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it pleases me that the actress who played Carter cared about science like the character.

Have you been conscious and actually aware of your surroundings over the last eight months?

yes. I've personally read most of the Supreme Court decisions from 2025 in their entirety. I've consumed a truly unhealthy amount of news.

Violation of due process rights

Yes, the Administration has pulled shady shit, especially their shell game with original jurisdiction and habeas petitions. The worst has been CECOT. Trump v. JGG and Trump v. AARP did smack down some of this, though DHS v. DVD was unconscionable in shirking the requirements for CAT hearings.

blatant kidnapping of naturalized citizens or permanent residents

I'm aware of a few cases of naturalized citizens being stripped of citizenship, ostensibly due to mistakes or omissions in their applications. This has always been a thing, legally, but courts have held that it mistakes must have material significance. I'm not aware that they've deported anyone for typos.

Many more permanent residents have been detained, usually due to some prior conviction on their record. Again, this is legal, though terribly wrong. All permanent residents should be getting naturalized asap because the protections are much stronger.

military occupations of entire cities

Legal for DC, due to its special status as a Federal city. Forbidden in States without invitation by their Governors, except in cases of Rebellion, per the Posse Comitatus Act. Troops can be deployed to protect Federal buildings or workers, which was the excuse Trump used in LA. As a result, the Marines mostly stood around doing nothing, since they weren't allowed to police. A judge found this unlawful and enjoined the order, and the troops were removed.

As for Memphis, the Governor of Tennessee invited Trump to deploy the National Guard, so it was legal.

As for Chicago, despite Trump's cringe Apocalypse Now meme, he backed down because Pritzker opposed, so he would have violated Posse Comitatus.

deporting full American citizens

A few children who were US citizens left the Country with their undocumented parents, when they were deported. Legally, they can't deport the kids, but they can offer the parents a horrible choice: bring them with you, or put them in the foster system. If they weren't offered a choice, this is an easy suit to win, but my understanding is that the parents decided to bring their kids with them.

open corruption

ha, yep. Trump and his cronies are laughably corrupt. don't get me started on the memecoin..

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so yes, the Constitution is in trouble. a couple months ago the Administration was skirting being held in contempt, in particular with deportations. but the judicial system is holding up surprisingly decently, with the exception of the absolutely disgraceful shadow docket orders SCOTUS has handed down.

but it's not at a point yet where Trump can write EO that says "grr Antifa bad" and round up people who've committed no crimes.

no, that's the thing. a group could literally call itself Antifa, apply for a permit to hold a demonstration and burn American flags holding "DOWN WITH FASCISM" signs, and there's nothing the Administration could do. it's all protected speech. they can't jail someone for being Antifa. not even the EO claims this.

HOG and Hough transforms bring me back. honestly glad that I don't have to mess with them anymore though.

I always found SVMs a little shady because you had to pick a kernel. we spent time talking about the different kernels you could pick but they were all pretty small and/or contrived. I guess with NNs you pick the architecture/activation functions but there didn't seem to be an analogue in SVM land for "stack more layers and fatten the embeddings." though I was only an undergrad.

do you really think NNs won purely because of large datasets and GPU acceleration? I feel like those could have applied to SVMs too. I thought the real win was solving vanishing gradients with ReLU and expanding the number of layers, rather than throwing everything into a 3 or 5-layer MLP, preventing overfitting, making the gradient landscape less prone to local maxima and enabling hierarchical feature extraction to be learned organically.

pff, you call using an operating system bare metal? I run my apps as unikernels on a grid of Elbrus chips I bought off a dockworker in Kamchatka.

and even that's overkill. I prefer synthesizing my web apps into VHDL and running them directly on FPGAs.

until my ASIC shuttle arrives from Taipei, naturally, then I bond them directly onto Ethernet sockets.

/uj not really but that'd be sick as hell.

for work I have a cloud dev VM, in which I run WSL2. so there's at least two levels of VMs happening, maybe three honestly.

this order doesn't really do anything. it declares that "Antifa" is a domestic terrorist organization, and directs executive agencies to prioritize investigating and preventing illegal actions done by, or on behalf of, "Antifa."

it doesn't criminalize "Antifa," define what that is, impose any sanctions, suspend any rights etc. there's no statutory authority invoked. it's just an order telling Federal law enforcement to focus on crimes by "Antifa" first.

why? probably because there's jack shit they can do. there's no magical war powers to invoke against domestic terrorists.

it's just a tweet on fancy letterhead.

I recently told my mother that I'm probably the most intelligent person she will ever meet

and so humble, too! seriously though, this is a major red flag. I rarely find smart people to brag about how smart they are.

also, telling someone that their beliefs are wrong because they're dumb, and that your beliefs are right because you're smarter than them, has literally never worked. it will just make them resent you, your beliefs, and anyone they meet in the future who believes what you do. this kind of smugness has been the Achilles heel of Dems for years.

I was taught that serious academics favored Support Vector Machines over Neural Networks, which industry only loved because they didn't have proper education. oops...

also, Computer Vision was considered "AI-complete" and likely decades away. ImageNet dropped a couple years I graduated. though I guess it ended up being "AI-complete" in a way...

Hamas is getting exactly what they wanted.

they provoked Israel into massively overreacting, responding to a terrorist attack with a genocide. Israel burned though all its international goodwill and now most of the West has recognized Palestinian statehood.

Netenyahu's arrogance amazes me. this was easy to foresee.

I've been talking with Russians on Reddit. maybe it's all bots, but most of them really think NATO started the War in Ukraine, that every country in the West has always hated Russia and wants to destroy them, that all the invasions are in self-defense, that attacking the Baltics and Poland would be justified.. it was terrifying.

they're so cynical too - Western news is propaganda, Western democracies are shams, NATO wants to destroy Russia, everyone is Russophobic, that our citizens deserve to suffer for arming Ukraine, that we'd kill them all if we could, so they don't care if they kill us.

they think they can break NATO, that we will fall apart if Poland is invaded, that Russia will emerge victorious and the Western order will lie in shambles. don't they see they're playing with nuclear holocaust? do they care? are they so fatalistic they'd play (apologies) Russian roulette with the extinction of humanity?

I ask you because you seem sane. is this just propaganda from kremlbots, or are most Russians really like this?

idk, honestly. usually this kind of tribalism burns itself out after a World War and a bunch of atrocities. there's a global empathy shortage.. too much hate and too little love.