Niantic announces "Large Geospatial Model" trained on Pokémon Go player data

Re:Niantic announces "Large Geospatial Model" trained on Pok... by gretch on Thursday November 21, 2024 @01:52AM (#42201802)

The humor isn’t recognized because the humor isn’t there. To be funny there has to be a setup, a punchline, some kinda joke structure. Humor isn’t just saying false things…

Imagine a comedian saying this on stage, how many laughs would that get?

> Do people really think MyFitnessPal is trying to build a model of the average pantry?

We’ve all seen dumber things that are real. Juicero is my personal favorite example.

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Re:Niantic announces "Large Geospatial Model" trained on Pok... by firtoz on Thursday November 21, 2024 @03:26AM (#42202240)

The humor is attained afterwards when one reads the comments who take it seriously, they become the punchline.

That completes the circuit. It's a nice setup.

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Re:Niantic announces "Large Geospatial Model" trained on Pok... by phito on Thursday November 21, 2024 @03:46AM (#42202342)

Except we're living in a world where it wouldn't be that surprising, especially after reading this post. Good idea of a joke but bad execution.

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Re:Niantic announces "Large Geospatial Model" trained on Pok... by gretch on Thursday November 21, 2024 @12:00PM (#42206284)

You think we didn't get it because we weren't smart enough.

In actuality we "didn't get it" because we extended you faith and respect as an equal participant in the conversation.

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Re:Niantic announces "Large Geospatial Model" trained on Pok... by firtoz on Thursday November 21, 2024 @12:01PM (#42206294)

I'm not the OP :)

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Re:Niantic announces "Large Geospatial Model" trained on Pok... by gretch on Thursday November 21, 2024 @01:03PM (#42206913)

I didn't say you were :)

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