Posts by guyjantic@c.im
(DIR) Post #Al8OObznO5FnVVGP5M by guyjantic@c.im
2024-08-19T19:22:27Z
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@futurebird @gfarrell Yeah, I used to say to my friends (when it seemed like this might be a possibility, because *youth*) that, if I ever had enough money to buy my dream car or house, said friends should slap me and tell me to buy a normal car or house and put some kid through college or something.Perhaps fortunately, I doubt I will ever be in that position, but my attitude is the same. And I don't think I'm morally superior; if I had 100 million dollars I am not at all sure I'd live up to my high-minded principles with how I used it.
(DIR) Post #AlG6HCEiW9o3g8Ejyq by guyjantic@c.im
2024-08-23T12:36:47Z
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@hn50 I like it. I especially like that it looks a lot like the shorthand for "therefore."
(DIR) Post #AlGAfOsFaAqxdkWbZo by guyjantic@c.im
2024-08-23T13:26:19Z
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@futurebird @RenewedRebecca @JessTheUnstill I still (not an economist) believe they can work pretty well if you have a functioning government that engages in regular, serious regulation of business, especially aggressive antitrust and other FTC-relevant stuff. We haven't had that since probably the Carter administration.
(DIR) Post #AlKCAy4NeXiWMRefFA by guyjantic@c.im
2024-08-25T12:02:04Z
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@futurebird In stark contrast to Trump, Harris will have a functioning CFPB and FTC, which I hope can do some things. More generally, though, yeah, kind of ridiculous that we all forget there are two entire other branches of government, every four years.
(DIR) Post #Ale5sNOOZ7wypgy0Aq by guyjantic@c.im
2024-09-04T02:25:44Z
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@futurebird import numpy as npdems = np.array([[AOC, Gallego, Grijalva], [Lee, Schiff, Warren], [Waters, Klobuchar, Buttigieg])
(DIR) Post #AlemeryOMoQveSbsDg by guyjantic@c.im
2024-09-04T10:25:03Z
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@futurebird @sgillies I did the math and... is this right?... the determinant is BERNIE
(DIR) Post #AmjP7jsQl7g3MUdVSK by guyjantic@c.im
2024-10-06T03:47:47Z
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Harvard students were punished by the university president for expressing unpopular opinions. They STUDIED for an hour in a LIBRARY, with political messages taped to their laptops. What if it had been only one student? What if the pro-Palestine message had been half as big? What if it had been half an hour?There is no narrative worth the pixels it takes on a screen that makes this anything but direct, pure suppression of dissent. The students followed every rule, didn't do any of the things bullshit campus rules penalize in order to stop protests. They didn't block sidewalks, light candles, chant, march, or even (apparently) make anyone the least bit uncomfortable.So the Harvard admin just flat-out punished them for expressing a political opinion.#gaza #palestine #university #highered #uspol #protest #dissent #punishment #authoritarianism https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/10/3/students-suspended-library-palestine-protest/
(DIR) Post #AmjP7lsrIVCxaOqsOu by guyjantic@c.im
2024-10-06T11:40:33Z
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On further reflection, it seems like the students were punished based on calling their actions a "protest." If they had not labeled them as such, they would only have been 30 students studying in the library with similar messages taped to their laptops. IDK, but in the photos the signs only say "What if it happened here" - no mention of Gaza, Palestine, Israel, the IDF, etc. If they hadn't called it a "protest," the Harvard admin would have had to start punishing students for increasingly stupid-sounding "rules" like "no political messages on laptops" or some shit, which would make the hypocrisy even more glaring.But the students shouldn't have to do any of that because, you know, fucking first amendment.Next time your most conservative relative rants about Liberal Universities, show them these stories and reassure them that fascism is alive and well on campus.
(DIR) Post #AmjP7mMHX6kB3ecNGK by guyjantic@c.im
2024-10-06T03:51:43Z
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I'm so fucking angry about this.Behind the rest of the bullshit: LIBRARY STAFF became apparently-willing little minions of an anti- #freespeech president. US #Universities are not laboratories of #democracy; they are authoritarian hierarchies. The president is the monarch and everyone else follows the orders or else.That's my only explanation for why #LIBRARIANS became meek little fascist approval-seekers.#protest #gaza #palestine #highered #students #authoritarianism #fascism
(DIR) Post #AnHdSiXnHCPEhGWIwC by guyjantic@c.im
2024-10-23T02:07:07Z
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@thegreatape @apophis That is pretty much my former religion's argument, though they also got kind of confused by simultaneously (at least since the mid-80s) telling women it was up to them.
(DIR) Post #AnIWPN2sFLk2d7TTxQ by guyjantic@c.im
2024-10-23T12:23:14Z
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@foone Are you sure it's not because you've clicked literally all the links on the internet already?
(DIR) Post #AnWw8wCZHk1Ti3tQK8 by guyjantic@c.im
2024-10-30T10:50:32Z
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@bert_hubert This reminds me of a Johnny Bravo moment.Name?"Johnny Bravo"Occupation?"... ... Johnny Bravo"
(DIR) Post #Ana5w2grQoGT5KQowS by guyjantic@c.im
2024-10-31T23:51:46Z
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@futurebird Wait, what's the data this references? This sounds really interesting.
(DIR) Post #Ana6N5w5TLt8yBSA08 by guyjantic@c.im
2024-10-31T23:56:39Z
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@futurebird Oh, yes. I think that does seem like something I would expect.
(DIR) Post #AngO9xUvuN23rQLVQW by guyjantic@c.im
2024-11-04T00:44:14Z
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@futurebird You can do this whether Trump wins or not. And you can post your exploits and atrocities here and we will all follow you.
(DIR) Post #AniNwRBN8M7ABgfX28 by guyjantic@c.im
2024-11-04T23:50:58Z
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@futurebird I grew up So Very White. This was one of the things that made me start to understand, at least a little, Black experiences. When I saw this as a teenager (many years after its heyday) and sung a song from it in a choir a little while later, (a) it was just so much fun, and (b) everything about it made it obvious that it was a Black-focused retelling to the original Wizard of Oz, meaning there *needed* to be such a thing, and that made me want to learn more.I thought of this 80s moment just a few years ago when I first heard the soundtrack to Hadestown (and a few years earlier than that with Hamilton).Sometimes what's written between the lines is very loud.
(DIR) Post #AnlXcUk9lZI8SKwqTw by guyjantic@c.im
2024-11-06T12:23:51Z
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@Dan_Ramos Wrong. MAGA just kicked America in the nuts.
(DIR) Post #AnmfRB8HigaBdIFGHQ by guyjantic@c.im
2024-11-07T01:26:06Z
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@futurebird In 1992 I knew a lawyer named (I think) Paul Kenneth Novack III. I served him espresso near the Snohomish County Courthouse in Everett, WA. His signature was a dot and a checkmark. I asked him about it and he said, legally, all you need is for whatever mark you put on paper to be relatively consistent across multiple documents over time, to establish a pattern that this is how you sign. He said it doesn't matter at all what the signature actually looks like.So... cursive not required, I guess.
(DIR) Post #AnohY7qAwjv1fr8QC0 by guyjantic@c.im
2024-11-08T00:59:11Z
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@futurebird As someone wanting to leave academia and go to something (like research? data science?), I've been hit with this for a few years. The people doing parametric (or even nonparametric) old school stats are a minority in industry. Machine learning ate the industry years ago, well before LLMs. Random forests, GMMs, etc. are everywhere. Industry doesn't care about discovering truth; it cares about a model that will increase its bottom line by 1.5%.
(DIR) Post #AnokIu3ODth2QwkTlw by guyjantic@c.im
2024-11-08T01:30:03Z
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@futurebird haha. I'm kind of with you on this. Basic ML is often defended with a sort of "the proof is in the pudding" argument, which doesn't sit well with me, but whatevs. In my opinion, basic ML is stepwise regression on steroids, almost guaranteed to capitalize on sample randomness and produce lots of misleading results. I think the standard practice is to try to rein that problem in with a few things like (importantly) always running models on a training dataset and then testing them on a separate production dataset, noting shrinkage, etc. They also do (did?) a lot of dimensional reduction stuff like PCA and various decompositions. But the theory behind it is, it seems to me (though I've not done a deep dive), pretty underdeveloped. There's a lot of shrugging and saying things like "It increased sales for a month, so it worked." Then they abandon that model and move to another one (though some get put into long-term production for better and/or worse).As for LLMs, I'm seeing a lot of statisticians and data scientists online becoming disillusioned. Their bosses all want LLMs in everything, but the LLMs don't necessarily produce any new insights from data, despite taking hundreds of time more energy to do their computations.