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Re: The absolute state of Sweden in 2025

dnouri — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 07:32:06 -0000

Some more of my comments that were now deleted from r/svenskpolitik :

Replying to Didiuz who commented:

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If your friend has psychosis, which seems heavily implied by the circumstances you mention. This is not treated with psychoterapy (and definitively not psychoanalysis), but medications.

Obviously there are some worrying things that you bring up, but it is overshadowed by the trivial and incorrect things you are upset about.

I replied:

And what about anxiety? Is that not treated with psychotherapy either? Have you ever heard of a psychological trauma? Perhaps you believe that all illnesses and conditions of the human mind fall out of the sky, without any background in that human's personal experiences or history?

And so let's assume that medications is the right, or rather only, way to go. Do you agree with how that went with my friend? That they were dumped on the street even without access to their medication, or a place to stay? Would you describe that as promising psychiatric approach then?

And when MechaAristotle wrote:

Hela biten om att "88" på något sätt innebär att vården har nazistproblem gör det svårt att ta något annat på allvar.

I had to reply this:

Om du läser stycket om psykoanalys i Sverige märker du att jag diskuterar kvarlevor av idéer, inte en aktiv nazistisk rörelse. Att hävda att all koppling till rasbiologi och 30-40-talets tankegods är helt borta kräver mer tro än det jag skriver.
Såg du Hitlerhälsningen på bilden, och hur passar den i din bild av att det inte finns några sådana spår kvar?

Both of my replies were sadly deleted after I posted them and my Reddit account banned. However, the original comments by MechaAristotle and Didiuz remained. Maybe the Reddit gods will resurrect myu account and bring my replies back. Maybe they'll ban my post after reading this, which is still available on that subreddit as of now. For now, feel free to read my replies here.

Link to thread on r/svenskpolitik: https://www.reddit.com/r/svenskpolitik/comments/1ows4qc/the_absolute_state_of_sweden_in_2025/

Re: The absolute state of Sweden in 2025

dnouri — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 05:56:47 -0000

Small addendum: I've now been permanently banned from r/TillSverige. The official explanation was a rule violation; the moderator’s personal note was, verbatim: "no one wants to read your shit blog." Make of that what you will about the state of discussion culture around Sweden's self-image and its institutions.

Re: The absolute state of Sweden in 2025

dnouri — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 05:52:23 -0000

For those coming here from Reddit: this piece has now been removed from two different subreddits, but for completely different reasons.

On r/sweden it was taken down as 'politics' / 'soap boxing'. On r/TillSverige it was removed under Rule 4, with the accusation that it contained 'misinformation.' That’s quite a remarkable spread of objections for the same text.

I obviously disagree with the idea that this is 'knowingly false.' The article is built on my own lived experience and on sources that are linked throughout: stats, research etc. You may absolutely contest my interpretation or argue that I’m drawing the wrong conclusions. You may even convince me that some part should be updated or retracted. But that requires engaging with specific claims and specific sources, not just labeling the whole thing as 'misinformation' and pressing remove.

If you think something here is wrong, I invite you to do what the Reddit mods did not: quote the passage you disagree with, show your own data or sources, and let’s compare.

Re: The absolute state of Sweden in 2025

Josh — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 05:19:14 -0000

Ill start:

"The room with the large TV screen is obviously for meeting room - not for kids"

is one of the things the swedes will directly jump to defend themselves with no retrospective value whatsoever.

If you prove them that it is perhaps infact for kids, they'll go

"Then its the skolverket you should complain to, never cus we dont do conflict"

Turning it into somewhat a spectacle of ego-tripping debate offering little to zero value added to the real cause.

Years trying to integrate here in Sweden and Ive started to realize this too: they're left behind pretty far even among the Europeans.

Inte-mitt-problem should suffice anything for them, which one theyd think is lagom but in reality - a huge load of descending snowball people laugh about. And so how Sweden able to self advertise itself as somewhat an open multicultural and progressive society is.. beyond.

The educated swedes of Stockholm, Gothenburg or Lund will potentially take these concerns into consideration that could open to a real discussion, its the typical svenne that Im worried about..... "invandrare" they'd probably say.

Sweden 2025

Re: Literate testing with pytest-bashdoctest helps keep your Bash examples up-to-date

sayreblades — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 09:31:25 -0000

I absolutely love this! I have been a casual literate programming fan for some time, but this nifty tool makes this approach even more practical in my day to day :)

Re: Resolving AMDgpu crashes on ThinkPad T14s Gen4 with Ryzen 7 7840u

Frenzie — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 10:23:51 -0000

It claims there that newer kernels shouldn't have the issue, but mine is 6.11.0 and it still does it. It's a little unclear to me how to tell if it does or doesn't have the supposed fix though?

That's on a ThinkPad T14 with:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U with Radeon Graphics (16) @ 4.768GHz
GPU: AMD ATI Radeon 680M

Ah well, I'll try that vm_update_mode=3 workaround for now.

Re: Resolving AMDgpu crashes on ThinkPad T14s Gen4 with Ryzen 7 7840u

Joe — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 18:07:52 -0000

I had the same problem. My solution was to use the much newer firmware and drivers from bookworm-backports non-free-firmware. Problem went away. The stock bookworm firmware is ancient.

Re: The hottest new programming language is English

dnouri — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 07:01:13 -0000

Yes, I think you're exactly right. You will encounter these things. Maybe in more complex cases it makes sense to go back and forth with error messages and examples. Surely that would be a nice automatic feedback loop to implement as well, which I've seen work in other scenarios. But for now, I was quite happy that the instructions were more or less a reasonable specification of what I wanted. And as mentioned, keeping it in one prompt is obviously too nice because you don't have to keep track of the whole back and forth and the entire dialogue. That's not to say that you can't put more and more hints into the first prompt either.

Re: A 2D Character Script in Godot — Daniel Nouri's Blog

dnouri — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 06:58:41 -0000

Haha yes, felt cute, might test and delete later. :-D

Re: The hottest new programming language is English

sayreblades — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 22:58:11 -0000

I was determined to continue refining the prompt instead. I just needed to understand what was wrong about my prompt: the lack of detail here, an ambiguous phrase there, etc.

Are you convinced that you can generally overcome any limitations of the model with more instructive (or "better") prompts? As in... are there cases (in theory, or examples you have encountered) that there may be nothing "wrong" about your prompt, rather the model is just not able to be nudged in the way that can provide the intended solution. I imagine there are brute force methods you could use, like "here's the skeleton code."... feeding more hints from failed outputs into inputs.

Re: A 2D Character Script in Godot — Daniel Nouri's Blog

sayreblades — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 22:38:15 -0000

Neat example, thanks for sharing this! ... even if the the side-effects inside of Jump and DoubleJump look kind of gross ;)

Re: The hottest new programming language is English

Emil Eliasson — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 05:00:20 -0000

Using LLMs as code reviewers can be a game changer, especially if you're working alone or without regular peer feedback. LLMs offer a fresh perspective that can highlight issues you might miss and suggest ways to enhance your code. This makes them a valuable tool for maintaining high code quality and improving your development process, even when you don't have a human reviewer.

Re: Build a nice CLI for your Streamlit apps with Click or Typer

User — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 05:06:32 -0000

Wow! I've seen way more complicated solutions for this and you managed to achieve the same goal in a much neater way. Thanks!

Re: Build a nice CLI for your Streamlit apps with Click or Typer

Clem — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 09:45:07 -0000

hey there,

thanks for the article.
Besides the interest of it, I was wondering if you have a use case for that?

Re: Using convolutional neural nets to detect facial keypoints tutorial

Soni Sharma — Mon, 16 May 2022 08:51:39 -0000

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Re: Using convolutional neural nets to detect facial keypoints tutorial

james hopkins — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 20:14:35 -0000

I GET SICK SEEING SO MANY UGLY FACES!

Re: Using convolutional neural nets to detect facial keypoints tutorial

tamarisk Xu — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 21:07:29 -0000

great post!
I have some confusion,you scale the key point to [-1,1],then when you use the model to predict the coordinates. why you don't rescale the predict to [0-96],that is ,p*48+48

Re: Using convolutional neural nets to detect facial keypoints tutorial

Hafizur Rahman — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 01:55:52 -0000

That's a great article Daniel. Any idea about how to replace Lasagne by Keras?

Re: Using convolutional neural nets to detect facial keypoints tutorial

Александр Кочурко — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 09:21:17 -0000

Thank you for the great post Daniel!
Could you please post the result of prediction on shuffled image by the last model? I mean with randomly shuffled pixels or smth similar.

Re: Using convolutional neural nets to detect facial keypoints tutorial

Alex Staravoitau — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 10:56:57 -0000

Thank you for this amazing tutorial! You inspired me to put up a follow-along tutorial for TensorFlow, explaining how the same approach could be implemented with this framework. I'm focusing on writing reusable code using variables scope, saving and restoring sessions and such. Here's the link if you want to check it out: http://navoshta.com/facial-...

Re: Using convolutional neural nets to detect facial keypoints tutorial

Ocelot — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 11:51:12 -0000

Is it possible to do the same thing using Theano's OpenCL support and an AMD card?

Re: Using convolutional neural nets to detect facial keypoints tutorial

Alexander Yau — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 22:52:18 -0000

good post!

Re: Using convolutional neural nets to detect facial keypoints tutorial

Ulises Bussi — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 15:46:49 -0000

First of all, i want to apologize for my english, but i'm having problems with the net2 when i try to run it, freezes my pc in the process, after:

InputLayer (None, 1, 96, 96) produces 9216 outputs
Conv2DCCLayer (None, 32, 94, 94) produces 282752 outputs
MaxPool2DCCLayer (None, 32, 47, 47) produces 70688 outputs
Conv2DCCLayer (None, 64, 46, 46) produces 135424 outputs
MaxPool2DCCLayer (None, 64, 23, 23) produces 33856 outputs
Conv2DCCLayer (None, 128, 22, 22) produces 61952 outputs
MaxPool2DCCLayer (None, 128, 11, 11) produces 15488 outputs
DenseLayer (None, 500) produces 500 outputs
DenseLayer (None, 500) produces 500 outputs
DenseLayer (None, 30) produces 30 outputs

I don't know how to fix it, i suppose it's a problem with the amount of memory used in the GPU.
If there's a way to limit the quantity of memory.

By the way, i'm new in this, but i think i might be using the gpu to give image. I have an onboard video card
in the same pc i don't know if there's a way to configure it to work for desktop process and dedicate the
other one to run codes...

Thank you for the time, and sorry for my english.

Ulises.

Re: Using convolutional neural nets to detect facial keypoints tutorial

Samuel Mahal — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 14:26:20 -0000

I have two question, And also Awsome post helped me alot to understand Neurol nets, IN def fit_specialists what is 'kwargs' in the if statement? Also would it be possible to use the neurol net to find faces >>> then check if there a match to x or y face? Thanks have an awsome blessed day :)

Re: Using convolutional neural nets to detect facial keypoints tutorial

tanventure — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 11:21:59 -0000

Thanks for the great tutorial! Wonder if you have compare the face detection performance of your method (DL based) vs more traditional methods, say, from OpenCV's cascade
http://docs.opencv.org/2.4/...

I understand that DL based methods have best performance in image classification, but not sure if it performs better in image object detection as well?

Any comments ?

Thanks