Well said. He makes a good point that most whites will miss, and that is: If you were born white you probably have no idea how much that has advantaged you relative to those who were born of a darker race. I always considered myself to be very open minded on race, but it still took more than half of my life to understand and see the insidious racism that still haunts our country.
I figured out the insidious racism right away. The structural racism took longer.
He's lovely and correct, but why we gotta suggest more old white men for president?
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Good for you. I think we are talking about the same thing.
I'm like a bee, but for racism. I can see differences that normal humans can't.
Texas senate seems like the more reasonable possibility.
Here's a winner: https://twitter.com/deray/status/912484747049349120
This Matt Bors cartoon is in the same vein but it is probably too rude for a facebook discussion. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/9/28/1575104/-Cartoon-Protest-in-peace
More about Pop's interests in politics: http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/20809321/nba-about-president-trump-triggers-gregg-popovich
(a good story, but it makes things explicit in a way which isn't very Popovich-like).
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Is it just me, or has commenter diversity dwindled a lot here in the last year, or many the last 6 months? It seems like it's roughly the same 10-20 people each thread these days, rather than a more robust group of two or three times that many. Varies week to week, but still, it's peculiar.
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13 We need new blood. Also some old blood returning would be welcome.
Not that it'd make any difference, and I've been saying this for years, but I should really post more.
Bring back Stabby. That was good new blood.
It does seem like unfogged has been quiet lately.
I think that the summer is often slow but (a) I don't know if academics are a significant fraction of the commenters anymore and (b) it's not summer anymore and there hasn't been an increase in activity.
I've been quieter because of life, probably. And because the news is so dreadful I don't want to talk about it even with people I agree with and don't always want to bother disagreeing when I disagree here.
Maybe Unfogged should pivot to video.
Oh right. Also because I'll read links but don't make me listen to or watch stuff. Ugh.
There is or was a notable upswing in re-emergences by older commenters, but it's very inconsistent.
This is me, wondering if alameida is alright.
I thought the big reduction in commenters was longer ago, but then I didn't comment at all for the first month or two of this year.
25: if she's at her destination she may be phoneless for a while. I think that's how it goes.
Wow. Having read Unfogged for years I'm commenting for the first time, and being new I want to respond to the video itself. That is a profound and impressively coherent statement on white privilege and the importance of talking about it. I assume it was witnessed by a few more - that is, a few orders of magnitude more - people than we academics ever reach. I agree with 4 that we don't need to be boosting another old white guy for president, but aren't there a couple of other posts in the US government that might benefit from the experience, moral commitment, and lucid speaking style Pop displays here?
I've spent some time in the hospital-- pulmonary embolisms, which is surprising since I am just middle-aged and basically healthy. I'm out and about now, but just haven't had that much to say about US politics.
Depressingly, coffee (or indeed any caffeine), biking to work, and the main way I've been working out (racquetball) are all off-limits for a while, and I'm supposed to drink alcohol not too much and not too often to boot.
I read a nice article about the German election in the NYT, though not sure people here will like it much. The Tooze machine-gun slides were super-interesting, have not listened to the talk yet.
I've been trying to learn a little about why neural nets have started performing so well in the last few years-- it seems that the answer is basically much more densely connected networks of neurons, dont yet know how the new approaches deal with the monstrously large search space. Too specialized for talking about here, I am guessing, but if there are a few who are interested (or who know good reading), I can send along a guest post.
There's a running joke about a fruit basket for new commenters. Instead, let me ask whether there's much/any evidence for Sogdian having been set in movable type not long before Gutenberg?
Oh no, lw! I hope you'll be doing better soon. And now I can feel lucky that I do get to indulge in caffeine still, so some have it worse!!
Thanks, Thorn. How are you? Last update I remember was ankle trouble and a free time situation you weren't sure you loved. Hope those are both shaping up...
Hello GB! Good health, lw! And I for one am interested in both Germany and neural nets.
29.4. My impression, as someone who has worked on the periphery of ML, is "GPUs."
34. Maybe. Tumor classification, one of the apparent real successes, apparently works fine with old methods. I haven't worked through the google Go paper's methods yet.
The TensorFlow people pay attention to the problem, but theyre just trying stuff out to see what works as far as I can tell from the outside.
Pulmonary embolism, holy shit. So glad you're still here. Please do guest post! What kind of jerk doesn't like reading about neural networks?
29. I don't know about neural networks, but take care.