Three more things make a post
May. 12th, 2022 07:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
primeideal-Apparently interstate Civil War flareups persisted into the 21st century...over battle flags. (Given more recent discourse about the Confederate flag I would expect this to die down.) But it's wild that three different 2000s Minnesota governors have been asked by Virginia, and said, "nah, we won, the flag is ours now."
-Blog post from 2012 about computer vision and "what are we processing, mostly subconsciously, when we decide that this picture is funny? How hard would it be for a computer to do that?" I think this is also the kind of thing that's substantially more difficult than Sally-Anne tests as a "theory of mind" test. (This got linked on Twitter in the context of "a decade later, someone else is able to coach their machine learning system to have a fairly deep understanding of the picture"--but it still requires some human input/guidance.)
-I'm done with a draft of Part II of my extremely sprawly "Crying Suns" trilogy! And yes, I cut down on the "language evolution is hard actually" stuff. I still need to go through and take out a bunch of the semicolons because there are way too many. Because Part I and Part II kind of complement each other and hopefully can be read in either order, I've been holding off on posting Part I until Part II was complete. And now that I'm finally here, it's like...do I really want to do this or since I've put it off so long, should I go ahead and write Part III before posting them all? (Part III shouldn't be read first and probably makes more sense after reading I and/or II.)
-Blog post from 2012 about computer vision and "what are we processing, mostly subconsciously, when we decide that this picture is funny? How hard would it be for a computer to do that?" I think this is also the kind of thing that's substantially more difficult than Sally-Anne tests as a "theory of mind" test. (This got linked on Twitter in the context of "a decade later, someone else is able to coach their machine learning system to have a fairly deep understanding of the picture"--but it still requires some human input/guidance.)
-I'm done with a draft of Part II of my extremely sprawly "Crying Suns" trilogy! And yes, I cut down on the "language evolution is hard actually" stuff. I still need to go through and take out a bunch of the semicolons because there are way too many. Because Part I and Part II kind of complement each other and hopefully can be read in either order, I've been holding off on posting Part I until Part II was complete. And now that I'm finally here, it's like...do I really want to do this or since I've put it off so long, should I go ahead and write Part III before posting them all? (Part III shouldn't be read first and probably makes more sense after reading I and/or II.)
