Ok buddy, when was the last time YOU saw a large housefire without it being surrounded by firetrucks?

Explain That

Do you REALLLLLYYYYYY think it is a coincidence?

Remember if you don't want to be like the "United" Dumpsterfires Of America than don't vote for conservative hateful idiots like Polievre and don't pretend like Carney is a solution rather than a bandaid!

People who are struggling need a vision, otherwise hate and blind calls for austerity begin to overpower visions of anything else.

Some of Carney's speeches have felt historic, but I think it has to do with having a good speech writer who is willing to call it how it is rather than Carney actually really being willing to play a confident foil to Trump and fascism. This is a dangerous liability as it is a losing strategy.

Well a big problem with the US is that the establishment of the Democratic party has been saying for the last 30 years "NOT NOW, this election is TOO IMPORTANT TO TALK ABOUT THE FIRE ALARM" to people who are hurt and scared because they feel like they are definitely in a burning building.

So Freakin Cool!

Well said.

The synthetic data thing here pisses me off too, synthetic data has uses in science predicting sensor responses, comparing reality to expected findings, and analyizing related phenomena to the artificial data at a fine resolution with computer modelling but none of those things have to do with establishing a ground truth for what the model considers part of reality, part of its understanding of reality or part of the facts that supposedly underpin the reality.

If a scientist wants to analyze several types of algorithms and compare them maybe they might make a set of synthetic data that is artificially clean and simplified in order to compare and contrast the behavior of the algorithms especially at their edges and extremes. Note however that nothing about this process makes the algorithms smarter, the generative part is what the human scientist learns by observing what happens when the synthetic data is inputted into an algorithm. You need a human brain that understands context, understands the limits of a model vs the rest of reality, and understands things that aren't explicitly said about the framing context of what is being examined.

"A.I." is a lossy data compression algorithm, there is a fundamental "knowledge entropy" here where the end result can never be smarter than the raw data because the "A.I." can do nothing but apply a lossy data compression algorithm to the training data.

This is not a cynical take on the potential for artificial intelligence but rather a hopeful and heartfelt thanks to the professions of librarians and archivists, for surely it is the curation of a quality data set where the genesis of intelligence happens. If nothing else Machine Learning proves that with brute force...

Well, let me introduce you to a world treasure then!

An Irish radio station did a fully cast radioplay with sound effects and everything and it is available on the internet archive.

https://archive.org/details/Ulysses-Audiobook-Merged/

I am biased because I love Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, but outside of that biased lens this production is still undoubtedly a monumental task, just interpreting the shifts in perspective, character, meaning, dream, reality... it is never quite clear in Ulysses and simply arranging the production of the radioplay for Ulysses would have required a huge amount of upfront work to interpet genuinely before recording even began... which is another way of saying it can really help you navigate difficult sections of Ulysses that leave you totally bewildered.

What I love most about Hasan Piker is how incomprehensibly liberals, empty centrists and conservatives absolutely panic when they see his name when in actuality Hasan Piker has very moderate and rationale beliefs.

No, Hasan isn't a moderate according to the definition of a moderate being completely unreflective of how their beliefs and ideals connect to reality, but Hasan is actually very much a moderate in terms of wanting systematic change in the most boring, broadly beneficial and policy focused way possible. In ideology Hasan Piker is a younger Bernie Sanders with a "scary" name. There is nothing "radical" about Hasan Piker's personality or politics when viewed from a rationale perspective, the beliefs of centrists are far more radical given the incredible unexamined hypocrisies at the heart of them.

People talk about Hasan Piker like he is some angry, dangerous man who casually suggests extremist forms of violence and judgement upon others as serious policy suggestions, which is another way to say that people talk about Hasan Piker like he behaves like a conservative.

This could not be further from the truth, Hasan Piker is a humanist, he is not someone like Tucker Carlson who harbors and nurtures ideologies of hate and violence like antisemitism and islamophobia.

If you want proof of this, watch some videos of Hasan Piker talking about Tucker Carlson, they both frequently criticize Israel, if Hasan didn't care about the ethics Tucker Carlson would be a natural and very powerful ally to reach across the isle too, but Hasan correctly identifies Tucker Carlson as an enemy of muslims, jews and collective peace even though he appears to be on "Hasan's side" on one of the topics Hasan is most passionate about.

One of the most difficult skills you have to learn as an artist is when to stop extracting, when to stop squeezing, when to let go and let something grow into a living thing far bigger than you.

Business majors and finance people are monomaniacally obsessed with extracting and squeezing until they smash their environment into a brickwall, at which point their job begins and they can scoop up valuable debris from the resulting calamity for cheap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine

Ulysses (James Joyce) does this in a million ways, it is about one day but in that one day the entire lives of the characters burst through as their mundane thoughts reveal what the landscape of their life was shaped by.

Ok well than go clean your room.

You can still get good news about cancer... in the relative sense.

I fucking hate business majors, get them the hell out of video game development.

You can't run a videogame company if you think like a business suit.