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workingon··on Woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent
The answer is always ‘kids’.
workingon··on Governor Newsom announces California will make its own insulin
How is healthcare in the countries with very little health care regulations?
workingon··on LeCun's 2022 paper on autonomous machine intelligence does not cite prior work
Who cares my shit doesn’t get cited all the time but I don’t blog about it like a bitch.
workingon··on YouTube flags horror video as “for kids,” won’t let creator change rating
This still doesn’t follow. If it’s marked for adults and the kids watch it then it isn’t googles fault.
workingon··on YouTube flags horror video as “for kids,” won’t let creator change rating
How does this even make sense though? In what world does it ever make sense to have an AI flag random videos as “for kids”? It should never happen in that direction, only the other. This is a basic conditional statement.
workingon··on Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Rings series
Your cognitive disconnect is ridiculous. Pointing out that you finding that a show is worse because they cast brown people as elves is not a fault of the show has nothing to do with my self-righteousness, though you're happy to spread your own self-righteousness throughout this thread while talking about how butthurt you are that they'd dare destroy your favorite show by casting brown people in a traditional white role. I care little about e-cred. You also aren't the guy that gets to decide what the difference between diversity and tokenism is.
workingon··on Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Rings series
Yeah, the guy who can enjoy a show with a brown person playing an elf is the one who can’t understand nuance in thought.
workingon··on Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Rings series
There is a long history in theatre of casting people in roles who aren’t the same as the character. Notably men would often be cast in female roles. Maybe, just maybe, if seeing a brown elf ruins a show for you the problem isn’t with the show.
workingon··on Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Rings series
Never thought I’d live to see the day where people would unironically call equity dogma. But here we are. What a sad state of affairs.
workingon··on New York state buys robots for lonely elders
This is an embarrassingly bad article.
workingon··on Delayed Messages on iOS
That’s not their point. Their point is they have to get your useless notifications at 3 am and check them even when they aren’t urgent because you can’t know which is which until you read it. Stop texting people at 3 am unless it is urgent.
workingon··on Number of pubs in England and Wales falls to record low
This is so strange, and the exact opposite of America. In America margins on drink are 100-200%+ while margins on food are much less when you take into account untipped workers fixing it. It must be the tipping difference, since bartenders are basically free labor in America.
workingon··on The dark side of Graph Neural Networks
I've found success using GNNs for point cloud classification, by creating edges between each point using a k nearest neighbor scheme.
workingon··on FCC commissioner wants TikTok removed from app stores over spying concerns
Sounds like America. Didn’t we just ban Juuls while countless other electronic fruity vapes are on the market?
workingon··on Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity (2009)
Life is more nuanced than your bad faith one-sided takes. I think deep down you know this. You should stop spreading exaggerated propaganda.
workingon··on Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity (2009)
Lol what a loaded statement. There are plenty of government programs that have produced better lives for people after being implemented. Imagine being this religious and blind about state-market interactions.
workingon··on Mastercard and visa are the de facto regulators of porn
This is a false article. The largest porn site in the world doesn’t take visa and mastercard. Sounds to me like they aren’t being regulated by them at all.
workingon··on FBI: Stolen PII and deepfakes used to apply for remote tech jobs
The point they are making is that if you’re hiring a fake person for a job who can’t do the job, some of the screening questions should’ve let you pick up on that. And if you don’t you’re at best a bad interviewer.
workingon··on What Copilot means for open source
Yeah, maybe for 10x types it’s different but for normies like me checking code is 10x faster than writing it.
workingon··on FTC to crack down on companies that illegally surveil children learning online
Yeah with no concerns about the limitations or monetization of the data that the edtech companies are collecting. Data on the habits of children has to be some of the most valuable data in the data-for-sale corporate/black markets.
workingon··on Advice for academic refugees
Yeah but it also attracts students a lot worse than actual sciences. And yet here we are, listening to people with two straight lines intersecting talking about “supply and demand” and writing the world based on it.
workingon··on FTC to crack down on companies that illegally surveil children learning online
Seems like you have the exact opposite take here that I do. Rather than allowing surveillance of kids because we are being surveilled by other companies, maybe make that surveillance harder too?

Not to mention that, at least theoretically, you have a choice to interact with the other people surveilling you. Kids have no choice and are forced to go to school and would be under forced surveillance and data harvesting.

workingon··on ‘Anti-hunger’ molecule forms after exercise, scientists discover
How?
workingon··on Copilot sells code other people wrote
Seems like a narrow vision. Is every line of code you write to solve a problem “not boring”? I solve problems I find interesting, but writing matplotlib code to visualize data never is.
workingon··on Next-generation AI models
I save tons of time having to write matplotlib code etc. because AI does it for me and I can spend more time thinking about the deep parts of research. I basically haven't had to write more than 1 or 2 keystrokes for a plot I've made in months now. If that's not useful I don't know what is.
workingon··on Next-generation AI models
Why be needlessly elitist
workingon··on Affordable housing in California now routinely tops $1M per apartment to build
This has to be a troll attempt right?
workingon··on Three Arrows Capital reportedly facing insolvency
I'm not. Bitcoin could still MOON. I'm just saying you shouldn't be so sure either way with so much uncertainty.
workingon··on Three Arrows Capital reportedly facing insolvency
None of it has ever happened before during a recession. Crypto basically didn’t exist the last time the world had one. Being religious and so sure about the way something is going to turn out should be a warning sign to the self.
workingon··on Enormous ‘rogue waves’ can appear out of nowhere
There are also open source tide and wave models, which is what researchers use and are fairly accurate. Not sure how much this commercial product differs, but I know the Navy etc. use the open source ones with in house adjustments.
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