Septimaeus
@Septimaeus@infosec.pub
- Comment on uhhh overleaf you say 22 hours ago:
I just came a little.
- Comment on Always applies 75% of the time 3 weeks ago:
Lol I kind of like these hyper specific paper titles for the way they simplify my search, but if you say it out loud you end up a little winded
- Comment on Always applies 75% of the time 3 weeks ago:
Sex Panther has no outliers.
- Comment on Google’s Sergey Brin Says Engineers Should Work 60-Hour Weeks in Office to Build AI That Could Replace Them 3 weeks ago:
Is this guy called a technocrat because he actually wants his engineers to rule?
- Comment on Google’s Sergey Brin Says Engineers Should Work 60-Hour Weeks in Office to Build AI That Could Replace Them 3 weeks ago:
Where did you hear that? Technocracy means rule by specialists and technical experts. For example, in a technocracy, career bureaucrats aren’t in charge of ecological policy.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 3 weeks ago:
Maybe getting clowned on will snap them out of it. Regardless, love the bit. Long live rabbi rabinowitz!
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 3 weeks ago:
Lol rabinowicz is Slavic for son of the rabbi so “rabbi rabinowitz” sounds like a character from a Bourekas comedy
- Comment on Is there a name for when stupid people accuse you of their faults? Is that projection? 4 weeks ago:
To be understood, I’d probably just say projection. If you need to emphasize a specific aspect of the behavior, you could break it down as a maladaptive inferiority complex that prompts social anxiety evidenced by momentary paranoid ideation and compulsory preemptive introjection.
Explanation: introjection refers to a mirroring behavior common in children. In this case, the accuser anticipates an accusation from you. To defend themselves, they hurl the accusation right back at you. But of course the first accusation only happened in their head, so all we witness is someone wildly accusing someone else of having their own flaw.
- Comment on Why does most religion talk about their GOD being male? Especially Christains and Muslims. Is there a prominent female god that as big as the other two that I am missing? 4 weeks ago:
YHWH (“Yahweh”) was the storm God of the Canaanite pantheon likely referred to in the Old Testament book of Job. El was the head of that pantheon. When gendered in the text, both were male.
While Judaic tradition championed YHWH above the others, perhaps due to the oral tradition of the parting of the Sea of Reeds (Red Sea) in Exodus. The other gods in the pantheon came to be regarded as false/pagan gods, and their worship was considered idolatry (religious infidelity), but these older religious traditions proved difficult to stamp out, with numerous examples of return to the old gods.
One such instance of idolatry in the book of Hosea (echoed Isaiah and Jeremiah) detailed an old (idolatrous) tradition of offering “sacred raisin cakes” and “flagons of wine” to an unnamed god. This god was almost certainly Asherah, YHWH’s sister and the wife of El, whose religious tradition featured the baking of raisin cakes in the shape of her body and the pouring of wine into the earth.
So to answer your question, while none of the Abrahamic religions officially worship a god with a female gender identity, their holy books technically recognize at least one female god: Asherah.
- Comment on Common Ground 4 weeks ago:
That is a viable path to redemption. In fact I think spending one’s life repairing damage done is only the minimum expectation.
Also to be clear, I’m talking about common voters, rank-and-file conservatives. Public figures on the other hand, especially those active in the current administration, must be imprisoned, and many of them for life, if only to demonstrate to the world the severity of their crimes against humanity.
- Comment on Common Ground 4 weeks ago:
But don’t you see? Some conservatives haven’t even been alive for decades. Some don’t even truly understand why they were handed that banner in the first place.
I’m not saying there shouldn’t be accountability. I have friends and relatives I’ve had to place in various stages of social probation due to their politics, but for each I’ve had to consider what redemption and rehabilitation would look like. If there is in fact no redemption for any of them, where would I draw that indelible line?
Though I’ve not voted Republican, I’ve often been wrong in my life about many things, so I’m certain I would need to include myself in that group or irredeemables. Honestly, who would survive the culling of those who’ve been wrong? Would you?
- Comment on Common Ground 4 weeks ago:
I’m saying individual people can change. They can learn and grow.
You can stay mad at the conservatives of today, but you must let them “defect” when they’ve matured enough to do so.
Otherwise there’s no point to any of this.
- Comment on Common Ground 4 weeks ago:
They’re not a monolith. Political ideologies gain and lose members every day.
The kid who kicked the ball over the fence today is never the same one from last time. The kid from last time is more likely to volunteer to fetch the ball.
- Comment on The Algorithm 4 weeks ago:
Though the artist appeared to draw η (eta) rather than n which could mean they’re using learning rate to compute the bounds of some other value. I’m more curious what y-base log they’re taking and why.
- Comment on The Algorithm 4 weeks ago:
Ah, the theory group. My people.
- Comment on check it before you wreck it 4 weeks ago:
Truly iconic!
- Comment on check it before you wreck it 4 weeks ago:
I mean, we’re not talking about mutually exclusive properties.
Whether a paper is more or less dry and whether it’s more or less accessible to newcomers is separate from the quality of the contribution.
You can have both.
- Comment on check it before you wreck it 4 weeks ago:
OMG the perfect reference!
For those interested, there’s an episode of Star Trek the plot of which revolves around an extreme example of this style of high context communication.
- Comment on check it before you wreck it 4 weeks ago:
I mean, I get that it’s easy to burn out on all the goofy titles. For example, in machine learning there’s a model architecture called BERT so there’s hundreds of papers with wordplay referencing a character from an old US children’s educational TV show Sesamie Street. Similarly a bunch of NEuroMOrphic computing models are named Nemo with titles referencing the Pixar movie Finding Nemo. Of course, any joke can be tiring with repetition.
But good papers are accessible to a variety of audiences, including visitors in the space, and the point of that technique is to offer a “hook” (to borrow a term from music) that makes the material more approachable and fun to the uninitiated.
TLDR: I empathize but yeah dude’s wrong
- Comment on check it before you wreck it 4 weeks ago:
I think they’re referring to the implicit exclusion, since it amounts to an “inside joke” which lends to cliquish social dynamics. Gatekeeping proper usually connotes more intentional and targeted action, but I think that’s what they mean. Personally I try to be more selective than I once was, when using references in groups, for that very reason.
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 5 weeks ago:
And you assume this has intrinsic value?
I assume they’re making a point about hard assets versus pure speculation, like comparing real estate to crypto coins, since only markets based on pure speculation nose-dive at the first bad omen.
- Comment on Keep them guessing 1 month ago:
The very last part may be the most difficult in the current iteration of the www, but numerous proposed solutions are viable (including one by sir berners-lee himself) and I’m all for it.
- Comment on Keep them guessing 1 month ago:
I’m down. Honestly, hard to do worse than the publisher scam we’re railroading now.
- Comment on Keep them guessing 1 month ago:
I imagine this would be the most efficient way to do science if it weren’t for the effectiveness of collaboration that, regrettably, demands the presentational overhead.
- Comment on her favourite colour is blue :) 3 months ago:
That’s what they want you to think!
- Comment on Literature reviews be like 3 months ago:
Yeah I like it. Instant Sean Connery voice.
- Comment on Literature reviews be like 3 months ago:
And if you Xroom in, you might eventually solve it.
- Comment on her favourite colour is blue :) 3 months ago:
How could they activate chevron 13 otherwise?
- Comment on Couldn't governments just remotely disable phones nearby to prevent evidence of police brutality from being recorded? 3 months ago:
Stingrays = Kleenex of IMSI catchers
- Comment on rollin' deep 4 months ago:
“Ow, my all of me!”