#Math tool

[ionomycin]

Welcome home

[chlorophyll-tints]

guess my favorite golden wind chara level: impossible!!!!

[viridiave]

8 days of renders led to this and it's entirely cuz I tried too hard. anyway take these renders off my hands and Merry Crisis to all of you! the theme this time is winter-blooming flowers! I'm going to sleep now!!

OPHILIA - Glory of the Snow CYRUS - Daffodil TRESSA - Poinsettia OLBERIC - Pine PRIMROSE - Mistletoe ALFYN - Honeysuckle THERION - Winter Heath H'AANIT - Holly

[seawaterisverysaltywoah]

side-angle-side

[bogkeep]

broke: my 7th grade teacher was secretly a mormon

woke: two of my watchmaker teachers are freemasons

[summercosmos]

Kendra lifted a beautiful circlet out of the water, wrought of a metal like radiant silver and inlaid with pristine gems, including a large white jewel in the front. The details were exquisite, the circlet formed by multiple strands in a perfect simulation of woven vines. Kendra knew instinctively that she had never held an object nearly as valuable.

My crown, the Fairy Queen explained.

the colors look so bad on mobile omfgggggf👊💥 anyhow. this is one of my favorite scenes out of all the dw books!

[triglycercule]

Thoughts on mtt

they should travel the multiverse together and see and experience a more peaceful life than all of them ever have (⁎˃ᴗ˂⁎)

also they should get to gnaw at each other like rabies infected dogs 🧡🙏

[mathletfoox]

Worship the incompressible one

I love the lasso tool sm rahhh

[johnnyshrine]

★ 032 // “Play-Doh”

[some-pers0n]

interesting ideas about AI art and by no means am I trying to send hate but I believe majority of people hate AI art is because it's truly just the byproduct of a giant plinko board bouncing through pieces of art made by artists who put love and care and SOUL into their work. A visual product of a math formula. While it's "art" in the most litteral sense, not having a true human behind it putting though and effort into its every detail, for many people (myself included) devalues it from a tradition artists work.

I'm a firm believer in the idea that AI art is inherently unequal to non Ai art, specifically for this reason. (Hope this made sense sorry if it's incoherent)

I agree in that sense there. I personally do not find myself wanting to engage in a work when I purposefully know the creator had used AI to create the entire product. Something something,,,I cannot find myself getting invested in something that is little more than a product. I don't wanna read a fic about my blorbos when it was written by Chat-GPT

I also agree with the idea that a lot of people hate AI art because of this heavily emotional, debatably reactionary mindset that stems from one thing: fairness. It's the same sort of emotion I find one gets if all of the work on a group project gets shafted onto them whilst their fellow peers sit idly by. It feels unfair to sink hours into your craft, spending all this time fighting to develop your skills and flourish as an artist, only to see someone type half a paragraph and have a machine spit back something that looks not half bad. Let's be honest with ourselves here and say that AI art, at least in a visual regard, has progressed quite a bit to the point where most of the mistakes people find can be dismissed as wonky perspective and the line art being a bit fucky, which is something a ton of artists struggle with too

People develop a sort of a superiority complex over it. I can't blame them honestly. A number of times I've felt it too when people tell me they're using Chat-GPT as though it were Google and when I see my family members and friends playing around with AI art. I gotta bite my tongue and choke back a chortle, both because it's kind of a dick move and also because I don't want to relish in this feeling. It's infectious though to feel as though you have an edge over another person just because you abstain from using Chat-GPT or whatever. Not to be all "grrgrgrr you should LOVE Chat-GPT and if you dare to say anything bad then you are EVILL!!" of course though. It's emotions. They're messy, intense, and oftentimes you don't really realize when you're feeling since you get locked into your perspective. Yet, I think it's important to realize a lot of hatred of this generative AI stems from emotions. Reactionary ideals and claims stem from emotions after all

I think ultimately what the conversation about generative AI should revolve around is about the concerns of labour. The several strikes from a while back from VFX artists and scriptwriters come to mind. They are most at stake from generative AI as tools like Chat-GPT are cheaper and more cost-effective than paying an actual employee for their time and effort. I would also mention the environmental issues, but if we were to talk about that we would also have to acknowledge the fact that so, so much water is being used up daily to generate power for servers. Hell, this post alone will probably contribute to drying up some marsh in the greater scheme of things

Anywho yada yada TL;DR: I agree yes but I also think it's important to recognize that a good chunk of your hatred to Chat-GPT stems from feeling cheated and a sense of pride and superiority over others for simply not using it. There is no quality to Chat-GPT that makes it inherently evil. I can't get upset at my grandma for sending me a photo of her and her dog that went through an AI anime filter. I can feel maybe some exhaustion when seeing a fellow classmate using Chat-GPT to write their essay, but ultimately I write my own work for the love of the game. I can get upset however at those in higher power who use it to push artists out of jobs. Chat-GPT is a tool that has its pros and cons and I think it's reductive to just basically sit there and hiss like a vampire when presented with a cross when faced with the mere word "AI", especially when your only big argument for disliking it is based purely in feeling cheated when someone types a prompt into a program and art that would've taken you seven hours to draw gets spit out in about a minute or two

[stopmyhearts]

there's this acronym in German that's called FLINTA, standing for women, lesbians, intersex, nonbinary, trans and agender, and like. I do get why they use that. But if you say this is a FLINTA-only event that is literally the easiest way ever to make sure I never ever go there. Because most of the time that's used? It just means 'this thing is for people we consider women but we can't say that because we're progressive'

[jackalopc]

anyways, everyone should know about KodyTools.

it's a website with a collection of online tools; everything from math, finance, writing/text, science, coding, date/time, et cetera. and not just one or two for each category either! there are over 200 tools on this website. it's just absolutely fantastic; it's also an easy website to navigate + it's really simple to use all the tools! they also explain each one~

also it's free + there is only one singular ad, as far as i can tell, just the single banner at the top of the page. so you won't have to deal with annoying ad pop ups constantly.

i actually found it because of their text tools, specifically their combination generator + their sort lines generator (it's actually how i got all the combinations for my TF picker wheel)! i also recently found their empty lines remover which has been a lifesaver~

some (but not all) other ones they have:

[snixx]

forced myself to wake up and leave my warm cozy blanky at 3:30 am in the winter to speedrun my syllabus because they gave us 12 hours to prep for our endsem are yall proud of me

[racke7]

I'm once again seeing a programming-teacher talk about how useful generative-AI is for their work-flow.

And it's like... There are a lot of reasons to despise that stuff:

It's stealing things

You don't know from where it's stealing things

It'll lie to you to make itself look smart

Any info you give it it'll save for the future

And like. For a lot of people? That's plenty. That's more than enough to step away from generative-AI, and to condemn its usage.

But here's what kind of really bothers me about it?

Generative-AI is a capitalistic product

It's available for free

These massive companies are pouring millions of dollars into this thing, and it's... entirely free.

It's blatantly obvious that this is some kind of scam.

It could be a "rug-pull" where they'll suddenly start demanding that you pay them exorbitant prices for access to their models. Which would make sense, because "low prices to gain market-share, high prices after establishing a monopoly" is a tried-and-true method.

Except with all of these tech-companies all creating their own versions of the things? It's blatantly obvious that trying to gain a monopoly like this is doomed to failure.

That probably means that the "real" scam-idea needs to be something different.

And it's in thinking about this that I'm suddenly reminded of one specific piece of that initial list.

Any info you give it it'll save for the future

What... exactly does this mean? Where is it saving it? Is it running analytics on what your IP-address has asked it before? Does it know who you are? Can it guess what you're doing from your prompts?

And if the answer to these questions is "no", then how difficult would it be for a developer to change that overnight?

There's an old saying in the IT-industry that "if you're not paying for the product, you are the product".

How quickly do you think a programmer could get fired for aiding-and-abetting corporate espionage?

[feral-ass-raccoon]

shoutout to this stupid fucking tower build thats taken me like a week and ahalf in hame bc i kept fucking up the measurements. i hate this.

[knotty-et-al]

It's the rainbow möbius strip!!!

It is such a nice stim toy! I love the colors, I love the sorting of the colors! I love the weight of the metal of these foldback clamps! I like the feeling of tension of the thick paper strip inlay! I love those metal handles standing out! I love those unloud but hearable clicking sounds of these metal handles!

I love the haptics! I love the colors! I love that it is an object from one of my special interests (math: topology). I love everything about it!

I love how quickly it is done!

I love that I can also use this strip as storing tool for the foldback clamps as well! (It can also be flattened relatively quickly. The strip just needs to be opened.)