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  1. But you see, that is racism in its purest form right there.  Prejudgment based on skin color.
     

    ^no. That’s prejudice via classism, not racism. That is because prejudgment of poor people behaviors based off skin is not intrinsic to skin and is fluid, as well as can change in context (not to be confused with “context switching”)

  2. 7 hours ago, shadow_operative said:

    Will Smith was afraid that he'd no longer be an A-list celebrity if Americans thought he was divorced?

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    Exactly. Brad Pitt seems to be doing okay and he went through something messier with (at the time) an actual A-list wife. That’s one of the reason I don’t buy in to the creepy Scientology conspiracy theories about him staying in a cuckold relationship and the other is it’s 2022.
     

    Why would a Will Smith be afraid of coming out as gay? If anything that would revive his career and popularity (I know it sounds weird to say after winning an Oscar for a movie nobody saw). He would be celebrated and honored and considered brave and tap into a culture and demographic of fans that have been turned off by him. Heck he might even look redeemable from all this Jada crap and get to rewrite the story that he’s the real victim and get a lot of sympathy.

    But Occam’s razor is he’s not gay, just a weirdo.

  3. Never let a good meltdown go to waste. Good for Chris:

    Chris Rock's comedy ticket sales have skyrocketed hours after drama erupted between the comedian-turned-presenter and Will Smith at the 94th Academy Awards.

    "We sold more tickets to see Chris Rock overnight than we did in the past month combined," TickPick tweeted on Monday morning, also claiming prices have seen a drastic increase. Tickets went up from a minimum of $46 per person on March 18 to a minimum of $341, reports Variety.

    https://radaronline.com/p/chris-rock-ticket-sales-increase-will-smith-slap/

  4. 6 minutes ago, naija said:

    These things always bring out the "Black Community" Experts, don't they?

    Offset and Cardi B. I guess Denzel isn't Black famous or Tyler Perry, or Shannon Sharpe, or ....

    It's the curated special that's the "general Black defense." Nevermind that polling shows pretty much across all racial groups, people thought Smith was wrong for it.

    Can't wait to see what else Black Anthropologist specialist TurkeyChew has in store for us.

    I'll tell you who isn't a black community expert, besides myself; the guy who was so sure that not one prominent and influential black entertainer would be for Will Smith that he asked for just ONE example. And I know, Cardi B isn't my cup of tea either, but I bet she's more influential to the youth and active online (bpt) than Tyler Perry. And Shannon Sharpe? hahahaha

  5. 6 hours ago, futureman said:

    @TexArcher I have seen your posts in the past extolling the virtues of tolstoy. I have read some dostoevsky, not much, but enough to have an intimate appreciation for him. recently, though, I just finished resurrection, by tolstoy, and have just gotten into anna karenina. I am now inclined to agree with you. tolstoy has no equal. 

    I'll be the judge of that, as I just bought The Death of Ivan Illich.

  6. 5 minutes ago, Pancho said:

    Who? Jada’’s “friendship” with August Alsina is well known.  It’s also well known that Jada and Tupac weren’t really a thing but extra, extra flirty. Whether or not Pac hit it before, well his death, is anyone’s guess, but it made Will very jealous of their relationship. 

    I don’t think Will is gay. Travolta is a well known secret.  Jaden is the gay in their family.  I don’t know that he has certain friends that Jada would have fucked, if you get my drift. 

    I say all of this without knowing who you are and what your connections are.  My connections?  I’ve seen every episode of Fresh Prince and sat thru I Am Legend on a date.

    You know all this inside fastball about the Smith's for some reason and yet you were confused with the very public general black twitter defense of Will Smith and needed me to confirm some names for you? Something isn't adding up.

  7. With respect to Biden's proposal on taxing unrealized gains, I read this blurb:

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    “In effect, the Billionaire Minimum Income Tax payments are a prepayment of tax obligations these households will owe when they later realize their gains,” the White House said. “This approach means that the very wealthiest Americans pay taxes as they go, just like everyone else, and eliminates the inefficient sheltering of income for decades or generations.”

    Does this mean that if later, there are no gains to realize or less than prepaid (in a loss or total loss scenario), the tax payor receives a refund?

    If so, I can see this being at least meeting a minimum threshold where it wouldn't be completely irrational for Democratic lawmakers to vote for it.

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-26/biden-to-propose-20-tax-aimed-at-billionaires-unrealized-gains

  8. 1 hour ago, Pancho said:

    Well, Jada got some August Alsina dick which is 21 years younger than her so she was fine.  I’m sure she took that trade fairly easily.

     

     

    Name me one “African American celebrities or entertainer” who appreciated this. (Who talks like that?)

    Offset, Cardi B, Tiffany Haddish, 50 Cent, and much much more. I can dig up the list of tweets I guess, this just off the top of my head.

  9. 1 hour ago, lemonlime said:

    Who's excusing Will Smith?  Other than apparently some comedian I never heard of who someone on this board went out of the way to locate.

    I’ve seen a lot of African American celebrities and entertainers tweets today, and the multitude of them seem to have at least appreciated, if not outright enjoyed and celebrated in, the slap.
     

    Granted it was via listicles that collated for that specific consumption, but this thread’s demographic doesn’t live on that side of culture, but I can assure you this isn’t as one-sided of an L for Will Smith as this huge thread (sans dbeasy) would lead you to believe, out in the real world.

  10. 37 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

    It's not even like Jada cheated on Will with some other man. It was one of her son's friends that was living with them because he was screwed up physically and emotionally. The guy was less than half her age and suicidal.

    No excuses for Will on any of it, just laughing at the idea that this 50-year-old predator is such a wilting flower that her husband needs to derail his career and image to "defend" her... all while she's sitting there in a dress that costs more than 5 teacher salaries.

    Yes. More. MOAR! I need this spice right in here:

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  11. On 3/25/2022 at 3:15 PM, Captainant said:

    I mean, the method mentioned in my OP runs on a desktop computer lol. A 3090 trains the model in minutes or even seconds. The thing to buy/sell is the data that you use to train models or a trained model, not the algorithm or framework. 

    "Data is the new oil" has been repeated constantly for the last 5 years. Machine learning is how we refine it into a usable product. 

    But yeah, Nvidia is the head and shoulders leader for this stuff. They're creating hardware acceleration for extremely complex higher order matrix operations, and they somewhat shape the academic focus as they create new acceleration techniques. All this latest stuff is the beneficiary of ray tracing and tensor processing cores for cleaning data and training models

    I just read this fascinating interview with nVidia CEO:

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    In no time in history have humans have the ability to produce the single most valuable commodity the world’s ever known, which is intelligence. We now have a structure of a model, a structure of a computer science program called a deep neural network, that has the ability to scale up quite tremendously. It’s doubling every six months, I mean, this is not your Moore’s Law where it’s doubling every two years, it’s doubling every six months. The rate of doubling is incredible, the compounded effect of that on computing is incredible.

    The results of the capabilities of these neural networks and the software, another way of saying it, the software that is being created by computers is expanding and growing and achieving spectacular things at incredible rates. Our company is building the computers necessary to continue to advance that journey. I think that what companies are going to come to realize is that what they’re really all about is producing intelligence, and that’s what Nvidia’s really all about is producing intelligence. Some part of every company will automate the production of their intelligence, they’ll codify the production of their intelligence, which is one of the reasons why I believe every company will be an AI company, every company will produce intelligence at some level, all of that AI will be augmenting humans with humans in the loop, and the rate of that progress is accelerating and compounding at 2x every six months.

    what is intelligence? Intelligence is the ability to recognize patterns, recognize relationships, reason about it and make a prediction or plan an action. That’s what intelligence is. It has nothing to do with general intelligence, intelligence is just solving problems. We now have the ability to write software, we now have the ability to partner with computers to write software, that can solve many types of intelligence, make many types of predictions at scales and at levels that no humans can.

    For example, we know that there are a trillion things on the Internet and the number things on the Internet is large and expanding incredibly fast and yet we have this little tiny personal computer called a phone, how do we possibly figure out of the trillion things in the internet what we want to see on our little tiny phone? Well, there needs to be a filter in between, what people call the personalized internet, but basically an AI, a recommender system. A recommender that figures out based on the nature of the content, the characteristics of the content, the features of the content, based on your implicit and your explicit and implicit preferences, find a way through all of that to predict what you would like to see. I mean, that’s a miracle! That’s really quite a miracle to be able to do that at scale for everything from movies and books and music and news and videos and you name it, products and things like that. To be able to predict what Ben would want to see, predict what you would want to click on, predict what is useful to you. I’m talking about things that are consumer oriented stuff, but in the future it’ll be predict what is the best financial strategy for you, predict what is the best medical therapy for you, predict what is the best health regimen for you, what’s the best vacation plan for you. All of these things are going to be possible with AI.

     

  12. If you graphed it out, I think you would see as UT has had bottom left to top right growth year over year in academics, reputation, rank and difficulty in admission, the Greek-factor (cool, powerful, influential) has gone top left to bottom right. 

    The intersection was, of course, when I was at UT and we were both awesome Frat Daddy's and a regional academic logo that can put my other non-target peers to shame.

  13. 2 minutes ago, Catdaddyhorn said:

    Yeah but you forget all the preprogramming in American society. You can literally go back over 400 years of propaganda libeling "black behavior". Whether it's the docile and servile nature of black people that America was fed for the 1st 200 years of its existence. Or the violent and raping propaganda that has been fed to America over it's post slavery existence. All of that nonsense plays into American views on black people, not just a reflexive reaction to the dysfunction sustained poverty induces within people. 

    Well said, thank you. What did you think about that article?

  14. Just now, jimmyjazz said:

    No.  Some of the most virulent white racists are poor.  This is not a class issue at its root.  Stop it.

    Of course some are. I said as much before and said of course that is the case, especially in the poor south.

    But we are talking about at the macro level and in aggregate of what racism looks like today. If you are stuck in first gear and your main conceptualization of racism is the 1950's stars-and-bars in Bamachick's hometown, then conversations around racism in the workplace and at banks is going to be lost on you. So you stop or continue to try and dismiss my point, which catdaddy has cosigned, but it's weird you are so declarative on this issue and think your opinion is definitive. 

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  15. 10 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

    Women exaggerating offense to encourage male violence is a tale as old as time. Just like the male tendency to play into those idiotic provocations. 

    Fun to see that the wealthy and powerful fall in the same traps as us schlubs.

    Just as dumb as we are.

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    Tiffany Haddish is on Will Smith’s side after he slapped Chris Rock on stage at the 2022 Oscars Sunday night.

    Haddish, who starred in the 2017 movie “Girls Trip” with Jada Pinkett Smith, told People that seeing “a black man stand up for his wife” meant “so much” to her.

    “As a woman, who has been unprotected, for someone to say, ‘Keep my wife’s name out your mouth, leave my wife alone,’ that’s what your husband is supposed to do, right? Protect you,” she explained.

    The comedian, 42, then reiterated, “That meant the world to me.”

    However, the “Night School” star recognized that the world “might not like how it went down” even though, for her, it was “the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen because it made me believe that there are still men out there that love and care about their women, their wives.”

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  16. 4 minutes ago, Catdaddyhorn said:

    I think what you're saying is a part of it, but people don't distill information or reason in a nuanced manner like that. They make assumptions prior to any supporting evidence being put forth. They attach what they see to what they already believe. So while classist reaction to poverty may be a core component to anti-blackness, people aren't exactly asking for W2s before they react and discriminate as evidenced by the article you linked, Well Fargo handing out rejection mortgage rejection letters like they're Dikembe Mutumbo, or any of the myriad of examples we see in American society where black skin causes a negative reaction from everyone else (including black people).

    Agree, which is kinda what I was saying. "Racism" is really today black skin being a heuristic or mental short cut for "poor" which then equals = inferior and undesirable. The irony being that racism/systematic racism is what has created the situation where this is the case today (e.g. black people being more likely to be poor).

    At any rate, did you read that article? Did my "manual algorithm" work in that it was interesting and up your alley based off what I've read you post?

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  17. 3 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    "You're one of the good ones" is a classic racist trope, whether or know you're aware of it lol. Further, your substitution of economic status for class is literally the entire point of the southern strategy. Here's your boy Lee Atwater himself laying it out (primary source citation)

    The Reagan-era attacks on all things social welfare, and the goddamn war on drugs, were designed to harm black people more than it harmed white people. Because more black people live in poverty conditions than white people in the US. But let's not start examining why black folks in the US have a worse starting hand than white folks, otherwise that may hurt your fee-fees :(

    I did consider socio-economic status and class as synonyms. Apparently, academics draw a fine-lined distinction so that is technically not correct. Sorry for that and I learned something.

    I see nothing wrong with anything you've said, so if you are trying to nit-pick a fight, I'm not sure it will be eventful.

  18. 2 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

    Immediately after he starts to say something where it seems he's about to just blast him but then he stops himself and does that little "serenity now" type reset and deep breath before going the safe route. I really want to know what he was about to say. 

     

     

    56 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

    After this, Rock will get eleventy billion dollars from Netflix for his next comedy special. 

     

    Who would NOT tune in to a Chris Rock special a few weeks from now in full anticipation of Chris Rock's retelling and/or making fun of Will Smith. Will Smith is lucky it wasn't someone like Bill Burr who would do a full 90 minutes eviscerating Jada and Will 1000x worse than a G.I. Jane joke.

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