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quote the image:
"I've gathered my materials
"and planned every last detail.
"I have set time aside. So now all I need is...
"to start an entirely different project!"
Why you gotta call me delving back into Skyrim mods out like that
i felt called out when I first saw it, just passing it along.
I've got a pile of materials for about 6 different projects cluttering my apartment, and today I'm buying materials for another project. I think I have a problem.
I was so ready to do the next step in my emacs project today... So I trained my first LoRA on civitai... It sucked... In my defense, teaching AI to fuck physics and bend gravity into an O'Neill cylinder is not exactly a one shot affair. Funny thing is, it is not my first LoRA. I can train on my hardware, but free and not cooking my stuff for an hour sounded doable.
i don't know what half of that means, but good luck
Seriously need to watch this if you do not know the O'Neill cylinder part, it's only a 3 minute video of an 8 month Blender based rendering of what an O'Neill cylinder would look like. The structure is from scientific papers and represents the real engineering strength of materials known to present civilization even back in the 1970s. The only reason this structure does not exist is because of political will and funding. I'm no tech bro fanboy, and especially not of Bezos, but if you ever happen to listen to him parrot the rhetoric about moving manufacturing into space and making Earth like an ecological preserve for life, this is the space based megastructure that makes that possible. Indeed Bezos is one of many that have been talking about the O'Neill cylinder. This little video rendering even shows the dual counter rotating aspect required for stability. However, the general consensus of more modern designs is that there would be areas of transparent material to best make use of solar radiation. Such a structure flips many of our social constructs and assumptions on their head. The primary economy inside such a structure is actually heat. Dissipating heat is hard in space. Radiating heat into the void is not very efficient. Heat is therefore the primary constraint on activities and will be rationed or traded as currency. The interesting thing is that at the present, we are far closer to this reality than it may at first seem. While it may appear idealistic or frivolous to think of such structures and what seems like science fiction, the reality is that wealth is the only thing holding us back from this expansion.
Planetary gravitational differentiation is the process of heavier materials sinking to the bottom of a world large enough to be rounded and to some extent molten. Earth is such a planetary body, so most of Earth's heavy mineral wealth is sequestered in the core of the planet where we cannot access it. Most round worlds are the same story. Some of these differentiated rounded worlds were destroyed in the early Solar system, and the collisions left their differentiated cores exposed and accessible in the form of asteroids. These are called m-type astroids. Any kilometers large m-type asteroids may easily contain far more heavy mineral wealth than all of Earth's surface mineral wealth accessed in the entire Holocene. There are multiple such m-type asteroids that are in near Earth crossing orbits. If any of these are effectively accessed and the resources extracted, it will overturn all of our constraints over resource scarcity on the surface of the planet and provide a world GDP size (or greater) financial incentive to build megastructures in space. I love the positivity embedded in this futurism narrative and long term view on humanity's potential.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2d_0l5ycRM
Emacs is just an old text editor and software developer thingy.
Training a LoRA is a Low Rank Adaptor or in other words it is a set of tensor layers that get tacked onto an AI model to give it momentum to generate in some special niche space it does not normally access easily or at all. Of basically involves a whole bunch of new or focused data that alters the path of least resistance. I was being hyperbolic originally to state how it is not easy to take a concept like implied planetary gravity embedded in almost all images and convince an AI that gravity and inertia are the same thing. Rolling up the flat horizon and creating a world inside a cylinder is hard. It is actually a project I have worked on off and on for over a year as some here might know or recall (from the sh.itjust.works AI generated images community).
...probably way too much bla bla bla from me here, but I hate when I don't understand and no one tells me. I think this stuff is super cool, interesting, and worth sharing with a digital neighbor, especially when there is so little positive stuff passed around at the moment. Sorry if my bla bla bla is less than interesting.
I watched the thing, is very cool. Reminds me of a dyson sphere.
That's me most of the time. Does it mean I'm ADHD?
i like a quote from my mom about this
"I don't need a doctor's permission to be weird."