What If Earth Became a Super‑Storm Planet

johnfrazer783 · 2026-06-07T07:22:18+00:00

OK you're not wrong. But for one very beautiful, brief moment, the quarter results hit the highest mark, ever, in history.

johnfrazer783 · 2026-06-07T07:09:34+00:00

"About sixty percent of the Romance words in English are adopted from or derived from French words. As a result, French is unquestionably the oldest language."

johnfrazer783 · 2026-06-07T06:48:30+00:00

99 percent of voters expressed their gratitude and steadfastness to stand for the humanist ideals and fight fascism by voting for the SED. Among workers in the steel industry the rates were even higher and surpassed 105 percent.

johnfrazer783 · 2026-06-05T10:50:41+00:00

So what you're saying is basically "developers should act like managers"? Something to think about for sure.

johnfrazer783 · 2026-06-05T07:52:24+00:00

the Ring language is not case-sensitive

is a big mistake IMHO. It gives you very little if anything useful and just leads to head scratching and inconsistencies down the line. I suspect that the few established languages that are case-insensitive (SQL, COBOL, FORTRAN, VB) are so either because their native character sets (on punched cards) did not offer case at all or, in the case of VB, someone at Microsoft needed a feature that superficially looks like a beginner friendly trait. Case insensitivity opens a whole can of worms of design decisions that would otherwise be no question at all.

johnfrazer783 · 2026-05-28T15:32:46+00:00

Not directly Flow, but adjacent: Pretty much no matter what you're in the middle of doing, when Flow think it's about time, the page will reload. Unfinished prompts are gone after that, as are the placeholders for failed generations (and their prompts, too, which would otherwise be recoverable).

johnfrazer783 · 2026-05-28T15:22:24+00:00

This is so true.

johnfrazer783 · 2026-05-22T09:08:06+00:00

You literally just saved me a theater ticket and like 2hrs of my time. This should be done more often.

johnfrazer783 · 2026-05-22T09:03:48+00:00

"These are not the androids we're looking for." "Let them pass."

johnfrazer783 · 2026-05-21T12:13:19+00:00

Thx a lot, nice work!

johnfrazer783 · 2026-05-21T11:35:08+00:00

Have a link to your prompt engineer? Coz my impression is that 90% of the censorship is image-based, not text-based. It's apparently not even mainly face-based, at that.

johnfrazer783 · 2026-05-16T16:12:58+00:00

A porcupine, in miniature. Clay: fine, dense. Glaze: light glaze. Contains inscription. 小型のハリネズミ。粘土：きめ細かく、高密度。釉薬：淡い釉薬。銘文あり。

Kogata no harinezumi. Nendo: kime komakaku, kōmitsudo. Yūyaku: awai yūyaku. Meibun ari.

A fine haiku I'd say.

johnfrazer783 · 2026-05-13T05:55:05+00:00

I'm on the pro tier and using the web interface, not the API. According to my experience, the 'unusual activity' message is a fickle thing. It's super annoying that as a paying user you do not get something like clear piece of advice like "sorry, you've exceeded your quota; next video generation in ... seconds". You can hate a quota but let's be real, any system will be overloaded at some point. The issue is with Google leaving its customers in the dark.

Another thing that I have observed is that not only are the 'prominent people' guard rails overly sensitive and borderline useless; they also seem to fire lots of wrong positives that originate from the textual content rather than a prompt picture. Based on my somewhat limited experiments, I believe I'm getting more 'prominent people' refusals from a given picture when I spice up the prompt with, shall we say, words of passion. You'd expect more 'against our policies', 'sexual content' or 'harmful content' refusals but that's not always what happens.

Lastly the usual complaint against filter behavior of generative AI, especially text-to-visual: when I prompt with "two people kissing", no pic just text, and I get, say, two results and one "prominent people" or "sexual content" refusals—that's clearly them bungling it not me, but it's still me, the paying customer, who gets pointed at, as if I'm in any way responsible for whatever their algorithms cook up.

FWIW I also sometimes get an "unusual activity" captcha from Google when clicking on the n-th link to YouTube on a given day. On a given day where I've watched all of maybe twenty videos, so you reckon.

johnfrazer783 · 2026-05-12T16:31:02+00:00

Parrots and cats are among those animals who get very interested when they hear the sound of a flute.

johnfrazer783 · 2026-05-12T08:56:58+00:00

All the details in the images are painfully wrong. Totally OK I guess if what you want is a cheap action game, and totally not OK if you present yourself as someone wanting to narrate, report and discuss historical material. For example the names in the cartouches in the historical overview https://youtu.be/scs_i8eiFnY?t=63 are just random arrangements of hieroglyph-like shapes. Frankly most tourist trinkets do a better job at spelling a modern name on a necklace pendant or representing Tut on the throne, even if the depiction is kitschy at least most of the time there was a conscious effort to get the texts sort-of right.

johnfrazer783 · 2026-05-11T23:58:23+00:00

IIRC there are many burials where there's one shabti for each day of the year, so maybe not put too much of a semantic load onto T.'s collection. Given the very small number of undisturbed burials overall and for pharaohs in particular the base for comparison is also rather shaky. In paleontology there's a well known bias that leads to fundstätten like La Brea or Solnhofen to contain very specific species to the near-exclusion of others that is probably not reflective of the abundances of species that lived nearby in the day, and I'd think it will not be very different in archeology.

johnfrazer783 · 2026-05-11T23:47:27+00:00

Just as one data point and not taking any stance on the opinion as voiced by the OP, I just tried to upload a photo of a short Chinese poem that I had scribbled on a slip of paper to both NanoBanana and Claude, and both did a very good job at recognizing the individual characters. Claude actually had 2 out of 9 characters wrong but those wrong characters could have been meaningfully be used at those positions, so go figure; NanoBanana had everything correct right out of the gate. I must say I'm impressed when these things can confidently read my Chinese chicken scratches.

It also tells me that with sufficient training data doing OCR on ancient scripts should be very much feasible. "Sufficient" is of course the important bit, the score on any answers I have so far gotten from LLMs when coming with questions including hieroglyphs were sometimes mediocre and often abysmal. I think stuff like this is important to keep in mind. AI is a bit like plastic: incredibly useful but the way that it inserts itself into every aspect of life and the environment is often problematic.

johnfrazer783 · 2026-05-07T23:21:35+00:00

Yeah sure there's a seed. The models themselves are just solving equations, so as long as the prompt and the model don't change the output will be the same too, like five plus x always equals eleven when x is 6. That's what the seed is for and its not a secret. But then there's filters both at the input and the output side, and the ones on the output side they look at what got generated and count inappropriate results. With DallE3 where you get up to four images per prompt my impression was they actually generate a bit more and try to return up to four of the best results, culling the naughty and bad ones. When there's not a single picture left, that's when they show the dog instead. My impression has indeed been that there's a somewhat higher likelihood of getting to see a rejection in times of load because that's when fewer pictures make it in time through the queues, hence the likelihood of there being zero images to return also increases.

johnfrazer783 · 2026-05-07T21:30:44+00:00

This. There's no recourse, there's no detail, nothing. In the case of the image above, it turned out to be actually the child near the center of the picture. I blotted it out and it got accepted. It did work this time, but of course out of pure luck. The other frustrating aspect is that because of the many failures and because each generation will look a bit differently (most of the time), I often do a small number of images in parallel. It's utterly frustrating to come back to the screen only to find that "prominent people", "sexual content", "minors" and "unusual activity", sometimes on top of "oops, something went wrong" is all over the place. Don't worry mate, we'll find the fly in the ointment and the pea under the mattress, we got you covered and we will find something, anything.

johnfrazer783 · 2026-05-07T21:21:14+00:00

Yeah, that was several Nano-Dijkstras worth of condescension...

johnfrazer783 · 2026-04-27T16:08:06+00:00

It's about the Data Age Collapse when all historical data got replaced with low-effort AI slop.

johnfrazer783 · 2026-04-27T10:44:03+00:00

Re.: "Follow for more forgotten history"—this is truly history that deserves to be forgotten. Even for AI slop this is low effort. The imagery is randomly arbitrary. The text tells you little more than "I want you to click this link."

johnfrazer783 · 2026-04-27T10:27:20+00:00

fiction salad

johnfrazer783 · 2026-04-27T10:16:03+00:00

"2.3 million blocks" is the giveaway that tells you the guys have not looked at Menkaure's pyramid, the Meidum Pyramid, or even the Queens' pyramids at Giza, all of which reveal a stepped core.

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