FishFace

@FishFace@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨imagine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you saying that there’s nothing in between? Prove it, and turn modern mathematics inside out!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get ready for...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe this would be an engine topper

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One slur to rule them all⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The interpretation here depends on the idea of a word-vector. This is a component of language models which treat each individual word in a language as a vector in a pretty high-dimensional space (how high is up to the model author). The way this is usually described is that if you look at the word pairs “man - woman”, “boy - girl”, “king - queen” and so on, they should differ by a similar vector in word-vector-space, and that vector should correspond to the concept of “male” (or “female” depending on which way round you do it). If you have a word vector model, you should then be able to take the dot product of this gender concept-vector with a word like “actress” or “actor”, and see if it has learnt that “actress” is female and “actor” is kinda male but kinda gender neutral due to changing usage.

  So what this diagram is showing is a measure of similarity between various word vectors. Those vectors are (the vector of) a slur minus a related word. The idea is to see if subtracting “Mexican” from “spic” leaves you with an underlying concept of “slur” that corresponds to these other vectors - just like with gender and man, woman; boy, girl, etc.

  The confusion matrix is actually pretty interesting IMO. There is pretty high similarity between all of the “racial slur - race” vectors, and much less between “cunt - woman” and “fag - homosexual” and the others. So it’s showing that there isn’t that good a concept - in this word vector model at any rate - of “slur” in general, but you could argue pretty strongly that racial slur does exist in that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One slur to rule them all⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I once met a Chinese girl who was somewhat suspiciously fond of the English slang term (that I hadn’t heard of) “Jap’s Eye” which apparently means “urethral opening” and tbf I would never use the latter term either…

  OTOH I had heard the term from time to time and it always came across to me (not Japanese - important caveat) as a pretty mild one, like “frog” for the French. I would be very unsurprised if it were different in the USA though, where there was such a big impact from WW2 and internment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Ploughing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Shit, is ploughing a girl less environmentally friendly?

  I guess there’s a serious risk of a baby which is like the least environmentally friendly thing possible

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Typical monopoly people⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I sure will!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Typical monopoly people⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But the point is that the person complaining isn’t complaining about the French, but about some imagined English dude who picked the pronunciation of rendezvous for fun

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Typical monopoly people⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The US one evolved as well, just preserved rhoticity which is a major feature. There’s no “UK accent” (nor “us accent") either - West country accents for example are still rhotic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🍺 🍻⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Glub glub

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bed head⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for explaining the joke, it’s so much funnier now!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨102%⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That is doing it wrong. You should only ever round as the last step before display.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨102%⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If there are some people that like him, and some people that hate him, you can bet your arse there are some people who kinda don’t know. 2% or 4% or whatever it is is not many people to be undecided.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🍺 🍻⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Pluto lost its planethood with great fanfare, to the extent that most people at least vaguely know that happened. As such, there’s not much confusion when someone refers to Pluto as a dwarf planet or the eight planets or whatever.

  The planets are also something which people essentially only encounter as science. You don’t go to the supermarket and buy a planet, you can’t go and spot some in your local river or whatever. The nearest would be being able to point out Mars or Venus in the night sky.

  This is unlike fish, reptiles, fruits and berries, etc. And it’s different from my personal least favourite example of this kind of pedantry: poison. Unlike venom, which is basically just a scientific term, poison and poisonous is an everyday term.

  Science needs precise terms in order to do science properly. But that doesn’t mean that scientists - or more often those interested in science - need to enforce those precise terms on everybody else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🍺 🍻⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fish, interestingly, aren’t a real thing in terms of formal classification

  This is misleading. Formal classification existed for a long time before phylogenetic classification became the standard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how to get that snussy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And to think I nearly didn’t read the title.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Latin names suck⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  All original words have been lost because language changes…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨London venue ‘appalled’ after antisemitic imagery allegedly screened at Primal Scream gig⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that’s a problem with Israel.

  Doesn’t absolve everyone else of the responsibility not to be racist tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨London venue ‘appalled’ after antisemitic imagery allegedly screened at Primal Scream gig⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So do you think that Israel and Jews or Judaism are one and the same? No?

  The symbols are not the same. A swastika emblazoned on an Israeli flag would be a completely different statement.

  You know, just the same as there’d be a difference between displaying an alteration of any religious symbol that implies its members are all evil, and displaying an alteration of a flag featuring that symbol. Many flags feature religious symbols.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨London venue ‘appalled’ after antisemitic imagery allegedly screened at Primal Scream gig⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A star of David entwined with a swastika? Clearly, without a doubt anti-Semitic. It’s saying “Jews are Nazis”.

  If you want to convey an anti-zionist message and don’t hate Jews, it’s actually quite easy. Yeah, Israel will still accuse you of being anti-Semitic but they say Jews are anti-semitic if they dare suggest genocide of Palestinians is a bad thing, so we don’t go by that.

  People are pushing back on Israel’s “all criticism of Israel is racist” with “no criticism of Israel is racist”. Be fucking better. Stop condoning racism because it aligns with your politics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hmm⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m certainly hard rn

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Y'know what... im kinda starting to like reddit now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t try to fuck the anthopomorphisation of reddit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's stick with just the one observer from now on, then⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  sir, this is science memes. Put more science in your meme or we’ll give you more teaching load next semester.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Though shitposting is an art…⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was a art

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Festive Cookies!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The principles are usually about the machine itself, rather than overall war strategy, but sure, if you can do something without risking stuff and people, that’s better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skier narrowly avoids a crevasse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's finally here!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  CHEERLEADER!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe pornstar Aella has taken to planning orgies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Festive Cookies!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The survivability onion: 1 don’t get seen, 2 don’t get hit, 3 don’t get damaged, 4 don’t get killed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ed Showering with Corndog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is very shit, well done

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relevant username⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bananas here last about three days of perfect, then become merely good for a few more