Stu @shoeberto@straylight.expectnomore.net

the solar eclipse of water dispensers

our meme generation neural network student is getting towards the end of his masters thesis and the results are absolutely a riot

I'm curious; if you ever moved instance, from what to what, and why?

RT @kevinabrioux@twitter.com
Tech H.R. 2019

Stories.
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let me in...

#dog #door #pat #head #animatedgif

robot at the grocery store last night. definitely creeped out watching it wander the store on its own. those googly eyes don’t fool anyone. customers around me were all pretty unnerved too.

I know it's been a good week if I can share Jeffpardy! with three people who haven't seen it before https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g3--WYH8SY

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I’ve pointed out before that the only situation that will cause Facebook to become introspective enough to change is internal competence. It is facing an increasing technical debt because the current generation of coders don’t want to work there. Largely, I hope, due to Facebook’s terrible behaviour and cavalier disregard for the laws and people’s privacy. Facebook doesn’t have enough foresight to understand that its workforce are normal people who don’t like companies that behave like jerks and so as the user base drops off, so does Facebook’s technical competency. It’s now fighting a two-front war: keep/gain users and keep/gain employees.

“Among top schools, Facebook’s acceptance rate for full-time positions offered to new graduates has fallen from an average of 85% for the 2017-2018 school year to between 35% and 55% as of December.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/16/facebook-has-struggled-to-recruit-since-cambridge-analytica-scandal.html

What would AI demand if it suddenly attained sentience? To find out, I trained a neural net on 190k petition titles from Change.org https://aiweirdness.com/post/184919085542/this-neural-net-would-like-to-deliver-these

YTMND is dead, alas.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/looks-like-mid-00s-meme-factory-ytmnd-has-shut-down-for-good.116990/

And yet fucking Facebook is worth trillions and will never die even after they consume the last Human.

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