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i do take suggestions if anyone has any

it's always interesting trying to research lgbt friendly places to live in the u.s. that aren't freezing cold for half the year or constantly raining for the entirety of the year

#i hate the cold but i AM more open to cold areas than i am rainy areas. i can't do without the sun i turn into a miserable wreck #****I WILL NOT LIVE IN CALIFORNIA HOWEVER

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valentines eggs 👼💌🐣

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it's always interesting trying to research lgbt friendly places to live in the u.s. that aren't freezing cold for half the year or constantly raining for the entirety of the year

#i would like to eventually move out of the south but god why do the only options seem to be ALWAYS COLD or ALWAYS RAINING

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they gay : - ]

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I’m Team Valor for sure

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also if you guys ever encounter anything regarding the enshittification of the internet that you'd like to share feel free to send them my way tbh

#i have finals so the distraction would be appreciated but honestly anytime. i LOVE seeing it all go down #in a fascinated horror sort of way

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Rotom is so funny because he’s a Silly Little Guy who can go through many different forms, and they’re all very charming with one of them being a Flying type with Levitate, but then he becomes a washing machine and since I have played the game competitively I hate that wet bastard

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People are so fucking mean to the elemental monkeys and for what??? Because you think they're ugly???? Yeah well you're ugly. In your heart

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actually all those articles implying that traditional ai is somehow lesser because it can't CREATE THINGS like generative ai does....i have some questions i'd like to ask the authors.

#do y'all believe something only has worth based on the bright and shiny new things it can create. Answer quickly #traditional ai has been aiding people for decades. no 'creation' based on stolen data required. #i know these people are out of touch with reality but like. Goddamn. #i'm only posting about this because i'm procrastinating studying for the two calc exams i have left -.-;

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anyone who can spot the glaring problems in how this article is written (i.e. the phrasing) gets 10 free brownie points from me

(text below, article from here, unfortunately)

Traditional AI: A Brief Overview Traditional AI, often called Narrow or Weak AI, focuses on performing a specific task intelligently. It refers to systems designed to respond to a particular set of inputs. These systems have the capability to learn from data and make decisions or predictions based on that data. Imagine you're playing computer chess. The computer knows all the rules; it can predict your moves and make its own based on a pre-defined strategy. It's not inventing new ways to play chess but selecting from strategies it was programmed with. That's traditional AI - it's like a master strategist who can make smart decisions within a specific set of rules. Other examples of traditional AIs are voice assistants like Siri or Alexa, recommendation engines on Netflix or Amazon, or Google's search algorithm. These AIs have been trained to follow specific rules, do a particular job, and do it well, but they don’t create anything new. Generative AI: The Next Frontier Generative AI, on the other hand, can be thought of as the next generation of artificial intelligence. It's a form of AI that can create something new. Suppose you have a friend who loves telling stories. But instead of a human friend, you have an AI. You give this AI a starting line, say, 'Once upon a time, in a galaxy far away...'. The AI takes that line and generates a whole space adventure story, complete with characters, plot twists, and a thrilling conclusion. The AI creates something new from the piece of information you gave it. This is a basic example of Generative AI. It's like an imaginative friend who can come up with original, creative content. What’s more, today’s generative AI can not only create text outputs, but also images, music and even computer code. Generative AI models are trained on a set of data and learn the underlying patterns to generate new data that mirrors the training set. Consider GPT-4, OpenAI’s language prediction model, a prime example of generative AI. Trained on vast swathes of the internet, it can produce human-like text that is almost indistinguishable from a text written by a person.

people have got to learn the difference between traditional and generative ai

#why are we turning generative ai into a 'friend'. why are we framing generative ai as something fundamentally 'better' than traditional ai #these are the types of articles people see when they search for the differences and all of them love to fucking deepthroat chatgpt's boot #instead of just plainly stating the differences. it's so. It's Something #deeeeeeeep fucking sigh

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i guess to be fair the majority of the search results that pop up when you first search for the differences between traditional and generative ai are all something along the lines of "tired of BORING and INEFFICIENT TRADITIONAL AI??? introducing GENERATIVE AI, which began to BOOM in 2022 with the RELEASE of CHATGPT, which will CHANGE the WORLD as we KNOW IT" like man shut the fuck up

people have got to learn the difference between traditional and generative ai

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people have got to learn the difference between traditional and generative ai

#the amount of hysteria being generated (ha!) over ANYTHING ai is kind of. astonishing #the use of ai in an email spam filter is not your worst enemy i promise.....

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Testing out some painterly brushes with Suicune!

I tend to shy away from detail, so being more loose and learning to imply detail was the goal of this one!

I'm especially proud of the river stones!

#johto

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if any of you are looking for a blog to add to your rss feed or just to check out in general, Where's Your Ed At has some REALLY fun articles on it. if you're a big hater of the generative AI boom and rich people in the tech industry in particular you'll fucking love this blog

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shoutout to my girls who inexplicably lost their teeth after Gen 1. thinking of you always :(

#kanto

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for someone whose aces in pokémon games are usually electric-types i don't talk about them nearly enough methinks

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The Stress Migraines. The Stress Migraines.....

are you guys ever studying for an exam and you feel like you pretty much know everything for it and then panic harder because that's the devil talking

#i'm being overdramatic because it's calculus and i am. not suited for math. it's the invasive species of my brain #or something.