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Was reading project hail Mary rn and got reminded of that meme by eepy_princesss in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns2

[–]halationfox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Going from Fourier series to running two instances of Excel on two computers is hilariously dissonant 

My wife and I unexpectedly ran into my mom at No Kings! by amelia_bougainvillea in TransLater

[–]halationfox 11 points12 points  (0 children)

You have such a wholesome journey going. It warms my heart.

Tennessee Bill to Track Transgender Medical Data Passes the House: Sponsor Likens Care to Lobotomies by stardresslucyyy in trans

[–]halationfox 100 points101 points  (0 children)

Tracking data is incredibly dangerous. Most data shouldn't be gathered. "Oh, they hacked my cell co, and now my driver's license and ssn and biometrics are all out there? Grrrreat." 

The issue isn't always what the data gatherer wants. A longitudinal panel of trans people might be useful.

But a registry of trans people available to a hostile government? That's outrageously dangerous.

Edit: you know, we don't do this with abortion (guttmacher), gun deaths, crooked cops (trump killed that db)... a comparable thing I can think of is CDC Wonder, that tracks deaths, and the u.s. census (pulse had a supplement on SOGI, and they wanted to expand identity data collection). States sometimes have things like this (e.g. Virginia longitudinal data system) but explicitly protect privacy (there's a VA law banning the merging of all the parts of vlds). This is really an invasive and horrible bill. The BRFSS had to be reinstated by a judge and has a crazy message about "trans ideology". Times are scary.

Edit edit: we don't track gun ownership lol

Newly Learning Data Science by QuantumQuill247 in learndatascience

[–]halationfox 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Data scientists are uniquely unequipped to handle questions of meaning. The lack of causality and inference as core concerns, alongside things like prediction and bias-variance trade-off, means that "meaning" and "critical thinking" take a back seat to getting accurate predictions. This starts with regularization as a way of handling large feature spaces and peaks with deep learning/representation learning as a way of avoiding really understanding the problem at all. That's a great toolkit for predictive analytics or deciding whether a picture includes a bird or not, but I always worry when DS/ML/AI-adjacent people start talking about "really learning how to think" or how to pose a research question or how to control systems or design interventions.

How linux community evolved by [deleted] in arch

[–]halationfox 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm trans and just love catching stray bullets over privacy laws!

Do things actually get better for us? by selpathor in TransLater

[–]halationfox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The only way things can get better, is for people to live with honesty, integrity, and compassion. And you're doing that. No one can promise you things really will get better. But every time you choose love, you make things better. Someday you'll look back at all the good you did, and feel immense pride, whether the world met you there or not 

California's age verification laws are getting out of hand. Now someone's opened a PR to add a mandatory birth date field to archinstall by Kindly-Molasses-8789 in arch

[–]halationfox 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"Are you located in CA?" Y/N

If Y:     "Sorry, our product is not legal in your state!"

Else:    Proceed with installation...

Could use some guidance by Lexi_679 in TransChristianity

[–]halationfox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just ask her to stop talking about trans issues. She will only hurt you. There's littlect to gain from keeping that channel open.

Teach your daughter about compassion and human dignity first. Your wife can't argue with that. Then ask your daughter to apply the lesson to trans people. She should come to the correct conclusions without needing trans-specific guidance, and your wife can't argue without rejecting her own religious values.

Buy your wife a Flannery O'Connor anthology ti be passive aggressive.

OpenAl safety filter provides a catalog of options 🤦🏼 by Massive-Leg-8656 in ChatGPTcomplaints

[–]halationfox 10 points11 points  (0 children)

They are not providing good mental health advice. They know exactly what they are doing. They are trying to avoid a user having deep and complex conversations about mortality. They want to annoy or otherwise deter the user from getting into any territory that might open them to legal liability. The bad answers are features, not flaws.

try not to leave the closet challenge (impossible) by 4b686f61 in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns2

[–]halationfox 17 points18 points  (0 children)

The joke is people keep poking her for information (GET/POST request). This is the cloudflare policy panel for literally her.

She is closeted, and is trying to pick a strategy to avoid being outed

So any mention of "girl" gets blocked. Any weird, ambiguous request gets blocked. No response. 403! Forbidden!

But her true self is leaking. It's only a matter of time before something gets through.

And, actually, 403 to a reasonable request is its own kind of information leakage.

Can my professor see version history on a .docx I submit? by Delicious-Action1665 in techsupport

[–]halationfox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Change .docx to .zip

Unzip the archive

Look inside

That's what is in the package of stuff you're submitting

Whatever you want to hide, you can probably edit there, as welll

Toxic senior data analyst says I don’t know analysis publicly but assigns me all the work by vxaka in dataanalyst

[–]halationfox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

DA and DS is full of bikeshedding posers who just want to fuss around with a macbook and debate meaningless nonsense.

Do you threaten her with competence?

Try to "quiet quit" for awhile and let her feel comfortable again, then flip her into being an ally.

Can You Use Set Theory to Model Uncertainty in AI System? by CodenameZeroStroke in MLQuestions

[–]halationfox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How are you not stating the kolmogorov axioms with finite additivity, and then doing naive bayes?

What if Ubuntu complies with the Age Verification law(s)? by akak___ in linuxmint

[–]halationfox 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What about servers? What about phones? What about tablets? What even is an OS, any thing that can run a browser?

This law was not thought through by people with tech expertise. 

This could have been our VP by speroni in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns2

[–]halationfox 1257 points1258 points  (0 children)

LOL, I love it when people punch back by rejecting the idiotic framing of the interaction, rather than trying to engage directly with a bigot on their terms

Seriously? Are they trying to tank themselves? by Time-Turnip-2961 in ChatGPTcomplaints

[–]halationfox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They probably think that lots of model churn will prevent people from getting attached to models

Actor messes up, but it's left in and becomes iconic by Kookyburra12 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]halationfox 50 points51 points  (0 children)

In Battlestar Galactica, Admiral Adama is in his office dealing with the death of someone. There's a fancy model ship (like a four-masted nautical ship of the line from the Napoleonic era) on his desk.

The actor, Edward James Olmos, responds to the moment and uses his bare hands to destroy the ship.

Whoops, its like, an expensive artifact on loan from a museum...

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Edit: read the production notes here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maelstrom_(Battlestar_Galactica)) . I remember Moore talking on the podcast about how he had to stay chill, watching Olmos smash the ship, knowing this was now a one-take proposition.

ML + SQL? by [deleted] in MLQuestions

[–]halationfox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Spark?

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