I think Labour were left wing before, but they were compromised by right-wingers and now they are about as right wing as our right wing mainstream party, the conservatives.
Pro-Israel, arresting activists, cutting welfare and disability benefits. I like to call them Forced Labour.
Google actually already has a system to automatically detect and filter incoming nude pictures. It allows apps to blur then and you can then opt to view them. It’s a separate application and uses locally running machine learning.
I can’t remember the name of it and if it’s just on Pixels, nor what applications it works with. Might just be for their own messaging apps or it might be more deeply integrated. If anyone is curious I’ll try to look it up after work.
The point is they already have something similar to this they could maybe leverage.
To avoid you all a trip to reddit:
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24 MHz Arm Cortex M0+ processor. The chip also carried 24KB of flash storage and 3KB of static RAM.
… a 10y old phone can barely load Google, and this is about 100x slower.
Wild that you can serve anything with that hardware. Granted, static websites are basically just sending files over the wire.
I’ve just discovered another use for grain synthesis:
Adding grain using to DVD movies with badly compressed grain.
I just bought Breakfast at Tiffany’s on DVD and despite it being a 60s movie that should have had clean grain, it has very little and what is there looks bad because of mediocre DVD compression. You end up with some minor but distracting compression artifacts and static grain. By adding a little grain synthesis, you end up with an appearance that strangely seems more authentic and hides compression artifacts.
Here are the results. I’ve added clips wit 0-36 strength grain synthesis strength, and I personally think 24 looks pretty good.
That’s reasonable. I know a lot of people don’t like it. In my case it’s as much about loosing quality when trying to denoise as it is a case of preserving the visual style.
For whatever reason my local library only stocks books. I tried donating some movies and they said they don’t take them. Weird.
I’m sorry, I don’t understand your question. Would you like to elaborate?
Open AI has done this too. It’s literally just a marketing play. “We made something so scary and amazing. Pay attention to us”.
In reality it’s probably a nothing burger.
If you actually put forward a law to ban all AI development now they’d lobby against it.
Yeah as a result of this post I decided to look into AV1 grain synthesis again. That’s the only way I can see that AV1 can meaningfully “improve” over h265 right now for noisy content like movies, which is what enthusiasts care about.
Grain synthesis is where you analyze noise on the original file, denoise the video stream and reapply artificial noise of a similar style as the original at decode time.
It relies on a lot of assumptions:
From a short experiment, I found that VLC was able to render the synthetic grain, but MPV(.net) did not out of the box. I had to play around with gpu rendering modes to get it to work.
As for transcoding, it’s unclear what happens to the synthetic grain, whether it is burnt in or simply ignored. At least one or two people have reported it will just be ignored and you’ll get a weirdly smooth movie.
Typical end users do not. Companies do because it will save them money.
Enthusiasts will care because it could save them storage space for equivalent quality, though if the cost of encoding is so high then just in terms of energy costs you may save money just going for a cheaper codec and upgrading storage with the saved money.
I guess that means people can go and run the reference code and start comparing the results for real now.
Hopefully an adaptation will get added to FFMPEG and Handbrake so we can have a play with it too.
Yeah as I said these are the plastic ones, not dissolvable. Those starch ones are fairly neat.
Isn’t that a violation of church-state split? Or does that not apply to schools in the US?
I’m conflicted on this.
It’s good that more capacity is being built, and hopefully that capacity can be expanded to youth when the administration changes.
Of course, that will be too late for many youths that have already lost access to care, and will have suffered through adolescence and now require expensive surgeries. I wish he did more, but I understand it’s a balancing act.