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Would you like to ride
in my financial balloon?
Don't you want to fly on
my economic boom?
We'll pretend we'll soon be
billionaires, both you and I...
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@becomingwisest @Unixbigot If the Enterprise theme song was their only exposure to Earth-human culture, I can understand wanting to maintain a safe distance.
@sargoth Ahh yes... Morbidia, where the shadows lie (or at least tell the truth in very misleading ways -- this of course is why Morbidia was economically developed in the first place: because of its vast untapped reserves of gaslighting)
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Oh so many years have gone,
though I'm older but a year --
your mother's eyes
from your eyes
cry to me.
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(clearly Brian May was moonlighting as an N-space test-pilot)
@sargoth I've been trying to cut down on melancholia -- I hear it's bad for your malaise levels.
:tootcat: Is anyone else experiencing large quantities of rate-limit warnings on #TootCat?
I've had two different reports from two different users, albeit separated by weeks -- need more information in order to figure out where the problem might be.
cc: @meatballhat
I will take gender-affirming pizza instead. (The two genders: "plain cheese" and "supreme")
@troed That was quite interesting! The 3-layer perceptron he discusses is exactly the kind of model I worked with in 1990-91.
I remember very much wanting to keep a record of the changing connection-weights as the networks trained, but then I would also have had to write a program for playing them back (or else figure out how to do it in Microsoft Excel 2.0 or whatever was current, which probably would have been hopelessly slow)... and there just wasn't time.
@RationalWiki I saw your reply after going into a bit more detail about my understanding of the phenomenon -- in case that's useful.
@bookandswordblog @rnd @RationalWiki
The actual idea which I think is in play in your example is that researchers gain status through citations -- so if a researcher is being unethical in some way, let's not give them that status by citing one of their papers if we can find a paper by someone else less problematic that fits the need just as well.
...and with regard to the idea of promoting diversity (which is what I first came across), my understanding of it is something like: "if a paper we want to cite happens to be by a white dude, let's just make sure there isn't similar or better work we could cite that's by someone who doesn't have that privilege and who might otherwise be overlooked."
The part the Right always leaves out, of course, is the "as good or better" filter; it's always implied or even stated that DEI initiatives like this replace the superior with the inferior.
At the age of 90 year old, Czech former agricultural worker Agnes Kasparkova continued her 13 year project to decorate her small village with hand-painting traditional Moravian motifs on the local houses.
"She painted the designs entirely by hand without using stencils. Over several decades, her artwork transformed parts of the village into a living example of preserved folk tradition and craftsmanship"
https://streetartutopia.com/2025/05/25/its-never-too-late-to-pursue-your-passion/
@Uair fwiw, I see no flaws in your theory -- not that it's true in all or even a majority of cases, but it very much tracks with evidence we've seen from some departments.
My large-scale solution is that we need to build our own power-bases... and I have a whole lecture about that which I need to write / rewrite / update / consolidate / something. :blobcatupsidedown:
And the more I learned about what autism actually is like, the more I realized that I am a professional and I'll fix it!
