arborelia @arborelia@computerfairi.es
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I like games that you can play again and they're different the next time: such as randomizers, roguelikes, and gender expression! Twitch stream: https://twitch.tv/arborelia
also at: https://cohost.org/arborelia
Joined Jan 2020
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Computers have been beating the best human Go players since 2016. The Go world champion retired in part because AI is “an entity that cannot be defeated.”
But a human just trounced one of the world’s best Go AIs 14 games to 1: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/man-beats-machine-at-go-in-human-victory-over-ai
I think this news story is more interesting than it might first appear (without knowing details, so grain of salt). It isn’t just a gaming curiosity; it points to a fundamental flaw with “deep learning” approaches in general.
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An #Earthbound PK Scramble seed with mystery settings, testing a new version of my Katamari music pack
An afternoon Mystery Mystery randomizer. We haven't seen #alttprandomizer in a surprisingly long time so maybe this time: https://twitch.tv/arborelia
Mystery Mystery randomizer: https://twitch.tv/arborelia
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i'm so burned out on everyone posting LLM output already. i get that it's novel but it also feels like filling the world up with more spam. it's like the whole world simultaneously discovered mad libs and wants to keep showing off how funny it is if you put "butt" in every space
Trying some adjusted settings for Ittle Dew 2 Randomizer: https://twitch.tv/arborelia
The bad news is, we did not make it to Wisconsin for District 82 Pinball.
The good news is, we knew when to quit. We are home and not stuck in O'Hare.
While our luggage goes on a tour of the northern cities, I'm going to stream some consolation Mystery Mystery randomizer:
Last stream before a long weekend of pinball - Mystery Mystery randomizer: https://twitch.tv/arborelia
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Singal: [blubbering, snot gushing from nose] she said i was responsible for fostering a moral hysteria that kills trans people!!
Singal: [ugly crying] just because i was ask
Singal: [ugly crying] ask
Singal: [ugly crying] asking questions
@deejvalen that's at least an emoji for pointing out the person you're replying to is a top
Here’s an alternative that is ready and not poisoned by Google culture: Internet Archive Scholar. https://scholar.archive.org
They consulted trans authors, including me, on their data update process.
If Google had any alternative, a plan better than shutting down Scholar, we would have heard of it by now.
But instead they’ve done nearly nothing for 4 years, they’ve never even responded to the Name Change Policy Working Group, and the one thing they tried (while taking no input from non-Googlers) just outed and deadnamed trans authors _more_.
This is not a defense of the status quo. The solution is one Google knows well and is clearly capable of.
Google Scholar must shut down.
You’ll manage, cis people. There are others ready to do the job, right now, if Google didn’t suck all the air out of the room.
The things Scholar would have to change, to stop driving trans people out of academia, would depend on deep cultural changes at Google.
They can’t even make those cultural changes for the sake of profit, so they clearly can’t make them for the sake of not being giant assholes.
To catch up on why Google Scholar is a uniquely trans-exclusionary force in academia:
This article by an Xoogler illustrates why things at Google are hard to change.
From the point of view of my own issue, it shows why Google Scholar, with all its unearned academic authority, will never be able to change to be inclusive of trans authors.
https://medium.com/@pravse/the-maze-is-in-the-mouse-980c57cfd61a
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“Google has 175,000+ capable and well-compensated employees who get very little done quarter over quarter, year over year. Like mice, they are trapped in a maze of approvals, launch processes, legal reviews, performance reviews, exec reviews,… and reorgs”
https://medium.com/@pravse/the-maze-is-in-the-mouse-980c57cfd61a
It's 1986 and pinball is BACK. #pinball #silverballcentury
https://cohost.org/arborelia/post/1020894-1986-pinball-is-bac
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"Oh it's just early days, we'll fix it"
My sibling in code, you can't even explain how it works in the first place, how are you going to fix it?
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I like games that you can play again and they're different the next time: such as randomizers, roguelikes, and gender expression! Twitch stream: https://twitch.tv/arborelia
also at: https://cohost.org/arborelia
Joined Jan 2020
