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it's finally that time of the year again for the clinically depressed newscaster describing february with disco elysium music

fallout-lou-begas

what is the single best line in this video

it's a month that doesn't hold up life any better than it really is

something great happened here but it's over with and that's the way february is

like the desperate flinging off of something that's not true anymore

the expedition is getting desperate. people are throwing things aside

this looks like a place where people who are being punished are sent

nobody is tap dancing or breaking into a rogers and hammerstein song

theyre just barely able to get across the street and hunker over a bowl of chili

most of the birds who can afford it have flown to florida

it's as if there's some awful truth out there in the trees

something that's been bothering you for a long time is out there. what is it?

to hide the bleakness of feb., man invented valentine's day. also mardi gras.

what other month can host a holiday designed to remind us we're all gonna die?

Voting ended onFeb 11

character limit forced me to paraphrase

craymor1

yeah,

lackadaisycats

February in St. Louis. (And in our hearts.)

harpysartstuff

Christmas themed pokemon illustration I did for an art contest on the PokeMMO forums. Waited until the last minute to basically be able to do this and turn it in xvx

creaturelingart

more of this purple thinggg

mewochy

nichijou if it came out during when peter griffin was being released in fortnite

arcalcreative

Sketch - 26122020 — Decided to can a sketch and slap some colours on the remaining part… Had a much older sketch of a character that this was supposed to revisit.

naschamsant-deactivated20210504

very small

modmad

arcalcreative

Sketch - 26122020 — Decided to can a sketch and slap some colours on the remaining part… Had a much older sketch of a character that this was supposed to revisit.

vargurvargur

YOU ARE TREADING ON THIN ICE, COWBOY

inklizard

endivinity

A tutorial on meatspace I made for my patrons last year! Making things exist in the same space believably is a difficult process, but hopefully this will help drawing softbodied subjects interacting together a little easier!

vanquishedvaliant

If you’re like sleep spooning a centaur and they roll over in bed do you just die

null-set

sleep on her back, then you’ll just roll off if she shifts

vanquishedvaliant

i dont follow

null-set

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vanquishedvaliant

okay but what if you had a special bed instead

nothing says commitment like buying a new mattress

mythicalwashrag

Centaur Comfort Mattress™: The Horse Hole Keeps Your Bones Safe

celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725

I’m honestly so glad Tumblr discusses things like “How can I comfortably sleep with a centaur?” and “What kind of chairs would dragons have?”

chillyfaun

But if they rolled the opposite way you’d fall into the horse hole tho

thegreenthingslivebeforetheydie

my favorite is when Kermit’s facial expression is simultaneously an obvious hand in a puppet but also an instantly recognizable and relatable emotion

thegreenthingslivebeforetheydie

misshoneywheeler

classic-jamie

i keep seeing ppl talking about those old stop motion chrismas movies nd im pissed bc everyone forgot this guy who has the funniest name ive ever fckin heard in my life

thecityofwind

I walked by the new cat arcade today and I am shaken.

tumblunni

CAT ARCADE???

lauralot89

Once, I encountered the funny story of an AI image descriptor with a sheep obsession. It had been trained on pictures of fields of sheep. Therefore, it tagged anything in a field as 'sheep', including an empty field, because they work on statistical probability. Therefore, it thinks "ah, a field! there's probably a sheep here." (It's a bit more complicated but basically that.) It also couldn't recognise sheep in places that weren't fields, such as petrol stations or barns. [cont]

Now, the alarming aspect of this story is that the very same technology is probably what tumblr is using to identify porn. Now, if it can’t tell that an empty field is not, in fact, full of sheep, what hope do we have that it can’t tell an empty room isn’t full of writing human forms engaged in passionate coitus?

this really does sound like an episode of black mirror

architeuthism

But wait, it’s even weirder than that!

retroactivebakeries

This is gonna produce some absolutely baffling pornography.

crazy-pages

…. oh my fucking god they actually are using open source software. They’re using a fucking one-layer unidirectional bicategory tag-trained neural network. This will never work. Literally, it will never work. There’s just not enough algorithmic complexity to do what they’re asking of it. I bet you I could prove on a mathematical level that this joke of a neural net fundamentally lacks the abstraction necessary to do its job.

This will never get better. Their algorithm will never stop fucking up, it will never actually flag porn reliably and it will always require a massive quantity of human hours to deal with the deluge of mistagged pictures. This isn’t just a case of an insufficiently trained algorithm, it’s just … this is the most basic neural network you can make. It probably hasa a lot of neurons and has loads of training data but like … you can’t just brute force this kind of stuff. One layer of neurons is just Not Enough.

crazy-pages

Also, just to make this clear, Tumblr lied. I mean, we already know this, but I mean they liiiieeeeed. All that stuff they promised about what would or would not be censored? That cannot be delivered on with a system this simple. Nude classical sculptures, political protests, male-presenting nipples (really Tumblr?), nude art outside the context of sex, all that? You cannot train a bicategory one-layer neural network to exclude those things. It cannot be done. Tumblr never intended for those things to actually be permitted, they were just lying. Because the system they have cannot actually do what they said it would and never will be able to.

Also, this kind of system is super vulnerable to counter-neural strategies. I bet you before the end of the month someone hooks up their own open source one layer bicategory neural network which puts an imperceptible (to humans) layer of patterned static over arbitrary images, and trains it by having it bot-post static-ed images to Tumblr and reinforcing based on whether the images are labeled nsfw or sfw. Seriously, within a month someone will have an input-output machine which can turn any image ‘sfw’ in Tumblr’s eyes.

This is genuinely pathetic. Like, I have real pity for whoever implemented this, because it’s clear Tumblr doesn’t actually have any engineers with any expertise with machine learning left at all and they foisted the job off on some poor bastard who has no idea what they’re doing and is going to get all kinds of flak for their (perfectly reasonable and predetermined) failure from management.

garbage-empress

As has been pointed out before, there are no humans behind this at all. The review process just reruns either the same algorithm or another algorithm, but people have posted screen shots showing obviously SFW pictures that were still deemed NSFW on review, despite the fact that any human, no matter how overworked / tired would have seen that these pictures were not porn.