Gilligan’s Island Band?
Whoa. The Gilligan’s Island Band is a pretty good schtick.
Whoa. The Gilligan’s Island Band is a pretty good schtick.
This could make a fun little demo – flying through a cityscape with buildings that are constantly generated by AI – getting funkier and funkier as you go along
Let nothing disturb you,
Let nothing frighten you,
All things are passing away:
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things
Whoever has God lacks nothing;
God alone suffices.
— St. Teresa of Avila
Curious Refuge is holding their 2nd annual AI Horror Film Competition. Using the Infinity V2 model, make a movie and submit it by Oct 21st to win up to $3000.
You can check out the entries here.
Here was one of last year’s winners. It’s probably not going to replace real moviemakers yet, but it’s absolutely a great creative tool to try out ideas and visualize scenes.
Continued below average recovery in Portland and Oregon and declining population has lead to Portland having the most job losses in the top 50 metro areas of the country. Unemployment rates are still officially low at 3.9% because they are at the same time experiencing a population decline.
Portland’s true unemployment rate last year was 20%, compared with its official rate of nearly 3.9%, according to a study from the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity (LISEP).
https://www.axios.com/local/portland/2024/05/09/true-unemployment-rate-layoffs-economy
Google Japan makes some pretty epic keyboards. Now that have this new one – a mobius loop.
Or a hat that is a keyboard
If that’s to pedestrian, you can be Neo where there is no spoon
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Cloud storage is increasingly becoming less free. You can’t go long before your iPhone or Google account notifies you that you’re almost full or already full – and give you a link to a handy-dandy subscription. But there is one place where you can upload all you want and the storage is still free – YouTube.
Adam Conway wrote up a fun little program that does exactly that. He creates video frames full of data and uploads them to YouTube. He tried QR codes, but YouTube compression artifacts made that untenable. Instead, he went brute force and each 1 or 0 was a 5×5 block of pixels set to the same color. At 1920×1080, that generates about 10KB of storage per frame.
He fired it up and gave it a whirl. It worked! He even posted the code on github. It’s definitely too slow and uses a tremendous amount of storage. To use for any meaningful data as you need to take the input file and encode each bit into a 5×5 pixel in an image, then encode the images together into a video file.
Still, it’s the one free place on the internet.
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Those pet talking buttons likely do not work like the youtube stars making them thinking they work.
There is no question that dogs are intelligent. But Susan Hazel, an associate professor at the School of Animal and Veterinary Science at the University of Adelaide, and Eduardo J Fernandez assert, however, they cannot understand the human language. Instead, they are likely reacting from operant conditioning.
Pets learn that pressing a button can lead to a reward, but in cases where dogs seem to be able to string multiple buttons together to say something advanced, or where they can press the ‘right’ button when asked, it is very likely they are just responding to their owner’s body language. As proof, they probably wouldn’t be able to replicate the behavior if a new pet-sitter was asking the command.
Learning complex actions by operant conditioning isn’t new. The Verge writes about how good operant conditioning gets with the Clever Hans phenomenon. Hans was a 20th century horse who could apparently provide answers to simple math questions by tapping his hoof. With careful investigation, it turned out Hans wasn’t doing any arithmetic but was instead reading subtle cues from whoever was questioning him to know when to stop tapping.
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