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How does a hibernating subspecies with a neural cortex malfunction still represent the debauched rich and their inherently unsustainable predation on the poor?
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Read Blindsight and find out!
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Blindsight is one of those novels where the author doesn't come across as smart, so much as desperately wanting to convince you that he's smart
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The Things by the same guy is dope tho
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Peter Watts is a huge weirdo but Blindsight is genuinely a great book.
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He got himself banned from entering the US for being a dick to a border guard so he's basically a hero imo.
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Krankenstyle posted:Peter Watts is a huge weirdo but Blindsight is genuinely a great book. The short story with The Thing is good through 99% of it but the last line, worded the way it is, just sounds desperately edgelordy Like, I want to grab him by his lapels and shake him. "No, Peter Watts," I would say, "Do not have written these words at this time" I still went to the library yesterday and borrowed Echopraxia
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has someone posted https://twitter.com/Tesla/status/891159650816491520 yet
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Tunicate posted:Blindsights one of those novels where the author doesn't come across as smart, so much as desperately wanting to convince you that he's smart Echopraxia is even worse on that, and if you hated Blindsight, Exchopraxia would piss you right off.
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i like the part in blindsight where the vampire uses screaming human faces as high dimensional data visualization and it turns out in the references that the author was assuming that chernoff faces were the gold standard high tech technique for multidimensional data
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Tree Goat posted:i like the part in blindsight where the vampire uses screaming human faces as high dimensional data visualization and it turns out in the references that the author was assuming that chernoff faces were the gold standard high tech technique for multidimensional data How has this thread reached 180 pages without me ever hearing about chernoff faces, these things seem like the peak of awful/funny graphs and charts: 
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Red Bones posted:How has this thread reached 180 pages without me ever hearing about chernoff faces, these things seem like the peak of awful/funny graphs and charts: What the gently caress Miyagi is so smug Iowa is tripping balls
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In the old vampire folklore of the Balkans vampirism is even more contagious. Not only do the victims of vampires become vampires but anyone who eats the meat of a animal killed by a vampire also becomes a vampire. Heck a vampire looking at a pregnant woman can be enough to make sure her baby becomes a vampire if she doesn't take the proper precautions. Other ways to becoming a vampire: -Committing suicide -Being a witch (or just a weirdo/social outcast) -Not being baptized -Blood splurting on bare skin when you're staking a corpse -A cat jumping over your dead body -The body being left alone long enough to be corrupted by evil spirits and/or Satan -Converting to Islam from Christianity -Just really not wanting to die (this one seems to be most common in Bulgaria where the vampires eat poop and love wrestling)
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Red Bones posted:How has this thread reached 180 pages without me ever hearing about chernoff faces, these things seem like the peak of awful/funny graphs and charts: 
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FreudianSlippers posted:In the old vampire folklore of the Balkans vampirism is even more contagious. Not only do the victims of vampires become vampires but anyone who eats the meat of a animal killed by a vampire also becomes a vampire. Heck a vampire looking at a pregnant woman can be enough to make sure her baby becomes a vampire if she doesn't take the proper precautions. Interesting. Could you perhaps display this information by means of chart and/or graph? Thanks! Sincerely, Dixville Edit I'm just loving with you that actually is pretty interesting
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Red Bones posted:How has this thread reached 180 pages without me ever hearing about chernoff faces, these things seem like the peak of awful/funny graphs and charts: Is Is there a legend that's supposed to go along with this?
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ishikabibble posted:Is "The face people make when we tell them that they have lung cancer"
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I think you need to be in the same mindframe as the researcher who came up with the display method, so just microdose some lsd
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I dont think a microdose is going to get you there.
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ishikabibble posted:Is yes. the variables are age-standardized incidence rate, proportion of incident cases, time trend in incidence, mean age at diagnosis, histological verification, mortality/incidence ratio, death certificate only cases and duration of cancer registration. they map to mouth curvature, hair length, # forehead wrinkles, nose height, ear height, eye height, eye vertical position, and mouth vertical position. the exact mapping is behind a paywall and i can't be assed to look it up. so the whole idea with chernoff faces is that we're good at summarizing/clustering faces rapidly (like, we're extremely good at finding the single frowning face in a sea of smiling faces, or determining if a crowd of people are generally happy or sad), so you come up with a mapping (the original paper used 13 or so dimensions including face shape and so on) and then you cluster the faces together or identify outliers (so dixville's "iowa is tripping balls" is a legitimate insight in this epidemiological dataset). here's an example from the nyt:  an unfortunate set of problems is that these suck so bad and that's not how face perception works really and you have to get really lucky with your encodings for you to reliably see anything important.
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Tony La Russa has seen some poo poo
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FreudianSlippers posted:-Just really not wanting to die (this one seems to be most common in Bulgaria where the vampires eat poop and love wrestling) Well this puts Rusev Day in a whole new light.
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FreudianSlippers posted:In the old vampire folklore of the Balkans vampirism is even more contagious. Not only do the victims of vampires become vampires but anyone who eats the meat of a animal killed by a vampire also becomes a vampire. Heck a vampire looking at a pregnant woman can be enough to make sure her baby becomes a vampire if she doesn't take the proper precautions. I assume by "love wrestling" you mean that they enjoy grappling with people/vampires, but I prefer to believe you mean they watch Hell In A Cell with Stone Cold Steve Austin.
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Tree Goat posted:an unfortunate set of problems is that these suck so bad and that's not how face perception works really and you have to get really lucky with your encodings for you to reliably see anything important. Another problem is that facial expressions carry emotional meaning loaded into them, and if you map your variables badly, you might end up with say, Miyagi up there who's just so loving pleased with himself about getting lung cancer.
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The Cheshire Cat posted:Another problem is that facial expressions carry emotional meaning loaded into them, and if you map your variables badly, you might end up with say, Miyagi up there who's just so loving pleased with himself about getting lung cancer. right, for instance: (not my work, thankfully) 
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The death penalty in Texas really shouldn't be described by a smiling brown-skinned person.
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ultrafilter posted:The death penalty in Texas really shouldn't be described by a smiling brown-skinned person. Nebraska checks out.
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ultrafilter posted:The death penalty in Texas really shouldn't be described by a smiling brown-skinned person.
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Really confused as to why they made the younger executions the smiley face and not the frown.
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Tree Goat posted:right, for instance: i'm sorry, i didn't realize we were loving zyklon b-ing people in mississippi, new mexica, nevada and cali loving fornia well after ww2
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 Any more where that came from? (Where did those come from?)
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Vavrek posted:
At least getting deeply into alchemy will only kill you, sicken your family, and poison your living & working spaces. poo poo's way healthier, I imagine.
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trapped mouse posted:i'm sorry, i didn't realize we were loving zyklon b-ing people in mississippi, new mexica, nevada and cali loving fornia well after ww2 Nah, it's hydrogen cyanide (aka prussic acid). Which is much better!
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Vavrek posted:
Jordan Peterson's book Maps of Meaning. It's a trip.
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Tree Goat posted:right, for instance: 64-98 405 gently caress you Texas
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Ugh a guy I kinda know who comes into my morning coffee shop at the same time as me engaged me with JPetes bs the yesterday. He was using the "but have you read the longer version!" argument and it just started my day on a sour note.
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