In other news today...
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@pjh
Our tax dollars, hard at work to generate the best possible user interface.
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I've got some friends who live in Hawaii. They posted on their Facebook timeline about people's reactions, about being around people who completely broke down and were all "I don't want to die here, away from my family," etc. It was really heartbreaking!
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Uphill. Both ways!
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@boomzilla - 9° Celcius....
So, almost summer weather
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@timebandit yeah, and he has a hat and gloves -- he says he realized halfway to school that he'd forgot them. Funny picture, but the reporting on it is a bit overblown.
edit: that's about 16°F.
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TL; DW--the LDS church has a new President, just as expected. His councilors (Elders Oaks and Eyring) are some of my favorite speakers. President Nelson was a notable heart surgeon, Elder Oaks was a justice of the Utah Supreme Court, and Elder Eyring was a business professor at Stanford (among other things) before being called to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@pjh
Our tax dollars, hard at work to generate the best possible user interface.<blakeyrant/>
Simplified.
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
It's spreading.
They just wanted to show how a retraction is supposed to be done. Show offs.
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I am sure the robot revolution is just around the corner:
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
Big Blue, Deeper Blue, AlphaZero and other chess computer "breakthroughs" have been achieved by throwing impractically large amounts of hardware at the problem.
It's a lot of hardware to train a neural net, but once it's trained it will usually run well in an old laptop. (At least the GoogleNet ran in my old notebook)
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@izzion that's a lot like what Max Deutsch tried to do. He challenged world champion chess player Magnus Carlsen with something like a month of practice. His algorithm wasn't quite done in time for the match, unfortunately, so he had to play on his own intuition and what he'd learned about chess so far. His algorithm was supposed to provide him with a way of determining, in his head, how good or bad potential moves were, without having to exhaustively simulate every possible outcome.
https://medium.com/the-mission/my-month-long-quest-to-become-a-chess-master-from-scratch-51ff8003d3f2
CSV strikes again!
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@karla Here's a press conference the police and local CPS held about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVe3CTyVAy0
"The mother seemed perplexed as to why [the officers] were at the residence."
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@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
@karla Here's a press conference the police and local CPS held about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVe3CTyVAy0
"The mother seemed perplexed as to why [the officers] were at the residence."
This is a case where mother should be be in scare quotes.
Is there a verified gofundme (where we can be sure the egg donor and sperm donor have no access to) for these kids they are going to need a ton of help?
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@djls45 ah, Tomonews, the epitome of tactful reporting.
https://youtu.be/VD-S61Swkeg
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
Now, maybe AlphaZero is an advancement in a way to efficiently cache results so you don't have to brute force rollout every time, so it can help with other machine learning models.
With the majority of machine learning systems, you have to rebuild the model from scratch when the input data changes significantly (such as when the nature of the inputs or the expected features changes) and that training phase is pretty darned expensive. There's research going on with much more adaptive systems that do online real-time learning, but that's really cutting-edge stuff. (It all gets complicated because there's a need for several different types of network adaptation on different time scales. Also, nobody's sure what the best way to build the hardware to support such systems is.)
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
I don't understand... They heard someone grunt on the field?
What exactly is unclear? One of the players (in female tennis, as the onebox shows) was making loud noises / grunts after each hit. The audience got so annoyed that they in turn started to mimic it to mock the player when she was preparing for her next turn.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
Buried around the end of October in his Medium retro-diary, there was an interesting note: he got his algorithm together, mathed it down to the most efficient version he could come up with in the time limit he had, and then tried to run it on his computer... and the computer rolled over and died. So he uplifted it to the cloud, got it running, and then figured out the model he was using was too simplistic and over-fitted, and only really worked for the test data; once it tried to start "learning" it got worse at fitting the test data and didn't do any better in the real world. So he shifted to a different model, and the model just died on the conventional cloud platform stuff he had access to (even "machine learning" optimized cloud hardware).
Some of his other challenges are more interesting (in that he is really forcing himself to learn new stuff), but that one really felt like a lot of hubris, even in his concluding remarks about his failure.
All he managed to do was write a couple of hundred lines of Python, copy-pasting from existing libraries, to get something that actually did not work at all. And all that based on the assumption that if it did work, he would get a few hundreds random numbers that he would somehow be able to remember and add/multiply in his head during a real chess game (he stops at saying "I'll use 8 mind-universes with 8 mind-palaces each, with 8 rooms each etc."). And he still concludes that he thinks he brought something new and unheard of to the world of chess. I'm no chess expert, but really, I don't think he did...
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@tsaukpaetra Google search for "Sabalenka" and find a video of her playing and you'll pretty quickly understand.
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@jbert said in In other news today...:
@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
I don't understand... They heard someone grunt on the field?
What exactly is unclear? One of the players (in female tennis, as the onebox shows) was making loud noises / grunts after each hit. The audience got so annoyed that they in turn started to mimic it to mock the player when she was preparing for her next turn.
Maybe I'm used to anime exaggerations, but it didn't seem that bad.
I mean, if you plan almost any video game you're most likely to hear the exact same thing but ten times more often.
Filed under: hut! Uhng! Whah! Ehuf! Hiyaa!
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@tsaukpaetra I played a game where the horses whinnied every second or so (so they were making noise 50% of the time or more). It was obnoxious, especially when they don't move all that fast so it takes a while to go anywhere.
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@jbert said in In other news today...:
@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
I don't understand... They heard someone grunt on the field?
What exactly is unclear? One of the players (in female tennis, as the onebox shows) was making loud noises / grunts after each hit. The audience got so annoyed that they in turn started to mimic it to mock the player when she was preparing for her next turn.
I'm still unclear. I thought that was normal tennis behavior...
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@boner From the article:
Experts debunk the rumours surrounding the semen facial trend
Shut up, you fools
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@boner said in In other news today...:
While I could make jokes about spas that double as adult film studios, the truth is, this has been sort of a thing for decades. Maybe centuries, and that's just counting it's current form (I wouldn't be surprised if it had shown up in Ancient Egypt or Rome or China at some point, too).
I don't know what the current rationale for it is, nor why it is taking off right now, but variations on the idea has been around for ages. I recall at least one letter printed in one of my father's old "Gentlemens' Magazines" from the 1970s, of a woman who insisted all of her lovers give her a 'sample' to add to a collection jar she used for this purpose. While that could just have been a staff writer's overactive imagination, it does show that the idea was floating around for at least several 40 years.
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@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
I don't know what the current rationale for it is, nor why it is taking off right now,
I'm just thankful we're still managing to keep women out of STEM.
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@boner said in In other news today...:
@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
I don't know what the current rationale for it is, nor why it is taking off right now,
I just thankful we're still managing to keep women out of STEM.
/throws flag Unnecessary Trolling! Five yard penalty!
Filed Under: Though the pun potential for the term 'STEM' did come to mind...
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@jbert Wouldn't happen in Wimbledon. Presumably that's why they moved those people to Australia back in the day.
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Nintendo just announced a new... product? Toy? Let's call it "low tech video game accessory construction set"
OK, fine: it's literally cardboard pieces you can fold into things
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3Bd3HUMkyU
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@anonymous234 Speak for yourself.. I think that's a pretty goddamn cool idea.
Filed under: they should be expecting a lawsuit over Google Cardboard soon
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@pie_flavor I never said it wasn't cool, I just said it's literally cardboard pieces you can fold into things.
It seems like they're trying to make actual cardboard robots that move using the controller vibration thingy. I actually feel like they should have gone all the way and just released a robotic construction kit like LEGO MINDSTORMS (possibly by actually buying LEGO).
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@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
a woman who insisted all of her lovers give her a 'sample' to add to a collection jar she used for this purpose
Oh, fucking gross. If you're going to do this, you probably should rely on fresh "samples" and not store it. If I'm not mistaken, it's going to... grow something you don't want to put on your face.
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
video game accessory
I'm just confused at how they expect cardboard to integrate as a sensor to electronics. Like, take the house thing for example, they show inserting something into the house to have an effect in the game displayed on the Switch. How is it done? Magic?
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@tsaukpaetra Google Cardboard has a screen tapper, does it not?
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@tsaukpaetra Google Cardboard has a screen tapper, does it not?
Does it? Mine had a pair of magnets that assumed your phone had a cover sensor near the top of the phone.
Edit: Besides, those "devices" weren't touching the Switch's screen at all. At best they could maybe use the accelerometers to detect if the controller was bumped in a certain way (indicating end of the hole for example), but I'm not seeing many of those things working without some imagination...
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The King of Random is facing up to ten years in jail.
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
The King of Random is facing up to ten years in jail.
Really? Wow, I kinda like that guy's vids...
Edit: Makes me wonder about the dudes that did molten salt in water and other similar things.
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To continue a theme..
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(Screenshot from Youtube) Jonathan Thompson, creator of the King of Random YouTube channel, was charged Tuesday with two counts of possession of an explosive device. This screenshot if from a video of Thompson explaining how to make a "vortex cannon" which pushes out plumes of colored smoke.Not pictured: Jonathan Grant Thompson, the guy they're talking about. The guy in the screenshot is Nate, who's been filling in for the past few months.
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The animal, named Richard ...
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
The King of Random is facing up to ten years in jail.
Correction: I saw another article that said 15 years. Also, he is a Canadian so he could possibly be deported if found guilty of the explosives charges.
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@heterodox said in In other news today...:
@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
a woman who insisted all of her lovers give her a 'sample' to add to a collection jar she used for this purpose
Oh, fucking gross. If you're going to do this, you probably should rely on fresh "samples" and not store it. If I'm not mistaken, it's going to... grow something you don't want to put on your face.
Dude, it's just raw semen. Use it by the next full moon and you're fine, unless your crystal needs a recharge, then you'll have to store it under a pyramid until Mercury is back in retrograde.
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@heterodox said in In other news today...:
@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
a woman who insisted all of her lovers give her a 'sample' to add to a collection jar she used for this purpose
Oh, fucking gross. If you're going to do this, you probably should rely on fresh "samples" and not store it. If I'm not mistaken, it's going to... grow something you don't want to put on your face.
I would have to agree, yuck. Unfortunately, I couldn't unread the allegedly true account in question, and now, neither can you. Kind of a dick move on my part, actually.