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Starship Alamo

bremnet says...

And for 12 bonus points, how many movies can you name that are used in the mashup (without running off to Vimeo of course). I'm 8 out of 12. Most disturbingly, there is a Starship Troopers 3 and a non-numbered 4th in the series. Lots of "throwin' around" money in that franchise I guess.

NVIDIA Research - AI Reconstructs Photos

bremnet says...

As hamsteralliance says, ContentAware uses proximity matching and relative area matching. If you tried to fill in the white space with ContentAware, it'd be full of everything except eyes. They nVidia folks used thousands of images to train the neural net (ie generate the model using training data) which has more discrete sequential or spatial relationships between features (ie. eyes go to either side of the nose, below the eyebrows, level, interpupilary distance etc etc). The neural approach ALWAYS needs training data sets - it doesn't appear to (from reading the paper) any adaptive or learning algorithm outside of the neural framework (so, it's not AI in the sense that it learns from any environmental stimulus and alters its response... that I can see anyway. The paper doesn't get into the minutiae). But I'd still date her, if only she'd have me.

hamsteralliance said:

I think one of the key things is that it was filling in the eyes with eyes. It was using completely different color eyes even and it knew where they needed to go. Content Aware only uses what's in the image, so it would just fill in that area with flesh and random bits of hair and mouth. This seems to pull from a neural network database thingymajigger.

Wingsuit Training

bremnet jokingly says...

Awesome. I had wondered if they would ever figure this out like they did indoor skydiving. I'm expecting a big jump in the number of large red blood stains on various rock faces and other immovable objects.

Dance on spinning floor - Yoann Bourgeois / CCN2

bremnet says...

Just when a fella' gets tired of remakes of remakes on the big screen and tv, and thinks the well of fresh ideas in arts and performance are all used up or just aren't inspiring any more, something like this comes along. Even at more than 5 minutes in length, it holds you until the very end, which is something in these days of instant gratification and click click click click . All this, and an initially unexpected choice of music that wound up really complimenting the dancers. Nicely done.

Marble Machine - Triple Gears Lift

Russian Avalanche Destroys Carpark

bremnet says...

Learned something new today... never knew that heavy (wet?) snow could move so slowly, like a viscous fluid. Had always figured on the more violent, rapid cascades down hillsides and mountain slopes. Thanks for the post.

The result of our obsession with plastic

bremnet says...

Hmmm... along comes plastic. Plastic is cheap, reusable, lasts a long time, doesn't mind getting wet, weighs less compared to the variety of non-plastic things it replaced. Humans love plastic. Producers make more things out of plastic to keep the humans happy. Uh oh. Plastic winds up where it shouldn't. Humans aren't bad, plastic producers that made the plastic for the humans are bad. Humans might have wanted it before, now they don't, but it's not their fault, it's the shitty industries fault. How dare they make things that we used to want, but now we don't. Bastards. If you feel so strongly, take everything you own that has plastic in it and give it the toss. That'll show 'em. (Proper government representation?)

jmd said:

No obsession here, simply a result of our shitty industries and lack of proper government representation to control this crap.

Blinded by the light

Amazing New Flying Surfboards Can Fly Over Water

Ninja Cat Scares Brother Into A Pool

Royal guard punches annoying guy.

bremnet says...

Come on... when's the last time you were in a brawl? Have seen lots of guys go down with less than that, caused a few of 'em too. A guy back home (Mike Lubbock) was about 6' 1" tall, big broad shoulders and barrel chest, would sooner fight than eat and used to win most of the time. Unless you caught him just below the right cheek bone, and he'd drop like a soft rag. Usually woke up after a minute or two. The Metheral brothers were about the same, and so was Keith Verstagen. Doesn't take a serious medical condition, just one of those things.

Drachen_Jager said:

And there's no way that punch would have kayoed anyone without a serious medical condition.

And, and, and....

Yes, it surprises me anyone thinks this is real.

Whitehouse Admits Tax Plan Saves Trump,Tens Of Millions Year

bremnet says...

"Believe me. Believe me." He will continue to lie. His fan club of integrity-barren panderers will continue to make us cringe when heaping praise and idolatrous worship on his deeds of pure selfish interest. We used to complain about elected officials twisting the truth or only telling part of the story - now they just lie outright. We are well beyond being surprised. Where is the outrage? Where is the integrity? Abysmal is too kind of a word for this presidency.

Dashcam Video Of Alabama Cop Who Shot Man Holding His Wallet

bremnet says...

Hmmm.... serve and protect. Made a mistake, guy on the pavement bleeding. 3 buddies show up. 5+ minutes elapse, nobody bothers to render any aid, they just kneel and watch this guy bleed. I don't think I've ever seen a more pathetically sad response to another human beings plight and suffering than this.

Dog attacks car trying to get to cat

bremnet says...

Or a good hard kick in the nuts or elsewhere for the dog. What a bunch of bullshit. Down here in TX, if a human climbs over my back fence after dark I can shoot the son of a bitch because I think he/she is going to steal my property or cause me harm. But if a dog tears up my car I can't do shit? Hmm. Something's screwed up here. Would be a damn shame if that free running dog got run over one day. You know, by accident. Real shame.

greatgooglymoogly said:

What a useless cop. No taser or pepper spray? Water hose? The lady should have just gotten into the car and driven off. Amazing they would both stand there doing nothing

First Interstellar Asteroid Wows Scientists

bremnet says...

Uh, what? Nobody said that at all. It is neither a "classic example" nor an assumption. The trajectory has been tracked since it was discovered, which is hyperbolic around the sun, and the speed of the object is such that there is no way it could have accelerated to its current velocity due to the gravity of our sun alone, hence it has to be interstellar, picking up kinetic energy from another system outside of our own. The orbit is not improbable, it is unusual compared to trajectories of asteroids that exist within our own solar system. Sharpen your crayon there bud, and stop trying to impress people with your new thesaurus for hipsters (come on, "undergird"?? Really?)

shinyblurry said:

They said they believe it is interstellar because of its improbable orbit. This is a classic example of the assumptions that undergird much of modern cosmology



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