W.

Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

[gleeandgleek]

[juicyfruitburger-deactivated201]

Today is Harry Potter’s birthday—as well as J.K. Rowling’s birthday. Happy birthday to them both! I would like to take a moment and thank Jo for saving my life. Before I escaped into the magical world she created, depression had me in its grip. I was suicidal. I was at rock bottom. To state the...

[whitneymhoward-blog]

23:04

the moment when you feel like crying

but you just can’t because you don’t wanna feel weak

but you feel like going to a very high place

and just scream

[dundrmifflin]

[whitneymhoward-blog]

@Draven_12

Last week, I may have gone too far. I’ll explain it quickly. Basically, I found out where he gets his clothes dry-cleaned. Custom ordered the same suit, made with tear-away velcro. And… you can fill in the rest.

[incidentalcomics]

Conflict in Literature

[myserendipities]

Eugene Goostman seems like a typical 13-year-old Ukrainian boy — at least, that’s what a third of judges at a Turing Test competition this Saturday thought. Goostman says that he likes hamburgers and candy and that his father is a gynecologist, but it’s all a lie. This boy is a program created by computer engineers led by Russian Vladimir Veselov and Ukrainian Eugene Demchenko. That a third of judges were convinced that Goostman was a human is significant — at least 30 percent of judges must be swayed for a computer to pass the famous Turing Test. The test, created by legendary computer scientist Alan Turing in 1950, was designed to answer the question “Can machines think?” and is a well-known staple of artificial intelligence studies. Goostman passed the test at the Turing Test 2014 competition in London on Saturday, and the event’s organizers at the University of Reading say it’s the first computer to succeed. Professor Kevin Warwick, a visiting professor at the university, noted in a release that “some will claim that the Test has already been passed.” He added that “the words Turing Test have been applied to similar competitions around the world,” but “this event involved the most simultaneous comparison tests than ever before, was independently verified and, crucially, the conversations were unrestricted.” The program nearly passed the test back in 2012, when 29 percent of judges at another competition decided that it was a human. Despite the achievement, the results are far from conclusive and they do not mean that the machines are taking over the world — no matter what you read on the internet. The program is scripted with a personality that likely assisted in convincing judges, and it is not the artificial intelligence you know from sci-fi movies. This is no HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey. For instance, the Turing Test doesn’t hinge on whether the computer’s responses are correct or not — it only involves the “humanness” of its answers. The test is carried out over a text chat. Goostman’s “age” may have also helped it pass the test. As Veselov notes, “Our main idea was that he can claim that he knows anything, but his age also makes it perfectly reasonable that he doesn’t know everything.”

[self-ownership-deactivated20160]

I miss "Not Penny's boat" picture :(

[thursday]

[iraffiruse]

[whitneymhoward-blog]

I commented about Dirty Wars on tvtag

“A must see documentary. A patriot should keep his government in check. Not the other way around.”

Join the Conversation

[uneamiedelabc]

[whitneymhoward-blog]

Sunflowers - Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet, Gustave Klimt & Gustave Caillebotte

[whitneymhoward-blog]

If you read me

If you read me as I am,

Would you fear

Or would you love?

If you turned my stained pages

Cover to tattered cover,

Would you hold me or

Would you run?

If your eyes did caress 

My weary words,

Would you close me up

And put me down

Or would you want to

Read forever?

[whitneymhoward-blog]

We don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.

[onceuponaswanqueen]

[whitneymhoward-blog]

I’m just not the right girl to be needed. No one should need me. No one should want me to stick around. It’s not because I cannot reciprocate or give consistency. I am not the right girl to give acceptance or compromise. But maybe you could just call that immaturity. And how dare I.

[bibliophilefiles-deactivated202]

I must have books everywhere. They are the soul of a room - they reveal the taste, the interests and the secrets of whoever lives there.

Diane von Furstenberg (via rainysundaysandcoffee)

[stupidfuckingquestions]

[fuckonthis]

this is so important.

you fucking asshole.