be careful with what series you watch/read during emotional points in your life because they will forever contain a ghost of your past self within it now
we need to get more normal about nonsexual nudity i think
so glad nobody is being stupid and obtuse as fuck on this post. that would be really annoying if i had to see a bunch of people trying their best to miss the very simple premise of this post
You can tell that “have [minority] rights gone TOO FAR?” rhetoric is targeted at gullible people because it supposes that hate crime laws are actually enforced
simply the fact that different body types for women go in and out of style throughout the decades should be enough to tell you that women’s bodies are considered consumable goods under capitalism
the original got flagged with no way to appeal it when every contributor is deactivated but I will never let this post die. it’s monday and we are getting on it cunts
Autistic people sometimes struggle with apologizing, because they’re never taught how to do it the right way.
When autistic people are taught how to apologize, they’re often taught that the sincerity of the apology is determined by how well they can hide their disability.
Not enough eye contact = insincere apology
Struggling to phrase it = insincere apology
Wrong tone = insincere apology
Asking questions to figure out how to prevent doing it again = insincere apology (and “arguing” or “making excuses”)
Meanwhile, neurotypical people can continue their patterns while still being considered sincere by these standards.
I see way too many posts about being really affectionate with your friends and if you aren’t hugging and kissing your friends then you don’t really have friends and you should be in love with your friends a little bit and it annoys me so here’s a post that shouts out non-affectionate friends. shoutout to the people who don’t like affection or hugging or being super gushy with each other but still love and appreciate their friends dearly. shoutout to the people who find it really hard to be emotionally vulnerable and sweet but are still always there for you in a crisis. shoutout to people who don’t have to be hugging you constantly to prove that they care about you
fat character who becomes a vampire and loses a ton of weight and blood can not sate their hunger but they can’t eat anything they used to like anymore. everyone views it as a positive healthy positive development but they’re starving and dying slowly but never truly dying, a living corpse. this is a metaphor for something
People finally think they’re attractive and cool and funny but they’re dead. People finally treat them well but they’re dead. Do you see the vision
Transforms into a shell of my former self and finally gains the respectability society never bestowed upon me before
wondering how to use A* search with gradient descent given that it requires a heuristic of how far a partial solution is from the goal 🤔
an admissible heuristic, which is to say an underestimate of the distance remaining to the goal, where the more accurate the heuristic the better the search performs, but the search breaks if the heuristic ever overestimates because that can cause it to neglect better solutions.
the cool thing about optimisation by gradient descent is that it tells you exactly which direction to go in order to reach a goal whose exact location is unknown, while A* search tells you which direction to go to reach a goal whose exact location is known but cannot necessarily be reached by heading straight towards it.
then genetic optimisation can be applied when you have an unknown goal and a nondifferentiable cost function, so you don’t know what you’re looking for nor which direction it must be in, which is obviously not a great situation to be in.
gradient descent has always kind of bugged me for all but the simplest problems, because not everything is differentiable and back propagation is annoying and numerical futzing around is unsatisfying but the most frustrating part is that it works!
but most neural network advances seem to come from running this insanely powerful optimisation process on a network architecture that was dreamed up by a shaman behind a waterfall operating on mushrooms and intuition; I want the computers to be doing this part of the job too, but you can’t differentiate over all possible networks, can you… can you?
You cannot. You may convince yourself of this by simply getting too creative in your choice of activation function.
then again I guess why limit yourself to networks, they’re just one slice of the space of possible functions after all.
hmm now I’m wondering what’s the most annoying possible activation function, one that allows a network to approximate any possible function in principle yet makes the network impossible to train in practice…
alright unfortunately seems like im gonna have to make one more
so im moving out next month and im apartment hunting. prpblem is i don’t have enough for my second and last portion of rent due on the 15th, as well as me being almost out of food again. ive been selling junk around the house but ebay eats away at earnings with fees meaning i get only 20% of what i sell my shit for. not to mention i need to get tater tot’s nails trimmed since i can’t do it myself and that’s a health thing since if one of her claws breaks it may get really badly infected. once i move put ill be in a much cheaper apartment meaning i won’t have to make these posts anymore because ill be able to just spend my check every month without it eating my entire thing with just 90% of my rent. my fucking gi bill is 1576 bucks but my rent is 1700 and then the apartments im looking at are 800. if its any consolation, our birthday is this month (27th lol) so like yeah
the rent is 300, tater tot’s vet visit would be all together 90 dollars including uber rides, and buying food would be around 70ish? so all together around 450 dollars so
“Be there or be square” is such a stupid threat. No one knows what it means to be square. When I hear that, all I picture is hyper realistic minecraft Steve. Personally I like to hit them with “Show up or blow up.” There’s full clarity there. You will leave no one guessing. No one knows what it means to be square but everybody knows what it means to fucking explode.
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