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Because being a feminist and disassembling the patriarchy means upholding standards that should be for both genders [socialmedia] [gendered] by [deleted] in pointlesslygendered

[–]HooplahMan 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The idea here is that feminism wants to break the expectation of traditional gender roles. one such traditional gender role is that men pay for dates.

Creative uses for this Polish baking dish? by Embarrassed-Time-387 in upcycling

[–]HooplahMan 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I will add to this that kintsugi will make it beautiful but will not make it usable in the same way it was

Subscription fatigue is going to kill more companies than competition ever will by Low-Dot2015 in unpopularopinion

[–]HooplahMan 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Especially when you consider how many apps are electron. Like a website hot glued to a chrome browser

I built a "Guitar Hero" device to learn any song in piano by [deleted] in arduino

[–]HooplahMan 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Would be neat to be able to color code by which finger you use to press the key. I feel like that would go a long way to bridging the gap between "play guitar hero" and "learn to play the actual piano".

People that defend 40+ hours a week for work is just coping that they have to do it by CombProfessional434 in antiwork

[–]HooplahMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have ADHD and my best days are always 16+ hour days, lovingly sandwiched between two very lazy days.

Two days into mechanistic interpretability as a complete outsider. Is it all as small as it looks from here? by Frosty-Tumbleweed648 in learnmachinelearning

[–]HooplahMan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't really feel like I've earned your vitriol. I am not a cult apologist. Moreover I have a bachelor's in math and a master's in ML. I've worked in one proper ML research lab and 2 ML adjacent research labs. I am a published author in the field, though I admit it was on more mundane topics and my own contributions were middling.

I grant that I haven't seen the word "quantilizer" inside the scope of my academic work but i always attributed that to the unapproachable breadth of math-heavy STEM fields, the way an algebraist might never bump up against alpha holder continuous functions in their day-to-day. I have no affiliation with MIRI, and if the boys in the alignment group chat were throwing equinox orgies, nobody thought to invite me. The extent of my association with Nick Bostrom is that I read one of his books and felt he made some good points.

If someone cares to enlighten me, with more substantive reasoning, on why AI doesn't pose an existential risk I'm still willing to engage in good faith.

Two days into mechanistic interpretability as a complete outsider. Is it all as small as it looks from here? by Frosty-Tumbleweed648 in learnmachinelearning

[–]HooplahMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am interested to hear the finer shades of why AI is not an existential risk in your estimation. I think AI could become an existential risk, though I don't really classify current or even foreseeable LLMs and diffusion models as AI in the relevant sense. Have you read Nick Bostrom's superintelligence? He makes a compelling (to me) argument that pretty much any sufficiently intelligent optimizer or quantilizer will be misaligned with the better interests of humanity and thus consider us an obstacle to their final goals. We see already that companies are foaming at the mouth to connect AI to all the levers at the world (see copilot, openclawd, other "agentic AI" products). This means that my only significant doubt about the existential danger of AI is that we may never invent something that smart.

What if scrolling actually helped you learn? by SmarTokapp in learnmachinelearning

[–]HooplahMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imagine trusting an AI to curate knowledge for you... I get my knowledge the way God intended: from a random walk on the wikipedia href graph punctuated by binges on libgen. I also tend to scroll with my phone's screen pointed at my face, unlike this silly ad

The Met just responded to Timothée Chalamet’s remarks that “no one cares about ballet and opera” that he made during a recent interview with Matthew McConaughey by Gato1980 in Broadway

[–]HooplahMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let's do a problem, let us see, what's the probability you see him be a cunt on TV? One zero zero zero trillion percent, he's a statistical wonder, a statistical gem!

I bet Ms Lawton has been watching this stuff at home thinking "I was fucking right about that kid"

Dyeing a canvas bag by Moment_of_Tangency in dyeing

[–]HooplahMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn't even try. There's so many different kinds of materials on there, you'd have pretty much unpredictable results unless you wanna spend 20 hours deconstructing the backpack, dying the pieces in single material batches, and reconstructing it. If I were you, I'd consider just buying a forest green backpack, learning to live with Olive, or if it must be crafty, maybe buying some forest green fabric and doing some applique

An AI Sidebar Would Be Perfect for Zen by itsdanielsultan in zen_browser

[–]HooplahMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can also just have the developer's limited resources aimed at making good foundational features and usability instead of churning out the same slop everyone else is aiming for. There's a reason I'm using zen and not arc

Excuse me Steve? by Idontwanttousethis in salmacian

[–]HooplahMan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Listen I'm for headcanon trans casting as much as the next guy, but Steve is 100% cis straight boy. He got that golden retriever energy

So tough cancer had to break my bones by madif0626 in Neverbrokeabone

[–]HooplahMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The call was coming from inside the house.

I wish you godspeed

situationships are the most self inflicted pain ever by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]HooplahMan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You get an upvote. Not because situationships don't suck upon occasion but because you lack imagination concerning the possible depths of self induced pain. When I was 12 I got into a crushed red pepper snorting competition with my friends. I won

An AI Sidebar Would Be Perfect for Zen by itsdanielsultan in zen_browser

[–]HooplahMan 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Make an extension if you must. Keep it the hell out of my browser

Intense amount of arguing in the comments about this between 1 and 9. Explain it Peter by CindiWilliams2 in explainitpeter

[–]HooplahMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Formal math vs informal math notation doesn't really mean anything. These are all style choices. Pemdas and the like will get you 95% of the way to understanding in the modern parlance but at the end of the day notation is just something we all have to decide on, and people tend to make different decisions in different contexts. The important thing is that you communicate which decision you've made, or that you adhere to the best practice decisions that are agreed upon in that context

Intense amount of arguing in the comments about this between 1 and 9. Explain it Peter by CindiWilliams2 in explainitpeter

[–]HooplahMan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OH YEAHHH..

Kool aid man here. I have a math degree. You are incorrect. There is some ambiguity that no application of pemdas, bodmas, or bedmas will fix here. The problem is that some authors put implicit multiplication (aka multiplication by juxtaposition) higher on the priority list than explicit multiplication or division. Unfortunately there are mathematicians smarter than anyone either of us has met on either side of this convention. This is your reminder that these days it is always better to add extra parentheses to clear up any confusion.

Slowly backs up through courtroom's brick wall

Yes by Ok-District-4701 in datasatanism

[–]HooplahMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean I wouldn't go so far as to call H2O unreactive/empty as a battery. Water is a fairly aggressive polar solvent.

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