#expert lecture

[sirtbhopal]

Expert Lecture on Artificial Intelligence

🎉🎉 Department of Electronics and Communication is organizing a expert lecture on 'Artificial Intelligence' 🎉🎉 under ✨ IEEE student branch STB12901🎉🎉

Speaker👇🏻 Pranay Das Technical Trainer, Coding Thinker, Ex-IBM, FlytBase

[kassandras-one-braincell]

i am not the academic weapon i used to be. hereby submitting my application to be a lesbian's housewife. i can cook

[unforth]

Shower thoughts about "kids shouldn't be allowed on the internet until (insert arbitrary age here)" and "kids shouldn't even know about sex until (insert arbitrary age here" are adjacent flavors of the same incredibly flawed idea that like...

There are these Big Things that, when we reach a certain age, are likely to be day-to-day relevant in our lives. Even if we don't have sex daily or use the internet daily, these topics come up in our media, our discourse, our news, our surroundings, every single day.

And the "kids shouldn't be using the internet" thing posits a reality where we can keep kids from knowing about it or wanting to use it - when many parents use it daily! - until some arbitrary time when "they're ready" and then suddenly they are allowed to, with all the knowledge and skills and curiosity of being that age, go loose on something they've never learned how to use. Likewise with sex, the ages most people say it's "okay" when they make these arguments are usually teen years, when the AVERAGE age when USAdians lose their virginity is 17. Considering how many people on this website routinely report being virgins in their 20s or 30s, how many kids are fucking at 13 to make the average that low? What do you think happens if their sexual awakenings come at the same time *or before* anyone has given them age appropriate sex ed?

For the internet, I can actually say anecdotally, what happens! Because we got internet at home when I was 12. Issues included me spending ludicrous amounts of money on pay-by-the-hour usage (did you know that in the mid 90s AOL charged by the hour? Now you know.), addictively hanging out in chats and playing muds until 2 am, then attending school daily on 4 hours sleep, fending off countless A/S/L messages from weirdo old dudes, and being solicited for cybersex with strangers! And I had no idea what I was doing! And here again is the overlap of internet and sex!

Anyway. I told myself I'd keep this short but here we are.

Age-appropriate sex-ed, age-appropriate internet usage, age-appropriate [insert thing you think kids shouldn't know anything about at all for some fucking reason] will almost always keep children safer than throwing them in the deep-end when they're older.

[What WHO says about age-appropriate sex ed][related lit review]

[UK National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children device usage guidelines] [American Psychological Association advice]

Teaching children age-appropriate things about ubiquitous topics is prevention and is the best way to keep them safe. Period. End of story.

[mrhaitch]

hi mr. haitch!

i was wondering if you could do a character analysis on suguru geto? i have a hard time understanding how his ideology changed, specifically when he takes it to the extreme and wants to eliminate ALL non-sorcerers. i’d also like to hear your thoughts on the dynamic between gojo and geto… their conflicts and how they drifted apart but never permanently resented the other. lastly, if possible, could you touch on how loneliness affected the two and if it had any impact in their actions, both after riko’s death and after their argument when they split paths

thank you so much,

a curious anon

My knowledge of the series is pretty limited so I can only answer with what I've seen and understood, but Geto and Gojo can be looked at as two different reactions to the same trauma: one blames himself and the other blames everyone else.

That's the core to the changes both of them underwent after Riko's death. Gojo was recognised and elevated as the strongest from birth - the linchpin that holds his society together. Despite the swagger and the ego, beneath is a powerful loneliness and detachment. He has been reduced to a function, with no choice other than to fulfill it, and there's a lot of resentment towards Jujutsu society as a result - they took his childhood, his humanity. His whole identity is based on being the strongest, and yet when he found something he wanted to protect - he failed. Since Riko's death we see evidence of constant effort to master his abilities, to better fulfill his role but at the cost of sinking deeper into the expectations of others. Even so, Gojo comes away with a greater appreciation for the vulnerable, especially children.

Geto, however, did not suffer the same societal pressure - everything about him, his place in the story, is a result of choice and agency. He wants to be a sorcerer, wants to get stronger to protect the weak, he wants to work with Gojo to better the world. When we first meet him, he views his abilities as a means to realise his desires, his ambitions, and - fundamentally - his values.

Riko's death, and everything that followed, robbed him of that ability to choose. Her death meant nothing, a new vessel was found, the world didn't end, everyone moved on. Gojo internalised his feelings of failure and forged on - seemingly unmoved. Geto threw everything he had at saving and avenging her and it changed nothing.

I'll pause here and say that I think Geto and Gojo saw different things in Riko: Gojo saw someone weaker than himself forced into fulfilling a role, Geto saw someone exemplary and unique murdered by the powerless. Perhaps (and remember I'm not an expert here) she came to stand for all of Jujutsu society in his mind - someone with an inherent greatness or importance sacrificed for the sake of people who lack the strength to protect themselves. She was the ultimate realisation of his early beliefs (the strong serving the weak) and it proved to be horrible, far removed from what he envisaged.

But let's focus on their reactions: Gojo went further into himself, into his role, aspiring to realise his full strength to protect others. Geto stopped growing - became bitter, twisted, blaming everyone but himself. He thinks himself a liberator, but in truth he is motivated by an endless appetite for revenge - to take his pain and inflict it on everyone else. It's a response common among men who struggle to regulate and manage their anger and personal set-backs, looking to displace their own negative emotions and push them onto someone else: believing it'll lessen their own pain.

All of this is just supposition, though. Fundamentally Geto is a violent racist, with a fascistic worldview built around strength as some kind of valorous ideal - gleefully inflicting pain and suffering on others. We can empathise with his journey, but we don't have to forgive his actions.

[deservedgrace]

something that i've been struggling to articulate but has been bothering me for a while is how some christians engage and interact with science and what i'm realizing is they have a like... almost love-bombing/discarding relationship with it. and i recognize science isn't a person and that's not literally happening but the christians that i grew up around have this relationship with science where it's real/valid/correct if it supports their side and fake/invalid/wrong if it doesn't. it's this like... engaging with science to get something from it when it can prove their point and condemning it when it doesn't. and this also ties into the belief that you, a layperson with no background in science, are more knowledgeable than actual scientists simply because you have god on your side, and therefore you can use science in whatever way you see fit, which means engaging with it in a way that is ultimately anti-science (but that also doesn't matter because god said it was okay). and it's exhausting engaging with these people for me because it's not that they believe all science bad, it's that they believe most science bad but some science good and they have the authority to determine what is bad and what is good, despite, again, not having a background in science (because what is a "background in science" to an all-knowing god that you have a personal relationship with?). the thing that is so frustrating to me is how these people recognize science is valued and use it to strengthen the validity of their points and to gain credibility while simultaneously refusing to acknowledge the validity of science as a field at all or put in any effort to understand/respect it.

[raapija]

Ludwig learning about guys in hot tubs and his sexuality

[frnkiebby]

look at this handsome guy over here~🎃

[entriprises]

he feels it pressing on him— the silence lingering across the lavish office. there’s no clock besides the quiet watch on his wrist but javi swears something is ticking. the silence doesn’t last long, not when riggs continues to goad him on. it’s a drawn out “come on,” with such a smile and a laugh that might rival the devil— had javi actually been listening to the small sound in his head, the voice that sounds an awful lot like kate some days and abby like others, he might have noticed the likeness. riggs is the one holding his hand out. riggs is the one giving him an offer when nobody else is. javi leans forward in the chair, head nodding till he’s got a wide toothy grin too. “just show me where i sign.” it’s an immediate swell of excitement and pride in the office, with the man behind the desk coming to his feet and around his desk. javi rises, hands finally releasing from where he’d been gripping the arm rests, sweat left behind. a hand claps against his shoulder and something settles, world now in brilliant technicolor and the road ahead shiny and yellow.

˗ˏˋ send me ✍️ + a muse, and i’ll try my hand at writing as them ´ˎ˗ @fyrewalks sent javi (twisters)

[somethingwithmoles]

Not someone in my uni's art history group asking what exact type of vault a certain famous hall has because "on the internet and ChatGPT the information is different everywhere"

*takes a deep breath*

my brother in Christ. Have you considered. Opening a book. In the library. Of the university. You're studying at.

[stupidbeecandle]

patent processes is interesting

man writing out a patent kinda really sucks ass and I haven't even gotten to the hard parts yet. This isn't anywhere near as fun as the invention, testing, and retesting phases.

still, I'm excited by the way the people on my NDA team have reacted to the design and the potential applications!

My program warned me that I can't post about it anywhere. (no shit, but still kind of a bummer). Just don't do it they said in like a 2 hour meeting with all the potential ways I could and others have fucked up.

They had one poor grad student get thousands of dollars and hours into the late development stage, who got super excited about how their invention was going and posted it on insta and BAM, can't patent that anymore. Now its considered "public" and anyone could say they invented that shit. Goodluck fighting to say you made that.

Which they say might happen anyway. Apparently theres a fuckton of people who's fulltime job is to steal research and ideas and say THEIR COMPANY made it. and their company has a small army of lawyers and a lot of big-dick capitalist pig money to throw around and good luck standing up to them even with a big university backing you. They call em patent trolls and apparently something like only 11% of inventions that small scale inventors develop actually successfully get patented and the rest get swiped by patent trolls.

The way it works is one of these trolls doesn't even have to provide proof that it was their invention. All they have to do is challenge you. The system is so absolutely FLOODED with patent troll claims that they're overloaded on cases to the point it would take generations of humans to sort out just the current patent disputes. So how do they handle it? If someone comes at you with a claim that they made it instead, your claim just gets thrown out. Poof, three years of research and development down the drain. The courts throw up their hands and say that this isn't worth their time unless you plan to drop at least a million dollars (probably more) fighting your claim.

Super intense shit and yet another ugly stupid flaw in the system we live under here in the god-blessed gun-try of the USA.

but also kinda neat! I know lot of students write books or design classes or do outreach programs or just read to kids at the library and all those have value but I'm all about that STUFF babee. I wanna see the gizmos AND the gadgets and this feels awesome. Even if I fail I get to say I tried, and so long as no one else patents my idea theres nothing to stop me from making and selling things unpatented on a small scale shrug.emogi

[suranastair]

Esteri Ingellvar 💀

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[sneezywheel]

Man wtf fuck biology when has science ever helped anyone ever. I’ll just major in communications and make a billion schmeckles that way

[the-casbah-way]

why is it so fucking embarrassing having to reference your own professor's book in the assignment that they are marking. like yeah sorry girl i stole all this from you. help

[hylianengineer]

I just saw fairly realistic human teeth candy on my dash and freaked out for a second like, oh god not again with the mysterious human remains. This is what being into bone identification does to your brain.

[vodka-and-ocs]

swamp time (part 3)

[driftingballoons]

Sometimes when your parents are angry they’ll say something that gives light to their own childhood and you realize Holy Shit a) that explains it and b) that’s so sad. 

Thinking specifically about one story my mom would always proudly tell when I did something wrong about how “easy “ I have it. As a child a great grandparent was asked to get something from a drawer—specifically the bottom drawer. They went all the way upstairs, checked the drawer, couldn’t find the thing, then came back down to report to their mother. And this woman apparently hit the fucking roof. The reasoning being that the kid “didn’t think” to check the other drawers when they couldn’t find it in the first one. The kid in question was 5 years old. This is an age where if you put the same amount of water in a short wide cup and a tall thin one, they’ll say there’s more in the taller one because the level is higher. And the fact that this story was passed down from generation to generation as an example of how the child was in the wrong and as a guide on how a kid’s mistakes should be handled is infuriating and incredibly depressing. Anyway I always took it as she said until one day, after having learned a tiny bit of developmental psychology, where I took an incredibly calculated risk and said something like, “that’s really sad. A 5y/o can’t necessarily reason at that level—their brain development isn’t physically there yet. For their mom to get so irrationally mad at them because she forgot where she put something was really low. She should have been able to own up to her own mistake.” And I’ll tell you normally a comment like this would’ve got me murdered, but I don’t think she’d ever quite…thought about it that way. She went quiet and changed the subject, and since then it’s never been brought up with that same haughty “see how good you have it! People deserve to be treated like this!” energy.