Blueberry
4d ago
Interesting, I didn't know that this exist:
Blueberry
4d ago
Up to last year the consensus was that https://www.deepl.com translated much more naturally than the more literal Google translate.
Google Translate tends to do a much more literal translation, DeepL tends to be more idiomatic and free. Sometimes one is preferable, sometimes the other.
But I don't know how it compares to the newest (paid) AI models.
Blueberry
4d ago
See the pictures in this xeet:
https://x.com/iannuttall/status/1904922685655707837
It is not that ChatGPT does not make mistakes, the mug with two handles or the dog with legarms are hilarious, but sooner or later image creation will approach dangerously the area of language translation: For really important stuff (legal contracts, professional movie/book translations) you still want a professional translater, but almost always deepl/AI-translate is good enough. The image slop is a pretty good and fun expression of the users creativitiy. Even if "real" graphic designers will use it just as a tool their productivity will skyrocket.
I wonder if and when Music is disrupted. "Write a Bob Dylan Song over current_year and cover it in the style of Jimmy Hendrix" would be a killer application. As a pillar of popular culture and fearing the backlash I wonder if AI companies will avoid music generation.
Blueberry
4d ago
This prompt works for me very well with the $20 plus account. Maybe try it out:
Transform this photo into a high quality hand-drawn animated illustration. Apply watercolor techniques, soft organic lines, and a warm color palette. Maintain the original image's composition while adding a magical, dreamlike aesthetic. Emphasize gentle color transitions and a whimsical, slightly surreal atmosphere typical of classic Japanese animation
Blueberry
5d ago
The next step would be test your model of the world on the stock market. Which can be humbling.
Downthread:
Google just launched the latest iteration of their Gemini language models.
Versus
While we're on the topic, OpenAI just announced their 4o image model
Guess who won the day? At least X is full on ghiblifying iconic photographs with ChatGPT. Or just a cute photo of yourself to send it to your girlfriend.
And memes of course:
https://x.com/Zeneca/status/1904774204769411196
“I don't want any real pictures anymore. Every photograph has to be turned into a ghibli style cartoon”
https://x.com/LukasMikelionis/status/1904873083246084364
Which AI is best?
https://x.com/djcows/status/1905004955582575060
You need some prompt magic but it possible (for now) to also style edgy images:
https://x.com/keysmashbandit/status/1904764224636592188
Some call it slob, and maybe tomorrow the novelty is gone, but I find the pictures strangely endearing.
Next stop will be video:
https://x.com/kb24x7/status/1904942247092895843
Blueberry
5d ago
In Astralcodexten book review contests there was missing a good savage panning of a book.
And he does the classic leftist tactic of insisting upon "democratizing" progresses by increasing public involvement and decentralizing decision-making
What is his argument that this will help rail? I have the stereotype of projects being derailed (ha!) by decentralized and increased public involvement.
Blueberry
13d ago
West Germany never claimed sovereignty over West Berlin
Interesting! If I understand the Wiki article right then West Berlin representatives in the W-Germany parliament only had advisory roles and all W-Germany laws were “shadowed” by W-Berlin senate, with a few exceptions like there was no draft in Berlin had no army. Theoretically they could have gone the independent way like Singapore.
To be fair the same argument applies to the second amendment (and others). The founding fathers couldn’t have foreseen in 1791 the developments of unwieldy muskets.
Blueberry
26d ago
Zelensky was told to wear a suit, but he ignored this request:
One small but not insignificant factor that irritated Trump was the fact that Zelensky didn't wear a suit, two sources with direct knowledge told Axios. Trump's advisers told Zelensky's team on multiple occasions that it would be more respectful for Zelensky to ditch his military-style attire when visiting the White House.
Blueberry
27d ago
distance within, say, white people is much larger than the genetic distance to a black person
This is often repeated, but I think this is false (Lewontins Fallacy?)
Blueberry
1mo ago
Yes, wouldn’t it be scarier if Musk focused on only one agency, established sort of a protocol/playbook to clean it up and then moved to the next? Currently this looks like a scatterbrained approach.
Blueberry
1mo ago
I am more interested what sperm was used. My guess is Altman, as he is more ambitious, but also I would not think he has a big family wish, so maybe it was a concession by him to his partner?
Blueberry
1mo ago
“Man carrying things” parodying the vibe change:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=LWPhZu0EeXg
Then there was this posted by Cenk Uygur (the not so young anymore Young Turks guy):
https://x.com/cenkuygur/status/1892057431179477251
Yesterday, @nytimes had a story about Democratic donors fleeing the party. That explains why the Democratic leaders look like deer in the headlights. Since the donors are gone, there's no one left to give them orders. So, they're like robots frozen in place, awaiting commands.
Didn’t have time to find the nyt story yet.
Blueberry
1mo ago
According to Andrej Karpathy:
As far as a quick vibe check over 2 hours this morning, Grok 3 + Thinking feels somewhere around the state of the art territory of OpenAI’s strongest models (o1-pro, $200/month), and slightly better than DeepSeek-R1 and Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking. Which is quite incredible considering that the team started from scratch 1 year ago, this timescale to state of the art territory is unprecedented.
Blueberry
1mo ago
Do you believe that there’s a legitimate distinction to be made between “gay men” and “men who have sex with men”?
Gayness is a white construct, other (sub)cultures may reject the term.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down-low_(sexual_slang)
Down-low is an African-American slang term[1] that typically refers to a sexual subculture of black men who usually identify as heterosexual but actively seek sexual encounters and relations with other men, practice gay cruising, and frequently don a specific hip-hop attire during these activities.[2][3] They generally avoid disclosing their same-sex sexual activities, even if they have female sexual partner(s), they are married to a woman, or they are single.
Blueberry
1mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_15_incident
Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi was shot by eleven young naval officers (most were just turning twenty years of age) in the prime minister's residence. Inukai's last words were roughly "If I could speak, you would understand" (話せば分かる, hanaseba wakaru) to which his killers replied "Dialogue is useless" (問答無用, mondō muyō).[1][better source needed] The original assassination plan had included killing the English film star Charlie Chaplin who had arrived in Japan on May 14, 1932 […] Chaplin's murder would facilitate war with the U.S., and anxiety in Japan, and lead to "restoration" in the name of the emperor.[3] When the prime minister was killed, his son Inukai Takeru was watching a sumo wrestling match with Charlie Chaplin, which probably saved both their lives.
Crazy.
Blueberry
1mo ago
No US government would survive locking up 5% of the majority white male population.
Blueberry
1mo ago
What amount of money do we speak about and how many people are treated?
Blueberry
1mo ago
In 61 AD, in honor of his 45th birthday, a monument was erected to the Roman general Pompey bearing this inscription:
Certainly this is 61 BC?
What, what? Was this discussed here?
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