#sybilius

[krippe90]

Adding "would fuck Edward from twilight for the clout" to the Krippe lore...

I'd fuck all of those teenage heartthrobs that my female friends were gushing about in the late 2000's tbh. Not because of any sexual gratification, but for the bit.

[andmaybegayer]

Apologies if you've written about this before and I missed it but tell me about your favorite LLM applications! Feel free to link a post too I always like Kali tech thoughts

I haven't written much about this and the funny thing is I really don't use them much, it doesn't come up. GitHub Copilot seems interesting but is largely useless for the kind of work I currently do, which is "staring at opaque C and recompiling it with small patches derived from debugging information and mailing lists."

Natural language queries for search aren't really a thing I care about, but I do occasionally use them to help me focus my attention on a big pile of documentation, trying to figure out what keywords to put into a traditional search, or which chapters of a book to look in to get started on a specific topic.

I was setting up Zabbix monitoring the other day and wanted an overview of the architecture and after reading the quickstart manual I had some questions that I was struggling with and some time with the DuckDuckGo GPT-4 model largely resolved them.

The main thing that interests me about Language Models is the comprehension side of things. Dealing with natural language queries from users, generating tags for written content, and otherwise categorising generic human input is pretty useful and is one of the many things I thought just wouldn't be possible to do well for another twenty years 10 years ago. Tuned models can do these better than previous heuristics, which is pretty handy.

The first time I took machine learning in general seriously was when I saw a demo of a tflite model running gesture recognition and doing a better job than any heuristic based model. It's the kind of task where the manually programmed option is pretty much strictly inferior because the complexity of the problem is too high. This extends to language models, yeah they're frequently incorrect or messy, but compared to natural language processing of 10 years ago it's a totally different league.

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

1942, 2007 for the movie asks!

1942: Casablanca, followed by Thunder Rock

2007: Another year of bangers, but I have to go with Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

[rxttenfish]

Trick or treat!!

you get: a wolf eel mask!

merfolk are not monogamous. their relationship hierarchy takes priority, but their relationship hierarchy doesn't map onto western ideas of the platonic vs. the romantic vs. the sexual. even in the relationship hierarchy, these different nesting groups are inherently intended for multiple merfolk at the same time, and they view themselves as very plural beings, sharing much of what they consider "themselves" and their "identity" among a group of other merfolk.

however, merfolk are also very loyal. these relationships mean a lot to them, and although there's a potential for them to shift over time and change, those in the closer rungs of their relationship hierarchy are very much intended to be there for life, and merfolk will treat them with the same full commitment that would be expected. to a merfolk, commitment to the people who you are close to, and knowing exactly who your people are and going back to them time and time again, with heightened devotion to them, is incredibly important. thus, ironically, merfolk symbology often includes a lot of monogamous animals in their symbols for relationships and connections to each other.

the wolf eel is a particular symbol i keep returning to. wolf eels are monogamous, having a single chosen partner who they will work together with to raise their eggs, mating for life and living together in the same cave. to a merfolk, even though they only have one partner, represent an ideal. they are devoted, caring, loving, loyal to the very end to each other, and operate together as a single unit, multiple becoming a single individual in different bodies. wolf eels are a little more appealing to merfolk, their short, thick heads closer to merfolk heads and their long bodies strong and powerful, but they aren't the most physically attractive animals. they're simple, in that way, but their way of life is so idealized to merfolk that their simplicity and even ugliness becomes an appealing factor in of itself.

to merfolk, wolf eels symbolize down-to-earth love. they don't strive to be the best of the best, don't strive for high aspirations, aren't the pie-in-the-sky total idea of perfection, but they are devoted to the very end. they represent someone who is humble but will fight until the bitter end for what they believe in and who they care for, someone who is caring and loving without any dressing up of what that love means. to a merfolk, they represent the kind of person who doesn't make grand gestures but will always help clean the house. they are often contrasted with albatrosses, who represent that idealized but untouchable idea of perfect relationships and perfect loves, and who cannot offer all that albatrosses promise, flying above the sea and crossing the world, but who will make the very best of all that they can offer, and it is often quite a lot.

merfolk are, also, majority animists. a lot of their stories involve animals or the representatives of animal-spirits, and the wolf eel is both a character on their own right, but also a trope which is often invoked in merfolk theatre, plays, and literature. in these plays, the actors usually all wear different masks representing animals and representing the trope they are invoking, making it easy to identify each one from a distance and with poor eyesight.

when they appear, wolf eel characters usually represent ideal matches — people who are often unseemly or improper, oftentimes disregarding social conventions or frowned upon by the social circles at play, but people who fundamentally are kind and decent and charming, if you're willing to look past the surface. this can be used as a source of tension in a setup for a forming relationship, or it can be used for tragedy, as they are spurned or hurt by the actions of others who cannot see them for what they are. other variations exist, with them also representing happy relationships or people who are contented in their relationship, or in this trope being subverted, but they all play off this central mythology of the wolf eel as devoted to the very end.

for the common descent episode, you get plant defenses, and for the fossil, you get Moropus:

[ladywithalamp]

Sav liking my old MacGyver (1985) posts?? Crossover fandom??

Omfg okay yes but also?? We started watching the 1985 show, and I am lowkey in love with MacGyver it's fine

The idea of a crossover is intriguing though ngl

[okatanihideki]

Your blorbos (Kip/Penny) are fighting my blorbos (Sakaguchi & Saki Akai) 🥰❤️🎉

OH MY GODDDDDDDD

[pepsi-maxwell]

Pspsps sweater progress pics if you wanna share? I love a textile project 👀

skfhfkf yeah absolutely, thank you for asking!

it's the wool and the gang superbowl sweater kit in dusty eggplant (which i think is discontinued, which is a shame because it's a lovely deep purple colour)

front panel (and back technically, they're the same thing)

i actually had the whole thing almost finished but it was worked flat and when it came to assembling it at the end it was too small, because i was an idiot and didn't swatch even though i know my gauge is tight, rookie error, learn from my mistakes!

but the fun part came from frogging it and deciding to work it in the round because it meant messing with the pattern a little, so i now have a sleeve that looks like a sleeve and doesn't need seaming

the ladder effect where I did the increases in the round while trying to maintain the moss stitch is gonna haunt me but if i'd done it flat there would still be a seam anyway so!!

currently casting the second sleeve on in the round, and once that's done i'll frog the front and back panels, there's no increases on those so working them in the round should be a cinch! 🥰

[ss-trashboat]

Here is my special boy I am yeeting him in your hole for morale

what a little sweetie babe i love him <33