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Post by vmception »

core-questions wrote: post #236
oarsinsync wrote: post #234

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Gait recognition is a thing, in humans and in ML. Shame we're seeing places explicitly banning facial recognition rather than biometric recognition.

Facial recognition is being banned for law enforcement use not because it doesn't work, or is ineffective, or is undesirable, but because it reveals politically uncomfortable truths about who commits crime that existing crime stats were already pointing out in a less visceral way.

and also picks the wrong people because the training set is polluted by the uncomfortable truths of overpolicing areas creating the bad crime stats

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Post by latortuga »

pmarreck wrote: post #231
cognaitiv wrote: post #18

Best Daft Punk show I ever saw was Lollapalooza with LCD Soundsystem opening on the nearby stage. LCD Soundsytem closed with “Daft Punk is Playing..” and Daft Punk emerged in a pyramid and absolutely melted our faces.

Do you know what year and/or city this was? I would like to look this up

Don't know year but lolla is always in grant park, Chicago.

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Post by fpgaminer »

goto11 wrote: post #209
keiferski wrote: post #17

I always thought Daft Punk figured out the perfect solution to the how to be famous problem. Everyone recognizes their artist name and their artist costume, but virtually no one knows their real name or would accost them on the street.

Then again Jerry Seinfeld said: There's no downside to fame and people who whine about it make me sick. It's the greatest thing in the world.

Fame is probably great for people who really have their shit together and are confident in themselves, like Jerry Seinfeld. For people who don't have their shit together, it can magnify and provoke even your most minor weaknesses. If you aren't confident in yourself, you can end up maladjusted, surrounded by the distortion field of fame. Elon Musk would probably have continued to be a cooky, but fairly level headed dude. But now he's richer than Bezos and the power has corrupted him. Who's to tell you what's wrong when you make exponentially more money than even the 1%?

I like Jerry Seinfeld, but he (or at least the persona he plays in public) has this habit of being unable to put himself in other's shoes.

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Post by fpgaminer »

donatj wrote: post #14

I genuinely feel like listening to Discovery on my discman on the bus in high school helped define who I am as a person. On the one hand I find this news horribly disheartening, on the other hand I am thrilled to see them go out on top. They have never had a bad album, and I’m my opinion they only got better as they went. Godspeed you beautiful robots.

> I genuinely feel like listening to Discovery on my discman on the bus in high school helped define who I am as a person.

In high school my backpack had a small zipped pocket at the top specifically designed for a CD player. You ran your headphone cord through a gasket into the pocket, keeping your player safe and convenient. As a loner, it was splendid.

And then you always wished you had a CD player with just a _little_ more buffer so it wouldn't skip when you were running to class.

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Post by andreilys »

redisman wrote: post #259
pfarrell wrote: post #190

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This essay [0] from Tim Ferriss really crystalized for me a lot about why fame is a drag. During my college years, one of my dorm mate’s dads was a famous Hollywood producer. He once said to me, “You want everyone to know your name and no one to know your face.” Taking it a step further, we could quote Bill Murray: I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: ‘try being rich first.’ See if that does…

It's a great take from Tim and seems to ring very true. I just don't think people really think about what fame means. It's got huge tradeoffs and its mostly not fun but rather scary and unnerving. Eric Weinstein also seemed to run into this fairly quickly and has now stopped making his podcast because the fame part is mostly toxic.

Hasn't stopped him from being active on Clubhouse where he has close to 2M followers now.

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Post by philwelch »

saalweachter wrote: post #109
schwartzworld wrote: post #50

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I went to a smashing pumpkins show and was so turned off that I stopped being a fan. I have met several others with the same experience

Since I don't go to live shows, I tend to just have the disappointment of finding out that I only like some of my favorite bands' albums, because the arc of their own musical careers doesn't match my own tastes. Why can't performers just stay the same forever, producing a never-ending sequence of similar but distinct works?

There are some genres where that happens, but if you don’t like those genres, you’re out of luck.

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Post by redisman »

thomas wrote: post #3

Part of me is always quite envious of people who cleanly close one chapter of their life and move on to the next.

Isn't job hopping the norm in the tech industry too? I can't imagine staying at a company for 28 years.

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Post by redisman »

wbronitsky wrote: post #250
ridaj wrote: post #210

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Nah they had pseudonyms but they came out as real people for sure. They didn't create characters for themselves as they would have if they'd intended for others to take over the role

Fair. Instead of a meta-band, it’s more of a shtick, where they said they were robots, then made an album called Human After All where they sound like robots. A bit like the games the White Stripes played with Jack and Meg’s relationship, but still not in meta-band, or even perpetual band territory

It's like GWAR or Slipknot. They like to dress up for (limited)anonymity and some extra flavor.

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Post by mackrevinack »

i was really hoping with daft punk always pushing the envelope that they would come out with some VR type experience or something really off the wall like controlling the music on stage with one of those neural brain links. basically become one with the machine! but maybe it's another few decades until that kind of technology well be ready
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