I was going to say it’s wild that the adaptation was considered, but then I remembered that ‘Leon the Professional’ exist. Not to say that the quality was likely to be the same, Leon is a damn good movie, but boy have I seen people do some serious mental gymnastics saying that character isn’t a groomer.
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I left early, only 4.5 years in tech. I still make less than my first job but boy am I happier. I work in a nature preserve now.
Tag these as NSFW plz (Not Safe For Wallets)
I believe there was a guy at my highschool in 2006 who had a folder with that design. His nickname was danimal. He could name every fish on it.
Jokes on you, I’m not safe offline either!
I’m playing DS2 now. This series is great! The only games like it are indie games, simulation affair. It’s truly unique in the AAA space.
Cockpit was also my nickname back in college.
I’m so down for this sailor content.
She’s got a real Mona Lisa smile. I can’t tell if she’s smiling actively or not in this picture.
I had one like this for years. When you dispose of the old plugs, try and keep the plastic parts. You can cut them some to get the roots out, but at least the top half. You can buy rock wool and other substrates to grow your own seeds, and the plastic part can be handy to keep the new substrate in place.
Have fun! These are really quite easy to use and fun.
So are image classifier models. They were terrible for several years, and eventually improved. LLMs are pretty good at retrieval augmented generation, which is probably the whole idea.
A lay person takes a picture of a beetle. They want to know what it is.
An image classifier correctly identifies it as a long horn, wood boring beetle. It has 5 species with a greater than 80% probably.
Human written and curated taxonomical descriptions are pulled out of a database.
An LLM interprets the complicated language of taxonomy, defining terms and asking the user plain language questions about the beetle.
Maybe this makes the whole process more accessible for lay users. Maybe it helps people understand what questions to be asking for identification. I mean, I’m just guessing at the implementation, but it seems pretty logical to me.
It is my understanding that the advances in classifier models were and are inexorably linked to generative models. Wasn’t Deepdream a fairly crude inversion of existing classifier models?
I’m sorry, but didn’t Google pioneer the image recognition models years ago that Inaturalist uses to help users identify plants and animals? Google can suck it, but perhaps ai has proven it has a place in these applications?
Now that it’s a couple days later, I think I might add a thought to this. It can be invalidating, to have someone ask a victim to empathize with the bully without sufficiently recognizing the victims feelings.
I used to do this sort of thing. I would try to be objective and logical. I learned that this just made my friends feel crazy, like they might be overreacting. I’ve learned to instead start by validating peoples feelings. I try to recognize thier pain, discomfort, and anger first. And, I never blame people for feeling that anger.
I second what the other commenters are saying about forgiveness being for you, not to other person, but can I just rant about how useless it is to say no one can truly be bad? It denies the basic utility of words, in my opinion. If someone is an ass, violent, greedy, etc then they are bad. If they change their ways they are good. We have words to describe greedy, violent, assholes. We call them bad people. Hell, a murderer psychopath? Call them evil. It’s why we have adjectives.
Fair. I didn’t really mean to condemn Leon. I just think, the whole point of the romance is to be inappropriate. It’s one of the many unsettling things in the film, and it’s supposed to be weird.
I was more suggesting that there is a precedent for live action films with inappropriate age differences.