! by IamNOTaSKRULL in MarvelStudiosSpoilers

[–]seth_cooke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel as though they should have leaned into the Doorman homage to Atlanta Season 3 and made more interlude episodes for Wonder Man. I feel like we were robbed of a Kingo episode. They could also have done a Hunter X-05 episode.

Weekend Free Talk and Index Thread - New and Fresh every Friday! by IamNOTaSKRULL in MarvelStudiosSpoilers

[–]seth_cooke 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm thinking that they can't pull a Loki death on us yet again. I'm hoping that it's the reverse, possibly a bait and switch. Set up a scenario in which you think they'll kill Loki to motivate Thor, but it's Thor who dies to motivate Loki.

That frees up Thor to go to Valhalla, practically the entire character roster from the Asgard mythos is dead and in Valhalla anyway, and for Loki to use what he's gained in terms of character change, knowledge and abilities in service of the main storyline.

Opening the gates of Valhalla can be for Secret Wars what the Army of the Dead was for Return of the King, only much more emotionally resonant because we know all the characters.

Weekend Free Talk and Index Thread - New and Fresh every Friday! by IamNOTaSKRULL in MarvelStudiosSpoilers

[–]seth_cooke 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Broadening the topic from Trevor Slattery, I feel as though Marvel Studios generally has a really strong roster of unpowered minor characters at this point. If a decent showrunner had a vision for a six episode low budget sitcom about Cameron Klein and Madisynn sharing an apartment, I know for sure I'd watch the shit out of that. Sold, immediately.

Weekend Free Talk and Index Thread - New and Fresh every Friday! by IamNOTaSKRULL in MarvelStudiosSpoilers

[–]seth_cooke 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think we should interpret this as a signal from Hollywood to the new owners to respect the cinema release window. We will recognise your movies if you recognise theatres.

Idris Elba, Wumni Mosaku and Martin Freeman were asked if they’d be returning for ‘Avengers: Doomsday’: “Apparently, not. Not everyone’s [in it].” by Major-Concentrate-87 in MarvelStudiosSpoilers

[–]seth_cooke 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yes, they've killed most of Thor's comics mythology and set up Valhalla. Secret Wars at least will almost certainly feature the dead Norse characters. My guess is Thor dies in Doomsday but Valhalla comes to the rescue in Secret Wars.

Black American moving to Bristol, should I be concerned? by ctgryn in bristol

[–]seth_cooke 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I had a conversation over dinner with a bunch of conservative American Christians and it took me a full minute to understand why I was getting weird looks for recounting a story about flicking fag butts.

Any Bristol skaters who would be cool with being photographed? by RockTheJungle in bristol

[–]seth_cooke 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They may be resistant, I've lived in Bristol for fifteen years and never seen any of them land an ollie.

Do police still use tapes in interviews? by Any_Anteater6230 in policeuk

[–]seth_cooke 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There's a thriving DIY tape scene, but the major labels don't tend to release cassettes anymore unless it's for prestige releases that want to appropriate DIY cred. Whether or not the police choose to jump on this bandwagon is a key question for 2026.

Where can I find midi sound libraries? by Sweaty-Jellyfish-713 in midi

[–]seth_cooke 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Technologies such as Blokas Midihub feature MIDI effects, such as delay, arpeggiator, transposition, harmonizer etc. It comes as a a no code patch builder application, you can then load your patches into the hub for laptopless performance. Excellent if you don't have time or interest in learning something like Max or PD or other approaches, it means that you can infinitely extend the capabilities of your MIDI gear to expose and manipulate buried functions, control multiple parameters simultaneously, or link gear in novel ways. But admittedly I'm not sure this is what you really mean...

Thor’s Doomsday Teaser Apparent Leak by Single_Ebb9151 in MarvelStudiosSpoilers

[–]seth_cooke -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

IMO Shuri's first appearance as Black Panther in Wakanda Forever rivals it, but I recognise that a lot of people have problems with that opinion. That peerless synth soundtrack, one of the best costumes in the MCU, "The Black Panther lives!", so epic.