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narrative studies, folklore studies, computational approaches to, and models of, narrative (especially, and obviously, folk narrative)

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I have a default melody, a tune that consistently pops into my head at any time, though usually when it is I am on a walk and I'm between thoughts. The melody? Vince Guaraldi's "Great Pumpkin Waltz." I kid you not. My mind is a mystery to me. (2024-11-11 ↗)


Has anyone seen reporting, or informed speculation, of what will happen to the flow of misinformation when Putin falls? Even if it paused, I suspect the pause might have some effect in certain networks. (2024-10-28 ↗)


McNeese University is advertising on Reddit?! Go, McNeese, go! (2024-10-16 ↗)


To paraphrase Magritte, this is not a book, but my library now counts it as one. (2024-07-15 ↗)


When I decided to get more serious about learning to code, I decided to subscribe to https://fosstodon.org/@realpython/. Hats off to them for making their "Split Your Dataset With scikit-learn's train_test_split()" quiz available to the public. It was fun to see that I actually know some things now. Here's the quiz: https://realpython.com/quizzes/train-test-split-python-data/results/ (2024-07-13 ↗)


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American Folklore Society

International Society for Contemporary Legend Research

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