#algorithmic systems

[afutureworththinkingabout]

The "P" Stands for Pre-trained

I know I've said this before, but since we're going to be hearing increasingly more about Elon Musk and his "Anti-Woke" "A.I." "Truth GPT" in the coming days and weeks, let's go ahead and get some things out on the table:

All technology is political. All created artifacts are rife with values.

I keep trying to tell you that the political right understands this when it suits them— when they can weaponize it; and they're very VERY good at weaponizing it— but people seem to keep not getting it. So let me say it again, in a somewhat different way:

There is no ground of pure objectivity. There is no god's-eye view.

There is no purely objective thing. Pretending there is only serves to create the conditions in which the worst people can play "gotcha" anytime they can clearly point to their enemies doing what we are literally all doing ALL THE TIME: Creating meaning and knowledge out of what we value, together.

Read the rest of The "P" Stands for Pre-trained at A Future Worth Thinking About

[seumyo]

BAKUGOU KATSUKI ✰ REALISTIC TEXTS, BUT YOU’RE HIS OLDER SISTER

SEUMYO © 2024, PLEASE DO NOT REPOST, PLAGIARIZE, MODIFY OR TRANSLATE.

[insertdisc5]

this is a blaze post. but please look at it though

"urgh, a tumblr blaze post, GROSS!!!" yeah. but this one is about timeloops. and this is the timeloop afficionado website ✨✨✨

so please sit back and listen, timeloop afficionado website. would you be interested in In Stars and Time, a timeloop rpg all about a depressed white haired prettyperson being stuck in a timeloop, against their will, while all their friends are unaware. would that perhaps strike your fancy.

if yes mayhaps you could wishlist it on steam. the game will come out on November 20th 2023 on Switch and PS4/5 as well but steam wishlists really help so. please. wishlist. if you want. but only if you want ok!!!!!!! thank you for reading this blaze post

[metalichotchoco]

Ai characters and what their acronymal names can tell us about them

Let’s start with GLaDOS, Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System , a play on the name gladys and a dos system which actually functions to show what they are playing at here:

she’s half operating system and half an actual person. I personally think a pun like that is just very very good design. The disk operating system can also tell us a bit about her. She’s controlled with a text based command line. The cores they add to her are essentially a bunch of floppy disks of information

Moving on, HAL is short for heuristically programmed algorithmic computer. This tells us the ways in which he deals with problems in a bunch of tech terms.

He goes to calculations or algorithms and then he uses trial and error. He basically is programmed to learn from experience once rules become loosely defined. It actually funnily enough can take us through his thought process given his two objectives.

Last but not least is AM, good old Allied Mastercomputer. He’s fun since this meaning changes but all of them still apply to him.

Allied references the allied powers of ww2 though it’s mostly supposed to bring to mind america. Master computers tell satellite/ sub computers what to do, think of it like the brain and muscles. Am also stands for agressive menace (which he very very much is) and adaptive manipulator, very accurate since he literally does but it’s also a reference to his other objective of evolution and becoming better. “I think therefore I am” is the last play on his name basically “I am thinking therefore I exist” incredibly loaded for ai characters but especially am

Anyways I thought these were fun, lemme know if there’s another acronym you’d like me to cover

[m0e-ru]

『 I'll be so glad to, I know I gotta do it for you 』

[pharawee]

But friends don't do what we did.

[tamamita]

what is it about your blog that attracts the most random bot accounts

It's not always random, they're often racist bots that tend to "learn" and target one specific person. For example, some of them even call me "Sal", even though they're just bots. But in any case, there's some kinda proliferation of these bots that say the most virulent racist and Islamophobic stuff. For example, if I mention Islam and women in the same paragraph, there's a bot that'll show up out of nowhere that will mention sex slaves, r*pe or wife beating, even if the conversation is not related to these topics at all. A lot of minorities, especially Muslims, trans women, LatAmericans tend to get this sort of stuff if they combine certain words with each other that prompt them to show up.

[aroaceleovaldez]

reminder/tip, particularly for newer pjo fans: do not crosstag!

for those who don't know, crosstagging is tagging irrelevant tags on a post, usually popular tags to try and get more views on the post.

Tumblr doesn't work the same way instagram or tiktok or twitter does. Crosstagging is considered spam, and your blog will be flagged if you do this.

particularly in pjo fandom, crosstagging includes tagging characters that don't actually appear in the post, tagging books or series unrelated to the post (like tagging "TSATS" on a post not specifically about TSATS, or tagging HoO on a post about first series specifically, etc.), tagging "pjo fanfic" or "pjo headcanon" or similar on a post that, obviously, isn't that, and/or tagging irrelevant ships. More recently, this also includes tagging the show (PJO TV, etc) on posts that are completely irrelevant to the show.

This mostly only applies for original posts - Tags you put on reblogs only apply to your own blog's organizational system, and has no bearing on the original post itself. But it's really annoying to the original poster if you spam tags, because it will appear in their notifs. It's pointless to spam tags in reblogs for these reasons regardless, so it's best not to.

just remember: crosstagging is not allowed on tumblr, doesn't work that way here anyways, and is just generally rude. so don't do it.

[clonerightsagenda]

As of the end of System Collapse, SecUnit intends to travel with ART and its crew/the university rather than returning to Preservation. However, Wells is leaving some openings for Preservation characters to still appear in that context, what with Amena wanting to study at the university and Ratthi having an entanglement with one of ART's crewmembers. SecUnit is fond of Ratthi, so this may put it in the terrible position of having to actually pay attention to human love lives so it can anticipate whether Ratthi is likely to make an appearance or not.

[officialrapunzelfitzherbert]

oh hey gang i have been making !!!! pride calicos !!!! little pride pins !!!! 🏳️‍🌈😽🏳️‍⚧️

whoaaa here they are

all proceeds for these will be donated to equality florida! i am sure many of you are aware now there's been some horrifying anti-trans legislation all over the US this year, particularly in florida. i moved here almost 7 years ago to make a home for myself and the people i met here gave me that, and now so many of those same people are losing their healthcare and their right to exist in public. a lot of people have left. a lot of people can't leave.

equalityfl has been doing really great work throughout all this, showing up at the capitol for every hearing and fighting on the front lines every day. i'm hoping that by supporting their work i can do a little bit to protect my trans loved ones here. so !! if you'd like to join me in that !!! and also get a cute little cat pin out of it that i made with love !!! here u are !!!

stay safe out there friends, protect each other, happy pride yall 🩷

[getvalentined]

Got an email to fill out a survey on the concept of tumblr Premium and related features, and while I'm assuming that I'm not supposed to talk about it too specifically in case some things mentioned in the survey aren't fully implemented, the features listed as possibilities sound pretty solid. Limit increases, monthly benefits (both for the user and as gifts for others), special badges and decorations, etc.

There were no features listed that are already available for free, so they're genuinely looking at offering new features for paid users rather than following in Xitter's footsteps and locking existing features behind a paywall. Likewise, nothing listed would be obtrusive to the current tumblr experience or unfairly favor a paid user over a free user any more than dropping a few bucks on a Blaze already "favors" the person being Blazed. (Which is up for debate, since that whole feature is literally "LOOK AT MY POST, BOY" and is one of the most tumblr things that tumblr has ever done.)

I was extremely leery going into the survey, because "premium" features these days are generally not premium at all, but I'm feeling very positive about the upcoming features now. Overall—and I say this as someone who has worked in webdev and digital marketing, used to pay for icons on LiveJournal for multiple RP accounts, currently pays for ad-free here, and has been doing beta testing for so long I once had the personal email addresses of both the founders of deviantART—it sounds genuinely good! Nothing anyone can't live without, but a good number of fun things that would actually be of interest to the tumblr userbase.

Now I'm just waiting to see how many of the features floated in the survey wind up in the final package, and how much that package is going to cost.

[punk-junkie69]

Michael... He is a little shithead

(system art)

[teabutmakeitazure]

FINALS OVER 🔥🔥🔥🔥

DSA NEXT SEM 🔥🔥🔥

[quirkle2]

i am not a twitter user at heart (keep deadnaming that bitch) so every time i log back into my twitter account solely for the purpose of looking at cool art that i am normally locked out of admiring i am just . baffled. by how that site works. and i'm not even talking about the framework or the Stability of the site or its coding i'm talking abt the goddamn hashtag system. HOW do u use it. like genuinely i've never understood it. bc i've seen fanart properly tagged and it has like 2 likes and then i see another piece that isn't tagged at all and it has 67539165379165751379 likes. what is the organization system here. how do people find anything, especially if u don't even mention the fandom ur making art for in the caption. u can look up keywords but what if ur post has none. what then. i genuinely do not get it. banging on the bars of my enclosure and crying and wailing etc etc etc

[bmpmp3]

everyone on earth probably has a hypothetical farming sim in their mind's eye that they daydream about on occasion because of the unfortunate situation that despite there being like a thousand farming games released every minute only like 4 of them are any good. and i think this is fun, i think its good to keep the imagination alive. if i made a farming sim i would bring back rival marriages from the old friends of mineral town. i want to steal someones wife.