Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 07:48:43 -0500, WokieSux282@ud0s4.net wrote:

On 2/10/25 2:38 AM, rbowman wrote:

On Sun, 9 Feb 2025 22:41:32 +0100, D wrote:
 

Some days I think about going back to study psychology, and other days
I think about getting a law degree for the pleasure of suing the state
when I can, but I can do that without a law degree, so why bother?

 
I gave it some thought years ago but I would have to move and that's
not happening.

 
 
   Always took a psych course for an easy GPA boost :-)
 
   They're still pretending it's a real science.

It all depends. My degree is in psychology but I was a rat runner. I know
a lot about neurophysiology and except for a survey course nothing about
Rogers' client centered therapy and all that woo-woo stuff. Twenty years
later and I would have went for cognitive science but it hadn't been
invented yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_neuron

It all started with the perceptron. In the '80s it was 'neural networks',
with back propagation refining the algorithms. Unfortunately hardware of
the day wasn't up to the task and the field was over promised. When it was
revitalized the name was changed to 'machine learning' to protect the
innocent. By then saying 'neural network' was career suicide.

And here we are now with AI.  Depending on how you count this is the third
cycle of promising the world, falling on your ass, and going back to the
drawing board for a decade or two.

But, it all started with a branch of psychology: how does that wetware
work?