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This is in Dickens - Bleak House, I think, when he refers to all the under-taxed industrialists promising to 'pitch' their acumen into the Atlantic (i.e., move to the United States) if any government dares to restrict their income through increased taxation.

Yup. There's another framework called 'Feature-wise Linear Modulate' (FiLM), also related to video, but otherwise unrelated (note the lowercase 'i'); and thanks to Hasbro, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) is surprisingly difficult to search (but Hasbro was first, so NeRF not a great choice).

I've seen 2-3 other examples of insane name duplication in CV research in the last couple of months.

> Pages were laid out by literally cutting pieces of paper and gluing them

Cow Gum, it was called in the UK (I don't know about elsewhere). I was a graphic designer in the late 1980s, and remember all that analog equipment, including Rotring pens (insanely expensive) and line tape, and photomechanical transfers (PMTs).

Today is better.

Agreed, though you do have to export your photos and videos to another folder before you can sync them. I do that weekly.

> Have you tried pushing through and getting used to it? I run for half an hour in Shanghai summer weather. Over 35 degrees and humid.

I am a person that runs cold, terribly affected by heat; I don't think I could make much headway doing this. I get heatstroke very easily.

There is a park, but it's not so near, and walking in the dark just has zero appeal.

I am going the gym route, though I would either do it in the morning or the evening. As a writer, I have max 4-5 hours of useful work in me today before my frontal lobe gives up, but once I am started on a writing session, it is hard to have it interrupted.

I would say that the social benefits of leaving the house to go to a gym, even if you talk to nobody throughout the visit, outweigh trying to solve the problem in the place where you already live and work.

I think that this is robbing Peter to pay Paul, as a possible road to sleep deprivation, which isn't going to help the situation either.

I am in the same situation. It has caused me such deterioration in mind and body that my relationship has been affected, and we are in counseling now.

As a remote worker, I have decided to give up on walking - it takes up so much time that I conclude that is suitable exercise for rich people only. Furthermore, three months of the year here it is too hot to walk; six months, it is dark by the time I am freed enough from work to go walking; and trying to get a worthwhile walk in before work is too time-consuming and potentially sleep-depriving.

Therefore I have decided to go to our local gym, less than ten minutes' walk from where I live and work, 2-3 times a week, and to commit to hiring a trainer, because I will either achieve nothing alone or else I will injure myself.

It creeps up on you, the extent to which this isolated working life can run your body and mind down into the ground, until, as in my case, it even threatens the things you hold dearest.

Ugh, an embedded player with no volume control.

KillTheNewsletter is essential to my Inoreader set-up, which has hundreds of feeds to fuel my writing. It's an incredible service!

Higher density happens because investors want to maximize the use of land in desirable areas, not because land is unavailable or difficult to zone. I live in Bucharest, a city of incredibly high RE development, and most of the new buildings are more compressed and crowded in on each other than they were under communism, which is a common occurrence in the former Soviet satellite states [1].

From my window, I can see across the Delta Vacaresti, a wildlife reserve that was once a neighborhood that Ceausescu just had time to raze to the ground for some new insane scheme before his people shot him. Across the way, I see three massive multistory residential blocks going up, crowded together like pedestrians on a metro train at rush hour - only one side of the front-most block has any view of the Delta, while the others literally live in each other's shadows, lacking sunlight.

By contrast, communist design principles designed a whole neighborhood, with schools and hospitals and doctors, with the 'megablocks' seen as small cities in themselves that needed dedicated support systems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eIxUuuJX7Y

These videos are notably short on realistic-looking people.

This appears to be just one plank of a tripartite shock assault on the October conference season.

The other two, also by anonymous authors using the same formatting, are:

AudioGen: Textually Guided Audio Generation https://openreview.net/forum?id=CYK7RfcOzQ4

and

Re-Imagen: Retrieval-Augmented Text-to-Image Generator https://openreview.net/forum?id=XSEBx0iSjFQ

There is a samples site for AudioGen, but it is currently flooded and inaccessible:

https://anonymous.4open.science/w/iclr2023_samples-CB68/repo...

That long embedded video is the nearest T2V has got to breaking my cynicism about how long it is going to take to become (at least) coherent.

Check it out alongside the project page to see the text that formed it alongside, or just watch it here:

https://phenaki.video/stories/2_minute_movie.webp

However, there are some flourishes and timing that are not indicated from the prompt text, and I think there is some manual tweaking at play (which is okay, it's still impressive).

I go to Yandex for image search first, these days, especially if I want to do an image-based search. Whatever you may think of it, Yandex uses both facial ID and object recognition, and will return side-results that are both visually and semantically related to the uploaded image.

Google Images, on the other hand, seems to look for the nearest monetizable domain cued by the uploaded image, and gives you adjacent results about that. It certainly does no facial recognition, etc. (well, none that it will feed back to you in results, anyway).

Used FastMail as part of my big DeGoogle initiative last winter. Very happy with it. However, one of the main considerations of Fastmail vs. other providers is that the domains they used are 'Visa-free' in terms of spam catchment - everything gets through!

But some have noted that FM is an Australian service with some interesting issues around privacy and five-eyes surveillance.

For me, in the end, I had to pay that price (as well as the sensible prices of the service itself), because I really needed my business mails to arrive in people's inboxes.

Great, and this is one of the best deepfake puppetry results I've seen for heads. But there are many, many, many similar projects, and the applicability is very limited. what would be ground-breaking would be to do it for bodies (including heads).

Pretty much everything you can put in is marked NSFW. Unusable.

It was trained on LAION 5b, which is chock-full of NSFW material. Search for yourself: https://rom1504.github.io/clip-retrieval/

I'm thinking not.

For six months one time I rented a room in the massive London house of a psychiatrist who had just spent a year working for the UK government. Though he never went into detail about what it entailed, he intimated to me at times that he had made an absolute fortune in that period, which had enabled him to buy outright what was practically a mansion in one of the most expensive areas of one of the most expensive cities in the world.

Yet he hinted to me a couple of times that he was haunted by what he had done in that year. I shall always wonder!

I also watched that doc a week ago, and loved that pioneering spirit from Dykstra and the other heroes of my youth. In the next 5-10 years, I think that the growth of AI in VFX will bring some of that back. In fact, that's happening right now, across the world, as every VFX house seems to have some sort of AI skunkworks in place; techniques that are not ready for prime-time, as many applications of CGI weren't throughout the eighties, but who time is yet to come.

After 10+ years of DOpus, I can't imagine ever going back to Explorer, except for the odd outlier use case. I'm sorry to see people saying that it's 'cluttered'. That's exactly the way I like it, and you can make it as basic as you like.

Fine. It would also be great if I could search for filetype:pdf without getting gamed results where academic publishers either create a folder hierarchy that simulates a PDF result (but you actually have to pay), or else only shows GoogleBot the actual PDF (and the rest of us have to pay).

Would additionally be great if Google's autocomplete on filetype:pdf didn't default to "filetype pdf" (i.e. adds a space and omits the colon, nullifying the token).

Today, when DALL-E was still free, my Dad asked me to try a prompt about the Buddha sitting by a river, contemplating. I did about 4 prompt variations, and one of them was an Asian female, if that gives any idea about the frequency (I should note that the depiction was of a young, slim, and attractive female Buddha, so I'm not sure they have the bias thing licked just yet).

The first hour of Tron: Legacy is pretty good. After that, it's almost unwatchable.

> A) not all movies break even, most lose money, so the "hits" are needed to keep the lights on. It's not unlike VC investing.

Hollywood accounting, which surely inspired The Producers, can obscure a film's real profitability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting

Timely - I discovered OBS only last week, and am consistently amazed by it. Only thing missing is the ability to draw crop areas prior to a screengrab/video.

I'm guessing that the sub-editor, inspired by legal, added the question-mark at the end of this headline.

To everyone pointing out the hypocrisy, please read the whole article. The balance of blame and level of mutual hypocrisy is established pretty early, and reiterated throughout.