#it was A LOT alright

[andyridgeley]

learning sam named his restaurant after his dad and the neon sign being fixed and ola grabbing sam’s shoulder when he sees his name on it i just-

#personal thingys #ted lasso #ted lasso spoilers #it was A LOT alright

[salamispots]

dream from several days ago

#dream diary #artists on tumblr #flotsam diaries #sequential #...I said I was gonna sleep but that obviously didn't happen HAHA #anyways really happy that I was able to get the colors/vibes I wanted down fjhkgj :'D #a lot of nitpicking and adjusting hahah #also kororon/eve was on blast for the majority of drawing this hghhjf #alright good night/morning/something yall #edit: was thinking more and the feeling I wanted to get across I guess is like when someone voluntarily #reaches out to touch me/casually/platonically and it's like a 'you're touching me of your own free will??? o H' #because when I was growing up had a parent who wasn't physically affectionate/would kinda brush me off #and that uhhhh kinda internalized as I'm gross and therefore shouldn't touch other people #(lmao took covid lockdown and very good friends to basically destroy that feeling yay) #anYWAYS had feelings but didn't quite know how to verbalize it hahah

[aeroplaneblues]

A Heart is a Heavy Burden💙

4.2 AQ was such heartbreaking way to end of Fontaine’s story but I’m happy with most of it. It was def an improvement from Inazuma and it answered a lot of questions, I’m looking forward to more!

These two some moots and i got tsunami-d in after the AQ, the angst potential is strong and for me it has a lot of things I like in a ship🥰

#neuvifuri #focallette #furina #neuvillette #focalor #genshin impact #genshin #idraw #the only thing i didnt like of the AQ had to do with childe #lol but thats alright #we got a lot more lore for him #this time but i dont want to wait 2 more years again #1k

[happyheidi]

ig: poemsforthemoon

#ok tumblr posting for me again wtf #oh well #it’s fairy-licious so alright tumblr #let’s keep it up #(this always happens when I make lots of draft #a weird glitch of o #of some sort #cottagecore #nature #naturecore #flowers #flowercore #but that’s fine #this is nightly cute #and already posted I think lol #cozy fairy vibes thoo <3 #warmcore #fairycore #fairy aesthetic #warm aesthetic #moodboard

[inkclover]

A wild Heket joins your party!🍄🍁

#huzzah phrog lady has arrived! #cult of the lamb #cotl #cotl leshy #cotl heket #heket #leshy #fanart #inky art #inky doods #cotl art #I like to think Heket was just making EXTRA sure this is leshy #yanks him closer for a class one sizing up #little chaotic bushworm who last she checked is blind and screams a lot? #yep little brother alright #commence rare display of affection #WHEEZE #also first time doodling Heket #hope I did her okay uwaaaaahhhh (´Д｀。)

[emoreooo]

one day i’ll grow even taller than my brother, you’ll see !!

#i like to think that the fact height differences matter to kel a Lot is because when they were kids hero wld tease him for being so #short and small and kels just like WELL LAUGH ALL YOU WANT MISTER bc one day i WILL tower over you. youll see #and heros like ohh of COURSE you will #i need more of hero being an annoying big brother to kel alright !! #omori kel #omori hero #omori #omori fanart #fanart #my art

[tubbytarchia]

@mcyt-yuri-week day 1 Sun/Moon awooga awooga (Aiko - Star/スター) (Lyrics TL)

(Yeah you're only gonna see GemPearl from me)

#mcytyuriweekvalentines #ignore the fact that the song name is star and not sun or moon........ it made me think of gempearl a lot alright #gempearl #shinyduo #shiny duo #pearlgem #this isnt as good as I wanted but look. Theres a lot of yuri to draw this week so Im gonna have to stop myself at some point #to have enough time to post them. And it'll keep me from overstressing about every little detail haha #again. trying new stuff!!! So my art wont look the way I want it to when I do but no shame in trying. Always learning baby #trafficshipping #hermitshipping #trafficblr #writing is in alt text if the cursive is unreadable sorry!! Literally picked the most readable one I had haha cursive fonts are painn #tubby art

[tibby]

Which wolf wins? I guess it really depends, just gotta wait and see.

#horroredit #horrorgifs #amanda young #* #mine: gif #mine: misc #m: saw #m: saw ii #m: saw iii #i've forgotten how to gif and also colour these fucking movies #whatever. song has been in my head a lot lately and mandycore lyrics #alright bye see you guys in two months

[zu-is-here]

<– • –>

#zu art #comic #x-orcist #love and passion #priest!cross #herbalist!dream #dream!sans #cross!sans #undertale #undertale au #utmv #OH it's also Friday the 13th... >:) #it's a minor detail but I really wanted Neil to be the one to. huh. /give Dream a helping hand/ ;D #(in this story he and his family are alright ówò) #I came up with different routes... I wanna make it a visual novel _(:'D 」∠)_ #gotta rest— thank you guys for patience╰(*´︶`*)╯♡ #and thanks a lot for 16 700+!! <3

[madamescarlette]

NO ONE'S EVER REALLY GONE (a collection about endings)

Amy Hempel / @itspileofgoodthings / Richard Jackson / Niall Williams / Ed Sheeran / John Berger / Lemony Snicket / Theodore Roethke / Mikko Harvey / Holly Warburton / Ingeborg Bachmann / Jeanette Winterson / Leila Chatti / George Sand / Miriam Adeney / Rainer Maria Rilke / Unknown / Mural in Hamilton, NZ / Rosamunde Pilcher / Nikki Giovanni

#web weaving #hiiii maria i have been thinking about this post since forever so here tis. #i think about endings a lot a lot!! but also how things that are true stay with you and gleam within the core of you forever #and also the no one's ever really gone has stayed with me for all my life and still shakes me to this day! #the love isn't wasted! it's not lost! it's all going to be alright in the end.

[gearbroth]

Witte-Thorne doodles

#owl house #toh #philip wittebane #caleb wittebane #wittebros #evelyn clawthorne #flapjack #collector #myart #i love evelyn a lot alright okay #i wish they could all be friends

[theminecraftbee]

thinking a LOT about etho jokingly telling cleo "you make the most interesting relationships" in episode one of secret life, back when that was a joke about the bizarre variety of frienemies cleo was making, in the context of this past session, her bond with etho, her Thing with martyn, her friendship with scott, her connection with grian, her relationship with bigb, her frienemyship with the heart foundation--she makes the most interesting relationships. and often, they look unstable from the outside. right up until the moment you test them. then, though...

#secret life smp #secret life spoilers #zombiecleo #OKAY I NEED TO SIT DOWN AND BE NORMAL FOR A BIT BUT #I FIND MYSELF INCAPABLE #AS A CLEO FAN I'M EATING SO GOOD THERE'S SO MUCH TO SINK MY TEETH INTO HERE #just. cleo she acts SO sarcastic and unapproachable. BUT SHE'S NOT. #AND WHEN PUSH COMES TO SHOVE PEOPLE OFTEN REFLECT THAT TRUE INNER LOYALTY BACK AT HER. #not always. there are plenty of people who don't. #BUT FOR SOMEONE WHO /ACTS/ UNAPPROACHABLE SHE SURE. SHE MAKES A LOT OF INTERESTING RELATIONSHIPS ALRIGHT.

[rxg1nald]

#rxg1nald art #kirby #kirby fanart #sailor dee #sailor waddle dee #sailor dee fanart #meta knight #meta knight fanart #trans headcanon #digital art #i just see myself a lot in this little guy #this one is kinda based off personal experiences #might continue it if i have the energy #alright cya later

[too-fond-to-be-fearful]

Been thinking recently about the goings-on with Duolingo & AI, and I do want to throw my two cents in, actually.

There are ways in which computers can help us with languages, certainly. They absolutely should not be the be-all and end-all, and particularly for any sort of professional work I am wholly in favour of actually employing qualified translators & interpreters, because there's a lot of important nuances to language and translation (e.g. context, ambiguity, implied meaning, authorial intent, target audience, etc.) that a computer generally does not handle well. But translation software has made casual communication across language barriers accessible to the average person, and that's something that is incredibly valuable to have, I think.

Duolingo, however, is not translation software. Duolingo's purpose is to teach languages. And I do not think you can be effectively taught a language by something that does not understand it itself; or rather, that does not go about comprehending and producing language in the way that a person would.

Whilst a language model might be able to use probability & statistics to put together an output that is grammatically correct and contextually appropriate, it lacks an understanding of why, beyond "statistically speaking, this element is likely to come next". There is no communicative intent behind the output it produces; its only goal is mimicking the input it has been trained on. And whilst that can produce some very natural-seeming output, it does not capture the reality of language use in the real world.

Because language is not just a set of probabilities - there are an infinite array of other factors at play. And we do not set out only to mimic what we have seen or heard; we intend to communicate with the wider world, using the tools we have available, and that might require deviating from the realm of the expected.

Often, the most probable output is not actually what you're likely to encounter in practice. Ungrammatical or contextually inappropriate utterances can be used for dramatic or humorous effect, for example; or nonstandard linguistic styles may be used to indicate one's relationship to the community those styles are associated with. Social and cultural context might be needed to understand a reference, or a linguistic feature might seem extraneous or confusing when removed from its original environment.

To put it briefly, even without knowing exactly how the human brain processes and produces language (which we certainly don't), it's readily apparent that boiling it down to a statistical model is entirely misrepresentative of the reality of language.

And thus a statistical model is unlikely to be able to comprehend and assist with many of the difficulties of learning a language.

A statistical model might identify that a learner misuses some vocabulary more often than others; what it may not notice is that the vocabulary in question are similar in form, or in their meaning in translation. It might register that you consistently struggle with a particular grammar form; but not identify that the root cause of the struggle is that a comparable grammatical structure in your native language is either radically different or nonexistent. It might note that you have trouble recalling a common saying, but not that you lack the cultural background needed to understand why it has that meaning. And so it can identify points of weakness; but it is incapable of addressing them effectively, because it does not understand how people think.

This is all without considering the consequences of only having a singular source of very formal, very rigid input to learn from, unable to account for linguistic variation due to social factors. Without considering the errors still apparent in the output of most language models, and the biases they are prone to reproducing. Without considering the source of their data, and the ethical considerations regarding where and how such a substantial sample was collected.

I understand that Duolingo wants to introduce more interactivity and adaptability to their courses (and, I suspect, to improve their bottom line). But I genuinely think that going about it in this way is more likely to hinder than to help, and wrongfully prioritises the convenience of AI over the quality and expertise that their existing translators and course designers bring.

#alright getting off my soapbox now #apologies if this is not particularly coherent - i was very much working through my thoughts as I was writing #but yeah tl;dr i am not huge on LLMs especially for language education and am deeply disappointed by the way things are trending #anyways if anyone knows any learning tools that are similarly structured i'd appreciate the recommendation #being able to easily do a little bit of study on a regular basis helped me a lot and i've yet to find anything similar #duolingo #language #language learning

[localguy2]

I find it highly amusing how in situations where the ninja are separated/it's just the OG four, Kai and Zane immediately assume control/start spearheading the team because apparently no one else is sane enough or in the right mind to do so.

Your honour, they literally have one of the best dynamics in the show, with how they're probably the most protective people in the team. And it makes me mad how this is overlooked by the fandom and the show.

#ninjago #zane julien #kai smith #Seriously tho #Aside from Cole #They're probably the most competent to lead #In Hunted they're mainly the ones working on everything #Fixing the radio #Jay has lost his shit and Cole is pre occupied with taking care of Wu #In MotM they just #Kai becomes the fucking Chancellor and with Zane as his Vice/right hand man #And in crystalized they're the only ones that are serious about this stuff #They're tracking Lloyd while Jay is bored and while Cole is doing nothing #Ay all I'm saying is #We need to see more of them together #I wanna see these 2 bond more #I want the show to focus on the aspect of them being the most protective #And how they probably have a lot of things in common when it comes to protecting the other ninja and making sure they're alright #Hmmmm my brain is going off in the tags #Oh chemistry what you done to me #You cruel cruel subject... #Anyway how are yall doing?

[splickedylit]

sometimes you sell your soul to the devil and sometimes you end up the devil's single dad

#homestuck #gamzee makara #splickedydoodles #calliope #caliborn is implied but eh #to normal people she looks a lot more like ''tiny skinny bald kid?? cancer patient??'' which dissuades some questions but raises others lol #alright I'm gonna go chill by a fire there's that