#Accelerando

[lilbluntworld]

In IP geek circles, Manfred is legendary; he’s the guy who patented the business practice of moving your e-business somewhere with a slack intellectual property regime in order to evade licensing encumbrances. He’s the guy who patented using genetic algorithms to patent everything they can permutate from an initial description of a problem domain—not just a better mousetrap, but the set of all possible better mousetraps. Roughly a third of his inventions are legal, a third are illegal, and the remainder are legal but will become illegal as soon as the legislatosaurus wakes up, smells the coffee, and panics.

Charlie Stross, Accelerando

[mckitterick]

these lobsters sure can

link to the story (as part of the full novel) on the author's website here, free to read in plain HTML

There was a paper in 2016 exploring how an ML model was differentiating between wolves and dogs with a really high accuracy, they found that for whatever reason the model seemed to *really* like looking at snow in images, as in thats what it pays attention to most.

Then it hit them. *oh.*

*all the images of wolves in our dataset has snow in the background*

*this little shit figured it was easier to just learn how to detect snow than to actually learn the difference between huskies and wolves. because snow = wolf*

Shit like this happens *so often*. People think trainning models is like this exact coding programmer hackerman thing when its more like, coralling a bunch of sentient crabs that can do calculus but like at the end of the day theyre still fucking crabs.

[do-you-know-this-baby]

Do you know these babies?

comment: Cute Soviet Lobsters, just want to escape our light cone <3

[nyxxxpng]

this is my daughter

shes a little stupid but we're working on that

[goopsgloop]

BABY COME HOOOOMEEEEEEE

[plottwiststudios]

PlotTwist Studio's Patreon is Finally Live

Studio's Patreon Page

My Personal Ko-Fi Page

Hello, hello! We haven't had a hardcore update here in quite some time, have we? Well, if you remember back during "Women of Xal's" production, it's very much because we were doing a lot in the background and didn't have the energy to provide giant update posts every few weeks. Well, the stuff in the background will be bubbling up to the surface soon, and it's time to share what we've been doing, and how you can help make sure we keep creating content for those who love our obscure narrative beats. Let's talk about the fun stuff we're cooking up!

Women of Xal: ???

Recognize her? You absolutely do! It's a draft of an in-game Xjena! But this isn't in the visual novel. Why is it being commissioned? What's it for? Is there excitement to be had?! The Patreon would love~ to give an update on that in due time! (Pixel Art by newcomer: Ramon Kalachuchi / Animation by the talented @boxyheadbry)

The People We Are: Episode 1

"The People We Are" is a series of (very) short conversations that chiefly focuses on the very human interactions normal, non-magical people have in reality. Each of these conversations will feel extremely specific and not exactly universal messages or something that can apply to a general audience. But, perhaps, just like with Clanice from our last visual novel, the very personal moments in this story will still make one person feel seen. Episode 1 of this visual novel will drop in August on our Patreon, with future episodes happening ideally monthly. (Art by @nekojirou, artist for Women of Xal~!)

PT's Dollmaker App

Did you know we have over 5000 assets for this app? And putting it together will be a programming nightmare for the programmer we inevitably hire? That's been the key reason why there's no beta! No funds! The three characters on the banner are literally a fraction of the combinations you can make on this app. With countless afro-styles you can mix and match! And of course, once we get the app up and running, your support will see more assets updated! (Artist: Newcomer Jean Maniclang)

Mesto Accelerando: Encore

We'll be releasing chapters in order leading up to "Mesto Accelerando: Encore's" Kickstarter, where we hope the stretch goals will allow us to illustrate or even animate fan-favorite scenes from the book. (Decided via vote from readers) You can be notified when the Kickstarter launches here. (Artist: Alexelle Lee)

Custom Original Music For You!

Have cash to spare every month and want to spend it on our Patreon? Well that's certainly one way to get original music for your personal use or even commercially! I specialize in orchestra and ambiance, so bear that in mind! Everything else is a gamble. Music is expected to be finished by the end of each month.

The Patreon's Trajectory

So this is an Indie studio Patreon. What are the goals? What does the cash fund? How often can you expect to see updates? How on Earth are we juggling all of this on a shoestring budget and full time jobs? Why that last question was a punch in the heart for being too real a thing to ask me, but let's dig in!

The goal is to allow the creatives in PlotTwist Studios create content full time. Right now the head works full time at Walmart Automotive, and that is absolute murder on focusing on getting all this content out faster. (Although it is doing the heavy lifting in funding what I can.)

Funds that go into Patreon will be used to hire artists and programmers on a monthly basis to push our projects forward.

Updates will be based on how many supporters we have and how much we make a month, as you all directly drive the creation of this content.

I can commission people because I'm using my own commission money, my job money, and paying for assets one baby step at a time. No, this is not sustainable on my income, and

By supporting our Patreon, you'll be slowly but surely funding our smaller projects, that will pave the path in getting us a bigger following to support our grander ambitions. (Like our mobile apps!) Please consider supporting us and getting this show on the road!

[liquidcrystalsky]

if you haven't already, could you rip the sound effect that plays when a whirling accelerando is winding up but gets interrupted by knockback, please? not sure if i missed it in the drive

ty for running this blog! very fun to see all the assets <3

not sure which one it is, is it this?

[the-loaf-of-calamity]

FOLLOW UP: Local Whirling Accelerando, suspect of possibly knocking off local loser, Panicking Alla Mambo, ended up getting knocked off the platform by a Self-Destructing Gushing Trionfale!

[coloncurlybracket]

I love the way that Odysseus breaks Calypso's rhythm in Not Sorry for Loving You, just like how Polyphemus broke the rhythm in Survive

[bingoary]

do you guys see my vision

hlage animatic.

the "we both reached for the gun" song, recently getting popular on timtom

wayne and chompski. (or chompski and blue gnome)

the last scenes.

[ballpit-bakery]

[lspiritomb]

honestly I think the Whirling Accelerando top/shell would be a pretty good special

think about it, it inks a lot, basically acts on its own so you can do other stuff, hits like a truck, bounces abolutely everywhere, and you have to think a bit to not waste it from it spinning off stage. sounds like special material to me

[spacialdimension]

SIDE ORDER SPOILERS

hey guys is it normal to finish eight's palette with no-hacks on your second attempt

[siroctobass]

cringetober today was ms paint so i figured i'd draw today's octobasstober drawing in ms paint!!!! i also limited myself to only the default colors

it was very nostalgic for me even though they changed the ui

[dye-it-rouge-et-noir]

Rouge Reads: Accelerando by Charles Stross, published 2005

I saw this work recommended a few times in science fiction spaces and the ebook is free online so why not? Though, I encourage anybody to check out the author's work and consider purchasing it!

First off, (to my understanding) Accelerando is a series of connected short stories that was then compiled into a hard science fiction novel.

This is the book I wanted to read first with my new e-reader and I managed to finish reading it within the span of 3-4 days! I really enjoyed various aspects of the worldbuilding and how it integrated concepts such as technological singularity (which is a defining one for the book) and matrioshka brains! Following the book's timeline and watching how the world changes was a delight to me!

However, I admit that it's not for me, as much as I wanted it to be. Personally, I have rather mixed feelings about the character writing and wouldn't recommend it for that aspect. While I always intended to read it for the concepts in mind, I was put off by the characters. Additionally, the prose may be hard for some to parse through with various terminology. Having read similar books, I was fine with the prose but I know that the jargon-heavy text may be rather alienating. (Which does coincide with the theme of singularity)

I'm glad finished the book! I understand why others liked it alongside why it's acclaimed but I didn't like it as much as I expected to. Though, it did give me a lot to think about after reading regardless!

If you want to check it out:

Accelerando - Charles Stross's Website

Storygraph page for user submitted content warnings

[plottwiststudios]

So what do we think about my making the novel "Mesto Accelerando: Encore" free to read on its own Kickstarter in its entirety? (Coming soon~)

As a note, the incentive of backing the Kickstarter is seeing fan-favorite scenes from the story illustrated or even animated, depending on what stretch goals are met.