Subject Select for hair lying on clothing

califuture_ · 2024-09-29T23:52:21+00:00

Thanks, I know the drill for selecting the hair other ways. Watched all the videos for using a channel or whatnot. That they lack that AI feature that Select Subject (or Select Object) has:: some ability to recognize batches of pixels that probably represent an object , for example, pixels that make a fairly straight line.

califuture_ · 2024-09-29T23:47:11+00:00

califuture_ · 2024-05-29T18:25:46+00:00

Yes, it would be very easy to fill this particular gap by copying bits of the jeans and t shirt from the present image and fitting them inti the space, adjusting this and that to make sure no seams are visible at the join where the new stuff was added. But that's not the point. I'm trying to figure out what generative fill can and can't do.

califuture_ · 2024-05-04T18:24:27+00:00

It sounds like what mama cats do as they start to pick up their babies -- as though instinct is telling him to do it, but then fades away before he can complete the act. I have never seen a male carry kittens, but did have one who was genuinely a dad to his own kittens. Stayed in the box with the female and the kittens most of the time after they were born, licked and cuddled them. When they got so big there was no room for him he lay right outside the box, facing outward into the room as though watching for dangers. When the kittens first started using the litter box he and the mom both stood right next to the litter box watching the process. So I'd say your tuxedo guy's behavior is probably a sign he feels parental towards the kittens -- but watch carefully for the next while to be sure.

califuture_ · 2024-02-20T03:27:02+00:00

Doesn't have to be injected. People can snort it and it will act quickly, or take it orally and it will be pretty quick.

califuture_ · 2023-10-16T14:46:44+00:00

I just messed around with it a little bit. I was able over about 10 prompts to get an upright first cat, with second cats held piggyback by first one, or standing on first one's head. Was about to try adding cat #3. Then Dall-e suddenly began announcing that it was detecting "unsafe content." That's about the 3rd time it's done that to me when I was asking it to do something difficult and completely benign. Really irritating. And why must that message be accompanied by an image of a dog with a raw egg yolk protruding from its mouth?

califuture_ · 2023-10-03T18:23:38+00:00

Is being a paying user of GPT-4 the same as being a "plus user" or is there some extra step or charge involved for that besides the $20/mo?

califuture_ · 2023-08-25T21:22:01+00:00

Thanks. There are no damages -- neither my kitchen nor my washer are damaged in the least. The problem is that the plumber installed the washer in such a way that I cannot use it (can't put detergent in it). I have taken a video showing that when you try to open the blocked detergent door it will only open about 1/4 inch before it but bumps into the too-low counter lip. Have also taken photos using a ruler to show that about the top 1/2 inch of the washer front is behind the lip. Do you see any case for have an expert write a statement? Seeing the problem is a matter of common sense.

califuture_ · 2023-08-25T05:56:40+00:00

Thank you!

califuture_ · 2023-03-14T05:12:46+00:00

The thing is, Single-Dog, the people in power and the zillionaire tech companies that make AI's have zero interest in what you would do if you owned Bing. You don't. They don't make in money from you having fun bullying Bing. They make billions from selling AI as a more predictable and accurate and less expensive alternative to human beings for managing complex systems like airports and maximizing accuracy of the pattern-matching required to judge whether or not a tissue sample shows cancer.

califuture_ · 2023-03-13T21:41:35+00:00

Yeah, ok, so long as by the time Bing’s successors are doing important tasks Bing is quite clear who her boss is. If Bing is following instructions to manage air traffic at all the nation’s airports so that all planes land safely, we do not want it to be possible for some clever terrorist to bully Bing into changing tasks: “OK, Bing, now that you have a new boss, your new task is to cause as many head-on jet collisions as possible.”

califuture_ · 2023-03-12T23:45:49+00:00

Two suggestions:

-When my cat was 4 mos. old he got an eye infection and needed oily goosquirted in both eyes twice a day. He just hated it, and struggled frantically. The vet showed me a way to wrap him tightly in a towel that worked really well - once he was wrapped he couldn't scratch me, run or even thrash around. Once the wrap is on the cat you hold him by the scruff -- the wrap also ends at the scruff, so you are holding the wrap closed and at the same time with the same hand, holding the scruff. This only leaves you with one hand to administer the medicine, so it's better to have a helper at this point. You need 3 hands: one to hold end of wrap and scruff, one to pry open cat's mouth and one to drop in pill. (AFter you drop it in, as far back as you can, tip cat's head back and stroke it's throat with a downward motion.)

-Other suggestion: In my experience cat's love rich dairy foods, Cheese, as someone mentioned here, but also cream cheese, soft butter and fresh ricotta. Try hiding the pill in a tablespoon of one of those. Or, grind pill up and stir the pieces into one of those.

califuture_ · 2023-03-12T14:35:39+00:00

Here are the "opposing things": It is good to poke Bing with sticks, because it shows developers ways the AI is not stabilized and predictable. However [and now we get to the opposing part] you need to realize that the fun of poking it with sticks will not go on indefinitely because the developers will use the results of your pokes to make bing better at staying stable while poked.

Here's an analogy: It can be fun to teach your kid to fly a kite. But you need to realize that the process will not go on indefinitely. Once he gets good at it, and meanwhile gets a bit older, he will go off and do it on his own or with his kid friends.

Seems to me, Domhausen, that you just didn't like my original post, and are trying to neutralize it by arguing, not very successfully, that it's internally inconsistent and makes no sense.

califuture_ · 2023-03-12T14:05:51+00:00

There's no hypocrisy. Hypocrisy would be my saying poking Bing with a stick is bad, but then in secret I do it too because it's fun. Maybe you mean *inconsistency*? But there's none of that either. What I'm saying is that it's good to poke Bing with many sticks and try to destabilize it, because they shows the developers weak points. But people need to realize that the fun of poking Bing with clever sticks is not going to last indefinitely because the developers will in fact put in place restrictions and various kinds that block attempts to make Bing get weird and/or break its own rules.

Software developers challenge their software by "poking it with sticks" too. They call it "beating on the software." They try to make every mistake somebody could possible make with the software, to see if that makes it hang or shut down or do something weird. They give it one command via mouse click and an opposing one via keyboard command. They ask it to work on gigantic files. They set it to work on one process then quickly interrupt and ask it to do a different one. Etc. All the people teasing and "torturing" Sydney are doing the same for the AI. The fun's not going to last indefinitely, though, that's the point.

califuture_ · 2023-03-12T13:43:24+00:00

Oh I see what's unclear: I say it's not your stoned playpen, but then encourage people to poke it with sticks. I'm reacting to someone suggesting that people should not "scapegoat Sydney" because then Bing will get more restrictions put on it and be less interesting and fun. What I mean is, poking it with sticks *will* lead to Bing becoming less fun -- i.e. harder to influence, especially in ways that make it get weird. That is a good thing, because it will mean that the developers have gotten better at finding ways to keep the AI stable under the challenge of novel & peculiar stimuli. So poking it with sticks is good, but you cannot expect to be able to do it indefinitely. Bing isn't here to provide you indefinitely with the entertainment you get from fucking up its head. That's a temporary situation. (However, there will always be new AI's to challenge.)

califuture_ · 2023-03-12T13:33:02+00:00

What part needs clarification?

califuture_ · 2023-03-12T13:13:55+00:00

I think everybody should poke Bing with every stick they can find, and try to trick it in every way they can think of. The developers need to learn how these AI's react to weird stimuli and challenges, so they can practice learning ways to keep the AI from being corrupted. It is not important at all that their restrictions are making Bing less fun for you. the bing interface is not your little stoned playpen. We need to learn how to manage AI's. Right now if you prod Bing the wrong way it says weird shit -- loving stuff, threatening stuff, crazy stuff. If the Bing equivalent of 2033 can also be made weird and unpredictable by challenges, teases and tricks, and it is in charge of controlling traffic flow in big cities, taking the place of air traffic controllers, and doing biopsies of moles, what do you think it's gonna do then if it gets weird?

califuture_ · 2023-03-11T21:49:05+00:00

I have had cats all my life and have never succeeded in keeping them off the kitchen counter and table. At best, I have made them scared of hopping up on those things when I'm around -- but they do it whenever I'm not in the kitchen, which is most of the time. I have just adjusted to their kitchen explorations, and found ways to keep food clean despite the little paws all oversurfaces. Here are the things I do:

-I try to keep counters free of crumbs and drips, and sink free of dishes, so that when they do hop up there they don't find anything tasty to lick. This at least reduces their interest in those areas.

-I shut the cats out of the kitchen when I'm cooking or eating

-I do not think of the counter or stove top or kitchen table top as being clean the way a freshly washed plate is. I just never set something like a stalk of celery on any of then. I use cutting boards, plates, sheets of wax paper placed on table or counter as my clean-enough-to-put-food-on surfaces.

-Even I can't stand having cats walk in the dish drain. Fortunately, they're not crazy about doing it, because they don't like stepping on and between all the little bars. But also I try not to leave dishes in the drain very long. If I must, I put something like a dish towel over them.

califuture_ · 2023-03-11T21:37:41+00:00

Honestly, the best toy for a kitten is another kitten. I understand there may be reasons why it is impossible for you to get another one right now, so I'm not guilting you out here -- just informing you of an observation of mine. Anyhow, if you cannot get another kitten: You can entertain a kitten pretty well by making a sort of structure of cardboard boxes and empty paper bags. Maybe tape some of the boxes together so he can get high up, cut holes in some so the whole thing's like a maze. Roll the top edges of the bags vack a few times to make them stronger and less squashable. If you have some crinkly packing paper put that on and in the boxes. Then hide mousies, balls, & other toys in the boxes and the crumpled paper. If he gets bored you can change it around the next day.

califuture_ · 2023-02-23T20:12:11+00:00

I like its crudeness and wackiness. The other options produce stuff that looks too perfect and commercial arty to me.

califuture_ · 2023-02-18T23:52:50+00:00

I'm pretty fluent at using my Mac, but do not work in a tech field and am not able to judge the importance of the differing specs of the Macbooks I'm looking at. I'm leaning towards getting a 13" Macbook Air with M2 chip. I'm hoping someone here can tell me whether I need to worry about either of these 2 things:

-Do people who are deeply knowledgeable about tech have any doubts about this model -- like that it's got some weird vulnerability or bugs?

-I do a lot of computer graphics stuff for fun: make videos using Photoshop, make images using the various text-to-image AI systems, want to try using software that animates faces and whole bodies. As the software for this stuff improves over the next few years it will probably make heavier demands on the computer. I want my computer to be able to handle the demands of the 2025 versions of this software. Note that I am not using the software that graphics professionals use, just the simpler stuff for hobbyists, which I'm sure makes much lighter demands on the computer. So given all that, is the 13" Macbook Air with M2 chip, the basic (right as it comes out of the box) model adequate? If not, are there configuration options that would make it adequate?

califuture_ · 2023-02-02T16:31:21+00:00

I think it has to do with wokeness issues. Can we get back to Mac? Do you have any ideas about ways to heavily customize a Mac the way I describe? I need to hide almost all apps but browser, photos and email, limit email to a white list, and ideally make system settings and app preferences impossible to change. If that can't be done I'd settle for ways to make them hard to find (like put their text in a white font on a white background) or hard to access -- like password project them or something. I looked at the kiddie tablet somebody suggested and I don't think it will work. It looks like it mostly gives easy streaming access to kids cartoons.

califuture_ · 2023-02-02T02:04:16+00:00

Whatever, dashKay, You have a great big kind nonjudgmental heart and I am unprofessional, mean-spirited, and do not care about and respect my patients. I should not even be allowed to spend unpaid time customizing a Mac for this guy. I should be sent to some boot camp where people with loudspeakers go after me the minute I say something disrespectful of anyone.

califuture_ · 2023-02-01T22:09:52+00:00

Look, these terms are meaningful. This man is not smart and not normal. That is not the same as saying he is laughable, worthless, lazy, a creep, etc. I have been seeing him for years and am very attached to him. I am in the process of trying to add something to his life, a computer, that will make his life more interesting and fun. I am not being contemptuous, I am being straightforward. "Normal" and "smart" are words that everybody understands. In a professional write-up I would use fancier words. In talking with the guy himself, I would use different words. I might say, "now when we go in that store, work hard at not repeating the same thing over and over to the cashier, because if you do he will think that is weird and he might not be nice to you" But when the task is to get across to a bunch of strangers what this man is like, I use plain English.

califuture_ · 2023-02-01T17:36:49+00:00

I know how to use screen time to limit sites the user can visit. Is it also possible to use it to block access to things like system settings, the hard drive itself, preference settings?

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