#But still

[buzzfeedunsolvable]

No hate to Steven or anything and a lot of the flack he's gotten in the yt comments is unwarranted, but one thing I think is interesting is how on Watcher he was painted as a business-guru type and yet he was like... a chemical engineering major. Like so was I for most of college and you know what we never learned? How to run a business

#I say 'most' bc I switched out of chemical engineering in my fourth year (switched to biochem) #but still #I think maybe a lot of non-STEM people hear engineering and think engineering = smart #and therefore qualified to run a business #when being a successful STEM major or engineer specifically has nothing to do with intelligence #I've encountered many STEM majors at 'good' schools who are dumb as bricks #a girl I roomed with got flying colors in organic chemistry and yet thought she could get high off of molly through the walls #tracking tag #rambling #watcher

[sidyashchiy-na-plakhe]

Sad Turtle. :'3

#wof #wings of fire #драконья сага #wof meme #wof seawing #wof turtle #it's actually pretty old #but still

[hipersensitive-pacifist]

#but still #the conformation #they're married your honor #oliver stark #911 abc #911 spoilers #buddie #bisexual buck #911 cast

[lefttoesucker]

When you're a traumatized dead man but all your teammates see you as is a loser emo edgelord 😔

Few months later:

The mug reference for those who don't know

The existence of this mug is haunting me since middle school

#09 Ghost listens to My chemical romance and nightcore and you CANNOT convince me otherwise #he'd never admit it #but still #roach once accidentally walked in on him reading emo band fanfics and for the next week was scared to get out of his room #because he was convinced that Ghost would kill him #call of duty #simon ghost riley #ghost #ghost cod #ghostsoap #soapghost #ghost call of duty #john soap mactavish #soap cod #cod ghost #09 soapghost #09 ghost #cod #cod simon ghost riley #cod shitpost #my art

[tommowluvr]

oh boy, they actually dropped this line💀💀

#watcher #watcher entertainment #shane madej #ryan bergara #steven lim #i honestly expected a better line than that after the radio silence #i mean im glad they went back on their decisions #but still #a “we are truly sorry” would have been better

[thedawningofthehour]

Oh by the way, when I said this is a long chapter

I wasn't joking.

#and bro i've only finished ONE of the scenes #like two are just about wrapped up so i'm only looking at another few lines #but STILL #i'm TENTATIVELY looking at wednesday or thursday #now that That Scene is just about finished the rest should flow like liquid butter #which i will burn my fingers on but the things we do for love #also i have several asks and several fanfics i'm behind on so if anyone feels like i'm ignoring them im not i just want to finish this firs

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

Not me saying I was going to take a break and then immediately writing the first chapter of the wesper ketterdam univerity au

Oops

#what can I say? my hand slipped #I don't think I'll be posting until I've written more and also come up with a title #but still #dk rambles about random stuff #six of crows #grishaverse #crooked kingdom #leigh bardugo #jesper fahey #wylan van eck #wesper #wylan hendriks #ao3 #ao3 writer #ao3 fanfic #wesper fanfiction #wesper fic

[thisismyobsessionnow]

If I miss him?

I just bought this jacket and finally have motivation to finish this lace I've been working on for years

I'm fine

#joker out #jan peteh #bobbin lace #i miss him so much actually #but I'm really excited about making this #my heart is a lot bigger though #so i'll probably put it on the back #but still #i love love love using my lace like this now #i'm still so 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 about them and lace and my history with lacemaking #I did not know about it when my obsession started #it's like it was meant to be

[fallen-goldfishcracker]

The important thing to remember with Astarion is that yes, he is elegant and seductive and charming, but he's also a fuckin' weirdo, and if you have to default to one of the two, go with weirdo.

#Freaky little man with no social skills #Listen I know he lured in thousands of victims and I can see it and I BELIEVE him but sometimes #Genuinely he says things that are so off-putting and strange #(affectionate) #Probably a side effect of 200 hundred years of trauma of course #It t #But still #I love writing weirdness Astarion genuinely my favorite side of him #It's good because it overlaps with the other brilliant side of him: idiot Astarion #bg3 #bg3 astarion #baldurs gate 3 #Astarion #astarion bg3 #astarion an #astarion ancunin

[number1abbasupporter]

no matter how many times i read it, the prank is always the worst thing to happen to me

#that’s a lie #the whole spy thing is worse #but still #marauders era #marauders #sirius black #remus lupin #wolfstar #hp marauders #the prank

[justaneedle]

PJO jumped into my life in the person of Luke Castellan. I don’t regret anything.

To this day I deeply appreciate his role in the story: I love the cool older bro and mentor vibes he gives off throughout PJO, even though he's one of the main antagonists. And how the ghost of his presence persists in HOO.

One of the characters dearest to my heart in principle.

#pjo #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #heroes of olympus #hoo #luke castellan #luke castellan did nothing wrong #just kidding #but still #love my boy

[pumpkin-patch-cat]

Zayne and MC drove 3hrs or so for some Popsicles...

I drive 2 1/2 hrs to see my mom, and I'm usually ready to evaporate out of the car after an hour.

I give them kudos because hell naw 😂

#Those damn popcicles better slap SO HARD #Zayne's car is probably super comfy though so #but still #🫠😵‍💫 #zayne love and deepspace #zayne #zayne and mc #love and deepspace #love & deepspace #l&ds #lads

[art-from-within]

Its just so funny to me that in a world of sorcery and muscles, Radagon just invented magic maths???

#i know its more complicated than that probably #but still #nerd in a world of chadfreys #radagon of the golden order #elden ring #like godfrey is raw strength personified #marika is a god #rennala has moon powers #and radagon is a fucking nerd

[chuckecheeses]

So much color and tone variation just in the simple and humble domestic shorthair black kitty…

#the brown is from being out in the sun she is faded like old t shirt and the silver is probably bc she’s older #but still #dizzy

[lumsel]

chinese room 2

So there’s this guy, right? He sits in a room by himself, with a computer and a keyboard full of Chinese characters. He doesn’t know Chinese, though, in fact he doesn’t even realise that Chinese is a language. He just thinks it’s a bunch of odd symbols. Anyway, the computer prints out a paragraph of Chinese, and he thinks, whoa, cool shapes. And then a message is displayed on the computer monitor: which character comes next?

This guy has no idea how the hell he’s meant to know that, so he just presses a random character on the keyboard. And then the computer goes BZZZT, wrong! The correct character was THIS one, and it flashes a character on the screen. And the guy thinks, augh, dammit! I hope I get it right next time. And sure enough, computer prints out another paragraph of Chinese, and then it asks the guy, what comes next?

He guesses again, and he gets it wrong again, and he goes augh again, and this carries on for a while. But eventually, he presses the button and it goes DING! You got it right this time! And he is so happy, you have no idea. This is the best day of his life. He is going to do everything in his power to make that machine go DING again. So he starts paying attention. He looks at the paragraph of Chinese printed out by the machine, and cross-compares it against all the other paragraphs he’s gotten. And, recall, this guy doesn’t even know that this is a language, it’s just a sequence of weird symbols to him. But it’s a sequence that forms patterns. He notices that if a particular symbol is displayed, then the next symbol is more likely to be this one. He notices some symbols are more common in general. Bit by bit, he starts to draw statistical inferences about the symbols, he analyses the printouts every way he can, he writes extensive notes to himself on how to recognise the patterns.

Over time, his guesses begin to get more and more accurate. He hears those lovely DING sounds that indicate his prediction was correct more and more often, and he manages to use that to condition his instincts better and better, picking up on cues consciously and subconsciously to get better and better at pressing the right button on the keyboard. Eventually, his accuracy is like 70% or something -- pretty damn good for a guy who doesn’t even know Chinese is a language.

* * *

One day, something odd happens.

He gets a printout, the machine asks what character comes next, and he presses a button on the keyboard and-- silence. No sound at all. Instead, the machine prints out the exact same sequence again, but with one small change. The character he input on the keyboard has been added to the end of the sequence.

Which character comes next?

This weirds the guy out, but he thinks, well. This is clearly a test of my prediction abilities. So I’m not going to treat this printout any differently to any other printout made by the machine -- shit, I’ll pretend that last printout I got? Never even happened. I’m just going to keep acting like this is a normal day on the job, and I’m going to predict the next symbol in this sequence as if it was one of the thousands of printouts I’ve seen before. And that’s what he does! He presses what symbol comes next, and then another printout comes out with that symbol added to the end, and then he presses what he thinks will be the next symbol in that sequence. And then, eventually, he thinks, “hm. I don’t think there’s any symbol after this one. I think this is the end of the sequence.” And so he presses the “END” button on his keyboard, and sits back, satisfied.

Unbeknownst to him, the sequence of characters he input wasn’t just some meaningless string of symbols. See, the printouts he was getting, they were all always grammatically correct Chinese. And that first printout he’d gotten that day in particular? It was a question: “How do I open a door.” The string of characters he had just input, what he had determined to be the most likely string of symbols to come next, formed a comprehensible response that read, “You turn the handle and push”.

* * *

One day you decide to visit this guy’s office. You’ve heard he’s learning Chinese, and for whatever reason you decide to test his progress. So you ask him, “Hey, which character means dog?”

He looks at you like you’ve got two heads. You may as well have asked him which of his shoes means “dog”, or which of the hairs on the back of his arm. There’s no connection in his mind at all between language and his little symbol prediction game, indeed, he thinks of it as an advanced form of mathematics rather than anything to do with linguistics. He hadn’t even conceived of the idea that what he was doing could be considered a kind of communication any more than algebra is. He says to you, “Buddy, they’re just funny symbols. No need to get all philosophical about it.”

Suddenly, another printout comes out of the machine. He stares at it, puzzles over it, but you can tell he doesn’t know what it says. You do, though. You’re fluent in the language. You can see that it says the words, “Do you actually speak Chinese, or are you just a guy in a room doing statistics and shit?”

The guy leans over to you, and says confidently, “I know it looks like a jumble of completely random characters. But it’s actually a very sophisticated mathematical sequence,” and then he presses a button on the keyboard. And another, and another, and another, and slowly but surely he composes a sequence of characters that, unbeknownst to him, reads “Yes, I know Chinese fluently! If I didn’t I would not be able to speak with you.”

That is how ChatGPT works.

#txt #ai shit #it’s not a perfect analogy #chatgpt doesn't think the symbols have no meaning #rather it doesn't think at all #all it does is the maths #but still #effortpost

[may12324]

Karlach Cliffgate- fire of my heart

#i love her so much! #baldur's gate 3 #karlach cliffgate #karlach #bg3 #baldurs gate #my art #baldurs gate 3 #i hand drew all that infernal script #its what her tattoos say #well i drew it in pen #but still #it looks so fancy i lvoe it