the inevitable conclusion

So 2016 is SO bad that it made the creator of this meme give us an alternative version of “This is Fine”. 

2016? PSSHHHHH

God remember when we thought 2016 was the worst year….

This moldboard encompasses all of Cermit's moods which are basically just

Varying Degrees of Anxiety

I haven't seen Gorillaz, but I appreciate the sheer chaos this image emanates

Forbidden caramel corn

Am I the good boy? Really??

There is such UNBRIDLED JOY in that dog's eyes, I swear!

Authors b like "aha I'm so inclusive of the lgbt community." but forget trans and nonbinary people exist.

None of you are rebloging this because you're scared of the truth

Its a fact that richard horvitz also voiced kaos from skylanders, but listen. Kaos and Zim are so similar in personality.. ESPECIALLY in the way they talk. So its now my hc zim voice acted kaos himself. Sorry i dont make the rules.

HC built off your HC, Zim created the Skylanders games to collect human moneys for his evil plans but decided to also rub it in everyone's faces that one of his plans actually WORKED by voicing the main villain himself.

Look at this seal looking upwards I’m laughing so hard

It looks like the worm from that worm diary book

what the fuck is the joke here

some

boDY ONCE TOLD ME

my new years resolution is to……*spins wheel*…uh…..*throws dart*

happy 2016! its practically still new years, so i made these handy GIFS to determine what you need to do more of this year. take a screenshot and to find out what ya get! (dont remove plz:  (fast gifs multiple gifs seizure flashing)  )

@sisyphus-tower-hotel​

Ghost!Nova winks back.

Kiss myself

uh… somehow i think that might not be the best idea

Did it twice and I think I’m sending tabby very mixed messages

why is it that no matter what I do it ends up involving piss

it’s a curse, thor.

Idk which target is better

oh ok

First

Second.

Ok

A lesson that we can’t afford not to be taught.

let’s spread this again and again and again

Lush was selling these today!🦈

Text SHARKATTACK to 40649 and sign the pledge!🦈

or we could let an unnecessary danger to swimmers die.

No the fuck we can’t. Because last I checked humans don’t own the fucking ocean, and last I checked, they’re IMPORTANT apex predators, a super necessary part of the ecosystem. Not to mention NEW YORKERS bite 10x as many people as sharks do a year. More people die from lightning and fireworks than form sharks.

Sharks aren’t a problem. They never have been. People are.

if you swim where the sharks are, it’s on you buddy, the animal gotta eat you don’t gotta swim

To @keyhollow let sharks die naturally, don’t go hunting them. Last I checked there’s no such thing as an important apex predator. Why on Earth are New Yorkers biting people? Know what we did to lightning? We found ways to deal with them. I’d say firework damage is usually from stupidity.

To @jeza-red so nobody can enjoy the beach now. The animal doesn’t got to eat innocent bystanders that are definitely not fish.

I’m gonna ignore 95% of that and focus on the apex predator part.

They’re super important because they control prey animal populations, of prey animal populations get out of control it can heavily and possibly irreversibly damage flora, other fauna, and land. A keystone predator is literally irreplaceable

A “keystone predator” is nowhere near irreplaceable.

Do you know what keystone means??

First off, calling something a keystone predator is erroneous at best. Second, keystones can be replaced.

No

You literally just have no idea what you’re talking about.

https://eu.oceana.org/en/importance-sharks-0

http://www.sharksavers.org/en/education/the-value-of-sharks/sharks-role-in-the-ocean/

@miasmicsiren If you’re too stupid to read adult content, there’s even a children’s book on the subject!

Cherrypicking sources from shark apologists won’t work for you either.

Ah yes. “Shark apologists”. Those who defend the problematic behavior of *checks notes* preserving species and protecting the ecosystem.

What’s with all these bitches who saw Jaws once and feel like every shark needs to die

What in the fuck is this bitch talking about “Keystone predators can be replaced” WHAT

I’m still stuck on “Shark Apologist”

Reblog if you’re a Shark Apologist

“this load bearing wall here can easily be replaced” 

Reminder the “anti shark apologist” seems to be a troll at like best. But rbing for these sources hot damn

I love this whole segment.

i cant believe griffin gave us 3 fantastic lines in under 30 seconds

'BYE!' 'Travis is going to space'

Don't let an AI (even an advanced one) make you a cocktail

How far has AI come in a year? In 2018 I generated cocktails using textgenrnn and char-rnn, two neural networks that learn to imitate text. I trained them on 1000 cocktails that Beth Skwarecki collected for her neural net cocktails bot, and watched the neural nets struggle to make sense of what they were seeing. They came up with nonexistent ingredients and had such limited memory that they didn’t know how many times they’d already used a particular ingredient. One cocktail, the Black Banana, was a behemoth containing a staggering amount of creme de cacao.

But in 2019, the neural net GPT-2 was released by OpenAI, who trained it on 40GB of text from the internet. GPT-2 runs on the big processors on Google Cloud (through Max Woolf’s gpt-2-simple colab notebook), and has much better memory than textgenrnn or char-rnn. And when I trained it on the cocktails, I found that GPT-2 could keep track of its ingredients and figure out that it was supposed to just use them once.

But its cocktails don’t seem to be any good. And in some cases, they’re very very bad.

=== BIG WHITE FIZZ * 1 ounce Grand Marnier * 1 ounce gin * ½ ounce brandy * 1 ½ ounces cream * 1 teaspoon sugar * 1 teaspoon Tabasco sauce * Dash MACARONA

- Fill cocktail shaker with ice. - Add Grand Marnier, gin, and cream. - Shake. - Strain into a collins glass. - Fill with crushed martini glass.  - Garnish with pepper jack cherry.

(NOTE: do NOT make this cocktail) (Further NOTE: apparently MACARONA is a popular Egyptian pasta dish, which is an INTERESTING choice for a cocktail)

The neural net apparent obsession with creme de cacao also seems to be alive and well. As is the inadvisable handling of glassware.

AI’S FAVOURITE

 1/2 ounce creme de Moly  1/2 ounce triple sec  1/2 ounce melon cordial  1/4 ounce creme de cacao  1/4 ounce creme de cacao

- Heat creme de cacao and triple sec until very hot. - Add melon cordial. - Stir. - Strain into puddled whipped cream glass. - Fill with creme de cacao.

The neural net can also tend to go overboard with the garnishes.

DEATHOH SHAPIRO

 * 1 ounce ginger ale - Add ginger ale, sugar, and salt  - Stir.  - Pour into a chilled martini glass.  * * 2/3 cups crushed ice  - Fill cocktail shaker with ice.  * Add crushed ice.  * Fill with crushed ice.  * Add crushed ice. * Pour into a collins glass.  * Garnish with a maraschino liqueur.  * Serve with a cherry.  * Garnish with a strawberry.  * Enjoy this high-fidelity saucer with a cherry.  * * Garnish with a maraschino liqueur.  * Garnish with a maraschino flower.  * Garnish with a maraschino nutmeg.  * Garnish with a mint sprig or an orange slice.  * Garnish with a sweet cherry.  * Serve with a nutmeg slice.

And GPT-2 almost has TOO MUCH memory for cocktails, in that it assumes that cocktails must be related to the cocktails that came before, with the result that when it has generated a weird cocktail by accident, the rest get even weirder.

AI’S FAVOURITE CAFE - MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED FLAVOUR - MIXED ALUCE MIXED MIXED MIXED FLAVOUR - MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED FLAVOUR - MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED  - ¾ ounce tequila  - Float a dash of grenadine  - Add tequila, grenadine, and grenadine  - Blend until smooth  - Serve chilled in a microwave-safe glass.

=== DINOSAUSTE - TUBE IN SCREW - Fill the microwave with ice.  - Add this ice to the microwave.  - Add an orange slice from one of the cans to the mix.  - Stir.

=== THE BEAR - Dust and gold with powdered sugar, and serve with fruit slice. - Garnish with a large flintlock.

=== ROYAL SUFFICIENT - Fill a goblet with ice.  - Add ice.  - Squeeze to thicken.

I experimented a bit with ways to prompt the neural net into making ever stranger cocktails, and one of my favorites was to give it the sentence “Captain Picard leapt from his chair, exclaiming loudly. The ship had come out of nowhere.“ The neural net still remembers how to write fanfiction based on its general internet training, but now it has a tendency to twist the story around toward cocktails. Old-fashioneds, for some reason.

—

Captain Picard leapt from his chair, exclaiming loudly. The ship had come out of nowhere.

He cut through an old, stone-encrusted old-fashioned glass spigot and filled it with wine. Showing no passion, he shot a flintlock into the glass.

Impish, the old-fashioned glass!

—

Reading a bunch of these is almost like reading some form of experimental poetry. I’ve collected a bunch of them for bonus material, which you can read here.

My book on AI is out, and, you can now get it any of these several ways! Amazon - Barnes & Noble - Indiebound - Tattered Cover - Powell’s

F I L L T H E M I C R O W A V E W I T H I C E

MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED MIXED

Since we’re coming to the last month of the year, here are the Top 10 Tumblr Controversies This Year

1. Popular blogger who was paid $120 by their followers to eat all the little fish out of their aquarium

2. Misha Collins tries to do an AMA but staff forgot to promote it on the top of the site like usual so he didn’t get any questions

3. Staff accidentally brings back post editing for a total of 5 minutes and John Green is immediately harassed and he is forced to delete all his posts.

4. Popular user starts rumor that baby was born and in dashcon ballpit but it comes out that there actually was a baby born in one of the dashcon bathrooms.

5. Disney claims copyright on 17 different users who had references to baby yoda in their URL and staff deletes all 17 of their blogs.

6. Voice actor of Dobby, Patrick Stewart, is sent massive amounts of anonymous harassment after declairing Dobby “deserved what he got in the end.”

7. Communismkills reveals that she eats her pizza without any sauce or toppings and also later reveals that she has scurvy

8. Sixpencee tries to bring back sixpenceeheals and copy pasted the old post about it but then deleted it 10 mins after posting

9. Popular rat blog dedicated to “letting her rats type the posts” “accidentally” posts a homophobic slur in all caps

10. Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary tried to sue the person behind the “I just want to get dicked down again =/“ post but they lose and the blog remains up

11. Doomsneigh posts a list of tumblr controversies that are all fake but have just enough truth to them that everyone starts questioning their own memories

I just assumed I was good at ignoring drama or sth tbh

Reblog this last

Science side of tumblr explain why wlw are so obsessed with arms

Strong arms to pick up our girlfriends

REBLOG THIS BEFORE IT ENDS

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This comes off as kinda sad, goodbye Nyan cat, in a way you will be missed.