This is hilarious in its own right, but what really cracks me up, is that on Twitter, people are arguing less about the sad state of academia, and more about whether the perpetrators are left wing or right wing.
https://quillette.com/2018/10/01/the-grievance-studies-scandal-five-academics-respond/
Which is what happens when we keep pouring money down the wrong hole.
@freemo What seems to be absent, is a discussion of what non-toxic masculinity is. Not sure what to think of Jordan Peterson and his Jungian therories, but he divides the male and female into a dark and light side. But in the current climate, too often masculinity is nothing else than toxic, and femininity is likewise presented as frail and weak, without agency.
I totally buy that attitudes between the sexes is an important contributor to, well behavior. So that a negative attitude by men towards women, or feelings of entitelment or superiority can contribute to sexual assault would not be surprising.
But if you look at the comments, many men (I assume they are men) react very negatively to the use of the term "toxic masculinity". Also not surprising, nobody wants their identity conflated with toxicity. I wonder: given the contents of the article, shouldn't feminists consider *not* actively alienating and marginalizing men? Isn't this kind of chauvinist language a contributor to those attitude the author claims causes sexual assaults? Why not give the angry incels free alcohol too while you're at it?
I'm surprised this took so long. GWAS is hard because of nonlinear and complex relationships between individual components (genes), object recognition is complex because of complex relationships between individual components (pixels).
In 2012, the latter is essentially solved. In 2017, people start applying it to the former.
https://www.google.com/search?q=deep+learning+gwas&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Anybody know #networks? I recently set up a Linux server as router, between my 11ac AP and my ADSL router. I was hoping that the modern queuing disciplines (i.e. #fq_codel) would mitigate latencies. Yet, when I benchmark I still get latencies of several hundred milliseconds. I did try to change limit, from the default 10240 packets down to 1000, and then to 500. No go. Any ideas what to try next?
Thanks, I see (at least to some extent) the Israeli side of this. And seriously, people should read the Hamas charter, and consider why these guys were elected before sending ships to break the blockade.
But what is the Palestinian side of things? Why are they equally disappointed by the Oslo Accords?
Thanks for the link.
So from the Israeli perspective, there is disappointment of increased rather than decreased violence after giving in to demands (Gaza, recognition of PLO, establishing PA, partial WB withdrawal) - and especially the second intifada, costing about 1000 Israeli lives, to a large part from suicide bombers.
Secondly, there are questions about intent - e.g, that the references to Hudaybiyyah means the Oslo negotiations were only a ruse, and that the plan is and always is the destruction of the Israeli state.
Does this about sum it up?
So why does everybody hate the Oslo accords?
Sure, they didn't end in peace for our times, so perhaps there was a bit of unwarranted optimism.
But they did move things forward. PLO and Israel mutually recognized each other, for the first time, I think. Israel withdrew from Gaza and partially from the West Bank. The PA was set up as a legitimate representative for the Palestinian people.
Were these steps in the wrong direction? What were the alternatives? A one-state solution?
@OpinionatedGeek
Not entirely sure whom to blame, but I am able to receive MMSes, it's just that they get organized really, really stupidly. If it was idiocy on the part of the network provider (entirely plausible), the app should be able to work around it.
And about #martialarts - from looking at YT videos of #systema, the only thing that let's me tell it apart from #jiujutsu are the outfits. Are there any substantial differences that I'm missing?
How on earth have I missed this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMKFIHRpe7I
I think it explains just about everything: #Trump is to politics what #wrestling is to #martialarts.
So an iPhone-wielding friend wants to send me a picture of her dog. She takes a snapshot and sends it to me as an MMS. Yeah, old school, I know.
Now for some reason, this ends up as a group MMS on my end, in a separate thread from her text SMSes.
And if I reply with a few words, one minute later my phone buzzes, as I get my own message back in the "group chat". And another minute later, it buzzes again, since I now get my own SMS back.
If I want to reply with a picture of my cat, I'm not even allowed to.
The stupid, I don't even.
There are plenty of online advice telling me to open the messages app, click on settings, then on "more settings" which I don't have, or "MMS options" which I also don't have, or on "advanced" which I do in fact have, but below that, I'm still missing any options for group chats or MMSes.
So as far as I can tell, messaging is totally borked on Android - or at least on my Moto G5s. I'll probably have to ditch the cheap piece of crap - sadly, because it is otherwise a decent phone with a good camera, especially at the price. A shame since it's obviously just a software thing, which could have been fixed pretty easily. So, if anybody can point me to a messaging app that has absolutely no support for RCS or SMS+, I'm happy to return to the happy past where things actually worked.
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"Specification gaming examples in AI: unintended solutions to the specified objective that don't satisfy the designer's intent" master list is solid gold
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRPiprOaC3HsCf5Tuum8bRfzYUiKLRqJmbOoC-32JorNdfyTiRRsR7Ea5eWtvsWzuxo8bjOxCG84dAg/pubhtml
@Urmothersbtt
Happy to oblige :-) I agree the term (fascism) is mostly useless as a description of anything, like so many other -isms, its primary function is tribalistic signaling. Calling somebody fascist firmly establishes them as the bad guys, and you as the good guys.
I'm no expert on fascism, but I think Mussolini's corporatistic state shows the collectivist core of fascism - corporations, just like individuals, are allowed to exist, but only so far as they are useful to the state. This is one step short of communism, where corporations don't exist at all, and the state controls all production of goods.
Put my backup script on GitHub, just in case it is useful to anybody. Enjoy - or not.
This was surprising to me as well.
"There was more inconsistency among answers to these types of questions [in the GSS] than I would have expected. For example, about a quarter of people who identified themselves as born-again Christian in at least one of the three interviews either had not described themselves that way in a previous interview or stopped describing themselves that way in a later interview. Nearly half of respondents who identified themselves as lesbian, gay or bisexual at some point during the three interviews did not identify themselves that way in all three (meaning that some people stopped identifying as LGB, while others started to after not having done so at first)."
Or: Publish with PLoS, and they will post preprints for you. I accidentally left the option unchecked for one of my papers, and they even emailed me and asked why. Way to go!
My definition of fascism is an authoritarian, collectivist rule with little political freedom but more economic freedom. Usually (but not necessarily) coupled with nationalist or romantic ideals.
So fascism is in a sense halfway between democracy and communist - the latter being authoritarian, collectivist, with neither political nor economic freedom. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there are any examples of nations with political freedom but no economic freedom.
While I think this would be a useful definition, the term is quite loaded, and I don't think it is possible to discuss it in any meaningful way. For instance, China would be an example of a modern fascist nation, but expressing that would likely lead to very heated responses.
Here's another, more detailed take:
https://heterodoxacademy.org/podcast-hhh-33-jason-stanley/
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