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  1. 6 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    Yep. They’re being taught to believe what they are told by “authority.” as long as what they are being told is the “right stuff” by the “right people.” Hence the banning of critical thinking skills

    It's a matter of arrogance, on both sides. It's about being so totally certain in the dismissal of the possibilities contrary to their interpretations and beliefs. "It's "blind certainty", a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up." @Neonmoon is the ignorant-cum-certain premiere example, if you wanted to read up on what it looks like.

    Everyone should read or watch "This is Water" by David Foster Wallace at least once a year as a sort of annual mental health check-up or prevention.

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  2. 31 minutes ago, Helobious said:

    Spillling over from random thoughts thread…

    am I seriously this irredeemable piece of shit for taking 17 items to the 10 items or less self-checkout line, even if it takes me roughly the same amount of time to check out as it does most of those slow people to check out 10? Wasn’t expecting such hate in the other thread. Also I didn’t truly laugh at the lady that asked me if I had 10 items, it was more of a chuckle.

    Yes.

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  3. 43 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

    I have this

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    2022 Sierra. Doesn’t need to be near this big. Would prefer if it was half way between this and a Tacoma size-wise. But I still like it. Very comfy cruiser. And I can haul shit in the back when I need to.

    Beautiful truck. Don't let people shame you into thinking you are extravagant. 

  4. 3 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

    well, since it was me who hypothesized this, i'll deign to answer in @Celery Man's stead.

    yeah, i do have a half-baked hypothesis that extremists are more prone to words like "screed" or "ilk," absolutely. it's a hypothesis for which i don't have any hard evidence. then along came a poster saying, "hey, yeah, that would be an interesting hypothesis to test, and here's how it could be done," to which you extremists responded "wait, what are you proposing?!?" 

    that it would be interesting to see if extremist posters tend to use certain extremist (my new descriptor) language?

    yeah, it would be. it would be interesting to see all sorts of vocabulary and linguistic trends as they are tied to the consumption of news/media/website sources as well as commonalities between posters with common political views.

    wouldn't that be interesting?

    I'd read it sure. I guess where I was missing the boat was in being aware or picking up on this extremist-coded-shared-words phenomenon, as if using the word ilk or screed or any other word that isn't rooted in racism or ugliness or a meme of daily storm trooper pepe frogs was the linguistic analog of throwing up the ok sign with your fingers. 

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  5. 2 hours ago, henrygandorf said:

    get used to it.  shit is really expensive now and decision makers are very risk-averse.

    I think this is spot-on and read that big budget movies and the cinema experience is going to be these derivative, spin-off, re-boot, tried-and-true IP stories and that the film that would be break-out hits or create new IP are increasingly being developed and distributed via streaming. The thinking being, why try and make this a 2.5 hour journey when I can really add all the detail and color and artistic journey I want and do it over 8 episodes.

    I don't know, you are in the business of Hollywood somehow I think, and I'm not, but that seems to be the trend and where the money is going. I follow the streamers and content creators from a business perspective and find it all very fascinating, especially Netflix (and the news that Reed Hastings has stepped down from CEO).

  6. 9 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

    i used the word study, and it could be that which has triggered incredullity into believing that some kind of minority report type situation was being proposed. But I really just meant, it would be interesting to read what someone who studies language and its use would have to say about the journey of words like claptrap, screed, unhinged, etc. I'm sure someone has already written an interesting thing about the journey of "woke".

    You mention it would be interesting to you-- why is that? Do you have a half-baked hypothesis that using the word "screed" or "ilk" is used by Nazi's more than regular folk? Serious question because until today I didn't realize "ilk" was a coded word that bad people used.

    I wouldn't be opposed to such a word study I just haven't thought it would be interesting, but open to hear why it would be useful and interesting and/or entertaining to you.

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  7. 3 minutes ago, Doc Daneeka said:

    No.

    If you say it so decidedly and emphatically, I assume it's because you think having Dak as the QB meant no amount of playmaker would have swung the game our way. e.g. Dak would just throw INTs trying to get it to OBJ in his inaccurate way.

  8. I'll ask again, because I think it actually would matter:

    If the Cowboys were to sign a healthy OBJ (instead of TY Hilton on the cheap) for this playoff run, do we beat the Niners?

    I think you could make the case yes. He is a vertical threat (the one weakness of the Niners D was their secondary and giving up big secondary plays, yet we couldn't test them) and he's a playmaker who thrives on the big stage.

    Was it a strategic misfire to not hire the mercenary for the exact moments like last night?

    I assume he is healthy because the talk track was always "will not play in the regular season but will be 100% ready for playoffs"

  9. 26 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

    well, first we would have to agree on what right wing extremist means. i think it means you, because you post some crazy ass right wing extremist shit here. 

    for instance, say, this fucking thread. you probably do not want people combing through your posts for examples of right wing extremist views. that might not end like you think it would.

    but, in case you missed it and of course you did, i was talking specifically about coded language that right wing extremists (like yourself, i want to be clear here, i absolutely think you are a right wing extremist) use in online forums as strange self-identifiers. i'm sure left wing extemists do the same thing, but i don't see it as clearly.

    but then, i'm compelled to ask you a question: do you consider yourself extremely right wing?

    Incredulity is not a right wing extremist. Get a grip.

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  10. 6 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    Moving the convo to the nerdz thread, because yeah lol.

     

    AWS Textract isn't IDP, it's high-octane OCR that can also do some nice key-value, forms, and table extraction. To get the full IDP going, you'd have to roll in another service like Comprehend to read and index all of the extracted text, identify documents, detect sentiment, flag PII, etc etc. You used to have to build the integration yourself, but they recently released a more turnkey solution (link) that's very lean in terms of architecture.

    You just upload the docs/text to S3, provide some info like document classes and example documents for training, and then it trains your model and will host it for real-time inference (running cost whether or not you're using it) or batch inference (only charged for the exact amount of compute used), and then it stores all the results back to S3.

    The real question you should be asking is what business outcome are you trying to service with IDP? Are you trying to crunch through TB's of loan docs or business paperwork? Are you trying to gain some sort of market intelligence based on social media posts? Your architectural, business, and computing considerations are very different depending on what type of data you're consuming, and the timescale in which you need results relative to the data getting created. Most analysts skip that whole question of what a business actually needs to do, and try to find a broad one-size-fits-all solution, in my experience

    Good point re: AWS and Google Tesseract being OCR that can kinda sorta maybe do semi-structured things. Since you are very well-versed on this topic, would you mind answering a few questions?

    I agree that having the business outcome you want to achieve first will inform the best route, but generally speaking it is my pov that IDP as a software "category", let's call it, is still immature and illegitimate. In that there is no true market leader or winner who has capabilities and features/functions that cannot be beat or repeated. I don't know that to be sure though, what are your thoughts in your experience? Who have you used (assuming you are an operator/user and not just a category buyer)? To what ends?

    I know people at a few of these firms, but as you can see, it's insanely crowded from legacy tools to consulting firms who have a software offering to start-ups focusing on it. And this doesn't even include the software firms that are very narrowly focusing IDP on a very specific business unit, like AP/AR only a la a fintech, etc.

     

    Everest Group’s IDP Products PEAK Matrix Assessment

  11. 4 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

    What kind of a rock do you have to live under to think that 46 arrests constitutes "a major crackdown on prostitution"?

     

    Consider me living under a rock because that seems to be a huge number for a weekend night sting.

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  12. 7 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    What you're seeing is the difference between natural language processing and data recall - what chatGPT does - and actual understanding and insight to synthesize new ideas. In cases where the request can be simply broken down into reciting a set of facts in a specific schema - write a haiku about the 2005 longhorns - it's pretty well suited to answer that brief, because the creativity is the idea not the actual execution.

    If there was a dataset or study that was indexed into chatGPT that proved Emmitt Smith to be the greatest running back ever, then you'd probably get that served back up to you with some nice fluff to make it more readable and interesting.

    I've found it to be really useful to get a rough first draft of an invitation or event write-up for an engagement with a customer. I usually end up grabbing some phrases and nice use of language from the response, and then rewrite it into my usual voice.

     

    I do quite a bit of NLP, intelligent document processing, and loads of other AI/ML stuff so I'm very interested to see how these tools change how we do work

    I'd be curious to hear your experience and point of view on IDP (as it seems to be the most unlike what chatpGPT does as an ingestion tool to extract data from unstructured data sources) because I've been following it for a while and the entire market seems to be crazy crowded and I can't really make heads or tails of who the best-of-breed engines are (AWS textract? Google Tesseract? VC-funded private start-ups that are 2 years old? Legacy software like Abbyy or Kofax?) and it just feels like a chaotic landscape where even analysts can't figure it out. Maybe another thread.

  13. Geez, a youth pastor? The skeletons in the closets are real. It's hard not to feel sympathy for these people. Employers are notified at a minimum of this arrest, it carries a Felony, and if you have a wife/family (you are a piece of crap for stepping out on them for a craiglist hooker to begin with) but that's probably irreparably damaged.

    All in an area where these men thought they were insulated and safe (Southlake/Frisco vs Harry Hines). I do wonder how many are actually from the area proper versus driving in from Irving or somewhere like that.

    There but for the Grace of God, go I on a lot of idiotic behaviors as a youth.

  14. 3 minutes ago, C-Man said:

    His contract is untradeable. Full stop. Your option is to keep him or cut him and absorb the cap hit.

     

    Average QB's can win it all -- but not when they command $40M+ a year in salary. They've got to be on team-friendly deals. (And "average" Matt Stafford is likely heading to the HOF.)

    He's going to the HOF because he got a ring and we put an outsize emphasis on that KPI-- and this ring was because they mortgaged 10 years for the 1 year (not saying that's wrong, but look at the team and financial health a year after winning it all and going 4-14 or whatever). 

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  15. After taking some time to think about it.

    Defense was fantastic, especially considering injuries, but just ran out of gas at the end. Dan Quinn is that dude.

    Micah Parsons is like the Luka of the Cowboys— if we don’t show him we will support his generational talent he will get sour and leave eventually. And he will be justified.

    Diggs giveth (2021) and he taketh away (2022). The regressing to the mean hurt because his INT there and breaking up that Kittle pass and we likely win even with a Dak stinker.

    Dak is as everyone on here except Koopa can see— an average QB paid like he’s elite. Average QBs can win it all though— we saw that with Matt Stafford (and previously with Brad Johnson and Nick Foles and the list goes on), but not with Dak as he doesn’t limit mistakes.

    Holding Deebo and Aiyuk in check most of the game and CMC is good. CMC got going at the end a little bit once the D was gassed and having the 3rd RB give them life with fresh legs was killer.

    Punting late in the 4th was dumb. Especially when Dak was dumb and almost got a safety. There was no easy answer but I think you had to go for it on 4th and 10.

    Purdy outplayed Dak. Purdy is pretty dang good. I thought he’d choke and crack but the guy seems to have the mental game down. 

  16. 43 minutes ago, BearSchlong said:

    My manager told me our company typically cuts outside salespeople last, and I did 241% last half (my first half in software). I’m still so new that I’m basically the Forrest Gump of AIOps.

    It doesn’t hurt that my flagship ARM offering is designed to optimize licensing and cut IT estate creep and cloud costs.

    I know a lot of those old Turbonomic guys (IBM ARM acquisition); a few have struggled to find new gigs, which is neither here nor there.

  17. Are y'all spying on me? I've had The Road on my desk for the last two weeks with the intention of re-reading it. I don't know anything about The last of us, but I think I'll check it out.

    I read The Road in my early 20's before having kids and don't remember it being that great TBH. I have kids now; I imagine it hits differently.

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