Suppose A is a PSD matrix and F is convex. If we did Weird Gradient Descent by computing the iterates x = x - hA(gradF(x)), would thay still converge? My thought here is that A(gradF) still points in a direction of decrease if A is PSD, just maybe not *maximal* decrease
The Integrated Survivability "Onion" Don't post Don't get followed Don't be RT'd Don't get ratio'd Don't be the main character Technology driven. Warfighter focused.
Your top speed should be inversely proportional to the mass of your vehicle.
Gnosticism in this sense refers to secret, hidden knowledge. Nothing is less secret and hidden than the package of beliefs which were a dominant intellectual current in the late 19th and first half of the 20th centuries, culminating in the most notorious regime and the biggest war in human history.
Boring opinion: those last two Talk Talk records are pretty fucking cool
it's not just women on the right, it's everywhere. it sometimes even happens here! everyone thinks they hitched their parasocial wagon to the next Gore Vidal but 99 times out of 100 that guy is just a kind-of-smart asshole who will bite you the moment he thinks you're out of line
So many red state races are something like..
Democrat: War hero with a master's degree in public policy who was caught on camera running into a burning building to rescue orphans.
Republican: Adjudicated sex pest who inherited dad's car dealership.
Election result: R +18
"slopification" sounds like a novel AO3 tag
everything is some kind of slop now but we could retvrn to simplicity and directness: calling a thing "bullshit"
the term "allyslop" is slopslop
can these guys not just order the same shoe a size down and pretend the new properly fitted pair are the same oversized shoes they were given originally?
virtue signaling is good. practicing virtue is better, but both signaling AND practicing virtue is best.
when I got to graduate school several people emphasized to me: do not do work in bed. bed should not be a place where your mind fires on all cylinders about inequalities
probably the same principle applies to "reading posts from people who bug the shit out of me"
it's not like personal beefs are new of course, but the technological innovation of "have a screaming match with a stranger from the comfort of your bed" is like obviously a disaster for our collective well-being
social media is inherently corrosive to coalition politics because we are constantly finding out how fucking annoying we find each other on a personal level, even if we broadly agree on a set of principles like "we should being doing more as a society to ensure people are able to get healthcare"
in woke 2 we are going to ignore the dumbest juvenile reddit atheists rather than argue with them
Struggling to write this damn introduction but at least there's beautiful tunes to listen to
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dhR...
the most thoroughly vindicated man in hollywood.
trade disputes and conspiracies ✔️
republic subverted over sex hangups ✔️
“sand people” killed, royalty indifferent ✔️
naive idiot casts vote for tyranny ✔️
villains with silly names like “dooku” ✔️
powerful clerical order screwing up ✔️
list goes on
“Super Mario was based on an Italian man I saw die in an accident on a construction site. I thought to myself, ‘What if that man had been killed by a gorilla, rather than negligence?’ - Shigeru Miyamoto
Happy Mario day!
My toothbrush is haunted
It just keeps turning on spontaneously
I think LLMs drive people insane because there really is something about a piece of technology all but literally capable of looking you in the eye and lying to you. a gauge gives you the wrong value it's frustrating, claude saying "yes, that's a good idea. make the chlorine gas." is a betrayal
Is there a bi of hormuz
1 am also realizing that a lot of people here are simply okay with their leisure time coming at the expense of prison slaves and Palestinian children. The people 1 am in community with don't have a ton of leisure time because we are fighting for the survival of our comrades and children
I am not quoting directly, I’m maybe even being a little unfair but it’s not far off
"there is so much work to done on your heart / and it's not the kind of work you do around the house"
The fact that this kid is like 23 is insane
can't say we don't got juice here
"agricultural automation only leads to leisure time if you don't care about the children of Palestine, you monsters" is just too on the nose for me, discoursewise. too close to a "Nate Silver trying to make fun of BlueSky" type post
Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”
