I argue that science, art, music, comedy are just by-products of our intrinsic desire to create / discover more novel patterns, that is, data compressible in hitherto unknown ways. It is possible to rigorously formalize this concept and implement it on learning machines, thus building artificial robotic scientists and artists equipped with intrinsically motivated curiosity and creativity. I sum...

Perceptual science has frequently benefited from studying illusions created outside of academia. Here, we describe a striking, but little-known, example of inattentional blindness from the British comedy series "Monty Python's Flying Circus." Viewers fail to attend to several highly incongruous characters in the sketch, despite these characters being clearly visible onscreen. The sketch has the...

Suppose there are several movies that can be grouped into several categories (eg. action, comedy, historical, cartoon, magical) and each movie is rated by several people. Each rater has his own distribution from which he chooses to assign scores to movies, so it seems natural to scale each rater’s score by the inverse of his distribution’s standard deviation. Therefore a weight matrix W can be ...

Abstract Aristophanes in his comedy the Acharnians educates crowd that he creates as a character on stage, well gathered to watch comedy, about what is truly their interest: peace allows them be happy by satisfying longings for good food and frequent sex. I suggest, invoking medieval language of vox populi dei , (like politicians demagogues today) competes become one who gives people voice. His...

Despite its self-proclaimed position as “#1 movie website in the world” IMDb has been the focus of surprisingly little academic attention. The academic work which does exist has typically focused on its user-generated content and has, in various ways, used this as a means of investigating a sub-section of the film audience whilst nevertheless acknowledging that IMDb users are likely to differ f...

Early marriage remains a social problem, especially among less-educated urban people, including in Tamanan District, Bondowoso Regency, East Java Province. The community has distinctive and unique Pandalungan language that offers an interesting idea source for filmmaking. Thus, this creation seeks to illustrate how “Hani”, drama-comedy film, was directed with local-culture approach. production ...

Abstract This article explores how media content may facilitate processes of recognition through playfulness and comedy. Mediated is typically understood as a matter respectful positive representation subaltern groups in terms struggles for visibility dignity. Yet at the same time, address audiences much less deferential ways that are nonetheless consequential to recognition: by means playfulne...