#Superstitious

Steve Dustcircle 🌹dustcircle
2024-12-13
TheBenefits.GuruTheBenefitsGuru
2024-12-13

"Happy Friday the 13th! 🔮 Who's feeling lucky today? "

My Thursday night curling team is undefeated but my Friday night team is winless. how can I break the winless without breaking the winning??? #superstitious #curling 🥌

2024-09-15

me googling, hmm - oh.

'friday' (paraskeví)
'13' (dekatreís)
'fear' (phobia)

pawsome 'N there.

mythologyandhistorymythologyandhistory@mas.to
2024-09-13

Did you know that #Germany is #superstitious enough to leave out number #13 from #law books?

Germany codifies its laws for social security in a series of books called "Sozialgesetzbuch" (social code book).

Book XII (12) on social welfare is followed by Book XIV (14) concerning support for victims of societal damage.

The latter was established in 2024 & there's no Book 13.

The skip was decided due to #victim advocates worrying about bad luck.

Happy Friday the 13th!

#fridaythe13th #mythology

2024-08-05

Home.

Not sure I want to put away my fire gear. I did that a week ago, then of course we had a fire.

#superstitious

2024-05-19

How to Stop Being Superstitious #howto #diy #Superstitious

2024-04-24

Reading an email about C3 AI being developed to locate extremists. This nugget to start put me off.

Siebel: This is the first time we’ve done things in computer science that weren’t a mathematical certainty, other than random number generators. Everything else we’ve done in computer science, up until this day, has been deterministic. Every time you run it, it’s going to happen that you get the same answer. Now, with generative AI, you’d never quite know what the answer is going to be. And that creates some very interesting issues.

Washington wanted C3 AI to find “extremists” by Tom Krazit interviewing Tom Siebel

The IT world isn’t deterministic. We have Black Box Magic where all too often we have control over what goes in and can see what comes out, but we aren’t privy to the inner workings (code) of the thing making the decisions about what comes out. As a solutions architect, I am privy to lots of things, but lots of the things I work on are delivered as compiled code. Much of my day is figuring out why output wasn’t expected. Much of my clients’ day is becoming more superstitious about what shamanic rituals and magical thinking will result in the correct output. Only when those fail do they reach out about things that get to me.

an ancient and weathered magical black box generated by Copilot

I wonder if deterministic thinking affects AI adoption? If you have a strong need to control how something is controlled, then AI may not be for you as no one has that control. The AI companies struggle with guardrails on it because even they don’t have control. Highly regulated industries are required to have strong controls, so they might shy away from AI just to avoid huge fines. See banking, where humans giving BS answers is bad, the same BS answers from AI isn’t suddenly okay.

https://www.ezrasf.com/wplog/2024/04/24/ai-black-box-magic/

#AIArtificialIntelligence #ArtificialIntelligence #blackBox #magic #magicalThinking #superstitious

2024-02-26

@abreaction

#Superstitious or #religious 'inclinations'
have nothing to do with being
#Democrat or #Republican or #MAGA.

Kristin KimKristinKim
2024-01-01

To the , can be so imposing and insidious. If your aim is to do something every day of the new year and you miss the 1st…well the goal is already shot to hell by the 25th hour.

2023-10-28

I couldn’t get to Dundee United’s game last week. They won 5-0 away from home.
I couldn’t get to their game yesterday. They won 6-0.
I’m starting to think I should stay away from all the games.
#DUFC #SPFL #Superstitious #MastodonFC

2023-10-13

Not for nothing, but it’s a known fact in my circle that I’m paraskevidekatriaphobic. So I’m taking the day off and staying home.

#Friday13th #fridaythe13 #superstitious

2023-10-13

#beezyandgrim for #comictober it's #friday13th so this #webcomic seems fitting. #beelzebub and #grim are not #superstitious but...well he's the #grimreaper. Anyway you're #dailycomic #comicart #comicstagram whatever. like, share, do the thing with the thing

Grim is talking to Beezy
Grim '...and time is a construct'
Beezy 'Yup, and luck is probability'
Grim 'Don't even get me started on superstition!'
Beezy 'Hah, nonsense!'
Reveals they are sitting under a blanket in a wardrobe
Grim 'Still it is Friday the 13th so...'
Beezy 'Better safe than sorry'
2023-10-08

@dancinyogi So far, I have been immune to #superstitious silliness, and always will be! (Knock on wood)

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