Appearances of MIT in Anime
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Reminds me of the time I wrote RMS an email telling him he should watch that, as a parable on the importance of using free software in public-works infrastructure. He said it looked really good but that he'd have to try to find a copy on VHS.
Apparently I failed. Sorry.
In the '90s (or early 2000's?), I remember seeing a photo of Stallman Jesus on the left arrayed against Bill Gates on the right, with Stallman being the figurehead for the open-source coalition arrayed against the might of Microsoft. I've not been able to find that photo since though.
Matthew, which goes well with his moniker of Saint IGNUcius.
/joke
IMO Brad Pitt is an example of a "leading man" who's actually at his best in character-actor type roles. He never quite developed that reliable-draw narrow tyepcasting that defines a lot of leads (Reynolds and Pratt are prime examples—you cast them in a big-budget movie for a specific reason, like, there's little question what sort of character they're gonna play) and seems more at ease as a rather offbeat lead or as a supporting character.
But for a few select leading actors, playing the same character in different films (mostly, action flicks) allows them to create generational wealth.
I think this helps but also doesn't: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/marisa-stole-the-precious-thi...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVwstM4vZC8
The Touhou rabbit hole goes deep.
At an institution where teaching is important there’s more “infrastructure” for it so you can manage to be exposed to less of the research side. At MIT research is most of the institute’s activity, so you get to be part of significant and/or obscure work if you want, and most do.
Plus, as I like to joke, that “if you aren’t arrogant when you get there, MIT will beat it into you”.
Y-yeah, those MIT people are crazy...
And for third place I'd say anyone who rowed crew at an Ivy League school. I've met several of those, too. Nice enough but always in their own league.
https://github.com/cat-milk/Anime-Girls-Holding-Programming-... has a subset.
> What probably happened is two independent sets of people were inspired by a cool phrase from hacker lore (given LISP’s long-time popularity at MIT, it’s reasonable to suppose that the phrase may have originated here).
The height of the cliche imo is Half Life 1's intro sequence. The only info you get about Gordon Freeman is that he is a young PhD graduate from MIT with a specialization in theoretical physics. It was a "this guy is the smartest guy around" line.
Being adjacent to MIT, the inflated egos are very exhausting. It's the top reason I would avoid working for them. That and academia is toxic with half market rate pay.
Instead it's countries like UK and Germany that I feel have far more of a presence in anime settings. Not sure why that is the case.
For worlds timed to circa 1000 - 500 years, US was pretty different from Europe.
Also remember close ties between Japan and Germany during certain war.
† https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_the_Lambda_Calculus
P.S. I believe MIT has strong prominence in Asia is mainly due to its proximity to Harvard.
I don’t know that that is true — when my parents decided to visit the US for a couple of years in the late 60s my Indian grandfather apparently said that I would end up at MIT.
At that point I was just a little kid with no bias for science vs arts, but apparently didn’t consider Harvard relevant, even though one of his brothers was a diplomat and another a literature prof and he himself surely would have heard of the place.
(I’m glad my parents didn’t tell me this “prophecy” until long after I graduated as I did end up going back and attending MIT!)
Caltech is much smaller than MIT. It’s true that Stanford was still not well known outside the western US into the early 80s, but its global prominence increased significantly long before those “tech bro” carpetbaggers showed up — the causality runs the other way.
At 1:13-2:20 and 3:55-4:35: https://www.hidive.com/stream/maria-holic-alive/s02e005 (requires paid subscription)
find . -name '*.mkv' -o -name '*.mp4' | while read -r f ; do if ffmpeg -hide_banner -loglevel error -txt_format text -i "$f" -f srt - | grep -Ei 'Stanford|Berkeley|Caltech' ; then echo "# found in ${f}" ; fi ; done