You Are Everything.🌷💜❤️🧡💛💚🌷

"less is more" doesn't exist when it comes to character design btw

david byrne origin story

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MIDI

me as a mom

i feel like it needs to be said that this is a quote from carly rae jepsen

oh golly would you look at the time ???

time to get feral

concept: new tumblr glitch that takes you back to the bottom of your dash. the beginning of it all

hi! so i just found out that youtube is adding a new source of revenue to videos, “applause”. on every video there will be an ability to donate money directly to the channel.

major issue! youtube takes 30% of the cut. now they’ve been doing that with superchats for years, no big surprise. however you should know that if you donate through mobile, it takes an additional 30%.

so only 40% of your donation may reach the creator.

just support them on patreon, kofi or streamlabs. youtube is garbage

this is arcane knowledge that the human mind cant comprehend

honestly what the fuck does this mean

“Don’t stress yourselves out about it, but don’t ignore the situation”

I declare this Wholesome Knowledge

D&D character names - generated by a neural network

There are algorithms called artificial neural networks that can learn to imitate examples of just about anything. They’re used in all sorts of everyday programs, translating languages, identifying photos, colorizing drawings, delivering ads, and tons more. 

It turns out neural networks may also be a dungeon master’s best friend.

I’ve trained neural networks to invent new Dungeons & Dragons spells (part 1, part 2) and also trained them to name new D&D creatures. It worked very well (Shield of Farts, anyone?), thanks to the spellbooks and monster manuals I could use as datasets. But there weren’t any datasets for another big aspect of Dungeons & Dragons: all the characters who populate these worlds. So, over the past few months, readers have been helping me to build a dataset - which has now reached a staggering 20,908 entries.

For each character, people entered a name, a race (human, dwarf, elf, etc), and a class (wizard, rogue, bard, cleric, etc). Some of the races and classes got to be quite inventive - there’s a penguin, a fey corgi, a black pudding, and a sentient bucket. So I gave this huge weird list to a neural network to see how convincing it could sound.

With nearly 21,000 examples, the neural network could indeed sound convincing. Much of the time, the names matched the character type - at least as often as in the original dataset (which had 5 characters named Frank and 12 named Tim). 

Other names made perhaps less sense.

One thing I like is all the new character races and classes that the neural network discovered. I don’t know what most of them are, but you’ll be the only one in your party.

One type of name the neural network did very well: silly compound names. This pretty much settles the question of whether a neural network would be totally on board with naming something Boaty McBoatface: it totally would.

Here is what it thinks dwarves should be named.

Actually, you know what? Pretty much everyone needs a name like this. 

I’ve posted the entire original dataset here, and you can access a huge export of generated characters there as well. If you want the list plus a few extra that I deemed not quite G-rated enough for the main blog, become a supporter of AI Weirdness!

Update: I’ve got an experiment now where a neural net tried to generate D&D character bios as well!

Having adhd is everyone thinking you wear mismatched socks for fun or to be quirky but really you hate it and just haven't seen two of the same sock since you were five

I just wear the same socks everyday 😅😅 sorry

im adopting the ‘dark jock’ aesthetic. i’m going to lurk around crumbling old institute buildings in a black tanktop with a skull on it and a backwards ballcap and i’m going to get dark academia people to write my essays for me while i call them nerds and doofuses and prep for the big dark football game

“There are other forces at work in this world besides the will of evil.”

Best go vote add I’ve seen, maybe ever

true romance

Just so y'all know, there’s more lol