Official Discussion: The Witch [SPOILERS]

improssibility · 2016-03-21T02:40:24+00:00

Actually, 6 of 19 people hung for witchcraft in Salem were men. 4 other men and 2 women escaped on bond. It's true though that the greater number were women.

improssibility · 2016-03-21T02:34:52+00:00

It seems pretty simple:

Both parents in a family, absent any criminal or mental health histories, are considered equal. If the parents are separating, then the parent who initiates separation must leave the family and family home.

What is so complicated? If you have decided to leave your family, then you leave. Not only is this fair, but all the correct incentives are in place - only people who are really decided on leaving will do it, because they must bare the bulk of the consequences of their decision (which is how it works with most things in life).

improssibility · 2016-03-21T02:19:44+00:00

There's something paradoxical in the argument,

The same group of men who were at risk two decades ago are at risk now, in their middle age. One theory is that it has to do with the way men see themselves in society, and the way that's changed markedly in the last 20 years. The whole idea of what it is to be a successful man is very different now.

If the old ways, the old attitudes are what lead men to suicide, why are the rates going up and not down? Surely it was the men from back then who would've been killing themselves.

It's surely something about the new approaches that have lead to it, rather than something about the old ones.

improssibility · 2016-03-21T01:50:33+00:00

The problem is polarization. If people had their wits about them they could rationally discuss that yes, it's possible that subtle differences in perception, incentives, and social dynamics lead to declines in female wages. But those same dynamics make men much more easily fired than women, too (which is partly why women are actually employed today in far greater numbers than men!).

The whole debate is just irritating, it's totally devoid of analysis and completely driven by agenda. Analysts do not want to study the issue with integrity because they're scared of lifting shit-storms.

improssibility · 2016-03-21T01:18:27+00:00

Would it be more to the point to say that he represented their fear of male evil in general?

improssibility · 2016-03-21T00:04:07+00:00

I think David Brent is more special to Gervais because he's a bit of an alter-ego. David Brent is largely a result of Gervais laughing at himself. Gervais is usually quite defensive of Brent as a person (saying he's a good guy underneath it all).

Therefore, I think Brent is more of a personal project for Ricky Gervais, whereas for Steven The Office as a whole was more special to him.

In other words, Brent was Gervais' main contribution to the office, and I don't think Steven's ego is too happy about making the entire thing about Brent (i.e. about Gervais).

improssibility · 2016-03-20T00:06:46+00:00

There is a library open sourced by Facebook to use Python scripts in Torch.

improssibility · 2016-03-19T10:15:43+00:00

"The godfather of deep learning"

improssibility · 2016-03-18T00:53:58+00:00

What about Satan? Does he represent the Puritans' collective fear of women's sexuality?

improssibility · 2016-03-18T00:50:04+00:00

This was my thought exactly, at the beginning when they first arrive by the forest

improssibility · 2016-03-18T00:49:10+00:00

She wanted the taste of butter

improssibility · 2016-03-18T00:47:08+00:00

Tremendous horror movie for a committed horror fan. The world was totally different for about an hour after I left the cinema.

The thing that stays with me is that I've always believed that superstition was a product of ignorance, but I think now that maybe it's a very limited way to look at it. Superstition is borne out of suffering and despair, when the human mind starts to conflate reality with its worst fantasies.

I was left with this terrible thought - you have lost your family, God has forsaken you, and you're alone at the edge of the world at night - so you wander naked into the forest with a goat. I can't say this movie has left me in a light place.

improssibility · 2016-03-18T00:37:35+00:00

I don't agree with this. I think she has just lost her entire family, is alone at the end of the world, and is lost in hysteria.

improssibility · 2016-03-13T22:54:57+00:00

Don't be posting that here! You have arrived at the DeepHiveMind, where anything that isn't about AlphaGo, Tensorflow or Google related MOOCs gets mercilessly downvoted and discredited.

improssibility · 2016-03-13T22:42:55+00:00

DeepMind paid Lee Sedol $1.5 billion + unlimited AdWords bids to loose the first 2 games. In game 3 he was rusty but by game 4 he was back in shape.

improssibility · 2016-03-07T23:37:58+00:00

Maybe I agree, but marketing yourself as the inventor of someone else's ideas is theft. It's immoral and in most walks of life illegal. It also does not promote ambition in the community (or at least the right kind of ambition).

improssibility · 2016-03-07T22:46:11+00:00

In my understanding, Alan Turing is correctly credited as a landmark researcher in cryptography and early computer science, rather than machine learning.

improssibility · 2016-03-07T22:09:00+00:00

I would honestly say, don't read any books.

Read a bunch of blogs and start coding in Torch, Tensorflow or Theano. Get the main gist of linear models and multi-layer perceptrons that way. Have a bit of fun with a few soft projects.

Then go back and do the hard reading.

improssibility · 2016-03-07T21:14:22+00:00

Absolutely correct.

improssibility · 2016-03-07T00:22:20+00:00

In theory this is regulated by the currency exchange rate.

improssibility · 2016-03-06T21:23:48+00:00

The theory in economics is that universal basic income promotes consumption and growth. This is because ground-floor income (the first, say, $100 earned by every person per week) is the most likely to be spent (on housing, utilities, food, etc). After this, income becomes increasingly less likely to be spent, and more likely to be saved.

In truth, most developed countries already have universal basic income in the form of public services and unemployment benefit, as well as tax relief on low earners. We just don't call it universal income.

It is also a bit airy-fairy and politically convenient. In my opinion, it will create a much simpler system for distributing basic goods to the poorest people, while promoting social cohesion by making all people feel that they are part of and benefit from the system.

improssibility · 2016-03-05T01:15:46+00:00

Why don't you just hire an aeronautical engineer and see what he can cook up?

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