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by thesteamboat 6y ago
I'm curious, if trained with mostly English text in the images rather than Japanese, if it would produce mostly recognizable roman characters (but not necessarily words) or whether instead the characters would be largely unrecognizable
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
It reminds me of an old article from the Journal of Irreproducible Results that posited that the missing limbs from ancient Greek statues could be found having been transplanted (somehow) to Hindu statues.
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
> I think the “deeper problem” is thinking that Californians and Iowans share anything in common at all. This is preposterous and I am flatly surprised that more people are not challenging it. Our differences may be more salient, but the
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
While I agree as a matter of fact that these organizations exist I was asserting a preference rather than an understanding of the world as it is. I view the above list ranging from misguided to shameful stains on our history. Further I want
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
I agree that we as society do not want to outsource censorship to private corporations. Despite that I still think this (namely deplatforming Parler in this moment) is a better outcome for us. Amazon had to choose between appointing itself
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
Thanks for your efforts at moderating. This thread seems like it might be particularly thankless task, so here is some counter appreciation.
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
Because there are many factors which go in to decisions and a particular negative feature might be outweighed by other concerns? Also, pedantic point, I think you were looking for the phrase en masse , of french origin. See https:/&#
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
A recent article [0] on the difficulty of controlling culture (mostly in the context of people trying to keep their brands from being associated with the alt-right) speaks to the challenges involved in this approach. The article decribes Ma
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
> That could be pretty cruel. I don’t think even The Rolling Stones would want to see their songs reused by, say, neonazis. Hard disagree from me. I mean it might hurt to see your work misused but that already happens all the t
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
This is probably wrong. Quoting from the wikipedia article on this phrase: > The phrase derives from the full sentence, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."; > it was popularized in the U
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
> As with everything, it would seem that the truth is somewhere in-between. I hate this sentiment. I agree it's largely true, but it makes a large difference whether that `correct point' is halfway in between or 95% on one side
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by thesteamboat 6y ago
It's not that fewer problems happen, it's that different problems happen. The 'classic' problem of government surveillance is that the governments are able (and too often willing) to resort to force. A distinct problem o
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
It doesn't necessarily need to. We could have a `digit-sales tax', i.e. count the number of digits in the item cost and add a tax at that percent. Something less than $10 only has a 1% tax, while something costing $10,000 has a 5%
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
Shouldn't the headline be "It's a New Medium"? The article mentions shows spanning many different genres and it's emphasizing the change in storytelling due to the new format. This is not meant as criticism of the s
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
Thanks for the link! That's a pretty interesting project I was previously unaware of.
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
> I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another and I know there are people in the world that do not love their fellow human beings and I hate * people like that.* -Tom Lehrer, Intro to National Brotherhood Week http:&
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
While the article is okay, the headline is tautological --- 'For addicts, the thing they are addicted to causes problems'.
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
That's not the best example to pick: people are still killed on accusations of witchcraft. [0,1] The Hollywood blacklists are still in living memory, and someone was fired in the US for being communist ~2001.[2] I, personally, am somet
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
Expanding on this, the author writes: > Da'esh's plan to take over the world isn't rooted in a theological destiny of Muslims; it's rooted in an explicitly political vision of conquest. That is probably true of Al Q
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
To some extent I think that the writing became weaker as the story became more explicit. In Starcraft, you were a character as well --- people advised you and argued with you. Ultimately, although you take orders you were free to interpret
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
Ignoring the page view time bit, couldn't this (theoretically, I have a hard time imagining it practically) just be handled invisibly by the ISP that already knows every request you make?
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
I think this link was posted here a little while ago: https://medium.com/@robleathern/carriers-are-making-more-fro... The article is exactly what it says on the tin: You are charged more (roughly 16x) for the data inhe
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
> Won't the deterrent effect of prison be reduced if we go too easy on them? I don't think this is true. More precisely, it's obviously true that extremes can change how much of a deterrent effect there is, (e.g. if prison
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
Meh. Saying people prefer fairness over equality doesn't actually tell us much, mostly because neither of those two terms have consistent definitions that allow us to analyze whether a situation is fair or is equal . On the one hand
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
The Black Chamber typically refers to an American organization[0] although, to be fair, it was not the only use. > The term "Black Chamber" predates Yardley's use of it in the title of his book. Codes and code breakers hav
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
The introductory quote comes from Hunter S. Thompson's eulogy of Nixon in the Atlantic Monthly.[0] It is very enjoyable read (though not balanced in any sense of the word). > Nixon had the unique ability to make his enemies seem hon
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
The Fermi paradox only requires that some alien species would have both the desire and capacity for stellar engineering.
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A brief graphic biography of Ada Lovelace (2009)(sydneypadua.com)
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
See also Schrödinger's discovery of his eponymous equation.
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
Though I think most of VanillaSwirls comments are generally confused, there are some biases that show up in this space. In particular, people rate the intelligibility/clarity of Caucasian speakers higher than that of East Asians even

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