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sorryforthethro | 7 years ago | on: Audio AI: isolating vocals from stereo music using Convolutional Neural Networks

Also, the time investment to learn a congruent field's jargon is often much greater than just making up words and let the internet peanut gallery sort out the synonyms for you.

sorryforthethro | 7 years ago | on: Google and Facebook should be regulated for news content, UK government report

I do think it's important to teach these types of critical analysis skills in grade school, however, this bill is quite limited in scope:

> On or before July 1, 2019, the department shall make available to school districts on its Internet Web site a list of resources and instructional materials on media literacy, including media literacy professional development programs for teachers.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

sorryforthethro | 7 years ago | on: Searching for "Antarctica" on YouTube returns conspiracy videos

Certainly those videos are more watched than other videos on Antartica (from shear clickbait factor alone), but also, most content on Antartica is in the form of copy-written documentaries that legally shouldn't be on YouTube, so there might be some bias in that direction as well.

sorryforthethro | 7 years ago | on: My Parents Are Flat Earthers

Sorry again, of course the majority of FE are a bit cargo-cult; but the root of it is "fallacy of authority" no? There aren't many ways to tangibly justify the shape of the Earth to the average person. If all the images are photo-shopped and all the data is fraudulent, suddenly the world is a whole lot darker. And as much as it seems, the joke that the true edge of the flat earth is a mental illness diagnosis, says more about us than them.

sorryforthethro | 7 years ago | on: Anxiety and burnout: why kids are consumed with worry

> I constantly feel like disaster looms around every corner.

Sorry if this is unwelcome, but I recognize this feeling very well. I'm a lifelong CBT patient, in CBT we call this "catastrophizing", recognizing when you are falling into that thought pattern is the best way to break out of it.