Notices by Wayne Werner (ketmorco@fosstodon.org)

@inthehands I like machine learning because it's what it is. The machine can learn but it's still just a sand+electricity machine and it's learning isn't actually intelligence by any stretch of the word.

It doesn't derive axioms of the system that it's in or built up of, and wouldn't even be able to understand or argue about *that*.

We just think it can because it presents words in the kind of order that we think it should present. It's really just a fancy way of making https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

@inthehands I like the explanation that AI doesn't work because it's intelligent, it works because we see Jesus in toast

@paninid billionaires do not spark joy.

#WhiteHouse #uspol

Do they serve #covfefe at the #ReligiousLiverty commission?

@skinnylatte i wish you a whale of a good time!

Create a little thing today.

It doesn't matter what it is - a small sketch, a poem, a sculpture. Or fix something that's been out of place.

Something small, something 5 minutes. You are not helpless! And while everything is awful and the future is bleak, you can do something.

And the best way to combat these feelings of helplessness is to do something that is within your control.

All the best! 🌈❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍🌈

#uspol

Love that Ann Coulter is trying to make fun of a kid with disabilities.

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#gross

@heidilifeldman what in the world has gone so horribly wrong that Tom Cotton and Liz Cheney are making sensible arguments? (also shows how incredibly not-left Harris is, but as always I'll take conservative "centrist" over a Hitler wannabe any day)

@jeffowski according to https://www.quora.com/How-many-acres-can-one-person-farm?top_ans=278151323 Peter Kaye "had 530 acres and had absolutely no problems doing everything myself. At the busiest times I plowed all night to get the soil ready for planting, as long as you have the right machinery it’s a lot of work but it can be done."

So... yeah - there's no effing reason anyone, ever, should be hungry (unless they want to be)

@jeffowski oh no.

Alt:

Robocop tenderly embraces C3-PO in a hotel room. The OnlyCans logo is present in the top left, and a massive can of WD-40 "Sprays 2 ways" obscures the bedside table.

Barry White plays on the radio.

@mcnees Was it you or someone else who told their kid that they'd pay them $1/book read, and they were up to something like 350 books that year and the kid was convinced they were ripping their parent off 🙃

@clacke @glitch @winload_exe Slack has entered the chat