> Violence never made anybody happy. While we sometimes need to use it, we shall be very careful in doing so - you can harm yourself more than you think.
> -- [From earlier conversation](https://qoto.org/@FailForward/105650810161771989)
Oh god the twitter influencer blue check mark has now come to the real world and you can apply to have one put on your home... this is how the world ends, this right here.
https://bluecheckhomes.com/?fbclid=IwAR0JHCvZ4mgrVSptEN1GSWo8X72sjT9er4CpV6onsrv7P-YZaTULSK7LxIw
Started running D&D Curse of Strahd recently. One of the players used popular culture for inspiration and then created a custom miniature to match. #dnd #curseofstrahd #ttrpg
Interesting project:
https://www.inclusivestem.org/
It looks pretty small-scale at this point, but they have some videos that get into sort-of the nuts and bolts of how, for instance, you can correctly input mathematical formulas (e.g., for homework or research papers) more efficiently without vision to help you. It's slow work, but it's the kind of thing that genuinely enables education and growth.
#inclusivestem #education #accessibility #stem
# How butterflies fly
Source:
* [YouTube](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FfeiU_eIB1c)
* https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/01/210121132059.htm
> Until now, the common perception has been that butterfly wings are aerodynamically inefficient, however, the researchers suggest that the opposite is actually true.
> ... researchers studied the wingbeats of freely flying butterflies during take-off in a wind tunnel.
> _During the upward stroke, the wings cup, creating an air-filled pocket between them. When the wings then collide, the air is forced out, resulting in a backward jet that propels the butterflies forward. The downward wingbeat has another function: the butterflies stay in the air and do not fall to the ground._
I just stocked up on a TON of ammo for my AR-15.. lets hope I never have to use it in self defense but after Biden took over as president and the series of events I am seeing unfold it worries me just enough to be prepared just in case. I still think it is unlikely to devolve to that point, but the Biden arrests and the misinformation in the media feels a bit too scary for me to at least not prepare.
If things do get bad enough that a nazi-like environment fully develops it will be far too late to get ammo by the time that is evident. So seems prudent to stock up now just in case.
Im basically just buying boxes of NATO 5.56 in various type. Hell if things calm down and get better at least ill have plenty of ammo for the range.
This is the first time I ever felt any real need to stock up on ammo in case of emergency, thats sad. But with the first segregationist is living history as president who already promised a healthy dose of fascism before even winning the election it is dangerous times out there.
In case anyone wants to check it out, this is my dev computer. I work on massively parallel algorithms a lot of the time so I need some really heavy duty GPUs for GPGPU (those are 4 watercooled Radeon Vega Frontier Edition GPUs) and a 32 core Ryzen 3.7 Ghz threadRipper CPU, and 64 gigs of the fastest ram around. this baby is a **beast**
inb4 why the Radeon GPUs and not NVIDIA or an Intel chip... simple, they are better for many/most applications but not all. The CPU and motherboard supports the full number of channels to maximize throughput into and out of the GPUs. So while they have fewer cores compared to a Tesla the cores dont tend to be the bottleneck, the I/O is, so i sacrificed cores to max out the I/O channels where the bottleneck tends to be. AMD and Ryzen ThreadRipper CPU were the only ones doing that.
#GPGPU #Parallel #Parallelism #GPU #programming #AI #MachineLearning #Algo #algos #Algorithms @Science
A project I did a while back for shits and giggles was a neural network that learned off random photos what natural coloring looked lik for various objects and faces. Then you could feed it random black and white photos and it would try to color them. Only spent a few days on it for fun, and as you can see the results were not perfect (had some artifacts). but the results were surprisingly good if you ignore the blemishes.
#machineLearning #AI #NeuralNetworks #imageProcessing #Science
FUCK! The eyedrops I ordered just came in and I go to look at the ingredients and I see "Belladonna 6X" and im just like.. well that is a weird ingredient for eye drops, that shit is extremely toxic...then i realize, FUCK this is some homeopathic sca medicine... Cant believe I gave these snake oil salesman money for this shit.. I literally bought the most expensive bottle of water (0.5 fluid ounces) ever sold! I really need to check labels more BEFORE I order online.
They need to require all homeopathic products to have a big sticker on it that says "this shit is a sca"
Dependency conflicts:
* Lewd-humor 0.1-alpha
* depression-5.7-rc4
* awkwardness-2.3
* Python2.4
Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
Pronouns: Sir / Mister
(Above pronouns are not intended to mock, i will respect any persons pronouns and only wish pronouns to show respect be used with me as well. These are called neopronouns, see an example of the word "frog" used as a neopronoun here: http://tinyurl.com/44hhej89 )
A proud member of the Penobscot Native American tribe, as well as a Mayflower passenger descendant. I sometimes post about my genealogical history.
My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
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