If you define pixel art as just a vague overall look, then yes, it can do pixel art. If you define pixel art as being limited to a fixed color palette, like 16 or 256 colors and aligned to a square grid, then no, not without some manual post-processing.
It's not helped by the fact that a lot of people who are not artistically inclined will generate pixel art on these image generators at 1MP resolutions (far higher than traditional pixel art), such that even the casual observer can typically see the bad smearing and fringing in the final result.
That depends on your definition of pixel art. (people are exceptionally pedantic about this)
With the right prompt engineering, it (and similar quality models) can indeed do relevant pixel art, but due to the existence of blotchiness/SynthID watermarks you'll need to do some sort of postprocessing regardless.
There are SDXL pixel art models out there that do actual pixel art. They generate images that are 8x too large, you need to downscale them and reduce colors externally.
yeah, the original Retro Diffusion models were an early example of that - IIRC it had models separately fine-tuned for 32x32, 64x64, etc. so you'd nearest neighbor squash'em down to that size after the initial gen to kill the high frequency noise.
I'm not the OP, but I think everyone might have a different definition of what "audible inner monologue" mean.
For example, I don't talk to myself in "monologue". But I can close my eyes or stare at the screen and visualize the solutions. The words that I usually tell myself during that are "what?", "why?", "strange!", "really",... not a monologue or sentences.
Like the response from the UltraSane: my thinking is and always was 100% made of internal language-based chain of thought ("imaginary talking to myself"), with some amount of introspection / meta reasoning when problem is particularly hard. This article indeed reads to me a bit like someone proposing a physical storage medium inspired by those pictures of little squares traditionally used as "save" icon, without realizing that this digital representation was in the first place based on an existing real world thing.
Anyway, a surprising related observation is that rubber ducking by describing the problem to quiet listener still often helps me, which suggests that internal chain of thought makes intuitive shortcuts that sometimes are counter productive, while talking to another person creates subconscious pressure to make the thoughts fully complete.
That's my impression too, that my thoughts are a hybrid, where I'll think in a rapid sequence of whole concepts and visual flashes, and then summarize that in my inner voice "for the record", as a jumping-off point for the next batch of thoughts. But I don't have much control over this, as my inner voice is hard to shut up for any length of time, always giving a running narrative.
I am such a person and I've always done 'chain of thought' in a notepad in order to think through complex things, well before LLMs were a thing. There are certainly tasks I can 'one-shot' but I've learned from experience that for some problems that just results in me focusing on irrelevant things.
Curious whether the lack of audible inner monologue is a benefit for you?
I feel like I'm the opposite, where most of my thinking is done in inner English, which feels slow. I.e. as opposed to instantly realizing the result of deep subconscious processing or something, I usually go the slow language way, if you get what I mean.
I completely lack the 'critical self narrator' that many people report being distressed by. If I make a bad decision there is nobody 'punishing' me for it internally. I also feel like I am better than average at very stressful dangerous situations - i find that i dont particularly analyze things in the moment, or at least the conscious part i aware of doesn't. I just act on 'autopilot' if that makes sense.
It does have an enormous mountain of downsides, though.
My experience: intuitive thinking it's a shortcut, but it's less reliable when it comes to complex problems, especially involving multiple concepts that have to be reasoned about with non trivial relationships or rules. In a way I see a spectrum of approaches that range from fast to reliable:
1. Intuitive thinking
2. Language based internal monologue
3. Written scratchpad
4. Explaining the problem to another person until they understand it (rubber ducking)
The author says they could narrate their own thought process out loud.
I couldn’t do that. I have no insight into my thought processes whatsoever. There are no semantic (or any other) processes to witness. It’s complete crickets at all times…
My wife is the opposite - constant chatter in her head. And she can trace every thought exactly. (No idea how people like her can focus or even function!)
We focus/function via the inner monologue. It doesn't just do its own thing while we're trying to focus or get something done, it walks through the issue and comes up with solutions and then criticizes them and iterates, and as far as we're concerned, that's us solving the problem.
Stage manager and liquid glass were 2nbig flops. Stage manager because it’s unusable and adds clutter to the screen and liquid glass because it makes an m1 ipad pro feel like a 2010 device
I updated from iOS 18 a few days ago to 26 because Claude design needs newer web apis. I m shocked how bad the „windows“ experience is on iPads now. I had no idea.
Apple still "helpfully" enables Stage Managers dumb "click the desktop to see icons" by default even without Stage Manager enabled. Product Manager brain.
That is also optional and can be turned off in System Settings. Apple does a lot of things wrong, but complaining about features which work well and can de deactivated is just silly and removes weight from the valid arguments.
I need it to build the recent Expo ( https://expo.dev/ ) versions, and to target newer iOS features. I tried to stick with Sequoia for as long as I could, but I had to upgrade to macOS 27 last month :(
Fortunately, I found that there is now a way to reduce the stupid corner radius ("defaults write -g NSConvolutionOverride1 -float 8") and to remove the floating sidebars ("defaults write -g NSSplitViewItemSidebarDefaultsToFloatingAppearance -bool false").
stage manager is just a worse implementation of the old ‘auto hide other apps’ flag that has been broken for some time now. shame. i preffered that mode and it might have been the default on early builds on os x Steve jobs used it in his presentations.
That implies that there will be a side willing to prosecute this. You can't have Nuremberg trials when the side doing the crime is invested in never getting punished for it.
i.e. extremely well, seeing as very few Nazis (in the West) were punished, and of the few that were there were none in jail after around 1958, and West Germany was basically given back to them if they hadn't been imported into the US. Spain, where the WWII festivities began, didn't even have a change in government.
When my mother got surgery for breast cancer, she underwent chemo and radiation. Then begun complaining about very sharp pain in her right side ribs. The surgeon decided to remove the gallbladder. Then the pain got worse, she was sent to psychiatric evaluation, which was clean. The whole thing took a year. Finally, they did a scintigraphy: turns out she had a tumour on her dorsal vertebrae that had collapse and fused 2 vertebrae. She went on to live a couple more years until 2017 when she finally died from a mixture of cachexia and opioid poisoning (low kidney function coupled with a morphine injection at the hospital), cancer already had spread from the breast to the spine, and liver. Before all this, when the cancer was presumably only in the spine, she was offered a experimental treatment with radioactive strontium at the Champalimaud center. Unfortunately, we didn't had enough money at the time. I'm pretty sure things would have been very different now, but I would say to anyone with cancer: get a PET scan if you have strange "psychological" symptoms after having had cancer in the past
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