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groundramon · 7 years ago

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I’ll take this as asking for five facts about five characters bc im currently waiting for all/most of the items to unlock on my current zoo tycoon game and idk what to do to kill the time besides this sO:

Character 1: Skift (bc I dont talk about him enough)

1. Skift is a very ambitious person. One of the main reasons he enlists in the army in Majjikku is in hopes of some day becoming a war hero. He’s also easily influenced by other peoples’ approval or disapproval, despite how adamantly he would insist otherwise if you ask him. Hence why he wants the validation of being a household name and a hero in the history books.

2. The other main reason he enlisted in the army is because he absolutely despises his family. I’m still working on the kinks of his backstory but the jist of it is that he comes from an extremely large family with a neglectful mother and an absent father. He and his other siblings around his age were raised by their elder siblings, but Skift had the misfortune of having a personality that completely clashed with theirs and often got in fights with them, that sometimes even turned physical. As soon as he was old enough to enlist in the army, he left home and headed to the nearest enlisting center (which unfortunately was several days away since they lived in the middle of goddamn nowhere, but he makes at least)

3. Skift has no real education, living in the middle of nowhere and not having anyone to teach him skills. When he was younger he got along with his siblings better and was able to learn basic math, and of course he can speak fine, but he probably can’t read very well and anything besides basic addition and subtraction is a mystery to him. Having said that, illiteracy and a general lack of scholarly knowledge, isn’t uncommon on the Parity side, as they have the very minimal requirement of laws and government required to run a government. (Literally you can kidnap someone and as long as you give them adequate shelter, food, and water, and you dont abuse them or anything, the “police” wont do anything about it)

4. Skift gets a strong rush while in the middle of combat. Adrenaline does good things to his psyche and as long as he doesn’t suddenly realize that those were real people dying on the battlefield, he’ll be in a good mood for the rest of the day after a Parity victory. He’s not bloodthirsty, but he does get uncomfortably into it when in the heat of battle, even if he has to watch the person he’s killing die in front of him.

5. Skift in a way is supposed to be a sort of clueless libertarian/anti-ally who isnt a bigot. Like, think a white person who doesnt believe in systemic racism but wouldn’t discriminate against a person of color because the whole reason they dont believe in systemic racism is because its bad for the economy. (Which, it is, they’re right about that lmao). I dont know entirely what I’m planning to do with that concept because I dont know if I, as a very dumb white person, have the ability to play with racism/the concept of colorblindness like that, but I hope I can do SOMETHING with them. Either I’ll need to educate myself or I’ll just change that trait to being dumb about politics in general, I dunno. (Because he doesnt really care about the politics of Parity vs Halcyon, he just agrees with the Parity because thats all hes ever known.)

Bonus fact bc I had too many: Skift is pretty heavily inspired by the design of an old warrior cats OC I had named Falconstar/Falcon. He’s not exactly a dead character (I dont do anything with Warrior Cats anymore but if I did, he’d be on my list of potential characters to reboot, altho i dont know if id have the heart to take him out of the universe/AU he’s from…) but I feel like their personalities are different enough that they wont be mistaken for one another. Also Skift has a stupid scarf.

Character 2: Phillip (or is it Lenny? Idk I think I changed it to Phillip)

1. Phillip is also from Majjikku, I should mention, but he’s a part of the Halcyon side. The first thing I should mention is that he’s a prince, and 3rd in line to the Crayking throne - he has an elder brother who joins the army with him, and an elder sister who stays behind to keep the kingdom safe with their aging parents. I believe they also have a younger sibling or two, but they’re too young to be politically important. Anyways, its worth mentioning that the only reason Phillip was sent over her sister is because he’s an inadept spoiled brat, and the Halcyon side was asking for at least two members of royalty to join their ranks to form an alliance, so Phillip was sent alongside their actually combatually adept elder son. The Halcyon sent Phillip to the “less useful” soldier training camps, while his brother was able to ascend straight up in the ranks of the army. Since arriving in Halcyon territory, Phillip hasn’t seen his brother once. (It’s worth mentioning as a side note, the Craykings only allied themselves with the Halcyon side to protect their own necks. They believe the Halcyons have the upper hand in the war, and want to be on the right side of history when the war concludes. And they dont have the strength to stand up to both sides; the Halcyons have promised to protect their underwater empire from the Parities due to their allyship.

2. As I mentioned, Phillip is an inadept spoiled brat. Years of coddling in his palace have turned him into a demanding asshole who makes jokes at the expense of others and has overly high expectations from others, despite thinking he himself deserves to sit on his ass all day. There’s a deep reason for it, as there is for all my characters, but there are so many layers that caused him to act like this that at this point it’s just become his personality.

3. Having said that, Phillip grew up in an environment where acting nice was more important than being nice. Who cared what you did behind closed doors, so long as you put on a presentable front? He’s extremely charming and sociable in big social events, often making on-point jokes and contributing in a seemingly meaningful way. In fact, he’s arguably even better at it than his two older siblings, since they have opinions of their own and aren’t just a mindless robot for their parents to interject their thoughts and opinions to. Phillip is very good at regurgitating what he’s been told, and has a very flawed and honestly nonexistent sense of self because he has never had the freedom to make his own opinions. Or rather, he was told how to act and feel, and he never had the strength that his siblings had to make his own opinions on what was being taught to him.

4. Phillip wears a fancy bowtie and he refuses to take it off for unexplained reasons. There’s no deep reason to it, I just like bowties.

5. Phillip believes that both of his elder siblings are more adept and intelligent in every aspect. He respects his parents authority over the kingdom and part of why he acts like a jerk is because he legitimately has no idea what he’s doing and would rather die than inherit the throne. He knows nothing about politics, despite his entire life being politics (in more ways than one). The good news is that it seems like if something happened to both his elder siblings and his parents, it would probably go to the next sibling below him, even if they were still under 10 at the time.

Character 3: Glitch

1. Glitch REALLY needs a new name but I’m currently trying to come up with an idea of how Glitch could mean something different in their world (Majjikku, I should clarify), but right now im empty-handed and please help me.

2. Glitch is blind, or at least has significant sight problems. I think. I dont know, I really need to develop Glitch more. Maybe he just needs glasses like I do and without them everything is hella blurry but at least he can get around.

3. Glitch’s species is often used as horses in the Halcyon army due to their obedient nature and high intelligence for a species that generally isnt considered “sentient”/having human intelligence (I know sentient isnt the right word, hence why I clarified). Glitch’s species does have human-like intelligence and capabilities, having the capability for empathy and compassion and self-realization just as much if not more as other Majjikku species, but they generally lack in vocal and academic intelligence. Glitch is unusually vocal for his species, a mutation that comes up in packs of the sauropod-like species every now and then. Because of this and his sight problems, he was put in the same “lesser” squadron as Phillip, instead of the same training the other young from his herd were given.

4. Having said that, “unusually vocal” for his species is still very quiet most of the time. He has a strong understanding of the words of those around him, stronger than most of the rest of his species (although they can comprehend language, just not as quickly) and can articulate full sentences in a reasonable amount of time, he just prefers not to. He also can’t go on half-an-hour-long rants about things because he would run out of words and brainpower very quickly, which god I wish that were me because I will talk until my mouth falls off and its 3 am i s2g im not even exaggerating.

5. Glitch has no understanding of the war but as his herd is encouraged to help the war effort, as opposed to being forcibly taken (which was outlawed and deemed unethical when more and more offspring like Glitch started popping up), he supports his side and would gladly die for it. Also he loves his friends, even Phillip.

Character 4: Aquarius

1. I love Aquarius!!! Somehow she became my favorite Majjikku character and idk why. She’s got cool pants, thats probably part of the reason. Anyways Aquarius is Marble’s best friend in the series; they become fast friends on the train to their squadron when they begin talking about their similar experiences in being dragged away from their families and forcibly enlisted in the army. (Is it horrible to enlist 13 and 14 year old kids in the army by force? It absolutely is, that’s the point; I dont take my characters being young teens like most stories abt young teens do, I’m well aware they’re going to be fucked up as fuck and I’m exploiting that for all its worth.) Aquarius came from a big family of 5 with an absent mother and a nonexistent father, where her elder sister raised herself and then raised her. Unlike Skift, Aquarius became very close with her eldest sister, although they both share a resentment for their parents because of their shit awful parenting. Aquarius was forced to join the army because her three younger siblings were too young for the army, and her eldest sister had to stay behind and work a job and care for the younger kids, something Aquarius knew she wouldn’t be able to do.

2. Unlike all the other characters I’ve mentioned so far, and hell probably all the characters in Majjikku in general lol, Aquarius actually supports the Halcyon for what they stand for. Obviously with her absent mother and father, Aquarius and her siblings needed a lot of financial help. Thankfully that’s what the Halcyon system was built around, and the government was able to get Aquarius’s eldest sister a stable well-paying job and the entire family enough money to get a decent place and pay for food for a while. The government still monitors their family regularly to make sure they arent squandering the money and that everything is going okay, but they did far, far more good than harm. Aquarius believes that this is the best form of government; a form of government that on a very personal level cares for its members and helps them through hardships, and forces them on the right path. In our world, she’d be a socialist through and through, if not a straight-up communist. (Having said that, I do believe Aquarius would have different political opinions if she grew up in our world. The difference between our world governments and the Halcyon government is that the Halcyon government…actually gives a shit about people. Most of the people who work for the government are volunteers, who at best get a small place to stay and some food. Like, the Halcyon actually help 99% of the poor population in the Halcyon city. The amount of financial aid given outside of the city significantly drops, but in their city, being homeless and poor is illegal but instead of throwing you in jail for it they’ll help you get out of it. If you squander it then you’ll end up in jail, but still. Idk what Aquarius would believe in differently if she grew up here, but I dont think she’d be a straight-up communist because we have too many failed communist governments in our history.)

3. Aquarius and her family’s coloring is very odd for her species. The bear-like species that her family is made up of is generally brown, red, yellow, orange, tan, white, gray, black, ect - normal-ish fur colors. Blue, at least to the extent that Aquarius and her family have is nonexistent. It is likely that she and her family have a small percentage of an aquatic species’ DNA, such as a crayking, in them.

4. Aquarius loves being supportive of other people and listening to and relating to their struggles. She’s actually a pretty good motivational speaker and is a pretty great friend. She’s great and I love her. Also the pants.

5. Aquarius clashes a lot with Shade, another character in her squadron. I’m not giving Shade his own section but the reason is that he’s an overly negative character, constantly throwing shade at the Halcyon side and complaining about training. However, once she realizes the reasons for his dissatisfaction with his current situation, she stops calling him out when he says stuff against the Halcyon side. She does start to debate her own opinions a bit after that, and has a lot of long conversations with Marble about it in their shared bedroom. (If anyone’s interested in Shade feel free to send me another star asking about him, or reply to this post or w/e! otherwise ill just keep it a secret lol)

Character 5: Grace

1. Thank god, a character that isn’t Majjikku-related lol. Anyways Grace is the embodiment of a rebellious teenager. She doesn’t listen to any authority, goes out of her way to do bad things, and will purposely disobey what you say even if she doesnt want to do the thing she’d have to do by disobeying you. The whole reason she gets involved in Spirits’ plot is because she knows taking money from a stranger to play with the laws of science and reality would be firmly in her dad’s list of things she can’t do.

2. Speaking of her dad, he’s a little bit of a dick. He’s the reason she’s so disrespectful towards authority. He’s basically just a stereotypical religious nut; anti-gay, anti-transgender, anti-atheist, anti-anyone who isnt christian, anti-drugs, and he even enforces some form of gender roles. And he’s very vocal about these things. He tries to be a huge helicopter parent, but Grace can and will avoid him, ignore his punishments, and stay out so late that her parents cant yell at her for disobeying them. Her father is very vocal about his displeasure and downright hatred of Grace sometimes, and ever since she started questioning his words when she was a young girl, he’d yell at her for it. Her older brother isn’t too great either, but he’s more of an annoying slouch who plays video games all day instead of working than a legitimately bad guy.

3. Grace believes she’s straight because she has no interest in being sexual with a woman, but she’d be totally down with kissing and cuddling and being romantic with a woman, hence why I identify her as a biromantic heterosexual. She’s also the most sexually active of all my characters, which no I will not elaborate on that, not because I dont feel comfortable with it but because I dont know how the fuck that works. (Also side note, I headcanon things in my own stories so I like to headcanon that at some point Grace and Shawn get together and they can be all romantic and mushy n stuff together but Shawn’s totally okay with Grace going out for one night stands with guys so long as she stays safe. Obviously they talk everything out to make sure everyone is safe and okay with the relationship, but Shawn’s pretty okay with it; she’s pretty used to Grace having sex with no romantic attraction involved, and ofc Shawn isn’t into sex so she doesn’t feel like it’s a problem.)

4. Grace is closer with her mother than her father, but although her mother is very much a mediator and acts very kind and forgiving to Grace, Grace still kind of despises her. Just because Grace’s dad is a dick doesn’t mean she isn’t too.

5. Grace’s spirit form is a bloodthirsty wyvern with major anger problems. Each of the kids’ spirit forms have a slight personality outside of the kids themselves, and Grace’s is bloodthirsty and destructive - not intelligently so, but still. Most fo the kids’ spirit forms are pretty mindless and just mindlessly destructive, except two.

#thank you for the ask!! : D #stormy answers #majjikku #skift #prince phillip #aquarius #glitch #grace

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shielfc · 4 years ago

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AI in Financial Services – The Rules

Monetary administrations and market misrepresentation; two expressions that you'd never hope to hear articulated with regards to an innovation wild, wild West. However that is the image painted behind the new RFI (Request for Information) posted by five of the world's biggest monetary controllers. These incorporate the Federal Reserve, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., National Credit Union Administration, and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Testing further, the RFI unequivocally tries to figure out how man-made brainpower (AI) and AI are presently being utilized by monetary firms – on the grounds that they don't have a clue. That in of itself raising an alert. What's more, with no unmistakable bits of knowledge or guidelines identified with the use of these innovations in RegTech, the inquiry that they truly need addressed is, is there any oblivious predisposition that has coincidentally been incorporated into the models?

Undoubtedly, that conceivably uncovered a murkier side of monetary exchanges, one that we haven't seen in almost a long time since Enron's base camp was assaulted by the FBI. "Do they, or don't they?" has indeed become the consuming inquiry. This time, notwithstanding, it's being presented to the entire monetary industry as a system. What's more, it's not just the monetary controllers posing the inquiry. Today, that consuming inquiry is at the up front of drives by the guard dog bunches like the American Civil Liberties Union who have openly gotten down on ruthless loaning and the understood predisposition currently underlying to the loaning models maintained by each bank in America (and past its lines).

Understood Bias in Machine Learning

How about we venture back a second for a fast preliminary into how understood inclination has evidently crawled into monetary danger evaluation models. To begin with, AI (ML) is an applied type of AI. The term started to portray the act of how the machine (for this situation, the numerical calculation versus an actual machine substance like a robot) figures out how to connect X with Y after it has been uncovered thousands or millions of times to information that expressly "states" X = Y.

Consider it along these lines, when you do a Google pictures search, you're really on the less than desirable finish of a utilization of AI and ML. The programmers behind that innovation picked which informational indexes would be at first introduced to the inquiry calculation. This initial step is known as "preparing the calculation." As is the situation for preparing of any kind, you realize whatever you're prepared to learn. When the calculation has been prepared, it is then tried on randomized information.

Aftereffects of those randomized tests illuminate how the calculation will be refined until the expectation exactness accomplishes an "satisfactory rate." For the situation of the Google pictures search, the calculation "realized" that pictures with explicit qualities like hide, hairs, sharp ears, long tails, and little noses are felines and not canines. Relatively, on account of monetary danger evaluation calculations, the preparation information incorporated a broad assortment of advance defaults connected with verifiably low salaries of minorities. Consequently, the implied predisposition has now probably been implicit to every one of these models. What the RFI is endeavoring to explain is the way profound that predisposition is and what is that "worthy rate" of precision in the monetary danger appraisal models which is thought to be exceptionally factor starting with one monetary foundation then onto the next.

A Call for Governance

The wild, wild West similarity here alludes to an absence of self-office and policing which prompts an "anything goes" sort of climate. Indeed, even in an industry as firmly controlled as monetary administrations, there is no current arrangement of guidelines or rules administering how AI and ML (and the basic preparing information) can be utilized in the appraisal of monetary danger.

The EU is leading for the fate of AI and ML in money with its proposition to administer the use of these advances. Monetary danger appraisals have been hailed as "high-hazard AI frameworks" due to their known inalienable predisposition got from chronicled preparing information. Administration prerequisites including executing a danger the executives framework with alleviation and control measures, preparing, and standard testing to guarantee there are securities set up upon any cautions of possible implied predisposition. Specialized documentation, record-keeping, straightforwardness, human oversight, and digital protection will be fundamental parts of adherence and monetary firms are equipping on the best way to best plan for this degree of openness. US establishments are saved – until further notice. Be that as it may, it probably will not be some time before the US executes a comparable administration structure.

What's Next?

The RFI will probably not test profoundly enough on how monetary firms are hailing exchanges to alarm consistence officials to expected extortion and tax evasion plans. Nor can they probably explain how firms are investigating unstructured information to get experiences making them aware of associated occasions with market misuse. Doing so would possibly undermine the upper hand that one bank has over another. What's more, in this time of constant information examination with regards to billions of yearly exchanges, even decimal point contrasts in exactness can shift a huge number of dollars each year towards benefits – or misfortunes.

Eventually, the objective is a superior comprehension of and rules administering how AI and ML ought to be applied to caution consistence officials to suspected market misuse. Alongside that authorization to work and use such advances presently comes the duty and responsibility to report if such practices are verifiably one-sided against specific populaces.

Your AI can at this point don't stay a black box.

#AI in Financial Services #Financial Services #rules of Financial Services #Rules in AI #Machine Learning

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wesleycurr-blog · 7 years ago

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An Impetus for Change

Hello dear reader. I’ve never blogged before, nor have I casually written in any large capacity. I felt this journey is important to blog. What journey you ask? The journey to diagnose the meaning of life. Just a casual attempt to find reason to keep living and living fully. Afterall, there’s got to be one right? Maybe there isn’t? That’s just one of the questions I hope to answer. My writing isn’t going to be particularly strong or poetic. I don’t know a lot of good adjectives (hah) and will not be able to produce what your high school teacher told you to do. Nor will I try. Sure, I could revise my posts over and over, or dedicate a lot of brainpower to each sentence, but why do that? It’s the content that matters. Plus, there’s a good chance I’m the only one that ever reads this, so I know what I meant. Given, there is a chance others do read this, likely at my recommendation. And if that is the case, first off, welcome, and second off, I apologize for any major syntax or grammatical errors. So anyways, you get the point. I am writing for speed and content; more of an outline of what I find I suppose. I am not here to entertain I am here to provide my discoveries.

Wow, you never really realize how many times you use “I” in a paragraph until you blog like this. Guess I’ll just let it happen.

Anyways, I suppose I should provide a little more detail as to the point of this blog. My name is Wesley Currence, and I am looking for meaning in life. If there is no meaning, life is pretty sad, largely pointless, and frankly not worth living if you don’t want to. If life is meaningless, suicide is one of the bravest choices. You are committing the ultimate action to escape a life you don’t like. Some may say it’s the cowards way out, but I say committing suicide is the scariest thing you can do and trumps any tough thing you have to do in life. So, if you have a family of 5, barely make any money, are a single mother, and might have to throw up kids for adoption, and suicide is the other choice, I still think suicide is scarier. And as a result, I guess “braver”. Although I don’t like the connotation of bravery mixed with suicide all that might. But you get the idea. I don’t frown on it, IF LIFE HAS NO MEANING.

However, if life does have meaning, that’s another ball game.

Freshman year of college I spiraled into a pretty deep depression. Since then, I have climbed out (for the most part). This depression was brought on by a since of meaninglessness in the world and the realization that the atheist’s perspective truly renders life pointless. I wouldn’t have considered myself an atheist at the time, nor would I have considered myself religious. I was just kind of there. I grew up in a Christian home, but never really understood it or embraced it. And when I had more time to myself to think about things (in college), that’s when it hit hard. I didn’t bounce out of it due to finding hope, but just through the passing of time. Funny how that works. Throughout that time I always hung onto the hope that I’d be passionately inspired into a Christian life, almost at random. Perhaps a certain quote or meeting a certain person would trigger it. And then I would have hope and live a meaningful life. But that never happened and it was quite naive of me to think that would happen in retrospect.

Today, I’m in a pretty stable mental state. I have a daily schedule that I stick to and it has anchored my sanity and general well-being. However, I know there is no bigger question to answer than that of religion and hope. Sure, career choices loom and big questions in my personal life need to be answered, but again, with perspective, it’s obvious that they are just drops of water compared to the ocean that is finding the reason for life.

So, I hope to answer it. First and foremost, I hope to answer it to find a reason to exist. Something to fuel me when I’m down and something to live for and hope for. A reason to love others. Secondly, I want the answer to conquer my fears in life. I have personally struggled with insecurity and fear of other people for the last few years. Job interviews terrify me, I struggle to pursue girls, I worry that I converse awkwardly with people, I hate talking to adults and professionals as I fear I’ll mess up or they’ll think I’m weird. The list goes on. The fears improved a little with my climbing out of depression, but they still exist. And I know they will limit me forever if I can’t tackle them.

If you haven’t noticed by now, I’m pretty biased on what I hope to find. I don’t want to find a hopeless world when I’m done with this journey. And this is a bias I just can’t deny. It exists. However, I will try my best to objectively examine the arguments for atheism. It will be hard but I will try. It’s just a matter of who I am - the bias can’t simply disappear.

I plan to read the books I choose slowly and (reasonably) meticulously. I want to actually understand it. P.S. that’s another one of my fears, not being able to retain knowledge or articulate it. So, I hope that by going slowly I will have a better personal understanding AND be able to retain/explain if the time ever comes.

This blog has already become quite long . . . I plan to take on Richard Dawkin’s “The God Delusion” as my first read. This is a first for me as I have rarely come at atheism through the first hand perspective of an atheist. It’s going to be a tough read. I plan to note the major arguments used by Dawkins in favor of atheism and compare them with counter arguments prepared by religious folks. This will either take the form of internet research or another book that then goes against Atheism. The religious counterarguments are going to be coming from a Christian perspective. For a few reasons. First off, I’m most aware of the Christian side of things and their arguments, so I want to be able to contrast the arguments from 2 sides I actually understand (Atheism and Christianity). If I were to look up Islamic refutes for Atheistic arguments, I would be lost. Secondly, the resources favoring Christian apologetics are much more abundant than those of other major religions. Thirdly, I already have preconceived beliefs that Christianity holds the strongest arguments, and I want to see how they hold up.

I will be blogging the outline of my findings. Likely chapter by chapter. Since I’m renting from the lib, I can’t outline in the book itself. So typing will serve as an outline I guess.

After I contrast Atheism and Christianity, I will move onto the comparison of major world religions. That is, if Christianity can hold up. Cue cliffhanger music.

That’s the introduction. Here goes nothin.

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