#expert systems

[spearsbrandonbooks]

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[official-torfmoor]

Has anyone here ever worked with one of those "expert systems" that people have been takling about since the 60s? Do they actually do anything useful? What is it like to use them?

[drasrinivas]

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[mtechcore]

Elements of AI | Artificial Intelligence

Elements of AI | Artificial Intelligence

We have told you about what is Artificial intelligence (AI) in our previous article. Where you have come to know what is AI or Artificial Intelligence and how many types are there. As we all know now that AI or Artificial Intelligence is changing the way we live, work, and even talk in our everyday life. AI is being used in medicine, in intelligent search engines, and even in predicting or…

[markscherz]

I clicked on that wikipedia link you posted for H. fleischmanni and was surprised to see that the section talking about the frog’s natural predators was titled “enemies” instead of “predators.” The word “enemies,” at least to me, seems strange in this context because it seems to anthropomorphize the frogs, which as far as I’m aware is something zoologists try to avoid doing with animals. Is there a scientific reason for “enemies” to be used here, as opposed to “predators”?

Regrettably, a huge number of problems of this kind have been built into Wikipedia by the Wikipedia Education Foundation-supported courses. Students carry out an 'assignment' that involves a dramatic expansion to a given wikipedia page based on any literature they can find. That revised page is then subjected to 'peer review' by their classmates. But because they are unfamiliar with (1) the literature, (2) the contents of other wikipedia pages, and (3) how wikipedia actually works, the resulting pages are often full of misinformation, redundancies, and weird formulations.

You have accurately identified one such idiosyncrasy. 'Enemies' was a very common formulation for 'predators' in the 1800s and early 1900s, but we have largely left it behind, for precisely the reason you say, and hence it sounds jarring to our ears. In this case it is a minor problem (you should have seen how the Paroedura masobe page looked before I cleaned it up), but irksome nonetheless.

[heckacentipede]

hey i just wanted to shout out my fellow endogenic multiples - whether it turns out you're traumagenic later or not, you're safe here.

i personally am not sure if there's forgotten trauma memories for myself, or if the trauma was too subtle for me to consciously acknowledge it, or if i just turned out plural all on my own, but at the end of the day the thing that matters most is that my system is real, respectful of others, and on the way to find mental stability

[mummer]

i see the term gender horror used alot in certain parts of asoiaf fandom and i dont think i fully get it like sure theres def a rigid and violently enforced structure to gender and sexual violence is both ubiquitous and a currency but is it just those things or is there something beyond i feel like its not clicking for me

honestly im p sure it is just those things lol you got it. i think asoiaf does take the violent structure of gender and commits to exploring it to its most remote extremes, so you get stuff like sam being chained up and bathed in blood or gilly being forced into marriage with her father or however many other examples of gendering as an abusive practice (as requiring you to either do violence (masculinity) or bear violence (femininity) to participate in society). which i think is where the horror part comes from, the extremity of it? the no-holds-barred dont-look-away blood-under-everything structural inescapability of it. idk that’s how i view it at least

[flowersdiceandlove]

CQMS has a peak for making alcohol in canon. Except! What if they actually make all types of poisons? What if they only say it’s just alcohol so the other sects/whoever don’t get up in their business about why they have an entire peak dedicated to making poison?

These guys are unhinged. They are spending all their time researching all poisons out there and creating their own. Is it deadly poison? Yes. Some say “the deadlier the better.” Are there other types as well? Absolutely. Itching, sneezing, gas bombs—you name it and they either already have it (the likelier option) or will make it for you (it is rare for them not to have it already).

Ofc they work closely with MQF since poison is such a big part of medicine. Zui Xian and Qian Cao have a long standing friendship. ZX is the “unhinged, chaos making friend”, and QC is the “looks composed and like they’ll reign the other in but is actually spurring them on and giving them more ammo” friend. Sometimes a ZX disciple will actually look and act normal, but everyone in CQMS knows not to trust it. Everyone on that peak is insane in a mad scientist sort of way. You cannot survive there if you’re not.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Please grade my Trans!

Work is coherent, very fluent and is presented professionally. Can work effectively independently and/or as part of a team, with an excellent contribution to group activities. Demonstrates excellent skills for employment requiring the exercise of some personal responsibility with an appetite for further development. 84%

[literary-illuminati]

2024 Book Review #29 – The Expert System’s Brother by Adrian Tchaikovsky

My public library tragically lacks the Tchaikovsky books I actually want to read (one day I shall get my hands on City of Last Chances. One day...), but it helpfully does have a random assortment of his other stuff. Among that other stuff was this rather charming little novella – hardly anything to set the world on fire, but it was a fun easy read to break the streak of a couple of disappointments.

The story follows Handry, a boy growing up in a village guided and governed by ‘ghosts’, immortal systems that fuse with and warp a suitable host to allow them to interact with the rest of the village as lawgiver, doctor, architect, or whatever else the village might require. After a deeply unfortunate accident, he ends up partially ‘severed’ – cut off from village and the world around it in a very real way, incapable of digesting food, avoided by animals, and inspiring aa visceral fight-or-flight reaction in everyone who sees him. For a time, his sister helps him survive on the village’s periphery, but when she’s selected as it’s next Doctor, her ghost finally takes a look at him and decrees he is incompatible with the community – and so he is forced to flee and wander the earth, and ends up learning the real state and history of the world.

This came out in 2018, but everything about it feels very classic sci fi – generally in a good way, to be clear. The story that exists primarily to be able to tease and then exposit about worldbuilding, the setting of an alien world inhabited by colonists who have forgotten their history and the source of the technology they rely upon, the absolute plethora of random bits of weirdness that are only really revealed implictly because they are totally normal to the protagonist (the six-legged and four-eyed bodyplan of most wildlife, for example), even the overarching theme of the perfect virtue of curiosity and questioning both charismatic authority and received tradition. It was a fun time! Made me a bit nostalgic for all my dad’s old ratty paperbacks I read as a child.

It’s definitively a novella-sized story, and I’m immensely glad Tchaikovsky didn’t try to drag out longer than it is. There are some intriguing points that are never followed up on – the tool-using and home-building aliens which every casually treats as wildlife and casually exterminates or drives out when they need more land, to begin with – that I assume are what the sequel follows up on? But this ended in the right place, and even with his voice being so present in the narration I’m not really sure Handry is enough of a character to have sustained a full novel in his head. Certainly none of the other characters got any more characterization than they strictly needed.

So yeah, no real complaints, it was an enjoyable read – but on the other hand in three months you’ll probably need to remind me that I’d actually read this.

[mypoorsqheart]

I've had this Sansaery Modern Westeros Politics AU bouncing around in my head for about a year or two and I finally decided to post some edits I made for it.

Margaery Tyrell, a woman from a long line of politics, is going across the country running Daenerys Targaryen's campaign for presidency.

Sansa Stark, her wife, is at home running a blog about disability awareness, survival of abuse, queer identity, and her service dog Brienne.

Due to things in Sansa's past, their marriage is a secret to anyone outside their close inner circle. As the campaign between Daenerys Targaryen and Cersei Lannister heats up, Margaery has to make some decisions about her life and what she cares about most.

[mariathechosen1]

Americans congratulating trans people in the uk on the election:////

I almost wanna let them live in ignorant bliss yk?

[miaoqing]

what (western) astrological sign do we thing SY is/was .... it looks as if september 21st is widely considered to be his birthday but according to the wiki it's actually the day he died? i guess it is technically his re-birth-day but transmigration didn't reset his personality soo does it really count? 🫣

to be fair, him being a virgo would make sense; virgos are known for being smart, responsible, hard-working, and self-sacrificing (according to co-star). all of this sounds pretty accurate imo.

HOWEVER. that man HAS to have a fire sign somewhere in there.

i'm thinking something like leo moon? "their emotional self is dramatic, proud, expressive, idealistic, and somewhat self-centered."

i feel like these traits make sense when you consider his actions and his character in general; he is definitely very dramatic, everything he says is basically just one big hyperbole. he is proud in a very stubborn way, he refuses to accept that he might have been wrong. this also ties in with him being self-centered, that is, he firmly believes that eveything is how he thinks it should be; like the way he was absolutely certain that LBH wanted to kill him to the point where he didn't even consider any other option.

his rising is a bit harder to pinpoint, but i'm thinking maybe aquarius; "they come across as broadminded, intellectual, and prone to abstraction, though somewhat detached or abrupt in their dealings with the real world. Their unconventional interests may seem eccentric or pretentious to others."

he is obviously very intellectual (he basically memorized AND made sense of the entirety of PIDW, + took over the SCHOLARLY peak without anyone noticing) and broadminded (like in his opinions about demons), except when it is something he has already made up his mind about. he is definitely detached from reality in the real world; he calls himself a "dispirited pretty boy sitting around waiting to die". in the svsss world, too, especially at first when he still sees everyone around him as just fictional characters. this is the one i'm most unsure about though.

pls tell me what you think <3

(also, SJ is definitely a scorpio)

[cecoeur]

hi just wanted to share! we thought that Daniel had a problem with his radio, but he was just fully locked in

https://x.com/F1Help/status/1814679865678794834?t=OKm5R1egKWfSHZGcKF_ajw&s=19

Before I start, I need you to know that the level of pettiness I'm about to stoop to is not directed at you, Anon, but at F1TV who robbed me of Pierre praising Daniel for that insane lap at the end of Q1 (I will literally never forgive them). Anyway, I love you for giving me this opportunity to be so extra.

I'm putting the rest of this under a cut because I'm including a screenshot and video analysis...because I'm insane.

To orient us, here is a screenshot of Daniel's steering wheel from an interview he did at the Canadian GP with TSN. The red button within the yellow box is his radio button. When he presses that, a light comes on to indicate that he is being received (very much in the same way your run of the mill walkie talkie works...just vastly more expensive).

Now, here is a video from qualifying. The first 26 seconds is radio after Daniel's first few laps in Q1 where we were hearing transmissions from both Daniel and Pierre. These include the typical instructions and position updates from Pierre. When Daniel "isn't using his radio much" we usually hear an "understood" from him in response. Here, he gives that but also answers a few of Pierre's questions regarding the issues with the car in those first couple push laps. I've (poorly) added some arrows to point out when Daniel pushes his radio button to talk. One thing to note here is that there is a massive delay. This is pretty typical although today it was especially bad.

You can see Daniel pushing the radio button a little more clearly when he's in the garage at (1:55). But we can't hear the conversation because the car is plugged in and not broadcasting the radio to everyone.

Directly following his last push lap in Q1, you can see Daniel push his radio button a couple of time (1:39 and 1:23 he pushes it on to start talking) but even accounting for the delays we experienced earlier, you don't hear him talk. Daniel pushes the radio button again (1:02) as he's being wheeled into the garage after Q1 but again, we hear nothing.

This continues through Q2 and Q3 but the best showcase of his radio not working is the red flag for Yuki's crash. You'd expect to hear some back and forth between Daniel and Pierre and you can see Daniel push his radio button multiple times but we hear none of it.

In closing, F1TV are lying liars who lie.