Xanthe van Otterburn 🦦️🍇️

@satyrs.eu

«Θεοὶ μέν τισι μόνον μῦθός εἰσ’· σὺν δὲ τίσιν ἐχόρευον;» Time-travelling cyber-hippie satyr Hermaphrodite from 1969 BCE. 22 in human years, allegedly. More at https://satyrs.eu/about All posts CC0 public domain, because information wants to be free!

the OP but with "better man" circled with a red arrow pointing to a picture of CGI monkey robbie wiliams from the movie Better Man™

Kai Krause’s KPT Spheroid Designer, an extremely late-90s/early-00s interface which appears to be moulded out of Sumerian clay

weird ugly (but cute) pink-blue elephant puppet thing from the fifth element

Parody of the U.S.’s DEFCON levels. DEFCON 5: All poasting as normal. DEFCON 4: Tongue-in-cheek horny furry text posts. DEFCON 3: Rocket Raccoon’s dick on main. DEFCON 2: Fatfur on main. DEFCON 1: Weird hyper/multi furry stuff on main, only to be used as weapon of last resort

Meme of the Turkish shooter guy from the Paris Olympics — on the left, his competitor, kitted out with scopes and advanced gear, captioned with the long and winding prompt to get Fable to disprove the Jacobian conjecture; on the right, him, wearing only his prescription glasses to help, captioned "You should do a breakthrough"

A pin in the map for Newcastle-under-Lyme, where Newcastle-upon-Tyne actually is IRL

A floating Menger-sponge-shaped room inside a larger cube, surrounded by air entirely on all six sides

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!

Mohammad Khatami: “Alexis de Tocqueville… which I am sure most Americans have read.”

The brutalist Newcastle Civic Centre, topped off with a carousel of seahorses

"How many?"
"Tens of thousands. In many parts of the world, you will find people of the same ethnic group, living a few miles apart in similar valleys under similar conditions, speaking languages that have absolutely nothing in common with each other. This sort of thing is not an oddity—it is ubiquitous. Many linguists have tried to understand Babel, the question of why human language tends to fragment, rather than converging on a common tongue?'

greek chudjak with a “I 💙 Katharevousa but i would NEVER EVER EVER suggest that Greek has undergone any sound change in the past 2,500 years” shirt (and a Golden Dawn pin)

The trunk of a large tree, about the circumference of a living-room coffee table, carved with the initials of dozens (perhaps more than a hundred?) of visitors past — some young and clear, some old and blurry.

Several exceedingly fancy gentlemen in white-tie dress

$We will thus define "an AI system" as a single unified software system that can satisfy the following criteria, all completable by at least some humans. Able to reliably pass a 2-hour, adversarial Turing test during which the participants can send text, images, and audio files (as is done in ordinary text messaging applications) during the course of their conversation. An 'adversarial' Turing test is one in which the human judges are instructed to ask interesting and difficult questions, designed to advantage human participants, and to successfully unmask the computer as an impostor. A single demonstration of an AI passing such a Turing test, or one that is sufficiently similar, will be sufficient for this condition, so long as the test is well-designed to the estimation of Metaculus Admins. Has general robotic capabilities, of the type able to autonomously, when equipped with appropriate actuators and when given human-readable instructions, satisfactorily assemble a (or the equivalent of a) circa-2021 Ferrari 312 T4 1:8 scale automobile model. A single demonstration of this ability, or a sufficiently similar demonstration, will be considered sufficient. High competency at a diverse fields of expertise, as measured by achieving at least 90% mean accuracy across all tasks in the Q\&A dataset developed by Dan Hendrycks et al.. Able to get top-1 strict accuracy of at least 90.0% on interview-level problems found in the APPS benchmark introduced by Dan Hendrycks, Steven Basart et al. Top-1 accuracy is distinguished, as in the paper, from top-k accuracy in which k outputs from the model are generated, and the best output is selected.$