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Dr. Coke

Username: reed
Date Joined: April 16, 2014, 11:01 p.m.
Last Login: 2360 days
Public Posts: 102
Public Votes: 172 (+175-3)

Sept. 24, 2017, 11:48 p.m.

I genuinely really like all of these.

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Sept. 13, 2017, 1:09 p.m.

Need a lizardperson name...for a friend.
Current frontrunner: 'Komodo Kardashian"

Suggestions?

Sept. 6, 2017, 10:11 p.m.

I just realized that if I take good care of the car I have now it might be the last car I ever drive myself... Not sure how I feel about this.

Sept. 3, 2017, 12:49 p.m.

Advice on learning new skills that I read in a teaching book last week:

Fret not, unless you make guitars.

Aug. 26, 2017, 3:25 p.m.

Look I'm working on things ok?

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Aug. 8, 2017, 11:26 p.m.

Met a dude who knew the CEO of Enron on a rooftop today watching a million and a half bats fly by. Pretty cool Tuesday I suppose.

Aug. 5, 2017, 12:04 a.m.

Would you guys log into ThinkLynx more often if it provided prompts every day? I feel like I can see that going down a very unpredictable and wonderful path here.

July 25, 2017, 9:18 a.m.

Something nice happened yesterday and I just wanted to share.

Teaching French in 2010:
me: 'Can everyone quiet down, please?'
student: "You're not a teacher!"

Teaching Python in 2017:
student: 'Are you a teacher?'
...

July 13, 2017, 8:53 p.m.

Hmmm, is that..better?

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July 3, 2017, 11:31 a.m.

Kids these days... My students showed me the first fidget spinner I've seen in real life and dab when they get a tricky question right or finish a presentation. But some of the oldies are still good - the boys in my class would crack up whenever they saw a triangle "because of the illuminati"

June 15, 2017, 5:18 p.m.

Real message I just got from an educational website I was testing out: 'ElGuapo is taken. Why not try ElGuapo69?'

I can only assume they calculated this suggestion from their users' behaviors.

June 7, 2017, 2:44 p.m.

I was thinking tacit enforcement because they're an external status symbol.

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June 7, 2017, 2:26 p.m.

Bizarre futurism thought: Imagine a future where tech education is a mandatory component of schooling for all ages. Now, combine that with some kind of companion robot that kids receive when they are young and custom upgrade as they learn how throughout their life. Does the robot's development become an external symbol of the child's internal development? Would people have robot envy? Would rich assholes hire people to mod their robots in ways they don't understand (definitely)? STRANGE!

May 30, 2017, 10:34 p.m.

Dream time! This time around I was in a simulation and trying to tell everyone else that it was a simulation. Unfortunately, they weren't real and also this made the simulation angry and try to stop me. Later it turned out that the simulation was actually in my mind and then it sort of turned into a lucid simulation where I could do anything. It was sort of like The Matrix. What a movie - wish they had made a sequel.

May 18, 2017, 11:18 p.m.

Oh I had no idea, actually. But it's not news I'm the 3rd coolest of us.

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May 18, 2017, 1:35 a.m.

It seems like the way to go is just to have a huge variety of different possible captchas, but I would think that once you have more than a couple bots working together to build models not even that would hold up forever. Abstractly, though, doesn't it boil down to this - Is there a set of problems that a human can answer easily and a computer cannot, but the computer can still recognize a correct answer easily? My instinct is that as soon as you define that set you can build a machine to generate solutions. But I guess the answer to the real question of whether it's worth it depends on if you can build a machine that builds machines that generate solutions. And I think for just the images alone the answer is probably yes - audio/video I'm less sure about.

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May 17, 2017, 1:06 p.m.

Long post but I need advice from you, Lynxe(r?)s.

Last week some time I got an envelope in the mail address to 'Current Resident'. Since I've had good experiences with participation trophies in the past, I opened it and it was a bunch of coupons. Now only my closest confidants know this but I've been unhappy with my razor for a long time so when one of these coupons was for a free razor I decided to plunge bravely into the unknown and order it. Now I've received this email from their service team with the following important line inside:

Please don't hesitate to reach out with any thoughts ...

May 16, 2017, 4:16 p.m.

Seeing all these new captchas - click on all the DOGS. It doesn't seem at all unreasonable to make a bot that recognizes those, googles dogs to build a training set, learns to recognize dogs, and then passes the captcha, right? I can't imagine that would take more than like 2-3 hours and then it could recognize dogs forever.

May 16, 2017, 1:30 p.m.

Machine learning/Python things

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May 10, 2017, 12:36 a.m.

Five years later and I'm still installing the same shit - just on different computers.

May 4, 2017, 1:23 a.m.

Also a Wednesday

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May 3, 2017, 1:58 p.m.

lie*

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May 3, 2017, 1:56 p.m.

Two days ago I decided that yesterday would be the day I would start running every day. Today, I woke up to an extremely clean apartment instead. I guess I should like to myself more often.

April 1, 2017, 1:34 a.m.

Not only is this the trippiest dream I've heard in a while, but bonus trippy points when it changed into present tense as shit got real.

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March 12, 2017, 2:25 p.m.

Darkest dream I've had in a long time: I was an android hanging out with a group of friends to learn how to talk. They were being crappy and at one point left me behind. Android me realized that no matter how well it functioned it would never fulfill its purpose because they were just not good people. Then it realized it could not hang itself because it doesn't breath, so it hired someone to stab it to death.

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