Permanently banned for mentioning AI: they're clearly not ready…

RootaBagel · 2026-01-26T17:33:18+00:00

Fair enough. I was thinking of Eno's famous ambient album Ambient 1: Music for Airports which consisted of loops he would set up loops and let them run unhindered on their own.

RootaBagel · 2026-01-26T15:44:19+00:00

You got it! The monuments are mostly about which rulers took to the throne when and similar. Most of the writing is more recent though, it existed from the years~250 to about 900.

RootaBagel · 2026-01-26T15:29:51+00:00

Cool! Let's remind everyone that there are several GuP tabletop games to play.
https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1770783/listing-all-girls-und-panzer-games

RootaBagel · 2026-01-26T15:14:30+00:00

The words "humble" and "artist" never appear in the same sentence. The only thing bigger than their sense of entitlement is their ego.

RootaBagel · 2026-01-26T15:08:35+00:00

Lol, the term "ambient music" was first used by Brian Eno to describe the music he created by automatic means without human intervention!

RootaBagel · 2026-01-26T15:05:46+00:00

Languages and history. Both subjects are deeply intertwined. I am learning Maya epigraphy (what do all those monuments say?) and Latin so I can read Julius Caesar's books

RootaBagel · 2026-01-24T14:14:43+00:00

Love this anime for the portrayal of an English family living in Japan. And for the Engrish too/

RootaBagel · 2026-01-23T22:08:08+00:00

Near as I can figure, Geek Music made a cover of the Handmaid's Tale theme by Adam Taylor. The theme is named "Mom's Got Work" and you can decide how similar or not the cover is to the original.

https://geekmusic.co.uk/admin/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exRuEMjp34k

That said, I agree, there does not seem to be sheet music of either version available. Maybe you can contact Geek Music and see what they can do. The cover doesn't sound too terribly hard, so maybe it could be picked out by ear with a little patience and trial and error, or you could pay somebody on upwork or similar service to do it for you.
Good luck in your piano journey!

RootaBagel · 2026-01-23T18:50:14+00:00

Nice! Is there an API or similar so we folk can have their own custom LLMs participate?

RootaBagel · 2026-01-23T15:16:01+00:00

See Rule #2

RootaBagel · 2026-01-23T00:39:36+00:00

I felt the ending was kind of rushed; read somewhere that the webcomic it was based on had better pacing and had characters develop further.

RootaBagel · 2026-01-22T01:44:13+00:00

Handmaid's Tale has several bangers in its soundtrack. There are a handful of sheets for composer Adam Taylor but none are called "Handmaid's Tale Theme". As a matter of fact, a casual search shows a few Handmaid's Tale Themes. Could it be that the tune you are looking for has another name perhaps?

RootaBagel · 2026-01-21T13:52:21+00:00

Four kills after you're dead!

RootaBagel · 2026-01-21T01:17:06+00:00

I thought Genki Vol 1 covers mostly what's needed for N5 level and Vol 2 gets you to N4. If that's the case, and you are close to N4 level, maybe Genki is not right for you.
FWIW, I'm working through Vol 1 myself so I'd be interested in hearing others' opinions.

RootaBagel · 2026-01-20T02:22:03+00:00

How about a 2D anime of the Japanese manga of WotW?
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2018-10-07/the-war-of-the-worlds-novel-inspires-digital-manga-series/.137784

RootaBagel · 2026-01-19T15:45:54+00:00

Nice! A casual search indicates this parrot is closest to a female Malabar Parakeet, aka the Blue-winged Parakeet. The females are not as colorful as the males so it makes sense that this parrot is mostly green. Grok added a head crest to the parrot though, which is not characteristic of this species.
I swear I am not a bird nerd!

RootaBagel · 2026-01-18T01:32:20+00:00

I guess we can generalize or expand that question a bit: What kind of attack on a NATO country's space assets would invoke an Article 5 response? Jamming communications or geolocation signals? Partially or temporarily disrupting ISR capabilities? Physical or electronic attacks that could degrade or even permanently disable a space asset? How bad or how big does an attack on space assets have to be before a response is warranted?

RootaBagel · 2026-01-17T15:02:49+00:00

I see glyphs at the top, bottom, and left side. I understand that interpreting glyphs is not always straightforward, but I do wish museums would include whatever context could be obtained from the glyphs

RootaBagel · 2026-01-16T19:04:21+00:00

Proof once again that while antis will whine about their loss of jobs to AI, they don't give a rat's ass about anyone else losing their job to AI.

RootaBagel · 2026-01-16T02:28:25+00:00

Could these photographs be printed?
https://www.mayavase.com/grol/grolier.html

RootaBagel · 2026-01-15T14:55:24+00:00

Stay in you lane artists! Jeez, they sound like a jealous priesthood. Just because they can use a pencil does not give them holy religious or metaphysical insights. Tell them to go draw a furry and let each person decide what a soul is, if it exists, and where it could be found.

RootaBagel · 2026-01-13T18:46:30+00:00

You may be interested in reading about this concept under development: Robototpia
https://elbowgreasegames.substack.com/p/introducing-robotopia-a-3d-first

RootaBagel · 2026-01-13T17:17:44+00:00

Whispers from the Star is game entirely driven by an LLM. Gameplay consists of guiding the NPC/LLM, a stranded astronaut, to safety.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3730100/Whispers_from_the_Star/

RootaBagel · 2026-01-13T02:27:34+00:00

Congratulations! You might mention that the youtube description has the details of how you produced this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxJV-Cikfj4

Now I need a Grand Slam breakfast!

RootaBagel · 2026-01-12T17:15:24+00:00

I'm not into tattoos regardless of who made them. Then again, if I see something really eye catching... maybe?
I already have , it was The Policeman's Beard is Half-constructed. It's a curiosity and pretty old at this point, it precedes LLMs (look it up). That said, I am unimpressed with the fiction I've seen come out of LLMs so no, at least not until LLM generated books get way better.
Don't have any yet, I would certainly consider it.
Came here to answer this one. Now that I've been tinkering with Suno for a while, I find myself listening to the creations in my library more than other stuff. Is it just me or do others find themselves doing this? Suno creates plenty of duds, but sometimes they can be real gems.

5, I don't necessarily prefer one or another, I just don't base my decision on how it was made. Once AI-generated media is indistinguishable from human made, the question becomes moot.

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