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posted December 18, 2018 #

v. proud to say that I brought a blow torch to a knife fight with the zit on my nose this morning. It looks............. very bad.

Remove.bg

posted December 18, 2018 #

Kaleido, a photo filtering and marketing company, has released Remove.bg, a free web service that extracts a person from an image and sets them on a transparent background. Using "sophisticated AI technology to detect foreground layers and separate them from the background" they aim to save many hours of work.

As an experiment, this is truly impressive. I tried it with a number of images and it worked extremely well and quite quickly every time. As a tool that you'd actually use in production - not so much. According to the FAQ: "for performance reasons the output image is limited to 500 × 500 pixels. " So, unless you're working on a project meant for rather small screens, this won't do you much good. However, they do aim to make higher resolution versions in the future and it's undeniably fun to play with.

Scooter fail

posted December 17, 2018 #

to be clear, i'm not posting this for any amount of funny. this is scary and dangerous. i see the upside in the scooter craze but stuff like this isn't worth it.

WOTT: Volume 123 - All-Out Christmas

posted December 17, 2018 #

As the year winds down, I should be focusing my We Own This Town: Music podcast on a retrospective of the year. It's high time to take a look back at 2018 and select some highlights from the year worth revisiting or just acknowledging for their existence. BUT, in my poking around I found a treasure trove of local offerings that was enough to make an entire mix of Holiday Music.
I understand that Holiday Music Fatigue™ may be setting in for everyone but these songs were just too good to ignore. I'll post my 2018 Retrospective soon enough.

30 Minutes Of Christmas Commercials

posted December 17, 2018 #

We're in the home stretch before Christmas and the holiday break (I hope you all get a holiday break). Generally this means being completely checked out from work and allowing yourself to indulge in some completely mindless entertainment.

To help you achieve that goal, here's 30 Minutes of Christmas Commercials from the 80's and 90's. For American audiences, it will surely trigger that nostalgia influx.

AI Drumming: American Food

posted December 17, 2018 #

James Dennis is a man of many interests - his Twitter is full of historical political takes, startup culture and programming insights. He also happens to be a musician with a number of curious projects. One of his latest endeavors is using an AI Drummer to play along his tracks. Here's the one song he's shared with the robo drummer:
To be clear, there's still a bit of copy / paste involved with the drumming but, all and all, it sounds pretty damn good. He's also posted a reworked version of "'Take on Me' as a Fugazi song" (as he puts it) that's damn entertaining.

There's been examples of AI Generated Music to float around in the past but I haven't seen many examples of using AI to augment the recording process; it's generally one or the other.

Will be keeping an eye on his feed for more examples. Interest is fully piqued.

posted December 17, 2018 #

Could watch this forever tbh https://t.co/ioQ1DQbtRj

posted December 16, 2018 #

My homie has a shelf in his apartment that is just syrup packets and batteries and he is screaming at me not to post about it https://t.co/motuRfinkp

posted December 16, 2018 #

https://t.co/h7uTUvYnH0

posted December 15, 2018 #

my new favorite css declaration is { font-family: fantasy } https://t.co/oLCyFV9JV2

posted December 14, 2018 #

@AshSpurge @dpatrickrodgers https://t.co/wuG0uq2Coy

posted December 12, 2018 #

I went to PF Chang’s for lunch, AMA.

posted December 12, 2018 #

Eyes Wide Shut is a Christmas movie.

posted December 12, 2018 #

@yewknee Yes. https://t.co/DdjswPiDcx
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