chefandy

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by chefandy 3y ago
Learning to draw? If you have access to LinkedIn Learning (often available through public libraries if you don't have a premium account) all of the fundamental art courses there are absolutely fantastic. I'm an art school guy and
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> draw from imagination rather than copying or tracing photos Well, I'd argue that the more important skill from a technical perspective is in between that-- life drawing. Being able to translate 3d scenes into a 2d image is the p
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> It's going to Destroy sync no question. one of the few avenues artists have left to make an income with music. My personal opinion is that this is wholesale theft. While the technology is dazzling there is just no way suno wasn&#
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I think people confuse prudent with good. I don't think this person would be delusional enough to think their choices were prudent by "polite" society's standards, especially when describing himself as a crust punk-- a s
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There are other advantages directly related to machines themselves, too. Power consumption and heat management alone can make a big difference for when things go wrong. Enclosures that are engineered for a finite life in a data center rathe
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Like many others, folks around here are often blind to nostalgia's impact on their perception of 'good ol days' tech. Just because something was simpler to write or administer does't man it was better for users, and ther
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I liked Copernic: it was a native Windows 9x Meta search tool.
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> The fact that almost none of the drugs in the artistic milieu are used to get inspiration is interesting - you'd think those, especially LSD, would have been prime candidates, given their "legendary" reputation in Leary&
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Sure, but we should avoid talking about open access as a self-evidently beneficial end rather than a means to make things that benefit society. Coming from a an academic library background, I saw numerous open access arguments fall flat in
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The fact is though, every corporate actor in this entire landscape is just playing their hand. Anybody's stance on anything at any given moment doesn't mean they're more or less ethical-- the moment they perceive a strategic
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It's always refreshing to see someone else who actually cares about art engaging in these fora but I don't entirely agree with either point. > 1. It can't actually communicate anything, as it's a fake simulation that
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Of course not, but the more important and difficult questions address how we should reason about, evaluate, and present ideas that lack proof.
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I've been too immersed in university happenings recently. It took me clicking on the link and reading until "password reset feature" to realize that this wasn't some bizarre phishing attack involving Masters of Fine Arts
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Seems to me that smaller, more focused models would be more practical. Why would the tulip machine need to know the rules of canasta or the history of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches? I wonder if there's going to be a persistent mon
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> Creativity is difficult to measure in the lab, but if taking LSD was a game changer, you'd see a majority of creative workers taking LSD the same way Adderall & co are massively used (there and elsewhere - anywhere where stayi
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Different aspects of cognition may be measurable to a useful extent, but the rest isn't that straightforward. Philosophers still argue about what consciousness even is at the most fundamental level, so quantifying that is not happening
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It's certainly not worse at authoring smooth UIs, it's just not aaaaalll that much better. While UMG-- UE's 2D toolkit-- has lagged other parts of UE by a lot, it's still way easier to get precise visual results for yo
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I found elixir a fun inroad to functional programming.
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Thanks for the correction. I know nothing of that person.
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Seems worth tracking publicly. Maybe I should create a GH rep.... er... hm...
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I'd be interested in hearing from the cited number of people. If it's like 5 randos, then that's quite possibly a misremembering, or even conceivably the victims of some unrelated code theft. If it's a few dozen people
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Well, this is well outside of my area of expertise, but the only factual dispute attached to the image in wikipedia is that SSI is only available to people essentially assumed to be out of the work pool. From the SSI site: "Little or n
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Well if any component of a game engine would render our planet uninhabitable, I imagine it would be the renderer.
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> Nobody's forcing anybody to pay. I never even implied that they were, or that they shouldn't be charging for the service. I was responding to a typical dismissive tech crowd response to criticism of its capability. > Is
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If not, that would be extremely concerning.
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This is a lot more nuanced that that. My position doesn't conflict with wanting to see this tech advance, and your wanting to see this tech advance does not lend support to your reductive utilitarian philosophical assessment of "t
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Though apparently not gude enough for guding my speling.
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It would be a net positive if it didn't facilitate a whole bunch of Dunning-Kruger 'artists' summiting Mt. Stupid flooding the lower end of the commercial art markets with vaguely convincing looking bullshit. It weakens our a
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Convenient for making samples? Sure, I guess. So are drum machines. I'll bet SD would be great at making images for collages to, but it kind of defeats the purpose, no? Good samples are almost always good because they're amazing b
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> It's like you've never played an early access game It's like you've never thought about why we in the game industry release early access games. Getting critical feedback from people invested enough to buy into a be

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