ftl ✅ @ftl@awoo.space
Data Scientist in the bay. Tennis player (4.5). D&D, Gloomhaven, and board game enthusiast. Pronouns he/him.
Joined Jul 2017
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"Abandon ye all hope who enter here" = "Abandon YAHWEH"
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Is your child practicing questionable machine learning? Know the signs—
lol: let's overfit lots
tbh: totally bogus hypothesis
btw: bias the weights
omg: 'obtain' more gpus
smh: singularity might happen
rofl: reference only friends & labmates
brb: beat ridiculous baseline
lmao: let mturkers answer obv
smdh: sorry my data's hardcoded
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if I legally change my last name to "Blockchain" will people start depositing money straight into my account
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May I draw your attention to this hilarious example of fooling an image recognition algorithm with a small patch of carefully engineered noise?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.02608
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"Why Did Two-Thirds of These Weird Antelope Suddenly Drop Dead?" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/why-did-two-thirds-of-this-weird-antelope-suddenly-drop-dead/550676/
(A changing climate turned a bacteria that is part of their system rouge)
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@jk @natecull nothing can match "Sky Walkers cross Han Solo"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/03/AR2007050300374.html
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Languages come, and languages go, but C lasts forever.½©~əbé=a282-32-1111###aaaSegmentation fault (core dumped).
@noelle There's more to the story, and it makes it worse. The coaim in this article was that she was institutionalized "When she became emotional at the police station". Full story: she was at the police station to pick up her BMW, and "became emotional" when the police refused to believe it was hers. In addition to being kept in the hospital until she admitted Obama didn't follow her, she was told to say she wasn't a banker and the BMW was not hers. See https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/black-woman-held-in-mental-hospital-because-police-didnt-believe-bmw-was-hers-10498704.html .
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TIL:
“If tea spread to your country by sea, you call it ‘tea’. If by land, you call it chai.
(*This is because the ports of Fujian and Taiwan use the coastal pronunciation ‘te’, whereas Mandarin uses chá.)”
Via:
https://twitter.com/padraigbelton/status/951948982309261312
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@cypnk yeah. i feel like printers are an unusually clear example of all the ways that the market slowly but irresistibly unsolves a class of solved problems.
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Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/finding-a-cpu-design-bug-in-the-xbox-360/
<<The recent reveal of Meltdown and Spectre reminded me of the time I found a related design bug in the Xbox 360 CPU – a newly added instruction whose mere existence was dangerous.>>
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Spectre, for poets
Imagine if you could say the words to make my heart beat faster in the perfect rhythm to drum out all my secrets
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2001: Ha ha Linux could even run on a toaster! j/k
2011: Wow this toaster actually runs Linux. It’s not a joke anymore.
2021: Please pay the ransomware to receive your toast.
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This is what you want to read, and spread to your awful relatives on Facebook https://www.vox.com/2017/12/20/16772670/baby-boomers-millennials-congress-debt
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John Carmack retweeted the following, yesterday:
“I wonder why people haven't yet deduced that all CPUs have like 26 bugs at least as serious as this Intel one, it's just that nobody has found them yet.”
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TIL about the Cagots, a group of people in France and Spain who experienced systemic hatred and discrimination because... they were Cagots.
They weren't any different from the other people living near them - same skin and hair color, same language, same religion, etc. - but if you were born to a Cagot family, you were a Cagot, and the rest of the people hated and shunned you. And nobody nowadays knows why; the origins of the discrimination have been lost to time.
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long excerpt from page on copyright extension and the public domain
What Could Have Been
It didn’t have to be this way. As you can read in our analysis of the subject, if we had the laws that were in effect until 1978, thousands of works from 1961 would be entering the public domain. They range from the books Catch-22, Stranger in a Strange Land, and The Phantom Tollbooth to the films Breakfast at Tiffany’s and West Side Story, and much more. Have a look at some of the others. In fact, since copyright used to come in renewable terms of 28 years, and 85% of authors did not renew, 85% of the works from 1989 might be entering the public domain! Imagine what the great libraries of the world – or just internet hobbyists – could do: digitizing those holdings, making them available for education and research, for pleasure and for creative reuse.
@piecritic I hope you guys don't end with a U.S. like system... It kind of sucks, as far as democracies go.
@thewaether agreed. Bird and Face sites are just so... Bad. I feel icky just visiting them. But that's where my IRL friends and acquaintances post, so I still visit...
Data Scientist in the bay. Tennis player (4.5). D&D, Gloomhaven, and board game enthusiast. Pronouns he/him.
Joined Jul 2017
