missfrizzle
@missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on tragic 1 week ago:
average double Predestination enjoyer.
- Comment on tragic 1 week ago:
yeah but like, would time flow linearly there? why doesn’t God just keep the souls on ice and thaw them when ready?
- Comment on Radon 2 weeks ago:
I fell trees!
you can use “fell” as a transitive verb. it’s a little archaic but sounds cozy.
- Comment on Had to look this up 2 weeks ago:
I think there’s a lot of truth to what you’re saying, though there’s a little more to the story. for reasons I don’t understand, the UK specifically has always been terfier than other Western countries. more lgb-friendly, but historically anti-trans. MumsNet was full of terfs with very similar demographics to Rowling years before trans awareness hit the spotlight.
I think we did a poor job educating potential allies and making a case for ourselves, in a way that got weaponized against us, but terf ideology is as old as Janice Raymond and second-wave feminism.
- Comment on Had to look this up 2 weeks ago:
she had a reputation for racial stereotyping even before she went mask-off as a terf, decades back. like naming the one Asian character Cho Chang (sounds like ching chang chong; both names are from different Asian countries), naming the one Black character Kingsley Shacklebolt (King from MLK, shackle from slavery), naming the Jewish character Anthony Goldstein, naming an Irish character Seamus Finnegan…
…it’s not that she was necessarily super racist, she just used very stereotypical/over the top names for her characters. so I don’t hate her for being racist, I hate her for being transphobic.
- Comment on Oh, that's... umm.... 3 weeks ago:
at least a lot of them got clapped.
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 3 weeks ago:
what the fuck? isn’t that a safety issue?
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 3 weeks ago:
bootstrapping problem if you need to drink your Mountain Dew™ verification can before you can open the door.
- Comment on Epic Rizz fr 4 weeks ago:
my play would to be to send a picture of Dick Cheney and say this will have to do until they sober up and we can talk :)
- Comment on What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you? 5 weeks ago:
Starcraft had some great lines like that too.
- Comment on Velma can't math. 1 month ago:
it was designed as ragebait. but it failed even at that.
- Comment on "I used to be with it" 1 month ago:
huh, I could have sworn there was a format for long-term archival, like 50+ years. I guess the GitHub Arctic Code Vault project went with microfilm using some very custom equipment to produce it all. but maybe everyone just uses tape (which is fun! but a bit less durable, and more finicky about being stored well)
- Comment on "I used to be with it" 1 month ago:
I think there are some optical media like that. the discs are cheap but the readers are made of mithril.
- Comment on another TUI 1 month ago:
let me guess, you’d remove trans people like me from society because you consider us mentally ill? that’s usually how this playbook goes.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 2 months ago:
nope, it’s the verbal analogy puzzle format used by tests like the SAT.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 2 months ago:
throuple : threesome :: couple : hook-up
- Comment on IT'S A TRAP 2 months ago:
you know, I’m not sure you can have an uncountably infinite number of people. so whatever that abomination is I’ll send the trolley down its way.
- Comment on Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't 2 months ago:
Jesus would have hated movie theater concession stands.
- Comment on Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't 2 months ago:
theoretically, Muslims and Jews should be closer. both believe in one god, rather than a trinity. both reject icons. both follow the dietary laws. both Jews and Arabs descend from Abraham.
maybe the closer you are the more you have to fight about 🤷♀️
- Comment on Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't 2 months ago:
I’m not sure Jesus said anything about whether his followers need to keep kosher or observe the Torah. “I have come not to replace the Law, but to fulfill it” or something, right? I don’t think he weighed in on circumcision or pork. wasn’t that largely the early Christians deciding after his death?
- Comment on Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't 2 months ago:
whoa, I didn’t know there were Churches that don’t follow Paul. he’s one of my biggest issues with Christianity.
I felt like Christianity suffered a lot from so many gentiles streaming in early on without becoming Jews, and by the time it became the religion of Rome it blended with Sol Invictus, Greek Platonism and other Roman mythology, and became incomprehensible. Jesus was Jewish, the Disciples were all Jews, all the context of his teachings only make sense in a context the fresh converts lacked.
I kinda wonder about an alternate universe where a sect of Jews accept Jesus as Moshiach but not as literally God. there’d be no trinity, the parables would go into the Talmud, he’d be seen as a rebbe like Hillel I guess.
- Comment on oh cool 2 months ago:
the SG teams embody American ideals, while the NID embodies American history. specifically, the NID acts like '60s CIA.
- Comment on oh cool 2 months ago:
it pleases me that the actress who played Carter cared about science like the character.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 months ago:
HOG and Hough transforms bring me back. honestly glad that I don’t have to mess with them anymore though.
I always found SVMs a little shady because you had to pick a kernel. we spent time talking about the different kernels you could pick but they were all pretty small and/or contrived. I guess with NNs you pick the architecture/activation functions but there didn’t seem to be an analogue in SVM land for “stack more layers and fatten the embeddings.” though I was only an undergrad.
do you really think NNs won purely because of large datasets and GPU acceleration? I feel like those could have applied to SVMs too. I thought the real win was solving vanishing gradients with ReLU and expanding the number of layers, rather than throwing everything into a 3 or 5-layer MLP, preventing overfitting, making the gradient landscape less prone to local maxima and enabling hierarchical feature extraction to be learned organically.
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 2 months ago:
pff, you call using an operating system bare metal? I run my apps as unikernels on a grid of Elbrus chips I bought off a dockworker in Kamchatka.
and even that’s overkill. I prefer synthesizing my web apps into VHDL and running them directly on FPGAs.
until my ASIC shuttle arrives from Taipei, naturally, then I bond them directly onto Ethernet sockets.
/uj not really but that’d be sick as hell.
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 2 months ago:
for work I have a cloud dev VM, in which I run WSL2. so there’s at least two levels of VMs happening, maybe three honestly.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 months ago:
I recently told my mother that I’m probably the most intelligent person she will ever meet
and so humble, too! seriously though, this is a major red flag. I rarely find smart people to brag about how smart they are.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 months ago:
I was taught that serious academics favored Support Vector Machines over Neural Networks, which industry only loved because they didn’t have proper education.
oops…
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I can’t find the pro-LGBTQ+ ones are they on backorder?
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 2 months ago:
is that the Network State that Peter Thiel is trying to build?