Quanyails

100% organic artisanal locally-sourced nerd thoughts (1d9xa16). See my other social media accounts for art!

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Okay, but I can't believe that Quan from 10 years ago called that Mega Delphox would rock the wizard beard

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Do you think futurists ever imagined our version of telekinesis would involve the ability to switch on light bulbs by clapping our hands

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The Google programming language gopher *hands down* wins the award for best/worst/scrunkliest mascot:

Source: [1] [2] [3] [4]

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The OC Palette Guessing Game!

My friends and I made up a game where we draw our OCs in different palettes and try to deduce which character it is! Here are some palettes featuring my foxgirl OC. :)

Can you guess the character reference? (Hint: These characters are all foxgirls.)

Solutions can be found under the cut.

Solutions

Astute Miko = Yae Miko (Genshin Impact)

Elegant Legend = Ahri (League of Legends)

Crunchy Streamer = Crunchyroll-Hime (Crunchyroll)

Zooey Lycanthrope = Zoologist (Terraria)

Eastern Bullet = Ran Yakumo (Touhou)

Runic Serendipity = Misasagi (Rune Factory 5)

Quantum Merryweather = Mozilla Firefox (Internet Explorer comic)

Graceful Zombie = Dakki, the Graceful Mayakashi (Yu-Gi-Oh)

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Here is a template for you and your friends to play with. Feel free to adjust the # of stars per palette. If you fill this out, please tag me!

Special thanks to @reigamogus for the inspiration and @moscd for refinements!

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The OC Palette Guessing Game!

My friends and I made up a game where we draw our OCs in different palettes and try to deduce which character it is! It's a fun game to play over chat like Discord.

Here are some palettes featuring my foxgirl OC. Can you guess the character reference? (Hint: These characters are all foxgirls.)

Solutions can be found under the cut. View at your own risk!

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Solutions

Astute Miko = Yae Miko (Genshin Impact)

Elegant Legend = Ahri (League of Legends)

Crunchy Streamer = Crunchyroll-Hime (Crunchyroll)

Zooey Lycanthrope = Zoologist (Terraria)

Eastern Bullet = Ran Yakumo (Touhou)

Runic Serendipity = Misasagi (Rune Factory 5)

Quantum Merryweather = Mozilla Firefox (Internet Explorer comic)

Graceful Zombie = Dakki, the Graceful Mayakashi (Yu-Gi-Oh)

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The two extremes of online art tutorials

Type 1

Is titled "How to draw X in 3 EASY STEPS (not clickbait)".

Is the top search result with >100000 views.

Takes at most 2 minutes to check out.

Tells you to do things this way because it "looks good".

At the end of the tutorial, the poster asks people to subscribe to their premium tier for more DAILY ART TIPS.

Type 2

Is titled "Fundamentals of X".

Is on the sixth page of search results with <1000 views.

Takes an hour to study fully.

Is the most goddamn comprehensive breakdown of X you've ever seen.

At the end of the tutorial, you feel compelled to check if the poster accepts tips, only to find they have zero online presence.

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When I post art to social media

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WTF NHL SCF ASL VOD GOATed frfr

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the fact that the only way to communicate between cars is with a sudden, loud HONK is horrible language design 😤😤

like you're telling me the expressions for "please excuse me" and "SCREW YOU DRIVER FOR CUTTING ME OFF" use the exact same phoneme structure

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we should stop trying to disrupt the art industry with ai and instead accept its true calling as the world's most overengineered rebus maker:

how else can we generate such quality depictions of a barn owl

Workflow:

UI: ComfyUI

Base model: Pony Diffusion V6 XL

Positive prompt: score_9, score_8_up, score_7_up, score_6_up, score_5_up, score_4_up, rating_safe, source_furry, barn owl, concept art

Negative prompt: nsfw, (worst quality, low quality: 1.4), source_anime, source_cartoon, source_pony

Steps: 25

Sampler: DDIM

CFG scale: 8

Seed: 993763138716804

Size: 1024x1024

Batch count: 1

Batch size: 6

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When I inhale 80000 images as inspo for my next art project

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Binary Rounding

A small programming exercise:

Given a natural number n and a positive number of bits b, return the number m ∈ ℕ such that all of the following conditions hold:

m sets at most b significant bits.

|n - m| equals the smallest value of |n - k| ∀ k ∈ ℕ.

Additional information:

If a number can round to more than one value, return either value.

You may use bitwise manipulations.

Example 1

Input: n = 4, b = 1 Output: 4 (= 0b10)

Example 2

Input: n = 15, b = 2 Output: 16 (= 0b10000)

Example 3

Input: n = 21, b = 2 Output: 24 (= 0b11000)

Example 4

Input: n = 12, b = 1 Output: 8 (= 0b1000) or 16 (= 0b10000)

Sample solution below the cut:

Sample solution (JavaScript)

const solution = (n, b) => { const numBits = n.toString(2).length; const numInsignificantBits = numBits - b; const increment = 1 << numInsignificantBits; const mask = -1 << numInsignificantBits; const roundedDown = n & mask; const roundedUp = roundedDown + increment; if (n - roundedDown < roundedUp - n) { return roundedDown; } return roundedUp; };

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Multiple String Replace

A small programming exercise:

Given a string s and a map of replacements r with strings a1, b1, … z1 and a2, b2, … z2, return a string where all instances of a1, b1, … z1 in s are replaced by a2, b2, … z2.

Assume all strings are alphanumeric.

Assume no two inputs a1, b1, … z1 overlap.

You may use library builtins.

Example 1

Input: s = "helloworld", r = {"hello", "hi"} Output: "hiworld"

Example 2

Input: s = "abc123", r = {"ab": "c1", "c1": "23", "23": "ab"} Output: "c123ab"

Sample solution below the cut.

Sample solution (JavaScript)

const solution = (s, r) => { const pattern = new RegExp(Object.keys(r).join("|"), "g"); return s.replaceAll(pattern, match => r[match]); }

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Hey yaaaaall

Wanna know who my favorite celebrity encounter is?

No??? too bad

It is [Oscar, friend of the Emily Dickinson Museum]

This is him

He's famous

Source: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Can confirm he is a very good cat

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Capcom:

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When you live to write code but also speedrun jigsaw puzzles

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Can we take a moment to appreciate

the media you can find any artistic interpretation of

the rosetta stone of audiovisual styles

is friggin

Steamed Hams