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Music Performance Attendance and Happiness
Get PDFHow are the performing arts and happiness sociologically connected? I propose that people who have attended a music performance in the last 12 months will report an increase in happiness. Additional knowledge-besides attending Arts-related events-is required in order to understand what makes people happy. I analyzed 2016 General Social Survey (GSS) data. The N for this sample is 1,272. Personal happiness is directly tied to one’s financial situation and their educational attainment levels and not to attendance at music performances. The results indicate that satisfaction with finances has a greater impact on happiness, and that White people also report being happier on average. Being satisfied with your financial situation has more of an impact on personal happiness than one’s years of education
The Invention of Hugo Carbret
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The Word Concreteness Effect -1
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Children\u27s Early Phonological Patterns -1
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Sound Spectrogram Analyses -2
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Machine Learning in Economics: Case Study of Tipping Behavior in Taxicab Industry
No full textThis paper presents a conceptual framework for thinking about machine learning in econometrics, introduces machine learning techniques like LASSO, decision tree, and gradient boosted decision trees, and reviews articles from three categories of machine learning applications in economics. Our empirical setting employs a high-frequency dataset on taxicab rides in New York City to predict passengers’ tipping behavior using several learning algorithms. We find machine learning algorithms to bring clear improvement in prediction performance. However, the practical meaning of the improvement is clouded in light of low prediction performances across the board
Weird Internet Aesthetics: Are Lo-Fi Media Inherently Revolutionary?
Get PDFThis essay explores participatory media as a form of “imperfect cinema”. Particularly, I’m focusing on Instagram as a platform in which users both produce and consume material in a way which embodies Juan García Espinosa’s notion of how “imperfect cinema” functions. To begin, I will attempt to tease the greater context of this paper, that being the production and consumption of digital content in the twenty-first century and how the modes of how content is produced emphasizes or complicates an ancient tension between the individual and corporation, proletariat and bourgeoisie, and the casual and profitable. I’ll observe the framework of Instagram more broadly, its ability to draw overlap between the individual and corporation, and the curious phenomena of lo-fi aesthetics. From here, I will propose a particular reading for this phenomenon; that lo-fi aesthetics branch from an intrinsic desire to oppose capitalism. Next, I will introduce the framework of imperfect cinema, its qualities, and how these qualities are illuminated in Octavio Getino and Fernando Solanos’ 1968 Latin-American film Hour of the Furnaces. With the framework of Hito Steyerl implemented in her work, “In Defense of The Poor Image,” as well as Juan García Espinosa’s Third Cinema manifesto, For an Imperfect Cinema, I will draw connections between the mode of “Imperfect Cinema” and low quality digital aesthetics. With this understanding, I will use this framework to discuss a renaissance of lo-fi imagery, and weird internet aesthetics. Essentially, in understanding that lo-fi aesthetic functions similarly to “imperfect cinema,” in combination with the framework discussed by Espinosa, Gettino and Solonas, and Steyerl’s modernized conception, we can understand how and why lo-fi aesthetics arise, why they are “work” to either be funny or impactful, and what they inevitably end up doing to comment or critique modes of control over the common individual
Daphne as Staghorn Sumac
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Phrase Structure Trees -3
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Sound Spectrogram Analyses -1
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