@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-08-10 18:04:46
"""
But there is no certainty that madness was content to sit locked up in its immutable identity, waiting for psychiatry to perfect its art, before it emerged blinking from the shadows into the blinding light of truth. Nor is it clear that confinement was above all, or even implicitly, a series of measures put in place to deal with madness. It is not even certain that in this repetition of the ancient gesture of segregation at the threshold of the classical age, the modern world was aiming to wipe out all those who, either as a species apart or a spontaneous mutation, appeared as 'asocial'. The fact that the internees of the eighteenth century bear a resemblance to our modern vision of the asocial is undeniable, but it is above all a question of results, as the character of the marginal was produced by the gesture of segregation itself. For the day came when this man, banished in the same exile all over Europe in the mid-seventeenth century, suddenly became an outsider, expelled by a society to whose norms he could not be seen to conform; and for our own intellectual comfort, he then became a candidate for prisons, asylums and punishment. In reality, this character is merely the result of superimposed grids of exclusion.
The gesture that proscribed was as abrupt as the one that had isolated the lepers, and in both cases, the meaning of the gesture should not be mistaken for its effect. Lepers were not excluded to prevent contagion, any more than in 1657, 1 per cent of the population of Paris was confined merely to deliver the city from the 'asocial'. The gesture had a different dimension: it did not isolate strangers who had previously remained invisible, who until then had been ignored by force of habit. It altered the familiar cityscape by giving them new faces, strange, bizarre silhouettes that nobody recognised. Strangers were found in places where their presence had never previously been suspected: the process punctured the fabric of society, and undid the familiar. Through this gesture, something inside man was placed outside of himself, and pushed over the edge of our horizon. It is the gesture of confinement, in short, which created alienation.
"""
(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizza2025-09-10 17:48:32
The Pathfinder 2E character sheet continues. The current "components" are all now linked to actual character sheet data. The skill functions all do what they're supposed to including some interesting edge cases. The ability scores can be edited, and the sheet auto-updates which took longer than it should have. I'm still not a fan of JavaScript/Vue though.
#programming
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social2025-09-12 00:30:00
On The Road - To Xi’An/ Silhouette 👤
在路上 - 去西安/ 轮廓 👤
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-08-08 12:06:26
Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
TARRANT: [V.O.] Are you sure, Cally?
CALLY: Unless they're hiding. But why should they hide?
TARRANT: [V.O.] I don't know. Maybe outsiders -
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/77 B7B3
@lysander07@sigmoid.social2025-07-24 13:00:20
This week's ISE 2025 lecture was focussed on artificial neural networks. In particular, we were discussing how to get rid of manual feature engineering and doing representation learning from raw data with convolutional neural networks.
#AI #ArtificialNeuralNetworks
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2025-08-17 14:21:10
Read all about Chatcontrol and why we should resist it. This sentence is extremely scary.... "Specifically, this AI will have to be built by WhatsApp/Meta so they can monitor us on behalf of the EU" 😱
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/chatcontrol-in-brief/
@arXiv_csCG_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-06-17 09:19:27
Tight Routing and Spanning Ratios of Arbitrary Triangle Delaunay Graphs
Prosenjit Bose, Jean-Lou De Carufel, John Stuart
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12625 h…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-06-19 09:09:48
Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
DAYNA: You should have killed them.
AVON: Probably.
CALLY: They could sleep through a war.
TARRANT: That's good, because if it is Bayban down there, a war is what we'll have.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/416
@arXiv_mathST_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-08-15 08:24:52
Online selective conformal inference: adaptive scores, convergence rate and optimality
Pierre Humbert, Ulysse Gazin, Ruth Heller, Etienne Roquain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10336
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-06-13 06:00:45
#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
KERRIL: No! You can push people too far.
SHERM: You should remember that.
KERRIL: I said people, not garbage.
SHERM: Garbage!
BAYBAN: Kerril - Sherm - out. [Kerril and Sherm leave]
