Scatterbrained and friendly optimist. Always happy to give my (unasked for) opinion :)

Pardon my rambling and broken English, I know I often sound like an alien trying to impersonate a human being.

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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • The Planet of Adventure series (it came as a single book) by Jack Vance.
    It was more of an adventure book than sci-fi. Light on the science but amazingly descriptive with the details of its world building. It was the first time I could read a book and really experience it like I was there. I dug it out of my dad’s sci-fi collection when I was about 11 I think. It was a Dutch translation and came with a separate map. I loved that map so much, you could follow the journey and fantasize about all those other parts that weren’t mentioned in the book.

    So yea, it’s the book that opened a whole realm of imagination for me.


  • Trust me, there were a lot of failures before I got lucky with this one :)

    My favorite wrong one was this one:

    I thought to be clever by explaining that a centaur has the lower body of a horse and the upper body of a human 🙄

    I also tried asking Mistral the same question and it got a bit confused:

    The only one to get it right in one go was the NovelAI model:

    But that one is pretty much trained exclusively on anime art, so I’m guess there’s a ton of centaurs in that training set :)