Alberta separatism makes zero sense if you are a landlocked province. How would adding the bureaucracy of having to go through an additional country make exporting oil easier? 🤨
Everything you need to know about the modern oil industry and their apologists is that they consider not building a pipeline a bigger existential threat to them than climate change.
As a Brit I genuinely cannot comprehend how anyone can look at the absolute clusterfuck that is Brexit and think “let’s copy them”.
Now, the alarming aspect of this story is that the very same technology is probably what tumblr is using to identify porn. Now, if it can’t tell that an empty field is not, in fact, full of sheep, what hope do we have that it can’t tell an empty room isn’t full of writing human forms engaged in passionate coitus?
this really does sound like an episode of black mirror
This is gonna produce some absolutely baffling pornography.
…. oh my fucking god they actually are using open source software. They’re using a fucking one-layer unidirectional bicategory tag-trained neural network. This will never work. Literally, it will never work. There’s just not enough algorithmic complexity to do what they’re asking of it. I bet you I could prove on a mathematical level that this joke of a neural net fundamentally lacks the abstraction necessary to do its job.
This will never get better. Their algorithm will never stop fucking up, it will never actually flag porn reliably and it will always require a massive quantity of human hours to deal with the deluge of mistagged pictures. This isn’t just a case of an insufficiently trained algorithm, it’s just … this is the most basic neural network you can make. It probably hasa a lot of neurons and has loads of training data but like … you can’t just brute force this kind of stuff. One layer of neurons is just Not Enough.
Also, just to make this clear, Tumblr lied. I mean, we already know this, but I mean they liiiieeeeed. All that stuff they promised about what would or would not be censored? That cannot be delivered on with a system this simple. Nude classical sculptures, political protests, male-presenting nipples (really Tumblr?), nude art outside the context of sex, all that? You cannot train a bicategory one-layer neural network to exclude those things. It cannot be done. Tumblr never intended for those things to actually be permitted, they were just lying. Because the system they have cannot actually do what they said it would and never will be able to.
Also, this kind of system is super vulnerable to counter-neural strategies. I bet you before the end of the month someone hooks up their own open source one layer bicategory neural network which puts an imperceptible (to humans) layer of patterned static over arbitrary images, and trains it by having it bot-post static-ed images to Tumblr and reinforcing based on whether the images are labeled nsfw or sfw. Seriously, within a month someone will have an input-output machine which can turn any image ‘sfw’ in Tumblr’s eyes.
This is genuinely pathetic. Like, I have real pity for whoever implemented this, because it’s clear Tumblr doesn’t actually have any engineers with any expertise with machine learning left at all and they foisted the job off on some poor bastard who has no idea what they’re doing and is going to get all kinds of flak for their (perfectly reasonable and predetermined) failure from management.
As has been pointed out before, there are no humans behind this at all. The review process just reruns either the same algorithm or another algorithm, but people have posted screen shots showing obviously SFW pictures that were still deemed NSFW on review, despite the fact that any human, no matter how overworked / tired would have seen that these pictures were not porn.
im sorry did i miss something or are people advocating for the actual real life mafia right now
is this a mad lib
I saw that thread, he said the Mafia shows how you don’t need hierarchies and can be successful in commiting crimes purely on a system of honor. He missed a few things:
1) the honor stuff is mostly bullshit, they’re psychopaths who murder each other all the time, it’s how John Gotti came to power.
2) The Mafia is completely hierarchial, even the glamorized movie versions, which is clearly where his image of them was coming from.
3) To the extent they do follow any of their own rules, they do it because they’re afraid of being murdered and because they make shitloads of money. They put up with the chain of command because this is the only job where a high school dropout with an IQ of 85 can make high six figures.
4) They’re not successful, they barely exist anymore. They were already in decline when Sammy The Bull put the final nail in the coffin and turned over the entire Gambino family. In the middle of the 20th century that had an estimated half a million members, now it’s down to roughly 2,000, and with no political power or central coordination.
But sure, go ahead, mimic this extremely successful organization without giving anyone any money and with people who have economic opportunities that won’t get them killed.
how much of an absolute dipshit do you have to be to think the Mafia isn’t hierarchical. How do you look at an organization where people are literally referred to as ‘Don’ and go “oh yes, this strikes me as following anarchist principles”
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