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2019-05-27 at 10:18 PM UTC in ERROR 404Error 420: out of weed.
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2019-05-26 at 8:41 PM UTC in Does exposure therapy workIt depends entirely on the particular stimuli you're trying to familiarise yourself with.
There are also two fundamentally different kinds:
1. Gradual exposure, where you just take simple baby steps until you make your way out to the deep end.
2. Direct immersion exposure, where you just dive straight into the deep end.
Both have shown effective results in different people and situations.
Phobias are overcome with pretty good success rates using exposure therapies. -
2019-05-26 at 7:13 PM UTC in Don't tell him Bartends all night and sleeps all day...
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2019-05-26 at 7:11 PM UTC in Don't tell him Bartends all night and sleeps all day...
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2019-05-26 at 7:06 PM UTC in Don't tell him Bartends all night and sleeps all day...
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2019-05-26 at 6:39 PM UTC in If recreational nitrous oxide were legal...
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2019-05-26 at 6:38 PM UTC in If recreational nitrous oxide were legal...Wait a sec...
It's scheduled isn't it? -
2019-05-26 at 6:36 PM UTC in If recreational nitrous oxide were legal...I have a store literally a block away that sells huge (gas storage) tanks.
A neighbor once said that he knew a dude that bought one filled with nitrous directly from there.
I'm so skeptical, though, that I haven't even considered inquiring further about it.
I have, however, thought of buying one of their tanks and chemically synthesizing N2O myself. It's a pretty simply molecule. It can't be that hard, can it? -
2019-05-26 at 6:33 PM UTC in Don't tell him Bartends all night and sleeps all day..."Don't tell him"...
Might as well correct the retraction as well...
"Do not tell him."
Or even better...
"Refrain from informing others."
From now on, she's RefrainFromInformingOthers. -
2019-05-26 at 6:13 PM UTC in I'm really bored without marijuana in my life...I would feel the same way without my precious devil's nectar.
The devil's lettuce seems to have the same degree of importance in many people's lives.
What's a nigga to do?
I have no idea.
Wait, why did you quit the lettuce?
Most stoners see literally zero downsides to it. -
2019-05-26 at 6:10 PM UTC in I'm really bored without marijuana in my life...
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2019-05-26 at 6:09 PM UTC in Sucks not having marijuana in my life...Y'all motherfuckers need Jesus.
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2019-05-26 at 6:07 PM UTC in Why Seinfeld is a documentary on a bunch of disgusting psychopaths...
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2019-05-26 at 5:55 PM UTC in Why Seinfeld is a documentary on a bunch of disgusting psychopaths...Honestly, I like the show.
It's not like morally flawed main characters in a sitcom is some kind of rarity.
In fact, I'm pretty sure it's a fairly common staple in comedy-oriented TV shows.
Also, it's not like they're trying to disguise it as wholesome behavior.
The series finale was clearly explicitly meant to show how nihilistic and apathetic they are. -
2019-05-26 at 5:42 PM UTC in My Word Cloud Process - ITT We All Laugh, Learn, and See Gradual Iterative UpdatesON PARSING:
I'll post some actual code (python) later, but for now, I'll kinda walk through the general process.
First, what is parsing?
To parse something has multiple meanings, depending on context, but it ultimately always comes down to one simple thing: Taking a sequence of arbitrary data, and extracting meaningful data from it.
HTML is an excellent example, especially because it follows a rather simple pattern (especially compared to parsing full Turing-complete programming languages).
HTML is actually a subtype of XML (eXtensible Markup Language).
XML uses "<" and ">" symbols to indicate significant "stopping points" (for lack of a better term).
For example (in HTML in particular), a paragraph is denoted as follows:
<p>Hello world. I am a paragraph. I consist of multiple sentences of text.</p>
An HTML parser extracts everything contained between the "starting p" and the "ending p."
Often, though, each element/tag will have attributes:
<p class="post">Hello world. I am a paragraph. I consist of multiple sentences of text.</p>
<p>Hello world. I am a paragraph. I consist of multiple sentences of text. BUT I AM NOT A POST.</p>
<p class="post">Hello world. I am a paragraph. I consist of multiple sentences of text.</p>
So, using an XML/HTML parser, and assuming that one wants to extract all the paragraphs that fall into the class of "post", one would do the following (represented as pseudocode):
all_paragraphs = find_all_elements_wrapped_between_p(source_text)
all_posts = find_all_elements_with_specified_class("post")
The placeholder of "all_posts" now holds all of the items labelled as posts.
Okay, I have to take a break here because trying to explain it using as little technical terminology as possible is actually quite a cognitive exercise (but useful, even for me, because, as Einstein once said: "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.", or something like that at least). -
2019-05-26 at 5:16 PM UTC in My Word Cloud Process - ITT We All Laugh, Learn, and See Gradual Iterative Updates
Originally posted by aldra lol, nude niggers
I know, right?
That's exactly why I chose finny.
I'm planning to do a bunch more once ALL post data is parsed and cleaned/processed...
But, unless someone specifically requests one, I generally pick them based on how entertaining the cloud will be.
It's actually generally the most obnoxious posters that make for the best result. -
2019-05-26 at 5:11 PM UTC in My Word Cloud Process - ITT We All Laugh, Learn, and See Gradual Iterative UpdatesAn ELI5 (using as little technical terminology as possible):
So a word cloud basically involves:
1. Take a large collection of words (forget for a second that they actually compose meaningful sentences... think of, for example, an entire NiS member's post history, as a big bag of random english words).
2. Literally just count how often each word in that bag of words comes up. The amount of data (i.e. number of words) can be quite large, but computers are able to perform such calculations pretty quickly.
3. Filter based on certain conditions.
4. Display words as an image.
For example (oversimplified, but informative):
LIST_OF_RANDOM_WORDS = [
hi, what, hello, homie, fuck, really, why, i, dunno, hi, again, fuck, again, fuck, fuck, fuck
]
Let's say we're looking for the top 3 most used words...
First, the program counts the occurrence of each word (it's a prerequisite for filtering out the top X number of words requested):
hi: 2.
what: 1.
hello: 1.
homie: 1.
fuck: 5.
really: 1.
why: 1.
i: 1.
dunno: 1.
again: 2.
The program then sorts this list by the number of each occurrence:
fuck: 5.
again: 2.
hi: 2.
what: 1.
hello: 1.
homie: 1.
really: 1.
why: 1.
i: 1.
dunno: 1.
It then filters out all but the top three:
fuck: 5.
again: 2.
hi: 2.
And then you have:
FUCK, AGAIN, HI.
The word cloud generator assigns a font size relative to each word's number of occurrences:
FUCK (font-size = 12 * 5).
AGAIN (font-size = 12 * 2).
HI (font-size = 12 * 2).
Note that the number 12 is simply a constant value used to compute a variable font size. -
2019-05-26 at 4:52 PM UTC in My Word Cloud Process - ITT We All Laugh, Learn, and See Gradual Iterative Updates
Originally posted by gadzooks It could very, VERY, easily be abused, if anyone with ill intent towards this site were to adapt it to nefarious purposes (*cough* infinityshock *cough*).
Actually, I was thinking mainly of my "NiS bot" code here...
Archiving each page as a plain old HTML file doesn't involve establishing sessions or making requests (other than "GET"), so I could probably include that.
The problem is that, like I said, my code is dirty and disorganized as is... I literally have files called things like "nisSORT.py" that are just filled with completely unrelated NiS stuff. -
2019-05-26 at 4:49 PM UTC in My Word Cloud Process - ITT We All Laugh, Learn, and See Gradual Iterative Updates
Originally posted by WellHung Gadzooks I didn't understand any of your computer jargon .. in layman's terms what did you achieve?
Good question.
I'm a huge fan of the ELI5 subreddit for explanations of things outside my own realm(s) of expertise, so I will try to come up with something similar here.
Just gimme a sec to think it through. -
2019-05-26 at 4:46 PM UTC in My Word Cloud Process - ITT We All Laugh, Learn, and See Gradual Iterative Updates
Originally posted by Sophie That's pretty dope Gadzooks. Also, post your source.
I will do this at some point... Maybe as a GitHub gist, or even a full repository...
The only part I'm kinda hesitant about posting is the code I came up with for crawling the site.
It could very, VERY, easily be abused, if anyone with ill intent towards this site were to adapt it to nefarious purposes (*cough* infinityshock *cough*).
But the code I use to analyze I'll post in this thread after I've cleaned it up just a little bit (I write really dirty code the first time through, and am self-conscious about others seeing it in that state, lol).
