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Yellow Yarrow by Kirsten Chursinoff

“Art Nouveau ‘Belle de Nuit’ brooch, circa 1900. Diamond, ivory & plique-à-jour enamel”. Image from Christies.

"That was always the dream, wasn't it? 'I wish I'd known then what I know now'? But when you got older you found out that you NOW wasn't YOU then. You then was a twerp. You then was what you had to be to start out on the rocky road of becoming you now, and one of the rocky patches on that road was being a twerp."

- Terry Pratchett - Nights Watch

laudanumat33

Have and Have Not (2006) Crystal Schenk Steel, Stained Glass, Wood, Fabric 40 x 24 x 40 inches

blondiepoison

Gwendoline Christie attends the ‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 8 Premiere on April 03, 2019 in New York City

selena-soto

lordsoflore

I finally watched Mamma Mia (2008) for the first time - I don’t know WHY I hadn’t gotten around to it - in fairness I have recently discovered how many ABBA songs I’m truly in love with.

And can we just TALK for a minute about this song and Meryl Streep singing/performing it? CAN WE JUST?? Because I was in no way ready for it and kind of silently cried in front of my friends and it is SO GOLDEN AND TRUE and I know it is a truth universally acknowledged that Meryl Streep is the best actress ever and I’ve been on that train for a while but just. The way she commits and emotes in this song in the middle of such a fun, showboaty musical just hit me over the head in a way I did not expect and I have NO ONE TO TALK TO ABOUT IT because I missed the boat on this movie by TEN YEARS.

OK that’s it - go back to stressing about Trump/everything again.

aiweirdness

How to make high-tech pies sound really old

A while ago I made a bunch of new pies. Well, I didn’t *make* them because they were neural network invented titles and although it tried to imitate the list of pies I gave it, the neural net’s imitations are imperfect.

The neural network, after all, is a computer program with about as many neurons as an earthworm. It doesn’t understand what the ingredients are, or why some combinations don’t work. Some of its titles were intriguing, though. They sounded mysterious. Potentially delicious and/or magical?

Or maybe it just helps that they’re vague. I decided I wanted more like these. To help it along, I spiced up the pie dataset with the names of cookies and apple varieties from the 1905 edition of Apples of New York. I filtered the names for those that had possessives: Mcaffee’s Nonesuch, Cornell’s Savewell, Wile Ox’s Winter (all apples), combined with Goldy’s Dungeon Bars, Esther’s Bracelets, and Fido’s Rewards (all cookies). Then, to give it added old-school flavor, I added all the Dungeons and Dragons spells that had possessives as well (for example, Ivy’s Irresistible Scent, Freedom’s Toast, and Leomund’s Tiny Hut).

I arranged the training data so the pies would be last (so they would be freshest in the neural net’s virtual mind). Then I gave it one single look at the data.

It turns out that I didn’t manage to prevent the neural net from coming up with bad ideas. Perhaps what I should have done instead was remove all the meat pies from the training data.

But some of the pies were exactly what I’d hoped for.

And some even went a little past “ancient” and into “legendary”

This week’s bonus material: a few more pies, including some that were inexplicably PG-13.

loquamani

@is1ofthemliar, let’s figure out how to make Grandmoss pie a reality!

is1ofthemliar

@loquamani Ack just now getting caught up on Tumblr and saw this - YES. I’ve been watching so my Great British Bake-Off this last year. I am down for ANY baking challenge, however fictional :)

aquaticallyinclined

“When they were little girls, they decided that they would be best friends forever. A whale never forgets a promise.” -Anneliese Juergensen

heatherbat-deactivated20130526

i have now died. of joy.

kakaphoe

I don’t think I’ve seen art of an old mermaid (mermatron? mergranny?) before.

I love it!

boxlunches

Oh look it’s the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen

startrekrenegades

This is really amazing but I have to say, I read “mermatron” not as “mer-matron,” but as “merma-tron“ and I was just like MERMATRON. AUTOWHALES. SWIM OUT. and I’m ruined my brain is ruined I’m so sorry