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http://www.bingwright.com/ [mostly just mirroring this because his direct links to the images don't work well.]

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"Bruce had me up to three miles a day, really at a good pace. We’d run the three miles in twenty-one or twenty-two minutes. Just under eight minutes a mile. So this morning he said to me “We’re going to go five.” I said, “Bruce, I can’t go five. I’m a hell of a lot older than you are, and I can’t do five.” He said, “When we get to three, we’ll shift gears and it’s only two more and you’ll do it.” I said “Okay, hell, I’ll go for it.” So we get to three, we go into the fourth mile and I’m okay for three or four minutes, and then I really begin to give out. I’m tired, my heart’s pounding, I can’t go any more and so I say to him, “Bruce if I run any more,” - and we’re still running - “if I run any more I’m liable to have a heart attack and die.” He said, “Then die.” It made me so mad that I went the full five miles. Afterward I went to the shower and then I wanted to talk to him about it. I said, you know, “Why did you say that?” He said, “Because you might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.” John Little - The Art of Expressing The Human Body

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joy is working on processing 'till 4

[algopop]

[joshbyard]

Google’s Machine Learning Algorithms Outpacing Engineers’ Ability to Understand How they Work

“Google no longer understands how its “deep learning” decision-making computer systems have made themselves so good at recognizing things in photos.

What stunned [Google Software Engineer] Quoc V. Le is that the software has learned to pick out features in things like paper shredders that people can’t easily spot – you’ve seen one shredder, you’ve seen them all, practically. But not so for Google’s monster.

Many of Quoc’s pals had trouble identifying paper shredders when he showed them pictures of the machines, he said. The computer system has a greater success rate, and he isn’t quite sure how he could write a program to do this.

Google researchers can no longer explain exactly how the system has learned to spot certain objects, because the programming appears to think independently from its creators, and its complex cognitive processes are inscrutable. "

(via The Register ht algopop)

[dduane]

All those gigantic server farms… they’ve accidentally exceeded the critical synapse number, haven’t they.

Life is stirring in the depths…

[graceebooks]

#NO #ITS HAPPENING

[gabbytheferocious]

SKYNET

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obviously people are gonna make drama out of this, but this is perfectly natural. The whole point of machine learning algorithms is that the computer tries to write code to solve the problem by trial and error, the obvious result is that whatever comes out the other end is functional but intelligible to no one, because there was no thought process behind the coding in the first place, there's no order to it, its just what ended up working. Its a long way from recognizing office equipment to autonomously making decisions and forming opinions and such guys.

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Am I the only who wishes the Incredibles was a live action film? I just really want to watch Mr Incredible's actor cheese 80's car chase movie, when he was a debuting 'hunk', or maybe Frozone's stand up comedy special, and of course the unforgettable SNL episodes hosted by Edna...

[cigarettesandsunglasses]

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Just Like Anything

[ratak-monodosico]

INDIA. Varanasi’s eyes

© 2013 National Geographic Society. 

Gli occhi azzurri più belli d’Asia 

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from the Arrakis nat-geo special

[nickthejam]

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I love most of everything about louis, except for this: he actually thinks he has some outstanding amount of knowledge about life and world...

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Hey homestuck friend

Im sorry your homestuck got lightning'd by another homestuck. at least you'll always have the memory of when he godtiered on that beta stride troll.

xoxo

[justsomeantifas]

Poor people stay poor because they do arts degrees.

Sophomore Engineering Student (via shitrichcollegekidssay)

Poor people stay poor because other artists have allowed the industry to degrade to a level that people drastically undervalue art. In graphic arts, an independent artist typically makes below minimum wage. So many people take advantage of starting out and struggling artists, that they offer “exposure” as compensation. Or a hideously low rate. I have had people offer to pay me just $5/page for color work. And they saw nothing wrong with this offer. This is for something that I typically spend 4-6 hours per page on. And there are artists out there so desperate for ANY money, they will accept those offers. And thus perpetuate the idea that this is okay.

No, poor people aren’t poor because they take art degrees. They’re poor because there are entitled assholes who take advantage of them so they can turn a bigger profit.

Art is everywhere. Try to imagine a world without it. Without graphics. Without font design. Without logos. Everything done in the same, bland typefaces, with no images and no sense of color. Artists are more than people who sit and make pretty pictures. They are what gives companies an image, an identity. So why are they treated like the lowest possible rank?

(via sandpuppeteer)

Interesting. as a sophomore engineering student who opted against pursuing arts as a profession I'm oddly qualified to comment on this. (or try to. I just watched Breaking Bad, so my head isn't exactly working properly). So all through my youth I drew a lot and pursued various art interests but as I grew up I decided that art wasn't going to be my profession. besides the sensible "I don't wanna starve" and such, I had a more ideological reason for doing so is this: Art isn't work. It takes a lot of hard work to produce good art - I know. But it isn't work in the full sense of the word. And that is because as an artist I know that the main beneficiary of my art is me. it is a journey I take through my mind, my emotions, and ultimately it is the product of me experiencing myself. Sure art is relevant in a social context, but I don't believe you should expect to be able to fully support yourself with yours. And here even if you partially agree with me and think "ok, that's all well and good, but how is a society supposed to go about supply art for all the demand that a market generates?" and you're right, what I'm saying doesn't make sense in the context of a market economy. But that's not because I didn't give my idea any thought, its because the idea of a market economy is inherently broken and doesn't work in the context of human beings trying to live their lives and be happy. edit: there is no such thing as an entitled asshole sir, there is only the dog-eat-dog world.

[causingcoloradomischief]

[vaganja]

Always reblog.

[irregulargawd-deactivated202208]

Realist shit EVER

[genuinepleasure]

PREACH

[wildlyunlikelybabe]

mIND YOU, HE WAS ONLY LIKE 17 AT THE TIME.

[opalb0nes]

This. So many people in this generation don’t even know how to change a tire. Including myself.

[formerlyscissortits]

eternally germane.

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Damn right. Kids don't need elementary sets of knowledge like grammar and algebra, we gotta skip straight to the juicy polemic current events and their historical backgrounds, because not only are all kids into the humanities and social themes, not only will they all understand it without going through the basics first, but I have yet to go into a store and have the clerk NOT talk to me about apartheid and  various other social issues. For real though, Kids do need to hear about these issues. because they don't have access to that stuff at all, anywhere, ever in their lifetimes. except for college. I kid though, of course. and he's right about one thing: fuck gym. who needs exercise? not a nation with an obesity epidemic, that's for sure.

[cyborgkoala]

i want to take a moment to remind you of the word ‘gazebo’ 

[tretij-rebenok-archive]

And now, the weather.

[gabbytheferocious]

It’s too late for the weather. You’ve awakened the gazebo. It catches you and eats you.

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pfff no one needs to be reminded, I for one love gazebos, think about'em all the time. am I right?

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I’ve got 99 problems and my inability to self motivate is causing every single one of them.

[mymodernmet]

[ratak-monodosico]

Middle Class Problem is a hilarious Twitter account that retweets people complaining about “Real problems but not real actual problems, just middle class ones.”

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  there's no point in being irritated by people who complain about first world problems. There's a thing called a frame of reference. I live in mine, you live in yours. everyone measures their suffering against the spectrum defined by the worst suffering they've experienced and by the greatest pleasure they've experienced.   And so it makes no sense to belittle any kind of suffering, because to establish an absolute-value scale of measurement for suffering/pleasure you'd have to find the the greatest instance of human suffering that ever took place, and the same for pleasure. This 1) is impossible. 2) would render most of the experiences we are gonna live through for most of our lives very little intense by comparison and more than that, indistinguishable from each-other.

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it would appear that someone is just the tiniest bit butthurt

I can actually candidly confide in you, anon, that I am at my peak anal health.so much so that if you wanted to have an actual conversation with my anus about the games industry, it would be delighted.

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TUG!

hey I found this neat kickstarter, unfortunately the audio sucks, so here's a transcript to help out! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nerdkingdom/tug-1?ref=category Tug is a minecraft clone. and what that means is that the premise is exactly the same as minecraft's. our world is gonna be infinite, because it functions like minecraft. utilizing blocks is neat! blocky worlds are unique and dynamic, as you would know from playing minecraft.[she actually says "a game of this type"] CRAFTing system. neva eva seen dat tho! we like playing multiplayer minecraft. from the very outset, out mineclone focused on multiplayer aspects of minecraft. utilizing a bussiness model similar to the one used by mojang in their release of minecraft will probably work good! what we're trying to get is a huge fanbase like minecraft's. its in many ways a sandbox game, which is what we said it was gonna be. basically it has no obective which might remind you of minecraft. so far we've developed technology that's way better than 2010 technology, because now its 2013. we have countour in our world, because while blocks are great, I hate it when things look too blocky. it has caves just like goddamn fucking minefuckraft by developing a clone several years after the original we took the technological advancements that have taken place since then and made it way better. you won't have to wait for updates like minecraft! everything will be ready from the get-go! it has pretty non-blocky dudes! you grow up because growth is why we escape into video-games in the first place! we really liked it when minecraft got the temples and the more role-play-y things, so we're gonna have that too. nobody is gonna talk to you and there's gonna be no boring text, no! our game is much too cool for that, we're just gonna telepathically put the whole story in your head. the dudes wear touchscreen watches which is a thing that's actually gonna be comming out in real life in the next few years. we're naive game devs, we think everything is possible and that you care about everything. jk, we're just trying to get a kickstarter! /0/ I KNOW YOU WANNA BE FAT IN YOUR FAKE LIFE TOO I KNOW YOU DO. this is a minecraft clone, which means you make every decision. you got that right? its gonna have a reputation system or some shit. we're gonna use it to research you guys, we're scientists ( which is totally fashionable right now) we think that we're actually gonna have time and patience to listen to feedback (lol, jaykaying againg) minecraft still doesn't have a modding API! fuck that! we're gonna make one for ours! we want the cash now, we're not as passionate as notch, we don't wanna sit around waiting for a miracle. nothing we're doing is new or scary, I lied to you really hard just then. *poetic bullshit/big words* [on screen:] tug is minecraft tug is minecraft tug is minecraft tug is minecraft tug is minecraft tug is minecraft.