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Regrettably, this made me decide to find out what John Coffey sound like.
Regrettably, this made me decide to find out what John Coffey sound like.
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Has anyone posted on the Rachel Dolezal thing yet? It's a bit of a thinker. White woman 'passes' for black woman and runs NAACP chapter. At first blush, a real WTF? moment worthy of the thread.
But given the discussions we've had here around the nature of identity, can we deny her her black identity just because she's not black the way we'd define her? She obviously identifies with the black community, and feels a part of their world. But is that enough? Or is it plenty? Dunno.Comment
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It came up in the "Can You Choose Your Own Race?" thread.Comment
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Oh. Yeah. I can see how you could shoehorn it into that.Comment
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She resigned today without providing the "explanation" she had promised.
It also turns out that she sued Howard for race and gender discrimination in 2004, and had it thrown out, with the university being awarded costs.
She's got some issues, and the degree to which the wingnuts have jumped on this with fallacious comparisons to trans people is ridiculous.Comment
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Yeah, there seemed to be a lot of mumblespeak around 'people drawing conclusions without hearing the whole story', which of course wasn't offered.Comment
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I liked this Jamelle Bouie piece.
The string of lies is what really bothers meThen again, her story involves lies and misrepresentations. She passed off a darker-skinned stranger as her father, and an adopted sibling as her son. There’s a chance she faked a hate crime against her, and she falsely claimed she was born in a tepee with a family that hunted for its food. She says she’s black, but we don’t know if she’s always black. Is she black when she’s purchasing a home? Talking to the police? Or is she black only when vying for a role where lived experience would help her odds?Comment
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If this doesn't belong in the "wtf" thread.
Then nothing does.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-33153031Comment
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What kind of fucking shit is this?
http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/whale-hill-school-france-trip-9460882Comment
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Seems a cruel way to learn why playing the lottery is a mug's game.
Very poor organisation from the school as well.Comment
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My kids' school does that, we're about to go through it again for my daughter going on a hockey trip next year. The alternative, which they used to do, was first come first served, which rewarded kids with well organised parents, and of course who could easily find the required deposit.Guy Potger wrote: What kind of fucking shit is this?
http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/whale-hill-school-france-trip-9460882Comment
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Surely, the alternative is hire a bigger bus.Walt Flanagans Dog wrote:My kids' school does that, we're about to go through it again for my daughter going on a hockey trip next year. The alternative, which they used to do, was first come first served, which rewarded kids with well organised parents, and of course who could easily find the required deposit.Originally posted by Guy PotgerComment
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Good grief, that's twice what my girlfriend and I pay, and I'm including our bills/TV, phone and internet in that. Apart from being at least twice as big (and having balconies, have I mentioned we have two balconies?), we're better located and can go for a shit without having to leave the flat.Toby Gymshorts wrote: Ł800 PCM Studio flat in Brockley "does not benefit from a toilet"
It's seeing property listings like that that remind me why I came here.Comment
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The World's favorite (sic) search engine at it again -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33347866
"Automatically"? How does that work then?Its product automatically tags uploaded pictures using its own artificial intelligence software.Comment
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Headline of the day:
Story here: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-woman-lost-forest-20150630-story.htmlWoman gives birth, fights off bees, starts wildfire in Northern CaliforniaComment
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Impressive.Comment
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Can't tell if that is sarcasm or a genuine question. In the latter case: here are some papers with techniques to do so. I don't know the details, but this is a very active topic in machine learning research, particularly when combined with deep learning.Guy Potger wrote: "Automatically"? How does that work then?Comment
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That's the company that had the "joke" tweet about African Americans being beaten by police, right?Comment
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Don't start that again…Incandenza wrote: That's the company that had the "joke" tweet about African Americans being beaten by police, right?Comment
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Semi-serious.Smallcaps wrote:Can't tell if that is sarcasm or a genuine question. In the latter case: here are some papers with techniques to do so. I don't know the details, but this is a very active topic in machine learning research, particularly when combined with deep learning.Originally posted by Guy Potger
I was trying to work out how something ostensibly trying to "teg" photographs could be using an algorithm or any form of pattern recognition that could not identify human beings when an image of them is presented.Comment
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Right. Again, I cannot give you much detail, since it's just outside of my area of expertise, but this is an outstanding example of the kind of task at which human beings perform significantly better than computers. It's really hard to tell a computer how to perform this particular task that we simply perform through experience dating back to the start of our species. Personally, I couldn't list exactly what I do when I recognize entities on photos.Guy Potger wrote: Semi-serious.
I was trying to work out how something ostensibly trying to "teg" photographs could be using an algorithm or any form of pattern recognition that could not identify human beings when an image of them is presented.
One of my former colleagues has done some interesting related research, to be presented at a workshop collocated with the International Conference on Machine Learning next week. He managed to get a computer to predict his Tinder swipe behavior with 68.1% accuracy. His dataset consists of only pictures of human faces, and the decision task is binary (so random guessing gives you 50% accuracy to begin with), which makes 68.1% less than impressive. The guy may have some subtle preferences in woman, but part of the disappointing accuracy is also that computers simply are not good at abstracting concepts out of images.Comment
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This made me raise an eyebrow
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3148431/Police-discover-WWII-TANK-anti-aircraft-gun-hidden-cellar-German-pensioner-s-house.html
and then chuckle
"He was chugging around in that thing during the snow catastrophe in 1978."Comment
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I saw this the other day.Geoffrey de Ste. Croix wrote:
By what logic are they claiming that Andy Murray is an "immigrant"?Comment
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