Artificial intelligence still has some way to go

so are they still a problem? i dont recall hearing a word about killer bees for at least a decade.

If the NY Post no longer pays attention to them, then I guess they've proved to be a manageable problem.

the killer bees murdered all the other bees and then went into hiding

Background: Last night, Google Maps' pricy contract with Zenrin, the high resolution map service in Japan, ended.

Google's cost savings solution was to implement their AI based on user behavior to build their new maps (what could possibly go wrong?):

https://www.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/b44wwt/so_many_people_were_cutting_across_the_konbini/

mountain shadows become lakes:

Googleマップが劣化したらしいと聞いて、近所の地図見たら、山影が湖になってたw pic.twitter.com/B237RUOpPA

— りん (@rin_kawakoubou) March 22, 2019

roads travel through/into buildings:

線路上や路上に建物あったり… pic.twitter.com/c2dqP1065D

— りん (@rin_kawakoubou) March 22, 2019

somewhat tangentially related: https://onezero.medium.com/how-googles-bad-data-wiped-a-neighborhood-off-the-map-80c4c13f1c2b

Apple maps and NAVITIME have have been better in japan for some time now, this definitely explains a few things.

NLP's moving so fast that benchmarking tasks introduced only a year ago are having to be replaced because they're running out of headroom: https://med✧✧✧.c✧✧✧@w✧✧✧.a✧✧✧.✧/introducing-superglue-a-new-hope-against-muppetkind-2779fd9dcdd5

uhhh maybe https://med✧✧✧.c✧✧✧@w✧✧✧.a✧✧✧.✧/introducing-superglue-a-new-hope-against-muppetkind-2779fd9dcdd5

well, I've run out of shits to give about getting this link to post correctly

looks like we won't be running out of headroom here anytime soon

Oh, I've got tons of empty space up there

https://medium.com/wang.alex.c/introducing-superglue-a-new-hope-against-muppetkind-2779fd9dcdd5

thanks

eh if NLP was solved then you'd notice in real life

good article
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/15/the-age-of-robot-farmers

auto-google-translating japanese post-article clickbait

500,000 yen-36 million yen! Benefits that may be obtained from the country!
Bad breath can be taken away! ? The bad breath care for seeing the cause stain was great
"Toughness ..." a husband who won't break his wife too? 980 yen is great now!
"It's a lie ..." Blood neutral fat, about 20% lower? What is the strength of Tokuho

missed this, from march:

https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/03/endel-alogrithm-major-label-deal

Over the last few years, the rise of AI in music technology has been heralded as a portent of the crack of doom. With Spotify determining what we listen to based on algorithms and playlist placement guiding the creative process for artists, the concern is tech will render true musicianship obsolete. Well, if that’s the case, then welcome to the end times, because an algorithm just signed a major label distribution contract.

Berlin-based Endel today announced that it had become the first algorithm to strike a deal with a major label, in this case Warner Music Group. The product uses various inputs — weather, heart rate, time of day, and your body’s circadian rhythms — to craft soundscapes out of stems with the intention of boosting your mood, enhance focus, and encourage relaxation or sleep. While the Endel app is currently available for iOS and Android, as well as an Alexa skill, the AI is expected to release 20 albums before the end of the year, with five already available on streaming services.

for your convenience, here are two optimistic and pessimistic takes that you can feed into your personality algorithm

if your moods are so basic that a playlist of stock ambient synths can quantify and appease them, then I guess go to town

— Holly Herndon (@hollyherndon) March 22, 2019

this is a warning shot though, that we are about to be inundated with automated and procedurally generated music systems, producing good enough music to appease most people for most situations

— Holly Herndon (@hollyherndon) March 22, 2019

meanwhile, Endel has a touch over 1000 monthly listeners on spotify

but every one of those listeners went out and wrote their own algorithm

this seems like the optimistic take to me

automated systems are ultimately only threatening to musicians who have the emotional range of a bot tho

— Holly Herndon (@hollyherndon) March 22, 2019

(I'm not saying it's wrong)

but shouldn't their optimism, or lack thereof, be founded on the emotional range of their listeners, not just on their ability to speak to that?

She seems to assume that if there are humans capable of exceeding machines in emotional expression, there will be listeners capable of discerning that. Seems fair.

Ok I'm getting a bit obsessed with https://talktotransformer.com/, where you type/paste a piece of text and a huge NN continues the text for a bit, using random draws from its internal learned language model. The results range from nonsensical to dreamlike to funny to downright spooky. I think I've got the best results when seeding it with a shortish incomplete sentence with some (not necessarily sensible) specificity (the boldface parts below are the parts I've entered, the rest is the AI completion):

The plot of the film "There Will Be Blood" involves a man who wants to die but will never die. He is a "troll." He watches "Fright Night" and ends up in New Zealand's Taranaki Forest. He sees a deer, sees it again and sees it again. Finally, he can see the deer's head, and, after it shoots it's shot out of a tree, his hand is shot off, and he gets up with a rope around his neck. The film ends with the hero, having been shot by himself, walking off into the world and thinking: "There are days I really wish that I could leave this place and go wherever I please. I would go home and watch some of 'The Simpsons,' and maybe eat some cookies. I'd go for a beer and read some books. But I'm afraid I can't. If I went away, I could always come back."

It is interesting to compare to a "real" scenario such as this one where a person who did not "act out" would actually die of "fear."

A popular pastime in most Portuguese cities is ibrícao. A small wooden square with a wooden pole is attached to both sides by wooden posts. By placing the posts over the poles and setting them in place the horse will gallop around for hours, sometimes for weeks."
A "solar corvete", (turtle wheel), is not as common as it used to be. In rural areas, this is usually a small box with a corvette attached to the end where the person sits. It has a rope attached to the center to turn a wheel on a rope. It's a way of keeping the corvette from sliding down into a lake or pool while running.

A similar method is seen in the town of Avelário, near Lisbon (which, in Portugal, has a lake). As the sun rises, a young person, wearing only boxer shorts, goes swimming (or swimming-shopping), with a friend. At night he runs around to the town with the person sitting beside him. He would place a wooden cross on the ground for the person to reach on their next swimming session.

On their next practice session the person might sit under the cross while the coach runs along the front

The most legendary meme of 1538 was the following poem, which is from the poem collection of the medieval German scholar Johannes Gärtner:

Eintrag au und sein dessen Hoebe, sich auch häufig, das es kurzelzährig und das mit dem Erwachsen beim eining ötzere. Die Hoebe ist die Einzelungen gab einen den Hoeb, daß in dass diesis beim Hoebe.

It is often translated as "Hoebe is a ghost," but the phrase in English is sometimes translated more literally: It is a beautiful ghost, you see.

The poem is a commentary on a verse in the Gospel of Matthew. According to the translator, Matthew refers to the Hoebe as a ghost and how beautiful, intelligent, and beautiful she is. We now know that the text in a German translation did in fact refer to the human Hoebe as a ghost. In 1538, English language sources often use the English term by substituting in modern English for one of the "old" German words.

in tears here

The most beautiful word in the French language is not only the word for flowers, but also the word for a human hand to wipe the perspiration off the lips and hands of those who come near them. That word is boulevards.

The most misunderstood rule of baseball involves the "two-run" rule. The rule states that if two runners get two outs and the score is tied, both teams should settle for the inning's first hit if they can take two outs at the same time and then a double to score. While there seems to be less play in baseball these days, teams still usually have to settle for two outs if there's even a single hit. Here are some other baseball rules you need to know:

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1. There is an exception to the two-run rule in cases of double plays. For example, if a single hits a double (or is hit by one of the runners), the runner with the base on foul is declared out. This allows a team to come back to within striking distance or to advance to the sixth inning and the extra inning for extra relief, which can cost a team another chance to win. In that case, a team is still allowed a double play, meaning both runs would carry only two hits.

Source: MLB

ok I'll stop now, as there is literally an infinite supply of these.

i do like this new baseball rule idea

The best way to trick the President is by playing politics on what you know, and what your opponents know, you can't possibly know. You've got to play right into their hands. That's what's happened, I think, in this case, by making sure that nobody would know you have done the things that you've accused him of doing."

The former president's aides also said they are preparing a book — "Sons of Bush" — which could prove useful in their investigation.

The Senate is likely to continue its investigation next week, but the White House has promised to keep the Senate at least fully open.

"I think that will give us all time to put out a statement that says we have full confidence in the people on the committee," a furious Obama told reporters on Air Force One. "I think that could be taken advantage of in our book so that we could use the entire committee.

"The book I believe we're going to put out next quarter. I believe there are a few other books that could be done. I know I know a lot of members, because I'm here, for the record, and you know in their districts — the town halls, town hall meetings — they want

Jesus' mother was actually a prostitute."

"And what you get from all this is that you're getting a glimpse of the inner life of Satan, of Jesus' mother, the woman with the white hair and her son—Jesus the son."

The audience booed. They yelled at him.

"That was a really good question," he said, "and I didn't even have the chance to try to answer it."

When he was finished, he turned off the podium and ran straight into the lobby for a hug. He returned and waved at more people, saying they didn't need to say thank you.

The meeting ended with applause, and the attendees smiled.

But it was all a setup to make the man seem like a prophet.

lol sorry the bolding should have stopped after "actually" - the AI added the end!

That’s epic

I'd chew up a couple of oreos and use the resulting paste for my pizza crust.

Serve your homemade vegan pizza and let us know how it goes! And remember… I always make my own dough.

that's awesome

The recipe for a Tom Collins is simple—you don't need to add anything else. All you need is Tom Collins and water. (And of course your favorite ingredients—tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes!)

i am dying doing this, it's amazing

The one thing I could never admit to anyone is that I have never had an orgasm at 3 PM. It was like my body did nothing. I did, however, have a very good evening's sleep because I slept in the car. I'm in my 50's now and have an amazing job, so I didn't need to rush past 4 PM. It actually went well with the other weekend I worked a 10 hour night shift doing laundry, laundry, laundry. It felt like just yesterday I came.

When I went to college, I got a degree in anthropology. And my classes were boring too. I wanted it to be about animals and plants, but I didn't have any interest in animals. I also didn't like my class because I had to listen to the lectures that were only in English, not Japanese (I had to study the Japanese version of the lectures for a semester). Also most of my lectures were in Japanese and my English was horrible. When I got the chance to apply to Harvard Business School, I went for it, and went over and spent many days on campus studying for those tests. The job I want to get out of education is an associate professor!

The first time I went swimming was in August of last year, and the next time I went there, I had to fight off a swarm of ants. It didn't make me feel better about my swim.

"The next time I went was in October, and I feel bad. I feel bad because the ants ate part of my swimsuit.

"The last time I went was at a swimming event, and there were ants in the pool."

She said she had no experience swimming with ants when they come up to see it, nor with them around the pool.

Ms Coughlin also said she has noticed changes in the behaviour of the ants as the ants are less likely to stay in their usual haunts.

She said: "The ants seem to know where it is they are, they do not hang around in the same place all the time, and then when you're away for so long and things of that nature, it will get into the pool and it will eat what is there."

The issue at the start of August also led to Miss Coughlin becoming involved in street battles between residents and visitors on the streets.

The Muppet Movie is filled to the brim with fun moments, which we'll highlight in this list of 15 classic scenes that are definitely worth the watch.

1. BOB'S SHOOTING

In this scene, the Muppets appear at the top of the stairs on the Muppet-themed roof of the Muppets' Hollywood mansion.

As the Muppets look at the sky on the roof, Bob asks who he should make a new Muppet called, but it's not clear who wants to take Bob up on his offer. When he asks them who they would want him to make a new Muppet, he's told the wrong answer. At first, he tries calling out to the Muppets. So, he comes down the stairs with his gun drawn, aiming the gun at everyone in the house. As he tries to shoot everyone, the Muppets are able to block his shot. As the Muppets scream in fright, they run down towards Bob. He then shoots someone down below them and the people start falling down the stairs at him. At some point Bob has managed to take the shot he needs to kill everyone in the house.

The greatest film of all time is here—and its soundtrack is absolutely outstanding. "The Terminator" was directed by the late David Fincher, and while it is by no means a masterpiece, it deserves to be seen by all.

The soundtrack to "The Terminator" does not disappoint. "Guns (Don't Stop Believin), Money (And Sex)", and "Rocky, Baby" are fantastic. "Rocky" is truly a musical of the highest standard, and has all the elements of a great rock and roll song.

Another great track on "Rocky" is "I Wish I Was Back in the Day" by the legendary soul singer, Rufus Wainwright. The song's first section is very reminiscent of classic rock as its hook and refrain sound like a real Led Zeppelin's "I Wish You Were Here." Wainwright has been one of America's greatest vocalists and is one of her band's biggest hits, as is the backing band, Rufus's band. The music, lyrics, and arrangements are spot on, and the song can easily be mistaken for a classic rock classic. "Sawdust Waltz" is a perfect song to watch out for.

The first McDonalds that I had to work on at that time was one of these weird little plastic "Sausage Fries" that were a little thinner and made from plastic than the previous ones I'd worked on. I liked them because they didn't look like meat, but they tasted like fried shit in a shitty way. They were awful because they went on a long time after you'd pulled them out of the can. Then there was one that cost $1.50 and was made of plastic but was delicious, so I stuck it in my mouth for a week and ate it as quickly as I could in seconds . And they were tasty. I ended up quitting. I quit because the price per slice was so much higher than what I could afford and I wanted to avoid feeling guilty about it. The last of them was for $5.99, and my boss was like, "Why do you keep eating them?" And I was like "Well, we don't like them because they make us feel guilty about getting in to McDonald's and getting shitty fried food . That makes us feel bad." And the guy said, "Oh really? And when we say shitty, we mean shitty fried food!"

The best recipe for Belgian waffles is this one. Use your fork and spoon into a cake tin (or toaster cupboard). Bake for 25 minutes.

If your bread is overly moist, then add water a little and let it cool a touch. As you pour it out use a slotted spoon to slowly pour out the liquid (I use my left over pancake batter). Then cut into two pieces and place on top of butter-dipped chocolate waffles.

You'll also want to leave some room to cover the batter in some flour if you've been mixing it properly. Once you're happy, remove from the stove and let cool until it's just starting.

If I pull your finger for me with the palm of my hand ( for me, without touching), I will let it be so. I will let you be so in front of the gods ( for myself, without touching). I'm going to do that, my dear ones . I, too, will be free. I'll do that, my dear ones .
That's it. Please hold back the heartache for me. Please hold back the tears. Please hold my feet out of the way.
(This last thought is so important. Forgive me if I sound hollow. Please forgive me if I sound like a cry for help. Please forgive me for calling you pathetic.)
Oh, my dear ones, I love you just as much. I was just so glad to see you smile for me. And I couldn't forgive myself if I didn't smile for you

With apologies to Jordan Pet.... nah, fuck it:

Twelve rules for life:
1. Stand up straight with your shoulders straight.
2. You will find that your spine is more stable when you don't.
3. If you must stand from an upright position, stand upside down.
4. Don't sit in an extended position.
5. You are more at risk of falling from an elevated position because your hips and knees are bent.
6. You will find that the more vertical you move while standing, the longer you will live.
7. As you move up the stairs, your ankles will be bent, and that is not good for you.
8. Be careful of falling into cracks or crevices on the stairs.
9. Stand on your hands and knees.
10. You must be able to maintain equilibrium throughout your life as you are growing older.
12. If you have a serious injury you must be able to walk upright in no more than 25 minutes.
If you want to see how much of an impact I had on my body, here is my picture:
See the difference?

Aha! I was trying to get a list to generate before without success. Now I see how it's done.

The top 10 movies of all time are:
1. Air Bud, (1974) — The entire set can be seen in 30 seconds.
1. The Shining, (1980) — The entire set can be seen in just over 30 minutes.
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark, (1984) — If you look far enough into it, you start to see a huge room with plenty of little spaces in there for people to wander through. It takes all of a half hour to make something like that out of cardboard box.
4. A Clockwork Orange, (1971) — I've never seen a better way to end a scene than in a scene from A Clockwork Orange. The entire episode is like an hour worth of slow motion madness in real time.
5. Back to the Future, (1989) — The entire set can be seen in just over two and a half minutes.
6. Apocalypse Now (1979) — I've never seen anyone take a picture while they're working on film. But they all do this thing.
7. Psycho, (1960) — Here's a kid having sex in a warehouse! Like, seriously, dude, dude.[]

The best mixer for Fernet Branca is the Wojof, a very high-end mixer, which is great for adding some sweetness to your drink. It's made by a German company, with three kinds of ingredients (water, sugar, and maltodextrin), which also contribute to flavor. It costs $10 a bar, so make sure you grab one, if you can.

If you like cocktails that use more traditional ingredients like gin and rum, try this Manhattan, a drink from New York City that was invented by Ernest Hemingway. It's filled with the fruit juice of the gin you buy in the street, plus a dash of rye syrup with some ice. The result is another classic Manhattan.

should be The best mixer for Fernet Branca is

Top 10 albums of all time
1. Aerosmith - Aeroplanes
2. Blondie - Love It or List It
3. Aerosmith - All or Nothing / I Wanna Be A King
4. Aerosmith - All This Money / I Wanna Be A King
5. Aerosmith - All Those Heartbeats / I Wish You Would
6. Aerosmith - All Tomorrow's Parties / I Wanna Be A King
7. Aerosmith - All This Money / I Wanna Be A King
8. Aerosmith - All These Roads / I Wanna Be A King
9. Aerosmith - All This Money / I Wanna Be A King
10. Aerosmith - All these Roads / I Won't Give Up The Way I Am
In 2009, Aerosmith finished second-to-last place on Billboard's year-end " Album of the Year" for their All this Money LP, which included five Top 10 albums. They were ranked 3rd in terms of sales and 5th in terms of total audience for the album. The album reached #34 in the Billboard 200 and #34 on the Billboard Pop chart during the week

Uhhhhhh...

The top 10 most beautiful words are:
1. SpongeBob- "I love you too and I wanna eat you right away" (I love you!)
2. Marge- "It's amazing how quickly things change" (It's amazing how quickly things change!)
3. Mr. Krabs- The whole world is watching us; your parents won't believe you can actually eat me... and then you have no idea and then all the teachers come into the kitchen and say I love you all and you say oh I don't know what to tell you, and everything goes quiet and you say okay I love you too, because that's me? And then one day we all got all this stuff from the fridge, it's like I'm all grown up and everything, and then the night before I'm going, I'm looking for my food, you know, "I love you too boy... You're awesome" and then you come running out of there with your clothes on and you're like, "I love you too" And that's when I realized that being gay meant I should eat somebody. And you're the type or you eat a person, that's how it goes.