{"id":2096,"date":"2007-05-10T12:39:36","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T17:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=2096"},"modified":"2007-05-10T12:43:05","modified_gmt":"2007-05-10T17:43:05","slug":"lolsimons-new-xeni-given-title-internet-knowitall-and-blowhard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/lolsimons-new-xeni-given-title-internet-knowitall-and-blowhard\/","title":{"rendered":"LolSimon&#8217;s new Xeni-given title &#8220;Internet knowitall and Blowhard&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/xeni.net\/\">Xeni<\/a>&#8216;s post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/05\/10\/pedantic_overanalysi.html\">&#8220;Pedantic overanalysis of LOLcats not pedantic enough, says blowhard&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nFollowing up on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/05\/09\/pedantic_overanalyze.html\">yesterday&#8217;s BB post<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/icanhascheezburger.com\/2007\/05\/08\/a-special-in-depth-analysis-by-david-mcraney-l337-katz0rz\/\">David McRaney&#8217;s sociological analysis<\/a> of LOLcats, image macros, and invisible cheezborgahs, Internet knowitall <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/ses\/\">Simon Spero<\/a> says:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>    McRaney&#8217;s recent article <a href=\"http:\/\/icanhascheezburger.com\/2007\/05\/08\/a-special-in-depth-analysis-by-david-mcraney-l337-katz0rz\/\">[McRaney 2007]<\/a>,whilst interesting from the syntactics perspective, fails to cite the relevant literature, and as a result does not satisfactorily align his work to the central research questions within the field.<\/p>\n<p>    The methodology applied in <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/lolbrarians\/8155.html\">[Spero 2007]<\/a> uses a Description Logic approach to the begin the process of unifying the emergent ontology of lolcats with the rules of cuteness heuristically determined in Frost&#8217;s definitive and ongoing survey <a href=\"http:\/\/mfrost.typepad.com\/cute_overload\/the_rules_of_cuteness\/index.html\">[Frost 2005]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>    Our study revealed several strengths and weaknesses inherent in a pure Description Logic approach. Although it was trivial to dervive a solution to the lolcat\/cheezeburger hypothesis (lolcat can has multiple cheezeburger), other classifications are not expressible without the use of more powerful formalisms.<\/p>\n<p>    For example, due to monotonicity constraints, it is not possible to encode the knowledge that, whilst by by default things that look like Hitler are not cute, a kitten that looked like hitler, wrapped in a burrito, with its paw up, might be a CuteThing. Also, without the use of higher order reasoning capabilities, it is non-trivial to describe the set of things accompanied by smaller versions of themselves.<\/p>\n<p>    [McRaney 2007] David McRaney, L337 Katz0rz, 1 J. Am Soc. Macrologists available at <a href=\"http:\/\/icanhascheezburger.com\/2007\/05\/08\/a-special-in-depth-analysis-by-david-mcraney-l337-katz0rz\">[Link]<\/a> (2007)<\/p>\n<p>    [Spero 2007] Simon Spero, Loltology &#8211; I saw ur mom on teh sermantic webz, 1 LJ. Am. Lolbrarian. Assoc (2007) available at <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/lolbrarians\/8155.html\">[Link]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>    [Frost 2007] Meg Frost, The Rules of Cuteness, J Cuteology (2005-2007, ongoing) available at <a href=\"http:\/\/mfrost.typepad.com\/cute_overload\/the_rules_of_cuteness\/index.html\">[Link]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Xeni&#8216;s post &#8220;Pedantic overanalysis of LOLcats not pedantic enough, says blowhard&#8221; Following up on yesterday&#8217;s BB post about David McRaney&#8217;s sociological analysis of LOLcats, image macros, and invisible cheezborgahs, Internet knowitall Simon Spero says: McRaney&#8217;s recent article [McRaney 2007],whilst interesting from the syntactics perspective, fails to cite the relevant literature, and as a result [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}