Your Excellency makes a great point about movie stars. As a boy growing up in North Hollywood, my mother (from Chicago) would trek the family to Hollywood and Growman's Chinese theatre to see the stars prints in cement. And to the wax museum. I still enjoy the footprints. She had to see the "stars" one way or the other.
Just like Peter O'Toole's character in "My Favorite Year" when he is afraid of a live audience, "I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star." Who can we call a star today? My wife and I ponder that often.
Well, Hollywood is currently stupid, and run by beancounters of one type or another. Not just dollars, but bean counting DEI participants, etc.
And god knows I spent a lot of time in 30 years of teaching stats that "Data is *reflection* of Reality, not Reality." It can be as distorted as any reflection. And "Data gives you a place to stand and consider, not a method of making decisions." Too few ever get that.
Exactly right… I think a part of the commitment to the streaming model is assuming that the data and algorithm are all powerful. That’s why we’re in the trouble we are in.
Your Excellency makes a great point about movie stars. As a boy growing up in North Hollywood, my mother (from Chicago) would trek the family to Hollywood and Growman's Chinese theatre to see the stars prints in cement. And to the wax museum. I still enjoy the footprints. She had to see the "stars" one way or the other.
Just like Peter O'Toole's character in "My Favorite Year" when he is afraid of a live audience, "I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star." Who can we call a star today? My wife and I ponder that often.
Well, Hollywood is currently stupid, and run by beancounters of one type or another. Not just dollars, but bean counting DEI participants, etc.
And god knows I spent a lot of time in 30 years of teaching stats that "Data is *reflection* of Reality, not Reality." It can be as distorted as any reflection. And "Data gives you a place to stand and consider, not a method of making decisions." Too few ever get that.
Exactly right… I think a part of the commitment to the streaming model is assuming that the data and algorithm are all powerful. That’s why we’re in the trouble we are in.
It’s run by a cabal of bullying, man-hating Harridans who despise the native American audience.