"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

---Aristotle

More from time traveling pegasister Mary Renault, describing Aristotle's school at Mieza, where Alexander the Great studied as a young man:

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1. APPRAISALS

I was doing some consulting on “sentiment analysis” of tweets, which means making computers guess whether tweets say good things or bad things about whatever they’re talking about. This led me to The Appraisal Website and their appraisal ontology, which divides appraisals into 3 types:

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I'm giving / helping give 3 talks / panels / events in the next 2 weeks, at Trotcon and Bronycon:

Trotcon, Columbus OH, Fri July 20, 11:30 AM: Aristotle vs. Fan-Fiction

Humans are weird.  Sometimes they like to do painful or frightening things: ride roller-coasters, eat the extra-hot buffalo wings at Duff''s, climb mountains, watch horror movies.

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