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Hello. I'm Miko. 24/German-Maltese/Queer/Tired

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videos that would be funny for humans from any time period ever

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So I looked this up and the whole story is wild.

Basically, market research for japanese bakeries determined that a) they sell more breads and pastries the more different varieties they have, and b) japanese bakery customers prefer items which are not wrapped, because individually wrapped things give the impression of being like, preserved or something instead of fresh and good I guess? So the obvious solution is to sell as many different kinds of unwrapped breads and pastries as you can.

But! In actual practice, that’s a nightmare. No packaging means no barcodes to scan, so the cashier needs to know all like 200 different (often very similar) items by heart and add them up manually, which means training new employees is a slow and painful process and customer service in general suffers badly. And having a person handle all those un-packaged foodstuffs to count them or examine them, in addition to being slow and clumsy, is unsanitary as fuck.

So one bakery chain owner approached this computer guy in 2007 asking for a system to automate the checkout process. It took five years and the company barely survived a financial crisis in the middle, but long story short they developed a highly specialized AI that will look at the pile of bread a customer picked out and automatically identify everything, tally it up, and charge them correctly, while the live cashier is free to make small talk or help people out or whatever. The whole process is simple, fast, sanitary, and pleasant for customers and employees alike, and to an outsider it looks like fucking magical bullshit.

But then in 2017 a doctor saw an ad for this bakery scanning system and it occurred to him that cells under a microscope don’t look all that different from weird loaves of bread. And it turns out that yeah, you can use almost all of the same code to analyze a tissue sample and pick out any potentially cancerous cells in it. Other people have started buying the same program for everything from analyzing the readout from big physics experiments to labeling charms and amulets for sale at shrines to detecting problems in the wiring on jet engines.

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oh so THAT’S the answer to why you need an ai that can tell croissants from bear claws. That actually makes sense.

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Sometimes, we make things greater than what we expected them to be. And all it takes to realise that is a random “what if..”

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This is Elladj Balde, a candadian former competitive figure skater!

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#literally me every time when i see nyx

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careful bro you’re making this sparring scene kinda homoerotic

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bro watch out you kinda sound like you’re flirting when we argue

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broooo i’m serious you’re making our esteemed rivalry look so gay oh my god

[miyajimamizy-deactivated2019020]

Read Haikyuu!! again and fell more in love with this lil bird <3 Who’s a normal college guy here.

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I know Haikyuu ended last July but there hasnt been a day since where I havent thought about the volleyball dumbass

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Grief is just love with no place to go.

– unknown // Art piece by Ikenaga Yasunari

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Pick a bottle any bottle lol

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I recently read an article about a therapy group for depressed people who had all attempted suicide at some point. The breakthrough question for them was, “If your goal was to be just as miserable as possible, what would you do?” Most of them listed things like not getting enough sleep, or isolating themselves from everyone… the list goes on, but the point is, they listed things they already do. But now they saw those “coping mechanisms” for what they really were: things that were actively making their condition worse.

I read that article at 2:00 AM, asked myself, am I TRYING to be miserable tomorrow? And it was easier than usual to put my phone down and fall asleep. Even my intrusive “lying down” thoughts about meaninglessness and existential dread were easier to suppress when I framed them as things I’d think about to purposefully make myself feel as awful as possible.

[crystalwitch-in-the-tardis]

Fuck that is helpful

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THERES SOME EDUCATION HERE BUT I THOUGHT YALL MIGHT WANNA SEE ME SUITED UP ILY

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HERE’S ONE ON FINGER TECHNIQUE

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🔫ON BUYING YOUR FIRST STRAP🔫

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👅ON WHAT DAT MOUTH DO👅

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apparently this is a thing in Japan too, and it gets translated as “Mundane Halloween.” There are so photos online and they’re all so good?????

“Person going to work on a windy day"

“Woman who’s having her bang cut but the hairdresser is nowhere to be found"

"Zookeeper in charge of the pandas"

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soft marble sculptures appreciation post.