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Ruines de l'Hôtel de Ville, Paris, 1871.

[magicmysterio]

2019 Top 9: Albums

agI was tagged both for my main and my sideblog (@gay-ouijaboard) by @johanna-swann to list the 9 albums most important to me in 2019! I’ll just make one post here and reblog it! Thank you so much <3

Unfortunately this will also expose me as the huge fucking emo I am.

1. A Lesson in Romantics - Mayday Parade. I’m gonna start off with one of my all time favorite albums ever! I don’t know what it is about this album that just makes me love it but literally all of the songs are so good. 

2. Infinity on High - Fall Out Boy. It wouldn’t be me if i didn’t mention fob so I thought I might as well get it over with, probably my favorite fob album ever, Hum Hallelujah and GINASFS are songs that mean a lot to me so when I finally got this album on vinyl earlier this year I was so happy!

3. Good & Evil - Tally Hall. Shout out to my buddy Rachel (@phriskiphriski) for getting me to listen to Tally Hall, it’s such a good album and whenever I listen to it I think of her <3

4. Tell All Your Friends - Taking Back Sunday. God it was so difficult to decide just one album for Taking Back Sunday especially since my favorite song by

5. Enema of The State - blink-182. I got into listening to blink this year and my favorite album of them was Take Off Your Pants And Jacket until I accidentally bought Enema on vinyl instead and now I love it! Plus! It celebrated 20 years 2019 so I feel like it deserves the spot!

6. Nothing Personal - All Time Low. Speaking of, NP celebrated 10 years in 2019 and it’s come to mean a lot to me thanks to a friend and a whole lot of really, really bad pick up lines. 

7. Sorry, Mom - Destroy Boys. What can I say except that it just slaps, 2019 was a year of discovering a lot of new music for me and Destroy Boys was one of my favorite discoveries!

8. Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge - My Chemical Romance. I am wearing my three cheers shirt as I am typing this. They’re back and ready to kick ass and I could not be happier.

9. ¡Viva la Cobra! - Cobra Starship. I saved the best for last y’all, Cobra Starship fucking slaps, Gabe Saporta is a Legend and I can not help but stan. 

I’m just gonna tag a few mutuals and buddies but please feel free to do this and just say I tagged you if you want to.

@raz0rrat @agaytoremembr @phriskiphriski @citri-ne @officialbabet @unicorn-double-barrel-special @universebabyy @eccentric-eli

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Reminder: The [Oops] Prom/Halloween party Mistwalkers Masquerade is TOMORROW at 8PM server time! This event is open to the community, so feel free to holler at Lavren, Citri, Rhapsody Lightshard or Cuzco tomorrow for an invite over to our guild hall!

🕸️Deadlines to mail Citri both your prom royalty nominations and your Opal Orbs for the raffle is BEFORE PROM. Any mail sent once the festivities begin will be eaten by Mad King Thorn’s betrothed choya. 

🕸️Don’t forget to hop on Discord for our Steam Keys and GW2 items giveaways and the OC Do Not Steal Screenshot competition!

🕸️We’ve received intel from the Order of Whispers that Shiny is lost in the Heart of Maguuma. Join the search party with your favorite Level 80 character with the best HoT map completion.

🕸️Join us on our guild Plug.DJ for tunes and more fun!

Have questions? Want to join us? Send us an ask or read over our recruitment thread!

[kirkmacpherson8-blog]

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Osgoode AI Sets Vision for Canadian Leadership

When the Government of Canada earmarked $125 million for a Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy, it was premised on the assumption that this area will be a future economic growth engine, Artificial intelligence is a burgeoning area of research with implications for everything from better medical diagnoses to self-driving cars. The market for artificial intelligence-related products is predicted to reach $47 billion in 2020, and the field has attracted significant investment from Google, Facebook, Baidu and other major technology players. The 2018 Budget reaffirmed this commitment, with one of the five innovation superclusters focusing on artificial intelligence-powered supply chains that would create jobs and develop research to improve standard of living. At least one of the private partners in this plan includes a major law firm, who have launched a microsite covering some of the legal and ethical risks involved. While the potential of AI is undisputed, the practical implementation of these technologies in society within the short-term remains debated. In part, this is based on some of the legal and ethical challenges, but it is also premised on some skepticism as to how effective AI may actually be in addressing existing industry challenges. Earlier this year, Osgoode Hall held a conference that brought together academics from around the world to explore these issues. Some, such as Prof. Ian Kerr, Canada Research Chair in Ethics Law and Technology, indicated that although we may have to brace for the impact of AI in some aspects of society, the vast majority of society will not immediately be affected by these technologies. AI has been around for decades, since at least 1956, and there have been periods of productivity in AI which have been followed by periods of stagnation. Although we are currently seeing significant advances since 2001 and what looks like the edge of an exponential curve, Kerr claimed an equally plausible explanation is that we are approaching another phase of stagnation which will not result in societal transformation. What AI has been successful in so far is outperforming humans in very specific and narrow tasks (and even then, there have been exceptions). Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is something that yet appears to be elusive based on our current technologies. Researchers in the area have indicated this year that deep learning techniques must be supplemented by other techniques if AGI is to be achieved, and that AI research may actually have hit a wall, Now, psychologist Gary Marcus of New York University — formerly director of Uber’s AI labs — argues that the lack of progress isn’t surprising, as researchers are running up against a host of new challenges. … Algorithms also can’t engage in what Marcus calls “open-ended inference,” which entails bringing background knowledge to bear on a question. We all know the difference between “John promised Mary to leave” and “John promised to leave Mary.” We make the distinction using information that isn’t explicitly included in either phrase. Researchers haven’t made much progress in getting computers to do the same. Carole Piovesan of McCarthy Tétrault LLP spoke on how policy and law are always a step behind innovation, almost by design because both are used as mechanisms to identify problems that exist and address those problems. The challenge is that the current innovations are occurring at such a rapid pace that policy makers cannot properly anticipate issues that don’t necessarily exist here and now. Businesses also face this same challenge, to innovate, to be seen as innovators, and to identify and address risks when deploying technologies into the mass market. Traditional notions of copyright are premised on the notion that innovation is incentivised by recognition and reward. These underlying IP principles don’t necessarily hold true for AI systems that are creating independently irrespective of any reward, which could create difficulties with our applications of intellectual property, especially where AI is no longer the tool, but the inventor. Instead, Piovesan suggests dealing with IP issues by looking at the nature of the systems, look at the purpose, Mark Perry and Thomas Margoni explore in the Computer Law and Security Review whether the reward for computer generated works, and consider whether it should be allocated to the author, the user, or even the program itself, and then consider another alternative, The last of the identified solutions is: nobody. A basic principle of economics is to allocate scarce resources in an efficient way, that is to say in a way in which those given scarce resources are able to produce the maximum benefit for the whole society (maximisation of allocative efficiency). So long as there is no subject who can be identified in terms of incentive theory as an efficient allocation, then the question becomes why should they be allocated “randomly” just for the sake of allocation, and not on the basis of any theoretical justification, being it utilitarian or naturalistic? This would produce property rights where economically speaking such a solution can be identified as inefficient, not optimal, or even worse, as leading to market failures. Market failures such as these are avoidable by falling back to a specific morphology of property rights that seems to be often overlooked as a feasible and many times more allocative- efficient solution: the Public Domain. This point seems to have been recognised by other authors “If there is no human author of the computer-generated work, the intellectual property system has assumed no one deserves to be rewarded for it. If there is no human author of such a work, how can any human be motivated to create it? If it is not clearly necessary to grant the exclusive rights to stimulate creativity, traditional principles would seem to argue that the set of exclusive rights not be awarded to anyone”. Ann Cavoukian of Ryerson University emphasized that Privacy by Design allowed for abandoning zero-sum models. Privacy and security can be used in conjunction, without any trade-offs or either/or propositions. Earlier this year she spoke to IT World Canada on how this could be achieved through legislative amendments to Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), While the US s struggles with rampant surveillance and no independent commissioners, Cavoukian doesn’t see Canada going down the same path as its southern neighbour. “We do fare much better than the US and I don’t think we’ll go in that direction. Over my dead body,” she laughs. “We’re much more closely aligned with the EU on privacy measures and I’m pleased with federal commissioner Therrien’s approach in trying to update Canada’s regulations.” Cavoukian is hopeful for the future, convinced that emerging tech like AI will help Canadians find the right balance between security and privacy. “We’re looking to fund research into embedding privacy in new technology because we need to pave the way and prove this is doable. My view is we have to believe this is possible; we don’t have a choice. If you value freedom and liberty, then you value privacy,” she concludes. Jutta Treviranus, Director of the Inclusive Design Research Centre (IDRC) and Professor, OCAD University described problems with developing a norm or average, highlighting that the danger of creating artificial norms is accentuated with the use of technologies that aggregate averages in a population. The greatest innovation however, occurs with the unexpected black swans, with events or data that happens at the edges.  We assume that the data doesn’t lie, but the data isn’t actually objective, and risk reliving the myth of mechanical objectivity. The law, especially when dealing with protected groups, requires individualized treatment of outliers, rather than assumptions that gravitate towards the greatest clusters. Evidence-based governance presumes homogeneity, which perpetuates or even amplifies vicious cycles of exclusion. Brandie M. Nonnecke, Research & Development Manager for CITRIS, UC Berkeley, focused on how AI could be used to promote social good. AI allows for analysis of big data in ways that humans cannot, but to address bias creep in these models requires scrutiny. Nonnecke wrote about this last year in the World Education Forum, We must recognize that algorithms are not neutral. They reflect the data and assumptions inherent in their calculations. If prejudiced data is fed into an algorithm or factors that reflect existing social biases are prioritized, discriminatory results will follow. Algorithms function by prioritizing certain factors—identifying statistical patterns from observed and latent variables and subsequently offering “if this, then that” conclusions. By assuming that certain factors are appropriate predictors of an outcome and historical trends will be repeated, an algorithm can exhibit a self-reinforcing bias. For those who are over-, under- or misrepresented in the data and calculations, decisions made on their behalf can perpetuate inequality. She proposes that incorporating diversity into every stage of design, deployment and review of AI can minimize the inadvertent discriminatory effects of AI. These interdisciplinary teams should include lawyers, social scientists, as well as coders and computer engineers.   Danielle Goldfarb & Candice Faktor described in Maclean’s how Canada can stay a leader in artificial intelligence: Develop Canadian-grown startups, think of global opportunities Address fears of job losses and disruptions head on Participate in the global discussions on AI policies to promote social good Open Canada to talent, collaboration and investment from outside the country The talks from the Osgoode conference, which go beyond the summary above, provide some insights into how all of the above can be achieved. Videos from the conference are available online, with convenient downloadable audio files on the go.   http://www.slaw.ca/2018/04/08/osgoode-ai-sets-vision-for-canadian-leadership/

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(via UC Berkeley, power company Enel launch innovation hub | Berkeley News)

[Photo: CITRIS director Costas Spanos speaks to a crowd gathered for the Enel Innovation Hub ribbon-cutting at Sutardja Dai Hall. Photo by Adriel Olmos, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute]

By Brett Israel, Media Relations

The UC Berkeley campus has a new innovation hub that is the result of a partnership between Enel, a multinational power company, and the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the Banatao Institute.

The Enel Innovation Hub will join the CITRIS Foundry, an on-campus startup accelerator focused on deep technology companies from the University of California. The partnership will allow closer collaboration between Enel and promising Berkeley-affiliated startups. Enel is the first corporation to establish a unique partnership with CITRIS that leverages both startup innovation through the CITRIS Foundry Accelerator and world-class academic research at UC Berkeley.

“Together with these public and private partners, we are shaping the future of technology transfer in ways that cross traditional boundaries,” said Costas Spanos, the director of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute.

The innovation hub’s ribbon-cutting ceremony took place today at CITRIS’s Sutardja Dai Hall. In addition to Spanos, at the ceremony were Ernesto Ciorra, the Enel Group’s head of innovation and sustainability; Francesco Venturini, head of Enel’s global renewable energies division, Enel Green Power; and Henry Chesbrough, a professor at the Haas School of Business and executive director of the Center for Open Innovation.

“The launch of our innovation hub in a place with such a high concentration of companies looking to disrupt and innovate is the next stage of an exciting journey for Enel,” Ciorra said. “The group has long been pushing collaboration with forward-looking startups, not only as a way of exposing the group to cutting-edge technology and ideas, but also by bringing our own technology and engineering expertise to help these companies develop ways to integrate their tech innovations into the fabric of our business.”

The Enel Innovation Hub will scout startups to work with the Enel Group, developing business projects with the fledgling companies both in the United States and internationally, while also providing them with access to a potential market of more than 30 countries. One of the aims of the hub is to provide U.S. customers with energy management and storage solutions that maintain the country’s grid stability and make it less prone to outages.

Startups selected to work with the Enel Innovation Hub will receive technical and business support so that they can go to market in the shortest time possible and will be mentored by Enel experts. An innovation manager from Enel will oversee the hub and will be a point of contact between all the startups working at the hub and Enel’s startup networks in Israel, Brazil, Chile and Europe.

[Entire post — click on the title link to read it at Berkeley News, and to view additional images.]

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[bringersofaggro]

Another [Oops] Prom come and gone! Thanks for coming to our Vabbian themed shindig everyone, and we hope you had an excellent time and will come back for our next guild event! The library was open for Varesh and Kormir during the fashion costume, and our hall briefly descended into a much shadier realm  but we all made it out in one piece! Congratulations to our new prom King and Queen, our PvPvP winners, Our fashion masters and fashion disasters, and of course, congratulations to everyone who suggested Joey as the answer to every Trivia question. (You da real MVP!)

[bringersofaggro]

[Oops] turns 6 YEARS old this month! To help celebrate and to help push our guild to the swag level of 69, I will be running a guild hall donation drive raffle this month for [Oops] members! Some of you will recognize this from Prom (and PogChamp'd me to run it again). For those new to the guild since Prom, read on to see how it works! 

HOW TO PARTICIPATE

Donate the following items to the guild hall, which will earn you tickets! Those items and their ticket worth each are:

1 Potion of PvP Reward- 10 Tickets

1 Ley-Line Infused Tool- 10 Tickets

1 Mystic Coin- 3 Tickets

1 Vial of Linseed Oil- 3 Tickets

10 Elder Wood Planks- 5 Tickets

10 Cured Thick Leather Sqaures- 5 Tickets

1 Opal Orb- 1 Ticket

1 Superior Rune of Holding- 40 Tickets

100 Candy Corn- 1 Ticket

When available in the treasury as an option: 1 T6 mat, 1 Lodestone and/or 1 Ecto- 1 Ticket each

Any other substantial donations will be awarded a random ticket value!

If the item is maxed out in the treasury that means we've completed that item for the time being and that item is no longer available to donate!

You can donate your items via:

NPC Esa at the guild treasury, to the right when you zone in the guild hall

NPC Fion the decor dude, to the left when you zone in the guild hall (candy corn only)

RULES AND OTHER IMPORTANT INFO

*This donation raffle is open to all members of [Oops]: officers, retired officers, established members, new members, goos lords, etc.

*Please do not donate via guild bank accessible in the hall or in towns as the history from there gets randomly purged. Donate to Esa or Fion only! (or mail to Citri if truly lazy).

*The raffle will run from today to the end of November 29th. I will count items donated this past weekend :)

*Yes, you can donate multiples of the same item and get more tickets.

*Donators and tickets will be tracked on a spreadsheet. On November 30th, I will put everyone in the Fruit Machine of Swag and draw winners for prizes (listed below)

*There's no limit to how many tickets you can earn and it's encouraged to get as many as possible! The highest amount of tickets someone got last time was nearly 600, with the average tickets earned per person being close to 200! The more you donate, the more tickets you have, the more chances you have to win :) You can win multiple prizes as well!

PRIZES (list will vary depending on prize donations this month)

Discord Emote Slot for December (10 ticket minimum)

GW2 Items: Unidentified Green Dye, Sand Dye, Winter Ice Dye, Hot Pink Dye, 5 Unidentified Dyes, Mini Svanir Hunter, Mini Zuzu Cat of Darkness, Mini Ascalonian Mage, Mini Forgal, Mini Charles the Hellfire Skeleton, Valkyrie Draconic Pauldrons, Lucky Rooster Lantern, Lucky Great Rooster Lantern, Karka Helm Skin, Zunja’s Necklace, Adam, Urchin’s Needles, Guild Defender, Nightwing, Zhaitan’s Reach, Mordant Inscription, Mordant Inscription, Poly-luminescent Undulating Refractor Green, Poly-luminescent Undulating Refractor Teal, Strider’s Nika, 10 Koi Cakes, 10 Toxic Sharpening Stones, 35 Jugs of Apple Cider, 4 Divine Lucky Envelopes, 50 Globs of Ectoplasm, 25 Ancient Bones, 2 Deldrimor Steel Ingots, 20 Globs of Ectoplasm, Remnant of Ascalon, Droknar’s Recurve Bow, Eibhear Finn, 100 Orichalcum Ingots, 1 Spiritwood Plank, 5 Powerful Venom Sacs, Mini Sieran, Bow of the White Heart, Shaman’s Pearl Trident, Onus

Steam Games: My Name is Mayo, Geometry Wars, Metal Slug 3, Cook Serve Delicious, Ampu-Tea, Turbo Pug

If you have questions about this or would like to donate a prize, contact Citri! <3

[bringersofaggro]

Citri has just gotten back from a blast from the past trip to The Hidden City of Ahdashim, where she swam in a sea of gold and treasure! Sneaking out as many goodies as she could in her trusty pink crown, she will be raffling off these treasures during the [Oops] Prom hangover to guild members! (Join!)

Details after the cut!

🔨HOW TO PARTICIPATE🔨

1. Purchase traditional raffle tickets for 50 silver each either by depositing money into the Guild Treasure Trove or by mailing your money to Citri (which she will then put into the treasure trove lol)

2. Take advantage of special guild hall incentives which grant tickets for your value! In order for our Gilded Hollow to compare to the Hidden City, we need more donations and would like to reward those helping out the guild hall! The following items donated to the treasury will grant you tickets (yes, you can donate multiples):

1 Superior Rune of Holding = 40 Tickets

10 Elder Wood Planks = 5 Tickets

1 Ley Line Infused Tool = 10 Tickets

1 Potion of PVP Reward = 5 Tickets 1 Vial of Linseed Oil = 2 Tickets

1 Opal Orb = 1 Ticket

If the item is maxed out in the treasury, that means we're full up and the incentive is closed! (However if full, Elder Wood Planks can then be placed inside the Treasure Trove for credit! Do not place items here before the treasury is full!)

🚦RULES AND IMPORTANT INFO🚦 *This raffle is open to all members of [Oops]: Leadership, established members, new members and goos lords. *The ticket phase will run from July 15th through July 29th! *You can buy tickets, donate for tickets or a combination of both. You can participate now, participate last minute or participate daily! There is no ticket limit. The more you put in, the better your chances are for winning! *All names/tickets will be recorded throughout the month and be placed into a random selector for the raffle. I will then go down the prize list on July 30th and draw a winner for each prize. Yes, you can win more than once! *Luckless individuals who somehow do not get drawn for a prize will get a Da Wispas Consolation Package~ *Communicate with me (Citri) if you do not want a prize or game key so that I can redraw a winner. *****🚨Please read and follow the ways to join! People attempting to enter the raffle in ways not described above or outside of the instructions will not be entered. 🚨 Vabbians ain't got no time for that!

���REWARDS💰

The prize pool is making the Djinns of Vabbi quite jealous!

📈A wide variety of exotics, sigils, minis, crafting mats, etc- more will be added to this pile before the raffle ends, as Prom goodie bag leftovers and such will be put into the prize pool, as well as other items donated or rustled up!📈

💎Choice of giftable Gemstore Item up to 400 gems💎

💵10 gold base pot + 75% of ticket earnings💵 (The 25% leftover will go towards the guild)

🎮Video Games🎮 Steam keys to add to your library, like: Batman Arkham Knight, Plantera, FATE: The Traitor Soul, Pizza Express, Castles, Divide By Sheep, Awe, Goat Simulator, The Ship: Murder Party, Hyper Light Drifter

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If you would like to contribute to the prize pool in any way, please contact Citri! Also contact Citri with any questions you might have.

Good luck!

[bringersofaggro]

Who are we and what do we do? [Oops] was formed in 2011 for a small group of Guild Wars 1 players through tumblr, and since then we've grown steadily and can boast a relaxed, mature, LGBT friendly, multi-game community.

Our guild is built around good atmosphere and friendly conversation and the general rule of "don't be a dick". Its not a difficult rule really, but for clarity's sake, the full rules are available on our forum. The GW2 guild is based on NA servers (Blackgate)!

With Path of Flame coming up so soon, and so many of our veteran members returning to the game, there has never been a better time to come and join in on the fun! 

Events!

We have two main guild events each year, that our leaders put a lot of their time and resources into, along with several more frequent or out of game happenings that we love to chat about and experience.

Prom - Yes we're that cheesy, but really! Who can say no a "Prom King/Queen" award? Bring a friend, win some prizes! Other events include lore trivia, hide and seek, cheesy slow dances, Arena PvPvP Tournaments, Guild Hall jumping puzzle challenges, scavenger hunts and of course, the riddle-basedKormirApproved™ AggroQuest! 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Halloween - [Oops] Gets spooky! Time to crack out the ingame cosplay! Fashion Wars 2 is important to us! And we love seeing our member's creativity! After Trivia and other minigames, we tag up and lead our way through the Labyrinth, loot sticks swinging! At this time of year, we play a few muliplayer survival games like L4D2, Dead Island, Dead by Daylight etc The most recent Jumping Puzzle

Discord server  - We keep in touch outside of GW2 through our myriad of text and voice channels! Whether you’re looking for a fractal group or the difference between RAM and harddrives, someone here will help you out!

Eurovision watchalong - Not so well known to our non-european members, but you'll either love it, hate it or love to hate it! Don't approach it seriously, since it doesn't take itself seriously

E3/PAX/Gamescom - Its like Eurovision with more SPORTS and Cringe but great fun to watch with friends!

Table top RPGs - From Dragon Age to D&D we’ve got some serious campaigns ongoing aswell as a silly yolo dungeon delver on the go!

GW2 Raid training - whenever there is enough interest for a guild group, We try to get something organised for our members!

Dungeons/Fractals/Hero Point trains - We all need these from time to time, or maybe we just enjoy them? Maybe you wanna get 250 HP’s built up on your main for your new Elite Spec? Either way, [Oops] got you covered!

Guild Hall decoration Bounties - Sometimes things just go missing or get placed somewhere strange, and a bounty from our scribes will show up in the Message of the day.

Secret Santa and screenshot competitions at Wintersday - Prizes are usually gold, rare skins or maybe even Gems, if someone is feeling generous! Perks! Direct GW2 perks from joining [Oops] include access to our Lvl56 Guild hall, getting to wear our fab emblem (His name is Percy) on your backpiece, armor etc, all of the moderately upgraded harvesting nodes, and if you have Heart of Thorns, a complete selection of Tavern buffs (10% for 24 hours in various things). Other Games?? - YEAH! You can find our members playing Elder Scrolls Online, Secret World Legends, Overwatch, Warframe and more! Be sure to join our discord and check in with us!

Get in touch with us by replying to this post, sending us an ask or ingame!  -Lavren -Citri

TL;DR Fun and inclusive Guild seeks fun and inclusive members!