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i’m like a bird🎶

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I was compelled by some sort of curse maybe to do nothing but make this for the past day and a half.

@reliqvia tagging op because it wouldn't let me put videos in the reblog

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Runaway by Aubrey Longley-Cook

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Advanced pronoun formatting proposal:

/ forward slash, the classic. A powerful tool for saying “these words are pronouns”

| bar, represents “or” as in either/any listed are equally good with a preference towards picking an option and sticking with it, at least within a given conversation

& ampersand, represents “and” as in please alternate or mix up these options

> greater than, represents preference with the most preferred options listed first

() remember to use parentheses to make the order of operations clear when needed

Let’s try some examples:

(It/its)>(he&she)>(they/them) for it/its is best, followed by alternating he and she, followed by they/them

he|they|ze for pick either he , they, or ze and stick with it, with no preference between them

any&all for using a combination of all pronouns in rapid succession

they>she for they preferred with she as a fallback option

(he|they)>>>(she/her) for he or they are equally good with she/her as a discouraged fallback

How would you write out your pronouns?

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Decided to try MerMay this year as a set of postcard-sized watercolors. Excited to share them with you all!

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Decided to try MerMay this year as a set of postcard-sized watercolors. Excited to share them with you all!

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Decided to try MerMay this year as a set of postcard-sized watercolors. Excited to share them with you all!

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Decided to try MerMay this year as a set of postcard-sized watercolors. Excited to share them with you all!

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Decided to try MerMay this year as a set of postcard-sized watercolors. Excited to share them with you all!

Gone fishing 🐟

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they should invent an existence where the sweetest, most thoughtful people you've ever met don't suffer an endless series of indignities and injuries at the hands of gormless, self-obsessed monsters

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I wrote ~4.5k words about the operating of LLMs, as the theory preface to a new programming series. Here's a little preview of the contents:

As with many posts, it's written for someone like 'me a few months ago': curious about the field but not yet up to speed on all the bag of tricks. Here's what I needed to find out!

But the real meat of the series will be about getting hands dirty with writing code to interact with LLM output, finding out which of these techniques actually work and what it takes to make them work, that kind of thing. Similar to previous projects with writing a rasteriser/raytracer/etc.

I would be very interesting to hear how accessible that is to someone who hasn't been mainlining ML theory for the past few months - whether it can serve its purpose as a bridge into the more technical side of things! But I hope there's at least a little new here and there even if you're already an old hand.

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Art by • Greggletron

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🪼 *gloop gloop* 🪼

Bit of a procrastination project that got out of hand, felt inspired after going to the aquarium.

Still new to animating, had to fiddle with the sizing a bit to get it under 10mb and not lose too much quality (still lost some, but it was worse first try lol)

Bonus chaos of all the layers on before combining

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Candace Hicks, Notes On String Theory, 2022

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