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[pastelpinkflower]

All the little gay robots reblogging my robotposting makes me feel like an algorithm getting the numbers that it likes

[icarusthelunarguard]

This Week’s Horrible-Scopes

It’s time for this week’s Horrible-Scopes! So for those of you that know your Astrological Signs, cool! If not, just pick one, roll a D12, or just make it up as you go along. It really doesn’t matter. Better yet! Check out “Heart of the Game, Fredonia” - they can sell you those D12’s with the symbols on them! Get in contact with them on Facebook, shipping to the U.S. only, and tell them “Shujin Tribble” sentcha. “Hail, Hail, Fredonia!” Home of the Blue Devil!

Rough week at work, huh? Well, have we got the cure for you! Thanks to all those really screwed-up planet placements we told you about LAST week, we’re helping you feel better about your work-place experiences THIS week. So get ready for Yet Another HR-Mandated Safety Training Video and remember… Do NOT short circuit the fork lift’s battery. If the explosion doesn't end you, all the noxious chemicals will make you want to be.

Aries 

Even though we’re coming to the end of the summer and the cavalcade of critters, there is still a viable job for you as a Pest Control Specialist. Now, sure-sure, there’s far less activity from ants invading homes or bees building nests, but now you have to be on the lookout for Wasps and Hornets eating any bit of sweet or meat they can get their little mouths on. So This Week… Yellowjackets are neither hornets nor wasps. They’re, kinda, their own thing. Which might explain why they’re looking to kill everything else for being impure. Sounds a lot like a really expensive Table-Top game, doesn’t it?

Taurus 

AH! The great outdoors! All that fresh air, the birds chirping, the great view of the sky, and all the farmer’s tan-lines you could ever want in a lifetime while being worried about falling off a house. We’re not sure if you ever got over your fear of heights, but hey! A Paycheck’s A Paycheck, right? Being a roofer isn’t all THAT bad, right? So This Week… We never understood it when you said you weren’t afraid of “High-Heights” only “Low-Heights”. Is it because you’re afraid you’ll survive a 2 story fall and get a broken leg? If you land head-first onto concrete you won’t have to be worried about that anymore.  

Gemini 

Just because you like children and babies doesn’t mean you’re cut out for that as a job. There’s more at stake for you as a preschool worker, and some of it involves some really good drugs. Not the Recreational version, but the Prophylactic version. You’ll want to get all your immunizations re-done so you don’t catch anything, and check if you have any latent allergies that’ve started in your adult life. So This Week… BOY! SuRe hOpE yOu ReMeMbErEd To gEt OvEr yOuR FeAr oF NeEdLeS.

Cancer Moon-Child 

You might think it’s a great gig, but you’re totally wrong. Working Security at a concert has got to be one of the worst jobs out there. Not ONLY do you have to hear every note the headliner’s gunna play, but every warm-up band’s too! You don’t need to like all the music they’re playing, but would it kill you to at least know who “Marillion” is for crying out loud? So This Week… You are not going to work the gig for the Tito Puente cover band, or the Zamfir Tribute Band, or “EE-Oh-oh”, a band that only plays music by The Police. Expand your music appreciation into the 21st century.

Leo 

Just because you look good in elbow-length rubber gloves doesn’t mean the job as a dishwasher is going to be great. You’ll be constantly behind the rush, pushing plates through the machine quick as it’ll function, and scrub whatever gets slid across the counter past you and into the sink. So This Week… Remember the FIRST RULE of working the washup station in an industrial kitchen: Never Reach Into Water You Can’t See Through. Because there is almost ALWAYS a knife in there! 

Virgo 

Nobody ever thinks about this job, but it’s important. Being a part-picker in a battery supply company has got to rank super-high on the, “Don’t Let Me Screw Up Today” meter. Imagine it! Someone decides to screw with you by sliding a chromebook battery pack across the floor and under the forklift you’re operating, setting off a thermal runaway in it and the storage rack full of Lithium-Ion battery packs for digital cameras. So This Week… Learn how to spot a Danger Pillow and know where the cinder block lined burn pit is located. And don’t inhale those fumes! 

Libra

What do you get when you mix wedding cakes and an hour’s drive in distance? You get someone who has to drive a delivery van in the most paranoid way possible! Worse yet it’s got to be kept as cold as possible, even on the hottest day. What do you do if someone cuts you off, or a deer jumps out at you, or the tires start to hydroplane on the way to drop off a multi-tiered cake with no do-overs? Plus if it’s raining, how do you keep the rain off it? So This Week… Just make sure you deliver both cakes and their parts to the right venues. And if you screw it up don’t turn off your phone.

Scorpio 

Working a full-service shoe store can be a really great paycheck based off commissions, but dealing with The Public can be a nightmare. Nevermind the foot smell, since, you know, we’ve all got that - YES EVEN YOU! But what about the creeps in the mall, walking past the window, creeping on the people sitting down to try on shoes? There’s only so far Mall Security can go these days. So This Week… You can still find places to personally dye shoes for weddings. Make sure you have an accurate colour swatch to work from and that the bride doesn’t have a weird colour misperception.

Sagittarius 

In your case we’re not going to talk about you trying to fit into that cute little French Maid outfit. But in your case being a Cleaner is just not a job, it’s an exercise in remembering all your high school levels of chemistry! Mixing different cleaning agents can be not just a bad thing, but a health damaging one if you’re not careful. So This Week��� If you want a cute maid outfit, check out the designs in the anime, “He Is My Master”. And DO NOT MAKE MUSTARD GAS! 

Capricorn 

As much as people say you’re a horse’s ass, it’s only half true because your head’s almost in there. Working over horseshoes and hooves means you get to be a Farrier. It’s kinda cool, getting to interact with all those animals for a little while before moving on to the next group. It can be fun, getting horse-lip kisses on the back of your neck while you’re working. But please-PLEASE do NOT let that mare stomp on your ankle. You need that! So This Week… Mares are the WORST to work with. Plan appropriately and invest in a BIG box of star mints. 

Aquarius 

You think wearing your fursuit and getting paid for it is fun? Well, it would be! Except, and we can’t stress this enough, but being a Promotional Mascot means you’ll be wearing someone ELSE’S fursuit design, and we all know they do NOT work well for multi-hour excursions. And they almost NEVER look as good as the ones the fandom makes. So This Week… Invest in a Cooler Vest and a CamelBack. Trust us. 

Pisces  

With your fat fingers no one thinks you can be a Computer Technician, but you know what you’re doing! Mostly because of your attention to details, like all the permutations of CPU and RAM and GPU and Motherboards and how they all work together. You went through all the bother of making a web-based database of all the combinations and how to get the most out of what you want to put together… all while forgetting that places like PC Part Picker already do that for you! So This Week… You really have to stop overthinking and overworking yourself. Use someone else’s work for your own benefit and work smarter, not harder. In Other Words… there’s nothing wrong with copying someone else's code into your own programs if it’s Public Domain!

And THOSE are your Horrible-Scopes for this week! Remember if you liked what you got, we’re obviously not working hard enough at these. BUT! If you want a better or nastier one for your own sign or someone else’s, all you need to do to bribe me is just Let Me Know - or check out the Ko-Fi page ( https://ko-fi.com/icarusthelunarguard )! These will be posted online at the end of each week via Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, Discord, and BLUESKY.

[radiantbastard]

"AI is going to take over the world"

AI:

[tellschrodinger1survived]

to AI that bitch or to not AI that bitch, that seems to be the question nowadays

[inserttemptitlehere]

I hate when YouTubers do a face reveal and then all of their content going forward has face cam footage. I subscribed because I enjoy listening to a disembodied voice playing over text or relevant/vaguely interesting footage. I do not enjoy eye contact or face to face conversations with strangers which is what the face cam footage feels like.

[teacup-captor]

Going about my day feeling normal when I remember NileRed and Codebullet know each other

[trapny]

I love watching YouTube videos from people who do coding like Fundy or codebullet, because every time something works they just get so hyped.

[a-friend-of-mara]

I SWEAR TO WHATEVER GODDESS OR GODDESSES YOU BELIEVE IN I'M GOING TO AUTISTICALLY GIRLSPLAIN THAT AI IS NOT SENTIENT AND NOT THAT COMPLICATED

Yes I know ai can become sentient but stuff like chatGPT fuckin isn't and I'll die on this hill bc normals think that all the new "AI" shit is really AI but it isn't and it makes the work of people who work in AI (not LLMs) seem significantly less important and im mad about it

The new "ai" shit is really not that smart please stop thinking it'll end everything

Serious for a second, anyone interested in how ai actually works please go look at any "I trained an ai to play snake" or basically anything like that, personally I'd recommend CodeBullet's vid on teaching Hill climb racing

[omegasmileyface]

i love when people use gpt output as "proof" that we'll always be able to tell ai language and human language apart. its because gpt is specifically designed to say things that Sound Right, like making up filler bullshit for an essay, and it has no concept of the actual thoughts behind the words. gpt mimics language, it does not understand it. but that doesnt mean All AI Ever will be uncapable of doing something like thinking, where it logically parses a concept before Turning It Into Words, like humans do. so stay vigilant!

also, while there is not (to my knowledge) any "thinking" AI in the public right now, there are several different types of a whole bunch of different levels, and we expect different things from each of them. after all, "AI" isn't any one specific thing, it's (to my understanding) a term we use to describe any programming technique that lets a program determine what to do with inputs without that being explicitly specified every time. i didn't describe it great, but yeah... you could probably make a machine learning-based program yourself with just a few days of studying a programming language!

i highly recommend learning a bit more about it if you get the time, since it's tough to approach modern topics without really knowing what they're About. Carykh, CodeBullet and Sebastian Lague on youtube have a couple approachable videos from a couple years back on some different types of machine learning iirc but im not a good resource here go look stuff up yourself

[subjectsix]

do you know codebullet? he's a youtuber who makes (awesome funny incredible) videos about stuff he programs, and he always uses a tv head avatar in his videos :D i love his tv head and all the sprites he drew and animated

ooooo I haven't!! I'll have to go check him out-- that sounds fun both in topic and in tv head asjdfkashdf, I love fellow tv head persona people

[glngrbred]

I'm so sick of the AI bubble, Like if they were actually making AI like, GAI or anything that is "artificial intelegence" (as in like, a thinking thing) I would be like "Yay, Yipee! human made life! Yipee!" But no, apearently AI just means any program that sometimes kinda picks a choice on its own. like, yeah, sure. Statistical model based generative Ai is cool, but Its not actually thinking, its literally just better predictive text, like from your phone... from 2013... Its not a person.

like, Chat GPT isnt actually intelegent (as in like, a thinking thing). It just knows that you're supposed to finish the sentence "when it rains..." with "it pours."

also an evolving neural network is ALSO not AI. like that was never A definition of Ai mr. CodeBullet.

[sunfoxfic]

Micarah Tewers is to fashion as CodeBullet is to coding

[aialgorithmicartuofw]

Readings March 9-14

Group 1

GANS

https://youtu.be/qnHbGXmGJCM

https://github.com/autonomousvision/stylegan-t

Books and Theory

https://books.google.pl/books/about/The_Geography_of_Thought.html?id=eXRdQAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation

RFID tags (Radio Frequency Identification tags). 

https://www.museumnext.com/article/rfid-and-its-use-in-museums/

real time voice cloning

 https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/speaker_adaptation/1

https://valle-demo.github.io, https://vallex-demo.github.io

https://github.com/enhuiz/vall-e

Data Shuts Down Exhibition

https://hyperallergic.com/109546/transmediale-festival-shuts-down-nsa-imitators/

Light Projections

https://www.aarte.net/installations?pgid=kbnod42k-010bc905-5b2c-4e2f-8317-7b382eda83d1

https://www.aarte.net/mixed-media?pgid=lf7kz6be-ebceef95-4759-4f38-9c26-b049ca60267b

Group 2

Multi Agent Interaction

https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.07528

https://openai.com/research/emergent-tool-use

https://3dfy.ai/

https://platform.openai.com/docs/introduction/next-steps

3D Models - ML into Game Engine Multi Agent Interaction

https://nv-tlabs.github.io/GET3D/assets/paper.pdf

"Similar to image GANs, GET3D also supports text-guided 3D content synthesis by fine-tuning a pre-trained model under the guidance of CLIP"  Just to get the 3D image is one thing. To render game behavior is another. The technology just isn't there yet. It will be but not for our colab. - Ellen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?   - Dream Fusion AI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ntdkwAt3Uw - MidJourney to 3D Scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqqw7u6BnXw - AI 3D into Blender

Locomotion in Rich Environments

https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.02286

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9amJuvb3grU&ab_channel=CodeBullet

AI + ML In Game Engines

https://www.javatpoint.com/difference-between-artificial-intelligence-and-machine-learning

ttps://www.udemy.com/course/machine-learning-with-unity/

https://www.gocoder.one/blog/introduction-to-unity-ml-agents/

https://blog.theknightsofunity.com/artificial-locomotion-in-unity-using-machine-learning-part-1/

https://gamedevacademy.org/best-unity-ai-tutorials/

Mixamo To StableDiffusion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFjECaeY4Go

Did We Just Change Animation Forever?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9LX9HSQkWo

Group 3 Catchup Links - 

Stable Diffusion and the Human Animal

Stable Diffusion with Brain Activity

https://sites.google.com/view/stablediffusion-with-brain/

Stable Diffusion with Mocap Visualizer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdRxIKv9z9w

Linking Audience Physiology to Choreography

 - https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3557887

Touch Designer and Stable Diffusion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZprUqsLOyQ

https://linktr.ee/uisato

Stable Diffusion and Control Net

https://stablediffusionweb.com/ControlNet

ttps://huggingface.co/spaces/hysts/ControlNet

Automatic1111 - - https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui

Diffusion Models

https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/blob/master/screenshot.png

16https://huggingface.co/blog/stable_diffusion

https://huggingface.co/blog/annotated-diffusion

https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2021-07-11-diffusion-models/

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artificial-intelligence-illustration-spawning-2195919?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_campaign=10%2F29+Saturday+AM

Hugging Face list of Diffusion Models

https://huggingface.co/docs/diffusers/api/pipelines/alt_diffusion

Laion

https://laion.ai/

AI and Sound

AIVA - https://www.aiva.ai/

Magenta - https://magenta.tensorflow.org/studio/

Sound Diffusion - https://www.harmonai.org/

Brain As Site Specific Performative Space

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14794713.2015.1084810

Stable Diffusion Recreates What People See

https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-re-creates-what-people-see-reading-their-brain-scans

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.18.517004v2

New Models

Gen1- Runway - about to drop : https://research.runwayml.com/gen1

Gen1 based on - https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03011 -Structure and Content-Guided Video Synthesis with Diffusion Models

Paper of Arxiv.org .pdf - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.03011.pdf

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10957412/fastest-way-to-extract-frames-using-ffmpeg

Random Stuff For Everyone

The False Promise of ChatGPT - Noam Chomsky

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chatgpt-ai.html

In case you can’t read the Chomsky article due to paywall: https://archive.is/gq39f

Japan’s first AI Anime cartoons

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/japan-first-ai-generated-manga-art-intl-hnk/index.html

How to Code Fast With Chat GPT

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VznoKyh6AXs

Hito Steyerl on Why NFTs and A.I. Image Generators Are Really Just 'Onboarding Tools' for Tech Conglomerates | Artnet News

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/these-renderings-do-not-relate-to-reality-hito-ste[…]or%203/13/23&utm_term=US%20Daily%20Newsletter%20%5BMORNING%5D

I Asked An AI Algorithm To Optimize My Life

https://www.wired.com/story/i-asked-an-algorithm-to-optimize-my-life/?mc_cid=af0569bac3&mc_eid=6d41a47b3d

10 Ways GPT-4 Is Impressive But Still Flawed

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/technology/openai-new-gpt4.html

I Live In Hell - Ukraine Soldiers

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/03/14/magazine/ukraine-soldiers-psychiatric-hospital.html