Ahmed FASIH @22@octodon.social

@h Sorry you had to see that post—I was trying to say one thing and it came out horribly wrong so I deleted it.

Yes, we have lots of work to do before we can rest, and it’s important to keep the goal, the eradication of suffering, first and foremost.

@h are/were you responding to my deleted post?

Let me ruin your day:

“Male convicts had the chance to select a bride from the female factories by a system called 'convict courtship'. The male convicts came to the female factories to inspect the women, who had to line up for the occasion. If the male convict saw a woman that he liked, he made a motion at her to signal that he wanted to choose her. Most women accepted the offering. This process was often described as similar to the one in which slaves were selected.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convict_women_in_Australia

If my life was a manga:

"I went to bed too early last night and couldn't read any of the great manga I got yesterday, so I brought them into work to read, but I've been too busy with Real Work to read any this morning! 😭 waa!"

🤣

I just finished "Your Lie in April" anime and loved it so so so much that $130 dollars are firing lasers at my pants pocket, wanting to fly to A-1 Pictures/Sony and its backers. $130 *per* *set*, and there's *two* sets for the whole series.

(And no, I won't buy the Asian DVD boxset.)

Maybe I'll buy the manga, even though it's the anime I'd really like to support.

First world problems :).

Steam and Amazon and others let you “buy” a streaming copy of the show, which is also nice because

1- this is often much cheaper than collector Blu-rays, and
2- there's no physical copy so maybe a larger slice (of the smaller pie) goes to the publisher.

The only downside compared to "buy and donate to library" is the loss of the buzz generated by the library circulating it.

AnswerMan has gold this time—how ratings aren't relevant to most anime aired in Japan (long-runners excepted), since they're super-late at night; the advertisements are for other shows by the same producer; most people record/stream them; the real money for the anime comes from home video sales.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2018-06-25/.133369

I'm sensitive to this because I feel bad that my favorite shows get a few pennies of my Crunchyroll subscription, so I tend to buy Blu-rays and donate them to the library.

@micahstubbs very curious what the background of this question is.

Great title:

*The rush hour of the gods: a study of new religious movements in Japan*

(By H. Neill McFarland, 1967)

“When nature is choosing the outcomes, you can usually tell how to reduce risk. When playing with people, on the other hand, building a defense may invite attack, and success can encourage others to ally against you.” —Aaron Brown, *Financial Risk Management for Dummies*.

@fenwick67 find can parallelize `-exec` commands for me too? Rad, thanks!

It's a tad bit more involved when the filenames have spaces: one trick is to replace the newline with the null character using tr and tell xargs to expect null-terminated rows—it then ignores spaces, etc. A real example:

cat bad.txt | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0 -P8 -n1 -I% dropbox_uploader.sh delete "/Camera Uploads/%"

I have a list of bad filenames in bad.txt, and the superb Dropbox-Uploader https://github.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader will delete them eight at a time. #tr #protip

If you are doing something to a bunch of files, perhaps a shell script like:

for i in *jpg; do something $i somethingelse; done

and want a simple way to parallelize this, try xargs, which I love:

ls *jpg | xargs -n1 -P5 -I% something % somethingelse

will run on five files at a time. I've used this trick two or three times today in re-synchronizing photos from two phones and a camera and an SD card and Dropbox. #xargs #shell #protip

Arctic fox halfway between its winter and summer coats stole a duck egg! At Þingvellir, Iceland.

With full-res crop of the villain (cropped from 20 megapixels, with lens at 600mm (full-frame 35mm equivalent)).

https://octodon.social/media/EokXPUDc2RDfGG_vWDI https://octodon.social/media/4Scj-aBqNjQpdbRgz48

So the original study of white spots in the heart region of a fetus ultrasound used a lower-resolution scanner than later became available. Geneticists trained that “white spots in the heart area ~> Down’s syndrome” later saw high-res ultrasound imagery with a fair bit of noise—with *some* random collection of white pixels, think high-ISO digital camera photos—and wrongly thought “Down’s syndrome”?

Pernicious! Hard to imagine engineering a system to avoid such data-provenance-reasoning flaws.

I now see that my attempt to be more clear for an international audience might have been more condescending than considerate, sorry. I regret the basketball Michael Jordan joke in my post.

https://suegardner.org/2016/03/21/a-little-guide-to-working-with-online-communities/ has shaped my writing:

“Cultural references (sports, movies, history) may be meaningless. Even for those of us who aren’t American, it’s easy to come across as U.S.-centric … High diversity argues for a style that’s literal, straightforward, and well-structured.“

“Artificial Intelligence — The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet” is by a Berkeley professor who is a Michael Jordan of statistics and machine learning (and who is also named Michael Jordan) and goes very deep into issues I deeply care about.

https://medium.com/@mijordan3/artificial-intelligence-the-revolution-hasnt-happened-yet-5e1d5812e1e7

(Michael Jordan is an iconic basketball player from USA. No Amerocentrism here.)

Come for the discussion on data in medicine, stay for the evolution of society-spanning inference/decision-making systems.

@scott see https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/47028/how-could-we-rewrite-the-no-evil-license-to-make-it-free

@scott Crockford’s No Evil license was a huge disaster. He released some important software with MIT plus a “used only for good, not evil” clause and nobody wanted to use it because who knows what would violate such a license. Best to release software and deal with the evil things people do with it later.

@Eidon @wim_v12e Too kind, thank you. Sorry for taking so long to reply, I’ve been traveling (another distant island). Alas I’m a dilettante, a butterfly non-scholar, and can’t claim to know anything.

A book that shaped me was Alex Kerr’s “Lost Japan”. Yes I know I’m terrible for suggesting an American author without knowing much about your background or interests, but Kerr has been steeped in Japan since his youth, the book was originally in Japanese, and is both beautiful and informative.