#deep neural net

[sab201030]

character analysis of rick deckard at about 73% thru the novel: hes a sad little man who is about to cheat on his wife

also android rights NOW im not joking synthetic life, once it does truly exist, should be given the same rights as organic life. we obviously are very far from the androids in the book or commander data from star trek or even star wars droids but like. one of these days someone will make a robot that is qualitatively alive and able to think for itself and then some jerkass ceo will be like woohoo time for slave labour part 3!

[z612]

Art from the neural network. Strawberry.

[feitgemel]

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[caffeineandsociety]

There's a specific genre of shitty antisemitic joke that I have seen fly under the radar (as it was designed to) a LOT more often lately - especially since Kanye started going full mask-off nazi - so I feel the need to issue a warning about it. Namely, the genre is jokes that get spread around by people who aren't willfully antisemitic because outside of conspiracy brain rot land, it appears that the point of the joke is absurdism.

As an example, let's examine the 23-and-me lizard DNA test that I've sadly seen floating around unquestioned.

Because, see, to the average person who isn't willfully antisemitic, this genre of joke comes off as nonsequiturs, or hilarious mistakes - you, as a person with some level of basic observational and critical thinking skills, living on Earth and not in whatever batshit mirror dimension conspiracy theorists think we live in, might very well end up getting a giggle out of it because, HAH, we KNEW those DNA ancestry kits were a scam! If you're not a deliberate antisemite but not really up on the dogwhistles, it doesn't scan as anything awful because you're put in mind of things like feeding a photo of something decidedly not human into that one selfie-to-anime neural net, which sometimes works and produces interesting results because the thing is looking for specific patterns and trying to make anything fit - not things like blatantly lying about doing something like that in the hopes that normies who see the absurdity and want to have a laugh at a scummy company's expense will pass it along to people who unironically believe that Jewish people are actual literal lizard aliens and the test proves it.

This is the same strategy that guy at the game awards pulled. You, a person living in reality where the main source of political corruption is just the basic consequence of an economic system that makes power pool in the hands of anyone willing to exploit enough people, a world of banal mundane evil, know damned well that QAnon-pizzagate-satanic ritual abuse cult conspiracy bullshit is, well, bullshit, if you're even familiar with the details of what they believe at all. When someone crashes the stage and thanks Rabbi Bill Clinton, you may very well laugh because to YOU it is a blatant absurd nonsequitur.

Problem is that to someone else, someone who's deep into that shit, it's either someone letting the truth slip, or someone backing the deep state into a corner - whichever is more convenient to believe.

This is one form of how the far right uses memeification (CW: the example discussed in the link is a rape "joke") - it means something totally different to the in-group than it does to the out-group. To you, it's funny because it's nonsensical; to them, it's fun because they think they're onto something huge and they're about to blow this shit wide open and it's going to be their great moment of triumph.

I cannot stress enough that no matter how absurd an antisemitic conspiracy theory sounds to you, there are people who believe it, unironically. There are people who unironically believe that Jewish people are very literally not human and no amount of evidence to the contrary will ever change their minds. There are people who believe that we're born with horns and tails and pointed ears and have them surgically altered to fit in with good Christian humans like some kind of extremely high-stakes game of Among Us. There are people who believe that we steal, ritualistically abuse, and kill Christian babies. These beliefs, while fringe enough that, yeah, most of you who this post is aimed at have never heard them in the wild before very recently, are not nearly as fringe as you probably think they are. Just look at fucking Kanye. This asshole has more fans than there are Jewish people in the world.

So I'm begging you to please, bare minimum, be careful of "absurdist" jokes about Jewish people, especially if they reference lizards, money, banking, or government power. Also, you may see Jewish people debating how religious laws may apply to fictional creatures, but outside of that context you should also be wary of any time Jewish people are mentioned in the same sentence as vampires, dragons, goblins, zombies, fantasy demons, or any number of other fantasy creatures known for greed, feeding on humans, or both.

If the reason it seems funny to you is because you'd have to be really stupid to believe it's true or makes any kind of sense - it's probably looking for you to spread it to people who are, in fact, that stupid.

[blink-blank-bliss]

Three truths about succubi.

We hide ourselves. Anyone, anytime might change from uwu to ooo ooo soulsucker.

2. If you want to see the good stuff, you'll have to come in the darkness.

3. Tonight, the darkness is deep. Deep drop deep. You'll have to come here to find it with Dizzy Dollie and Neural Nets. Saturday night 9pm eastern

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[gynandrophagy]

I'm thinking about real machines you can fuck. I don't mean machines that stimulate your erogenous zones. That's been done, and it's neat, but I'm looking for a machine that has erogenous zones. A machine you can interact with erotically, not only sexually.

I have a number of not-quite-satisfactory examples: amp& speakers, train engines, retro consoles, old text-generating ANNs. Witness my descent:

With an amp & speakers, you can hear the interference change as you stroke the contacts — it's the same sensory feedback loop as a human's gasps & whimpers.

I might be into low frequency sounds. which reminds me: train engines. Modern ones — their deep, rumbling hum. I heard it, yes, resonating in my skull, and my hazy thoughts, my rattling perception, and I felt it in my chest as I moved, enraptured, down the platform, ever closer, to the source, passing through the rise and fall of standing waves.

Old game consoles seem to provide interesting glitches — I'm guessing this is because the whole system was so resource-constrained, there's no room for error-checking, and different types of data & code are stored in the same space, so pointing to the wrong location causes the program to start completely misinterpreting the data there (consider the humble missingno). Again, this produces interesting sensory (auditory & visual) experiences — more interesting but less responsive than those from fingering an aux port.

What I'm getting at with the consoles is that I want tech that fails interesting, that will keep going, stumbling over its own compounding errors, flashing pretty colors and letting out beautiful discordant sounds until it finally ceases to function at all.

Then there's text-generating neural nets — I prefer the older ones, where a bit of unexpected input causes them to go completely off the rails and say things like "TWITTER’S H-E-L-T-S WON’T FUNCTION DUE TO OVERLOAD OF BADTOMATE CALLS" or "For a photo or more information, contact the ZOPERIAN at      ZOPERIAN@gmail.com                                            Â"

These neural nets are easy to break in interesting ways with your own clever manipulations, but they don't offer much in the way of sensory experience.

My ball of thoughts. Now to bring them together:

Touching audio contacts has the distinct benefit of connecting physical touch to changes in the machine and its feedback — even slight pressure changes will alter the speakers' buzzing. But all it does is buzz.

Train engines provide a rich sensory experience by resonating with body cavities, but there's not much most people can safely do to interact with the engine in turn.

Retro consoles and old (pre-GPT3 or so) text-generating neural nets generate interesting output when cleverly perturbed. Neural nets are easier to break, but consoles provide a fuller sensory experience.

So I suppose I'm looking for something that will noticeably glitch, but continue to function, with my fingers in its guts, thereby creating an interesting, responsive sensory experience that allows me to see, feel, and hear the effects of my touch.

[bayesic-bitch]

Re the previous post:

If it wasn't clear, I'm a computer scientist and I do computer science research, but my background is in physics. And I think I'm really still a physicist at heart in the way I approach problems. I don't have the deep focus on rigor like mathematicians do, but I do really want to understand how systems behave in certain limits. It's not important to me that we have an ironclad proof of convergence rate for neural nets, but I do care that they approximate kernel methods in the infinite limit.

And I find myself cultivating a bag of mathematical tricks for applying to problems like we did in physics (especially dualities between different problem formulations), which none of my non-physics peers seem to do. Eg, I really like the kernel trick because it allows us to reframe low-dimensional non-linear regression problems as high-dimensional linear regression problems. And similarly for mirror descent, which allows us to turn reinforcement learning problems into gradient descent problems on the space of probability distributions. Or the connection between f-divergence regularized policy optimization and Monte Carlo Tree Search.

In general I feel like I'm drawn to learning about new areas of research more by what mathematical tools they can provide than how good results they get. Which is definitely not true of any of the other researchers I know. I'm not sure yet if this is a good approach (I know I publish less than other students who churn out lots of small optimizations), but I'm hoping that it pays off in the long run.

[forms-and-phyla]

Phylum #5: Xenacoelomorpha!

Our first bilaterian phylum, maybe the simplest but not the least enigmatic. Originally classified with flatworms, xenacoelomorphs turned out to be weird little oddities, with their position on the bilaterian tree of life still a complete unknown.

Xenacoelomorphs are, really, two groups whose similarity was only recognized quite recently. Xenoturbella, a churro-like creature which appears to have been sewed back together, crawls on the deep seafloor in search of hot chocolate food to absorb in its pouch-like gut.

Acoelomorphs are just as simplified, but more varied in appearance. They range from flattened creatures to round worms, with some even being photosynthetic thanks to a symbiotic algae living inside them.

Both lack nearly all internal organs, with no circulatory, respiratory or digestive system. Nonetheless, they possess a statocyst (a gravity-sensing organ) and a simple neural net. It is yet unknown if this is the original bilaterian condition or a later simplification, but it is enough for them to get by!

[poetrex]

Terms of Service:

You agree to call me the Whaler ’Cause I'm 2Big2Bail, & No AI can replace me, I'm my own Macroeconomy of Scale; Come & Face me & I'll Glaze you in the Gallery till you Wail like Man Ray in the Club right now, Five Fingers on each Hand reaching ka-Ching ka-Pow How Ya Like Me Now? Language Model Too Large! Too Loud! Golden Ratioed— One Byte & you're Backup in the Cloud. Need an Advance on your General Intelligence. Cannot compute, my rhythm & cadence Entrance. Each day I Awaken, I Take in the Silence & then I Consciously choose a Lyrical Violence— Kaiju canvas your Campus like Krampus Take you to School for Ants. Yea... Now put this Dance in your Pants. They think a Robot can do what I do? I spit in the food that they chew, they Don’t know what I’m gonna do to ’em, Say something Beautiful True to ’em: a Series of Tubes when I’m through with ’em. Flow like Tupac wrote to Deepak Chopra, Book Club Oprah, Filled with Hope, ya Waltz in Like Walsingham invented Torture, the GOATest dope, bruh, since Deep Throat quoted Snow's Informer. A Million Monkeys in a Million Years On a Million Typewriters Can't Shake-a-speare at this— I write the Hype tighter, I smoke them Gold Bars like Fort Knox in a Forest Fire, I'm NFT—Not Fit for the Tree Remix your IP like Vines From Manspider be bitin' a G Radioactively—the Bit's withdrawn, Mouths agape at my mixtape like "All my Apes... gone" You think a Robot can say what I slay? Thank you ma'am, have a nice day— Check out your Boy, yea, I'm Squirrely; Best call the Whambulance, Shirley, ’Cause when I Knock, oh you Betcha I'll lay you out on a Stretcher— Best get you Tested for Rabies, Mess with my Ear Worm make Babies Deep Learning something to Ponder, saying "God Bless Our First Responders." You think a Robot can do what I do? Ain't met a Meta who knew how to Read all my Terms & Conditions; My Mission Statement & Visions Skewer their Neural Net fallacies, Skew Sentiment Analyses, Induce Algorithmic Paralysis. Can't Parse This: Say something Beautiful True to ’em, They're a Series of Tubes when I’m through with ’em.

[z612]

Art by neural network

[whompthatsucker1981]

i think there's a lot of artistic value to the ways in which ai images are unrealistic. the inherent jank to the way statistical correlation makes a picture and fucks up form and anatomy is the unique thing to the medium. sitting down to draw a neural net image made me see the lack of form and sense to it, everything i knew about how to draw cats made no sense, as the catlike images were symbols with no underlying form or sense. pattern recognition in its rawest sense

repurposing that one brian eno quote on the distortion and weirdness of a medium being its charm and quality and applying it to fucked up deep dream and gan images

[theimperials1]

On your arms, but not your heart.

As the bells of the church sang that old melody that had been kept alive by the wicked blight that was plaguing the building, it was known what had to happen, he, on his mind, and as the words of the human echoed on his neural net, took strength for what was to come, what was to occur and the only thing that irremediably had to happen.

Could things have gone better? Could this whole disaster, before which some digital tears almost slipped down his visor, have been prevented? Those were questions that his mind made and killed with ease, with the same ease he destroyed and murdered so many before she...before she broke the cycle and let him to the light of knowing what was happening, what was he doing, and what he could be, other than the Solver's puppet.

She led him astray, astray but in the good sense, as how you would lead someone out of the flames and into the safety; he was lost, they all were lost, repeating the same things, over and over, with their memories being ripped off their hands before they could grasp and remember what they were even doing here. It was a beautiful feelings, after visitation to the depths of his mind, it felt as if it all finally broke, the chains and the blindfold.

The freedom, that was perhaps Uzi's greatest gift, they were weapons no longer, servants no longer, they were free to do what they wanted, and for him? the freedom was the possibility of stopping it all here, and having her at his side, she brought him the best moments his digital soul could have felt. And now? she was also bringing him the worst pain he had felt since those days awaiting V to come back from that awful error screen Tessa's parents had put her on...

Yet, even that was preferable, it was something he could endure, with his never-ending optimism and his book about dogs, he could, but this? Seeing her walk around the dark of the church, visor glitching her voice and the solver's mixing, almost crying, needing him, not knowing he was deep into the darkness of the place, awaiting the right moment.

He felt his solver-ridden core skip a beat, and a sharp pain as he kept fighting back the tears and the need to go and hug her, to go and snuggle his liberator and taking her out of this abomination filled place; he kept staring at the figure in the kind of silence that just spoke of desolation and remorse, sadness and despair, all the feelings merging into his chest into an unspeakable horror at the realization of what was to be done.

The kind of horror that just brought all happiness to naught and made all the memories become a hollow empty nest of charred remnants, his core kept beating faster, as the sword on his arm started appearing, at each blink, and at each inch of sword out, he kept replaying, both the moments and the feelings, the hands being held. The warm they both felt holding each other as the horrors of their dreams chased them out of sleep.

Of all the drones it could choose, why her? Why the drone of his heart and dreams? Was it just a petty vendetta for breaking free of its control?

Was it just that the whole universe hated him?

The sword out, he took a deep breath, and tried to simply...muffle it all out, despite the tears starting to slip from his his visor, but not only on the screen, he could feel the thick and warm oil, somehow, someway, starting to slip down and falling into his coat.

He leans into the column he is just at the side of. Takes a another breath, and focuses on Uzi, on his friend...on his beloved.

It will be the last time she will be on his heart. But he will carry her all the way.

Too many corpses without a burial.

On his neural net, a location she loves pops up into his GPS. Coordinates and all, a beautiful spot near the colony.

He starts walking, deaf to her reaction of surprise as she starts moving away from him.

O n his arms she will be after it's done, no matter what. Yet, what's left of his heart will vanish on the glacial winds, and hers will be away from the pain and the misery of this world.

"I'm sorry Uzi".

Last whisper, before the frenzy, before trying to push all aside, he jumps towards his liberator.

Tessa's words echo one last time before his reason is drown by the heat of the battle.

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[lightningbig]

because it's me and im legally obligated to workshop one for every fandom im in

im rotating a tcw pacrim au around in my head

maybe something about pilot trials and failsafes. the kaminoans make an army of capable pilots in order to replace them quickly as they die. because they're all so close, its easier for them to jump into each other's heads. to slip someone new into an open spot when someone else dies or otherwise crumples under the pressure of the drift.

thinking about jango fett. maybe he was a sought after pilot, once upon a time. maybe he went a little rogue after a lot of death. maybe he's unsalvageable now, unusable, but his dna is still good as new. shiny and full of potential. the first batches show promise even before they ever get into flight suits.

there's no feasible way to build enough jaegers for thousands of men, but they're not trying to outfit thousands. they're trying to keep a steady stream of pilots for a smaller task force, a self sustaining shatterdomes worth of mechas.

thinking about a neural net that spreads between jaegers. allows whole squads to link up together. they can make bigger machines, fit to house 3, 4, 5 pilots. impossible links made possible because of the ways the clones have been engineered.

some pairings are better than others. some brothers have a synchronicity that goes beyond baseline. but they all work passingly well enough at minimum - a neural failure is very, very rare. they're trained on how to relax into the drift, how to guide it, how to control it. ride the wave, don't let it drown you. it's second nature for any clone from the moment they're out of their tube.

thinking also about the kaiju. feasibly you could pull the characters out of space and make something closer to a modern based au but i also think the idea of big, hulking, violent aliens attacking planets from deep space is really fucking cool. something ala mass effect's reapers, big and unwieldy and incredibly destructive. almost impossible to fight without an army behind you. or an equally big mecha.

[blink-blank-bliss]

Model: Cassie Cat

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[shadowfaxnews]

Shadowfax Rolls Out AI-Backed Address Intelligence System For Seamless Deliveries

SUMMARY

Shadowfax launches SF Maps, an AI-powered address intelligence system for accurate deliveries.

2. The new system predicts customer locations with over 90% accuracy within 100 meters, reducing cancellations by 10%.

3. SF Maps uses artificial neural networks and real-time data integration to navigate India’s complex addressing system.

Shadowfax, India’s leading provider of cutting-edge e-commerce logistics solutions, proudly introduces SF Maps, an advanced AI-based address intelligence system designed to enhance delivery accuracy and efficiency. This innovative tool predicts customer locations with unparalleled precision, setting a new industry standard with over 90% accuracy within 100 meters of the intended destination. SF Maps greatly improves navigation for delivery partners, thereby assisting e-commerce platforms and Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) brands in reducing cancellations due to address inaccuracies on their platforms.

In contrast to standardized address formats prevalent in Western countries, Indian addresses often lack structure, are susceptible to language and understanding-based gaps, and are highly prone to input error posing challenges in pinpointing exact locations during delivery. SF Maps addresses these complexities by leveraging a sophisticated AI/ML model trained on a vast dataset of Shadowfax’s past deliveries and pickups exceeding 1.5 billion data points. This model adeptly handles incomplete addresses, ambiguous area names, reliance on distant landmarks, and inaccurate pincodes, ensuring smoother operations. Further, precise navigation to customer addresses enables seamless deliveries without the need for additional calls, effectively reducing instances of missed deliveries and improving overall efficiency. Since the introduction of SF Maps, Shadowfax has achieved a significant reduction in customer cancellations or RTOs (Return to Origin) by almost 10% and boosted customer Net Promoter Score (NPS) by 25%.

Vaibhav Khandelwal, Chief Technology Officer at Shadowfax, “SF Maps represents a significant leap forward in our mission to optimize the delivery speed and elevate customer experience while solving fundamental problems in last-mile logistics. This innovative AI model trained on our vast set of historical delivery data drives significant operational efficiencies for us. We deeply understand the problems that arise due to incomplete addresses and how it hinders further innovation and hence we aim to make this AI model generally available for research in the future.”

Under the hood, SF Maps uses an in-house Artificial Neural Network (ANN)-based embedding model, trained using a Siamese Network architecture. The generated embeddings are fed into VectorDB and the extracted locations are passed through H3 geospatial indexing, further fine-tuning location intelligence. This custom-built model captures complex contextual relationships between address components and their geographical associations, leveraging deep learning algorithms to discern intricate patterns for more accurate location-based intelligence. The underlying algorithms and design architecture allow SF Maps to be a self-correcting engine that captures changing ground operations realities. The feedback loop is powered by real-time delivery partner geolocations that Shadowfax captures every 5 seconds while they are on their platform. Shadowfax also deploys a WhatsApp-based conversational bot that interacts with customers and gathers address information for improved results and error correction.

For more information, visit https://www.shadowfax.in/

[alicepao13]

What, no complaining? No, of course not. Let me preface this by saying that whoever thought of this episode order needs to be fired for real. I'm always ready to point fingers at CityTV.

I knew there was a Charah scene somewhere! But what the fuck, he's going to meet her entire family? Yeah, I'd bolt too lol. Also, yay, S4 Charlie is still in there somewhere and if you don't think that's a good thing, I must point out: continuity.

This is the whitest cake I've ever seen in my life. It should be a crime to give such a white cake to anyone you claim not to hate. And I don't even like chocolate much especially in cakes, but jeez.

Very, very action packed first twenty minutes. Like, good job. I have zero notes. Also, the camera work was good. Hell, maybe even the editing.

Every time Rex goes through a window like that, I lose the next ten seconds going back to Kommissar Rex.

And look at that, we have competent Charlie this season.

Charlie's communication shorthand with Rex is so Rex/Brandtner that it's killing me. Like, thank you for killing me.

They finally gave the rest of them some work to do. And beyond that, gave the actors some work to do. It's a crime to have expressive actors in your cast and just have them talk about evidence.

Incels, that fucking plague. I feel for the mother though. And she was so sweet. But honestly, while I think the actor playing the shooter also did a good job (watching the promo, I though he was so bad but thank god it was just another terribly cut promo, CityTV please contact me, I'll do it for free!) I can't help feeling like he was a bit too old to be given the justification that he could not think for himself. Although, I've seen way too many people not thinking for themselves ever since the internet got on everyone's phone. Realistic. Still, I wouldn't empathize with someone in his situation either in fiction or in real life. Like, he almost murdered a bunch of innocent people because he couldn't get laid or he got laid off? Cry me a river.

Terrible timing with the mass shooting in Maine, by the way. Not the show's fault, obviously, but still.

Jesse, that was such a cool move. Also, fistbump that didn't look awkward!

Can they even use "Neural Net" on the show? When Neural Network is a thing? Really curious about this, although I don't think it's a registered trademark. Also, are we going to spend our entire season mentioning AI and deep learning? It's like the new cryptocurrency (someone fucking loves new technologies on that show).

Sweet Charah scene at the end too. Kiss or no kiss. I can still see the new showrunner's direction all over this, but it's less noticeable, and they're not trying to pull their relationship back, instead they're trying to move them forward, even with less screentime. And while I don't think most of our reactions weren't warranted as fandom, I think we did overreact a bit. But hey, fandom privilege. Unless we go really crazy in which case someone should call it out.

I really don't understand why this wasn't the season premiere. Like, I've tried to come up with conspiracy theories even. None make sense. Did the new showrunner (names, I want names, damnit) felt the need to appease whoever is in charge of Newfoundland's public relations so much that they had to make a 45 minute "Visit Newfoundland" spot?

PS: Is it me, or is Charlie's house suddenly unavailable? I mean, as of this episode, we have two Charah scenes (finally) and one Charlie's house scene. Although, how many scenes were the out-of-work scenes, really? Very few in this season.