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| Topic | AirBnb is offering an all expense paid scientific sabbatical trip in Antarctica. |
| Sad_Face 09/26/19 10:04:38 AM #2 | Reminds me of anime, A Place Further than the Universe. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | Would you rather live in Antarctica or the North Pole? |
| Sad_Face 09/26/19 10:03:14 AM #3 | Are you talking about Greenland or Alaska? I'll go there. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | 20 y/o Girl MARRIES her SUGAR DADDY!! Is She Hot?? |
| Sad_Face 09/26/19 10:00:43 AM #18 | "I was living in Kansas and was an 18 y/o student searching for more perspective on life when i joined the website." lol oh please there's no need to butter it up. Zikten posted... Girl: she is no super model but she's cute in an earthy kinda way. she's certainly not ugly Is she $4K per date cute? Come on now. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | Bitcoin dropping below 9k |
| Sad_Face 09/26/19 3:00:14 AM #28 | MACisBack posted... LMFAO, I'm ded from watching. Thanks for making me laugh in the morning Sad_Face! No problem. Hanky_Bannister posted... what is with that dudes face?? And that's one of the Bogdanoff twins. They're a couple of French billionaires who bought their way into getting Ph.D.s in Math and Physics are into Alien conspiracies, science TV shows and bunch of other junk. They really worked their faces so 4chan just rolled with it for a bunch of memes. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | A transgender man who gives birth is a mother, U.K. court rules |
| Sad_Face 09/26/19 12:13:46 AM #119 | This is some next level arrogance that someone who gave birth to a kid is trying to register as the Father and not the mother. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | I just got a job offer for $450k yearly, $30k signing bonus, full benefits |
| Sad_Face 09/24/19 8:00:08 PM #46 | DarkRoast posted... Dude. Hey man, there's nothing wrong with celebrating a win. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | Bitcoin dropping below 9k |
| Sad_Face 09/24/19 6:18:29 PM #19 | Kombucha posted... I'm super surprised it went up to 9K. Wasn't it like 3K a year ago? Was at 3K this past January, went up to 14K sometime in the summer, and is projected to hit 16K next month. Disclaimer: I don't own any BTC. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | Bitcoin dropping below 9k |
| Sad_Face 09/24/19 6:14:52 PM #10 | I suppose this is relevant.  --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | 19 year old boy has lungs of a 60 year old lifelong chain smoker due to vaping. |
| Sad_Face 09/24/19 12:45:15 PM #46 | DanHaren2019 posted... I will put together a comprehensive topic about vaping and it's dangers in the upcoming weeks. It's a topic I'm doing a grand rounds on at the hospital, and I'm a Pulmonologist so I'm qualified to talk about it. So stay tuned, I'm starting the research soon. Will your research address this? F1areaGaman posted... He vaped THC, which means some idiot (not a professional) made it. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | Andrew Yang is the first politician in many years I support without cynicism |
| Sad_Face 09/24/19 10:36:26 AM #34 | joe40001 posted... I'm all on the yang gang, I just don't think I've ever heard of him talking about this small contracts crypto thing He has only talked about automation in the broadest sense. Not the mechanism behind the automation, smart contracts. People mostly think of robots replacing jobs, but this is the true job killer. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | Andrew Yang is the first politician in many years I support without cynicism |
| Sad_Face 09/24/19 9:53:47 AM #32 | joe40001 posted... Does yang talk about this somewhere? He caught my attention talking about automation in the Joe Rogan interview, but it's nowhere near as indepth as my post (and mine only scratches the surface). And I can tell he's aware given how he also accepts crypto as donations for his campaign. This is why I've disregarded virtually all the other candidates. They have no clue what's coming and are going to get blindsided by one of the worst recessions combined with a complete disruption of the current financial system and a replacement of the US dollar as the world reserve currency. At that point, you might as well keep Trump in and let him become the scapegoat (Trump's policies did this!) for our financially illiterate and risk adverse folks to point fingers at while those of us that have done the research and taken steps to hedge against the fall smirk Burgessly. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | 43 percent of white harvard students used a special admissions dispensation |
| Sad_Face 09/24/19 9:42:01 AM #32 | s0nicfan posted... If you look at their analysis of what admissions would look like with "preferences removed", but keeping affirmative action, black students in every category would see admissions rates twice that of white students. How many black students are applying in the first place? I haven't been in college since 2013, but I went to a high ranked school and I was one of the 2 black guys in my major, if you combine 2 class years. The school was still dominated by white folks in undergrad, and grad school was even more dominated by Indians and Asians. Mind you, this is an engineering school, you HAVE to do some discrimination if you want a balanced gender ratio at the very least. And this is important for a good school atmosphere. At one engineering school a friend of mine went to, it's was something like 8:2 in favor of boys. The women there, regardless of their looks, were treated like queens and acted so due to the sheer amount of attention they got. Do you really want to spend your 4 years in that kind of world? --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | Andrew Yang is the first politician in many years I support without cynicism |
| Sad_Face 09/24/19 9:27:32 AM #28 | tremain07 posted... He's full of s*** and his policies are just as much of a lie as Trump's were and Obama's and Bush's he's there for the rich dicks like every other politician but unlike them, Yang is not known in the big business world, he thinks by appealing to losers and failures with free money they'll definitely never see he can get a win, he thinks by being the anti SJW, PC guy he can win, he's just another meme candidate like Ron Paul was I implore you to research on the benefits of blockchain tech. One of the big breakthroughs of that field is smart contracts, where you can program a contract that will automate and execute based on an event that happens. If X, then Y. There are so many jobs that are based around verifying if "X" happened, if a payment went through (i.e. financial departments in every company or government office), if a vote was genuine for an election. Then on the flipside, there's a lot of work put into making sure Y happens or looking for partners who will do as they say. Back during Irma and Maria, there were a number of insurance companies that weaseled their way out of paying for the damages for the homes that were signed under them. Smart contracts will automate ALL of this, completely stripping any human entity other than who is getting paid and from who. There literally won't be enough jobs available when the Fourth Industrial Revolution arrives in full force. Yang knows this and has acknowledged this revolution. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | It's kind of annoying at how sexist Naruto is [Shippuden Spoilers up to e66] |
| Sad_Face 09/24/19 2:06:37 AM #9 | Kishimoto isn't sexist, he just has a hard time writing women well. Remember, he's a shonen author, he's writing to appeal to boys. Quite a few authors have that problem, particularly the Death Note author, Ohba. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | Amber Guyger trial live (police shooting of man in his own home) |
| Sad_Face 09/23/19 10:53:37 AM #9 | Based on the OP, I expect her to get convicted of manslaughter at the minimum. metallica846 posted... Wasn't his door ajar when she went in? Who leaves their door just open? I have a dog so I leave my door open time to time so he can waltz in and out. For an apartment, never happened to me but perhaps he forgot to close it shut. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | brain has burnt out. guess im just waiting to die now |
| Sad_Face 09/23/19 10:38:42 AM #13 | Focus your time and energy into finding something you'd enjoy and can spend your hours on. Since I've graduated from college, I've jumped so many fields looking for a job I wanted to do. That ranged from Bioinformatics (quit the first day and consequently left the US for the lack of money), radio broadcasting, to chip manufacturing, to cooking, and then to cube farm. And inbetween I constantly tried out new projects like computer graphics (the technical side, not the fun side unfortunately), to machine learning, and now crypto! I plan on looking into learning the language Solidity since smart contracts are the future and will automate so many jobs in the near future and there will be a need for blockchain engineers. The point is, you gotta keep trying new things and keep pushing yourself forward to find something suitable that you'd be willing burn all your time on. I have Chainlink since I'm smitten with the idea of the reinvention of a contract and the creation of a trustless environment where I wouldn't get screwed over as a cook by a lazy manager who couldn't be bothered to read over the timesheets to give me my fair pay. You need to find yours. I'd recommend you check out Creativity by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi to start somewhere. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | So my godfather's wife is divorcing him because he works too much |
| Sad_Face 09/23/19 10:16:52 AM #77 | My dad works long hours and has 3 jobs as a doctor. Fortunately, my mom is a nurse and works with him at his practice. What a solution to the working long hours problem. Now where's the damn chart? --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | 6 year old arrested for throwing a tantrum... |
| Sad_Face 09/22/19 7:32:13 PM #71 | cardoor123 posted... This is a GOOD thing. It's a shame that this doesn't happen to disruptive kids more often. I am willing to bet that this incident will scare that child shitless and will prevent them from being disruptive again in the near future. I'm sure the cops thought the same. But what's more likely to happen is that the lesson the kid will learn is that cops are not to be trusted and are pigs. Let's hope she doesn't lash out during her rebellious teen years because of this complete breach of trust. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | Maine woman exposes neonazi, white supremacist group, ends up without job |
| Sad_Face 09/21/19 4:20:36 PM #59 | Ruvan22 posted... While I agree that working to befriend somebody who espouses hateful views is an awesome thing (Daryl Davis is a saint!), I think you are missing what most people in this thread are referencing by "vacuum". It's not that a person sits in an isolation box all their life and are suddenly a Nazi (maybe a few do), as much as they isolate from most mainstream activities and then (or at the same time) starts to seek out other isolated individuals. This often leads to a "Oh I kind of vaguely thought about Jews control XYZ, I didn't know others thought the same thing!" moment and they seek out more of the similar thinking crowd to reaffirm the thoughts they've been ruminating on. That's my concern, I want to know what they are seeing that makes them think such a way. There has to be some external force that reinforces their beliefs. If you want to convince someone otherwise you have to refute their points. In the history of mankind, no one has ever been convinced by the argument of "Shut the **** up". If anything, it'll come back to haunt you guys next year for the 2020 election. Just like it happened in 2016. Shaming and silencing didn't work back then, why would it work now? Also note that we're super close to a global recession given how Euro banks are now charging a negative interest rate for folks holding their money in their care. And the Fourth Industrial Revolution is gonna be cranking in full gear. With the nation still as divided as ever without the spotlight focusing on the major threats, 2020 is gonna be a doozy. Given how I might get modded for a 3rd time, I'll say you guys should buy chainlink. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | Maine woman exposes neonazi, white supremacist group, ends up without job |
| Sad_Face 09/21/19 4:17:48 AM #53 | ChocoboMog123 posted... Shaming these beliefs, removing their platforms, challenging them at their core works. These aren't rational beliefs created through momentary economic hardships, these are radical irrational beliefs being reinforced through echo chambers and literal propaganda. If these people want to be welcomed into greater society, they need to reevaluate themselves and show change, we cannot stand for people who think the Earth is literally flat, climate change is a hoax, that it's fine to throw children in cages, or that it's fine to use public office for private gain. I will agree that people are influenced by tribalism but no I still disagree that these opinions can form in a vacuum. It has to come from somewhere. No one is born racist or born believing in stereotypes. And that bolded part is what I've been saying from the get go. You can't challenge someone without starting a dialogue with them. So you have to let them speak. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | Maine woman exposes neonazi, white supremacist group, ends up without job |
| Sad_Face 09/21/19 1:25:41 AM #39 | @RickyTheBAWSE posted... at least stand by your beliefs, lmao What am I supposed to say when I'm getting modded for saying we should let them speak and open a dialogue while everyone else is saying I'm wrong and that we should kill them off? We came from the first black president of the US to an openly racist and kid's cartoon like villain of an orange president with a nation that has never been more divided in the recent years. And yet you guys say this white supremacy rise came from a vacuum. That can't be. Clearly something has to have changed in culture, in the dynamics of this world for this to come about. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | Maine woman exposes neonazi, white supremacist group, ends up without job |
| Sad_Face 09/20/19 11:42:14 PM #26 | ScazarMeltex posted... Plenty of people are exposed to those exact same things and don't become Neo-nazis. The onus is on them to not call for the death and disenfranchisement of minorites, not on me to dialogue with them and address their concerns. The only good nazi is a dead one. But here's the thing, trying to silence them isn't going to change their beliefs but on the contrary it'll only reinforce them. This has been going on for years and it's gotten worse. If Nazishaming them didn't work 3 years ago, why would it work now? --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | White Man who's 4% Black says he DESERVES to have ALL BENEFITS as Black People!! |
| Sad_Face 09/20/19 11:37:44 PM #13 | Full Throttle posted... He didn't stop there as he told HuffPost that he believes in "affirmative action", a set of laws that support minority groups that have been discriminated against and shouldn't be focused on race and instead should take a look at socioeconomics because in his words, "we are all multiracial" I don't see why we shouldn't place more of a focus on socioeconomics. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | Maine woman exposes neonazi, white supremacist group, ends up without job |
| Sad_Face 09/20/19 11:32:19 PM #22 | Duncanwii posted... When they stop calling for the death and disenfranchisement of minorities. slimfizzle4 posted... When they start stopping acting like Nazi's? Their beliefs don't form in a vacuum. They're formed as a response to what they see in society today. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | Maine woman exposes neonazi, white supremacist group, ends up without job |
| Sad_Face 09/20/19 11:20:05 PM #17 | At what point do we stop calling them nazis and start having a dialogue to address their grievances? --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | $20 million now or $3k a day for life |
| Sad_Face 09/20/19 11:18:49 AM #59 | PerseusRad posted... The OP states that the 3k a day is adjusted for inflation, by the way. Damnit this is cheating. Still, I'd take the 20 mill since I've done my research and know I'd be throwing my money at --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | $20 million now or $3k a day for life |
| Sad_Face 09/20/19 10:09:53 AM #45 | I know exactly where to throw my money at with $20 million. In fact, I'd take $5 million and let you guys go with the rest (okay not really). The $3K a day option is a terrible idea. The purchasing power of $3000 in 2019 is worth less than the purchasing power of $3000 in 2009, which is worth less than the purchasing power of $3000 in 1999. Inflation is going to devalue your wealth. So take the lump sum one time and learn to invest and maintain your wealth. And with the Fourth Industrial Revolution coming, every nation is researching Distributed Ledger tech (blockchain and the like) to back a new stablecoin that would be the new world reserve currency. If one rises and is hopefully not Facebook's libra coin, the US dollar could very well collapse in value. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | Dave Chappelle on Abortion If you can kill them I can at least abandon him |
| Sad_Face 09/20/19 10:02:29 AM #40 | Abortion is such a touchy subject. If the kid is born, you're doing not only an injustice to the kid but also the community he lives in if you're (assuming you're the father) not there to help raise him and there's no father figure in his life. A mother can't be a replacement for a father. On the flipside, a woman having a kid she doesn't want or can't have can be detrimental to her physical health at worst or create an unwanted kid in an unloved home, more problems for the community. It's a complex subject that has no easy answers. But this "My body, my rights" line being paraded does no favors. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | why do girls romanticize traveling so much? |
| Sad_Face 09/19/19 9:59:17 AM #34 | Jagr_68 posted... emblem boy posted...https://moretothat.com/travel-is-no-cure-for-the-mind/ This certainly puts things into perspective. Didn't realize a lot of people travel to find happiness. I don't ever travel, but I plan on starting after I get my returns and really I just want to enjoy some solitude. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | Lifetime has a movie about a 30 year old that sneaks back into highschool life |
| Sad_Face 09/18/19 11:52:11 PM #44 | I got halfway through the trailer before shutting it down. Way too creepy. I'd ask why she didn't just become a teacher, but she'll get busted for statutory rape either which way. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | Hasbro Debuts New Monopoly Game Where Women Make More Than Men |
| Sad_Face 09/18/19 10:14:25 PM #32 | Caelthus posted... Strapon posted..., players will invest in inventions created by women things like Wi-FiThat's...not even true, though? A quick check on Wiki and then the scientists' names on DuckDuckGo seem to deconfirm this. https://www.thoughtco.com/who-invented-wifi-1992663 I'm curious as to what they mean by bringing up Wi-Fi here. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | smfh @ Andrew Yang pandering to the anime weaboo voters |
| Sad_Face 09/18/19 1:56:57 PM #3 | Yang got my attention from his Rogan interview and he has my full support from when I heard about him mentioning the Fourth Industrial Revolution. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | Is it shameful to be a thot IYO? |
| Sad_Face 09/18/19 1:32:21 PM #29 | If I had a daughter and found out she was selling photos of her showing off her ass or boobs on instagram/patreon/whatever, I'd be teetering on the line of throwing her into a volcano. I've put a lot of effort into acquiring knowledge and skills to find opportunities to make a living. I hope that, if I have kids, I'll pass on the same teachings of always being willing to learn and better yourself with each new opportunity. For her to be 2 steps away from full on prostituting herself, that's something any girl can do regardless of her looks and would be a failure on my part. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | U.S. abortion rates at lowest level since Roe v. Wade |
| Sad_Face 09/18/19 9:34:44 AM #8 | Wewillrocku posted... i wonder why Culture. But it's more than likely the sheer size of the population. Though I'd like to see Texas' Abortion clinic count. In any case, though the the data they're working with are pretty old, 2017 the newest, I'd imagine the general trend of less people being sexually active has a lot to do with things. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | U.S. abortion rates at lowest level since Roe v. Wade |
| Sad_Face 09/18/19 9:31:00 AM #4 | While every state in the United States is home to an abortion clinic, five North Dakota, Kentucky, Mississippi, West Virginia and Kansas have only one. In contrast, California has 161, the most in the nation; New York, 113; Florida, 65; and New Jersey, 41. This made me laugh. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | "Playing with stocks is essentially gambling" |
| Sad_Face 09/18/19 12:33:23 AM #17 | Kolibri X posted... If you're doing short term trading with the hope of making a quick buck it is absolutely akin to gambling. I have a friend who got into Crypto and in the first week he became a successful swing trader and his predictions have all come true. It's not gambling. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | Will automation bring more poverty? |
| Sad_Face 09/17/19 2:33:53 PM #9 | Absolutely. One of the biggest inventions of the coming 4th Industrial Revolution is the reinvention of the contract, i.e. the Smart contract. This already exists thanks to the Ethereum Blockchain, but the problem is that smart contracts reside only within the blockchain but still needs data from the real world. Data sent to the blockchain needs to be secure and reliable. If there's a possibility of it being tampered or corrupted in any way, then you completely obliterate the point of using blockchain tech. Enter, oracles, these solve the problem of sending reliable data to the blockchain. Chainlink is the current leader as it runs a decentralized oracle network for blockchains, essentially acting as the blockchain's HTTPS variant. Now back to Smart contracts. When they come out in full force, they'll completely change the way you do business as it creates a "trustless environment". Currently we can make promises that we know we can weasel our way out of. In a trustless environment, that's not possible. Say you are running a record deal for some band and you tell them they will get X percentage for every sale they make or for how long their singles remain in the top 10 of the billboards. With smart contracts, you can set up the revenue streams to send money to their account according to those specifications, using API data of their sales, or API data of the billboard rankings. All automated with no extra 3rd parties. In our current system, they have to trust you. This trustless environment, coupled with smart contracts that WILL act unconditionally based on events, "If X, then Y", is going to revolutionize this world and will destroy so many jobs. The rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | Watched that Chappelle special last night |
| Sad_Face 09/17/19 2:00:47 PM #7 | Bird shot, BUCK SHOT, Bird shot, BUCK SHOT, BUCK SHOT Good stuff. I will say that dude is quite bitter about the Twitter mob as evident by the opening "hurr durr" impressionist jokes. Like, damn dude, just ignore them, they're free publicity. Case in point, I wouldn't have known his special came out unless someone posted the vice article blasting his new special a few weeks back. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | Emerson CA primary poll: Biden 26, Sanders 26, Warren 20, Yang 7, Harris 6 |
| Sad_Face 09/17/19 1:53:04 PM #8 | CruelBuffalo posted... And i guess I dont mind yang staying in. I feel hes just stealing away Bernie supporters I rooted for Bernie last election, this election I'm rooting for Yang. It's not inaccurate to say he's usurping Bernie supporters. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | Racist artificial intelligence algorithm |
| Sad_Face 09/17/19 12:52:14 PM #18 | specialkid8 posted... This just seems like a big assumption. Is "oops, we forgot to put black people in the computer" really that big of a problem? I can assure you this is no assumption. Study Machine Learning yourself and you'll see how insanely well developed and these tools are, freely available to boot, and how you can train your own datasets. It's not "oops we forgot to put black people in the computer", it's "alright, we just compiled a million+ images and spent the last couple months finally getting this thing to bloody work to recognize our faces. Oh, what's that? We should do black folks too? We'll get around to them... later" --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | Racist artificial intelligence algorithm |
| Sad_Face 09/17/19 12:39:48 PM #12 | specialkid8 posted... ^I've heard this before but why doesn't AI recognize darker people? People say "we need to fix this" but no one seems to say what the actual problem is. Is this something to do with the actual input of the developers or is it just a visual thing the machines have a problem with? Not enough data. That's solely it. The developers have to collect images to create the dataset to be used to train the models and you need A LOT, gigs worth. You can imagine that the demographics of the developers are primarily Asian, Indian, or some Whites. So they're going to prioritize collecting data that fits their environment or what they want to classify and they're going to make sure the model works well enough for them before anything else. They can worry about having equal representation later. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | Racist artificial intelligence algorithm |
| Sad_Face 09/17/19 12:20:08 PM #5 | I did a Machine Learning course at Udacity and one of our tasks was to program a Dog breed classifier. In the project, we also had it able to recognize human faces as well. I'm darker skinned than the guy in that article and I tested my project on my own face. No dice. I tried a friend of mine who is "clear skinned" (or several shades lighter than caramel for a reference point) for a black guy, no dice. Grabbed a photo of a Russian dude who is the CEO of a company I'm invested in, boom, works. We need more diverse people in the AI/ML field to bring in more diverse datasets (this is probably the only time I'd push for diversity). Datasets are going to reflect the priorities of those who make them. On the flipside, it's a hard sell because this is a deep field and you have to be genuinely interested to commit to learning this stuff. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | 1 In 16 Women Reports First Sexual Experience As Rape |
| Sad_Face 09/17/19 9:11:56 AM #62 | TheGreatGeno6 posted... So if a guy begs a girl to have sex over and over but does NOT ever threaten her and the girl agrees to it, then it is rape? That's a grey area. I do hear of girls who are relentlessly pressured and just give up and get it over with it. It's clear she doesn't want it but just wants the pressure to end. How do you classify this? --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | Anyone else miss the Megaman Battle Network series? |
| Sad_Face 09/16/19 3:01:30 PM #15 | luigi13579 posted... There's an indie game that copied the battle system, but not the rest of the games unfortunately. I heard of this game. 2020 is its release, eh? Might check it out. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | Anyone else miss the Megaman Battle Network series? |
| Sad_Face 09/16/19 2:05:27 PM #10 | All I ask is for a Battle Network 7. Just give me a new arc, a reboot, a sequel, anything that's new with the battle system in tact in that same world. The gameplay is so good that it's an insult that indie developers haven't attempted to copy it. --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
| Topic | liberals at it again: nyc wants to ban chocolate milk in ny public schools |
| Sad_Face 09/16/19 12:30:52 PM #19 | ChrisTaka posted... They should really be focusing on strawberry milk. STOP --- imgtc.com/i/4HgTl0ebzq.jpg imgtc.com/i/60CWP2Gtlg.gif |
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