If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

OK, finished my clock in a suitcase. http://www.englishdecorations.com/_site1426/dbfiles/product/~B0311_m1.jpg Analog too. Way harder than that digital crap. Where's my ticket to the WH? When do I get my scholarship to MIT? Unimpressed. I invented the "watch-dog": doberman.jpg Watch-dog timers are ...

And now Dawkins is linking to a Breitbard article on this. Do we the emoticon of banging your head against a wall? God dammit, Richard.

Most fourteen year olds I know wouldn't be able to disassemble and reassemble a clock. He's not a genius but he's above average. Wow! Really? At 14, we had access to TSA (Technique des Systèmes Automatisés, or Robotics 101) at my school. That was a lot more advanced than repackaging a clock. I know...

Absolutely right on the money. What if somebody plugged it in? Thank fuck he was playing with battery power, or that his interests didn't include rocket engines or pharmaceuticals. My 9 year old has an electronics kit, and knows better than to play around with electrical current. What battery power...

I read a very recent interview with Dawkins where he was completely cognizant of the fact that his tweets are dumb and counterproductive and that he should stop. Yet he doesn't. It's like he can't stop himself. Maybe Twitter should come with a feature that neuters you of any opinion once you reach ...

https://twitter.com/HarryStopes/status/645555286124699648 Dawkins comes across in this exchange as somewhat paranoid and tetchy. We have no idea about the kid's motives for bringing in this clock but I think it is safer to allow him the benefit of the doubt, which Dawkins fails to do here. Dawkins ...

comhcinc wrote: Watch wrestling.

Hard pass. :lol:

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=irule Harsh, dude. I wold have graded on a curve there. No need to discourage those kids so early in life. Hell, at least those kids turned in their own work, shitty as it is. The kid that xeroxed that design, though, that kid is fooling no one. F- :d...

Right. Because if he can't start at full on circuit analysis, fuck him? Again, I have to ask. Who are you arguing against? Since I've REPEATEDLY said he shouldn't have been suspended let alone arrested then all you're doing is trying to change my mind on the merits of the kid's project. I said I'm ...

Parody Accountant wrote:Troy and ahmed in the morning

Nights!

Sorry that should have read "I will disagree with you that taking something apart and simply putting it in a case is a 'cool impulse'". Damn double negative. Right. Because if he can't start at full on circuit analysis, fuck him? Again, I have to ask. Who are you arguing against? Since I've REPEATE...

Parody Accountant wrote:My wifi adapter was enabled and I foolishly thought the windows troubleshooter would check that. Took a total of 5 seconds.

Fuck.

Obama owes me a phone call

That's some really cool troubleshooting, PA. Come to the White House and show us how you did it!

Sorry that should have read "I will disagree with you that taking something apart and simply putting it in a case is a 'cool impulse'".

Damn double negative.

The plot thickens... http://blogs.artvoice.com/techvoice/2015/09/17/reverse-engineering-ahmed-mohameds-clock-and-ourselves/ Wow. That's pretty damning evidence. Pretty clear the kid didn't do much EE at all. Not only that, but it points to some trolling at worst and bragging over something not earn...

comhcinc wrote: There is no sin. He brought a clock to school and was arrested. He is 14.

I don't think he should have been arrested.

So Ahmed didn't "invent" a clock. He took one apart and put it in a case. So what? So this. The kid was dishonest from the start. Now AT BEST the kid lied just for teacher approval. That's not a horrible thing. It's no sin to not be an electronics genius. There's no malice there. And yeah, the cops...

The plot thickens... http://blogs.artvoice.com/techvoice/2015/09/17/reverse-engineering-ahmed-mohameds-clock-and-ourselves/ Wow. That's pretty damning evidence. Pretty clear the kid didn't do much EE at all. Not only that, but it points to some trolling at worst and bragging over something not earn...

Noam Chomsky second-guesses womens' consent & compares women to children. Also... gives no fucks about teh men being "degraded", "humiliated" "sex objects". [youtube]SNlRoaFTHuE[/youtube] LOL!!! He kept pretending he'd never heard of Hustler. :lol: :lol: :lol: Surprisingly muddle-headed thinking by...

Pace Ron, pure random searches are eminently exploitable. In a scenario where half of travelers are searched and the other half waved through, you need only accept that half of your operatives will be caught, while the other half will succeed. Can't argue with that. Yes you can. As soon as one is c...

LOL. Didn't someone here show that most of PZ's twitter followers were fake?

Matt Cavanaugh wrote:Pace Ron, pure random searches are eminently exploitable. In a scenario where half of travelers are searched and the other half waved through, you need only accept that half of your operatives will be caught, while the other half will succeed.

Can't argue with that.

I still don't see what's wrong with the 50/50 random/targeted approach. The random element is retained, preventing terrorists from being able to game the system, but suspicious-looking people (whatever that entails) are still stopped and searched anyway. Why not? Because any deviation from randomne...

Let's try this again.

Maajid Nawaz and Sam Harris
Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue
[youtube]YTd4-WXw2SM[/youtube]

Worth watching. Identity politics gets dragged at the end for a bit and "check your privilege" is hurled at, I think, Greenwald and others. Nice.

dogen wrote:

Radioactive decay is 100% random.

You're right. Sorry, I was thinking above the level of one atom. I should regularly check my quantum privilege! ;)

Anyway it's clear my thoughts on this were overly simplistic for a variety of reasons (imperfect info exchange being one of many).

Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue

Worth watching. Identity politics gets dragged at the end for a bit and "check your privilege" is hurled at, I think, Greenwald and others. Nice.

Embed fail so I gave up. Anyway it's Maajid Nawaz and Sam Harris.

Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue
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Worth watching. Identity politics gets dragged at the end for a bit and "check your privilege" is hurled at, I think, Greenwald and others. Nice.

Noel Plum examines the recent Kate Brooks video on censorship. I don't always agree with Noel, that's why I love his videos, but he's on point with this one! ...snip... Good video. The motion "Should speech be free to offend?" isn't a motion SJWs are against. Not really. They are perfectly happy to...

Once you say that the regression weights will never keep up with the adaptations of the targets, combined with the idea that not all potential targets will be checked, then you have given up on detecting all targets. Oh, definitely. But I don't think anyone was suggesting a random system would have...

[quote="Parody Accountant" Pretty sure we could have spent enough money to make a machine that beats a human in detection, in a doable amount of time. If necessary, just hire that many people to finger bang all of our grandparents[/quote] I mentioned this briefly already but it turns out not to be a...

I still don't see what's wrong with the 50/50 random/targeted approach. The random element is retained, preventing terrorists from being able to game the system, but suspicious-looking people (whatever that entails) are still stopped and searched anyway. Why not? Because any deviation from randomne...

For those discussing the question of mixing a random approach with a selective approach to screening, I give the following: On the first day of classes, the instructor of a course handed out a syllabus that included the break-down of how final grades would be calculated. One item on the list of gra...

By which I mean the students can be prepared. The terrorist can't prepare to avoid the randomness of the screening (dying hair, disguise) since it's no use.

For those discussing the question of mixing a random approach with a selective approach to screening, I give the following: On the first day of classes, the instructor of a course handed out a syllabus that included the break-down of how final grades would be calculated. One item on the list of gra...

I don't think you get what we're saying. Say you're the government. fund a randomized project that is 100 percent funded adequately by your estimate. Say 1 trillion. Now if you fund an additional NON Random project, are you going to be less secure? Fuck no. More secure You're absolutely right. I'm ...

I still don't see what's wrong with the 50/50 random/targeted approach. The random element is retained, preventing terrorists from being able to game the system, but suspicious-looking people (whatever that entails) are still stopped and searched anyway. Why not? Because any deviation from randomne...

I may be mistaken (those of you that read Greenwald more than I do please correct me) but I believe his SJW-buffoonery is mostly focused on "Islamophobia" and on attacking New Atheism. The guy is more Chomsky than SJW. From what I've read the guy is a civil libertarian, not authoritarian than SJWs....

I may be mistaken (those of you that read Greenwald more than I do please correct me) but I believe his SJW-buffoonery is mostly focused on "Islamophobia" and on attacking New Atheism. The guy is more Chomsky than SJW. From what I've read the guy is a civil libertarian, not authoritarian than SJWs....

I was one of Greenwald's earliest readers. Long before he went to Slate or wrote books or any of the other stuff he does now. He was actually sensible, honest and even-handed in his early days. But by the time he went to Slate he was starting to get a little lop-sided. And now he's just another SJW...

PZ latest gripe on Sam Harris has managed to get up 100 comments, that is AFTER Glenn Greenwald gave it a bit of publicity. In his heyday, it would be up to 500 by now. We all know how much The Horde hates Harris. Anyway, this does put Myers in the same camp as the Greenwald/Werleman/Blumenthal/Asl...

Good on Greenwald. I actually like him more often than not although he really fears New Atheists. Big bugaboo for him. Wonder if it's via Hitchens that he built that distrust.

Bit of a cop out with the "by accident" clause there but it's fun to see PZ be shown for what he is.

FUUUUUUUCK!

[youtube]EsVtM0RFQJI[/youtube] As this video shows, Harris' real point is grossly misrepresented by Peez and the SJWs. Either we: a) Search every single passenger; b) Search a subset of passengers at random; c) Selectively search a subset, based on certain criteria (a.k.a., "profiling"). As the fir...

comhcinc wrote:Also I am enjoy Ron Swanson even if he is wrong about everything I disagree with him on ;)

I also find that people are wrong in the subjects where I disagree with them! We have more in common than you think! ;)

Oops. Were you referring to "meta prediction"? ... the prediction of what will be predictive in some other situation, such as a future time? That's a really cool branch of regression, but the FBI does not use it. They often don't even include moderators. I wasn't no (at least I don't think so, firs...

Billie from Ockham wrote: You're making it sound like the people who create regression equations aren't aware that said equations often need to be updated. Well, we are aware of this.

How do you control the time constant of that loop though? Namely: Equation 1 -> Update -> Equation 2 -> Update -> Equation 1 and so on?

My take on profiling, which differs from Harris', starts with the question of what you are trying to do. If your one and only goal is to identify those who are most likely to be who you are looking for, then any reliable predictor should be used. This has nothing to do with causation; it is simply ...

BTW, even though I think PZ is right to oppose racial profiling he still can't help but mislead in his critique of Sam Harris. But that's not surprising. PZ's misrepresentation of Sam Harris is so egregious, what's left, beyond PZ's lies, to agree with? Would you be willing to leave stupid-PZ out o...

Glenn Greenwald and PZ Myers are putting Sam Harris's feet to the fire on his ideas about racial profiling. Gotta say I'm not a big fan of Sam Harris to begin with, but even then it's disappointing to see him use his own brand of identity politics to justify really dodgy (and apparently not that ef...

BTW, even though I think PZ is right to oppose racial profiling he still can't help but mislead in his critique of Sam Harris. But that's not surprising.

Glenn Greenwald and PZ Myers are putting Sam Harris's feet to the fire on his ideas about racial profiling. Gotta say I'm not a big fan of Sam Harris to begin with, but even then it's disappointing to see him use his own brand of identity politics to justify really dodgy (and apparently not that eff...

Shatterface wrote: If you want your kids to be rebels you bring them up strictly so that they have something to rebel against.

Patton Oswalt - The World's Most Amazing Father

Employ a disproportionate counter force of your own - ie don't burn your ISIS captives, just carpet bomb them and drone them to death. This is rarely a luxury anyone actually possesses in most fights. By coincidence just yesterday I saw a youtube video of AC Grayling and Christopher Hitchens debati...

For those of you more philosophically inclined than I am, would it be fair to say that any system of thought/justice/merit susceptible to a Sokal style hoax is basically... how do I put this... shit? Because that's kinda what identity politics looks like from over here. Based on that pseudonym poetr...

You can only use pseudonyms for punching up you shitlords!

People Are Upset After Adobe Showed Off A New Tool By Editing A Smile Onto A Woman
http://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemcneal ... .stvxoNanr

Nevermind, it was. Just saw the search function. :doh:

This is a 9 month old post that is starting to make the rounds. It's actually pretty interesting. Has it been shared here before?

http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/01/untitled/

https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2l6grg/how_we_dealt_with_sjws_in_the_bdsm_community/ Interesting read and good advice to boot. Further down the thread they touch upon what I feel is the substrate of this culture war. Atheism, gaming, feminism, politics, all of these things are hist...

Kirbmarc wrote:Tribalism at its finest.

What a colonial racist sh1tlord you are! :naughty:

If Heina Dadabhoy can get 10k and not produce a book in over 3 years, this plan sounds like a golden opportunity. You know, I was *this* close to giving Heina money at the time. I still think we need more ex-Muslim voices out there. That she never followed through is probably not surprising. It tak...

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