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dactylotheca

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She seems like the sort of person one of whose hobbies is pulling wings off flies

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less COVID testing meant less cases

I mean…

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Thankfully the US supreme court can mainly only screw up the US, so the rest of us will get to enjoy these push alerts.

Well, at least until we vote for our own science-denying fuckheads who will promote other science-denying fuckheads to positions of power.

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But it is, and it always has been. Absurdly complexly layered statistics, calculated faster than a human could.

Well sure, but as someone else said even heat is statistics. Saying “ML is just statistics” is so reductionist as to be meaningless. Heat is just statistics. Biology is just physics. Forests are just trees.

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While I don’t disagree with that statement at all, I honestly have no idea how it’s related to my comment (probably because I’m an idjit)

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iT’s JuSt StAtIsTiCs

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It’s mostly just “eh, this seems to work I dunno let’s keep doing it and see what happens”.

Yeah, no.

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I guess in a literal sense all generators are powered by effort

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