Cactus Codex

Pony blogger, actual cactus, artist, writer, computer scientist, and linguist. New Jersey / Pennsylvania | 21 | male, he/him/his | asexual hispanic | Cereus repandus, or Peruvian apple cactus

@badbloommod replied to your post “Man, I figured that once you finish a pic, the commissioner and I just…”

I think there trying befriend you Cactus. :v

barontristan replied to your postMan, I figured that once you finish a pic, the…

Everyone knows that a commission is the best way to break the ice with an artist, which has the unfortunate side effect of all commissions potentially obliging you to a social contract you weren’t aware of.

Requesting little edits and wanting a diagnosis on why the pic source file isn’t working on their end is not really a sign of growing friendship if you ask me :v

Man, I figured that once you finish a pic, the commissioner and I just part ways.

But nope! I’ve been in post-completion correspondence with this one person longer than the time it took me to actually draw the pic.

shinypone:

Me: Okay, brain, it’s time to go to sleep. 

My brain: 

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Me: Stop that.  It’s time to sleep.

My brain:

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Me: Please?  I just want to be not tired for one day. 

My brain: 

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Me: Oh, c’mon, really?  

My brain: 

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(via mr-rottson)

post-cactus:

brb speedrunning through my 4 midterms

Seriously tho yesterday I took my systems exam, and later today I got linguistics and circuits, and then Friday I got statistics.

slay me

The neural network has weird ideas about what humans like to eat

birokaput:

biff-donderglutes:

noseforahtwo:

lewisandquark:

So I’ve been training this neural network to generate cookbook recipes by letting it look at tens of thousands of existing recipes.

The generated titles can get a bit odd.

There’s a creativity variable I can set when the network is generating new recipes, and when I set it low, it comes up with its best guess at the most quintessential recipe titles:

Cream Cheese Soup
Cream Of Sour Cream Cheese Soup
Chocolate Cake (Chocolate Cake)
Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate Cake
Chocolate Chicken Chicken Cake
Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate Cake
Chocolate Chips
Chocolate Chips With Chocolate Chips

When I tell it to get creative, things get even weirder.

Beef Soup With Swamp Peef And Cheese
Chocolate Chops & Chocolate Chips
Crimm Grunk Garlic Cleas
Beasy Mist
Export Bean Spoons In Pie-Shell, Top If Spoon and Whip The Mustard
Chocolate Pickle Sauce
Whole Chicken Cookies
Salmon Beef Style Chicken Bottom
Star *
Cover Meats
Out Of Meat
Completely Meat Circle
Completely Meat Chocolate Pie
Cabbage Pot Cookies
Artichoke Gelatin Dogs
Crockpot Cold Water

I’m Whip the Mustard.

There are tears in my eyes

this little computer is trying so hard to understand