Major news organizations lie by omission and innuendo. Random people on the internet lie by making stuff up. You shouldn’t trust major news outlets to give you a clear picture of the world, but they can be generally trusted as a source of verifiable fact, even if an incomplete one.
I think it’s also important to highlight that the analogy between neural networks and brains is to help people visualize what a neural network is, not what a brain is. It’s really just to convey the idea of multiple nodes passing information to one another. After that point, the comparison is useless because the two systems diverge so wildly outside of that one (pretty loose) conceptual connection.
The old Something Awful forums did something similar. If someone posted something that was unacceptable, the comment would generally stay and the comment would get a tag saying “the user was banned for this post”. They also had a moderation history so you could go back and see mod comments on why they gave bans/probations.
My social life has improved massively since WFH became the norm. I eat lunch with my neighbors most days, I work from friends places/they work at mine on the reg, and it is way easier to have the energy to go out for dinner/drinks/other activities after work. I went to Chicago for a week last month to hang out with my friend and his wife and no one had to take any vacation days to make it happen. Everyone's situation is different, but I have a tough time imagining that WFH is going to lead to a reduction in socialization on balance if people are now able to control their schedules more easily.
This is kind of a false dichotomy. Taking everyone at face value is one of the dumbest thing you can do on the internet. Assuming there are exactly 0 paid posters in your forum, there are still plenty of people who are enthusiastic trolls and bad faith actors because that’s just how they have fun. Letting those people go unchallenged is a recipe for a community that’s dominated by malignant narcissist.
The justice system has nontrivial checks on the power of the state to incarcerate people and it already has massive problems, what would a system without those checks do?
I have no serious involvement in academia. What is the proportion of work that gets reviewed by someone with an axe to grind? I don’t doubt that it happens regularly but I have no conception of the magnitude of the problem.
Deep learning technologists != people that write articles about machine learning making various professions obsolete. I don’t think anyone that works with neural networks professionally is drinking the kool-aid. Don’t get me wrong, deep learning is an incredible technology, but not in ways that it’s made out to be in the press. Like a lot of other technologies, it’s real value is in solving really boring problems at a scale. But that doesn’t make for good content so we end up with a bunch of articles about self driving cars and nothing about using deep learning to take something like 3d photogrammetry from “passable for artistic purposes” to “industrially valuable.”
Because when presented with a bunch of pictures of hot shirtless dudes, thinking “how can I apply cutting edge technology here?” simultaneously isn’t most peoples first instinct (regardless of your gender identity or sexual orientation), but is immediately relatable if you’re a technology nerd. It’s both unexpected and familiar, and that’s the magic formula for humor.
Get involved in local government and get your friends to do the same. State and municipal governments do most of the actual investment in infrastructure, even if the money might in part be federal, and that’s where the decisions get made. Your vote and voice matter, and the players involved eat at the same restaurants you do, go to the same gyms, and live in the same parts of town, for the most part. If you show up to city council meetings you’ll get to know people.
> In a world without marketing, there would be 1000 identical versions of the same product and I would have no idea where to begin
This is still very much the case. Marketing is a signal of exactly one thing: marketing budget. At least with the anonymous clones, I can be somewhat certain that when my friend says “yah I got a pair of running shorts from [insert random company here] and they’ve been pretty good so far”, their decision was made on the basis of their direct experience because that’s all they can go on.
Yes. There is no actual support for this. It’s this one guys effort to get his name in the news for something controversial/polarizing and we’re doing a great job of helping him.
Please do not use North Carolina as a metonym for state house representative Ben Moss, the sole sponsor of the bill in question. This is not something that is on anyones radar as an issue aside from him.
To add to this: the whole point of the private right to action is so that anti-abortion groups can target individuals in order to create precedent-setting cases. This is a mechanism that is designed to be used by well-funded groups. The threat model here isn’t some rando deciding they want to sue you, it’s a team of determined lawyers that absolutely will take your case as far as they possibly can.
Exactly. No one is stopping me or anyone else, but no one does because crypto is a shitshow full of opaque risk, and the whole point of a financial system is to make risk explicit.
Dashboards are really useful when you’re trying to distribute a set of metrics that large numbers of people actually need to know and agree on in order to do their jobs. Most metrics aren’t like this, so there are a lot of bad dashboards, but they definitely have their place.
Edit: A good example of this is something like incoming shipments for a warehouse. Management all the way down to warehouse workers need to know what is slated for delivery, what’s already been delivered in the last few days, and what’s late.
Whitewater paddles are a fundamentally different beast than flat water paddles. You’re not just using them to move forward, you’re using them to manipulate the boat in all three dimensions. So rigidity is key and leverage is key. Your paddle stroke in whitewater is basically straight up and down and intended for maximal power in multiple directions, not long-term energy efficiency as it is in touring.
I work in python all the time, and I’ve still not found a situation where this happened. Sometimes you might have specific components that you might want to write in other languages, but this is really rare unless you’re manually writing really computationally intensive or time critical procedures. Which hopefully you should know going into the project. Like if you’re rolling your own in-line audio processing you know up front that python is a bad choice. But any CRUD-like app? Python is plenty fast, especially if you’re relying on c implementations of heavy-lifting stuff.
All advertising is bad faith communication. Full stop. There is no justification otherwise. In fact, the more creative advertising is, the more bad faith and exploitative it becomes.
Safer for whom? A part of the security logic of neoliberal globalization, whatever it’s other flaws, is to force strategic interdependence between states specifically to make conflict an absolute last resort. Like I want Chinese dependence on foreign markets and I want EU dependence on Russian oil, because as soon as that economic codependency dries up, military intervention is now feasible as a response to crisis. The reason we’re not in a world war right now is because Europe must tread carefully and so must anyone who might align themselves with Russia for reasons that have nothing to do with the possibility of military force, which we all know is subject to uncertainty and an attractive prospect for leaders who like to gamble.
This is a weirdly hostile and condescending answer to a serious question. If the international exchange value of the ruble were zero Russians could still theoretically do these things, exchange value matters for doing business across borders/currencies at some point. Are we saying the exchange value of the ruble is being propped up by Russians who have dollar- or euro-denominated accounts purchasing rubles to run to the store to get eggs? That seems absurd.