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My toxic trait is that if I find a product I like I want to keep using the same product forever. It's not even brand loyalty. It's called stop changing and discontinuing everything.

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📷 Vita Orehek

#in love with that last nace pic oughh #<- prev #you and me both! 🤭#nace jordan #jan peteh #kris guštin #bojan cvjetićanin #joker out

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#bojan cvjetićanin #nace jordan #joker out

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credits

#jan peteh #bojan cvjetićanin #joker out

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Dancing Trees of Sumba, Indonesia

Daniil Korzhonov

#nature

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3liza

everyone is sick of reading everyone else's list of personal problems at the top of their blogs, we've been over all the reasons why this is a bad idea both interpersonally and as an online safety thing, however i think it should also be mentioned that just showing me the big list of what's wrong with you first thing when i click on your blog counts as spoilers and ruins the narrative tension. i clicked on your blog to find out over time, through a series of mysterious flashbacks and delightful subtextual nods, what's wrong with you. youre taking all the fun out of it

inthetags

Reblog and put in the tags a song you like except for *that one part*.

#layla but - controversially apparently - i think the extended instrumental is unnecessary #i love it but not 7 minutes worth of it #give me the radio edit any day

thememedaddy

federicagiordanophotography

By Federica Giordano

#nature

narutwitter

#i feel seen

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moomin-energy

most unrealistic part of PHM is that there is no way that dr. ryland grace, PhD, would not have a flock of suitors following him everywhere he goes. that man is like catnip for academic shut-ins, alien enthusiasts, odd women, and gay people everywhere, as this site has clearly demonstrated

now I’m NOT saying he should have had a partner on earth or whatever because I do think it’s awesome that he’s (implicitly at least) aro/ace/both, but it would have been a great aside to see the cloud of yearning that follows him everywhere which he either has to deal with or has decided to be permanently ignorant of. like the comedy potential of objectively the most fuckable man any of these strange science geeks have ever met being like oh um :) thanks for the coffee and the flowers and stuff and you guys are all so nice to me it’s great to work with you all :)

the devastation he would leave in his wake. like some sort of benevolent aroace whale floating serenely through an ocean of allo heartbreak. feigning ignorance because can you guys lock in we have alien microbes to study

There seems to be a misconception about Grace's translation software that is bothering me more and more and we need to address:

It is *not* AI. It is not """interpreting""" Rocky's words/meaning. It only picks up literal words.

This is how it works:

Eridian words are musical notes/chords

Soundwaves are physical, and at different frequencies they make different patterns! These physical patterns, and therefore Eridian language, is formulaic and repeatable. This is easily processed by computers in a reliable way. This is also lucky for Grace!!

Grace and Rocky create a database that maps notes/chords to words

When Rocky speaks, the computer looks up the exact notes in their pre-made database and returns the associated word

It is a FORMULAIC LOOKUP, NOT AI

Rocky isn't saying "My loneliness knows no bounds, and I have forgotten my soul in the endless abyss" which the translator outputs as "Rocky in space too long"

Rocky is literally saying "... Rocky in space too long" knowing that that's the only words the translator has to draw from.

It's a bit terrifying to me how quickly people are just accepting "yeah computers must be intuiting basic meaning" because that's the opposite of how it works. They don't "understand" anything. They take gads of data and turn it into something that looks like it has meaning, not the other way around. I know I'm fighting a losing battle here, and maybe I'm just being a pedantic asshole, but god do I hate how pervasive this misconception is.

omie-wise

In the book it specifies that Rocky quickly figures out English word order and works within Grace’s/the program’s parameters. It’s a little more obvious the program is translating word for word and in fact has difficulty when Rocky is experiencing strong emotion & speaking in a different pitch than usual — and also Grace does learn to understand Rocky’s day to day conversation on his own with exposure and practice! But the program Grace creates is just a talking dictionary.

#i would have read a whole book about it #how did they get from concrete things to abstract concepts #please show me every step #<- prev #yes this #sign me up too #project hail mary

chernozemm

I think there's a great chance the existence of mirrors/reflective surfaces silently fucks Rocky up.

Like, Grace is in the bathroom, shaving, the curtain pulled to the side and suddenly he stops and says "stop touching my stuff". Rocky, frozen, somewhere behind him, can't fathom how Grace sensed that. He was so quiet. The razor is so loud. Grace's still facing away from him. What the fuck.

Grace repairing some panel or other and asks for a tool. Without even turning around, he says "no, not that one, the one to its left". Rocky's like are you shitting me. I know for a fact your hearing is ass. You can only see in one direction and I'm not in it!! What?!

#project hail mary

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Holy ground

regal-bones

guys I went back to recreate this and. It’s gone.

Pour one out for butt dyke house

#this is exactly the kind of nonsense i'm here for

cheeseanonioncrisps

“I wish I was more powerful, like you guys. Even casting fireball takes it right out of me some days.”

“Hey, none of that. You're a valued member of the team, no matter what your power level.”

“I just don't understand how you can tear open that portal to the fire dimension so easily.”

“… fire dimension?”

“Yeah. Where the fire lives. Before you summon it. For fireballs.”

“Dude. We've been creating explosions by igniting flammable gases in the air. What the fuck have you been doing?”

#brb laughing too much #this is exactly the kind of nonsense i'm here for #i love all of this

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