By the way if anyone knows of a better reliable way to get string than just randomly wandering around at night waiting for spiders, let me know.
This morning it became clear that I’ve been playing too much Minecraft when I saw some cobweb Halloween decorations and thought, “Ooh, I should collect those to make string!”
Aww yeah, Paw Paws delivered today.
Anyone aware of something like the Speech Accent Archive (https://accent.gmu.edu/) but for Spanish? SAA has people (native and non-native speakers) read a short example phrase in English to capture their accent. I seem to remember encountering a similar thing for French years ago, I would be curious to hear the same thing with Spanish.
Having trouble remembering the difference between the flag of Belgium and the flag of Germany?
Remember this simple rhyme:
“Black touches Red, you’re in Germany like Kaiser Fred¹.
Black touches yellow, you’re in Belgium, so have a waffle with marshmallow².”³
¹This assumes that you know that Kaiser Frederick III was the second Emperor of Germany.
²This is only a slant rhyme, and it barely works since — while dessert waffles are associated with Belgium, and they would be pretty good with marshmallows on them — marshmallows are not particularly associated with Belgian waffles.
³Yes, I am not particularly good at coming up with mnemonics.
After a packed 2-hour handover meeting, I'm now officially no longer @ThePSF Board Chair (or President), nor a Board member at all. Very excited about everyone on the Board, the newly appointed officers, and the staff!
I'm eager to see them continue the PSF without me being directly involved! :)
It was also quite strange to remove myself from all those Slack channels and mailing lists after so many years... Maybe I want back! I think I'll cry softly in a corner now.
@pganssle Minetest instead of Minecraft, but I hope it’s helpful. No idea about licences, so if you want it can be CC-0. Feel free to complain, this took me about a minute to make so if you would like something slightly different I might be able to get it just as fast.
Anyone out there with #minecraft installed willing to take a screenshot for me?
I’m trying to get an image to illustrate the sentence “you put it there, but I want it here” for an Anki deck to teach my son to read.
I was thinking something like a house in minecraft with a door attached in the wrong spot (like above a door-shaped hole in the wall), or maybe a railroad with a few rails shifted over by a few voxels.
Prefer if you’d release the image CC-0, since that will minimize complications when I eventually make the deck public.
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Tried to go extremely stereotypical, specifying the “three eyes” multiple ways. The closest I got was a lemur with a little yellow light on its forehead.
“a three-eyed lemur; the lemur is sitting in a lotus position and all three of its eyes are open. The third eye is centered on its forehead. highly detailed digital art trending on artstation”
Anyone have any good tricks for getting AI image generation models like #dalle or #stablediffusion to produce animals or people with three eyes? I was hoping to get a lemur with a typical “mind’s eye” third eye, but all the models seem to ignore the third eye condition no matter how frequently I specify it.
Programmer working at Google. Python core developer and general FOSS contributor. I also post some parenting content.