The Off Topic Topic

[Josquius]

What the hell is this?

[Syt]

What the hell is this?

Far right wing weirdo in US wants to make a truly true series about the Celtic Celtics (not Celts!) to show how they really were. Mostly seems to contain "muh speech!" and "purity of race" stuff.

[Sheilbh]

https://twitter.com/chizmund/status/1442595249281384449?s=20

[Jacob]

Reading a story about Facebook and online ads. It said about how all of us have had the weird or embarrassing algorithm stories - but then had the story of Melissa Edwards, 38, from London who lost her twins for months into her pregnancy. She continued to receive maternity-related ads for months and said she basically ended up repeatedly googling "miscarriage" in the hope that it would sort of shift the algorithm away from constantly showing her baby ads.

Which is just incredibly sad - an accidental cruelty built into someone's life every day

As I understand it, that's a pretty common complaint. It's certainly something I've heard (in media) about more than once over the last many years.

[Jacob]

Was looking through some old stuff and came across a 5 1/2" diskette labelled "Wizardry"

[The Brain]

Was looking through some old stuff and came across a 5 1/2" diskette labelled "Wizardry"

Does it run?

[Jacob]

I don't know... I think I'd have to find a DOS machine with a disk drive to find out....

[The Brain]

I don't know... I think I'd have to find a DOS machine with a disk drive to find out....

And you are typing this on what exactly...?

[Eddie Teach]

Dunno about him, but I'm on an Android.

[The Brain]

Team Lore or Team Data?

[Valmy]

Was looking through some old stuff and came across a 5 1/2" diskette labelled "Wizardry"

Cool. Go level up on some Murphy's Ghosts

[DGuller]

Reading a story about Facebook and online ads. It said about how all of us have had the weird or embarrassing algorithm stories - but then had the story of Melissa Edwards, 38, from London who lost her twins for months into her pregnancy. She continued to receive maternity-related ads for months and said she basically ended up repeatedly googling "miscarriage" in the hope that it would sort of shift the algorithm away from constantly showing her baby ads.

Which is just incredibly sad - an accidental cruelty built into someone's life every day

As I understand it, that's a pretty common complaint. It's certainly something I've heard (in media) about more than once over the last many years.

Data science is a brave new world.  There is so much potential in it, but also so much danger due to both widespread incompetence as well as lack of ethical guidelines.

[Sheilbh]

Data science is a brave new world.  There is so much potential in it, but also so much danger due to both widespread incompetence as well as lack of ethical guidelines.

And this is accidental - nothing like the online gambling companies which I understand are one of the most active hirers in the UK for data scientists

[DGuller]

Data science is a brave new world.  There is so much potential in it, but also so much danger due to both widespread incompetence as well as lack of ethical guidelines.

And this is accidental - nothing like the online gambling companies which I understand are one of the most active hirers in the UK for data scientists

Ugh.  I think any data scientist whose work includes optimizing the exploitations of people's addictive behaviors is no better than a marketing expert working for tobacco companies.  Same goes for Facebook data scientists working on making sure that Syt's sister clicks on the next imbecilic meme with an ever greater fervor.  They may have an innocuous explanation, like most such people do, but they've clearly traded ethics for dollars.

[The Minsky Moment]

What the hell is this?

Far right wing weirdo in US wants to make a truly true series about the Celtic Celtics (not Celts!) to show how they really were. Mostly seems to contain "muh speech!" and "purity of race" stuff.

How can you do an entire series about the Celtics without a single reference to Larry Bird?