Fortran AI images

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Photo from a recent meeting of the Fortran committee? :laughing:

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DALL-E 3 rendition of “Doctor Fortran”. @sblionel

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Where are the punch cards!!? :nerd_face:

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Sneak peak at FortranCon 2024

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Interestingly, they are not looking in the same direction…

His right hand has 6-7 fingers (without counting the hidden thumb). I love both the extraordinary quality of those pictures, and those fun anomalies in details. It is like in a dream. Yes, those AIs are dreaming (of electric sheep?).

Please, don’t :sweat_smile:

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Meanwhile in the future: The Fortran Committee finishes up work on ISO_ADA_BINDING, and rejects a proposal to delete implicit typing.

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A distinctive trait of those AI artists is that they don’t “care” about human faces when they are in the background. If you zoom on those faces, it looks like zombie night :grimacing:… That AI is not “conscious” that for human brains faces are something very special.

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Consider an alternative caption: “Humanity’s last remaining seed ship heading at 0.999999881 of light speed toward a distant habitable world, its servers carrying nothing but Fortran compilers and Fortran source code.”

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Sadly, I don’t have you young folks internet skills, but in line with the old joke that millions of years from now when mankind has finally succeeded in destroying itself and cockroaches evolve to be the dominant sentient lifeform on earth, their first programming language will look a lot like Fortran. So how about an image of a bunch of cockroaches sitting around in the ruins of mankinds civilization typing away on terminals with displays filled with Fortran code.

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Don’t get me started about the six-fingered hands and five-legged rabbits that AI routinely produces. This Bing AI generator is a Microsoft product, and the demo is always waaaaay better than the actual product. I’m thankful it hasn’t thrown a BSOD yet :blue_square:

Fortran couldn’t produce an accurate enough REAL KIND for the astronomical flight path calculations, and although really tiny the round off error threw us off-course by a few 100 light years. We ended up in the gravitational field of Sagittarius A, the ultra massive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. We’re doomed! :confounded:

Fortroach! :cockroach:

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Nice catch. I was thinking more along the lines of “the fundamental laws of the universe don’t deal with double precision.” :slight_smile:

The resemblance is quite extrodinary :smile: Whats missing is a VT100 terminal with an EDT editor session filled with FORTRAN code running under VAX VMS.

The “fundamental laws of universe” at such scales can indeed overwhelm our current algorithms. I remember writing an orbital trajectory code a while ago, and used RK4 or 5 for the transient term, which is as accurate as practically possible. The geo-orbit would still diverge after a few 100 laps, and with the gravitational attraction decreasing along you would end up in an increasingly unstable situation. Purely numerical.

Not an AI image, but I like the image on the Microsoft FORTRAN POWERSTATION T-shirt

worn here. Something like it could appear on the fortran-lang site.

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The first Fortran compiler I used at the start of my Ph.D! I think we still have the software box.
But the T-shirt was not available in those days. :face_exhaling:

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