arborelia @arborelia@computerfairi.es

the most important part of the history of Unicode is the time that a mouse fell out of a light fixture and got added to the count of members present

https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16325.htm#149-A94

"My least favourite word in the German language is Geduld. It means patience, and I hate it because it appears in nearly every response to me in the ticket I've had open with my university's IT department for an entire year, begging them to change their naming policy for Microsoft Teams."

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"What I feel is powerless. When states require that I tell them my name, my gender, my state of transness, I am now powerless to resist, simply because institutions like my university cannot bother to dignify me with an identity outside my state-given one. It is institutional policy to see me only in the ways I have institutional legitimacy, rather than to pose the question: why the fuck does my neural networks professor need to know my government name?"

https://dippedrusk.com/posts/2023-02-25-bureaucratic-violence/

“If one 84-year-old cis white shitposting novelist can become less transphobic on Twitter, then we are all endowed with the capacity for growth and change.”
https://judedoyle.medium.com/joyce-carol-goats-d04603d465da

This happens WHENEVER I try to do any work 😭

#Garfield #bot

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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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