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by pjonesdotca 3y ago
First, tweening. If you can get an AI to do the job of a tweener you've already massively impacted the VFX/Animation pipeline.
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by pjonesdotca 4y ago
Because the models are not creating a 1:1 replacement of the original work. As mentioned before "style" is not something subject to copyright and the model creates a model of that style. The process of finetuning a model generally
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by pjonesdotca 4y ago
It doesn't "copy". These are not collages patched together from different original images.
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by pjonesdotca 8y ago
I'd recommend Teeline. It was developed for British journalists. I've used it off and on when I was a scrum-master to keep notes on standups https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teeline_Shorthand
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by pjonesdotca 8y ago
Well...Wintermute wasn't essentially hostile to humanity - it just had it's own goals. I find that way more cyberpunk than a dystopian AI bent on humanity's destruction.
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by pjonesdotca 8y ago
https://cachethegame.com/ <<< fixed the url link
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by pjonesdotca 8y ago
From the Ruby side Sinatra is just as fast as flask to get something going. Having supported all three ( Rails, flask, Sinatra ) if it's going to be an API. I usually start with Sinatra.
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by pjonesdotca 8y ago
Kinda shocked that someone would apply for a patent for a tool that is essentially a decision tree.
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by pjonesdotca 8y ago
Oddly enough last week I showed this video to my 9 year old daughter who has a passing interest in animation and she understood the technology clearly. That fact alone means that we have to step up our game in modern technical documentation
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by pjonesdotca 9y ago
Mostly unenforceable in Canada as well.
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by pjonesdotca 9y ago
The major problem I see for the "gig economy" is that as a contract worker one is essentially on their own for things like health insurance and unemployment benefits. While neither are things often talked about on the HN boards, h
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by pjonesdotca 9y ago
exactly what I thought
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by pjonesdotca 9y ago
You also need to take into consideration how incredibly lucky you were. "Pulling oneself up by one's bootstraps" is a myth and always has been.
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by pjonesdotca 9y ago
6 month emergency fund? Have you seen how many people in the US are living paycheque to paycheque? I know many people who make six figures who would struggle to meet that requirement. Having grown up as a military brat I know about poor and
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by pjonesdotca 9y ago
The problem with the hacker mindset as it applies to algorithms affecting lives is that most folk who studied computer science ( or any of the hard sciences for that matter ) usually went through programs that never approach the human inter
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by pjonesdotca 9y ago
Actually modern advertising ( post WW2 ) was built by psychologists - the artists just dressed up the intentions. Edward Bernays pivoted from being a propagandist to advertising and virtually created the foundation for Madison Avenue as we
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by pjonesdotca 9y ago
I'm kind of amazed that this article never really covers chord progressions. A useful start is this chart http://www.donaldsonworkshop.com/baraboo/songwriting/chordma...
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by pjonesdotca 9y ago
A great intro to Prolog can be found here if you're not the type that learns solely from reading. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SykxWpFwMGs
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by pjonesdotca 10y ago
The CIC site crashes under load every time a Republican wins the White House.
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by pjonesdotca 10y ago
I have 'jj' mapped to ESC.
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by pjonesdotca 10y ago
http://beatcancer.org/2014/03/5-reasons-cancer-and-sugar-are...
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by pjonesdotca 10y ago
niche not nitch
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by pjonesdotca 10y ago
"which would fundamentally alter what it means to be human in a profound and everlasting way" This has periodically happened over the long course of our species existence. A hundred years ago the average lifespan was half what it
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by pjonesdotca 10y ago
Probably about as many parents who are fighting to get their kids in French Immersion in the rest of Canada. I can't speak about anywhere other than Toronto but here it's quite sought after, second language for children. Especiall
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by pjonesdotca 10y ago
Absolutely true. https://github.com/kashif/node-cuda
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by pjonesdotca 11y ago
Dumping the radioactive waste into the ocean is an insanely bad idea.
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by pjonesdotca 11y ago
Overpopulation is a myth. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/14/opinion/overpopulation-is-...
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by pjonesdotca 11y ago
Distraction by Bruce Sterling sometimes seems like it's literally just right around the corner.
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by pjonesdotca 11y ago
A side effect of living on a continent separated by two oceans and having one single language. It's far easier and practical in Canada to be bi-lingual as English/French are the official languages. Having spent a portion of my chi
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by pjonesdotca 11y ago
Have you tried 'Slouching Toward Bedlam' ? http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=032krqe6bjn5au78 Two of the scariest games I've ever played. Perfect atmosphere.

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