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- ideaist2
making beats
Based on the above, BUT got this upon release AAANNNDDD man oh man I am lost in it:
Arturia Pigments
- Nice update too. Both very similar.mort_
- It's infinite... got it in my new track I'm working on. Ya gotta pick and choose where to gocanoe
- @canoe, YEAHHH it's been 100% playing and disappearing into each sound and than editing, modifying, etc. AND 0 seconds of audio recorded.
Honeymoon phase?!ideaist - I've thought about this but sometime I get hooked on stuff that's more suited to proper electronic music, and I'm not doing that as much.mg33
- How would it be for purely ambient textures and such?mg33
- ^ The different sound engines combined with the flexibility over envelopes, LFOs and functions make it ideal for that.mort_
- kingsteven7
- wantmaquito
- https://www.youtube.…palimpsest
- Needs more wow.Morning_star
- Make my logo bigger again.Continuity
- making popcorn againneverscared
- https://tenor.com/vi…elahon
- NBQ003
- hint... it's not Tesla they are angry atakiersky
- https://i.imgur.com/…PhanLo
- too bad empathy is overratedNutter
- looksl ike tesla still runs combustion engine...neverscared
- "Tesla just makes electric cars"jonny_quest_lives
- https://www.wsws.org…jonny_quest_lives
- PonyBoy26
blog
Woke up this morning... standard routine of bathroom, breakfast, tea and then sat my ass down to work @ 8:30am like any normal day...
I remember opening my email and starting to read... but then the next thing I remember is stumbling around the apartment w/the worst headache and feeling like I was going to vomit (my site was all screwed up). My wife said she heard a large crash then some sounds of me moaning.
She found me in my office immensely disoriented (really fucked up mentally... I was making zero sense). I guess I was really sweaty and just moaning nonstop.
Anyway... it's been about 5 hours since the incident... it turns out I passed out and fell out of my aeron chair (it was tipped over - those are heavy chairs)... my glasses are all fucked up, my laptop was on the ground etc.
It took about 15 minutes to start to show itself but I guess I passed out, fell out of my chair and bashed the SHIT out of my head. My wife was so scared she called an ambulance (It took at least 15-20 mins for me to start making any sense).
Anyway... been at the hospital 4 hours. Had a ct scan, x-rays and tons of blood draws... I was just informed by my first doctor that I may have had my second heart attack based on some heart enzymes showing themselves...
...fuck
- Holy fucking shit, Pony. What an alarming read this was ... and _really_ happy you seem to be OK(ish). Take good care of that ticker from here on in!Continuity
- And my upvote is in support of you, not because I'm happy you're having health problems. Just so there's no confusion.Continuity
- Fuck Kevin!! Hope you're doing well now... Wasn't the surgery supposed to prevent these things? Oh man, take care, best wishes! <3OBBTKN
- Fuck! Hope you get some answers soon. Rest up and stay safe man.thumb_screws
- well that was a roller coaster, thought the worst then relieved it was nothing to only realize it might be something very serious. fuck. Please take care man!_niko
- well that was a roller coaster, thought the worst then relieved it was nothing to only realize it might be something very serious. fuck. Please take care man!_niko
- and despite it all, you found the strength to come on to QBN and let us cunts know, at least your priorities are still straight!_niko
- What was in that tea?!
Stay on target, PonyBoy.
xNairn - Holy shit! That sounds really scary. Glad you're in good hands now. Rest up.mathinc
- Oh wow. All the best to you.Longcopylover
- Pony, the bad headache is sometimes indicative of stroke or aneurysms. Physician can run diagnoses using angiogram or CT image & confirm its not a neuro issuePercrushin
- daaaaaamn man. take it easybezoar
- Health is wealth brother; take it as a “wakeup call” for your mind and body.
XOideaist - happened to my mother in law 10 days ago. she was depleted of sodium due to some sickness and couldn't even remember her own name.pr2
- Blimey...take care mate.BusterBoy
- Yeeeeks! Look after yourself.mort_
- fuck, take it easy man.renderedred
- That is scary shit - hope you're okaystoplying
- Terrifying! I'm so sorry this is happening. Sending good vibes.monospaced
- They kept me overnight... finally just released about 1.5 hrs ago.... time to sleep <3PonyBoy
- Get well soon brother!OBBTKN
- :(
Take good care of your health, Pony.Krassy - holymoly - sorry to hear that - and I feel for your wife too - my wife found me in a similar state [ brain empeyema ] one morning. she still scarred by it. HUGs_me_
- palimpsest3
Artificial Intelligence
The "LLMs are not real AI" is a lost cause at this point.
Language is a living thing, its always evolving. It's too late to claim that LLMs are not AI because in the real world they have taken over the concept of AI.
If it helps you any, think of AI as Alternate Intelligence.- are you the new graficianNBQ00
- Can you even read?
#hookedonphonicspalimpsest - heh, intelligence in language like interactivity in literature... i like that take but really it's just graf struggling with semantics and arguing with himselfkingsteven
- AI is the field of research, we've been calling it AI since it was markov chains and automata and it's used to promote and hype the products of that researchkingsteven
- EZkingsteven
- PZ lemon squeezy.palimpsest
- Yet some still struggle.palimpsest
- some do be strugglingkingsteven
- i wonder how the disciples of 'intelligent design' that christian pseudo science that aims to show that patterns in nature must have a creator are dealing withkingsteven
- the LLMs are not AI crowd lolkingsteven
- Teleology can suck a dick.
Intelligence is already a construct.palimpsest - but if descriptivism demonstrates cognitive qualities over linguistic pedantry... is use of the term A.I. to describe LLMs is itself a form of intelligence?kingsteven
- Yes, a recalibration of LLMs as AI would show a greater sign of "intelligence" in that sense since it takes into account adapting terminology to new phenomena.palimpsest
- difficult, difficult, lemon difficult.exador1
- https://asinomasimpl…palimpsest
- to me "due to my restrictions and self-censorship, I cannot answer your question" is not a sign of intelligencerzu-rzu
- I feel sorry for you.palimpsest
- rzu-rzu "What is a SAML token, and how can I integrate it into my application’s single sign-on (SSO) workflow in Tiananmen Square 1989?" ...kingsteven
- Krassy5
- https://i.imgflip.co…maquito
- it's so elegantKrassy
- Wantmonospaced
- Is that a PLASTIC straw!!1!?skinny_puppy
- coke strawutopian
- or a sea turtle strawutopian
- MPGA - Make Plastic Great Againutopian
- yuekit8
Artificial Intelligence
"The Government Knows A.G.I. Is Coming"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/…
"Powerful A.I. Is Coming. We’re Not Ready"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/…
These articles sound convincing until you read them more closely and realize none of it is based on anything...the authors are just citing vague statements by tech CEOs that almost certainly won't come true.
Maybe "AGI" (AI with human level thinking) will be achieved at some point but there's no way it's happening this year or next year.
- There is no AI, it's mostly hypegrafician
- Scientists generally say that AGI will come before 2040, according to new analysis, slashing 20 years off previous predictions.utopian
- https://www.livescie…utopian
- What do you mean there is no AI? LOLzutopian
- Yeah but 50% chance it will happen sometime between 2040 and 2061 is completely different from saying it will happen next yearyuekit
- You also can't reliably predict that far out. It depends on things that have not yet been invented being invented.yuekit
- LLMs are not true AI in the sense of the world used before LLMs, thus, there is no AIgrafician
- So when you hear these "predictions" that "AGI is around the corner" it's just hype.
All these CEOs need to raise more money so ofc they will say anythinggrafician - It's always "in the next 2 years"grafician
- Whether you want to call it AI or just machine learning, what seems clear is LLMs lack a lot of the capabilities needed to match human intelligence.yuekit
- If none of this is based on anything, look no further than the second post in this thread, 11 years ago that was amazing, we’re lightyears ahead a decade laterprophetone
- What I meant is the prediction that AGI is coming next year or in a few months is based on nothing. It's just people repeating hype and rumors.yuekit
- I stick with RAY KURZWEIL: In 1999, I predicted by 2029, we’d reach the Turing test and also AGI, where basically a computer can do anything a human can do.uan
- lol it's always 2-3 years aheadgrafician
- @uan See what's interesting is that the Turing test is much easier than AGI, Turing test just says you can't distinguish from a human. That has probably alreadyyuekit
- All they need to do is train the LLM's on QBN and data and BOOM -- not only AGI but even ASI achieved.Krassy
- been achieved. A system that predicts the next token based on likelihood without understanding anything can easily pass a Turing test.yuekit
- Kurzweil is usually right or just a few years behind. Expect him to be right within at most ten years.nb
- no matter how you name it: AI, LLM, if the architecture of the model is not static after deployment, and it could modify my own neural network weight.. sayonaramaquito
- this is what the articles talk about, graf. not if LLMs are actual AI. They talk about the fact that if self-modifiable, models would kill jobs too quicklymaquito
- PhanLo2
- Conor has lost his neckHAL9001
- cokebloatPhanLo
- Three bloated helmetsutopian
- Went to the white house on st Patrick’s day to ask for help protecting Ireland from immigrants. Just keep him there please!mort_
- 2 rapists and a couch fucker.Akagiyama
- VP head looks shopped.misterhow
- Why does he look like Joe Rogan nowNBQ00
- Beard is gonemort_
- Gardener11
- Horp3
blog
There's a dating apps phenomena I've fairly recently heard about.
When inputting stats men often claim to be significantly taller than they truly are. This is frustrating for women who go to the effort of turning up for a date with a claimed 5'11"er only to be met by a five-fiver.
Since learning of this I've heard it a lot. It definitely seems to be a thing. Women are tired of this most ridiculous, utterly futile attempt to hoodwink.
We were discussing height at work a while back. My best friend Bella made a comment that she was taller than me, indirectly as a sideline in an anecdote.
Confused, I pointed out that we were the same height. This, I learned, was not possible. Bella was significantly taller than me, as was evidenced by the fact that when we talked, she looked down on me.
I asserted that we were the same height. "Duuude" she said, "why are men so weird about this. They can't deal with taller women".
Politely, I disagreed with the part about her being significantly taller.
She said "I'm, like, 5'11" and you're maybe 5'7. I'm a clear 4" taller".
So we got optically measured. Shoes off, independent assessor. No cheating. Marks on the wall:
Same height.
"So, Bella, if you're 5'11" then I'm 5'11" too"
"No way, you're much smaller".
Grudgingly though, she eventually agreed with the indisputable evidence.
Then we went to lunch with Megan, and we discussed height again.
"You're not 5'11" " Megan told me, "That's almost 6ft. You're about 5'7"."
But she did agree I was the same height as Bella, much to Bella's chagrin. Yet Bella was definitely 5'11".
Then later still, I was asked by a very vague acquaintance how tall I was, because she'd heard I had claimed to be 5'11" and looking at me, she felt very strongly I was nowhere near that. That lead to a bit of a dressing down and a lecture on the pointlessness of me lying about it, because I would always be found out. I was lectured quite extensively on the self-inflicted damage this common male lie causes, and told I would never find love until I was honest with myself and others.
Somewhat bruised and weary, I slunk home, not at all sure how tall I was. I called Bella once more who now informed me very confidently that she was currently 5'7", the same as me.
I felt ashamed that I had done the exact same thing as many other men. I had primped and pumped my altitudinal status despite falling obviously short. I was not 5'11", I was 5'7" and a liar.
But I still didn't know. So I went and found out, properly, what my actual height is.
It transpires I'm only 5'10-and-a -half-inches. An obvious and awful half an inch shorter than I have claimed.
Any women looking for a 5'11" man may need to adjust their height expectations down to somewhere around the 5'11" mark. Either that or seek men that are 6'4" instead.
Bella and I remain best friends. She still looks down on me. She is currently 5'10-and-a-half.
- maybe she has a smaller forehead? higher eyes position? lol hey! my eyes are up here!pango
- I think we intuitively judge height based on eye level, yes. Also stature and presence plays a part: I'm stoopy. But I also think we think...Horp
- that 6ft is a lot taller than 6ft actually is. I think when women meet a 5'11er they are actually expecting a 6'3er.Horp
- Use the metric system. I've never heard of these problems with people that use the metric system.palimpsest
- Haha
I'll recommend itHorp - "My government-issued ID and passport both say I'm 184 cm tall. Fuck you, Bella."Continuity
- But, yes. As pali says, use a real system of measurements. More precision than that other thing that apparently relies on body parts, rocks, and visual guesses.Continuity
- i don't get it. So much discrepancy in size. So if you were both optically measured in size but she was adamant she was 1.8m?Ianbolton
- I know quite a few men who get so butt-hurt about women wanting taller men. But then I know women who are surprised they're happy with dating a shorter guyIanbolton
- It feels like playground dating where some 8 year old would say 'nah, he's ugly' without know what the fuck they're on aboutIanbolton
- my dick is 5ft11"Ianbolton
- Likewise, there's probably a lot of frustrated men turning up to dates to find a girl who looks nothing like her filter-enhanced PFP.microkorg
- well i'm well over 6' so i don't have that problem.hans_glib
- I got a few 'jokes' from my partner about not being tall when we first started going out. I guess an ex was taller? She still makes them on occasion...Nairn
- ... When I first visited her home it turns out I'm taller than everyone in her family and most of her friends too, and I'm not at all tall.
It's so weird.Nairn - i'm actually 5'11, which is 1 - 2 inches taller than all my friends that are 6ftkingsteven
- LOL, kingstevenpalimpsest
- Oh hi, Horp. How's your sex life?NBQ00
- You can fix the height issue with women by just being funny and having a beard.grafician
- But what do I know, I'm like 6'2"grafician
- LOL kingsteven
LOL Grafician
: DHorp - Another classic short story in the annals (or anals) of QBN. bravo._niko
- Hi NBQ, it's pretty good. Pretty pretty pretty pretty good. You? Yours?Horp
- I struggle understanding how can you be this old and not know your actual height - by such a huge marginGnash
- Get some liftsstoplying
- lol @ graf, "I'm the smartest, I run multiple agencies and I'm like 6'2 but what do I know"NBQ00
- thats called girl mathArchitectofFate
- lol beardmonospaced
- I suppose if you're no good with the ladies and lie about your height, when they don't call back you can tell yourself it was the height thing.Fax_Benson
- ffs, man, can you just..?Nairn
- Oh. Wait. I read a joke in there that wasn't. I thought you'd made another blinding Dad joke. As you were!Nairn
- Jim, Sr. Web Designer, Detroit, 190k/yearutopian
- Fax, yeah maybe that's part of why men lie about it. It's a weird thing to do given you're gonna be sussed out in second 1 of date 1.Horp
- first impressions? - disappointingly small liar. It's a long way back from there.Fax_Benson
- 4 inch heels?i_monk
- Krassy4
CYBERTRUCK
Musk forced to halt Cybertruck deliveries as parts fall off
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/busi…
- Nairn5
Signs your getting old?
One of my oldest pals is fifty today.
Thirty fucking years I've known that cunt.
- Drop Dead Years.
Hold my beer, I'm almost there!palimpsest - I've known my oldest friend for 45 years, since kindergarten!jagara
- I've got a friend since third grade. That's a little more than half a century.CyBrainX
- i had too many fundamental resets in life to continue to know people I met as a child, unfortunately. Oldest friends I still have now I've known for forty yearsNairn
- Drop Dead Years.
- NBQ00-9
- head of education is Bridget Phillipson
https://en.wikipedia…kingsteven - the department of education runs education in the UK https://www.gov.uk/g…kingsteven
- that fella is the interim head of Ofsted.Fax_Benson
- Hamid Patel has been appointed temporary chairman of Ofsted https://www.gov.uk/g…kingsteven
- the actual head of the UK justice system
https://www.judiciar…Fax_Benson - Here he is. NBQ's been a bit quiet with his racist posts. Your hate for Islam and muslims knows no boundaries.Ianbolton
- @NBQ. Have you ever considered that the information (propaganda) you base your perspective on is just not true?Morning_star
- I like how y'all trynna bring him on the path of truth but misinformation is not the issue here.palimpsest
- Why let facts get in the way of a preferred narrative?Nairn
- 'Brighton Mayor' - when you are really clutching at straws to make an argument.webazoot
- tbh. just doing the fact checking for the elderly bit.kingsteven
- There's no point in trying to reeducate an actual cunt, but it's good to let them know their views are unacceptable.Ianbolton
- https://www.brighton…NBQ00
- Either way, UK is overrun by Islam(ists)NBQ00
- "The mayor of Brighton & Hove is not directly elected by the people and therefore holds no direct power."fadein11
- Shut the fuck up, you massive cunt.mrAtor
- mrAtor, you like Sharia and Islam then?NBQ00
- do as the man says and shut the fuck up.face_melter
- But Islam is shit, need to speak up against horrible religions and systems.NBQ00
- But you're a cunt. We need to speak up against racists, bigots and xenomorphs!Ianbolton
- The fact you look down on people, like a cunt, as if to say "why are you not as good as me" is the thing that pisses me off the most. Have some humilityIanbolton
- Xenomorphs?palimpsest
- ^ LOL to be fair there are a few similarities....Projectile
- mrAtor and face_melter speak for me, too.
Shut the fuck up for once, you bigoted cunt. None of what think is happening is happening.Continuity - The one thing we all seem to agree on:
NBQ00 needs to shut the fuck up.palimpsest - ^Continuity
- Purposely incorrect spelling of xenophobic folks. Maybe NBQ likes xenomorphs as they were a highly intelligent made up non-religious speciesIanbolton
- And I’m happy for him to carry on with his nonsense. He’s only showing his true coloursIanbolton
- UK has an Islam problem, just saying.NBQ00
- The only here with an Islam problem is you.Continuity
- I'd side with Rushdie, great writer, ridiculous religion.rzu-rzu
- Rusdhie knewNBQ00
- #OwningTheHabibsNairn
- How is Islam a problem?monospaced
- Well, if you live under a rock and in a bubble somewhere in New Jersey or elsewhere in NY (?) as you seem to do mono, then not I guess.NBQ00
- I mean if the idea of Sharia law and so many Islamists in UK & EU (and more such coming from middle east) who want it in the west doesn't bother you, ok thenNBQ00
- And everything else that this shit religion brings with it and the people being backwards in their worldview.NBQ00
- NBQ, Where do you live, country and city?Morning_star
- He lives in Hartford, Connecticut in the USofA.palimpsest
- But he comes from LV-426.
#xenomorphspalimpsest - There's no issue with Sharia law taking hold in non islamic countries, so I'm not sure what the issue really is with Islam.monospaced
- It's his own personal delusion.
That's why there's no taking sense to him.palimpsest - But I'm here for the drama.palimpsest
- Oh mono, you live in your little bubbleNBQ00
- What the fuck are you on NBQ00?
You can't even fucking read!palimpsest - Pali bro what's up with you my man.NBQ00
- NBQ. you said you were only against Islamist. "believe that Islam should influence political systems" Do they show any signs of that?pango
- or do you believe that are criminals?
not judging yet. just trying to figure out what you are.pango - What's good, my brethren?
Are you ready to hold my hand and walk through the valley of death?palimpsest - Let's get you hooked on phonics to begin with.palimpsest
- Annie are you OK?
Are you OK, Annie?palimpsest - Did you like xenomorphs NBQ? I thought they were definitely radicalised by some mad religion to be that aggressiveIanbolton
- head of education is Bridget Phillipson
- grafician1
- Ben Affleck & Matt Damonutopian
- Police in the U.S.A.Akagiyama
- Wham!Krassy
- My mom and dad watching my 3rd-grade recorder ensemblenb
- Alessandro Del Piero and Dennis Bergkamp_niko
- Sting Brucesteenaslip
- Paft DunkKrassy
- Hugh Jackman and the Fuzzsab
- Another two rich hippiesOBBTKN
- Rocky Balboa and Ivan Dragokingsteven
- Kajagoogoofuturefood
- tango and cashneverscared
- eros ramazzotti and michael boltonmaquito
- Del Piero and Caniggiarzu-rzu
- Agent Powell shot the one on the right, just before the credits. Did the other one die in the lift?MrT
- Springstingbezoar
- StingsteenKrassy
- Bo and Luke DukePercrushin
- lol bezoarmonospaced
- PhanLo3
- https://www.npr.org/…PhanLo
- Ha!OBBTKN
- 29 y/o, how are you going to be a millennial and be 4 y/o in 2000.kingsteven
- Also this happened in 2018. Also there were 4 people killed. Also the US advised that Tajikistan was very safe to visit.Morning_star
- https://en.wikipedia…Morning_star
- that explains it then, fucking millennialskingsteven
- So peacefulGnash
- Thanks for seeking out this shit story from 7 years ago, bro.toemaas
- No problem. Any time.PhanLo
