juanito_the_great

u/juanito_the_great@sh.itjust.works
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Emphasis on psyop. If you are still in a democracy, even if it's flawed, even if they are trying to cheat: Remember Orban. Remember Hungary. They did it! Your country can too. They want you without hope. Don't lose it!

on Eat guilt Free · c/funny · 35 pts · 6d

Basic boomer humor. So basic and unfunny that it probably upsets most boomers when associated with it. And I'm not even vegetarian.

We actually had a joke with number 68 a million years ago when I was in uni! It goes like this:

"Hey babe, do you want to do a 68? Huh, what is that? You blow me and I owe you 1"

Not saying it was funny, but it was a joke.

Thank you for putting in the time to try to explain this. I've also been working with ML for a long time and have the intuition that there is a fundamental limit to what can be achieved with Neural Networks and probably any other Machine Learning technique.

Your cake analogy is probably better, but let me try another one. It's like having a machine that is trying to solve a gigantic puzzle with random pieces from different puzzles. Yeah, if you have enough puzzle pieces and the machine is fast enough it can give you suboptimal solutions but the puzzle will not ever be solved as it is supposed to be solved.

It destroyed the budget of scientific research in Spain. I was a Spanish researcher then. There was a point when universities couldn't pay us the grant that the government had already assigned to us. Some of my peers missed rent. I heard stories of Spanish PhD. students stranded all over the world. I quit research (my dream job at the time) because of this crisis and never came back to it.

Happy you felt nothing in your happy little bubble.

on All I Want · c/science_memes · 7 pts · 1y

They were! This trend kind of died out because of growth and enshitiffication, and I'm very glad to see it coming back here :)

on RIP America · c/science_memes · 2 pts · 1y

As a Spaniard and former researcher myself, in Spain you can also move without learning Spanish, just apply to the offers in English in Barcelona or Madrid. Those are the best positions anyway. You will struggle more than in Denmark for sure without it, but it's just because a lot of people speak very little or very poorly. In the big cities it's much better though.

Long term I'd advise you to keep looking in the north of Europe, Spain is likely to fuck researchers over again as they did during the 2008 crisis.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/world · 1 pts · 1y

In other words, denying the Dark Ages is denying historical evidence, most of the times with a political or religious revisionist agenda behind.