I’m in a “pictures are unrelated” mood today…

Gate 2: Naval Gazing

I missed the teaser trailer for the Gate spinoff. Summary: no familiar characters appear.

TDS has long since become tedious

I did not have a very high opinion of most of the commenters on the Marginal Revolution blog, but it just went down anyway.

Klein-4b, not for me

The smaller, faster version of Flux.2-Klein looks impressive at first glance, but the failure rate on a large batch using the same prompts I fed to 9b was nearly 50%. Not just extra or missing limbs and fingers, but wildly disproportionate body parts. Giant heads, too-short legs, gorilla arms, giant man-hands, etc, etc. 9b is a lot more stable.

(unrelated, I think I need to update my prompt-enhancer to allow repeated passes over the same prompt; piping the output into a second (and sometimes third) copy of the script is overloading LM Studio on Windows, so while it’s more than 3x as fast as the Mac for running LLMS, the memory management is crashing the pipeline at random intervals. Reusing the same connection with different sysprompts should be more stable, so I just need to specify the behavior when multiple sysprompts are passed as arguments)

Pissing on the shoulders of giants

I was picking up some takeout at a restaurant, and this not-a-cover song was playing. It swiped the tune and some of the lyrics of John Denver’s Take Me Home, Country Roads, but used them so poorly that I found myself wishing they’d just written a completely original bad song instead of dragging a classic down to their level.

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