How does anyone hate kids they are so funny I sold tickets to incredibles to this little girl and her mom and she’s like mom are we sitting next to each other and the moms like ya and the kid screamed YES so loud it broke my ears
The other day I was bringing an older gentleman up the hill in a golf cart and we drove past this huge YMCA group of kids like 100 kids
and driving past the first chunk like 10 of them yelled out “let me on” in unison and then since I’m driving so slowly to be safe, halfway in some kid leaned up and said “do you play fortnite” and I told him I played a little and he just pointed and shouted “THIS GUY PLAYS FORTNITE” and then like 20 kids started talking to me all at once about fortnite
A kid asked me if I lived in the ambulance. I said yes.
The hero we deserve
When I was on register at Kohl’s a little girl came through with her grandma and she was so very excited to tell me the meaning of her name (I think it was like warrior of god) and she begged her grandma for her phone so she could google to find out what my name means too
i wear two spinner rings on one finger and one time at my last job a young girl (probably 6-8) said “your ring is very pretty” and when i showed her it was two rings she GASPED and said “does that mean you’re marrying two people?!”
I have this necklace with a mermaid on it that I wear to work a lot and I got asked by a kid if it gave me magic powers. I leaned in real close and told her in a low voice it gave me magical girl powers but it was a secret. She got this real serious look on her face and said to her mom “that lady has superpowers, don’t tell anyone or the government will take her away”.
The other day i had to give a speech at my school despite my horrific fear of public speaking and afterwards i had kid come up to me and say well done to me. It was so cute.
god I love tiny kids
there was a kid in one of our science camps and he spent the whole week in a lab coat and goggles screaming “CHEMICALS” at the top of his lungs. he wouldn’t even tell us his name for the first two days just screamed CHEMICALS instead.
I was watching these kids at church today and one of them screamed and threw a toy car into the wall and it broke and the other one looked over calmly and said “does your insurance cover that?”
So there’s these computer programs called artificial neural networks that are good at imitating things. By seeing examples of what humans did, they can learn to translate languages, predict product sales, and even categorize text and images as innocuous or explicit (it has a lot of trouble with this last task, as it turns out).
One neural network I use, called textgenrnn, tries its best to imitate any kind of text you give it. I’ve given them paint colors, bandnames, and even guinea pig names and in each case their results are somewhat… mixed. (Paint colors called Stanky Bean, Stargoon, and Turdly, for example) The problem is that it doesn’t know what any of these words mean - it’s just picking letter combinations that seem likely to it.
This is what happened when I gave it all the cookies from a list of American recipes. This is what human cookies sound like to a neural network.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go whip up a batch of Fluffin Coffee Drops.
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This
photo is usually divorced from its specific content. It is the most
famous image of Nazi book burning. Most people assume the specific books
don’t matter. The horror is at the notion of destroying books, any
books, which I can certainly understand. But let’s talk about what was
in them anyway.
This image shows Nazi-aligned vigilantes (not, incidentally, government agents) destroying the library
of Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Science. Hirschfeld was the
founder of modern transgender theory, and it is his displaced students
who founded transgender advocacy in the US. Destroying this library
destroyed the first central hub of transgender advocacy in the world.
This loss is not an inconvenience. Parts of that library can never be
replaced.
In the 1910s Earl Lind read one of the books from
that library and wrote for a feminist magazine that mothers ought to
raise their trans children according to their endorsed gender (as Lind
said, their “mental sex”). One hundred years ago there was a movement to
normalize trans people. It was based on scientific study and the
assertion that the policies of a just society should be based on sound
evidence, and sound evidence showed that gender variance was perfectly
natural and perfectly healthy. That movement is what was displaced when
Nazis stormed the library and burned all the books they found.
We recovered from the loss of Hirschfeld’s collection, eventually. We
are once again at a place where people write to feminist journals
extolling parents (no longer just mothers!) to raise their trans children
according to the genders of their hearts. But suppressing trans
existence is so visible at the heart of the party that just came to
power in this country. We’ll see what happens next.
so you know how deep learning & neural network “AI training” is like, “here’s a task, and by trying billions of times the computer will eventually find the best way to achieve that task” ?
Someone is compiling a document of every time an AI ended up achieving the programmed goal in unintended ways, instead of what was actually meant, and it’s an amazing read. (you can also submit your own examples)
Creatures bred for speed grow really tall and generate high velocities by falling over
When repairing a sorting program, genetic debugging algorithm GenProg made it output an empty list, which was considered a sorted list by the evaluation metric.
Evaluation metric: “the output of sort is in sorted order” Solution: “always output the empty set”
Evolved player makes invalid moves far away in the board, causing opponent players to run out of memory and crash
Reward-shaping a soccer robot for touching the ball caused it to learn to get to the ball and vibrate touching it as fast as possible
RL agent that is allowed to modify its own body learns to have extremely long legs that allow it to fall forward and reach the goal.
Just want to come back to this post and add this amazing example as well
Heres an AI that was supposed to learn how to walk using six legs.
After many failed attempts. It decided it was easier to walk upside down
