4chan is a reflection of the depraved, extreme side of humanity. Twitter has taken on the mantle of 'asshole of the internet', but I think the rotten apples post in both.
4chan is oddly accepting of gay and trans people. I've seen gay and trans porn side by side with bbc and bwc porn posts. Strange to see racist trans porn lovers.
I like 4chan for the minor boards, not /pol/ or /b/. But /boardgames/ and /dyi/ and /international/. The absurd humor, green texts that make absolutely no sense, or ones that lead down a strange and wonderful path.
Neither site is a den of repute but it's notable that I can still say the word "cisgender" on 4chan, or openly insult moot and call him whatever I want without being banned for it (while mainstream sites select who is protected from harassment and who isn't, either along political lines or who owns the site).
>4chan is a reflection of the depraved, extreme side of humanity.
I think moderated forums like this one are the reflection of depraved and extreme. After all, you need to be a depraved and extreme host to try to micromanage what everyone says. People who run sites in such a way must have depraved power fantasies.
Just set up a host and allow people to speak their minds? That sounds like someone who believes the good of humanity will triumph, and the right to speak freely is a fundamental one. Section 230 exists and puts the responsiblity of what is said directly on the poster, not the host. So there really seems no reason not to do this... unless you have depraved and extreme power fantasies about controlling what other people say and think.
> 4chan is oddly accepting of gay and trans people. I've seen gay and trans porn side by side with bbc and bwc porn posts. Strange to see racist trans porn lovers.
It only seems odd because many people interpret this through a U.S.A. “culture war” lens and “gay people”. You believe they're “accepting of gay people” in the sense of that culture war because of the “gay porn”. In reality, they take more of a classical Graeco-Roman approach to it and believe it's completely normal for the average male to be attracted to cute twinks as the Romans did and often even reject the very notion of “sexual orientations” to begin with. Their “support” is definitely not in the sense of what one would expect of the U.S.A. “culture war”, jokes such as the below illustrate well what the culture is:
I should have used a better example to support my point.
I was referring to the website it self allowing gay and trans content, and even other non mainstream content (furry, MLP). The content is not just porn related (though a big chunk of it is).
On the porn front, I don't agree with liking 'lady dick' twink lovers only. There's 'normal' gay content (male on male).
On the non porn content, lots of posts will begin with 'Im a gayfag' (fag here I used as a catch all self deprecating term, some users will say I'm a oldfag, even seen ladyfag). Never seen any outright harassment of gay people when they post.
Having said that, there is straight gay, trans, minority hating posts and content.
Hardly universal, if you go to those threads and BBC threads it's usually full of people also commenting that they believe it's a Jewish psyop to corrupt young men
I still have my textbook from almost 20 years ago: "Artificial Intelligence: A modern" by Peter Norvig. Lots of topics covered as AI there that surely do not meet your definition.
AI is buzzword bingo and has been since introduced to computing in the 60's.
Just clasify the method used as what it is to a supposedly educated crowd. There is no need to classify a marketing term. And yes, for that book it's also just marketing.
I've relented, I accept now that AI is an umbrella term to represent many different methods, algorithms and technologies.
Modern day usage of AI is heavily conflated with generative AI such as LLMs and Text-to-* generation systems.
My preference, as someone who works in a very closely relate field to the article, is that science should stay away from non-specific terms like AI. I've had my director approach me seeking grant ideas on using AI. It didn't go down very well when I suggested we should try to use image recognition to automate data entry. That seemed 'old', they wanted a chat bot to do... something.
Yes, music notation is configured to be hidden as I felt it would take up extra space. But recently I myself felt the need for it when editing tabs that had triplets. Beams are not visible in tabs. Planning to add a button soon to toggle notation display.
I would suggest learning standard notation. Tabs are useful (since you often have a choice of what string to play any given note on, but which you choose matters both because different strings sound different, and because some strings will make the next note unreachable), but standard notation has benefits too. If you know both you have a chance of playing along with anyone else - most people will hand you standard notation when they want you to play background to solo, or play with in a group with you (this depends on what type of group - some groups will have tab some will not).
Guitar tab is uniquely suited for exercises because it directly shows which string and fret to play, which is important since the same note can be played in multiple positions on the fretboard, unlike an instrument like the piano where std notation does show you exactly what to play. It also clearly communicates guitar-specific techniques (bends, slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs) that are awkward to represent in traditional notation. For exercises specifically, tab shows you where your hand should be positioned on the neck, making it easier to develop proper technique and muscle memory.
BTW the original comment didn't make sense since the app does support tab, just wanted to make this point. Also not saying that learning std notation isn't valuable although many excellent players never learn it.
I'm in a similar position, in a related sector (public health lab). After covid money ran out, and departments of health were in the red, our finance people are running the show when before it was the scientists.
When I was far younger I was in a similar situation. Public health staff were fired at state run labs by the thousands in some insane effort to privatise public heath. I ended up moving several hundred kilometers to another city.
My advice, at least for my kind, is to try to reframe how your skillset can be applied to other industries ( included public jobs too).
A colleague become an analyst at department of education, they use excel.
Edit: also like to add that after that experience I found a niche that made me highly employable with skills useful outside of my job. But I guess I'm an oddity compared to most traditional scientists.
> For example, how many "normal engineers" would you need to replace an Ilya Sutskever?
I wonder what Sutskever would think if you asked him that question. I bet he'd point out several of his contemporaries that are more deserving of praise.
I'd argue there are plenty of Sutskever's out there who are normal engineers.
I tested it with a bitmap image that ChatGPT 4o created for me based on the following prompt:
> Owl line art, stylized, scientific, illustration
I tested converting it to SVG using first “black and white” mode, which was unsatisfactory because it is literally only completely black and completely white shapes, which loses detail compared to the original image that had multiple shades of grey. The file size was around 291 KB which seems to be not too bad.
I then tried converting the original image with color mode instead, and the result looked good to me. The file size was pretty big, at 3.3 MB. Presumably because it has to use a lot more individual shapes to capture all of the shades in the original image.
I conjecture that if I fiddle a bit more with the prompt for generating the bitmap in ChatGPT, adding things like “unshaded”, “crisp lines”, etc, you might get a bitmap image that will be better as base for a black and white only SVG conversion that captures the original image well while keeping file size around the hundreds of KB.
I am on mobile so I have not tried editing the SVG in Inkscape. I assume that with the details in the image I generated, it consists of many small parts and is probably not well suited for manual editing.
I also know that Adobe Illustrator has a “Live Trace” feature since many years that might also work for this kind of “conversion” to vector graphics. It’s been a few years since last time I tried that feature though.
I looked at a bunch of Vectorising tools, and in the end used https://vectormagic.com/
It works really well, although I had to do all the conversions manually. They do have a bulk tool, but wanted to try this out first.
It does also produce .eps as well as .svg
The issue with the touch bar is that it replaced the F keys which are (at least for me) my most used short cuts. I don't use the track pad gestures, never really got the hang of them. So the F keys were used a lot.
They should have added the touch bar, not replacement the F keys with it.
My specific work community has a Slack with a few thousand people and a few active hundred people. We've come to the conclusion that slacks 90day retention message policy is a good thing. It allows new and old to reask and reiscussion topics.
SO should do something similar. Throw out all the mods, all the questions and start fresh every X number of years. No idea if it will work but tossing out the current mods to bring in new ones would change the flow.
So that's the other extreme end, and that would get repetitive for the people answering questions. Because in spite of the overzealousness of marking questions as duplicate from some people, some questions really do get asked over and over and over again.
Also: Stack Overflow is intended to be a long-term useful repository of question and answers. You enter "how do I frob a baz in foo?" in $search_engine, and the idea is you'll end up on Stack Overflow which answers that exact question. I have sometimes ended up on some of my own answers from years ago like this.
It would be for sure an interesting experiments. Repetitive? No not necessarily. The refresh would happen could periodicaly, but the core functionally wouldn't change.
The old answers can no longer be used as the basis for duplicates, a new one must be created ( that brings a slew of problems, such as sniping for getting magic points).
But the refresh of PEOPLE (mods) is where its needed the most.
What is wrong with duplicate questions though? If the response - yes but my use case is a tad different and its not covered by the linked solution, then dialogue should flow not restricted
4chan is oddly accepting of gay and trans people. I've seen gay and trans porn side by side with bbc and bwc porn posts. Strange to see racist trans porn lovers.
I like 4chan for the minor boards, not /pol/ or /b/. But /boardgames/ and /dyi/ and /international/. The absurd humor, green texts that make absolutely no sense, or ones that lead down a strange and wonderful path.
I like being anonymous on the internet.
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