OK this is nuts. I keep getting the same goddamn error 11 on the GPS and I can’t play! How do I fix this? I’ve tried everything I’ve read about, from re-installing the whole game to turning airplane mode on and off, and nothing works!
Two days in a row that I can’t play. I can’t get stops for my friends list, despite having a new request. I’m essentially locked out even though I’m logged in. Like, I’m in the system but the GAME won’t load. I’m so confused!
Please help me! I love this game and it doesn’t seem to want to be played!
Guys! I need actual help! I’ve gone through every walkthrough I can find and NOTHING CHANGES ANYTHING. I even reinstalled and got the same error!
I got on for maybe 20 minutes on the bus. The Go Plus didn’t connect and any special encounter I had (a gym battle and a task completion) was met with an entirely blank screen while the music played. Now I can’t connect again.
It’s apple season in the northern hemisphere! If you’re lucky enough to live in an apple-growing region, you may even be able to get ahold of heirloom apples. These older varieties have fallen out of favor, sometimes because their tree wasn’t robust enough, or they didn’t ship well. Sometimes you don’t find these heirlooms around because they are ugly as sin. Otherwise delicious! But they look like potatoes that were sat on by a bear, or cursed quest items that will transform you into a mushroom. The Apples of New York, published in 1905, lists thousands of heirloom apple varieties, and with these names as a starting point (I collected some modern varieties too, making about 2500 names), I trained a neural network (textgenrnn) to come up with more.
The neural network’s names sound, um… they don’t sound like modern apple varieties. In fact, they sound a lot like they should be riding horses and waving broadswords.
Lady Bold Mage Little Nonsy Red The Braw Lady Fallstone Baldy the Pearmain Spitzenborn Warflush Bogma Red Tomm of Bonesey Lady Of the Light Kentic The Steeler Warrior Golden Pippin Of Bellandfust
The reason, of course, is that most of the dataset is made of pre-1905 apple varieties, and those don’t follow your silly modern naming conventions, all Honey- this and Sweet- that. The Apples of New York lists varieties such as Pig Snout, Peasgood’s Nonesuch, Cornish Gilliflower, Mason’s Improved, Pine Stump, Dark Baldivin, Duck’s Bill, and Greasy Pippin.
Still, even by “Peasgood’s Nonesuch” standards, some of the neural net names are strange.
Camfer’s Braeburg Yerky Severe Pea Golden Red Red Spug Sten’s Ooter Queen Screepser Steep’s Red Balober Kulter of Death Orga Starley’s Non Pippe Black Rollow Galler’s Baldwilling Bellewan’s Seedline Evil Red Janet Baldword Kleevil Svand’s Sheepser Bramboney Lady Basters Winey De Wine Cheekes Gala Wowgwarps Luber Reineautillenova
And there were apple names that were worse. Apples to definitely avoid. Perhaps part of the problem was that my neural net had previously been trained on metal bands.
Fall Of Apple Ruin Red Sweet 81 English Death Galebury Knington Pooper Naw Grime Rot Brains Hellbrawk Double Non Winter Red Spite White Wolves Winesour Ruinstrees Worsen Red Failing Puster Excreme
And actually okay to get these last few I maaaay have thrown in a bit more training on metal bands:
Dark the Pippin of Merdill Descend The Fujion Seedling Beyond pell of Pippin Spirite Hell Desert Belle King Golden Steel Ancient Bearing Rock Graverella
There were apples that were worse, and I’m definitely blaming those on the metal bands (though I did catch one or two apple names in the original Apples of New York that would raise some eyebrows). If you want to read them (and, if you like, get bonus stuff with each post), enter your email and I’ll send them to you.
There are a lot of strange courses that make it into a college course catalog. What would artificial intelligence make of them?
I train machine learning programs called neural networks to try to imitate human things – human things they are absolutely are not prepared to understand. I’ve trained them to generate paint colors (Shy Bather or Stanky Bean, anyone?) and cat names (Mr. Tinkles is very affectionate) and even pie (please have a slice of Cromberry Yas). Could it have similar “success” at inventing new college courses?
UC San Diego’s Triton alumni magazine gave me UCSD’s entire course catalog, from “A Glimpse into Acting” to “Zionism and Post Zionism”, a few of which I recognized from when I was a grad student at UCSD. (Apparently I totally missed my opportunity to take “What the *#!?: An uncensored introduction to language”) I gave the course catalog to a neural network framework called textgenrnn which took a look at all the existing courses and tried its best to figure out how to make more like them.
It did come up with some intriguing courses. I’m not sure what these are, but I would at least read the course description.
Strange and Modern Biology Marine Writing General Almosts of Anthropology Werestory Deathchip Study Advanced Smiling Equations Genies and Engineering Language of Circus Processing Practicum Geology-Love Electronics of Faces Marine Structures Devilogy Psychology of Pictures in Archaeology Melodic Studies in Collegine Mathematics
These next ones definitely sound as if they were written by a computer. Since this algorithm learns by example, any phrase, word, or even part of word that it sees repeatedly is likely to become one of its favorites. It knows that “istics” and “ing” both go at the end of words. But it doesn’t know which words, since it doesn’t know what words actually mean. It’s hard to tell if it’s trying to invent new college courses, or trying to make fun of them.
Advanced Computational Collegy The Papering II The Special Research Introduction to Oceanies Biologrative Studies Professional Professional Pattering II Every Methods Introduction study to the Advanced Practices Computer Programmic Mathematics of Paths Paperistics Media I Full Sciences Chemistry of Chemistry Internship to the Great The Sciences of Prettyniss Secrets Health Survivery Introduction to Economic Projects and Advanced Care and Station Amazies Geophing and Braining Marine Computational Secretites
It’s anyone’s guess what these next courses are, though, or what their prerequisites could possibly be. At least when you’re out looking for a job, you’ll be the only one with experience in programpineerstance.
Ancient Anthlographychology Design and Equilitistry The Boplecters Numbling Hiss I Advanced Indeptics and Techniques Introduction in the Nano Care Practice of Planetical Stories Ethemishing Health Analysis in Several Special Computer Plantinary III Field Complexity in Computational Electrical Marketineering and Biology Applechology: Media The Conseminacy The Sun Programpineerstance and Development Egglish Computational Human Analysis Advanced A World Globbilian Applications Ethrography in Topics in the Chin Seminar Seminar and Contemporary & Archase Acoa-Bloop African Computational for Project Laboration and Market for Plun: Oceanography
Remember, artificial intelligence is the future! And without a strong background in Globbilian Applications, you’ll be left totally behind.
Just to see what would happen, I also did an experiment where I trained the neural net both on UCSD courses and on Dungeons and Dragons spells. The result was indeed quite weird. To read that set of courses (as well as optionally to get bonus material every time I post), enter your email here.
Here in the Northern hemisphere, there’s finally a chill in the air, bringing with it an avalanche of decorative gourds and a generous helping of pumpkin spice. Let’s see if an artificial neural network can get into the spirit of things.
Earlier, I trained a neural network to generate names of craftbeers, thanks to Ryan Mandelbaum of Gizmodo, who inspired the project, and Andy Haraldson who extracted hundreds of thousands of beer names from BeerAdvocate.com. The beer names came in categories, and one of them, as it turns out, was “Pumpkin”. Now, clearly, is the time for this category. I added the beers from the “spice” and “winter warmers” category, making a total of 3584 beers, and I gave the list to a neural network to try to imitate.
(Beer labels generated via Grogtag.com)
Kill Ale Alive Ale Lemonic Beer Warmer Hollow La Spiced Fright Brew Organic Mar And Doug Strawbone Masher Not Beer Bog Porter Pumpkin Pickle Blood Barrel Beer Stumpkin Ale Santalion Winter Ale Pumpkin Man Gruppie’s Pampkin Belging Main Ale Winter Winter This Dead Ale
The names came out rather spookier than I had expected. Sometimes that happens when I forget that the neural net had previously been trained on metal bands or diseases or something, but in this case, the previous dataset had been Neopets foods.
So, naturally, my next step was to train this neural network for just a little while – just long enough – on metal bands. Via transfer learning, I could get the neural net to apply some of its pumpkin spice knowledge to its new task of generatng metal bands. I just had to stop the training before catastrophic forgetting happened – that is, before the neural net forgot everything it knew about pumpkins and just went 100% metal. It took just a few seconds of training to turn the pumpkin spice ales just the right amount of metal.
Operation: Spoopify was a success.
Secret Death Ale Ale Gore Pumpkin Winter Holes Flesh Head Spice Gore Spice Prophecy Dead Pumpkin Storm Pumpkin Area Child Shadow Ale Dragon’s Winter Horse Pumpkin Rotten Illusage Man Spine I Purpky Stumpkin Pumpkin Imperial Sin Skin Ale Bleeding Ale Winter Suul Pumpkin Disaster Grave Void
But what if I want a slightly different feel? Less gory, more uncanny? Nobody does uncanny like the podcast Welcome to Night Vale, in which ominous lights appear above the Arby’s and screaming voids are a routine road hazard. It turns out that a neural net with Night Vale transcripts in its training history will retain strong and haunting memories of this past for quite a while. So friends, Welcome to Night Vale Pumpkin Ale .
Faceless Ole Ale [Head] Oh Ale Do I The Winter Face Welcoming Ale Hey God Slacks. Ginger Pull, Winking Head The Secret Pumpkin Pumpkin But Pumpkin and Oh But Pumpkin Ale Human OK? I leaked the root like the heads [BEEP] Nothing Pumpkin Pumpkin Ale I do need the news of The Guns The Corrected Pumpkin Angel Pumpkin’s Garfacksksknes
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my stupid fucking irresponsible lazy bitch of a so called “mother” doesn’t have a fucking job and used my name + my income + my credit history to rent a room while me and my sister stayed in family housing on campus at my university. she was supposed to get a fucking job and pay the rent so she could save to get us a place together, but she fucked that up and now her landlord wants to evict her.
if she gets evicted, i will have an eviction on my record which will disqualify me from renting anywhere for a minimum of 5 years.
her landlord gave her 3 days to either pay the money, or he will evict her. 3 days.
my options are
pay the $800 she owes in back rent
file bankruptcy and f*ck my credit up for 7 years and have the court take money out of my paychecks to pay her debt but still allows her to keep her apartment
allow the eviction to proceed and she gets put out but my rental history is f*cked for 5-10 years and i am disqualified form renting an apartment until that waiting period is over
as you can probably see, this is not fair. especially when you add on the fact that i took on the burden of caring for my sister while she was supposedly getting her life together. in all likelihood, i will probably end up filing a bankruptcy, but i made this post as a last resort that possibly, somehow i could miraculously get the money to pay off the debt, and then tell her to go fuck herself and get her own lease with her own name on it like a fucking responsible adult would.
i feel terrible doing this. i feel guilty and awful and entitled and stupid and embarsssed. but please, PLEASE, help me out here if you can. I don’t know if this will even do any good, but I don’t have many options left. im not ever doing this again after this.
The Hyacinth Macaw, Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus, is the largest of the macaws and the largest flying parrot – from the top of its head to the tip of its tail it can reach a meter in length. Sadly, it’s become increasingly endangered due to habitat destruction and illegal trapping. [via]
With #HimToo trending rn, my only thought is, these conservatives are so uncomfy with the idea of a gender spectrum that they gotta assign gender to a damn hashtag because “me” is too ambiguous a-fucking-pparently.
It’s true. He sleeps on Lincoln’s lap. The Secret Service hate it in the winter.
God damnit! Now all I can think of is Trump curled up, sucking on his thumb in stone Lincoln’s lap. And because of this God forsaken website there are “daddy” implications that I cant un-think.
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