@kjhealy@mastodon.social The Judge Dee mysteries aren't *too* far off from that tbh
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Ben Jacobsen
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mastodon 4.7.3PhD student in computer science @ UW - Madison
Interested in social issues related to machine learning, surveillance, and algorithmic decision-making, with a particular focus on privacy.
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@Quinnae_Moon@wandering.shop I think I really bought in to the card game system about halfway through my first playthrough. I decided I needed to get rid of some of the weaker cards in my deck for mechanical reasons, but then when I went to do it I realized that narratively this was my adolescent character losing their memories of playing with their friends as a child, and just about teared up. The mechanics link up with the coming-of-age story in such a poignant and powerful way.
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@WiseWoman @mmitchell_ai This particular use doesn't really harm the copyright holder in any way (purpose is very different from the original, doesn't hurt the market for the original). Quite the opposite, really. So it would be pretty weird if somebody decided to sue over it, and in the US I strongly suspect it would be considered fair use.
@eloquence@social.coop I've mostly only used stable diffusion and related models, but I was struck with how incredibly bad the UX is. Like the whole appeal of text-to-blank models is supposed to be that you can just say what you want in natural language, but then in practice it ignores a lot of the instructions and you're obliged to learn this hacky, arcane pseudo-language of 'prompt engineering' to get anything that looks good.
@ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social Definitely at a certain point you have to just practice math a lot. But for instance in my own education, I think I benefited a lot from the algebra-flavored games my parents and teachers showed me as a kid. When I finally got to formal algebra classes, the concept of a variable just seemed really ordinary and commonsense I think as a direct result of all that play.