DrBouvenstein posted:

It might have already been linked in a previous AUG thread, since it's from August,, but the Obsolete Tech thread let me know that the Soylent guy, Rob Rhinehart, has now given up AC electricity.
http://robrhinehart.com/?p=1331


I...I don't even know where to start with that kitchen rant.

Part of Everything posted:

"I buy my staple food online like a civilized person."

Scarf posted:

I have no idea what this is but I like it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r8W7a9OZY8

Dude has a whole channel of this guy just hanging out doing stuff.

Pastry of the Year posted:

Same.

Part of Everything posted:

"I buy my staple food online like a civilized person."

Civilized huh. I wonder what he thinks of indigenous people who are still living traditionally in some parts of the world. I can probably guarantee he thinks he's better than them. every-loving-body.

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I am blessed with nice weather, a nice view, and a full bookcase so see no need for a noisy, unsightly television, a black hole that living rooms arrange themselves around like an altar. I prefer to read, study, code, or go for a walk to one of several parks in my neighborhood. However I do enjoy movies

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The walls are buzzing. I know this because I have a magnet implanted in my hand and whenever I reach near an outlet I can feel them.

Male Tears posted:

Just after Christmas, he shared his latest work on his wall:

twistedmentat posted:

twistedmentat posted:

EDIT: Oh yea, this is some AUG gold. I was going to post some of them later, but I had to share this one right now

I don't know how much pride it is to have your peoples flag on a piss soaked diaper.

twistedmentat posted:

Remember he also tried to eliminate the need to poop too. I also like his lifestyle is only possible because he's quiet wealthy. I remember reading about him when Soylent first came out and he said he tends to spend up to 20 hours a day coding. Beep boop seems really apt here.

A world where your Fursona is real?

No you can't have that seat, its for my tail.



I wonder if there are more fursona comparison images out there. To Google!

EDIT: Oh yea, this is some AUG gold. I was going to post some of them later, but I had to share this one right now

I don't know how much pride it is to have your peoples flag on a piss soaked diaper.

twistedmentat posted:

No you can't have that seat, its for my tail.

claptrap posted:

Speaking of fine art, this fellow is pleased as punch with his artwork, himself, and soccer. Here is a small sample of the masterpieces on his facebook page:

http://imgur.com/eJG5sO6

DrBouvenstein posted:

It might have already been linked in a previous AUG thread, since it's from August,, but the Obsolete Tech thread let me know that the Soylent guy, Rob Rhinehart, has now given up AC electricity.
http://robrhinehart.com/?p=1331

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High Frequency Dating



The other day I realized there was something missing in my life, so I set out to find a solution. Online dating is in vogue, which makes sense. The internet already has no small part in satisfying most of my other needs. I was pleased to learn that the latest popular dating app, Tinder, now has an Android client. Besides forcing me to reactivate my Facebook account it seems simple enough. Unfortunately, I quickly realized that this was going to turn in to a massive time sink. Perhaps, I thought, I could optimize it?

I did some simple man in the middle packet sniffing to reverse engineer the Tinder API. It’s pretty simple. Send your location, grab a handful of images and user ids, and tell the server which ones you liked. I wrote a minimal python client in Ubuntu and began designing an algorithm to speed up the process a bit. The algorithm first segments the main image by finding all of the faces via OpenCV. If none are found the candidate is discarded. If multiple faces are found the end score will be the average of all of them. This seems to work since people tend to associate with those of similar levels of attractiveness. Facial attractiveness is surprisingly uncomplicated to quantify. Essentially, evolution has us seeking partners that are as “normal” as possible. Anything that is unusually big or small, any ratio that differs from \phi, or about 1.618, hurts the score. After the face(s) are identified in the image, a mask of 25 anthropometric proportion indices is overlaid and mean compliance is measured. This is also done with a custom OpenCV routine.



The client also has messaging capabilities. After a match is identified the algorithm sends a simple message “Can I have a dance?” inspired by Mos Def’s success with Ms. Fat Booty. If no response is received the candidate is discarded. If any response is received, it is ignored and a follow up message is sent “Haha okay then how about we go to a fancy seafood restaurant?”, inspired by the classic meat-for-sex exchange that is common in the animal kingdom as well as among humans. The client uses NLTK to judge an affirmative or negative response. From here an Odesk virtual assistant coordinates dates. This also handles rescheduling but conflicts are not an issue as you will soon see.

Come date night a Double Robot loaded with over 10 hours of pre-recorded content of me rolls up to a restaurant automatically chosen from Yelp based on reviews, distance, cost, and whether or not another double of me has a date there at the time (awkward). Reservations are made via OpenTable’s API. Everything from witty, non-offensive stories to mildly embarrassing personal traits to compliments are recorded. According to the logs candidates are often taken aback at a robot showing up, but a sincere recording complimenting their shoes immediately puts them at ease. Mostly, though, it asks questions and listens. The algorithm aims for a 4:1 ratio of listening to presenting. Based on tone of voice computed by DSP, the system knows which topics to go deeper on and which to avoid, organized in a tree structure in memory. If things are going poorly the emergency “tell me about your cat” routine is run and the microphone is muted to prevent the Speech to Text processor from running useless cycles.



The check is paid via E La Carte and a car is called with Uber’s API. If the algorithm has not been meeting its heuristics the candidate is driven home and the robot self-destructs after uploading its data to the cloud so future iterations can learn from its mistakes. If it has been going well an AirBnB room is insta-booked and the Uber drives there. Once in the room a music playlist is algorithmically generated with Spotify and the candidate’s musical taste gleaned from their Facebook likes. At this moment an Instacart driver should be arriving with a $10 bottle of wine and fresh strawberries and an Exec delivers a NeuroSky Mindwave 3 and a Vibease Smart Vibrator.


Both devices connect to the Double’s iPad via Bluetooth wirelessly and to the female directly. The female’s brainwaves are fed in to a Learning Vector Quantization Artificial Neural Network (FABIO). At first FABIO adjusts the parameters of the Vibease mostly at random, but partially based on previous experience. Based on feedback generated by the headset the system learns and adaptively adjusts the output parameters in order to maximize EEG amplitude. Unfortunately, the complex mathematical operations required by FABIO typically exhaust the Double’s battery in around 01:57-02:03 minutes, depending on the female. At this point the Double gruffly requests the female retrieve his charger. The robot records the candidate’s experience with a Go Pro 3 and securely uploads the video to a private Amazon S3 bucket.

At 09:07 in the morning an Uber is automatically called for the female and 3 days later she will receive a heartfelt e-card / receipt. The algorithm will also wish her happy birthday on Facebook and like the top 20% of her Instagram photos as they are posted and start getting a lot of other likes. This continues until her Facebook relationship status switches away from single.



Ahhh modern romance. Turing would be proud. Unfortunately I haven’t found the time to watch any of the videos since I’m too busy optimizing the algorithm.

claptrap posted:

Speaking of fine art, this fellow is pleased as punch with his artwork, himself, and soccer. Here is a small sample of the masterpieces on his facebook page:









http://imgur.com/eJG5sO6 , http://imgur.com/WHZjopx, http://imgur.com/QbFq46G


A couple others unrelated to the above; I am always astounded at how old some folks can manage to look in their early 20s:

claptrap posted:

Speaking of fine art, this fellow is pleased as punch with his artwork, himself, and soccer. Here is a small sample of the masterpieces on his facebook page:
http://imgur.com/WHZjopx

claptrap posted:

Bismuth posted:

I'd like to submit this for your approval. I found it while looking for that picture of a girl with roast beef in her elbow; at first I thought it was parody but its from Return of Kings so I'm not sure any more. Not safe reading for work probably http://www.returnofkings.com/8455/how-to-identify-a-roast-beef-vagina

kith_groupie posted:

This guy's pretty normal looking, so I bet he's got a real hosed up personality to compensate.

Bad Sneakers posted:

You posted that, and not this??

Solice Kirsk posted:

Those imgur images were all just uploaded. Nice try dork! You're him aren't you?!

Bad Sneakers posted:

You posted that, and not this??

Bismuth posted:

I'd like to submit this for your approval. I found it while looking for that picture of a girl with roast beef in her elbow; at first I thought it was parody but its from Return of Kings so I'm not sure any more. Not safe reading for work probably http://www.returnofkings.com/8455/how-to-identify-a-roast-beef-vagina

Fathis Munk posted:

That has to be a parody

88h88 posted:

It's dated April 1st.

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If you firmly but politely lay out your expectations for your partner (no flaky behavior, I appreciate you cooking meals for me that we can enjoy together, you are to dress feminine but not slutty when we are in public, etc.), in my experience, the woman enjoys doing her part, the same way we enjoy our masculine role.

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Tell her to hit the gym when she’s gotten a bit out of shape, but don’t wait until she’s gained 20 pounds. Give her a limit on how much alcohol she can drink. Tell her she must inform you who she is going out with and where.

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Likewise, it is a waste of time to get into deep discussions with women, expect them to rationalize or understand things, or even to truly empathize or love a man. This may upset you, but it is true. While a dog or woman can respect and honor you, and make you feel good, they cannot truly understand you, or love you the way you love them.

Thin Privilege posted:

Was going through my hard drives and found this

Bismuth posted:

Dont post your selfies

Bad Sneakers posted:

You posted that, and not this??