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I hope I can keep it

Last summer, we went to London for a vacation and I bought a queen Elizabeth mask. We then went to number 10 downing st and I demanded they let me in.

Oddly enough, he didn’t buy it. 

I even tried to bribe him with a knighthood and one of my many castles.

Forgot my bloody key, and Phillip won’t open the door.

Lazy git.

… that policeman is my dad…

at least you know he had a good day

Self care is drinking 32 espresso shots and haunting the local grocery store by phasing through the aisles

ALICE IN WONDERLAND (Jonathan Miller, 1966)

How the grinch stole Christmas (2000)

✨ Focus on the task.

If you are doing something that isn’t pushing the task forward, that is called a distraction.

Distractions are plentiful, but remember distractions stop you from doing. ✨

hope your pets stay healthy in 2017

I almost didn’t blog this and felt guilty

Not risking it

hope ya pets even healthier in 2018

hope your pets discover immortality in 2019

somehow I got 95/20 on an assignment

I hope they never fix it and leave it this way forever

reblog the Awesome Grade picture for awesome grades

guys this really works i reblogged it and then got 870% on an essay

May your GPA rise due to clerical error.

fuck with me

this post was flagged down twice and i had to appeal to show the world this cats power stance

wednesday, 26/12/18

here is a page of highlights from this past year - looking back on it has really helped me see that despite all the trials that have happened this year, some wonderful things have happened as well and i want to focus more on the positives while working on myself c:

hope that everyone who celebrates christmas had a lovely time yesterday! my day was spent eating and napping with my parents hehe

btw,, i made a journal / study instagram! you can follow it here ; (someone else took my username on there ;-;)

Yes.

But wait, it’s even weirder than that!

This is gonna produce some absolutely baffling pornography.

…. oh my fucking god they actually are using open source software. They’re using a fucking one-layer unidirectional bicategory tag-trained neural network. This will never work. Literally, it will never work. There’s just not enough algorithmic complexity to do what they’re asking of it. I bet you I could prove on a mathematical level that this joke of a neural net fundamentally lacks the abstraction necessary to do its job.

This will never get better. Their algorithm will never stop fucking up, it will never actually flag porn reliably and it will always require a massive quantity of human hours to deal with the deluge of mistagged pictures. This isn’t just a case of an insufficiently trained algorithm, it’s just … this is the most basic neural network you can make. It probably hasa a lot of neurons and has loads of training data but like … you can’t just brute force this kind of stuff. One layer of neurons is just Not Enough.

Also, just to make this clear, Tumblr lied. I mean, we already know this, but I mean they liiiieeeeed. All that stuff they promised about what would or would not be censored? That cannot be delivered on with a system this simple. Nude classical sculptures, political protests, male-presenting nipples (really Tumblr?), nude art outside the context of sex, all that? You cannot train a bicategory one-layer neural network to exclude those things. It cannot be done. Tumblr never intended for those things to actually be permitted, they were just lying. Because the system they have cannot actually do what they said it would and never will be able to.

Also, this kind of system is super vulnerable to counter-neural strategies. I bet you before the end of the month someone hooks up their own open source one layer bicategory neural network which puts an imperceptible (to humans) layer of patterned static over arbitrary images, and trains it by having it bot-post static-ed images to Tumblr and reinforcing based on whether the images are labeled nsfw or sfw. Seriously, within a month someone will have an input-output machine which can turn any image ‘sfw’ in Tumblr’s eyes.

This is genuinely pathetic. Like, I have real pity for whoever implemented this, because it’s clear Tumblr doesn’t actually have any engineers with any expertise with machine learning left at all and they foisted the job off on some poor bastard who has no idea what they’re doing and is going to get all kinds of flak for their (perfectly reasonable and predetermined) failure from management.

As has been pointed out before, there are no humans behind this at all. The review process just reruns either the same algorithm or another algorithm, but people have posted screen shots showing obviously SFW pictures that were still deemed NSFW on review, despite the fact that any human, no matter how overworked / tired would have seen that these pictures were not porn.

‘No day, no night. No seasons. By definition it stands for an in-between space. Limbo appears at the edge of daybreak and at dusk. It’s a cusp word used for conversations held in the golden hour.’ [x]

I love to read the mystics in the morning in case I’m in a calm enough mood; mysticism intensifies the pre-existing serenity and stillness and it gives it back twice as radiant and encompassing and expansive. There is such beauty in ancient holy writings and mystical texts. I feel I’m being embraced by divinity and psychic bliss and there is impeccable simplicity and pacifying exactitude in the imagery most of my favourite mystics use. A sense of transparency and splendid lucidity of the spirit. Immensity and effortlessness. Perfect sense of tranquility.

Francis Brnardone, tr. by Daniel Ladinsky from “Of Course I Am Jealous,”