I Love Algorithms. I'm Passionately Fascinated By Them. But It's Always Good To Remember That No Matter
I love algorithms. I'm passionately fascinated by them. But it's always good to remember that no matter how clever they are, they have no judgement. This leads to things like this, where Google's top suggested story about the women's 800m Olympic final is a thread from the utterly repugnant Roosh V forums (I don't recommend reading it). This is why supervision and human intervention are so important. It's very helpful for companies like Google when people report this kind of inappropriate content. I reported this a few hours ago, but at the time of posting it's still up. If you want to help out, it's pretty easy. There doesn't seem to be a feedback link inside the little Olympics applet, but if you just search "800m athletics Rio 2016" and then scroll to the bottom of the page, there should be a feedback button.
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Heh, I love this take on this, it’s far more hilarious than my game was. If anyone is interested in actually playing it, you can download a windows installer from https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7bqhY0xzEu3ckxadVA1d2ZleU0/view?usp=sharing. If you’re worried about downloading strange files from the internet, that’s very wise of you! The source code is here: https://github.com/isaach/sdabto. This will also let you run it on a mac or linux machine. Click the ‘download ZIP’ button and then run it with python 3 (which you may have to install) from the command line for some text-based good times! Well, not really good times, as @ave-puella mentioned.
If anyone actually wants to play this game and is having trouble getting it going hit me up and I’ll help you run it. I really love hearing people’s reactions to it.
first person computer game: mental illness
> ‘command: walk out front door’ is not allowed. the future is terrifying. staying at your start point inside the house is your best bet.
> good job! lying on the couch and staring at the opposite wall for two hours has boosted your energy. you can now throw away the jar of peanut butter you had for dinner last night.
> the quest you are following no longer exists. a full day has passed and your priorities have changed. go to the menu to read your new quest.
> minus one mind point. your last save was two months ago. click ‘ok’ to repeat the ‘get a diagnosis’ quest while under the influence of an unmemory potion.
> oops! the villager doesn’t understand your explanation of ‘weird brain fog.’ now they treat you with suspicion. looks like you have to go to the next village for your errands from now on.
> you have collected five good days! check your menu for your new treasure, ‘memory of when i could function’. it might come in handy in the future!
> cube unlocked! you have accessed action: ‘cry’. all quests will be put on hold until ‘cry’ is complete.
> cube unlocked! you have accessed action: ‘spontaneous desolation’. all quests > cube unlocked! you have accessed action: ‘negativit > cube unlocked! you have > cube unlocked! you have accessed action: ‘only taylor swift songs make me feel anything’. all quests will be put on hold until > cube unlocked! you have accessed action: ‘scream’. all quests will be put on hold until ‘scream’ is complete.
> this is your new companion, GARGOYLE. he will accompany you on the quest ‘pass as functioning’. keep an eye out for his secondary weapon: whispering ugly truths only you can hear.
A present I made for my dear friend @ave-puella. You may recognize it as a short Temeraire fic she posted a little while back. It’s done entirely by hand, and was my first time attempting borders and illumination. I’m still figuring out gold leaf, but it was super fun to work with (there’s also some gold work on the border of the third page). For those of you unfamiliar with the Temeraire universe, there are dragons, hence the second page border.
It was a heck of a lot of work, but was entirely worth it for her face and incredulous ‘what did you do?!’
Chi-rho page from the Book of St Chad, which dates from circa AD 730. It contains some of the earliest evidence of the Welsh language in written form
Codex Callistius, a 12th century “travel guide” to Santiago di Compostela.
Evangéliaire (Gospels), f. 21v, St. Gallen, Switzerland c. 875-900 via Bibliothèque nationale de France, Public Domain
Short answer is that each tab is its own process. Since different processes get their own chunk of memory they can use and can't change anything outside of their chunk, this prevents tabs from altering each other. As you can imagine the security implications of that would be Bad.
Not only are you yelling at a poor mother and many adorable children, they've been guarding your house from spooky monsters you can't see this whole time!!
if any of you could tell me why task manager thinks i have 13 firefoxes open at once that would be great
The ice we skate
Is getting pretty thin
It signifies our youth
And pleasures chucked into the bin
Mercedes and James Hutchinson
HOOKED RUG
1920-1940
Fabric
Fenimore Art Museum
[Image text: Say This! Not That! Unreal/insane, unbelievable/crazy, jerk/psycho, awful/stupid, bad/dumb, moody/bipolar, ridiculous/retarded, eccentric/mental case, dismantled/crippled, unruly/mad house]. Image by Upworthy. Read more at autistichoya.com.
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Calligraphy, complaining, potentially calligraphic complaining someday
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