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  • God, the coverage of machine learning in general is absolutely infuriating. I sometimes listen to the BBC daily news podcast while I shower, and today they thought it was newsworthy that a soccer “AI” could predict where a penalty kicker would put the ball 52% of the time. Fifty fucking two percent. A straight up coin flip. They were acting like it was some huge achievement. They wrote that, recorded it, edited it, broadcasted it, and at no point did anyone say, “wait, this is fucking stupid, cancel this useless story.”

    I need to find a different global news broadcast to listen to.

    Edit, just because I felt like I was going crazy, I decided to look up the story again. The text article says it was 64% accurate, and in the opening news summary the BBC actually also said 64%, but then in the main story the number they presented was 52% (at about 16:20 in the episode titled “Israel to open humanitarian corridors into Gaza”). So I dunno, maybe that’s supposed to be some separate stat somehow, but anyway it’s still crystal clear this shit so ass











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    19 days ago

    I don’t know enough about Fetterman’s past to make a judgement on how his stroke affected him, but you totally could. Brain damage can fundamentally change who you are as a person on every level, from memory to logic, or even spirituality. It can change or entirely destroy your ability to feel empathy, damping some emotions while amping up others. Strokes that fundamentally change personality like that are rare, but certainly not outside the realm of possibility.