The vast majority of Stable Diffusion's bandwidth is being used for porn.

Ask me what's in their dataset.

@George-K said in Medical School in Illinois:

@Aqua-Letifer said in Medical School in Illinois:

We don't respect poetry anymore

Probably because it's not taught, and therefore not understood.

I asked my kids who ee cummings was. They had no clue. I knew cummings when I was a freaking sophomore in HIGH SCHOOL.

That's pretty much the ideal time to learn about cummings. They didn't know? SMH.

"What's a sonnet?"

Oh for fuck's sake.

But yeah, I get it. In the few places where it's taught, too, they do nothing to make it accessible. And the funny thing is, there's nothing more accessible than poetry.

It's how we passed the time before TV and, well, capitalism. You'd have a pilgrim stay at your house overnight on his way to the holy land, or a traveller making it home by foot after a viking raid destroyed his ship, whatever, and you'd share poems you knew with the folks who took you in for the night. Everyone was quite keen on it.

That goes back to ancient times, but even in the Victorian era you'd have folks makin' up washing songs, sea shanties and sing-songy taunts to aggravate your classmates.

It's far more natural and long-standing than writing with a pen and people don't even know what it is today.

@LuFins-Dad said in No Re-Pete:

Not going anywhere without the coaching staff to find and develop the talent.

Kevin Dotson was a Steeler 4th round draft pick at RG back in 2020. He flashed enough raw talent that he actually made the starting roster that year at LG. The kid was mediocre. He would have good games, he would have bad games. Ultimately, Pittsburgh “upgraded” the position by acquiring Isaac Semualo at LG and brought in James Daniels in 2022 at RG. Both were considered to be massive improvements for the Steelers line. Pittsburgh traded Dotson to the Rams, who switched him back to RG in a more modern NFL blocking scheme. Kevin Dotson is now the 5th highest ranked OG in the game, while James Daniels is the lowest. Seumalo is right at League average.

Did Dotson magically improve? Did the other two suddenly develop crippling injuries that reduced their ability? No. Coaching is the difference. If you don’t have good coaching, you have no idea what you have in the way of talent.

I think it's coaching. I also think it's scheme. Look at Brady when he went to Tampa Bay. In Arien's F_ck It and Chunk It offense, Brady looked bad. When they incorporated a lot of what Tom did in New England, the offense took off.

Look at Brees in New Orleans. He was pretty good with the Chargers, but no HOF quarterback. Peyton built on Brees' strengths (recognition, accuracy) and addressed his weaknesses by having great center and offensive guard play. Plus, Peyton likes to run and do a lot of play-action stuff.

Uyger: "The queen of Jordan has condemned...."

Murray: "I care about her opinion about as much as I care about the opinion of Meghan Markle."

This is a nice series, overall. I do things a hair differently, but this is pretty good for a shed...

@Axtremus said in Avoid It:

Cited in the article is a former Compaq PC engineer saying that Apple, Inc.'s hardware is not that reliable. I have never used Compaq's computers before (at least not that I can remember), so I am curious to ask: if you have used both Compaq and Apple's hardware, which do you find more reliable?

If memory serves, they were a behemoth in the bad old days when PC compatibles were really expensive. Reliability wasn't really the issue as much as cost. They were pushed into obsolescence by companies like Dell and Gateway which really was the point at which the PC became the default for home computing rather than non-PC alternatives like Commodore and Atari.

Injuns?

In fairness they probably had no idea what the Mass 54th was.

Almost went to work for a guy a few years ago. He had a few patents and he managed to talk some venture capitalists out of $18M for a beta site project. I was going to run his industrial lab(s) and his QC program in return for peanuts and shares of preferred stock.

He was going to take materials from waste water plants and use it to make biodiesel. The material, such as skim from the aeration ponds is very high in fat content, but because of trace metals, etc., is hauled off to a hazardous waste landfill and costs the plants to do so. My guy thought he could get the material for free.

So, I talked his business plan over with my BIL (who is a very good ChemE), who said this idea would work great in a lab, but wasn't going to scale up. Simply too many variables. Also talked to some guys I knew on the technical side of DEQ and the EPA. I turned the guy's offer down.

My BIL was right.

Paul Desmond smiled...

It was a poorly written first sentence, but it strains credulity to think the author is unaware that viruses occur naturally. I'm trying to imagine what he meant, and I imagine that he meant to include "someone doing something" that would still align with a natural origin theory.

@George-K said in President Poopy Pants:

Sez the guy with small "hands."

C'mon Ted, be better.

He’s channeling what he believes is his inner little Lyndon B. Johnson.

@jon-nyc said in An open letter to white supremacists:

This is the woke-religion's equivalent of Paul's second letter to the Corinthians

Wonder why this one won't survive, though.

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