thegoodfellas/blogset-br huggingface dataset:
a very small game, based on many of my principles, so I could finally have a decent portfolio. But a portfolio of what? Being a programmer? I've actually already decided that's not something I want to be anymore, because I never was good enough at it. I really need to move away from it.I know from my experience and friends I wouldn't be able to do that game in less than 6 months. Heck, I couldn't do it over the past 20 years! I've been trying to begin doing something but never did. I don't have to build a business plan to know that, this would sure fail if I tried as well.Now, I was and I still am a great programmer, but I'm not among the top, I will never be. I never really wanted to be. But there is no single regular categorized profession I fit in. Not that I know of, at least. I've searched a lot, I've took counseling, I went to therapy, I've read many books. And damn, I hate reading books.I am also a great analyst, an awesome very general computer guy, and I'd love to try and share a company ownership to be able to make some decisions. So there, I do know somethings about me, I do know a general goal I've got, where I came from... But I still don't know what's next!So that game is still all I've got. Like the film, I guess I need to start taking notes and building it, along with the company, little by little, from zero. With no investment, no capital and maybe gathering whoever I can. Harvesting the crowd, if possible. That sounds like a new plan, but it's yet the same plan B slightly modified for some kind of crowdsourcing (not funding) which I still haven't found (I did find a close one, but it's for americans only).And, in fact, both plan A and plan B do not exclude each other. They both are in the same "entertainment / education / information" direction I've always wanted to be.I suppose I could also try and modify plan B in other ways, such as looking for partners, investments, etc. Or maybe I should actually go with plan C and do something else entirely, such as trying to make an Existential Detective Office (fuck, that would be an awesome job!). I doubt it that's the case, but...I don't know!I feel like trying to resolve Primer's timeline!Gotta love some XKCD's comics. This is one of those!More than that, I believe the far and beyond best thing I can invest in is on moving out of this country, which means, investing in myself. But even for that, my savings are quite too little. It can buy me about a year in Germany, in which I'd need to be studying, and maybe around 1 year in New Zealand, also studying. One problem there is I don't really want to go to college now, since I can't really pay for the whole 3 to 4 years. Which is also the biggest
reason why I never finished college - never had enough money. Never had enough time. Which translates to "I've never ever had enough peace of mind to actually study hard", like I did when I was young, naive and studying to get into college.I never stopped studying, though. This year, for instance, I'm doing Computer Science on edX, with awesome courses from Harvard and MIT, which don't really add anything new to my basics, but do consolidate what I know, and introduce some new stuff such as scratch (in which I've made a little game in less than a week). Too bad it's so limited. I've always invested much time in reading and learning online, despite of any course. It's also another reason I despise most traditional schools. They're just playgrounds. But they might be my only path to get in a nice country this year and, who knows, learn a new thing or two. As playgrounds, they do work for meeting people as well, and if they're free, at least it's not "despisable" (if that's even a word).In any case...While I can't define a single path to follow, the single focal point anyone need to actually accomplish anything in life, I'll just keep shooting "to every side", or at least shooting to all those options I've mentioned: trying to move out; seeking a new worthwhile job; plan B; etc. I still hope I can do at least something on plan B... Some news do get me excited once in a while, but reality have always crushed my available time and mindset.And all this could be just the tip of the iceberg, regarding my life plans and future path, thanks to the blanket! :-oBut...If you did read it all, if you can identify even a little, if you missed no spot of this little story, and if you will, please, do leave your opinion! I'd love to hear as many opinions as possible with this question in mind: What would you do in my place?
Introduction / disclaimer: Yesterday I was peeking at quora as usual and ended up finding this interesting company through this another also interesting philanthropic company all somewhat related to facebook. On deciding to apply for a job there, I was given this question, which I thought would be cool posting here! I'm far from being an expert on this subject, so I will probably sound quite dumb here if you, my dear reader, have any experience... I'll take my chances. :DI know all the below might sound too unpractical, but I think it's where it should begin. Some well defined concepts. And this is where I stand today trying to achieve that.There are several distinct points I would consider:- Singularity and VisionYou (vicarious) seem to have done (so much I have to read there!) some amazing work focusing on "vision", which is probably the best approach to begin developing such a technological singularity. Yes, this "intelligent machine" would have to mark some kind of singularity, in which it would be so much smarter than us it would either destroy us all or help us all. That is to me the goal here. And yes, I think enabling it to have a "vision" is a great start.- Intelligence and ExamplesI like to define "intelligence" as "capacity to predict the future" (someone once told me that not too long ago, but I can't recall who). As much as we like to perceive the brain as the most intelligent machine ever built, it has 1 main function above all: generating movement.I'm not sure those two things *must* be connected, and I don't think anyone can tell that for sure. So I'd have to take a guess and if, as I suspect, an intelligent machine indeed doesn't have to be able to generate movement, I think that's reason enough to ignore trying to replicate the brain at all to begin with. So forget neurology or biology! (which I believe are some of the current trends in this subject)- Internet and AlgorithmAlso, I think the best approach would be using the internet. Think SETI@home. The "magical singularity algorithm" would have to be able to identify itself anywhere and communicate with one another in unison.At this point, for no good reason, I believe it is possible to develop such an algorithm. The "intelligent machine" could get "alive" growing from one single complex and rather small algorithm. I hope I'm not completely wrong here... This is where I should probably read more first, as I bet there are attempts already done both in thinking and applying here.- Randomness and ChoiceIt won't ever know everything there is to know. And it will need to make decisions. It is my philosophy that choice and free will are nothing but an illusion in our deterministic universe, and something is only as random as we can't predict its outcome. So true randomness and chaos are both just some kind of pattern we can't recognize. (I'm actually writing more about this in another yet unreleased blog post)The algorithm will need to include the best
randomization method and that means to gather as much data as possible and summarize it to help in the decision making process. This means, when it takes too long to find an intelligent answer, it will get a random answer instead and learn from it later on.- Asimov Laws and MaleficenceI wouldn't bother of consequences. Trying to add restrictions to it would most likely be useless, since it would outsmart us anyway. Too much effort for nothing. At least the kind of "intelligent machine" I'd like to see "alive" would have to be at minimum that smart.There is, of course, a chance it will not benign. In case that happens, well, at least the world will be a much more interesting place than it is today and we would have a common universal enemy to unite humanity! (watchmen anyone?) In any case, trying to develop something smarter than us is building something we will eventually have no control upon.I believe there's a good chance a real smart being which will eventually arise would ultimately be benevolent. Take my definition of "intelligence" there, a collaborative future is always better, anyone knows that. Right?And we wouldn't be building robots here.- WellThat's about it. Now, it's time to choose a platform and let the trial and error begin! Too much concept and too little work will not yield to any humanity killing machine.
Squarespace is far from perfect, but I decided to move all my stuff there, for now.Including this blog.To read more, please go there!I won't be posting here anymore. I've been using this definition a lot, lately. Can't remember who told me first or where I saw it first. Wikipedia says Intelligence has been defined in many different ways such as in terms of one's capacity for logic, abstract thought, understanding, self-awareness, communication, learning, emotional knowledge, memory, planning, creativity and problem solving. But without future accomplishments, how can you measure any of it?As far as my limited intelligence can tell, the brain ( <-- many important videos there ) is still the most intelligent machine we know of. But it has a purpose. And one purpose only: generating movement. If you don't understand this, go ahead and watch the video!Hitting a baseball is a very simple instance of that. It has to capture an image of a ball coming at a quite good speed, calibrate every muscle in the body to twist in a way to hit that ball with maximum power and give the hitter enough time to run across a big field before someone else brings the ball back. It generated a lot of movement and so complex ones we can barely reproduce them with robots. It's making small predicting calculations all the time, from what the pitcher might be thinking to actually predicting the ball's path after watching its movements, to dodging each base into a home run.And how does that extrapolates to logic, memory, emotional knowledge, etc?Being such a complex machine, it ended up malfunctioning. Like any other evolution mutation. Most are not useful. This was. (I'm not sure this is what happened, but I'm pretty sure it could have and at least something similar did): By abstracting the nature, we were able to predict when a tree would be fruitful and then start migrating places with more food supply. This brain malfunction would then be naturally selected to their offspring, which would be more plentiful than of those who couldn't find food. Regular Darwinism takes place.Your brain is malfunctioning (this is no animated gif!)Memory helps planning, creativity and problem solving. Those are all tools to shape the environment by predicting how those tools will behave. Communication forms the collective memory and allows the exchange of ideas. It's the obvious link of the humankind and it's also its biggest gap. It's so difficult to predict how to better communicate with any other single human that's probably, in the list, the one that takes the most out of a single brain. Processing all that data ain't a simple task, but all that's just so we can better tell what's next.Emotional knowledge is just an attempt to keep the brain healthy. Bad emotions are reflections of unhealthy behaviour the brain identifies... But the brain isn't flawless and emotions are often wrong or too short-termed protection triggers. What? You think the brain is flawless? Some optical illusions are just one tiny demonstration of how flawed our brains are (another cool video here).
Recent news bring another one: disorders. Depression (asap videos, yay), in that case. Emotions might be good indications on when your brain might start (or already have started) to malfunction. So knowing your emotions will lead to better predicting your own health state.From that list, self awareness is probably the most difficult to extrapolate into my favourite intelligence definition there. How does that help predicting next events? Is it even a sign of intelligence? I don't know. You tell me. :PFound this funny and insightful cartoon searching google images for "awareness". ^_^
I was just robbed by an armed man. No big surprise for a Sao Paulo's citizen. The police didn't care shit either. Somehow I was a bit surprised with that...I had a great phone to be localized, a moto razr hd. No batteries to remove, cyanogenmod didn't allow it to be turned off (it always turns itself back on). I could have improved upon removing the SIM card by breaking something on the clips hole, but well... It was enough so I did even pinpoint his likely home or place where he could stop and find a way to remove the chip. Not a cop nearby, not the 190 (like 911 around here) and not a third cop over the phone would care enough.Very luckily, that's all he robbed.The whole robbery was anything like the 3 stooges. I was walking a dark street with a friend and being very cautious. When we got to the light side, very close to a train station (those are generally very safe here in Sao Paulo) and I relaxed. That's when he appeared. I was pushing him away, as I noticed it was a robbery... I had many people attempt to rob me, I fight and never lost anything... But then he showed his gun. A revolver, not much different from that image on the side, from what I can tell. I don't know guns, but I knew that was one. Well, I entered "victim mode" and was ready to give him everything. He had hidden the gun soon after showing it to us.But then I noticed he was a stooge. He talked slow, not very frightening. I was assaulted by non-armed boys who did much better, and got 2 bucks out of pity from me, while they wanted the same phone. But that's another story...The robber looked all right. Like most armed ones, as I hear. He didn't look like the usual thief, he had the appearance of a regular citizen "of good". And he definitely wasn't ready to do what he was doing. I gave my phone first. Then, when I noticed he was slow, so was I. I slowly picked my wallet and showed to him. "Look, I got no money, can I keep it?". He hesitated.A homeless came by. He stood right there, in the middle of the assault, yelling in low voice, like a very drunk person, but seemed to be sober. He was mumbling "stop that, don't assault them" or something like that. The robber got confused, I saved my wallet. He asked for the bags. My friends bag had only clothes. He gave up on her, asked for mine. "What you got worth anything there?" I showed him the iPad. He took the whole bag.That's when a woman came running and screaming "thief, thief", and he started to run away. I saw that and ran after both. The robber stopped, was going to pick the gun, but hesitated again. Turned around, and continued on running away. We followed him very closeby, few steps away from the "Paraiso" (Paradise) subway
entrance. He passed by it, turned back, dropped my bag and went down.The crazy lady asked me if her purse was in my bag. I stopped to check. Of course it wasn't, he didn't have any purse when he approached me and my friend! We continued to try and follow him, but it was too late.I had no idea what I was going to do if I reached him, but inside the station I would sure start to yell "thief" as well, in hope a security guard would appear. Well, after that it was a lot of frustrated attempts to make any kind of security or police to do their work efficiently. They're not here to work - just like airport security isn't there for anything other than theater. One cop even told me "This is brazil".I'll just skip all that.There must be a more intelligent way to deal with this...First, I'll take a few extra measures. From now on I'll keep in mind I'll just lose everything I walk with. And deal with that. This is easy to think about, there's no real challenge there, except you have to police yourself every day. It's like going to a poor and unknown country streets - you take as little as needed, and you think as if you're going to lose it today. Every day be glad if you didn't. Sure, you can take extra steps to protect against dumb robbers (such as mine up there) but you have to keep in mind sometimes they won't be so dumb.That's not what I mean by "a more intelligent way"...Here's a thought experiment.Once an armed robber comes in, before he says anything:- "Oh, hello! I'm Caue, I was waiting for you Jack. I'll call you Jack, okay? Here. Take my stuff."Hands in everything.- "Look at your clothes, those are fine, but would you like my jacket?"Hands in the jacket.- "How about my shirt? This is a good shirt."And so on, until you get either naked or bare naked. Up to you. This is inspired by a somewhat bad movie, by the way.You see, here in Brazil we live in a very rich country. But the money is held by less than 1% of the population give or take. Most people are actually peaceful about that. Way too much, in fact. That's one of the reasons why everything is so expensive. We don't do anything against the government. And they get most taxes from the poor.I sympathize with someone who is in a situation even worst than mine. I'm in the middle class, around 20 or 10% like me around. We all struggle to survive. Have you watched Justin "In Time"? Well, that's a very naive portrait, but it's a good picture. We keep on running. It's not just the watches built in the arm, it's also paying for the richer 1% which keep us without time to enjoy life at all.There are many expensive insurance banking companies here, who try the most to not pay when anything does happen. Banks, in here, charge a monthly
fee for no good reason. Except, maybe, to safeguard themselves somehow from the hungry brazilians who will jump in anything offered apparently "for free" and take as much advantage as they can. But mostly, those banks are made by those same brazilians, so they do know how to take advantage of everything. Including the government. Yes, banks do rule countries.- "Also, here's my credit card password. Go wild!".Sounds too unreal?This would truly un-arm them.Do not expect anything in exchange though.Simply leave home, every day, as you would eventually be given the chance to help someone who's so desperately in need that they thought of eventually killing someone for just a few bucks.Keep an extra money in an account just for that credit card.Easier said than done.I'd just love to be able to film all of it...
Anastacia. Do grego, ressureicao.Ha seis dias, brotou nesse coracao-de-cicatriz algo tao proximo do amor, que julguei-me capaz de senti-lo.Eu, que sempre metralhei palavras duras a esmo, a fim de arranhar com minhas sujas unhas algum corpo inerte tao podre quanto o meu, vi-me a cuidar de uma vida, uma vida tao fragil que nao cheguei a ter o impeto de destrui-la.Agora, seu corpo que estremecia de fome e de dor, nao apresenta vestigio de pulsacao. O pescoco pende no meu colo, e os pequenos olhos que nunca contemplaram a luz cerram-se para sempre. Para todo o sempre.O pequeno pedaco de vida que cuidei incansavelmente nao passa de materia morta, tao logo putrefata.Vai, meu anjo. Leve contigo o mais proximo do ceu que fui capaz de chegar. Carregue com rastros de sangue as entranhas que aqui pulsam anemicas.Doce morte implacavel. Pudera ser tao poderosa quanto voce. O ceu cinza anuncia a futura chuva.Margot, com seu cabelo vermelho, as unhas negras, e a pele vampiricamente branca apressa-se para tirar as roupas do varal."Que merda!" - grita, quando a primeira e densa gota cai sobre seus olhos azuis. Tristes olhos azuis."Agora nao posso mais sair."Pensa em chamar amigos para beber uisque ou jogar baralho, lembrar-se do colegio ou constatar o grande nada que todos eles viraram. Casamentos falidos, traicoes escancaradas, e filhos frutos do sexo sem graca, sem vontade e sem amor.Acende um cigarro enquanto procura a agenda telefonica. "Deve estar em algum lugar". De fato, estava. Dentro da gaveta onde guarda as memorias do tempo em que ainda nao se vendia para viver, e o pouco que restou de sua corrompida inocencia. Ou o nada.O primeiro nao atende. O segundo, idem. E assim sucessivamente, entre secretarias eletronicas e sinais de ocupado.A chuva torna-se espessa, da incriveis porradas na janela. Mas o diluvio maior e interno. Ele nao arranca telhados, arrasta entranhas. Machuca fundo.Ela nao quer mais companhia, alcool, nem cartas. So um pouco de Morfina, ou qualquer outro anestesico que diminua a dor que a agua causa ao dissolver seu coracao de acucar, cuja unica funcao e bombear o sangue pro resto do seu corpo violado.De soslaio, assiste a chuva passar timida, como se sentisse vergonha do estrago que fez.Margot reergue-se da cama, sopra as duas ou tres cinzas que cairam sobre o peito nu, calca a bota.Impermeabiliza as lagrimas salgadas com camadas de maquiagem e sai. Heroicamente, sai.Mais uma noite na rua, com perfeitos desconhecidos a quem ela entrega o corpo que um dia ja teve valor.Mais uma noite no lixo, permitindo-se coexistir com a degradacao do seu proprio "eu".Essa e Margot. Essa sou eu. E voce. Hoje e dia de presente. Ebaa! =)E o seguinte: ganhei tres selos. Um da Arlequim querida (http://arlequim-incognita.blogspot.com/), outro do blog Visao Contraria (http://visaocontraria.blogspot.com/) e o ultimo da Karla Hack (http://www.nascidaemversos.blogspot.com/). Recomendo os tres para quem quiser ler algo que foge do cliche.Fiquei muito feliz por saber que o que escrevo e agradavel para algumas pessoas. Muito obrigada mesmo!De acordo com as regrinhas, tenho que indicar outros dez blogs com os respectivos links para tambem serem "agraciados".
=)Entao, la vai:Alexandre Brautigam: http://www.sementesdebaoba.blogspot.com/Vala Comum: http://valacomum.wordpress.com/Com Ideias e Ideais: http://comideiaseideais.blogspot.com/Jeff McFly: http://blogdoarroto.blogspot.com/Karla Hack: http://nascidaemversos.blogspot.com/Thiago Henrique Goncalves: http://thiprodutofino.blogspot.com/Cafe com Noticias: http://cafecomnoticias.blogspot.com/Guilherme Piao: http://blogdopiao.blogspot.com/Rayane Fernandes: http://pertodesentimentos.blogspot.com/Igo Araujo: http://all-access-to-all-things.blogspot.com/Bem, eu queria indicar novamente os dois que me presentearam, nao por te-lo feito, mas porque realmente gosto deles. Nao sei se pode, logo, nao coloquei na lista. Se alguem souber se isso vale, recomendo esses tres na proxima vez. De qualquer forma, o endereco deles esta acima, e como eu ja havia dito, vale a pena visitar.Abracos e muito obrigada novamente!Post-Scriptum: coloquei a foto repetidamente devido aos tres selos que ganhei.PS2: eu nao tinha visto que a Karla tambem me "selou", por isso editei o post. Adorei, querida! Gracias! ;)