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cognoboffin··on Why do LLM pelicans look like this?
Interestingly I gave the same prompt to Sol 6.1 Medium.

“Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle. Be creative”

And it replied:

“I’ll draw a seaside pelican on a vintage bicycle, with a fish-filled basket and a scarf catching the breeze.”

So it came up with exactly the same fish basket and seaside idea. No lighthouse though. Maybe these ideas are just cliche though.

cognoboffin··on What to learn to be a graphics programmer
SVD is the decomposition of a matrix into two rotation matrices and a scaling matrix, by definition:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_value_decomposition

cognoboffin··on What to learn to be a graphics programmer
SVD, and PCA are also examples.
cognoboffin··on What to learn to be a graphics programmer
Doesn’t RoPE use 2D rotation matrices ?