Bismuth has Feelings

 Gareth / 24 / Cis / Homosexual / "He/His/Him" pronouns. I subscribe to the concept that Bismuth is an exceptionally cool/helpful and underrated crystal. I approve of all things mineral, and I reblog whatever strikes my fancy.

[officialbluebeetle-deactivated2]

ok but what if like. werewolves transform under the full moon but theres just this one and by day hes a big tough guy and then when he transforms hes a tiny dog. just fucking. just fucking turns into the tiniest, fluffiest dog

imagine that howling at the moon

[officialbluebeetle-deactivated2]

imagine

[verceri-deactivated20141109]

Truly a ferocious predator.

[verceri-deactivated20141109]

And lastly: (He’s the pack leader obviously)

[itsa-me-amelie]

the big wolves are his younger sisters

[formerprincewille]

Okay I’ve literally reblogged this prob a hundred times but it’s the best post ever so here we are again.

[thisguyknowswhatimtalkingabout]

this has over a million notes and ive n e v e r seen it before what corner of tumblr did this crawl out from?

[javocjovian]

I’ve been looking for this everywhere!!!

[asttralhell-deactivated20230530]

@thespooniewrites

[thespooniewrites]

I’VE BEEN WAITING SO LONG TO SEE THIS ON MY DASH AGAIN

[mysharona1987]

[ibelieveinturtles]

Get. Out. As soon as you can.

[thestanceyg]

So much this. I saw a lot of my health issues significantly lessen once I left my toxic job.

[aaliyahbreaux]

just started in a healthier environment & I feel so much better already

[cursedcatimages]

[smooththegoofyshark]

OP.. CHANGE YOUR URL OP

[hello-copter]

Sound. On.

[lauralot89]

Once, I encountered the funny story of an AI image descriptor with a sheep obsession. It had been trained on pictures of fields of sheep. Therefore, it tagged anything in a field as 'sheep', including an empty field, because they work on statistical probability. Therefore, it thinks "ah, a field! there's probably a sheep here." (It's a bit more complicated but basically that.) It also couldn't recognise sheep in places that weren't fields, such as petrol stations or barns. [cont]

Now, the alarming aspect of this story is that the very same technology is probably what tumblr is using to identify porn. Now, if it can’t tell that an empty field is not, in fact, full of sheep, what hope do we have that it can’t tell an empty room isn’t full of writing human forms engaged in passionate coitus?

this really does sound like an episode of black mirror

[architeuthism]

But wait, it’s even weirder than that!

[retroactivebakeries]

This is gonna produce some absolutely baffling pornography.

[crazy-pages]

…. oh my fucking god they actually are using open source software. They’re using a fucking one-layer unidirectional bicategory tag-trained neural network. This will never work. Literally, it will never work. There’s just not enough algorithmic complexity to do what they’re asking of it. I bet you I could prove on a mathematical level that this joke of a neural net fundamentally lacks the abstraction necessary to do its job.

This will never get better. Their algorithm will never stop fucking up, it will never actually flag porn reliably and it will always require a massive quantity of human hours to deal with the deluge of mistagged pictures. This isn’t just a case of an insufficiently trained algorithm, it’s just … this is the most basic neural network you can make. It probably hasa a lot of neurons and has loads of training data but like … you can’t just brute force this kind of stuff. One layer of neurons is just Not Enough.

[crazy-pages]

Also, just to make this clear, Tumblr lied. I mean, we already know this, but I mean they liiiieeeeed. All that stuff they promised about what would or would not be censored? That cannot be delivered on with a system this simple. Nude classical sculptures, political protests, male-presenting nipples (really Tumblr?), nude art outside the context of sex, all that? You cannot train a bicategory one-layer neural network to exclude those things. It cannot be done. Tumblr never intended for those things to actually be permitted, they were just lying. Because the system they have cannot actually do what they said it would and never will be able to.

Also, this kind of system is super vulnerable to counter-neural strategies. I bet you before the end of the month someone hooks up their own open source one layer bicategory neural network which puts an imperceptible (to humans) layer of patterned static over arbitrary images, and trains it by having it bot-post static-ed images to Tumblr and reinforcing based on whether the images are labeled nsfw or sfw. Seriously, within a month someone will have an input-output machine which can turn any image ‘sfw’ in Tumblr’s eyes.

This is genuinely pathetic. Like, I have real pity for whoever implemented this, because it’s clear Tumblr doesn’t actually have any engineers with any expertise with machine learning left at all and they foisted the job off on some poor bastard who has no idea what they’re doing and is going to get all kinds of flak for their (perfectly reasonable and predetermined) failure from management.

[mamoru]

[bitsow]

4800 players, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony Speedrun

[kaijuno]

its not even music anymore it’s just a shockwave that kills you instantly

[mikrokosmos]

Reblog if you want to be annihilated by the physics-defying supersonic Beethovenian explosion

[buippy-deactivated20210405]

Hero worship bad. Celebrity worship bad. Idol worship bad. Stranger on the internet worship bad

[buippy-deactivated20210405]

Soda good

[les-claypool-deactivated2017110]

Soda is probably worse for you than all of those things listed above and

[buippy-deactivated20210405]

Sip…sip….sup…sip…

[dauntlesse-deactivated20191126]

sorry but no im gonna worship florence and batman and my favorite harry potter characters and all my other inspirations until i draw my last breath

[buippy-deactivated20210405]

I’m gonna drink a soda

[ryu1964-deactivated20200806]

Can I Have some?

[buippy-deactivated20210405]

Here. Take some!

[ryu1964-deactivated20200806]

[buippy-deactivated20210405]

My soda.. my soda! My… soda…

Thirsty…

[ryu1964-deactivated20200806]

Shit I’ma Sorry, here you go

[30-minute-memes]

Staying Productive

[quadraxic-expression-deactivate]

HE CAN’T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT

[cobaltdays-deactivated20210208]

why they gotta do luigia like this :(

[commiepimp]

“Luigia”

[n-yks]

Mario’s lost sister luigia.

[taylortut]

this post is a fucking disaster

[fortethebard]

DM: *Describes any object or character with a bit too much detail.*

Players:

[justasadbpd]

[churrocrossing]

So my sister gave me this idea and I just…

[shortwave-audio]

STUART SEMPLE FOUND THE PINK NARC.

God this is the greatest art feud of our time.

Read the conditions of settlement. It’s gold.

[westborofaptist]

im dying

[typhlonectes]

[abomination-of-gender-deactivat]

someone: capitalism is a rational economic system

a bank: hi i noticed you don’t have any money in your account, so I’m going to charge you an additional $30 for not having any money

[escapismroom]

today I was wearing my “yes homo” shirt and some lady told me “you’re going to hell” and I replied with “with you existing, I’m already there” and I s2fg she made this exact face

[socialexecution]

IM LAUGHING

[captainsblogsupplemental]

[cher-locked]

This is so much funnier in light of the Discovery revelation that Klingons have two penises.

[captainsblogsupplemental]

Whoa now. Hold on. I do not remember that particular revelation. Can someone point me to this?

[keeper-of-the-flames]

One scene has Lorca tell a Klingon woman humans don’t have enough parts for mating with them, and another has a Klingon peeing on a wall and there’s two streams. So Discovery has made Klingons have two of their respective reproductive organs, essentially.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

I love how Worf is like “Humans would not want to make love with an alien being with two penises”  while Guinan is just like “So I take it they don’t have the internet or fanart on the Klingon homeworld…”

[keeper-of-the-flames]

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Guinan: (Opening up Archive of Our Own on a datapad) Worf I have some Earth Literature to show you that I think might change your mind about your dating options aboard this ship…

[keeper-of-the-flames]

Oh my gosh don’t scandalize the Klingon! What if there’s a battle they have to fight and he’s too embarrassed to fire a photon torpedo? Or what if he’s too excited and fires off a torpedo too early?

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

You raise a good point, when your at the controls to weapons that can blow up a starship that’s not a good time to be distracted by the time you just read O.O