A large part of the Yorkshire Dales is comprised of limestone. Limestone kinda dissolves a bit in water and acid rain, so when the water runs through the cracks and joints in the limestone, it can create cool slabs called “clints” separated by deep fissures known as “grikes” or “grykes”.
“We describe a system to remove real-world reflections from images for consumer photography. Our system operates on linear (RAW) photos, with the (optional) addition of a contextual photo looking in the opposite direction, e.g., using the selfie camera on a mobile device, which helps disambiguate what should be considered the...
Thanks! This is a single exposure from a 210mm zoomed in composition. I saw the band of light hitting the distant house and moorland, with the Storr in deep shadow due to the storm above, so nabbed it quick as I could.
Ah, your shot is taken from Elgol on the Strathaird peninsula, north of where my image is from (on the Sleat peninsula). Lovely moody conditions! Skye’s beautiful no matter what.
Today we’re launching Gemini Advanced — a new experience that gives you access to Ultra 1.0, our largest and most capable state-of-the-art AI model. In blind evaluations with our third-party raters, Gemini Advanced with Ultra 1.0 is now the most preferred chatbot compared to leading alternatives....
Weaver introduces a new family of specialised large language models tailored for creative and professional writing. Offering models ranging from 1.8B to 34B parameters, said to outperform larger generalist models like GPT-4 by focusing on human-like text production and diverse content creation capabilities.
The karst limestone landscape atop Smearsett Scar in the Yorkshire Dales [OC] (lemmy.world)
Smearsett Scar, Feizor, Yorkshire Dales, England.
A System to Remove Real-World Reflections from RAW Photos (arxiv.org)
“We describe a system to remove real-world reflections from images for consumer photography. Our system operates on linear (RAW) photos, with the (optional) addition of a contextual photo looking in the opposite direction, e.g., using the selfie camera on a mobile device, which helps disambiguate what should be considered the...
The ruins of Duntulm Castle on Skye, perched atop a 100ft basalt cliff [OC] (lemmy.world)
Duntulm Castle, Trotternish peninsula, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK
A tiny island, but with massive cliffs [OC] (lemmy.world)
Oronsay, in Loch Bracadale, off the coast of the Isle of Skye, Scotland.
On the moorlands above Portree, this ridiculous view towards the Storr presented itself [OC] (lemmy.world)
Portree, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK.
The An Corran coastline, Skye's Jurassic coast [OC] (lemmy.world)
An Corran, Staffin, Skye, Scotland, UK
Part of Fingal's Pinnacles in the Quiraing of Skye [OC] (lemmy.world)
Quiraing, Trotternish, Isle of Skye, Scotland.
Atop Sleat's cliffs looking across the sea to the Cuillins of Skye [OC] (lemmy.world)
Tokavaig, Sleat, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK
Beautiful cascades of Sligachan with the Black Cuillins in the distance [OC] (lemmy.world)
Sligachan, Isle of Skye, Scotland.
One of the Lake District's more well-known views [OC] (lemmy.world)
The A591 between Ambleside and Rydal, with the Kirkstone fells above.
Hull Pot in the Yorkshire Dales, with a waterfall dropping 60ft into it [OC] (lemmy.world)
Been here a few times, but my first time catching Hull Pot with an actual waterfall flowing into it.
Stability AI Introduces Stable Cascade: A Modular, Efficient, and Easy-to-Train Text2Img Model (stability.ai)
“Stable Cascade is exceptionally easy to train and finetune on consumer hardware thanks to its three-stage approach.”
Bard becomes Gemini: Google launches their most powerful LLM, Ultra 1.0 (blog.google)
Today we’re launching Gemini Advanced — a new experience that gives you access to Ultra 1.0, our largest and most capable state-of-the-art AI model. In blind evaluations with our third-party raters, Gemini Advanced with Ultra 1.0 is now the most preferred chatbot compared to leading alternatives....
Smaug-72B-v0.1: The New Open-Source LLM Roaring to the Top of the Leaderboard (huggingface.co)
Abacus.ai:...
Weaver: New Specialised Writing LLMs Outperform GPT-4 (arxiv.org)
Weaver introduces a new family of specialised large language models tailored for creative and professional writing. Offering models ranging from 1.8B to 34B parameters, said to outperform larger generalist models like GPT-4 by focusing on human-like text production and diverse content creation capabilities.