tatzelbrumm @tatzelbrumm@qoto.org
Joined Jun 2019
@freemo Chauvinism at its worst.
For a successful technology,
reality must take precedence over public relations,
for Nature cannot be fooled.
Well done, @SpaceX
@freemo Billionaires imply the existence of social hierarchies with HR departments,
which in turn make potential collaborators commit the ultimate betrayal of using the argument "I don't want to work with you, because I need to pay attention to my reputation".
That is evil.
See also "Un-Word of the Century", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un-word_of_the_year#List_of_Un-words_of_the_year_since_1991
Erinnerungen an den Schiausflug ins Kleine Walsertal nach dem schriftlichen Abitur im Januar 1986 kommen wieder hoch.
https://youtu.be/wHylQRVN2Qs
@freemo I've only met a few SpaceX people superficially, and have been very impressed.
So I come to the conclusion that Elon Musk is excellent indeed.
Nonetheless, every billionaire is a policy failure. Even Elon Musk.
Being a billionaire allows you to hide your evil sides behind a facade of excellence built by others.
On the one hand, https://youtu.be/B6K0-7oj_38
is a disgusting panegyric for a billionaire Mover and Shaker and propaganda for his private company that fills the vacuum left behind by a government space agency systematically rendered ineffective …
on the other hand, the propaganda works on me, even though I'd prefer a much more technical narrative.
@design_RG @freemo @Sphinx @arteteco
Consult the Book of Armaments!
Armaments, chapter two, verses nine to twenty-one:
And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, "O Lord, bless this Thy hand grenade that, with it, Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits in Thy mercy."
Do not forgive them, for they know what their platforms are doing:
Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive
http://archive.is/cSUlh
@freemo In German school, I was subjected to government-controlled religious education, which included bible study from philological and historical angles.
One of the most quality-of-life enhancing tidbits of knowledge I learned thusly was the concept of parallelism in biblical poetry
[http://www4.westminster.edu/staff/nak/courses/BibPoetry.htm],
which greatly enhanced my enjoyment of this Monty Python scene:
https://youtu.be/ashgP4YMdJw?t=82
@freemo as an IEEE and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft member, I have both published in conference proceedings and journals, and I have also participated in the peer review process, including citing Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, "83. Vizepräsident"
[https://giuseppecapograssi.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/minima_moral.pdf#page=73]
in its entirety in a note to the [German] authors of an article I was assigned to review by my academic supervisor, in addition to checking the contents of the article, in particular the computations, for factual correctness and the list of citations for relevance.
I do not know, though, whether the academic supervisor who had assigned the review to me forwarded it to the authors or withheld it.
Whoever puts in the effort to read Adorno's "83. Vice-President" may come to the conclusion that I find the integrity of scientific publishing and peer review compromised, in particular when it comes to the assignment of scientific credit;
who, on the other hand, finds Adorno gibberish and tl;dr
should assume that I deem peer-reviewed scientific publications the least fake news that exist.
@heavensfeel @freemo
Altersstarrsinn is not necessarily Alzheimer.
@freemo One thing about the interview that totally baffles me:
Biden talks to the interviewer as if he was adversarial, not cooperative. I would assume that confronted with the threat of a full blown psychopathic fascist in the White House, Biden could assume a sympathetic audience. He totally and unnecessarily blew that ... which may be typical for the Democratic Party establishment.
@freemo Do you have a link to the book? I might want a valid excuse to review QM, and extend into quantum electrodynamics, but I'd be aiming for specific examples.
@freemo I'm sure that Otto Wels (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands) was an apparatchik painful to watch, too.
@freemo Without reading the scans of your notes in detail, because the resolution is inadequate, and you really have no excuse not to typeset this in LaTeX, anyhow:
You can't represent a multilayer perceptron by linear algebra only, because you could then reduce everything to an equivalent
(number of inputs)x(number of outputs) matrix.
So, in the spirit of Helmut Kohl:
"Entscheidend ist, was hinten rauskommt",
[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Helmut_Kohl]
there must be some sort of sigmoid [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmoid_colon]
somewhere in your equations to make your algebra non-linear.
Where?
@freemo That's what I thought ... until I went flying with a fountain pen in my pocket.
@freemo
My one attempt at using circuitikz was surprisingly painful though:
https://bitbucket.org/cmucsd/circuitikz-demo/
@lupyuen
Joined Jun 2019
