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“Unstoppable force vs immovable object” Well, a regular force can move a regular object, so if the force’s unstoppability cancels with the object’s unmovability (bc pemdas) then surely the unstoppable force can move the immovable object

Reblogging to add that crabs can in fact at least perform digital logic operations and that a billion of them could probably be programmed to run Doom

arXiv.org

Robust Soldier Crab Ball Gate

Soldier crabs Mictyris guinotae exhibit pronounced swarming behaviour. The swarms of the crabs tolerant of perturbations. In computer models

There was a paper in 2016 exploring how an ML model was differentiating between wolves and dogs with a really high accuracy, they found that for whatever reason the model seemed to *really* like looking at snow in images, as in thats what it pays attention to most.

Then it hit them. *oh.*

*all the images of wolves in our dataset has snow in the background*

*this little shit figured it was easier to just learn how to detect snow than to actually learn the difference between huskies and wolves. because snow = wolf*

Shit like this happens *so often*. People think trainning models is like this exact coding programmer hackerman thing when its more like, coralling a bunch of sentient crabs that can do calculus but like at the end of the day theyre still fucking crabs.

Made a new playlist but so far it only has 2 songs in it

This stake must be driven through her. It will be a fearful ordeal—be not deceived in that—but it will be only a short time, and you will then rejoice more than your pain was great; from this grim tomb you will emerge as though you tread on air. But you must not falter when once you have begun.

@lankyhorologist as Dr. Van Helsing and me as Lucy Westenra for Halloween this year!

Yes Dr. Van Helsing isn't the one to stake Lucy in the book but he is a far better costume than Arthur so we took some liberties.

Nowadays when I open a PDF on my work computer and immediately hit ctrl+F to search the document for something, usually because I’m looking for a specific section of a manual or something, Adobe PDF reader gives me a little popup that says “Click here to learn about our powerful AI summary features :) :) :)” and it covers the Carl+F box and there’s no way to get rid of it except to wait about 15 seconds. Anyway when are we gonna do the Butlerian Jihad and destroy all thinking machines

Is it strange to unironically listen to Sea Shanties? They slap… They’re great, but… is it weird?