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Video of Tama

^Nitama majestic, and below with Yontama

Yontama.

The shrine of Tama Daimyōjin (Great gracious deity Tama), next to the Kishi station where she worked.

And they are announcing the winner of the “up and coming god” award, and of course, Yato thinks it’s him.

But no-

many clip the wings of the queen, destroy new queen cells, cull queens they don’t like and use bee pheromones to prevent a hive from naturally swarming or absconding. They also try and prevent mating with the African honey bee, which makes them less docile among other things. During artificial insemination of queens, drones are crushed and „spare“ queens are killed.

and commercial beekeepers even cull their hives during winter, or when they are not producing well.

Coupled with the fact that there is evidence that insects do feel pain, this is not great.

OMG

Precious man (not in black!) sighted ❤ (x,x)

i started this waaaaay back when i first binged miraculous ladybug. couldn’t get over the dynamic of superhero duo who don’t know each other’s secret identities but do also know each other in their normal lives, and they’re in love but they aren’t but they are they just don’t know it.

you know, i originally was spending so much time trying to think of sokka’s alter ego, and i put grey wolf in as a filler but then i realized how Sokka it was. like this other dude in a costume introduces himself like “hey, I’m the Blue Spirit” and sokka who hasn’t had time to process yet that he’s a superhero and is indeed the worst at naming things, goes, “oh, Blue Spirit? Hi. I’m….. Grey…. Wolf.” and then zuko would be like “You just used my name as a template! You just changed the color and the creature!!!” and sokka’s like “Whaaaaat! Nooooo. No. I actually had this idea before you even said anything, which means actually you are the one copying me!” and zuko demands he change his name, think of something better, but the news is there so it’s already circulating and people are saying what a nice pair they make

Fascists want you dead.

One of my first experiments with neural network text generation was to generate and name paint colors.

I trained a neural net from scratch on lists of colors I could find online, and with no prior training on English or any language (and therefore no idea what paint colors were) it managed to reproduce some of the letter combinations in the originals. But it lacked the context to know not to generate colors like these:

In the nearly five years since, a lot has changed in AI. Now we have giant internet-trained neural networks. And these neural networks have not only seen English before, they have also read all the popular paint color sites. Give them a list of existing paint colors and ask them for more, and they'll respond with more paint colors lifted straight from online, or altered only slightly.

As the January 2022 Futurist in Residence at the Smithsonian AIB, I've spent the month thinking about how much difference our starting points make, how we have to take care what foundations we build on when working with AI. I realized that to get a modern AI to generate entertaining paint colors, I would have to take inspiration from the AIs of five years ago. So as my starting point I used that original neural net's garbled paint colors. And I got these:

What I find interesting here is that to generate a color, the AI not only had to come up with a name, it also had to specify the color in Red, Green, and Blue coordinates. A computer screen generates its colors by illuminating tiny red, green, and blue dots that blend together when you view them from a distance. By telling the computer how much red, green, and blue to use (on a scale from 0 to 255), you can specify any color. I didn't tell the AI that it had to follow each color name with a list of three whole numbers. But it had seen enough Red, Green, Blue color listings that it was able to follow the format from just a couple of examples. Mostly. At least, the largest AI could.

To make these paint colors I used GPT-3, which comes in models of different sizes. DaVinci, the model that generated the Hog Wash list above, is currently the largest. Ada is the name of the smallest model, and it was not so great at sticking to the format.

This color Ada specified is slightly more green than a computer can display. Its green coordinate is supposed to max out at 255; this one goes to 311.

You Must Be Above This 216 311 273

And then there's Blobsday, which is almost twice as red as is supposed to be possible:

Blobsday 504 105 121

Painted Batman is an impressive 8.5 times redder than a computer is supposed to be able to display.

Painted Batman 2179 231 207

What does this mean? Can the color Painted Batman only be properly appreciated when viewing the computer screen illuminated by several single-frequency red lasers, after having spent an hour staring at a green wall?

Then there's Starbat, which has FOUR color coordinates.

Starbat 69 25 192 252

Some of our other color scales have four coordinates (like the ones designed for print), but the common ones don't go up to 255. I like to think that Starbat is a color meant for birds to see, and the 1st color is actually meant for their ultraviolet vision.

Here are some of my favorite of Ada's colors, at least the ones that CAN be displayed on standard screens.

Also, Ada has renamed the color black "Jolly Rumpus". Madison Avenue, take note.

I have an exhibit at the Smithsonian AIB Futures! It'll be there till mid February 2022.