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to tell others why someone is setting you on edge, it often sounds so trivial. As the words are coming out of your mouth, you find yourself thinking, “Wow, I probably sound super paranoid.”</p><p id="2b40">So, instead of going with your gut, you tell yourself the innocent explanation must be the correct one. You keep going along with it.</p><p id="2666">All those pink flags only start looking red once you’ve seen enough of them — <b>once you’ve noticed a clear pattern emerging.</b></p><p id="a47d">Depending on how experienced you are at dealing with people’s shit and how overt the asshole you’re dealing with is, it could take hours, days, months, or years before you piece it all together.</p><p id="619a">Recently, I had someone reach out to me who gave me kind of weird vibes. I felt like he was laying the groundwork for something (what exactly, I don’t know, but something).</p><p id="dc34">First, he reached out with some effusive praise on one of my articles. But he did it as a private message, not as a regular response.</p><p id="6e44">That made me a bit ill at ease. But I had a hard time really understanding why. I mean, private messages are a thing, and he didn’t say anything off color in it.</p><p id="a878">The private messages kept coming. I ignored them (can’t clap on private messages and I had nothing to say), but had the same odd feeling that I couldn’t fully explain.</p><p id="0ced">Eventually, he gave me some effusive praise and I thanked him. He responded within an hour asking if we could talk off Medium. Ostensibly, it was so we didn’t have to deal with the character limit (though there would have been none if he had just sent me regular responses).</p><p id="75b2">I decided to check out some of his stuff. The first thing that stood out was a very misogynistic article. And then I came across not one but two love letters he wrote to an unnamed Medium writer, each of them with a strong stalker vibe. (I don’t know if they were about me or not, but either way, they were creepy.)</p><p id="b8fb">When I told him I didn’t want to move my relationships with my readers off Medium, he made up an excuse and backpedaled. He claimed he was a professional sex coach and only wanted to offer me some advice about my clitoris.</p><p id="d078">Then, before the day was over, he went back to a post I wrote weeks before called <a href="https://readmedium.com/no-one-owes-you-a-chance-bef1a3ac4072">No One Owes You a Chance</a>. He left a lengthy response that implied that women who don’t give him a chance (e.g. me, just earlier) are bitter, angry, heartless bitches.</p><p id="9b52"><b>Yeah, his intentions were <i>totally </i>professional…</b></p><p id="fe6b">At that point, I cut communication with him before he could try to take things further. I blocked him. He deleted his response. And I hope that’ll be the last of it.</p><p id="0089">Now, given everything I know now — especially those super stalkery posts — it’s clear to me that the private messaging was a red flag. It’s also clear that asking to communicate off Medium is a bit of a red flag here. It’s quite likely he was laying the groundwork for something.</p><p id="a8c5" type="7">But up until that point, each of those individual actions seemed kind of innocent. Pink flags at best.</p><p id="682a">And that’s another way women “ignore” red flags — because each of them on their own doesn’t look that bad.</p><h1 id="3135">“Not All Men” Men Need to Sit the Fuck Down</h1><p id="f59f">There’s one more reason women ignore red flags. <b>We’re constantly being told we should.</b></p><p id="ec92">One big part of the problem is all the men who cry out “Not All Men” whenever women discuss the shit they deal with.</p><p id="c488">We have a lot of reasons for sharing our stories — it’s cathartic, it’s healing, and it helps us bond and understand each other.</p><p id="640e" type="7">It’s also a way of issuing warnings.</p><p id="2010">It’s because we share our bad experiences that we know about fuckboys and how to spot them. Or what to do if our boyfriend turns out to be a narcissist. Or that “Nice Guys” often have a total disregard

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for our sexual consent.</p><p id="02c9"><b>That shit’s fucking critical.</b></p><p id="4234">I didn’t have those kinds of conversations when I was younger and I didn’t have access to them online. So, I ended up in some risky situations, or got too close to guys who deep down did not give a shit about me, because I was figuring it all out on my own.</p><p id="8542">But now when we finally share our stories so that we can show each other (and clue some guys in) the red flags and pink flags we need to be mindful of, we keep hearing from men who are annoyed that we’re painting them with a broad brush.</p><p id="3147">Sometimes they don’t say “not all men.” Sometimes, they say that we should give guys a chance even if we feel weird. Sometimes, they say it’s not fair that they get treated like potential rapists just because they were being really forward because damnit they mean well.</p><p id="9486"><b>But in the end, what they’re doing is telling us not to trust our instincts. </b>They’re telling us that we need to give men the benefit of the doubt. They’re telling us to set aside our gut feelings because following them might mean we’re judging a decent guy too harshly.</p><p id="a9f5" type="7">And that’s one of the reasons women ignore red flags — because we’re constantly told we should, even when protecting men’s egos puts us at more serious risk.</p><p id="440e">I’m sure it sucks being treated with suspicion, but there’s a reason we have to be suspicious even if it has nothing to do with you personally. Those guards she’s putting up — the ones that make it trickier for you to interact with her — <b>they might be the only thing keeping her from being abused or having the worst night of her life.</b></p><p id="0515">So if you ever feel like a woman is unfairly treating you like a potential threat, understand that she has to put her safety first. <b>She deserves your empathy, not your contempt.</b></p><p id="cbb2"><a href="https://emmaaustin.substack.com/p/welcome-to-my-newsletter"><b><i>Let’s keep in touch! Sign up for my weekly newsletter</i></b></a><b><i> (I won’t send you anything without your enthusiastic consent!)</i></b></p><p id="0320"><b>❤ If you liked this post, you might also love:</b></p><div id="c7dc" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/the-real-reason-shes-not-being-honest-with-you-76ebab3ff50c"> <div> <div> <h2>The Real Reason She’s Not Being Honest With You</h2> <div><h3>She wants to be straightforward — it’s just not safe</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*5gk1jvdsTLP_qzsFVPr3tg.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="17a8" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/men-hitting-on-women-online-need-to-up-their-game-8c077ca48fc"> <div> <div> <h2>Men Hitting on Women Online Need to Up Their Game</h2> <div><h3>It’s not hard — here’s how to do it</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*M_wLC7GCweb2S5mI8TLexw.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="0e7a" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/signs-your-new-boyfriend-might-be-a-narcissist-e55b2e6d7e2b"> <div> <div> <h2>Signs Your New Boyfriend Might Be a Narcissist</h2> <div><h3>After years of narcissistic abuse, I’m on the lookout for red flags</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*xekbc_KPuOOC_xD8maW9Kw.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

Artificial Intelligence Unravels the Mystery of Hieroglyphs

Play, learn and work with Google Fabricius

Have you ever imagined how people at the time of ancient Egypt used to communicate with each other? They simply used drawings, signs and symbols as the form of written communication famously known as “Egyptian Hieroglyphs” one of the oldest forms of writing! Not everyone could write these hieroglyphs only scribes (writers, sons of wealthy Egyptians) were trained to do so. Even after 5000 years, these languages remains a mystery for those who haven’t studied it. To solve this conundrum Google has launched an AI-based tool Fabricius, that will not only help decipher ancient hieroglyphs but it will also help people to make sense and learn about ancient Egypt’s language. To celebrate 221st anniversary (July 15th, 2020) of Rosetta stone(a slab of stone from 196BC, has message carved into it in three different types of script that helped scholars to crack the code of hieroglyphs) Google has launched its latest AI-powered tool Fabricius, here you can “learn”, “play” and “work” around with hieroglyphs. This is the first digital tool for translating and deciphering hieroglyphs.

Features of Fabricius:

Learn:

With the short six easy steps and interactive tools, Fabricius virtual assistant teaches you about the basics of hieroglyph script. The tour begins with taking you back to 1922 to discover who was buried in a mysterious tomb!

· In the first stage, with the hands-on activity the let you trace the hieroglyphs (for easier study) as accurately as you can.

· With the introduction of the second stage, the tool teaches about the creation of facsimiles (i.e. creation of an exact copy of hieroglyphs) to prevent damage.

· At stage 3, we have to identify the hieroglyph from a given list of symbols.

· Now in the 4th stage, we have to reconstruct the damaged hieroglyphic sign to reconstruct the name of Pharaoh.

· Stage 5 teaches about the order in which they are meant to be read.

· With the final stage 6, this tool enables us to translate a cartouche (the series of hieroglyphic symbols inside an oval frame). And you will discover Tutankhamen’s tomb!

This tool also provides several interesting facts about hieroglyphs and ancient Egypt between different steps of learning.

Play:

Here, you can translate your messages and emoji’s into hieroglyphs and see how they would have looked in like in the ancient Egyptians language. Casual consumers can here write unique words in hieroglyphs and can share them with their friends over social media. This way user can imagine how Egyptian hieroglyphs are equivalent to emoji. However, Google has stated that this is just for fun purpose and the results might not be academically correct.

Work:

With the help of various academics around the world, Google has developed a set of tools powered by Google’s Machine Learning technology to support academic research, increase accuracy in translation and translation of middle Egyptian hieroglyphs. This artificially intelligent tool will ease the research process, for which,” experts had to dig manually through books upon books to translate and decipher the ancient language — a process that has remained virtually unchanged for over a century.” According to Chance Coughenour, Google Arts and Culture program manager.

According to BBC report , “here in this application users can upload the real life images from artefacts and walls where hieroglyphs are available. These images then can be digitally enhanced to better analyse the symbols. Users can trace the outlines of hieroglyphs, which the software then tries to match up with similar symbols in its database — allowing them to search for different meanings and attempt to decipher findings.”

This software also provides a solution for broken text where researchers can annotate and edit faded symbols that are available in Workbench.

However, this workbench is only developed for desktop and it is currently not available for mobile devices. This tool is released as an open-source to support the better understanding and future development in the field of study of ancient languages.

What is the technology behind Fabricius?

The main underlying technology behind this software is machine learning and artificial intelligence. To be more precise Google’s AutoML technology and AutoML vision were used to develop a machine learning technology to decode the scripts of hieroglyphs.

The translation process of hieroglyphs works on three phases-

Extraction- extracting the hieroglyphs from the uploaded images of artefacts and walls and creating workable facsimiles.
Classification: now comes the training part of the neural network for the development of a machine learning model to correctly identify over 1000 hieroglyphics.
Translation- the final step involves matching workable facsimiles sequences and blocks of text to available dictionaries and published translations to achieve the final result.

This software is being released as an open-source platform to improve and increase both the data available and the functionality of the tools.

This experiment aims to increase the awareness and preserve the history and culture of ancient Egypt civilisation along to increase the efficiency of translation with the help of machine learning. This project began with the Ubisoft’s research project “The Hieroglyphics Initiative” (developed by Google) to understand the written language of Pharaohs.

Fabricius is named after the father of epigraphy, the study of ancient inscriptions.

Available in English and Arabic, this software can be accessed free on Google’s Art & Culture app for mobile devices and desktop as well. However, workbench feature for research is only available for desktop. The company believes that Egyptian hieroglyphs are just a starting step for Fabricius, soon this technique will be applied to other ancient languages also!

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Originally published at https://patataeater.blogspot.com on July 18, 2020.