@stroughtonsmith The number of people who want to tell you off on the Internet, even if they don't understand the subject, is rather amazing 🙂

When I first got into machine learning a few years ago, I created an image classifer for Terry Pratchettt cover art — to classify which artist had created a particular piece of art.

I was very proud of it and immediately went to a sub-reddit devoted to Discworld because I'd lurked there for a long time and I thought they were pretty cool people and wanted to share something Discworld related.

You should have seen the reactions — at least the initial ones 🙂Somebody (who obviously didn't understand what an image classifier was) told me that I should leave art to the artists and move on.

I was totally surprised by the tone and by the fact that they were supposed to have been a PTerry fan. PTerry loved tech and would probably have embraced machine learning is what I think.

But anyway, cooler heads prevailed after I stood my ground but it was weird. And that was in the early days. Nowadays, I just don't talk about machine learning or deep learning just because most people who want to tell you off don't even understand what they are talking about 😛

@elysegrasso Glad you and the electronics survived the tea spill 🙂

@BobWilliams Thanks 🙂

@BobWilliams Will do 🙂 Current plan is to release on the 15th of August, no idea if I'll hit the target or not. But I guess we'll see?

If you're interested, you can see more details about the book here:
https://books.farook.org

It's the first one — "Sir Lanka Files" 🙂

@BobWilliams I'm glad you got the app submitted. It's always a relief once it's out of your hands, or at least, for me it is 🙂

My current project (well, realy side-project) is a novel. The writing is done. So it's just editing and while I've set a target for release, I'm hopeful that I'll achieve the publication date. So not a lot of pressure 🙂

@kkolakowski You do get all that from "No Man's Sky" 🙂 If you want to play with others, I guess it's there, but it's never been that intrusive/obtrusive for me.

My wife and I play together but we don't really want to play with other players and we nver do. We explore, build bases, follow missions etc. all on our own. Have not met anybody else in the game (that we know of) who's another player. We do see player ships in space sometimes, but that's about it ...

A wide ask here so please boost: my grandfather is trying to get rid of an old business computer, and I was wondering whether any vintage computer people might want it. It was purchased for $50k from The Ultimate Corporation in the early 80s. This ran the Pick operating system, and my best guess is the hardware was originally manufactured by GE or Honeywell. It's about the size of a half-rack and currently lives in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. It has sat covered in plastic in a chemical warehouse for the past 35 years. Where do people usually post stuff like this other than here? Thanks!

#RetroComputing

@BobWilliams Glad you had a productive day, Bob 🙂I haven't had to submit stuff in a long time, but that process is always a bit panic-inducing because I am never sure if something has changed since the last time ....

My lovely wife did a cover for my next book: "Sir Lanka Files"

Hoping to publish on August 15th.

More details here: https://shop.farook.org

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A book cover titled "Sir Lanka …

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@AngelaPreston I had never considered pickles as a jokeworthy subject, but now I get what the big dill is 😀

"Find Me Falling" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19862722) is a beautiful movie. It feels very British for some reason, but I guess it's not?

The locations in Cyprus are beautiful, the music is great, and the story is lovely. Well worth watching 🙂

#Movies #English #Netflix

@TriflingTree Ah, good to know. I've never tried it through ChatGPT. But that's something to keep in mind 🙂

@TriflingTree Thank you 🙂I only tried a few images with Dall-e3. I think I had access through a service like Poe or something, I can't remember the details.

When I tried it, the only examples I had for good Dall-e images were the ones I'd seen from you. So I expected a style like what most of your images have and I didn't get that style. Which is why I asked 🙂

When I figure out where I had access to Dall-e3, I'll give it a try again with your prompts to see what I get and let you know.

@TriflingTree Thank you so much — appreciate it very much 🙂And if you'd like an ARC of the next novel, let me know and I'd be happy to send it to you. It's not Dick Turpentine, but now I'm re-evaluating what goes next anyway based on your feedback 😀

@gaveen Absolutely 🙂I came back to the game, or was reminded of it, because somebody on here mentioned the new update and I read up about it and all the stuff looked interesting.

I agree. It's very impressive that they keep on adding massive updates to the game 8 years later 🙂I bought it when it came out and I still continue to play it every few years.

I can't think of any other game which has added this much of free updates. Sure, some have paid DLCs but even those, I don't think have stretched on for an 8 year period. So hats off to Hello Games.

@gaveen Honestly, I don't have an idea as to what the update is without looking it up, especially since they have a part number and a version number 😛Apparently, it's Worlds Part 1: Update 5.0 but that's all I know since I came back to the game after 2 years 🙂

The wife and I played "No Man's Sky" yesterday. It was fun to use the second-controller/co-pilot feature on PS5 and be able to play together even though it was a single-player game. We enjoyed the game a lot more now that both of us could play at the same time — it felt way more engaging 🙂

I realized that I'd last played the game over two years ago but my base was still there. We were able to explore further and start doing a lot more now that both of us are playing. Not because we were exploriing separately — it's a single-player game after all — but because we felt like playing more.

We even got to the first space station, spoke with some aliens, and figured out where the next bit of the game leads us.

I was tempted to start a new game to see if their introductory mission(s) had changed since the last time I played, but really couldn't bring myself to go through the introduction all over again. So we opted to just play on with the current mission.

Looking forward to doing some more gaming today and exploring further 🙂

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@davemark Absolutely! There are so many tutorials around for Affinity too. And YouTube videos. Every time I come back to Affinity, that's what strikes me the most — how easy it is to find information about anything you want to do with an app from the Affinity Suite 🙂

@davemark And if you have any of their v1 products, the universal subscription gets a further bump down in price 🙂We owned v1 Designer and Photos, and I think I upgraded to the v2 universal license for about $65 or something ...

It's an offer you can't beat! Especially given we got v1 updates for about 7 years or so for the one-time price.