are rip its still a thing in the military or do they drink monster now?

Having figured out what plugs went into what sockets and gotten the power switched on, Skye settles in to the standard issue office chair in front of the monitor. The words "Hewlett Packard" shine like a searchlight in the dimly lit command office. It skips the login screen because of the ID […]

apparently a draft of Sean Meyn's "Control Techniques for Complex Networks" is available as a free download: https://meyn.ece.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/77/archive/CTCNonline.pdf

imagine taylor swift but good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTi4Ekmfu5s #np

you realize that the reason you know about the history of the 1940s and not of any other time in modern history is because the most powerful institutions have their founding myths centered around WWII. it isn't actually more relevant than other historical periods. please read more history about […]

powerful urge to make an "AI" reels/tiktok thing that strings together clips from silent movies with text dialogue cards in between

with the way microsoft is going there's probably a market for a drobo-style appliance that runs keycloak, mattermost and nextcloud

where perceptrons stall and convolutions swerve the random forest doth converge

generate code in a bunch of different language (with no dependencies) from decision tree/forest and linear regression models https://github.com/BayesWitnesses/m2cgen

> Saving model in the UBJSON format as default. You can use file extension: `json`, `ubj` or `deprecated` to choose between formats.

you know how five-axis machines are so horrifyingly dangerous that they're usually physically caged off to keep people from entering the Evisceration Zone? bipedal robots remind me of that https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115306625588559775

I just realized that it's technically true that I'm training a video prediction model on my laptop (the model is 30 megabytes)

More artposting https://icosahedron.website/media/PE9AO0SV9_29-PK-2mI https://icosahedron.website/media/1ewRK4JbTl6hX79bjK0 https://icosahedron.website/media/k0DQH1QoYg2WJnkhkg0 https://icosahedron.website/media/fMyd8LtdU2ijABoyB_4

my WIP fork that doesn't have any CSS is the only connection I have to mastodon mothership and occasionally I get a notification in and and oh no https://icosahedron.website/media/nAoleizPxa2zMHVSKMs

Artposting time https://icosahedron.website/media/PEZ9bq5BNe8oui8TC6U https://icosahedron.website/media/zUUF-qi7BMCRw4n1_v4 https://icosahedron.website/media/birt63eRi5Fa9GyUzik https://icosahedron.website/media/PrEH3wq4WjbSXKJK_ss

I'm almost to the point of looking for github xss so I can have my github projects redirect to my website and not have ads for microsoft products next to my name

there are a lot of neural network applications that involve doing backtracking search using the neural network as a cost function (like, for example, LLMs) and I don't know why more of them don't use mixture density networks instead of evaluating the ginormous neural network repeatedly

the kitsch window is like the overton window except to the left is kitsch and to the right is "not music"/"just paint dribbles"/etc. when a new technology makes a particular kind of production easier it moves to the right

https://soundcloud.com/spotline/moving-mangrove #np

개논

openai published a demo reel from their new video generation model https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKAwXLVxuZQ

the cycle of life: * an institution is exploiting everyone * someone creates an alternative to the institution * the alternative starts to get traction * a cadre of people from the institution who were passed over for promotion declare that the alternative needs "structure" and build an […]

in metaverse, slot machine plays you

I wrote a blog post about, indirectly, the new facebook vibes product https://notes.hella.cheap/slop-machines.html

I wrote a blog post about, indirectly, the new facebook vibes product https://notes.hella.cheap/slop-machines.html

_trump voice_ wow, everything's slot machine

I think I might have to write a blog post about the relationship between the sort of contextual bandits optimization that's typically used for recommender systems and genai. I get the sense that a lot of people think the underlying technology for genai works based on prompts and don't understand […]

the blowback podcast is so good

you can go to your nearest industrial ruin and experience this IRL today https://eldritch.cafe/@sinituulia/115277225567111498

Colombian president Gustavo #Petro left the UN general assembly to join protestors at #TimesSquare in their march against the presence of #Netanyahu. In a speech Petro called upon US soldiers to disobey orders that contribute to the ongoing genocide. 🔥🇯🇴🫰✊ […] [Original post on social.edu.nl]

something I've been noticing getting more common is for PMC-aligned progressives to dismiss anyone on the left they don't like by calling them a libertarian

whoops

the tribal health authority where we live is putting vending machines with things like emergency contraception, narcan, and lice treatment kits in them so people don't have to go to the store and can get these things more rapidly and with less stigma in emergencies www.kpax.com/indiancountr...

https://soundcloud.com/retape/hydra #np

people that clearly spend a lot of time learning about photography, and use photoshop, but don't know anything about computational photography are really baffling to me. you're clearly spending a lot of time on this, just learn some math!

come to ML, we have: * argmin f(x) * argmax P(x) * actually that's it

the world's fastest and most flexible frontend web framework: document.createDocumentFragment

the Dallas Fed did another anonymous oil and gas survey and the oil industry is still real mad at Trump […]

this is the several-th time I've been in a situation where I wanted to find a projection matrix that minimizes a neural cost function and it's always a huge pain

it's not capitalist hellscape it's landlordist hellscape. the problem is a shift away from capitalism and towards rents

I think the blur might have been load bearing

I think apple podcast connect might be plain broken