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Electrical Engineer and Pansexual Menace (He/They) (Ham: KE0MKA) Electron-Gun-Slinger. Toots about Electronics and Socialism. Wife-"guy" in training.

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wizard, to random
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Cool organic generative art. A random color is chosen, then painted at a pixel with neighbors with the closest average. Simulated on a Fibonacci 1024. Inspired by "Rainbow Smoke"
More details: https://forum.electromage.com/t/challenge-idea-all-the-colors-rainbow-smoke/3531/10?u=wizard

A large disc of LEDs with colorful patterns is painted a pixel at a time to generate interesting groupings of color.

North,
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@wizard This is awesome. If there are multiple candidate positions does it choose randomly, does it score based on multiple neighbors, or is there some other clever way to avoid ties?

North,
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@wizard Nice, that's slick

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Far SWVa, just barely visible green and pink glow on the northern horizon. No ribbons of light, nothing spectacular in person, but night mode on the phone captured these at about 130am

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For reference, I took this photo to the west at the same time in the same mode to convince myself that my eyes weren't playing tricks. No colors that way.

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A few more grainy aurora phone pix from my front porch in Southern Virginia. Again, it looked nothing like this in person. It's extremely faint, but it is visible.

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A monument to the gods of cooling

MLE_online, to random
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I just found out about a local plant shop whose owners have become completely deranged with fears about the Chinese Communist Party, and several yelp reviews of their store tell sales of being thrown out because the owners became suspicious that they were spies.

I want to make up shirts that say "C.C.P. -- California Commission on Plants" and go in there with a friend and start measuring their plants with calipers and taking notes in a notebook

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@MLE_online 😂

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New nightmare just dropped

North,
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@thomasfuchs How satisfying would it be to just punt one like a football, though

North,
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@thomasfuchs Also it's just dumb. Cameras cost basically nothing nowadays, putting one on wheels a few inches off the floor is worse and more expensive than just putting stationary cameras everywhere. So what is it for? Is it so Amazon can collect spatial data? Is it a pilot for a larger platform? Is it some engineer's pet project? It's so frustrating, because at best it's landfill and at worst it's a harbinger.

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For a long time I didn't ask anyone for help with my panic attacks. I more or less told my GP what to prescribe, I developed my own coping techniques, and I isolated when it got too hard.

Unfortunately, the experience of asking for help has felt more or less like finally pulling the fire alarm and the lever comes off in your hand.

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Found the Aesthetics wiki. See you all in a year.

North, to random
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If anyone has a few million$$ hanging around, you could make a brief splash by starting "Bandcamp for Generative AI"

Set up a service that lets artists form collectives that can train a model together and also includes a marketplace that allows users to prompt these models in exchange for a fee that goes to the artists who trained it.

Ideally, the actual GPUs that your GANs are running on are being powered by solar or wind only.

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Provide several disbursement models for the "collectives" like "artists are compensated according to their contribution of training material" or "artists are compensated even-split across the collective" etc.

Save the training data, or hash it, so that you can use it to investigate claims from other artists if they recognize their influence in the output of a model, to discourage theft.

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When you build this platform, it will be bad and people will not like it. You probably won't make money because of the cost of IP enforcement, conflict mediation, green energy infrastructure for the service core, etc.

But that's what you will have to do to make the use of generative AI feel acceptable in my mind.

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I'm listening to a podcast where they're talking about childhood experiences with videogames and it compelled me to share my favorite videogame memories as a kid:

  1. Staying up past bedtime taking turns playing Super Mario 3 on the NES with my dad and my little brother

  2. One of the highlights of my young life: catching my mom playing PilotWings64 by herself in the living room

North, to random
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I finally updated Ultimaker Cura a couple of weeks ago and I have lived for too long without tree supports!

ishotjr, to generativeAI
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how are folks feeling about the use of ? when is it ok to use? when is it not? what are some examples you've seen of the wrong call being made? would love to get a ton of folks' opinions so please for reach! ✨💗✨

North,
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@ishotjr I think the technology is fine, but there are no ethical generative AI services currently available.

The only ethical model I can imagine is if a model were trained by an artist collective and then the output was sold by those artists or the model was licensed by those artists.

That said, this conversation is a rare privilege. We've already been saddled with a lot of practically unavoidable unethical infrastructure and everyone has to draw their own line on what's acceptable.

MLE_online, to random
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Just saw a man, passed out on malt liquor and dozing in the grass, his protruding belly shining shining in the late afternoon sun

North,
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@MLE_online that sounds nice, actually

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Today I saw a guy reuse an amazon bubble shipping envelope to insulate his water bottle. He rolled it around the outside of the bottle and secured it with a pair of rubber bands.

I really like that creative reuse. It's very clever.

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@MLE_online The cyberpunk version of brownbagging a 40

North, to random
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The gods smile on the crafters of forbidden adaptors

North, to random
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Designing my torch manifold and mini ball-valves add up fast

North, to random
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Materials Handling protocols on the farm (w/ @gella)

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I beg to differ

ArchiteuthisFlux, to random
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Yee (and I cannot stress this enough) haw.

Jumperless V5 prototype showing random colors on each LED.
Jumperless V5 prototype showing a bouncing rainbow effect

North,
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@ArchiteuthisFlux Nuh-uh, not again. The last time I looked into a pattern of flashing lights on this site I woke up with an Amazon cart full of thigh-high socks.

North, to random
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I know 60 down and 20 up sounds wildly slow to everyone outside the US, but frankly I'm just shocked that I can do that on DSL over POTS wiring that hasn't been updated in 30+ years. Two 30AWG copper wires are streaming HD hentai into my house? Seems pretty futuristic to me.

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@koppanyh It's shocking. I wouldn't believe it if I didn't personally wire the phone jack that the modem is plugged into. Apparently, while everyone was moving on to cable and fiber, they've been working on DSL like it's a cure for cancer.

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