Spark! Placeholder Series - 6 September 2022

VikingMichael · 2022-09-06T11:01:35.000Z

The Spark! will be slightly delayed today due to a long weekend and unforeseen nonsense at work that is currently demanding my attention. I will get it posted as quickly as I can. In the meantime, give me your best suggestion for a Dall-E prompt, and I’ll pick one to be added to the Spark! when it gets published later today.

Sorry for the delay!

porkfat · 2022-09-06T11:15:59.000Z

First … kind of

Suzanne-Spiceworks · 2022-09-06T11:24:07.000Z

Prompt… How about

Orange dinosaur wearing headphones and with tiny arms working on a computer

shannonwheeler · 2022-09-06T11:24:26.000Z

WTH is a Dall-E prompt?

noitforyou · 2022-09-06T11:24:29.000Z

PorkFat:

First … kind of

Kind of like a “If a tree falls in the forest…” type of post.

edt · 2022-09-06T11:26:47.000Z

I’d just like to say… coming back to work after ten days of vacation makes a guy kinda grumpy.

Hopefully people will mostly leave me alone today to slog through all the emails that piled up while I was gone.

Suzanne-Spiceworks · 2022-09-06T11:27:51.000Z

MCEStaff:

WTH is a Dall-E prompt?

Dall-E is an AI (well, more machine learning… we don’t have true AI) that draws pictures based on text prompts.

For instance, here is my “Rex” collection over at Night Cafe. (Dall-E is usually better than Night Cafe, and I am not great at knowing how to prompt it, but just a selection of ones I have tried as a beginner.)

https://creator.nightcafe.studio/collection/VhXDlV2LMklDsdQUSaSY

Nerf_Herder · 2022-09-06T11:33:12.000Z

How is it there was a Spark! yesterday, but not today?

keyboard9000 · 2022-09-06T11:42:41.000Z

Spark!

ich-ni-san · 2022-09-06T11:45:09.000Z

CPU painted by Salvador Dali gets my vote.

eric7615 · 2022-09-06T11:45:15.000Z

Must have Spark to get the engine running.

sniffersir · 2022-09-06T12:05:29.000Z

VikingMichael:

The Spark! will be slightly delayed today due to a long weekend and unforeseen nonsense at work that is currently demanding my attention. I will get it posted as quickly as I can. In the meantime, give me your best suggestion for a Dall-E prompt, and I’ll pick one to be added to the Spark! when it gets published later today.

Sorry for the delay!

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Mmmmmm… Placeholders!!! They’re the best!

machomanrandall · 2022-09-06T12:14:53.000Z

Have Dall-E create a picture of the meaning of life! Interested to see what an AI comes up with

RedBeardedGriff · 2022-09-06T12:15:32.000Z

Here’s a good one:

“A Picasso-style Painting of an Orange T-Rex Showing a Person How to use a Computer”.

That one surprisingly works well.

DailyLlama · 2022-09-06T13:29:06.000Z

Placeholder comment, until I can come up with something witty related to the actual Spark when it’s published

gurugabe1 · 2022-09-06T13:32:06.000Z

If @jontydda was a Dall-E Llama

spiceuser-5snr9 · 2022-09-06T14:37:22.000Z

Dall-E creating a portrait of Dall-E, in the style of Dall-E.

jjervis92 · 2022-09-06T14:47:25.000Z

A picture of someone practicing tai chi while drinking chai tea

spiceuser-5snr9 · 2022-09-06T14:53:35.000Z

A black bear fighting a man in all black at midnight.

Suzanne-Spiceworks · 2022-09-06T15:57:43.000Z

RayneD17:

A black bear fighting a man in all black at midnight.

I don’t have access to Dall-E, but this is what Night Cafe came up with from that prompt:

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