missfrizzle
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- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 5 days ago:
nope, it’s the verbal analogy puzzle format used by tests like the SAT.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 6 days ago:
throuple : threesome :: couple : hook-up
- Comment on IT'S A TRAP 6 days 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 1 week ago:
Jesus would have hated movie theater concession stands.
- Comment on Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
the SG teams embody American ideals, while the NID embodies American history. specifically, the NID acts like '60s CIA.
- Comment on oh cool 1 week ago:
it pleases me that the actress who played Carter cared about science like the character.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 1 week 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago:
is that the Network State that Peter Thiel is trying to build?
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 2 weeks ago:
and make MAGA Place pay for it?
- Comment on Samsung Embeds Israeli Surveillance App on Phones Across MENA 2 weeks ago:
if anyone has one of these phones, please contact CitizenLab. they can reverse-engineer it.
- Comment on Can't argue that. 2 weeks ago:
I have no scientific basis for this, but my suspicion is that what you do with your brain is more important to cognition than whatever raw intelligence you start with. the more languages you study, the more music you play, the more subjects you study and skills you develop and hobbies you tinker with and deep conversations you have… you learn to learn, you learn to think, it all gets wired up and cross-connected and you become more than the sum of your parts.
how much decline is truly biological vs. being stuck in a rut?
also there’s nootropics that could be helpful for concussion recovery/etc. but they haven’t been too well-studied, there’s many different ones with different sketchiness and sources aren’t always trustworthy… but piracetam (iirc) is actually prescribed in the EU for recovery from brain injury, and it’s fairly safe and well-studied. I’m not recommending it either way though.
- Comment on Disney 2025 2 weeks ago:
wtf? didn’t Scrooge McDuck get drafted into the US Navy?
- Comment on Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔 2 weeks ago:
my sibling in Christ, Reps. Mace and Jackson literally shouted the t-slur yesterday and called for all trans people to be forcibly institutionalized. Trump said he “wouldn’t oppose” banning the trans flag when a reporter asked about “transtifa.” Musk retweeted someone who called trans women “perverted, deranged bioweapons” and trans men “osteoporotic, androgynous goblins,” calling us to be contained and forbidden to communicate with each other. along with someone else calling for a total ban on HRT for all ages. we’ve been kicked out of the military, and stripped of security clearances. the DoJ has floated banning us from gun ownership by ruling that we’re “mentally defective.” my passport has an M on it because Trump reverted all the rules on his first day in office. it’s a literal felony for trans women to use the women’s bathroom in Florida, and for trans office workers to use their own pronouns. coverage for trans health has been stripped from nearly every public service. trans protections have recently been eviscerated in Skrmetti.
it’s really not going great.
- Comment on Political discourse 2 weeks ago:
if you were a centrist before 2020, and you still are in 2025, then you’ve moved Right, since the Overton window shifted Right.
if you kept your principles you’re now Left. that’s how the window works.
- Comment on Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔 2 weeks ago:
The US passed laws protecting trans people and many Americans are literally trans or allies. Russia however, is extremely anti-trans.
ahh, to live in 2014 again.
- Comment on How did Luke Skywalker learn to communicate with Astromech droids? How did he learn the language whilst living on Tatooine? 3 weeks ago:
I headcanon that Han can’t understand a word Chewwy says and just goes on vibes.
- Comment on He died doing what he loved. 3 weeks ago:
update from the future: the suspect is Tyler Robinson, a young white Utah man from a Mormon family, with unregistered party affiliation. he confessed to his father, who called a youth pastor to talk him down from suicide, who then called US marshals to take him into custody.
- Comment on Practical Magic 3 weeks ago:
rule of three is broader than Wicca though. something like it is common in a lot of pagan beliefs.
- Comment on Best Fediverse platforms to do it all right this time 4 weeks ago:
…you’re literally on the fediverse right now?
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
unfortunately, the DNC has moved farther and farther right with every election. Trump is their competition, so they only have to be slightly Left of him to be “better.”
Obama seemed progressive before he was largely neutralized by the establishment. then Clinton ran with Tim Caine (a Republican) as her VP pick. then Biden, who epitomized the stagnant gerontocracy the DNC has become, keeping the country on life support. then Harris (endorsed by Liz Cheney), who promised… cheaper groceries? somehow? now we’re supposed to rally behind Newsom, who’s branded himself as Trump-lite (and not just by antics alone - he’s very anti-LGBT, Tough on Crime™ and schmoozes with right-wing influencers.)
at a certain point it’s like choosing between Putin and Medvedev.
- Comment on We are helping 4 weeks ago:
Why do we pipe natural gas into homes?
puts on Technology Connections hat
because heat pumps and green energy weren’t a thing in the US until recently!
heat efficiency is weird. electric heaters are 100% efficient, but 1) they’re only as efficient as the generator, and 2) transmission losses add up. and until recently, most power was generated by coal and natural gas. turning those into electricity is lossy, since lots of energy is lost as waste heat. so why not send the gas you were going to burn for electricity directly to the customer?
heat pumps can be 300-400% efficient, since they move heat - from outdoors, into the home - rather than generating it. they can get >100% efficiency even in cold climates! but stupidly the US never bothered make our air conditioners reversible, or every home would have a heat pump by now.
and with solar/wind (for peak) + nuclear or grid storage (for base) power, we can now get rid of natural gas. …once we give everybody heat pumps. …and shutdown our gas generators. …we should probably get on that.
- Comment on We are helping 4 weeks ago:
pragmatically I think reducing meat consumption rather than eliminating it is an easier sell. I’ll admit, I’m too weak of will to become a vegetarian. I’ve been inside a chicken plant, I’ve seen the horrid conditions firsthand. I know the climate change impact. I know my diet is hurting animals and the climate. but I crave meat, and none of the delicious vegan food my partner makes hits the spot.
it’s too hard to forswear every future pot roast, chop and drumstick. I can probably get myself to eat less meat though.