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Klif

Is This Anything?

A ska band magically fused into one character, with all their memories, skills, and personalities intact. They’re chaotic, musical, and a literal “one-man band”: every instrument is a weapon, every riff a spell, marching through the campaign with eight souls in sync

#DnD#TTRPG#CharacterConcept
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Kevin LaRose, Just So Tired

@robini71 @DavidGoldfield I use #Bookshare a whole lot for pleasure reading. It’s hard to understand why more people don’t use it this way; I mean, #Audible and #Bard are wonderful, but for me, at least, Bookshare is the third leg of a three-legged book accessibility stool. I know the $79.99 annual price tag might seem daunting to some, but in my humble view the available content makes it more than pay for itself.

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Ann-Mi

Today's #DDnD prompt is bardic inspiration. Oh no, why did I do this to myself? What a difficult pose! Here's Cheer, my #bard from the college of dance doing jazz hands to provide bardic inspiration.
I should revisit it with a bigger piece of paper and more time.
#pencilDrawing

A cheerful tiefling is holding her hands open and a sparkle of magic is flowing out of her hands.
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Ann-Mi

I really struggled with today's #DDnD drawing! I should have started it earlier in the day, but I didn't, so I'm sorry for how it looks. Istruggled with what to draw, but the one theme which stuck with me for the prompt "Natural 20" was the trope of the bard charming the dragon with her natural charisma, so here you have my tiefling bard doing exactly that. This is not something that has happened to me (yet).
#nat20 #bard #tiefling #pencildrawing

A young tiefling with braids and ribbons in her hair and curled back small horns winks and blows a kiss at a visibly confused smallish dragon.
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Dreading Slam

Next Dreading #Slam is Sun Oct 5th 19:30 at Rising sun #Arts Centre, Sliver Street RG1 2ST #RdgUK
Why have a #poetryslam not just #openmic #poetry ?

The answer it this encourages the #poet to engage with the audience. The audience respond, resulting in a more energetic show.

even more so withg our separte quickfire contest.

Find out for Yourself this Sunday for #free as #poet or audience.

The picture is AI’s response to “Shakespeare at a poetry #slam” unfortunately he is #bard

(sorry for the bard joke...)
join a local poetry #community

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alice 🪞♥️ 🎩🐇

"Come, let us hasten to a higher plane,
Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn,
Their indices bedecked from one to n,
Commingled in an endless Markov chain!

Come, every frustum longs to be a cone,
And every vector dreams of matrices.
Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze:
It whispers of a more ergodic zone.

In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space
Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways
Our asymptotes no longer out of phase,
We shall encounter, counting, face to face.

I'll grant thee random access to my heart,
Thou'lt tell me all the constants of thy love;
And so we two shall all love's lemmas prove,
And in our bound partition never part.

For what did Cauchy know, or Christoffel,
Or Fourier, or any Boole or Euler,
Wielding their compasses, their pens and rulers,
Of thy supernal sinusoidal spell?

Cancel me not—for what then shall remain?
Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes,
A root or two, a torus and a node:
The inverse of my verse, a null domain.

Ellipse of bliss, converge, O lips divine!
The product of our scalars is defined!
Cyberiad draws nigh, and the skew mind
Cuts capers like a happy haversine.

I see the eigenvalue in thine eye,
I hear the tender tensor in thy sigh.
Bernoulli would have been content to die,
Had he but known such a^2 cos 2 Ø!"

-- Stanislaw Lem

#poem #poetry #electronic #bard

"Very well. Let's have a love poem, lyrical, pastoral, and expressed in the language of pure mathematics. Tensor algebra mainly, with a little topology and higher calculus, if need be. But with feeling, you understand, and in the cybernetic spirit."

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alice 🪞♥️ 🎩🐇

"Seduced, shaggy Samson snored.
She scissored short. Sorely shorn,
Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed,
Silently scheming,
Sightlessly seeking
Some savage, spectacular suicide."

-- Stanislaw Lem

#poem #poetry #electronic #bard

"Have it compose a poem—a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the face of certain doom! Six lines, cleverly rhymed, and every word beginning with the letter s!!"

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Ike

"we find that when developers use AI tools, they take 19% longer than without - AI makes them slower." [1]

- says a study with a randomized and controlled trial, which includes a chart of hilariously overly optimistic forecasts against woefully observed results

[1] metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early.

"when developers use AI tools, they take 19% longer than without—AI makes them slower." Image of a chart indicating the forecasts of expected gains in time it would take for developers to do a task expressed as a % on the y axis, and different groups who made the forecasts on the x axis. The final group on the y axis is the developers actual results. Each of the groups were far and away overly optimistic about the expected time savings of using AI, but the developers actual time savings were negative.
#AI#LLM#Bard
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x0

Hello #blind mastodon, particularly anyone who has ever worked with the #humanware #NLS EReaders and #BARD. Partner @RainbowRemedy just received one and is getting it all set up for their use. They've logged into BARD and went to download a book as a test, but no download option appears! There's only the wishlist option and the metadata about the book. In settings, we've selected that both formats should be presented, Braille and Audio. What gives? Do we just have a book that isn't available in Braille as a test?

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George Macgregor

Another week -- which means another research paper questioning whether #LLMs should go anywhere near the scholarly research process. And the answer is, unsurprisingly, 'no'. #ChatGPT 4.0 and #Bard #hallucinated #references in circa 29% and 91% of cases. But there are many other worrying observations in this study.

Hallucination Rates and Reference Accuracy of ChatGPT and Bard for Systematic Reviews
doi.org/10.2196/53164 #LLM #scholcomm #AI #search #discovery #hallucinations

Journal of Medical Internet ResearchHallucination Rates and Reference Accuracy of ChatGPT and Bard for Systematic Reviews: Comparative AnalysisBackground: Large language models (LLMs) have raised both interest and concern in the academic community. They offer the potential for automating literature search and synthesis for systematic reviews but raise concerns regarding their reliability, as the tendency to generate unsupported (hallucinated) content persist. Objective: The aim of the study is to assess the performance of LLMs such as ChatGPT and Bard (subsequently rebranded Gemini) to produce references in the context of scientific writing. Methods: The performance of ChatGPT and Bard in replicating the results of human-conducted systematic reviews was assessed. Using systematic reviews pertaining to shoulder rotator cuff pathology, these LLMs were tested by providing the same inclusion criteria and comparing the results with original systematic review references, serving as gold standards. The study used 3 key performance metrics: recall, precision, and F1-score, alongside the hallucination rate. Papers were considered “hallucinated” if any 2 of the following information were wrong: title, first author, or year of publication. Results: In total, 11 systematic reviews across 4 fields yielded 33 prompts to LLMs (3 LLMs×11 reviews), with 471 references analyzed. Precision rates for GPT-3.5, GPT-4, and Bard were 9.4% (13/139), 13.4% (16/119), and 0% (0/104) respectively (P<.001). Recall rates were 11.9% (13/109) for GPT-3.5 and 13.7% (15/109) for GPT-4, with Bard failing to retrieve any relevant papers (P<.001). Hallucination rates stood at 39.6% (55/139) for GPT-3.5, 28.6% (34/119) for GPT-4, and 91.4% (95/104) for Bard (P<.001). Further analysis of nonhallucinated papers retrieved by GPT models revealed significant differences in identifying various criteria, such as randomized studies, participant criteria, and intervention criteria. The study also noted the geographical and open-access biases in the papers retrieved by the LLMs. Conclusions: Given their current performance, it is not recommended for LLMs to be deployed as the primary or exclusive tool for conducting systematic reviews. Any references generated by such models warrant thorough validation by researchers. The high occurrence of hallucinations in LLMs highlights the necessity for refining their training and functionality before confidently using them for rigorous academic purposes.
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Octavia Con Amore :pink_moon_and_stars: Succubard's Library

:boosts_ok: boosts help me survive~ :bear_love:

Come listen to another cozy Elder Scrolls reading~ :hug_love:

This story is about the mystery of the two assassin brotherhoods, the Dark Brotherhood and the Morag Tong, their religious foundations, and changes over their evolution which led to a bloody yet shadowy war between them.

Succubard Gently Reads [Fire and Darkness]
(youtube.com/watch?v=GQLmilbcfO)

I think everyone is familiar with the Dark Brotherhood, but the Morag Tong may be a bit less known, especially to those who haven't played Morrowind. Though this isn't a whole book dedicated to that, it is one of a few readings I've done that touch on the topic, and hopefully, over time, people can get a more complete picture of this oft-looked-over group of assassins that has left its mark on Tamrielic history :bugcat_nod:

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If you'd like to help me survive and keep doing what I do, ko-fi and patreon are most of my income and members help my cats and me eat. I also have audio files in standard and voice-only available for monthly supporters as a bonus :frog_blush:
[Ko-fi] ko-fi.com/octaviaconamore
[Patreon] patreon.com/c/octaviaconamore

I also do live readings a few times a week over on Twitch (alongside Youtube) if that's more your thing :shiba_excited:
[Twitch] twitch.tv/octaviaconamore

#Vtuber #ENVtuber #Bard #Games #Gaming #LGBTQ #Queer #Trans #TransFem #VoiceOver #Fantasy #Reading #Bookstodon #Books #ElderScrolls #Skyrim #Oblivion #OblivionRemastered :cat_interact:

YouTubeMystery of the Assassin Brotherhoods ~ [Fire and Darkness] ~ Cozy Elder Scrolls LoreBy Succubard's Library
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