Barack_Embalmer @ Barack_Embalmer @lemmy.world

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Free speech online doesn't even seem to be a particularly well-defined concept. Those who extol it the loudest are often looking to have the millionth "good faith discussion" about The Bell Curve, or use slurs as "just a joke", or promote a "dating and lifestyle coaching" business to teenage boys. If all they want is carte-blanche to say absolutely anything without being censored, I guess they only need to spin up a web server of their own, or run a lemmy instance. But what they actually want is to bypass the moderation rules on widely-used platforms and shit on the social contract. It's the same reason they don't show pornography, snuff footage, or other damaging content on television.

"High quality" can come in the form of investing time into research, or creating visual aids that present information clearly. But it also often manifests as flashy title cards, pointless special effects, derivative humor (like frenzied jump cuts to movie clips and memes every few seconds), unnecessarily rambling intros, superfluous wall-to-wall music. I feel like many of these features are borrowed over from classical TV, to give the veneer of a highly produced "professional" product, when democratized internet media's greatest strength is to actually free us from these conventions.

I never used the video chat for that reason, but I did have a few interesting discussions about philosophy and mathematics, when you were able to enter your interests and it matched you with people who'd entered the same.

Another piece of the olden-days internet died today. Buonanima.

Maybe he meant that holocaust of 2pac they did at cochella.

Whatever happened to Spongebob, the strong silent type?

I hadn't until last night's Fury vs Ngannou boxing match, where the commentators kept mentioning how the Supreme Omnipotent Lord Excellency of Saudi Arabia had invited Kanye West as a guest of honor to the event, that he was sitting in the super VIP area, every bowel movement he made, etc.

Do expensive phones have infra-red cameras nowadays?

AI is also the minmax algorithm for solving tic-tac-toe, and the ghosts that chase Pac-Man around. It's a broad term. It doesn't always have to mean "mindblowing super-intelligence that surpasses humans in every conceivable way". So it makes mistakes - therefore it's not "intelligent" in some way?

A lot of the latest thought in cognitive science couches human cognition in similar terms to pattern recognition - some of the latest theories are known as "predictive processing", "embodied cognition", and "4E cognition" if you want to look them up.

Does anyone else kinda miss when youtube was more informal, random, less edited, and more janky? Nowadays everybody has a title card, and a two minute intro greeting, high-end camera setup, and tightly rehearsed script. It's like they all decided to just recreate the unnecessary bloat and ceremony from classical television, for the sake of "appearing professional" or something?

For example, a tutorial doesn't need to begin with a "Hey guys, it's your pal ASDFGHJKL. Have you ever got your foreskin trapped in a whatever and yada yada yada? Well today I'm gonna show you how to blah blah blah. Now let's get into the video. But first a word from our sponsor Lockheed Martin..."

What's with the "today"? I'm always watching it "today" by definition. And I wouldn't have clicked it if I wasn't in that particular predicament. Why not just immediately start showing the solution?

LOL I remember when there was no better alternative to buying shitloads of CDs. In some ways I miss the relationship I had with music back then. My sister beat the shit out of me one time for sneaking in her room to copy a bunch of her CDs. Made a big song and dance about the ethics of music piracy!

In that scenario though, your best bet would be to buy more than one CD, rip them to a computer with a USB optical drive, and make yourself playlists that are 8 hours long. I certainly would never advocate downloading music with filesharing software like soulseek.

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I always wondered why they decided to honor the memory of John Wayne Gacy by naming an airport after him.

That would make them an abomination against Christendom, as it's provable from Einstein's field equations that men wear these clothes and women wear those clothes.

If you know of a better ML related instance than sigmoid.social let me know, but none of those influential figures I mentioned post there, and the discussion is pretty much non-existent.

There is a Mastodon instance sigmoid.social for this ostensible purpose, but it's pretty dead.

You mean ring ring ring ring ring ring ring ring, banana-phooooooooooone?

I joined Twitter fairly recently as Machine Learning Twitter is/was a thing, and I wanted to stay abreast of news from people like Andrej Karpathy, Chris Olah, Andrew Ng etc., especially since r/MachineLearning went down the shitter.

But I can't even - I log on and just instantly see ragebait posts from Daily Mail talking heads and bullshit.

Are there any better alternatives for this purpose?

And also Bender's car form was derived from the 1977 horror B-movie The Car, which was a Lincoln Continental modified to have a menacing visage.

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I can't help feeling a lot of these new motorized doodads are total deathtraps. I used to have a 40mph kaabo electric scooter and although it was mega fun, I sold it before it had a chance to kill me. Small wheels, poor geometry for stability, small caster angle, intoxicatingly high power - it's a recipe for disaster.