justdoit

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[–] justdoit 3 points 1 year ago

Seen Bean. Shaun Baun.

[–] justdoit 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Having watched this and Numberphile’s explanation, I was pretty intrigued about how this may be applied to other problems. As I understand it, seems like the ability to restrict the search field to rational solutions could be extremely helpful for areas of research where continuous distributions are applied to necessarily discrete outcomes, especially in terms of saving compute resources and processing larger data sets.

Anybody have insight about how this performs computationally? Benchmarking “simple problems” like the one in the video? Numerical instability?

Disclaimer, not a math guy, so maybe this is a nonsense idea and I’ve misunderstood something along the way.

[–] justdoit 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just to give some context on this guy for those not aware, he’s openly said he admires Hitler and denied the holocaust. Not in the classic, edgy “just a joke” way either.

Also, while he’s still a small fry compared to others in that space, he’s occasionally hosted, written, and guest-starred for some larger conservative programs like Louder with Crowder. Though I think they’ve since distanced from him as he became more toxic to their brand.

Worst crime of all, he liked Hitler’s paintings.

[–] justdoit 5 points 1 year ago

Your feet have arches to perfectly grip the earth’s luscious curves

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Dark Brandon….?

[–] justdoit 38 points 1 year ago

My personal take is that content creators and celebrities in general should never be judged as “people” in the sense that you might deem a teacher or a neighborhood kid as a “good” or “bad” influence. Rather, you should treat them as “media personalities”. Content creators are characters. They’re personas meant to drive engagement and clicks. Some achieve this by engaging in risky behavior or drama. Some just do wacky challenges. The motivation is the same in that the persona presented on the screen is a combo of the creator and the engagement from their community meant to drive up click rates and brand-building.

Mr Beast has kind of a “wacky semi-wholesome” image. Odd challenges and charities that hand out cash to random people for views. That’s a cynical take, but at the end of the day he’s a content creator, that’s it. If handing out free surgeries to correct childhood blindness didn’t drive engagement, he wouldn’t do it. If anything, the fact that his community is interested in seeing that project reflects more on them as people than on him.

So in my opinion the better questions for assessing his influence on your children are things like “why does his content appeal to you?” “What about his character do you find likable?” “What aspects would you want to emulate in your own life if you could?”

Again, just my personal view.

[–] justdoit 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m a strong creature of habit :/

[–] justdoit 12 points 1 year ago

Oh I agree, it’s more that lemmy doesn’t really have “big engagement” content yet to spread out amongst the beans. Even text-based posts would do wonders. Mid-profile AMAs or a good asklemmy post going viral and hitting some of the content creators on other sites would really help boost this as a true alternative.

For my part I just hope my niche communities migrate over so the twelve of us that play ToME can geek out about the updates.

[–] justdoit 29 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Ah, good point- I was mostly being hyperbolic to illustrate just how shitty the Reddit app was.

I think all the previous redditors did the same thing I did when signing up. Lemmy.world sounds the most general, so that’s the instance I used. I’ll give a smaller/more local one a try and see if that improves the performance!

[–] justdoit 33 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Truly have no idea if this or other similar projects will succeed long-term, but I do think that any alternative puts much needed pressure on social media companies to stop sucking ass.

Here’s to hoping it keeps growing. Gonna need content other than beans though.

[–] justdoit 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’ll check it out, thanks!

Regardless, I really don’t care much about the glitches or slowdown if it means I don’t have to see a full screen “He Gets Us” ad every two goddamn seconds.

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