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Anyone seen it[^]? I watched it last night and I found it....strange, stressful, weird, crazy and an all round head-f***. Didn't watch any trailer or anything so wasn't expecting that...haven't stopped thinking about it all day.
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I tend to love anything by Aronofsky, the man's a genius. Eeeeever so slightly "samey" in the "PsychoOverload" approach he takes to telling a story, but he rarely fails to mess with your head...
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Mel Padden wrote: I tend to love anything by Aronofsky,
Think I've seen Noah and Black Swan, though wasn't really concentrating when watching the second - so didn't get it. I'm going to watch dream/requim one this weekend.
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Yeah I'll try that one. 
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I totally agree. The movie is supposed to be an analogy of the relationship between God, the earth, and humans. Jennifer Laurence's character represents mother earth, her husband represents God, and the neighbors represent the human race. When you put it in that perspective, it speaks volumes.
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Yeah I get that - now. And I'm glad I was to dumb to get it until the final scene, as the WTF aspect just increased to a crescendo and the labour chaos was amazing.
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The chaos was way too long (and damn near seizure inducing) for me. I kinda felt ripped off afterwards. I guess that type of film is just not my cup-o-tea.
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jeron1 wrote: I guess that type of film is just not my cup-o-tea
It's RT/IMDB ratings are made up of almost entirely extreme scores. Either it was highly rated or extremely low rated, but hardly ever given a middle vote. My girlfriend thought it was sh*t...but as I pointed out I've never heard her make so many vocal noises (whilst watching a film).
jeron1 wrote: I kinda felt ripped off afterwards
Yeah, I didn't pay 
jeron1 wrote: and damn near seizure inducing
This is what I especially liked - I had watched Dunkirk earlier in the day and that was just mind-numbing boring.
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A poker buddy of mine saw it and had exactly the same response.
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Well worth checking out - but now you've been told (twice) what to expect, I feel it will just disappoint. I knew nothing, and didn't realise who the director was, so was just expecting a 'Jennifer Lawrence' type movie.
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The parcel service introduced a live tracking a few years ago where you see a street map with markers for your home and for the current position of the delivery car, along with the number of remaining stops before yours and an estimated time until delivery.
So far, it hasn't been accurate a single time, not even close. You would assume they monitor their prediction success rate and adjust it accordingly. Apparently not.
My parcel was announced by email to be delivered today between 1pm and 2pm. At 3pm I opened the live tracking and it said 19 stops remaining. At 3:15pm it said 25 stops remaining and at 3:30pm it said 29 stops remaining.  All the while the car was shown at exactly the same position it already was at at 3pm. Want to make a guess on their prediction algorithm? 
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Some of the newer Amazon Prime deliveries are pretty good - I had one last week that showed - in real time - where my package was (or at least the van it was on) with a "delivered in x minutes" which worked out almost spot on.
The following day, the only info they could give me was "it's on the van". 
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I had one a few weeks ago and it was 100% accurate. The only strange thing was the driver was about 30 minutes early. I asked him about that and he said the tracker always lags by 30-40 minutes for security purposes. Apparently there are people around who try to follow the vans from street to street. Goodness only knows what for, apart from perhaps hijacking.
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Sascha Lefèvre wrote: All the while the car was shown at exactly the same position it already was at at 3pm.
Outside a decent pub? 
Just to gloat: my latest Amazon delivery[^] was due to arrive between 13th and 15th December. It was delivered this afternoon.
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- Homer
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So which is it, a prediction algorithm or live tracking? Someone has their wires crossed (and no, not you!) 
I can just see marketing come up with "and we now have a live tracking prediction system!"
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Sascha Lefèvre wrote: Want to make a guess on their prediction algorithm?
The delivery van broke down, was being towed away farther and farther from your house, which is why the number of deliveries left was increasing?
Well, that was me taking a shot at it. I have no better explanation. 
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It seems chess algorithms are to deep learning - what a typewriter is to a computer with a modern word processor.
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interesting, but it's only doing something using defined rules (legal moves) within a limited dataset 8x8 locations - that's not really AI, more a best path algorithm.
OK, it "taught itself the rules" well not really, they had to tell it how the pieces can and can't move. Learning say to not 'throw away your pieces - even pawns too soon,' just a matter of marking out fast failing decision paths.
It looks at fewer moves than stockfish - does that really mean it's smarter or merely more aggressive at pruning seemingly bad paths at shallower levels (whereas stockfish would still follow initially bad looking paths to see if a high probability win still possible)? - the adage of the simplest is usually the best comes in to play for a few different reasons.
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You know, there should be laws about not using AI's to take the fun out of games like chess and Go.
Come to think of it, there should be laws about not using AI's to take the fun out of programming. Just the crappy boring inane stuff, like (erm, redacted, Jeremy might be watching.)
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Downloaded last night (all night, slow internet) and am installing this morning.
Installed software includes; Gimp, FireFox, etc... Nice, don't have to download FF first thing!
Anyone else using this version? Thoughts?
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Installed Lubuntu 17.10 onto a virtual machine. All went well. Haven't gotten a chance to play with it much yet.
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kind of curious to see how this goes for you all
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Upvote for you know what. 
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