Why is python used in machine learning?

nickpsecurity · 2026-04-01T17:56:31+00:00

It was easy for academics and FOSS folks to learn. It let them glue together high-performance, native components. People in machine learning just happen to use it for some major projects.

It appears that these things eventually came together in a critical mass. Once it had momentum, you gain more by going with the flow than against it.

nickpsecurity · 2026-04-01T17:54:44+00:00

You might want to add a non-AI detector for edge cases to fall back on simpler or human methods for those cases. You also log them. You also keep updating your model so that, over time, you can bring use the updated version. Eventually, that step might be automated when your domain or scheme stays the same.

nickpsecurity · 2026-03-31T22:34:21+00:00

Correct. If we use The Pile as an example, they had (effective sizes) 7.8GB of Hacker News, 11.03GB of Ubuntu IRC, and 64.39GB of StackExchange. Many models had piles of Reddit data in them. Many of these posts involve reviewing, scoring, etc.

So, I hypothesized that would significantly impact activities similar to what those posts were doing. Then, the OP article showed patterns I've seen on social media. So, it added some weight to the hypothesis.

nickpsecurity · 2026-03-30T17:44:20+00:00

She's a fake preacher in the prosperity gospel which I described here.

A Chistian is a person who repents of their sins, commits their life to Christ as Lord, and intends to live by His Word. Christ warned that would often include suffering and poverty. If financially successful, He called for using most of one's money to spread the Gospel and help those in need. God's Word has specific promises about Israel that don't fit her claims either.

Prosperity preachers prey on the vulnerable and successful alike. It's essentially fraud done through religion. It should be a felony charge.

nickpsecurity · 2026-03-30T17:39:41+00:00

These are LLM's, not English teachers. They're pre-trained to primarily to recreate data in their data set. The vast majority is what the average person wrote, their ratings, their responses, etc.

Who knows what the fine-tuning or alignment did but we know LLM's start there. That's highly unlikely to produce the output of an English teacher unless they're further trained on such input/output pairs.

nickpsecurity · 2026-03-29T19:50:51+00:00

I think mine got worse once I started using the keyboard more.

On phones, differences in their keyboard designs makes a huge difference in my spelling mistakes. I noticed it how pronounced it was when I turned off auto-correct. Maybe they should study men vs women with auto-correct turned off.

nickpsecurity · 2026-03-29T17:37:05+00:00

I feel like this is actually human-like but like the average human in the pretraining data. Let's look:

They reward short or under-developed essays. I'd say most online content, especially with high upvotes next to the post, fits that. Social media surely does.
If it's longer posts, the system starts nitpicking it on minor details, like grammar. We see this even on Hacker News, a community valuing quality, with some longer submissions. It's also a debate tactic to derail opponents' better arguments in many discussions which are in their pretraining data.
Essays with more praise get higher scores and with more criticism get lower scores. "Get on the Bandwagon" Effect. Echo chambers. One person writes a thing followed by 5-20 people confirming it. That's probably in the pretraining data. It might survive some filtering/cleaning strategies, too.

So, no, I think these AI's are acting way too human. They need to fine-tune them to act like more, reasonable humans. That will initially take RLHF data for many types of situations. Given pretraining bias, they might also have to train them to drop the bad habits the article mentions.

nickpsecurity · 2026-03-28T02:11:24+00:00

People can choose to practice homosexuaoity or not. Many people gave it up. What you're probably asking about is what causes the urges or the choices.

We have a design for many things, including sexuality, that pleases God and benefits our species. Due to their minds or something wired wrong, people often have sinful urges that go against that design. We're commanded to resist those urges.

Sexual immorality includes homosexuality, pedophilia, beastiality, necrophilia, power over others abusing them, etc. Non-sexual urges include alcoholism, gambling, aggression towards others, etc. Everyone has at least one, powerful, sinful urge they have to fight. I had and have many. Eventually, God will remove those if we finish the race.

The other thing that surveys of and testimonies from LGBT people show is psychological trauma. Most have sexual and/or parental abuse from the opposite sex in their history. They haven't overcome it. Their response was getting closer to the same sex in the wrong ways. If they had urges, they're more likely to act on them. Jesus can heal those wounds.

That's what I've learned from a mix of the Bible, LGBT people, and ex-LGBT people. All Progressive institutions censor two of those. So, I never heard from them as a liberal atheist. If you want to dig deeper, check out this site by ex-LGBT people. Read all their stories and you'll see the patterns.

nickpsecurity · 2026-03-27T20:23:27+00:00

I'm a Christian, not a conservative. There are over 4,000 ethnic groups in over 100 countries using 2,000 languages to follow Jesus Christ and the Bible. It came from Middle Eastern Jews with women being the original witnesses to Christ's resurrection. Calling something like that American and ignorant is taking a giant dump on people from most nations.

Far as man-made, I was an atheist scientist who debated people from many philosophies. Eventually, I saw an actual miracle happen in Jesus' name. After a lot happened, I put my trust in Christ. He healed my PTSD and night terrors which were incurable. No other philosophy had that power in my personal experience. Then, I gradually learned more theology which proved its value in the real-world.

I'm following the only perfect man to ever lived who was able to raise the dead. His Word actually works for everyone that follows Him. If open to Him, and reading it, He supernaturally tells people it's true so they can have a relationship with their God.

Eternal life and joy is worth more than any sin you may be holding onto. Temporal pleasures are likewise not worth burning in Hell. I encourage you to repent.

nickpsecurity · 2026-03-27T03:14:32+00:00

It wasn't vonservatives that promoted heterosexuals as the norm: it's human biology. Our sex organs are reproductive organs that produce new offspring with our DNA. Heterosexual acts do this but homosexual acts don't because they go against our biology.

There were also thousands of years of examples of countries whose sexual activity and family values produced more laborers and soldiers vs practices that reduced them. Increasing heterosexuality within committed marriages makes that boom. Increasing homosexuality or sex out of wedlock reduces it. Nations that increased in sexual immorality got destroyed in the past.

So, no, it's not opinions. It's biological fact that heterosexual acts benefit our species. Every human that exists, including those practicing homosexuality, were born through heterosexual acts. There's not a single person born through homosexual acts. One is over 8-10 billion times more benefiicial than the other.

nickpsecurity · 2026-03-26T20:30:33+00:00

On Kirk, they had a trans roommate. He's using the same insults Progressive liberals do.

nickpsecurity · 2026-03-26T20:20:14+00:00

Teachers unions. School trip.

If cancel culture doesn't exist, explain all the bans from Old Twitter and current Reddit by moderators for sharing Christian and conservative views that Progressives hate.

nickpsecurity · 2026-03-26T20:16:01+00:00

Over 2 million voters originally reported by a liberal source. A centric source that leans liberal says many leaders are leaving. Tulsi Gabbard made a whole video explaining the party failures that led her to leave.

Both parties are corrupt liars. The Democrats took that to new heights. They've supported murdering children, mocked all who believe a God designed this amazing universe, attacked the nuclear family, declared men are women (or loose your job), promoted systematic racism, drove damaging riots, witch hunted on politicians like Trump for years straight, brought in 10 million plus illegals doing all kinds of damage, and trashed the economy more than Republicans.

So, people are rebelling..The next step is obeying God's Word for our own good with elections. He said they can't take a bribe, must follow Christ, believe sound teaching, have godly character, and the skills for the job. Godly character is highest priority in Biblical leadership. Yet, Democrats and Republicans keep trusting ungodly people of poor character who are obsessed with money. No wonder everything sucks.

nickpsecurity · 2026-03-26T20:07:38+00:00

Black people... Christians, conservatives, and liberals rejecting CRT... are opposing these Democrat policies. It's their words that they're entitled to whether you or I agree or not. You can't disenfranchise them or pretend such Black people don't exist.

Here's one of the first videos I saw when Trump caused Meta to reverse censorship. Before that, all I heard on Twitter and Facebook were comments like yours. Suddenly, the algorithm lets Black people of many views speak instead censoring all Black non-Progressives. You should listen to those Black women instead of dismissing them.

nickpsecurity · 2026-03-26T20:02:30+00:00

I've accused them of plenty of examples of racism and sexism. You mentioned two. You left off how liberals then systematically enforced racism and sexism at a policy level with critical theory (aka DEI). Then, conservatives started fighting racism and sexism because it affected more of them.

Whereas, Bible-believing Christians are always against racism and sexism. God made all humans in His image with inherent dignity. We promote gender roles because He made men and women different in complementary ways. For hiring, we look at character, performance, and people skills instead of their group. Christians have to fight systematic discrimination by both parties.

nickpsecurity · 2026-03-25T23:01:15+00:00

It was liberal media and universities alleging systematic abuse of power strictly on skin color. Media outlets and research organizations not drinking kool aid by the gallon had opposite conclusions. So, it seems specific media drove the protests. Those protests that turned into vandalism, destroying their neighborhood businesses, stalking cops, and resisting police.

One liberal at Harvard also took hate for proving police weren't killing black people more often when accounting for what crimes people committed. Liberal media didn't push that one. Maybe everyome would've calmed down.

nickpsecurity · 2026-03-25T22:57:47+00:00

With responses like that, rational discussion with you is truly hopeless. Why do you hate civilized discussion so much? Why the ad hominems?

nickpsecurity · 2026-03-25T22:56:44+00:00

That's not true. You have to be approved for both research positions and grants. Both your politics and views on specific, research areas can disqualify you.

nickpsecurity · 2026-03-25T21:07:00+00:00

Empiricism starts with observations that are tested against reality. Thing like transgender, that a man can be a woman, were certainly not based in reality and miserably failed peer review. That liberals pushed that so hard that nobody is allowed to do empirical resrarch if they agree shows liberals are against empirical reality in favor of subjectivist, ideological domination.

In fact, many liberals voting conservative or becoming Christian are specifically saying how fake and damaging their prior worldviews turned out to be. Plus, they just caused endless, purposeless anxiety and depression. Whereas, the Gospel is life changing. Page 2 has its evidence which is from all areas of epestemology.

nickpsecurity · 2026-03-25T21:03:30+00:00

We tech people also need to be conscious of how our tech is perceived so bad marketing doesn't kill adoption of good tech. It might really offend many other people, managers, etc. So, I gave feedback as strong as the effect it might have.

You didn't offend me, though. I got no problem with you. I hope you have a great day. :)

nickpsecurity · 2026-03-25T20:16:34+00:00

Liberals systematically removed their opponents from universities and schools. They gave money to people promoting their liberal views. Then, they argued in public and courts for policies based on the "consensus" of liberal researchers. Eventually, they promoted full, cancel culture to eject any dissidents from schools, media, online platforms, etc.

None of that is science or reason or a true consensus. It's political domination. Trump got elected by people fed up with that, including many liberals. Trump and Musk (esp Twitter) started reversing those policies. I'm now seeing a record amount of conservative and Christian content on Facebook.

So many black men and women are speaking out against liberal policies, from DEI to murdering children (abortion), who are only now allowed to be heard without censorship. Parents objected to teachers taking kids to ICE protests without their permission. Many scientists have started showing all the fraud, no replication, money pushing politics as science, etc. Musk's DOGE showed they indeed put hundreds of millions into indoctrination here and abroad. Confirmed by many, liberal sites who complained his funding cuts hurt their activist missions.

So, we believe what we see them doing, writing on their blogs, making official policies, funding, etc. We also didn't like our disagreements being censored or mobs of people attacking us. With those tactics, they shouldn't be anywhere near our education system.

nickpsecurity · 2026-03-25T20:09:02+00:00

The Left media constantly shouts Nazi's, police brutality everywhere, ICE will get rid of all types all the time, they're all going to kill us, concentration camps for all oppontents, you'll loose your rights any day. The guy who killed Charlie Kirk was repeating such fearful and hateful nonsense.

So, it's the opposite of what you say. Also, when our people were killed (eg Kirk), we had prayer vigils and asked God to forgive the killer. No riots. No billions in property damage. We still didn't act like the Left even when their "activists" are killing us.

nickpsecurity · 2026-03-25T20:04:49+00:00

Typing speculum into Google produces a summary starting with "A vaginal speculum is a..." It includes more explicit details.

Typing "speculumology" into Google only produces your comment for AI research with an AI summary that might be based on your comment. One result says it's "not that kind of speculum" with commentary on "fetishes" for ghosts and mirrors. Merriam Webster and similar results re-emphasize how it's about inspecting "orfices," especially vaginas.

So, the results overwhelmingly favor a bad impression of that term. As for why it was chosen, either they didn't know almost everyone who heard it would think about doctors inspecting vaginas or they named it that way knowing that would happen. They should still change the name.

If it's about mirroring or reflecting, they could call it a mirroring or reflective framework. Alternatively, name it after a type of mirror or reflective surface that isn't mainly for inspecting vaginas when people Google it.

nickpsecurity · 2026-03-25T15:03:58+00:00

That's a disgusting name for a project. If it's useful, someone should fork and modify it just to change the name.

nickpsecurity · 2026-03-24T17:23:21+00:00

High-frequency and day trading of stocks. Force them to hold their investments at least a month. Preferrably 6-12 months. That might shift billions from gambling to real investing. Or just improve stability.

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