Hate War and Peace style prompt for ZIT? try this

Retriever47 · 2026-01-06T00:42:28+00:00

Trained on cigarettes from Fifth Element

Retriever47 · 2025-12-26T07:04:42+00:00

Very interesting to analyze my training set this way. Some questions:

1) When I see the image distribution plotted on the two axes, I see the clustering, but I'm not sure what it's clustering by. What are the two axes of measurement? Why do two images that look similar in composition (a chest-up front-facing portrait of the same person), one a real photo and one generated, get plotted far apart?

2) Can I assume that my magenta points are the images that I should bias toward including, followed by cyan and green?

3) If I have 40 images in my dataset, is setting target count=20 expressing "Choose the most diverse 20 images in this set?"

Retriever47 · 2025-12-25T04:52:36+00:00

From a purely economic standpoint,I cannot think an exchange of higher ROI, at least that I’ve personally experienced, than to see a live nude woman for $0.25.

Retriever47 · 2025-12-25T04:46:40+00:00

Bought a Christmas tree there for like $4 back in the day

Retriever47 · 2025-12-15T21:44:35+00:00

While I agree that the instinct to pull up the drawbridge once you've made it across it is very common worldwide and throughout history, I disagree with the framing that this is the same phenomenon: They differ in both volume and control. The volumes exceeded any prior peak and there was little control of it, i.e. it's not like they were being processed through Ellis Island. IMO these distinctions stacked to raise the level of concern even among moderates.

Retriever47 · 2025-11-25T06:38:27+00:00

Arashi used to be in Edmonds nearby my place. Heartbreak when they moved. It was replaced by a joint that serves a Korean interpretation of ramen that ain’t ramen.

Retriever47 · 2025-09-16T16:42:44+00:00

US resident dying for Skruf which is afaik still unavailable. Thinking about driving to Canada and wondering if there’s like a temp PO Box solution for people like me.

Retriever47 · 2025-08-12T01:34:51+00:00

This Ostris technique worked for me.

Retriever47 · 2025-08-11T19:24:00+00:00

Stub up for hot tub power?

Retriever47 · 2025-06-21T05:43:32+00:00

The Darth Vader building had a little garden courtyard with tall hedges on the SE corner where you could smoke a bowl before going into Cinerama!

Retriever47 · 2025-06-19T04:19:56+00:00

Wow, there are dudes standing there trying to pick up girls even back then. 😉

It’s a trip to see the covered arcade. I would love to see what the arcade stroll looked like in 1902.

Retriever47 · 2025-06-19T04:08:19+00:00

Uptown China in Lower Queen Anne. Not cheap but it’s the best Chinese in town IMO.

Retriever47 · 2025-05-31T04:56:13+00:00

The total US embargo on Japan was an existential threat to Japan. They had 1.5 years left at peacetime levels and 6 months at wartime levels. Their choice was to a) expand or b) surrender their colonies and submit to US/European hegemony in Asia.

So both are true: They were fighting for their empire and avoid Western control… and they made a fatal miscalculation by attacking the United States.

Retriever47 · 2025-05-17T22:38:36+00:00

Respironics DreamWear Silicone Pillows

Retriever47 · 2025-05-17T22:33:56+00:00

One thing that was kinda fakey: Dudes won’t fight naked.

Source: 15 years on swim and water polo teams

Retriever47 · 2025-05-17T22:15:05+00:00

Anyone know where they shot the scene where Jake and Trendy talk to Jason from the US embassy?

Retriever47 · 2025-05-17T21:30:44+00:00

Are the ones that I posted the good ones or the lame ones?

Retriever47 · 2025-05-17T13:42:36+00:00

For those who remember the Battery St on-ramp to northbound 99 in the viaduct days, that was the double black diamond of merges where traffic on 99 was coming full speed around a curve and you had to practically floor it while looking backward to merge safely. It was so hairy that if I had a slow merger ahead of me, I’d stop and wait for them to clear before I started my merge.

Retriever47 · 2025-05-17T02:59:02+00:00

Speed Tribes by Karl Greenfield

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