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Thread: Newly discovered nearby black hole
Post: Newly discovered nearby black hole
| Gaia recently announced the discovery of a 33 solar mass black hole (Gaia BH3) about 2000LY away in the constellation of Aquila. It's currently the largest known stellar black hole in the Milky Way. A... |
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Real Life But OA Relevant
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04-17-2024, 09:47 PM |
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Thread: Scanning…
Post: RE: Scanning…
| Of course, remotely acquired information would be out of date when the survey team arrives by at least twice the light-travel time between the destination and the survay's origin system. (Light travel... |
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General Setting Discussion
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03-30-2024, 09:39 AM |
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Thread: Angel Hair rewrite proposal
Post: RE: Angel Hair rewrite proposal
| Just for fun, I told Bing/create to make a picture:
photorealistic Flying spaghetti monsters alongside animals which resemble locks of porous human hairs that fray outwards at both ends , floating ... |
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Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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03-30-2024, 09:14 AM |
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Thread: New Milky Way graphic
Post: RE: New Miliy Way graphic
| I suspect its creator ( Stefan Payne-Wardenaar ) would be willing to provide more information. There's a contact form on his Web site.
https://stefanpw.myportfolio.com/home |
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Real Life But OA Relevant
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01-03-2024, 05:53 AM |
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Thread: New Milky Way graphic
Post: New Milky Way graphic
| The ESA has released a new graphic of the Milky Way (with and without annotations) which is based on Gaia data. Unfortunately (so far as I'm concerned, anyhow), its contrast is quite a bit lower than ... |
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Real Life But OA Relevant
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01-03-2024, 05:30 AM |
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Thread: Free gemerative AI for images
Post: RE: Free gemerative AI for images
| Can you provide a brief review of the servers you've used? e.g. what AI do they use? How fast are they? How many free images per day? What special options do they provide?
Of the three I've used, t... |
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General Off-topic Discussion
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12-12-2023, 01:01 PM |
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Thread: Free gemerative AI for images
Post: RE: Free gemerative AI for images
| fwiw, here are the ones I rejected (reduced in size): the tiger was too big and its stripes weren't blue. Every once in a while an acceptable image shows up among the first four. This seems to have be... |
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General Off-topic Discussion
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12-12-2023, 05:12 AM |
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Thread: Free gemerative AI for images
Post: RE: Free gemerative AI for images
| Yes, it is.
Here's the prompt I used:
photorealistic
a red-haired man wearihg green shorts
kneeling in front of a white tiger with blue stripes
scratching the tiger behind its ears
in a grassy field... |
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General Off-topic Discussion
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12-12-2023, 04:48 AM |
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Thread: Free gemerative AI for images
Post: RE: Free gemerative AI for images
| A lot depends on the prompt you provide. And what you're looking for, of course. I often have to look at more than a dozen images to find one that's close enough to what I want. So far, I've found tha... |
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General Off-topic Discussion
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12-12-2023, 12:43 AM |
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Thread: Free gemerative AI for images
Post: Free gemerative AI for images
| I frustrated for a while about where to put this. If there's a more appropriate place, please feel free to move this post.
I've been using three different providers of free AI image generation. Sin... |
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General Off-topic Discussion
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12-11-2023, 11:33 AM |
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Thread: Social Autopilot
Post: RE: Social Autopilot
| Yeah. I decided I really didn't like the quality of what I'd written. If you'd like to clean it up, please do! |
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Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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12-08-2023, 03:56 AM |
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Thread: OA EG's internal search does not find the Modosophonts article
Post: RE: OA EG's internal search does not find the Modo...
| Thanks for the clarification. |
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Website and Content Issues
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11-20-2023, 04:35 AM |
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Thread: OA EG's internal search does not find the Modosophonts article
Post: RE: OA EG's internal search does not find the Modo...
| Sorry: I wasn't looking in the upper section of the page. I was looking in the lower section. It skips from "Minervans" to "Molleweide" |
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Website and Content Issues
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11-19-2023, 02:37 PM |
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Thread: OA EG's internal search does not find the Modosophonts article
Post: OA EG's internal search does not find the Modosoph...
| When I used the search box provided at the top of all of the pages of the Encyclopaedia to search for "modosophonts", the article about that topic was not found. Lots of related topics were found, but... |
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Website and Content Issues
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11-18-2023, 11:49 PM |
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Thread: Halonic Symbiosis revisited
Post: RE: Halonic Symbiosis revisited
| @Worldtree,
At this point the PoV settings don't really do much (a single line at the end of Chapter 2 if "Multiple" is selected.) Only "Meta" makes a really obvious difference, and that's on the C... |
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Creative Writing
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11-17-2023, 01:52 PM |
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Thread: Halonic Symbiosis revisited
Post: RE: Halonic Symbiosis revisited
| Yes, it was created using Bing/Create (i.e. DALL-E3). I often have to get it to create more than a dozen images with similar prompts to find one I really like. (16 in this case) Supposedly one can spe... |
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Creative Writing
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11-17-2023, 01:41 PM |
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Thread: Halonic Symbiosis revisited
Post: RE: Halonic Symbiosis revisited
| Here are some threads related to "Halonic Symbiosis"
I'm sure I've overlooked quite a few.
It looks like my memories of discussions have conflated things. Any corrections or comments on canon-relate... |
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Creative Writing
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11-17-2023, 01:54 AM |
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Thread: Halonic Symbiosis revisited
Post: RE: Halonic Symbiosis revisited
| Todd,
Whatever suggestions you have would be very welcome. I've had no training whatsoever in writing educational materials, which I suppose this is to some degree, especially for people unfamiliar... |
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Creative Writing
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11-17-2023, 01:09 AM |
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Thread: Halonic Symbiosis revisited
Post: RE: Halonic Symbiosis revisited
| I've updated it to v2.1, using the same link. A missing Format notice was added along with a suggestion that those unfamiliar with OA should read Essay #2 first. |
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Creative Writing
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11-16-2023, 12:26 PM |
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Thread: Halonic Symbiosis revisited
Post: RE: Halonic Symbiosis revisited
| V2 of Halonic Symbiosis is now available:
https://www.orionsarm.com/fm_store/Halonic_Symbiosis_v2.html
It shrank: v1 is 4MB, but v2 is 2.8MB. I think it might be because I converted some of the ... |
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Creative Writing
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