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[ot][crazy][draft] Friday's xkcd was a challenge to regenerate the comic
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 02 Apr '22

02 Apr '22

It's audio of logo code that draws a comic. The xkcd community I visit is explainxkcd.com, so it's not too advanced. xkcd is the only webcomic I read regularly since 2014 or so. i'm also reading seed a bit, which just recently pushed through a block regarding shielded rooms, remains to be seen if it keeps going. what's relevant here is the idea of recovering material when you do not have a reference for what is correct. you could do it otherwise, of course, but there is more return in learning to do it with only the available material. thoughts: whatever technique you choose to initially approach the problem with will have some way of extracting from it confidence in its output. with transformer models, this is usually a clear part of the output. if we have multiple indications of confidence, is it reasonable then to use this information to refine and update the models autonomously, and have it autocomplete the image reconstruction? -- here's an example: - speech-to-text produces logo code with associated confidence - logo machine can then mark code with incorrect or correct syntax then we can actually make a 3rd metric out of a simple heuristic, for example how likely are very long and straight lines to be correct? the screenshot at https://github.com/somebody1234/xkcd2601 has many long and straight lines that look incorrect. By using the existing confidence, we can tune a confidence metric of our heuristic. Then this heuristic can provide additional confidence information on the output. By finetuning the speech-to-text model based on this additional information, it can then learn properties of the speech in the recording, by knowing which output is correct or not. This produces improvements in its output, autocorrecting errors that weren't detected by the heuristic because of transfer of the correction information to the speech data. -- It's part of something I've thought about some that is hard to transcribe. There's a way to produce further feedback and improvement after that first step, and a way to automate the heuristic generation, by simply assuming that some of the output is correct in different ways and the correctness is transferrable.

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Turkey farms to lose 5 million birds
by professor rat 02 Apr '22

02 Apr '22

Turkey farms to lose 5 million birds to bird flu https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/iowa-egg-turkey-farms-lose-million-bird…

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[ot][spam][crazy] Quickly autotranscribing xkcd 4/1 correctly
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 02 Apr '22

02 Apr '22

I'd like to do it _without_ transformer models, but since I can barely control my body, I'll plan to use them. Here's the plan: - we find two different speech-to-text models - we upload them and the audio data to e.g. google colab - loop: - forward pass with both on the data - the difference is their output is used as their loss - backward pass with both the challenge is whether (a) implementation mistakes and (b) the possibility of design error, can both be resolved before the correct transcription reaches explainxkcd.com or the github linked in other post. then if we do it in time, we see who else has done it and how much faster they were than we were

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Dorsey Admits Destroying the Internet with GovCorp
by grarpamp 02 Apr '22

02 Apr '22

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/former-twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-say… Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Says He is “Partially to Blame” for the Destruction of Internet Today and Regrets It By Jim Hoft Published April 2, 2022 at 1:55pm Comment Co-founder Jack Dorsey made the social media app Twitter a household name. He also helped destroy free speech in the United States. Jack Dorsey banned President Trump from the social media platform allegedly for ‘inciting violence’ but not the Taliban and Iranian leaders. A whistleblower inside Twitter exposed and recorded CEO Jack Dorsey and sent Project Veritas the recording. Project Veritas released a video of Jack Dorsey laying out the roadmap for future political censorship — censoring Trump was just the beginning. TRENDING: EXCLUSIVE: US Postal Service Refuses to Release Investigative Report on Whistleblower Truck Driver Who Hauled 288,000 Suspicious Ballots Across State Lines Before 2020 Election “We are focused on one account [@realDonaldTrump] right now, but this is going to be much bigger than just one account, and it’s going to go on for much longer than just this day, this week, and the next few weeks, and go on beyond the inauguration,” Dorsey said in a video recorded January 8, 2021. Twitter also suspended the Gateway Pundit account indefinitely after we announced more videos of TCF Center fraud would be released in the coming days. Questioning the fraudulent election will no longer be tolerated by the social media giant. Also, Jack Dorsey somehow knows that hyperinflation will hit, which is happening in America today. “Hyperinflation is going to change everything. It’s happening,” Dorsey tweeted. Hyperinflation is going to change everything. It’s happening. — jack⚡️ (@jack) October 23, 2021 Jack Dorsey stepped down as CEO of Twitter last year. In his recent tweet, the former CEO said that he is “partially to blame” for the current state of our internet today and claimed that he regrets it. “The days of usenet, irc, the web…even email (w PGP)…were amazing. centralizing discovery and identity into corporations really damaged the internet. I realize I’m partially to blame, and regret it,” Dorsey said in his tweet. It can be recalled that Elon Musk tweeted out a poll asking his followers, “Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy. Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?” he tweeted, giving two options to his social media users to vote: yes or no. The final results of the poll showed that 70.4% believed that Twitter violates our freedom of speech. Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy. Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle? — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 25, 2022 Jack Dorsey then responded to Elon Musk’s poll, saying “the choice of which algorithm to use (or not) should be open to everyone”. The choice of which algorithm to use (or not) should be open to everyone https://t.co/o2DkSTWW0O — jack⚡️ (@jack) March 25, 2022

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Asking Punk-BatSoup-Stasi a Question was Re: [ot][spam][crazy] Being a tiny part of a goal
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 02 Apr '22

02 Apr '22

On 4/2/22, Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 <punks(a)tfwno.gf> wrote: > >> off we go! > > > kill yourself, spamming asshole. Hi, Why do you say this? What is it about? Please.

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[ot][spam][crazy] Being a tiny part of a goal
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 02 Apr '22

02 Apr '22

Hello! Goals are silly things that human beings pursue using huge parts of their consciousness and environment.

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high ranking vaccine nazis
by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 02 Apr '22

02 Apr '22

corruption in the cesspool where grancrap and jim bell float is just infinite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Gerberding "first woman to serve as the dictator the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention" "In December 2009, Gerberding became president of Merck's vaccine division" "is currently the executive vice president for strategic communications, global public policy & population at Merck"

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Social-media app pays crypto?
by professor rat 02 Apr '22

02 Apr '22

“APPICS is more than just another social media app. It combines social media, the power of blockchain, NFT, the metaverse and other technologies of the future to bridge the digital world with the real world and provide people from all over the globe with more decentralized and transparent solutions.” At its core, the APPICS app is designed to alter the way the world perceives social media, allowing creators to get rewarded with cryptocurrency directly from the content and engagement they create. https://cointelegraph.com/news/web3-social-media-app-that-rewards-creators-…

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Does Rat have some kind of weird celebrity obsession?
by zeynepaydogan 02 Apr '22

02 Apr '22

He probably wanted to be a Hollywood star when he was little.He's been obsessed for a long time.But now he's an old “Govlick”.Is there a good rehabilitation center for old people in Australia?

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Karl Semich seeking help
by professor rat 02 Apr '22

02 Apr '22

Karl Semich, sorry, Kanye West is reportedly ‘going away to get help’ Karl, sorry, Kanye West has agreed to seek mental health treatment after several vicious spam barrages, sorry, verbal attacks on the anarchists cypherpunk list, sorry, his ex-wife Kim Kardashian. My mind is going Bruce - I can feel it.

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