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2017-09-28 at 11:11 PM UTC in I need to clear something up.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-09-28 at 6:16 AM UTC in Should you have to pledge allegiance to the flag?
Originally posted by mmQ Patronizing bish
not really. buried in that nonsense is actually a serious point - with the media and education system the way it is, you have to make an effort to 'un-brainwash' yourself and try to resist popular opinion to be able to see fact in current events, history and the like.
at the same time though, when you make an effort to resist popular opinion, what happens when popular opinion turns out to be correct? by conditioning yourself to distrust something you're discounting the chance that it might be right. everyone has their own agenda and it's not possible to directly and empirically prove everything you want to know the truth about - you have to make decisions on who to place your trust in, and anyone you trust can potentially fool you. it's what happens to people who believe in almost all conspiracy theories; they see one thing that the government or media is lying about and assume that they're also lying about everything else so they take someone like David Icke at face value. You start by questioning the Iraq War and end up telling people on the train that the Royal Family are liserds.
I follow (and admire) Vanessa Beeley on facebook, one of the few independent journalists who went to Syria and gave unbiased accounts of what was going on, reports which were in stark contrast to what the mainstream media present as fact. A few months back she posted that the US was using White Phosphorous munitions in Mosul and surrounding areas - I'd heard those rumours before, but not seen any photos, video or other evidence so I replied to her post asking (politely) whether she had any proof of such because I'd seen a lot of unverified allegations.
I got dogpiled by about 10 other people, all claiming I was a war crimes apologist, an imperialist and/or a CIA disinformation agent, simply for asking for evidence for something that I thought was, in all likelihood, true. It wasn't the first time I'd posted on her page; I've actually posted some of the stuff I've written here and gotten feedback for it - but as soon as I asked a question that threatened the narrative they'd come to believe, they snapped and stonewalled me in much the same way that they constantly accuse the media of. -
2017-09-28 at 6 AM UTC in Should you have to pledge allegiance to the flag?America is dead. The American dream is dead. I hope some day that Americans wake up with the realization that the Nazis won. The communists won. The terrorists won. We won the wars but lost the game. The blood of our fathers was spilt for the freedom to hand our enemies the sword and bend the knee.
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2017-09-28 at 4:37 AM UTC in The Retarded Thread: Get Rekt, Faggot!
Originally posted by LegalizeSpiritualDiscovery I wonder how alive PoC is.
I'd like to see a news report of him and hrdyo having done the 'love hanging' with the heart shaped dual noose. I know they 'broke up' after that LENGTHY relationship but it would be sure to see them both hanging somewhere together, assuming there's any ceiling in the world that could support that.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-09-28 at 3:24 AM UTC in If you've been connecting with your actual IP adress. SpeciaL- probably saved it.i think its hilarious u kids talking shit about sophie. u wouldnt say this shit to him at lan, hes jacked. not only that but he wears the freshest clothes, eats at the chillest restaurants and hangs out with the hottest kids. yall are pathetic lol
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2017-09-28 at 1:36 AM UTC in Should you have to pledge allegiance to the flag?Making small children say the pledge is brainwashing not patriotism. People would get pissy at me in high school because I wouldn't say and I would be like, I don't believe in god why the fuck would I pledge my allegiance to something I don't believe it. I don't see america as anything more than a lesser evil so fuck you I won't do what you tell me.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-09-27 at 6:49 PM UTC in NIS "User-Unhider" : Step By Step Tutorial1. Select user profile to snoop.
2. Log out.
3. You should now be presented with all that user's IPs and alt accounts.
glittering prizes?
fo shoo, fo shoo...The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-09-27 at 5:15 PM UTC in Good Names For a New BandThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-09-27 at 5:10 PM UTC in Good Names For a New BandDoodsgeratel happens after the body started decomposing because of the build up gas inside.
Pretty sure it used to creep medieval people the fuck out.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-09-27 at 4:45 PM UTC in Good Names For a New BandThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-09-26 at 9:38 PM UTC in CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web browsers"I'm PLOWING this new girl, man you gotta check her out that pussy is tiiiight yo, and get this, she's a miner!"
"..What? A minor? You're proud of this why??"
"Yeah man that's fuckin rare!I bagged me a female miner! And aside from being gorgeous as the moonlight she can ride a cock like a featherweight champion, my man. Tiny little thing, a goddamn MINER!"
"Get out of my house Chuck."The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-09-26 at 7:20 PM UTC in CBS's Showtime caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web browsersBitcoin are like logic pussles.
And ur computer is like a pholosopher.
U run a progran on ur computer to think about the pusles and when it solves it u have discovered a new coin.
But every time a pusles is solved the next one is even more difficult n ur computer needs a higher IQ 2 salve .The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-09-25 at 6:07 PM UTC in The Retarded Thread: Get Rekt, Faggot!Isn't your brain not fully developed until like 30? If that's true I'm 99% uploaded at 29 1/2. I can't be held responsible for my decisions guys. That includes any and all crimes!
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2017-09-24 at 10:43 PM UTC in I have single-handedly condensed all of language into consisting of 4 subsets.
Originally posted by Captain Falcon So my understanding is that ML won't help you understand the semantic content of language but it can help you determine the rule structure. So "I like dogs" is pretty much no different rule wise than "I dislike cats". In that case, what is your opinion on how to solve the riddle of language for computers to understand?
It's an interesting question, like could we use ML approaches to generate a formal grammar? I don't know, in some sense techniques like Markov models in language tasks do produce a sort of grammar, they work for recognition and then you can turn them around and use them for generative tasks. So it is a kind of grammar, just not a great one in terms of mirroring natural languages (but to be fair the state of the art uses more sophisticated models).
But I think it turns into a kind of curve fitting issue, many grammars can produce a training set, how do we know which one was used? Like let's say I invent a language that is defined by its first order markov property: sentences are constructed by taking an existing sentence in the language and adding one more word depending only on the last word. And then I train a markov chain by feeding it a large number of sentences from this language. The "grammar" represented the trained model has might be able to produce every sentence in the language but it's not necessarily the same grammar as was used to train it. And we can think of all kinds of way to make the source grammar trick the model, maybe the grammar doesn't allow for sentences longer than N words but the model will never know that and produce illegally long sentences. That's an example specific to the markov model but I can't think of one that doesn't have the same issue. There's also Gold's theorem which formally rules out the possibility of language learning without negative input (someone saying "this isn't a valid sentence").
The philosophical response standard among the orthodoxy is that if you make a computer that can produce well formed sentences but it's not using the same grammar as humans, or which fails in edge cases, then it doesn't really matter. Humans produce ungrammatical sentences all the time, and it's at least worth asking if all the speakers of the same language really do have the same mental grammar or if everyone's model of language is internally different but externally similar. And that's fair, if you take the goal of AI research to be the production of systems like chatbots and spell checkers and such then it really is a non-issue. But in my opinion the really important output of the AI project is not these systems but rather a greater understanding of human cognition. That's not a super popular opinion (although it is represented as a minority in the literature) but we kind of have a lot of human intelligence, 8 billion people, society isn't going to collapse if we have to employ some of them in language tasks, language skills are abundant and cheap. But insight into the nature of language itself, something that is a substrate of thought, that we all use easily every day but can't explain (we can identify qualities like "wordiness" or "bold writing" or "awkward wording" but can't really explain them intellectually), is fascinating.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-09-24 at 7:57 PM UTC in fucking white people"wrecking"
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2017-09-24 at 8:06 AM UTC in I have single-handedly condensed all of language into consisting of 4 subsets.Taxonomy of language is really interesting though. You can look at the literature POS taggers for algorithmic approaches. It's one of the few areas in AI where linguistic perspectives have been seriously considered (vs. like general statistical ML techniques which prefer to ignore domain knowledge).The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-09-21 at 11:27 PM UTC in Define your net experienceThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-09-21 at 9:45 PM UTC in THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS 'THE CLOUD'!Jill the Cloud
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2017-09-20 at 10:13 AM UTC in The retarded fred: The jolly green giants cock edition
Originally posted by Captain Falcon Okay so my turn to make a highpost
At about 2 AM I got into Tinychat with mmQ and ate a whole gummy bear. As the bear kicked in, I started getting worse and worse psychologically. I had a very personal vision and experience that I'm not going to go into specifics about. It ended up with me crying into my girlfriend's shoulder, who I disturbed from her sleep.
Then it got worse. I literally started to zoom back in time and dig out INSANELY repressed memories, shit my brain had tried to erase forever. I also got lottery numbers. I'm kind of fucking traumatized right now, actually.
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2017-09-18 at 5:08 AM UTC in The Retarded Thread: Get Rekt, Faggot!§m£ÂgØL I want you to know that I'm really happy for you brother. You have come such a long way. I remember when you were a baby face ass nigga on Zoklet, and even just how much you've grown in the past few months is remarkable.
I'm rooting for you, buddy. You got this. The world is your oyster.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
