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Instagram Algorithm data science

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0 Poem about Instagram  Fear of getting older Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful Will I still love you when you're no longer young and beautiful Are digital devices sentient 1 Fear and Anxiety in the Age of the Digital One of my biggest fears in the world (on Instagram) used to be not getting any likes on my posts. If I didn't get a like within an hour or so I would archive or delete my post. But more recently, after I've gotten out, I wanted to delete and archive my posts less. I don't think it's embarrassing if you only get one or two or five likes or even twenty likes in a post (I used to think getting 20 likes in a post was too little, but that's actually a lot of people if you think about it that's like a whole classroom of people).      20 people is a full classroom of English in high school, maybe an elementary school classroom full of people. 20 people is maybe a small sushi restaurant full size of people. 20 people is ...

Fallen Angelos

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  1 Fallen Angelos At the time when I first saw Fallen Angels I was admittedly stoned and the movie was still available as a bootleg on YouTube.com. That was around January 2017. It has since been taken off YouTube. It is available to watch for free on archive.org, if you have never seen this movie before.  When I first watched this movie, I felt that it was visually stunning and the characters were very intriguing. Plus, I loved the way Cantonese sounded, especially Li Jiaxin's voice, and I probably thought Jin Chengwu was super sexy too (Taiwan).  Over the years, I have re-watched this movie multiple times, because it is indeed visually stunning and it is also very confusing, plot-wise. For instance, I didn't realize that Angel #2 (aka Li Jiaxin aka the assassin's partner (Cantonese: 拍档 paak dong) was printing out fake counterfeit money for the purpose of paying her boyfriend (?)/partner/hitman for the assassinations that she sets up for him to carry out. I always ...