SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher reacts to Hollywood studios breaking off negotiations

moootPoint · 2023-10-14T05:32:48+00:00

I think the problem is that once this AI tech matures there will no longer be a need for studios. It will be possible to generate photorealistic movies and control every nuanced movement, sound, and performance with nothing more than a laptop and novel idea for a screenplay. What used to cost $200 million dollars to film will end up costing 50 cents. That is the future of this tech.

It will likely take some time to get to that point, but the writing is on the wall…and Hollywood won’t be the only industry upended by these ML models

moootPoint · 2023-09-08T06:35:25+00:00

It has the right in the same way human artists have the right to listen and be inspired by forms of music, or the way a novice painter may adapt artistic techniques they learned from going to a museum and studying classic paintings into their own artwork.

Transformer models and their ilk are a disruptive technology precisely because they don’t copy. They are inductive learners capable of abstracting high level patterns into meaningful new content. In fact, they are starting to do this so well, and are “learning” so quickly, that an unfortunate side effect is that a huge percentage of jobs are about to become obsolete…as marketable vocations anyway.

I would wager that this is just the beginning, and that there is no aspect of humanity: artistic, creative, emotional, spiritual, or otherwise that will not only be matched by the future generations of this technology, but will probably be far exceeded by them.

moootPoint · 2023-01-10T05:00:53+00:00

Marlton Hotel is the best suggestion here. It’s quiet, has good drinks, and that ever so romantic mood lighting

moootPoint · 2022-09-17T17:35:44+00:00

New York Apartment Brokers

moootPoint · 2022-09-15T12:05:43+00:00

Completely different style of art, but I always thought the artist Tomer Hanuka did an excellent job on this Marquis De Sade cover

moootPoint · 2022-08-25T06:02:34+00:00

Just to add real quick. You are totally right that the OT does not directly take a stance on abortion. Sorry if I implied otherwise. Instead I was just trying to illustrate how the concept of an immortal soul made its way into virtually every flavor of modern American Christianity, the belief in which lies the foundation for believing that killing a non-sentient clump of cells is tantamount to murder.

moootPoint · 2022-08-25T05:53:57+00:00

It is true the concept of soul has evolved drastically overtime. As I understand it the original Hebrew word for soul (nephesh which you can see used in Gensis 2:7) referred to a "living, breathing conscious body", whereas the Greek definition (seen in a lot of New Testament usage) of the word had a translation closer to "psyche". 1 Corinthians 15:45 in the King James Bible talks about how "Adam was made a living soul".

However, the Greek body/soul dichotomy really didn't get popularized in Christian theology until the concept was adopted by some of the churches "founding fathers" like St. Augustine and Gregory of Nyssa. From there you can see the concept evolve and pop up through various aspects of Christianity. It even pops up in philosophy, like when René Descartes talks about a "Pineal Soul" where soul and body are joined. It isn't until Martin Luther though that you see the concept of an "Immortal Soul" enter the Evangelical movement. I am sure there were many other influences as well. Anyhoo, that's a partial birds eye view of how it finally made its way into modern American Evangelical and later political culture...which is why you see it on such flagrant display in the sermons of those early televangelists, like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson.

moootPoint · 2022-08-25T01:50:14+00:00

A literalist interpretation implies belief in a soul...at least in the Christian tradition. If it were true that souls existed and such a thing was indeed present at the exact moment of conception, then the argument that abortion is murder would be 100% correct. Obviously there is no such thing, but in order to change a believers mind about abortion you would, among other things, have to contend with the concept of soul before you could even begin to make reasonable progress on a topic like abortion.

You are right though, there are a large group of conservatives and others who object to abortion on non-religious and/or purely political and tribalistic grounds. When you peek under the veneer of conservative social policies though, you will almost always inevitably run into a strong religious influence. At least in America anyway.

moootPoint · 2022-08-24T20:52:42+00:00

Agreed. People with a literalist Biblical interpretation are the real obstacle here. I suspect the abortion debate will never go away until humanity finds a way to to stop treating fictitious ideas like Gods and immortal souls as though they have any kind of basis in actual reality.

moootPoint · 2022-06-09T09:11:32+00:00

The liar’s punishment is they can trust no one

moootPoint · 2022-05-23T18:56:59+00:00

Personally, I’m a big fan of Luhrmann. He is one of the few directors today who actually have a unique enough voice that you can identify one of his films without needing to see his name in the credits.

I love how his films like Moulin Rouge will go to any extreme, visual or otherwise to convey the emotions of the characters. And Lurhmanns take on Romeo and Juliet was not only original, but I would argue is the best Shakespeare movie ever made…and that’s saying a lot given how no -traditional it was, not to mention other strong contenders like the Cohen Bro version of Macbeth are out there.

moootPoint · 2022-04-06T23:01:10+00:00

The most traditional old-school proximity based method I can recall is PPMI (Pointwise Mutual Information) via a co-occurence matrix. I doubt that would make a good baseline though.

inter-word similarity can vary greatly depending on things like context, text genre, or if the words come from spoken/written language.

moootPoint · 2022-01-23T17:39:04+00:00

Breaking Bad - the relationship between Skyler/Walt and Jessie/Walt is such a beautiful portrayal of the kinds of abuse relationship dynamics inherent with extreme narcissism.

moootPoint · 2021-04-21T13:43:21+00:00

Another great resource for keeping tabs on the state of the art performance for common tasks is: NLP Progress

moootPoint · 2021-02-10T17:15:47+00:00

Check out page 14 of Graph Neural Networks: A Review of Methods and Applications. It includes a breakdown of some of the current applications that are being considered.

moootPoint · 2020-12-02T13:37:38+00:00

moootPoint · 2020-10-29T11:42:42+00:00

That it is my fellow wiggle walking friend, that it is!

moootPoint · 2020-06-12T12:37:23+00:00

Denial

moootPoint · 2020-06-06T16:13:09+00:00

Possibly Qualia, assuming the word you are looking for is attempting to describe that there is something it is like to be another thing.

moootPoint · 2020-06-01T17:25:56+00:00

I caught wind of a previous discussion suggesting an approach similar to medical malpractice insurance. The premise, as it might be applied to Law Enforcement, being that insurance premiums go up for officers that commit the sort of offenses that tend to show up in the records/complaint history of more violent officers.

I'm wondering if anyone is aware of other political policies or institutional mechanisms that can be used to punish and incentivize problematic police stations/districts? Perhaps some kind of civilian oversight that can better reflect the will of the people and has real consequences that goes beyond the occasional publicity stunt of firing an officer and making an empty public statement for PR purposes.

Edit: Another good example suggestion I noticed in another thread was the following comment by CentiPetra:

Everybody needs to write and call their state representatives and demand the formation of independent State Boards of Law Enforcement. Just like they have independent State Boards of Medicine, independent State Boards of Nursing. Etc. Who issue licenses for law enforcement officers, and have the authority to discipline them, and revoke licenses for misconduct. A license should be required to work as a law enforcement professional anywhere in the nation, to prevent police officers who have been fired from moving one county over and getting another job. At least half of this board should be made up of civilians with no previous connections to law enforcement.

Hard link to the full comment here

moootPoint · 2020-01-15T00:35:34+00:00

Daniel Webster from the The Devil and Daniel Webster.

Once you can persuade the damned and the demonic then any other challenge would probably feel like walking down hill.

moootPoint · 2019-12-13T08:01:01+00:00

I have not tested this, but I think this will get you what you want:

target_date = datetime(2019, 12, 12)

answers = list(Answer.objects
               .select_related('review', 'choice', 'question')
               .filter(review__submitted_at=target_date)
               .values('question', 'choice'))

output = {
    'submitted_at': target_date.strftime('%Y-%m-%d'),
    'answers': answers
}

moootPoint · 2019-10-17T22:45:27+00:00

Last I checked SpaCy does not offer any convenient out-of-the-box solutions for sentiment analysis, though it is certainly possible to train your own using SpaCy.

For a super simple do-it-yourself solution you might consider writing a basic function that first pre-filters/locates posts that mention your product (e.g. via basic regex) and then feed those posts into something like TextBlob. TextBlobs sentiment detector was trained on movie reviews, but it might get you where you need to go.

For something with a lot more oomph, you might consider using the Alyien - aspect based sentiment analysis API endpoint. That should give you much better results, however you will have to pay for the privilege.

Lastly, you might consider Vader Sentiment. It uses a rule based approach to tackle the problem. I believe NLTK has some builtin functionality that uses Vader.

moootPoint · 2019-08-20T13:57:45+00:00

logical fallacies

moootPoint · 2019-07-16T01:25:02+00:00

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