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What part is missing? It appears to have all the core parts of a bicycle to me?


> What part is missing? It appears to have all the core parts of a bicycle to me?

* I am not an expert in pelican anatomy, but it appears that the bicycle's saddle, if present, would be very deeply inside this pelican (try drawing it onto the frame, and see what you get). Let's be kind, and assume that the seat is simply missing.

* The crown on the fork[1] is missing. The fork is not separate from the frame; so you can't turn the front wheel.

* Neither of pelican's feet are on the pedals (the left foot appears to be missing altogether)

* The wheels are way too small for that frame.

Note: Brakes and gears are nowhere to be seen, but OK, let's just assume it's a fixie (or a single-speed with a coaster brake). Let's also assume the red thing on the basket is there for decoration.

Also, the spokes on a typical bicycle wheel follow a cross-lacing pattern [2], at an angle to the radial direction, and you can see them crossing each other. But OK, let's let that slide.

My point is: sure, this thing at least passes as a bicycle. But it's not a good bicycle drawing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_fork

[2] https://spokecalc.io/how-to-lace-a-wheel.php


I just think this is insanely pedantic. Most art is not photorealistic, and in fact imo having a crown on the fork may very well make this image worse by taking away from the aesthetic.


Sure, if the "uncanny valley" aesthetic is what you're going for, then by all means, tell the machine to shrink the wheels further.

It's just not what makes a great bicycle picture.

Also, that bicycle's seatpost must be outright penetrating that pelican's cloaca.

You can say I'm being anal about it, and you'll have a point. But it's not that pedantic to notice it.


I think the seat post and the angle of the fork are issues but I just don’t think that the greatness of an image of a bicycle has anything to do with whether you can tell that the fork is a separate piece of metal from the frame. The prompt here isn’t about making an image so that an alien who has never seen a bike can make one, it’s about people recognizing that it’s a normal looking bike and the emotional response that comes from that. The emotional response the vast majority of people have looking at this isn’t “that bike won’t ride”


>a normal looking bike

The wheels are comically small, and the seat is up the pelican's ass. Pardon me, cloaca.

That's not a normal-looking bike to me, but you are welcome to be happy about it.

>The emotional response the vast majority of people have looking at this isn’t “that bike won’t ride”

Right, that's the very definition of a bar for what we call "AI slop".

Looks kind of OK, until you actually look at it.


It's fun when a subject matter expert shows up and blows your mind with their level of knowledge on normally unnoticed intricate details that go into everyday things.


How much effort would it take to get this working on Windows?


see MagicPods. although, it's paid, and requires windows to be in test mode to install a driver for L2CAP support. microsoft has decided to not allow l2c for userspace applications.


You might be able to get it working via WSL


Have had the HL-L2340DW since 2016. Still on the original tonner. Only really use it to print my resume to bring to interviews. Still works like a charm.


I changed the original toner yesterday. Mainly use it to print out DHL shipping labels.


Sigh OpenAI employees probably take the biggest loss. Have to chose between this shitshow or joining Microsoft. Crazy how fast things can change. 1AM twitter post, restructurings by an interim ceo only for it to happen again once they get a permanent one. Crazy how fast things can change


I doubt OpenAI employees will take much of a loss, Sam Altman will probably get MSFT to match their salaries, and they will still have a licence to use most of the OpenAI IP including GPT-4 weights.

The real loss is taken by the other OpenAI investors.


An interesting side-effect, is that Sam and others could use their influence to push internal people at OpenAI to release their models and weights, so other companies can build upon them.


Hopefully this leads to a lot of internal dissent and someone leaks the models


Would be fun to see the training material, source code (engine & training data scraping systems), and models all leak. With Sam not returning that would be the double tap the now-zombie OpenAI'd need.


Betting on Snowden part 2…


What's the point of this if it just redirects to twitter.com??


Well they open sourced part of it, https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm

and then I'm pretty sure Elon had a whiteboard session during his first days before firing everyone and had people explain it to him. Which he then posted on his twitter account. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593899029531803649?s=20


nice prompt, i usually just add "ask questions to gain context" at the end and it will just list off a bunch of questions before answering.


I’d like to see more effort into golfing down prompts in general before being shared. So many prompts are almost self-important in how verbose they are, like a school kid bullshitting an essay.

Watching so called techies use ChatGPT is like watching non tech people use Google.

You can recreate the same output with much fewer tokens most of the time. Especially once you drop the anthropomorphizing fluff.


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