• froztbyte@awful.systems
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    23 hours ago

    references these two topics. I suspect the phrase itself in this case is a shitpost taking aim at some of the absurd bullshit TESCREALists come up with in their nonsensegabble, but … it is also the kind of nonsensegabble that some of them may unironically post

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      19 hours ago

      is it cynical that i find the idea of a “latent space” a bit goofy? may just be because i think data science is kind of a joke and much machine learning is “we threw shit at our model but don’t know what a category error is”

      like it’s just dimensionality reduction with new vocab?

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      23 hours ago

      (related tangent: @cstross’ Singularity series is a pretty fun topical dive about this, and he’s been following these nutjobs for probably close to 3 decades now)