As a djinn, I don’t appreciate this anti-genie rhetoric.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico#Maritime_boundary_delimitation_agreements

Some of the gulf is international waters, and some is owned by Mexico/Cuba. But that was in a world where agreements mattered.

A million seconds is 11.5 days. A billion seconds is 31.7 years.

Just a good way to ground an unimaginable number in something more familiar and drive home how ridiculous having a billion dollars is. I hear we’re on track for our first batch of trillionaires this decade.

A trillion seconds is 31,688 years.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/jan/21/social-media/trump-didnt-admit-to-rigging-the-election-during-h/

You need healthy, natural sleep. Chew some valerian root and get more exercise.

Even the nostalgia wears off, eventually.

Best finale in TV history.

It’s from Tropic Thunder.

I’d be surprised if anything crawled from a site using iocaine actually made it into an LLM training set. GPT 3’s initial set of 45 terabytes was reduced to 570 GB, which it was actually trained on. So yeah, there’s a lot of filtering/processing that takes place between crawl and train. Then again, they seem to have failed entirely to clean the reddit data they fed into Gemini, so /shrug

Re: the 3d space, there are text-to-3d generative workflows of varying efficacy (I think Meshy is popular). There are texture generators that include depth maps.

#quakeed represent.

I’m on .world because it was the first option and I wasn’t sure I’d use lemmy. I do not have room in my life for server wars.

The Rise of Kyoshi is a masterpiece.

We must stop this science on science violence.

-> You mean peer review?

Lol, don’t the publications farm that out and review none of it?

-> We must stop this science on science violence!

I think that’s just the corrupting influence of money and power.

-> We use good methodology to show methodology has been systemically compromised.

[citation needed]

This one-scene play brought to you by: God, is it only Wednesday?!

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7010281/