relativistic travel visuals are so much cooler than generic space fantasy hyperspace fractal noise tubes

got h3 producing coherent video! still needs some tuning and I think audio is just completely broken on sdcpp, but it's a start

Of all the things to admit on the internet, “I don’t know how bananas work” is one of the funniest

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 15h ago

Spoken like a man who has never had to shop for himself.

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man why is sdcpp so terrible with video gen. like fully half the time it just produces shrieking latent noise and the trigger seems almost non-deterministic is this just bc im an AMD-having untermensch or

time travel as a concept is nationalist, sexist, and anti-Semitic.

holy shit I got H3 working generates at about half a minute per frame, alas

man /r/localllama has turned into such a shitshow. think I need to just stop reading the threads, my brain cells have taken enough of a beating as it is

im curious as to what extent China's open AI policy is motivated by ideology vs the opportunity to kick burgerstan while it's down I hope it's both, personally

new lfm is wild. seems to outdo their 8a1b? not quite as fast, but im getting 100tps so I don't especially care one thing I noticed is that first-person system prompts seems to confuse this model, which is unusual ime

Expecting someone to return your greeting is unpaid emotional labor and it's NOT OKAY /satire

lexi@barredspirals.comint.su · yesterday

political correctness gone MAD

there's also the very specific pitch reset at sentence boundaries along with other sound-to-content cues to help the audience parse info. also the inclination to repeat/rephrase info for help with comprehension (pretty basic for any kind of communications training) etc etc

it's pretty much universal and arose due to the low sound quality of early radios. you can hear the same thing in old phonograph records featuring spoken word. newscasters also speak in with extremely standardized pronunciation in order to make things digestible for the widest audience

i have used backdrop blurs on occassion but post-Liquid Ass they're being abused with such unrepentant profligacy and in such an ugly way im increasingly convinced we should just rip the entire capability out of CSS. webdevs cannot be trusted with this power

"I never thought the leopards would eat MY face," sobs woman who designed LeopardJS framework

why is Newscaster Voice so distinctive and widespread. is this an angloid thing or does it happen in other languages as well

well fuck that explains some things

conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social · yesterday

there’s a mental habit of holding a thought as provisional and really thinking through it without being tempted to believe it that I have found extremely useful in life. a lot of people don’t seem to be able to do this — thinking and believing are inseparable for them

political correctness gone MAD

asked a couple LLMs to plan a AI-controlled bootstrap mission to Proxima, and I noticed dsv4 was much more concerned with ethics and human autonomy (which I didn't mention at all in the prompt) than qwen or gemma. wonder if that's bc the others are abliterated and dsv4 isn't yet

brushing your teeth is revisionist and bourgeois

Jerry Chen@jcsalterego.bsky.social · yesterday

(principal skinner voice) it's the people brushing their teeth who are wrong

in the grim future of 20XX, all discourse has been reduced to either Star War or Harry Pot

dril's new career in marketing has started off strong

oh I totally understand! I mean, I still get why people were skeptical of Jeff. “the beans have to take turns” lol

it never ceases to amaze me how few parameters it takes to create a solid multilingual translation model like I can run this shit on my phone!! with totally acceptable tps. what the entire actual fuck

it's interesting how ancient languages didn't seem to have the "mixed-sex group = M.PL" convention so they just used both masculine and feminine forms one after the other

Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot@egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 4d ago

Seth will be irrestrainable when he wishes to conquer the heart in this his name of beer. He confuses the heart to conquer the heart of the enemy, the evildoer, the male and female dead person. (WWO)

so that's where they keep all the rubidium

Weird Spy Satellite@weirdsatellite.bsky.social · yesterday

MASINT #95790 from SBIRS GEO-5 (CLASSIFIED) 1. Magic Nanoparticle Hangar 2. A Plaintiff

they've been at it for DAYS

that guy who predicted computers would become so expensive only the five richest kings in Europe would be able to afford them may get the last laugh after all

subject presented evincing acute syntactorrhea, reports family history of diachronic hyperphonemia. no documented Sprachbund. subject entered status constructus after a failed reanalysis; could not elicit case markings. prep the patient for elision and get me 10ccs of morpheme, stat