Top 5

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A community to share your top 5 of anything.

Examples:

Why five and not ten or twenty? I don't know, five seems easy enough to make a list about anything, and short enough to not be just a long list of whatever.

Rules

  1. The list must be subjective (best, worst, etc) not objective (size, sells, etc).
  2. List must be ranked (no "in no particular order" stuff).
  3. Only text posts (no links, no images).
  4. Posts must include a list (no requests).
  5. Title must start with "Top 5..."
  6. Keep it SFW

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[META] Use this post to talk about the community itself: comments, feedback, etc (self.top5)
submitted 1 year ago by Cosmic_Frog to c/top5
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I just realized, but having somewhat strict rules on what to post to the community, I left no space to talk about the community itself. So I'll leave this post pinned in case you have any comments.

Cheers!

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Top 5 US Presidents Based on Facial Hair (feddit.uk)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/top5
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  1. Rutherford B. Hayes
  2. Benjamin Harrison
  3. William Howard Taft
  4. Teddy Roosevelt
  5. Ulysses S Grant
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Top 5 quotes (latte.isnot.coffee)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/top5
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  1. "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  2. "All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets." - Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
  3. "No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." - Heraclitus
  4. "Property is theft!" - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
  5. "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson

That last one makes it clear what I do for a living, but in software engineering, it's a good one to keep in mind.

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Top 5 F1 drivers of all time (self.top5)
submitted 1 year ago by paciencia to c/top5
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  1. Michael Schumacher
  2. Lewis Hamilton
  3. Ayton Senna
  4. Sebastian Vettel
  5. Alain Prost

I do think Senna and Vettel are interchageable, going with Senna because of personal preference. Also Prost just has too many wins not to be here (51 wins).

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Top 5 movies about AI (self.top5)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Cosmic_Frog to c/top5
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  1. Blade Runner (1982)
  2. A.I. (2001)
  3. Her (2013)
  4. Minority Report (2002)
  5. Ex Machina (2014)

There are some movies with an AI character or element in them that are better than some of the ones on my list, but they are not really about AI. For example, The Matrix or Alien. Prometheus might fit a bit better than Alien tho (and I love that movie, fight me).

And there's also Minority Report, which doesn't directly have an AI, at least not a clearly defined and prominent one. But if you forget about the precogs, what's left is a pretty prophetic world where algorithms rule society, not only to tell you what to buy, but also to put you in jail even before you commit any crime. It's scary how close we are getting there, and this comes from a 2002 movie based on a 1956 book. More ML than AI, but whatever, it's my list.

Two movies that didn't make it into the list by a whisker were Westworld and The Iron Giant. I probably like The Iron Giant more than I like Ex Machina, but Ex Machina is more on theme, so there's that.

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Top 5 fictional bands from TV shows (self.top5)
submitted 1 year ago by Cosmic_Frog to c/top5
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  1. Natalie is Freezing, from Community
  2. Mouse Rat, from Parks and Recreation
  3. Geronimo Jackson, from Lost
  4. Dingoes Ate My Baby, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  5. Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, from The Muppets