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Re: Name one thing in this photo

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Post by SketchySeaBeast »

nkozyra wrote: post #120
99052882514569 wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What makes you dehydrate so severely so often? I've never had this happen, and I'm not that on-the-ball about hydration.

I drink an inordinate amount of coffee (and often a few servings of beer the night before) and exercise quite a bit. I'm bad about drinking water

Are you constantly incredibly thirsty? Coffee isn't actually a net loss in water - as Zerofries suggested, something else is wrong, or you're drinking a lot of beer all the time(which I'd argue is probably also "something wrong").

Re: Name one thing in this photo

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Post by jerf »

n1000 wrote: post #46
jann wrote: post #41

I'm only reading about people getting really uncomfortable looking at this (on reddit). To me it did nothing, although I also couldn't recognise any of the items in the picture. Does anyone else have the same experience?

I can't say why, but these kind of images are really disturbing to me. They give me a mixture of disgust and anxiety...

I suspect there's more neurodiversity in our image processing stacks than we realize, and we've never before been able to observe it because all of our prior input was actually from a relatively small part of the possible image sample space that the real world can generate.

I find this mildly amusing, but I do the surreal and bizarre for entertainment routinely anyhow. But for the same reasons that I seek out those sensations, I find myself having sympathy for those who rather than seeking them out for occasional changes of pace, can't get away from them as they are haunted every moment of the day and night. That would be much less fun, to put it exceedingly mildly.

Re: Name one thing in this photo

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Post by jerf »

tcgv wrote: post #105

I wonder if that's how new born babies see the world, before they're able to recognize objects and their environment.

I think it's fair to say "no". We have a trained neural net, like the thing that generated this, and this image confounds it with pathological input, so we experience a difference between this image and normal reality. A baby doesn't have very many such trained networks (we do actually come with a few, such as a network that detects faces, but not many), so this wouldn't particularly register to a young baby as strange at all.

Or, to put it another way, we normally have experience A and this picture is giving us experience B, but the baby doesn't have the neural nets set up to support either such experience, and so has experience Zero, which we can't match by having B.

Re: Name one thing in this photo

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Post by jerf »

huffmsa wrote: post #82
Insanity wrote: post #43

To me this just looks like garbage. It's not disturbing, or all that weird.

Yeah but have you tried singling out an item and naming it?

I've got several "plastic bags". Some of them I can even identify as the crinkly colored type often used for wrapping present-type things. I can also give you something that is clearly a display board. I can't tell you what it's displaying beyond a generic "smudge", but it's clearly a display board, like for spoons or coins.

Still, I don't argue the core point. Words are flexible and I can probably jam some word onto pretty much image, but I won't deny this image is quite resistant to that.

Re: Name one thing in this photo

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Post by huffmsa »

jerf wrote: post #134
huffmsa wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah but have you tried singling out an item and naming it?

I've got several "plastic bags". Some of them I can even identify as the crinkly colored type often used for wrapping present-type things. I can also give you something that is clearly a display board. I can't tell you what it's displaying beyond a generic "smudge", but it's clearly a display board, like for spoons or coins. Still, I don't argue the core point. Words are flexible and I can probably jam some word onto…

Cellophane is what I see for the plastic.

And there's a cheese grater on the left

Re: Name one thing in this photo

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Post by r0bbbo »

This is what Microsoft Cognitive Services saw:

Objects [ { "rectangle": { "x": 346, "y": 321, "w": 333, "h": 417 }, "object": "mammal", "parent": { "object": "animal", "confidence": 0.719 }, "confidence": 0.716 } ]

Tags [ { "name": "wall", "confidence": 0.9889654 }, { "name": "indoor", "confidence": 0.9775573 }, { "name": "doll", "confidence": 0.9775573 }, { "name": "person", "confidence": 0.966689169 }, { "name": "toy", "confidence": 0.5887871 }, { "name": "collection", "confidence": 0.535430968 }, { "name": "bear", "confidence": 0.432904869 }, { "name": "christmas", "confidence": 0.351226926 }, { "name": "animal", "confidence": 0.350886434 }, { "name": "family", "confidence": 0.3459218 } ]

Description { "tags": [ "indoor", "table", "sitting", "food", "dog", "woman", "black", "bear", "holding", "standing", "man", "room", "people", "bed", "group", "stuffed", "red", "kitchen" ], "captions": [ { "text": "a group of stuffed animals sitting on top of a table", "confidence": 0.764803648 } ] }

Re: Name one thing in this photo

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Post by cferr »

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #131
nkozyra wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I drink an inordinate amount of coffee (and often a few servings of beer the night before) and exercise quite a bit. I'm bad about drinking water

Are you constantly incredibly thirsty? Coffee isn't actually a net loss in water - as Zerofries suggested, something else is wrong, or you're drinking a lot of beer all the time(which I'd argue is probably also "something wrong").

Caffeine is a diuretic. If he isn't drinking decaf, it's a net loss.

Re: Name one thing in this photo

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Post by SketchySeaBeast »

cferr wrote: post #137
SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you constantly incredibly thirsty? Coffee isn't actually a net loss in water - as Zerofries suggested, something else is wrong, or you're drinking a lot of beer all the time(which I'd argue is probably also "something wrong").

Caffeine is a diuretic. If he isn't drinking decaf, it's a net loss.

While it is, it doesn't lead to a net loss in hydration.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h...

https://nationalpost.com/health/nutrition-fact-or-fallacy-do...

http://time.com/5192272/coffee-tea-dehydrating/

https://www.webmd.com/diet/qa/does-caffeine-have-a-dehydrati...

Re: Name one thing in this photo

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Post by debacle »

pgl wrote: post #15

Posted on Twitter from a thread on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/bghyv5/t... From the thread's title: > This picture is designed to give the viewer the simulated experience of having a stroke (particularly in the occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex, where visual perception occurs.) Everything looks hauntingly familiar but you just can't quite recognize anything

People with migraines can have a similar reaction. One of my pre-migraine tells is that I can't "see" text.

Re: Name one thing in this photo

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Post by nkozyra »

ZeroFries wrote: post #128
nkozyra wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I drink an inordinate amount of coffee (and often a few servings of beer the night before) and exercise quite a bit. I'm bad about drinking water

Are you sure it's dehydration and not hypoglycemia?

My only real hint is it's instantly fixed with a few glasses of water. I'd expect that I'd need some glycogen change if it were hypoglycemia.
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