FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

sometimes math things turn out to be far simpler than you expect. for example, apparently one of the most popular activation functions in neural networks is just max(0,x)? that's what relu is. so i guess f(a,b,c) = max(0, a * 0.5 + b * 0.25 + c * 0.125) is a simple “neuron”? neat

Apple Programmer's Keyboard II

Apple QuickBinary Keypad III

Like @alice says, "it's all fun and gays until someone gets locked out"

Be Gay - Do Crime lockpick earrings

https://www.lockpickextreme.com/product/lockpick-earrings-pride-be-gay-do-crime/

‪a physical painting is such an incredibly beautiful object up close‬

britain is captured by the fear of trans people in bathrooms because after fifteen years of austerity the idea of a society that builds facilities to accommodate all persons is no longer possible to imagine, and so everything is some horrible fight over scraps

If you're ever looking for a peer-reviewed, article-length piece to cite re: my arguments on why we need to center marginalized lived experiential knowledge in all technologies, but especially "AI," then my article “Disabling ‘AI:’ Biases and Values Embedded in ‘Artificial Intelligence’” is for you.

UPDATE: It's "La France" not "Le France". I wish to apologize for misgendering France

I am in the France

A really startling number of the informational/advertisement stanchion screens at Charles De Gaulle are showing the Windows 10 login screen

That same desktop image of the cave. You know the one

Advice for life:
- be nice
- tip well
- stay on the good side of the twig witch
- gossip with owls under a blanket of stars
- become moss and become immortal

After some conversations with friends NOT on the fediverse I've arrived at calling it "independent social media."

This is better than "open source" or other titles, it better conveys the central difference.

Need to add bovine incursion to my list of apology reasons

new anime idea: protagonist IS the isekai truck conductor. every episode he gets a call for help from another universe and chooses a young teen to become their hero and runs em over, while evading the police afterwards

@lashman Reminds me of SimCity getting rid of parking lots.
https://archive.is/20230122163435/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/the-philosophy-of-simcity-an-interview-with-the-games-lead-designer/275724/

lol, lmao even

this is ART

tired: “i make musical instruments”
inspired: “i work in the timbre industry”

what kids these days dont understand is that in the y2k era, companies would just imply that their products were drugs in a good way

if you're working on "parental controls" in any kind of capacity i hope you get long covid