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I have never witnessed something in my entire life that kept me so interested within a roller coaster of socio-economic company history and tax evasion schemes that really boiled down to the greatest personal conclusion of this manâs day.
No holy shit this is the greatest video ever seen in existence
The more he went on the more intriguing he became. And then by the end, I realized it really was the best video ever made.
i will always reblog grillquest
it was an honor being horny with you all
Some guy just mansplained space to an actual fucking astronaut.
Iâd turn around and explain to him what âSpontaneousâ means in a scientific context? Cause not only is he an asshole, heâs also technically and completely wrong.Â
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 canât tell that an empty field is not, in fact, full of sheep, what hope do we have that it canât tell an empty room isnât full of writing human forms engaged in passionate coitus?
this really does sound like an episode of black mirror
But wait, itâs even weirder than that!
This is gonna produce some absolutely baffling pornography.
âŠ. oh my fucking god they actually are using open source software. Theyâre using a fucking one-layer unidirectional bicategory tag-trained neural network. This will never work. Literally, it will never work. Thereâs just not enough algorithmic complexity to do what theyâre 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 isnât just a case of an insufficiently trained algorithm, itâs 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 canât just brute force this kind of stuff. One layer of neurons is just Not Enough.
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 âsfwâ in Tumblrâs eyes.
This is genuinely pathetic. Like, I have real pity for whoever implemented this, because itâs clear Tumblr doesnât 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 theyâre doing and is going to get all kinds of flak for their (perfectly reasonable and predetermined) failure from management.
@crazy-pages, can you link me to the software? Iâm curious about what stack theyâre using, as a Data Scientist myself. When you say âopen source softwareâ I hope youâre no talking about Tensorflow or Pytorch or the like, because thatâs fineâŠif their specific script and model are public, thoughâŠ
It gets even worse. It will not require hundreds of man-hours to deal with the backlog.
Because the review team is another net, and Iâd bet cash money itâs another copy of the same software.
That imperceptible static trick? I did basically that. Both copies got flagged by the initial censorbot.
One copy, the less justifiable one by tumblrâs stated rules, was approved. The other was not.
Someone pointed me to another blog - I forget the name - that posts the same picture every day, and was getting similar results. Inconsistency in both flags and reviews.
And thatâs never going to get better either.
But the pornbots have learned to use non-sexual keywords and tag #sfw already, so thereâs that.
Hold the fucking phone. I just had to scroll back up through, like, 9 pages of dash to find this again because I realized something.
This is why theyâre letting written smut go. Not because of laws, or because they considered it more tasteful. You could WRITE just about ANY nsfw shit you want, that contains whatever questionable content, thatâs somehow more âokayâ on their âfamily friendlyâ platform?
No, written erotica is allowed because their garbage, single-layered software couldnât possibly be trained to do ANYTHING even REMOTELY coherent with text. This literally is a case of âFuck, we canât police this, letâs pretend we donât want toâ
WAIT HOLD ON
Have we come full circle? Do the rules make it illegal to post a picture of the Venus De Milo?
This is an artistic work displaying female presenting nipples so like.
Technically against the rules? Are we banning historical art again/still? Cause in the most âfuck, this may as WELL happenâ way, that would rule
Iâm not leaving tumblr until itâs literally unusable because
A better, more positive Tumblr
Since its founding in 2007, Tumblr has always been a place for wide open, creative self-expression at the heart of community and culture. To borrow from our founder David Karp, weâre proud to have inspired a generation of artists, writers, creators, curators, and crusaders to redefine our culture and to help empower individuality.
Over the past several months, and inspired by our storied past, weâve given serious thought to who we want to be to our community moving forward and have been hard at work laying the foundation for a better Tumblr. Weâve realized that in order to continue to fulfill our promise and place in culture, especially as it evolves, we must change. Some of that change began with fostering more constructive dialogue among our community members. Today, weâre taking another step by no longer allowing adult content, including explicit sexual content and nudity (with some exceptions). Â
Letâs first be unequivocal about something that should not be confused with todayâs policy change: posting anything that is harmful to minors, including child pornography, is abhorrent and has no place in our community. Weâve always had and always will have a zero tolerance policy for this type of content. To this end, we continuously invest in the enforcement of this policy, including industry-standard machine monitoring, a growing team of human moderators, and user tools that make it easy to report abuse. We also closely partner with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Internet Watch Foundation, two invaluable organizations at the forefront of protecting our children from abuse, and through these partnerships we report violations of this policy to law enforcement authorities. We can never prevent all bad actors from attempting to abuse our platform, but we make it our highest priority to keep the community as safe as possible.
So what is changing?
Posts that contain adult content will no longer be allowed on Tumblr, and weâve updated our Community Guidelines to reflect this policy change. We recognize Tumblr is also a place to speak freely about topics like art, sex positivity, your relationships, your sexuality, and your personal journey. We want to make sure that we continue to foster this type of diversity of expression in the community, so our new policy strives to strike a balance.
Why are we doing this?
It is our continued, humble aspiration that Tumblr be a safe place for creative expression, self-discovery, and a deep sense of community. As Tumblr continues to grow and evolve, and our understanding of our impact on our world becomes clearer, we have a responsibility to consider that impact across different age groups, demographics, cultures, and mindsets. We spent considerable time weighing the pros and cons of expression in the community that includes adult content. In doing so, it became clear that without this content we have the opportunity to create a place where more people feel comfortable expressing themselves.
Bottom line: There are no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content. We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community.
So whatâs next?
Starting December 17, 2018, we will begin enforcing this new policy. Community members with content that is no longer permitted on Tumblr will get a heads up from us in advance and steps they can take to appeal or preserve their content outside the community if they so choose. All changes wonât happen overnight as something of this complexity takes time.
Another thing, filtering this type of content versus say, a political protest with nudity or the statue of David, is not simple at scale. Weâre relying on automated tools to identify adult content and humans to help train and keep our systems in check. We know there will be mistakes, but weâve done our best to create and enforce a policy that acknowledges the breadth of expression we see in the community.
Most importantly, weâre going to be as transparent as possible with you about the decisions weâre making and resources available to you, including more detailed information, product enhancements, and more content moderators to interface directly with the community and content.
Like you, we love Tumblr and what itâs come to mean for millions of people around the world. Our actions are out of love and hope for our community. We wonât always get this right, especially in the beginning, but we are determined to make your experience a positive one.
Jeff DâOnofrio CEO
Shouldâve done the bare minimum to keep all the CP and pornbots off your site in the first fuckin place instead of banning absolutely everything nsfw from you goddamn website in a kneejerk reaction to getting yelled at by Apple, you goddamn morons.
This is what Iâve been saying.
Capitalism crushes labor.
Japan has a bara maid cafe and im typing this from the airport
IF YOU ORDER A CAN OF BEER, THE WAITER WILL POUR IT FOR YOU AND THEN CRUSH THE CAN
FOR $27 YOU CAN ORDER THEÂ âWALL OF MEAT,â WHERE THEY STAND AROUND YOU AND RUN AROUND IN A CIRCLE WHILE FLEXING THEIR MUSCLES
WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE
gettin real sick of having to reblog from the source because you people canât keep a fucking lid on your politics long enough to appreciate a freaking bara maid cafe.
what the fuck was in the reblogs
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a place to put in my bucket list
ABSOLUTE WARNING, REBLOG THIS ASAP.
this is a bit of an emergency BAD NEWS AHEAD If you use Tumblr, backup your stuff right now and make a post redirecting your followers to another account, Twitter or something like that Apple removed Tumblr from the App Store because their porn bot problem got too big, and they donât allow explicit NSFW apps Tumblr, like the galaxy-brained geniuses they are, are going on a spree and deleting lots of NSFW blogs Even famous artists like cutesexyrobots and eigaka got their blogs purged, so ACT QUICK
@eemamminy
Blogs arent getting deleted on purpose and yall need to stop starting mass panick literally right now cause its annoying
So hey. Try spreading this to your purged friends.
Tell them to contact tumblr.
And get their blogs back.
OhâŠ
While this blog is SFW, Iâve got lots of friends who do NSFW art (because hey weâre adults we enjoy smut and stuff). So please calm down and take the proper steps; if your blog gets deleted, contact Tumblr staff and get it back.
Commission series of a few Steven Universe OCs đđ
Some truly beautiful art of a few characters who mean a lot to me.
âA British bookshop chain held a vote to find the countryâs favourite book. It was The Lord of the Rings. Another one not long afterwards, held this time to find the favourite author, came up with J.R.R. Tolkien. The critics carped, which was expected but nevertheless strange. After all, the bookshops were merely using the word favourite. Thatâs a very personal word. No one ever said it was a synonym for best. But a criticâs chorus hailed the results as a terrible indictment of the taste of the British public, whoâd been given the precious gift of democracy and were wasting it on quite unsuitable choices. There were hints of a conspiracy amongst the furry-footed fans. But there was another message, too. It ran: âLook, weâve been trying to tell you for years which books are good! And you just donât listen! Youâre not listening now! Youâre just going out there and buying this damn book! And the worst part is that we canât stop you! We can tell you itâs rubbish, itâs not relevant, itâs the worst kind of escapism, it was written by an author who never came to our parties and didnât care what we thought, but unfortunately the law allows you to go on not listening! You are stupid, stupid, stupid!â And once again, no one listened. Instead, a couple of years later, a national newspaperâs Millennium Masterworks poll produced five works of what could loosely be called ânarrative fictionâ among the top fifty âmasterworksâ of the last thousand years, and, yes, there was The Lord of the Rings again.â
â Terry Pratchett, âCult Classicâ (A Slip of the Keyboard) (Still burning mad that at least one critic did the same exact kind of carping about Pratchettâs body of work being praised by its fans, shortly after his death.)
I stumbled on an article last night where some douche was ranting about how mad he was that, in the wake of Terryâs death, people were mourning and calling him a great writer when they should have been reading something sublime like Bukowski.
In the first paragraph he said heâd never read anything by Pratchett and never intended to, which is pretty typical of that kind of angry elitism.
As someone who has been deeply impacted by Terryâs ideas about character and storytelling, that article made me so mad. Livid. Terry Pratchett levels of righteous fury.
Can I tell you how happy and unsurprised I am that Terry himself wrote such a lovely takedown of that snobbish, splainy mentality.
A thing being popular doesnât automatically make it bad, and fantastic elements donât make a work of literature into not-literature.
Can we please talk about how everytime Kris experiences an extremely buck wild character interaction, afterwards they automatically face towards the screen to [you] the player as if staring at a camera in The Office
Deltarune is already a big enough shitpost this canât be a coincidence.
Demonstrators gathered outside the U.S. consulate with American flags and signs with messages such as "no one is above the law."
A Vancouver demonstration in support of special counsel Robert Mueller drew about 50 U.S. citizens and supporters on Thursday evening.
Demonstrators gathered outside the U.S. consulate at 1075 West Pender St., some wearing American flags and others toting signs with messages such as âno one is above the law.â
â[Iâm here] to stop essentially lawlessness and the loss of the rule of law,â one demonstrator told Global News.
âI think itâs paramount to the solidity of American institutional existence, democracy itself.â
Billed as an âemergency protest,â event organizers Democrats Abroad and Moveon.org described it as a demonstration against U.S. President Donald Trumpâs âsabotage of the Mueller investigation.â
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plot twist: the introverted character who doesnât like big social gatherings or speaking in front of people is still an introvert by the end of the story because introversion is not a character flaw and it doesnât need to be overcomeÂ
Look, Iâll go on your stupid adventure, but you better leave me the fuck alone when we get back.Â
Bilbo Baggins.
NOT A GOOD EXAMPLE HE WAS SO INTROVERTED HE USED A CURSED OBJECT TO GET AWAY FROM PEOPLE
are u kidding excellent example 100% relatable big mood
Fanon Bakugou: incredibly beautiful boy, the heart throb of UA, a tsundere
Canon Bakugou: a sweaty palmed 15-year-old jackass with anger issues and a scary face who everyone wishes would just chill
So basically the cylinder that science has used as THE kilogram since 1889 has been losing microscopic weight, like a few billionths of a kilogram. What scientists plan to do is instead of having a physical object set the standard for how much a kilogram weighs, theyâre going to express it in terms of Planckâs Constant, a fundamental constant in quantum physics as unchanging as the speed of light in a vacuum. By dividing Planckâs Constant by the Meter and the Second (both already defined by fundamental constants), you get an insanely small weight. Multiply that by a big enough number and you get one kilogram!
So instead of measuring all weights against an object that can change, the kilogram is defined by unchanging physical constants and pure math.
Gotcha. I was sitting here thinking âokay so this isnt actually saying a gram is not a gram anymore since weight and mass are not synonymous, so maybe the earths gravity has changed slightly which makes a mass weigh slightly different than it used to????â Like I was really trying to figure out wtf was going on here. I never knew mass was measured in relation to a physical object⊠who tf thought that was a good idea???
Well, originally the Meter was also a physical object, because we didnât have a good way of saying how much a Kilo was, because...well, what is it? Now we have Plancks/m/s, apparently, which is actually a CONSTANT, but before we had a metal stick, and a metal weight, for the Meter and the Kilo. We replaced the meter with âDistance Light Travels in a Vacuum in X fraction of a secondâ...but how long is a second? Weâve got an answer NOW, based on the decomposition of a specific radioactive isotope, essentially measuring half-life, but backwards. But at a time, the Second, Meter, and Kilo were ALL based on real, physical objects, and itâs actually a huge deal that weâre finally getting rid of the last of those and have calculable constants to calibrate from
