missfrizzle

@missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Velma can't math.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  it was designed as ragebait. but it failed even at that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I used to be with it"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  nope, it’s the verbal analogy puzzle format used by tests like the SAT.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has this ever happened to you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  throuple : threesome :: couple : hook-up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S A TRAP⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus would have hated movie theater concession stands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the SG teams embody American ideals, while the NID embodies American history. specifically, the NID acts like '60s CIA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh cool⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it pleases me that the actress who played Carter cared about science like the character.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you think of any now?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  and make MAGA Place pay for it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung Embeds Israeli Surveillance App on Phones Across MENA⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  if anyone has one of these phones, please contact CitizenLab. they can reverse-engineer it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't argue that.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  wtf? didn’t Scrooge McDuck get drafted into the US Navy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 😔⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  rule of three is broader than Wicca though. something like it is common in a lot of pagan beliefs.