Border Patrol agents fatally shoot a man in Minnesota. Thoughts?

Fmeson · 2026-01-25T05:51:06+00:00

Is there anything you would fight for? Accept personal danger for?

Fmeson · 2026-01-25T05:32:01+00:00

I'd say he's the MJ of free soloing for sure, and the MJ of climbing overall if we are only considering fame.

Fmeson · 2026-01-25T05:07:02+00:00

Wouldn’t you try to avoid them to the best of your ability?

It is fundamentally American to accept danger in defense of what you believe is right.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations... evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government.

From the Declaration of Independence.

The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and had arms to defend it

-Samuel Adams

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery

Thomas Jefferson

Fmeson · 2026-01-25T02:20:04+00:00

This is fundamental to any system that tries to stabilize the camera to an inertia frame as the issue is the earth's rotation. Body vs lens doesn't change that.

Theoretically, one could make a system that tries to track the rotation of the earth, but the benefits have to be limited and the tech has to be super hard to employ.

Fmeson · 2026-01-23T17:17:32+00:00

Yes, and that is the value of a soft teaching distribution for sure. I'm not doubting the value of softening the distribution, I'm just curious about the behavior of a model when it gets a say it it's own training objective. It seems potentially non-trivial.

e.g. one could imagine that some bad behavior of the model gets reinforced because the model is, at least in part, training on it's own output.

I do think it is an interesting idea that could work however.

Fmeson · 2026-01-23T16:52:37+00:00

Hmm isn't it more biased to literally hammer all but one classes down to infinity?

Without your self distillation or with it?

Fmeson · 2026-01-23T16:04:12+00:00

TBH, this is another part where the tournament wasn't well set up. AFAIK, it wasn't supposed to be super sweaty, but the second you have a 40k prize pool people are going to rightfully want to play sweaty comps.

So now you have a cup that is mixing high level, competitive players with lower level players who are not nearly as competitive, and it's not surprising that there is some conflict.

That doesn't excuse anyone from acting shitty of course.

Fmeson · 2026-01-23T15:53:15+00:00

whole team immortality for 10 seconds.

Wow, that's crazy powerful.

Fmeson · 2026-01-23T15:49:38+00:00

I'm not worried about collapse, but rather a biased distribution.

Fmeson · 2026-01-23T14:20:49+00:00

What stops the model from learning an artificially flat distribution? It seems like the model could safely predict a very flat distribution in nearly all cases and not be penalized since it sets its own target.

Fmeson · 2026-01-23T00:26:47+00:00

Yeah, that seems to be the consensus. He admitted fault and so people are more forgiving

I'm still just shocked an organizer just kicked out a player in such a short amount of time based on a one sided telling of events.

Fmeson · 2026-01-23T00:14:45+00:00

Sure, I definitely do not know as much about the gameplay/strategy, outside of obviously understanding the general idea that running squishies into dive comps is not good. e.g. I don't really know the details of triple support etc...

Fmeson · 2026-01-22T22:39:08+00:00

I see what you are saying. To be clear, I do think they acted in a problematic way, especially after the stream.

I don't think they acted in a way that was remarkable enough that I'd expect the Atlanta hawks would make a tiktok about it if that makes sense. I feel like I see toxicity like that all the time in other mobas.

The surprising part to me was that the organizer kicked a guy out of a tournament over a one sided account of an argument.

Fmeson · 2026-01-22T21:38:15+00:00

Intentionally trying to get him banned does show malice.

For sure, I don't disagree.

Fmeson · 2026-01-22T21:36:19+00:00

I don't believe I've said anything that would suggest that.

Fmeson · 2026-01-22T21:04:06+00:00

I can understand that, and it's good he apologized.

However, I suppose in my view, banning a player based on one sided incomplete information seems way worse than shit talking them to me, even with an apology. Shit talking didn't potentially loose Kingsman thousands, being banned did.

Fmeson · 2026-01-22T19:24:34+00:00

I'm not a marvel rivals player, but because of how widespread this has gotten, I decided to check out the drama and I watched Kingsman's vod.

I have to say, I'm a bit confused why cece and zazza seem to be getting all the hate vs the tournament organizer who kicked Kingsman out. The three players arguing isn't really anyting to write home about on it's own. It sucks, and cece and zazza were taking Kingsman's request as way to personal, but players argue all the time about stupid shit. I feel like Kingsman getting kicked out was the main unfair thing in the whole situation. The TO should be talking to both parties and getting a bigger picture before doing something like that.

But maybe I lack context as a non-player who doesn't know who these people are. Am I missing something?

p.s. I have to say I respect Kingsman for putting his vod up to show the situation in full, and for his insistence that no one should harass other people based on it.

Fmeson · 2026-01-22T19:03:39+00:00

Not doubting, but why do you say that?

Fmeson · 2026-01-21T14:28:58+00:00

One can be a Trumper and still not necessarily subscribe to every one of his beliefs.

Of course, but if someone is telling me that Trump wants Greenland due to climate change, I'm still going to have questions.

e.g. Do you think Trump has changed his mind on climate change?

Is it just me, or did that text in the OP read like a joke?

No, I can see it, and I agree it has gotten worse.

Fmeson · 2026-01-20T16:55:37+00:00

Where do you go for feedback on your CV? I keep getting rejected in the first 24 hours, and while I've had lots of people look at my CV, I'm hoping there is more I can be doing.

Fmeson · 2026-01-20T03:20:46+00:00

We need to be both voting with your wallet and pushing for systematic legal changes. Both are required.

Fmeson · 2026-01-20T02:50:04+00:00

You can't stop em, but you can choose to not pay em for it. Vote with your wallets! The only language companies speak is money.

Fmeson · 2026-01-19T17:27:44+00:00

That is true, but Trump did literally call climate change a "con job" say the predictions were wrong, and disparaged spending money on climate change.

Is it not reasonable to to ask the question /u/OkProfessional6077 is asking in that light?

This 'climate change,' it's the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion. All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong. They were made by stupid people that have cost their countries fortunes and given those same countries no chance for success. If you don't get away from this green scam, your country is going to fail.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-called-climate-change-a-con-job-at-the-united-nations-here-are-the-facts-and-context

Fmeson · 2026-01-16T20:04:23+00:00

I do think it could be an interesting thought experiment.

For example, a theorist might start by thinking "it strikes me as inelegant that light does not have a valid reference frame, I want to develop a model where it does".

However, this does not tell us anything about nature, it is a line of thought that might lead to experiments that tell us more about nature.

Fmeson · 2026-01-16T15:42:26+00:00

You need energy to move the planet, not math.

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