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It's not good at making ASCII art. This, for example, is when I ask it for a realistic depiction of the Eiffel tower on fire:

                       .
                      .'.
                      |o|
                     .'o'.
                     |.-.|
                     '   '
                    /     \
                   |       |
                __/_________\__
               |###############|
               |###############|
               |###############|
               |###############|
               |###############|
              /###############/|
             /###############/ |
            /###############/ /|
           /###############/ / |
          /###############/ / /|
         /###############/ / / |
        /###############/ / / /|
       /###############/ / / / |
      /###############/ / / / /|
     '-----------------' / / / /
      |   FIRE & ASH   |/ / / /
       '---------------' / / /
          ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ / /
         ~~ /
          ~~ 
           ~~     ⬆ SMOKE
            ~~


well, I asked to GPT to draw Arnold Schwarzenegger:

        ______
       /      \
      |  O  O  |
      |   __   |
       \______/
         ||||
       /--||--\ 
     /    ||    \
    |     ||     | 
    |    /  \    |
     \__/    \__/ 
       ||    ||
       ||    || 
      / |    | \
     /_/      \_\


Reminds me of the abomination of nature you could build in Monkey Island 4

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/RiwL9awO5y0


jeeeeeeesus christ that's horrible, but it's cool that you can do that


That's amazing. It really captured the likeness of ol' Arnold.


ASCII art is extremely difficult for LLMs due to how characters are converted into tokens without preserving their relative positions.


This isn't the reason. Models are pretty good at understanding relative positions. We put that in them and reward it a lot.

The issue is the same as why we don't use LLMs for image generation. Even though they can nominally do that.

Image generation seems to need some amount of ability to revise the output in place. And it needs a big picture view to make local decisions. It doesn't lend itself to outputting pixel by pixel or character by character.


Great point, but you need to have a good understanding in how LLMs work to understand this limitation. If you don't have an intuitive understanding think like it's one of these draw on my back games, just each new token is a new human in the loop, known words are like simple shapes you felt before 100 times on your back and are easy for you to reproduce and change, random ASCII strings are harder to _grasp_ and will produce a fuzzy output... all models are wrong, but some are useful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA_DQHoxj34


This is something I and a few of my colleagues have noticed, as we asked several models to draw ASCII art of a wasp, which is one of our logos. The results are hilarious, and only seem to get worse as you ask it to do better.


I've read that the results improve if you ask them to write a program that creates the desired ASCII art. Haven't tried it myself yet so far.


Art is highly subjective


I subjectively judge that as shit.


Only about 18% of which is actually owned by Russia. The rest is money that happened to be in transit between private persons at an unfortunate time. Do we really think it's fair that a lady who happened to be selling her house at exactly the time the war started... should have that money donated to Ukraine's war effort?


Re: "Only about 18% of which is actually owned by Russia." - extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Care to show some?

(I do not understand your example with the lady that sold her house when the conflict erupted. Lots of people sold their houses at that time and somehow their money is not being frozen....)


Between private Russians?

I believe you'll find a lot of Ukrainians found their entire towns suddenly "donated" to the war effort, not just a downpayment on a house.

War's hell, they can get bent.


The people holding the money are not at war.


That is complicated. And historically simply not true. Being subject/citizen of one country means that in case of war, your property is legitimate to be anything from damaged to seized by opposing parties in the war. The fact that we hadn't had any kind of real war in since WW2 means that no-one has that experience in recent history.

I'm aware that there have been significant amounts of armed conflict in the mean time, but the last conflict between states that ran similar to historic wars was the Korean war (which technically hasn't ended). Most wars the US was involved in where more similar to colonial expeditions (seizing local resources, defending local bases)


> That is complicated. And historically simply not true. Being subject/citizen of one country means that in case of war, your property is legitimate to be anything from damaged to seized by opposing parties in the war.

There are two sides in this war: Russia and Ukraine. Neither is holding the money.


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Those Russians have their own government to blame, which in addition to stealing Ukrainian land has stolen assets of Western companies, including billions in planes. They are legitimized in overthrowing their poor leadership.


Russians are stealing butter and rationing electricity, Russia won’t level anything to rubble far beyond their borders this century. They are almost out of steam.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42701491

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42701640


We're talking about the money in Euroclear right? Why would a woman in Russia be receiving money through Euroclear when selling a house?


Whats your source on that?


Yes, the only people responsible for Russian leadership are the Russian people. The Russian people should pay to rebuild Ukraine.


> Do we really think it's fair that a lady who happened to be selling her house at exactly the time the war started... should have that money donated to Ukraine's war effort?

You know what's not fair? The lady's government invaded a sovereign nation, committed genocide while doing it, and continues to do so. If that lady lost her fortune from it, then she should be vocal about justice for all parties.


if we start holding all Americans liable for what American government did to other countries, it would be really bad for you


Yes, it would. Maybe doing so would cause American government to change their actions. Or maybe not.


America is a functioning democracy so individual Americans are much more responsible than individual Russians for the bullshit their respective countries do.


America is not a democracy in a strict sense, its a republic. To be precise, modern America is a plutocracy, not democracy.

But did America ever pay reparations for centuries of enslaving its own people? Where is the accountability?


> America is not a democracy in a strict sense, its a republic

Most republics are democracies. You seem to think "democracy" is equivalent to "direct democracy," but a direct democracy is only one type of democracy. A republic is another form of democracy.

America is certainly a democracy (for now; who knows what will happen in two years)


In the question of degree and comparison, the US (even in its present greatly degraded state) is far more a functioning democracy than Russia.


How deluded do you need to be to detach yourself from all the responsibility in your life that are complicated? If you are an American, the US government is YOUR government and it is YOUR problem. You might not be able to do much, but it does not shield you from your moral responsibility.

Russians are responsible for their government too! They just have way less they're able to do to steer it, but it still their government.


Your argument seems to violate ought implies can, which as far as I know is generally accepted as a valid moral principle.


She didn't choose that government, nor does she have any power to affect it, so how can she be responsible for it?


Absolutely, she shouls pay! Also EU should suspend(or tax 100%) pensions and all social benefits to sponsor the war! If that is not enough, confiscate private companies and private properties!

I was saying that for years, since the war started! People thought it is some kind of joke. But that was the only way to win!


So to pay for the war to stop a new Soviet Union, a bloc of countries that all fear their alliance will turn into a new Soviet Union, must become a new Soviet Union?

Might be a hard sell.


really nice. Unfortunately once I spotted the score tells you you've hit the correct rotation, I just looped over all the squares clicking each one until my points went up.


Ah, that is why I have added the number of moves and the ideal number of moves :)


Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead. It took me a while before it clicked that the book's title was meant to rhyme with David Copperfield. It's really well written coming-of-age story of a life lived under modern-day poverty. It's well written with clever and subtle phrases and a really good pace. The book stays with you a while after you've finished it (which in my case was fast as I couldn't stop reading). Afterwards I got to reading more about opiods and their nasty origins.


Samsung Dex does this but it only works on some devices.


Sell me a meme. Why would I want to own one?


You can find John Carmack's full post here: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0iPix...


His name is Bowser, which I must admit I found somewhat amusing.


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