#hopefullyababe

[the-typing-dragon]

what is best fruit based snack?

you cannot make me choose in a way that matters

[suckmybhaals]

how do u feel about mangos. like the fruit. have you had one. what do you think

i feel very good about them

i have had many

i very much enjoy them (:

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

what do you dream about frank?

For a while I had some very detailed dreams about making a computer program that would generate "realistic" and useful textual descriptions of images. (I was imagining it being like the image description generator in Google's reverse-search feature, but with more advanced capabilities.)

The problem seemed tractable because it could be broken down into several component problems:

How to represent an image

How to describe images using natural language

(1) was easy enough -- you can just use the HTML canvas element, which lets you write code directly on the page, so you can just have the canvas itself contain a pixel map representing your image

(2) is harder, since there are lots of different ways one might want to talk about a given image. A lot depends on what kind of context one has for the image -- if it's from a known photographer or painting, then its visual style will probably matter; if it's from a random photo on Flickr, maybe not as much. In any case, you need to figure out how to quantify various features of the picture without using human judgement -- e.g. by putting them through a neural net, then trying to interpret the outputs

Eventually, though, once we've figured this all out, we'll no longer need humans to describe our pictures! The future belongs to machines...

[quiptart]

i like ur artblog url bc i know it says quipt art but i read it as quip tart and i imagine a little kevin pie

This is exactly why I chose this url fjfhjf

Just a little quipy tart- I’m so glad you imagined that, your the second person who said that and I’m v :') bout it

[boneles-ss]

Dashne

noun

1. The place one periodically finds themselves when following tumblr user “hopefullyababe,” also known as “Daphne.” It is a state of tumblr dashboard where a majority of said dashboard has been taken up by the same post or variety of posts that have been reblogged more than five times.

“I can’t fault her enthusiasm for that old man, but I’m trapped in dashne right now and I haven’t seen anything from my other mutuals in hours.”

[hopefullyababe]

yeah thats enough daph for one day

[demi-eurovision]

Apparently I'm a fan of any fandom where this kind of artwork makes sense 💚

Sources: (x x) @hopefullyababe & @ajitanparmesan

[werwaser]

hey @hopefullyababe if i watched fight club, would i be disappointed by the lack of homoeroticism or are your posts 100% factual and accurate about it being a metaphor for gay sex?

[davepetacreates]

DOING COMMISSION FOR PALESTINE, INFO HERE <3

Current Writing Projects:

She Hung the Moon -- Ace Attorney Franmaya case fic/character study featuring Franziska as our unreliable narrator and Maya as the defendant. Updates frequently.

Only Miss the Sun -- Davekat character study of Dave's grieving and how he expresses it. Meteorstuck. Updates semi-frequently.

UNCERTAIN WRITING PROJECTS (List incomplete):

Keeping Vigil -- Davekat vigilante au with triple identity shenanigans.

Appearified -- Bro gets switched with a Dirk from another timeline. Now he has to learn how to function as a human being again. Meanwhile, in the timeline he left behind, a very bewildered Dirk has to fix his reputation and find out what happened to Dave and how to set him back on track. In the process of being rewritten.

Ophelia -- Davekat Humanstuck prom au. What's better to do at prom than take a person you've known for barely an hour to Dairy Queen? In progress, updates rarely. Written for @hopefullyababe .

Welcolme to Night Vale -- A Welcome to Night Vale ripoff I've been making in a Discord server with some friends. Now with overly gratuitous Homestuck references.

[the-typing-dragon]

best snack overall?

bread

[suckmybhaals]

@hopefullyababe i did my first dashne.

are you proud, father?

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

you mentioned that youre in college? me too! have you ever lived in a dorm room? im going to be moving into one soon, and im looking for advice on the kinds of things to bring.

I lived in an apartment until I was around 19 or so. I've lived in 2 dorms since then (first for two months as a freshman in a small dorm and then for a year or two in a medium-sized dorm on a different floor), and they were both different but all in all pretty good!

First, let me say something that may not seem relevant but is actually pretty important to know: it's way better to bring a lot of very small items than a few large ones. Having too many large things -- for example, if you bring a book, a laptop computer, a phone, and a backpack -- will be a hassle, and you will have to put them together or fold them all at some point when you get into your room. If you bring a bunch of very small things, like notebooks and small notebooks and stuff, then putting them all together just is the work of opening them all up or folding them all flat or setting them on your desk or on your bed. It's a big difference. Also, it makes packing your room much easier.

I had a lot of small things in my dorm room. (Also, I have ADHD, and having too many large things means I have to keep things I need in my "office" and things I only need rarely are in the main room and then it's harder to get them when I'm in a rush.)

Now, what kinds of things? I actually bring a lot of stuff I need often (laptop, phone, a book or two), but it all depends on what you will be doing in your room. The one thing you have to be careful of is not packing too many things that are too heavy, because then it will be difficult to get your bed, desk, etc. balanced and in place when you're putting it all together.

To give a sense of what kind of things I might bring, here is a (not exhaustive) list of things I bring to my dorms at least sometimes:

Laptop

Computer

Phone

My textbooks and notebooks

Various toiletries

Phone charger

Bathroom stuff (toiletries, soap, a small toothbrush, etc.)

Some personal clothes -- pajamas and underwear, a shirt and shorts, a hoodie, etc.

My Kindle, for when I want to read a book at home

Some games I like

Various other "personal" items, like various music devices (iPod, phone, etc.)

If you have a good idea of what you will actually use in your room, then you can pack some of those things you'll actually use more carefully than the others. But you can't always predict that, so it's very hard to predict the weight of every item you will bring. When I've packed my room I've had to choose, based on that uncertainty, what I'd actually be using a lot in my room.

Packing more carefully than you need to means you have less weight to carry on the way out. If you're leaving your dorm on the way to school, or on the way to class, then it is usually less stressful and easier to have your book in your arms -- you can bring less weight on your back. It's an advantage to have light stuff that you can actually carry.

But it's a disadvantage to have a lot of heavier stuff that you won't use. If you pack carefully, there will be less room in your backpack for the items you're bringing.

And don't pack too much stuff. You don't want to have to carry around more things than you have to.

[comradeupdog]

Girlfriend found my romantic reblog and i went for 0 to 50 notifs in 0.3 seconds

[Alt ID: tumblr notif tab with hopefullyababe’s profile (horse in party hat) and the reblog symbol 8 times and reads “hopefullyababe and 49 others reblogged your post. end ID]

[trashpremiium]

I apologize to my followers’ collective dash for when I finally watch the third genloss and my partner can post actual spoiler shit, which I will inevitably reblog all of

I apologize to my followers’ collective dash for the beast my account will become once my partner watches the third genloss and I can post actual spoiler shit. I am normal I am normal I am normal I am normal I a

[hopefullyababe]

Honestly bestie i just assume you are a horse

Like logically my brain knows that lil icon is Humphrey

But i see hopefullyababe in my notifs and go “oh hey it’s The Horse :) I wonder how they’ve been”

me and humphrey are connected body and soul we arent the same person but we are. we are two sides of a coin. yin and yang. we are eachothers halves. i am the horse. he is me

[werwaser]

shoutout to tumblr user @hopefullyababe for having both the best blog and absolute dogshit worst blog on the site <3