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argh_another_username, in Ten points from Griffindor!!

Poor plasma. It’s the most abundant state in the universe and always forgotten.

darcy,
@darcy@sh.itjust.works avatar

not to mention the other 14 or so

SSUPII,
StellarExtract, in True

I think that guy is speeding

SSUPII, in Your Brain Is Not an Onion With a Tiny Reptile Inside

Hard disagree, I am the reptile

navigatron, in Your Brain Is Not an Onion With a Tiny Reptile Inside

Why not? What if I want it to be

LegionEris, in Your Brain Is Not an Onion With a Tiny Reptile Inside

Well obviously. We’d smell the onions if they were just inside of our noses and all around us in crowds. It must be a gourd or something with a lower scent profile.

HerbalGamer, in Your Brain Is Not an Onion With a Tiny Reptile Inside

Then why does it make me cry?

Shurimal, in CAPTCHA

While the picture of the PCB is just blurry enough to be virtually illegible, it should also be a black-and-white photocopy of 13th generation for maximum effect.

trinitrotoluene, in CAPTCHA

GOTCHA

pimento64, in This is my Vietnam.

Treasure your badly-scanned papers from 1980, and be thankful you didn’t have to do historical research by sorting through bad scans from the 1980s of printouts of microfilm archives (yes, instead of scanning the microfilm) of photos of the original documents that were photographed in 1961 at a 45° angle by a lazy archivist who used the cheapest film he could get his hands on. And the scans have blotches that make some pages literally unreadable because the microfilms were allowed to sit exposed to moisture for 25 years before being digitized. No I’m not bitter and my collegiate education wasn’t a waste, not one bit of either.

Gork, in This is my Vietnam.

EXPERIMENTAL

M.p.s are not corrected, Tottoli apparatus; IR spectra [ν/cm^-1^], Beckmann IR-20A spectrometer; UV spectra, _Carl Zeiss RPQ 20A/C or Pye Unicam SP 8-100 instruments (λmaxnm); Mass spectra (MS(EI)) at 70 eV, CEC 21-490 Bell-Howard spectrometer (m/e [amu](% base peak)); MS in chemical ionization mode (CH4, 1 Torr), GC-MS system HP 5980 A, Hewlett-Packard; ^1^H NMR spectra, Bruker WP 80 CW spectrometer: δ[ppm](multiplicity, apparent coupling constant J[Hz], number of protons, attribution [Eu(dpm), relative induced shift]), s, singlet; br, broad; d, doublet; t, triplet; qa, quartet; m, multiplet; δTMS = 0.0 ppm; ^13^C NMR spectra Bruker WP spectrometer (15.08 MHz, spectrum width: 3750 Hz, 4096 points, FT mode): δ[ppm](multiplicity, apparent ^1^L coupling constants [± 2 Hz]

Edit: corrections per ornery_chemist

eestileib, in Machine Learning is when machine learns, stupid.

Dude on the right is correct that perturbed gradient descent with threshold functions and backprop feedback was implemented before most of us were born.

The current boom is an embarrassingly parallel task meeting an architecture designed to run that kind of task.

morrowind,
@morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

Random but why is “embarrassing” or similar adjectives so often used to describe a parallel program? What’s embarrassing about it?

Kichae,

"Embarrassingly parallelizable" is just the term for a process that can be perfectly paralleled.

morrowind,
@morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

rather odd choice of adjective though

xthexder,
@xthexder@l.sw0.com avatar

I think the usage implies it’s so easy to parallelize that any competent programmer should be embarrassed if they weren’t running it in parallel. Whereas many classes of problems can be extremely complex or impossible to parallelize, and running them sequentially would be perfectly acceptable.

Kichae,

The current boom is an embarrassingly parallel task meeting an architecture designed to run that kind of task.

Plus organizations outside of the FAANGs having hit critical mass on data that's actually useful for mass comparison multiple correlation analyses, and data as a service platforms making things seem sexier to management in those organizations.

breakfastburrito, in This is my Vietnam.

A lot of those academic “printed on demand” books are like this, too. Very annoying. Yea they’re out of print and old library physical copies cost over $100, but the “new” ones always look like this but faded instead of over saturated.

Kolanaki, in Machine Learning is when machine learns, stupid.
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So you’re saying memes about AI don’t belong in Science communities, because it’s more of an art? 🤔

ekky43,

I think AI belongs in the same box as electronics, which is just black magic with a cover story to make it seem like science.

You know how electronics sometimes release smoke when misused? Yea, that smoke is actually what makes the component work, and it’s a hell of a chore to put the smoke back in when it first has escaped!

Or do you know that planes actually “fall up into the sky” when they have enough speed? Ever looked at a jet fighter? Yea, the wings are actually just decoys.

Perhaps the memes would be better placed in witchymemes, or maybe we should make a new community for real, black magic, magus bullshit, “science”.

(Disclaimer: I’m an engineer, the examples above are jokes we like to tell each other. I know how that stuff actually works, and I’m obligated to make this disclaimer so you don’t realize that most engineers actually are modern day mages.)

tryptaminev, in Machine Learning is when machine learns, stupid.

Man i dont know. I had an introductery lecture into ML and we were told of some kernel stuff, where you look at a space that could be infinite dimensional and that you do some math to project into low dimensional feature space, where your seperation still works because of your kernel function.

That isnt some black box art form, that is clearly black magic.

fckreddit, in Machine Learning is when machine learns, stupid.

The reached the right end pretty quickly. One of the reasons I gave up on ML rather fast. Hyperparameter tuning is really, really random.

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