The Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game franchise says it won’t allow artists to use artificial intelligence technology to draw its cast of sorcerers, druids and other characters and scenery.
True, but I feel this change may be a bit deeper. Blockchain served very little purpose, beyond its trust. With AI i am seeing proof of concept projects coming in for distilling client briefs, ideation of concepts and even release planning. Not replacing the people yet, but making processes faster. And that is just in my industry. Marketing and advertising.
I am not sure what is correct to put in kbin-core/issues without cluttering it up with somewhat speculative requests. I have no idea how to implement this or whether it is possible. So I will post here?...
Lol, but I get that. A proper affordable heads up display will add so much more value to my life. I ride motorcycles and that is where it can be really useful. A Kickstarter tried ot a while ago with a helmet,but that flopped badly. A pair of glasses that will fit in my helmet, beaming useful info to my eyeballs could be lifesaving.
I had a long rural night ride a while back and it was bloody tricky navigating with the mounted phone. Not out of choice, more of a needs must scenario. The Gaiman map app was very useful in indicating the road ahead, bit the split attention needed was insane.
Banks is my favourite sci fi author, but I to struggled with Consider Phlebas. Consider reading Player of Games. The culture books can be read as stand alone books without missing to much. I think Banks found his stride with Player of Games.
I have a set of 6 virtorinox steak knives from the 90s, that turned into general purpose kitchen knifes. They are now finally starting to become blunt. The black platic handles are smooth from use. 30 years on, ithink the time is approaching for them to be replaced. And that is only because I cannot sharpen the serated blades.
Our universe could be twice as old as current estimates, according to a new study that challenges the dominant cosmological model and sheds new light on the so-called "impossible early galaxy problem."
It is a tricky one to answer, regardless of the equipment. So many variables involved. For speakers, placement is often the most important part. Cheaper speakers properly placed can sound better than very expensive speakers poorly placed. It is an entire science on its own.
Enjoy the equipment you have. Listen to records, both new and second hand and then decide where to upgrade most. A mid range cartridge can help an entry level deck. Your system should sound good on any source.
Vinyl can also be hit and miss. I have some really terrible pressings in my collection that will never sound good and some that simply blows me away.
That is a beast of an amp for a medium room. 90W rms is a lot. I have not heard the amp in question, but be aware that sony can be a little clinical in sound. I would pare with a set of warm bookshelves. And add a small active sub later. Bose 301 comes to mind. You should be able to find them at a reasonable price second hand. Just make sure the units are undamaged. Cosmetics can be fixed with patience.
It is harder to find good second hand components now that what it was when I started. People were just buying AV receivers and selling lovely equipment from the 70 and 80s for next to nothing.
My favourite mid budget range speakers.have been Missions for years. Boston acoustics and Bowers and Wilkins also makes excellent bookshelves.
The Bose 301 speakers have a special place though. They can be wall mounted or placed on stands and can deliver a warm sound on just about anything.My father's pair has been in daily use since 1983. The suspension was replaced once in 40 years.
So I logged in last night after getting my new operating system to work with ED (ubuntu) and noticed that the useless crew of my fleet carrier once again managed to spend almost their entire annual budget on Indi Bourbon and Kamitra Cigars....
Researchers have demonstrated a new material for single-molecule electronic switches, which can effectively vary current at the nanoscale in response to external stimuli....
I cannot help but think of Eric Drexler's 90s classic book, The coming age of nanotechnology whenever we make another breakthrough in this area. It is astounding how far we have come.
That could be fun. I am just amazed at how far the ecosystem has come. Just for kicks I tried getting steam up and running and got fallout 76 running through their compatibility tools in no time i knew the steam deck pushed that along, but did not realise exactly how far it has been pushed. Itay be time to give it a run again as a daily driver.
I thought I would share my experience this evening with the group here seeing that I still excited as hell for getting this hodgepodge to work at all....
I am working my way there. I am interested in the gaming possibilities. NPC dialogue and so on. But I wanted to get the environment working first. I found more guides for stable diffusion. Now I can venture deeper knowing that rocm is working.
I managed to find an extra iteration or two without sacrificing to much stability.
6.06 / 7.59 / 9.11
Running with Doggettx selected as the optimiser in the optimiser config inside automatic1111.
I installed the google perftools as suggested in this thread
"sudo apt install libgoogle-perftools-dev"
And then added the following memory management options as suggested in this thread
by exporting: "export PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF=garbage_collection_threshold:0.6,max_split_size_mb:128"
Made the following changes to my web-user.sh
Uncommented the command line options as follows: export COMMANDLINE_ARGS="--medvram --upcast-sampling"
And added the following lines to the end of the file
I enjoy them. Especially on the worlds with interesting atmospheres. I have not played in a little while. I think that some unwinding xeno biology may be in my future. Gotta pay those lazy crew people on my carrier.
An elevator that can go smoothly from horizontal to vertical isn't possible... right? Turns out that the conventional wisdom is wrong, and the Schmid Peoplem...
Edit: Wrote this on mobile. The mobile U/I is not always clear as to the source magazine where the post came from, so I missed the Linux in there. Things are not as dire on Linux as on Windows for AMD, so my assessment may be a bit pessimistic. With AMD's focus on the data centre for machine learning, the linux driver stack seems fairly well supported.
I spent the last few days getting stable defusion and pytorch working on my Radeon 6800 XT in windows. The machineml distribution of stable diffusion runs at about 1/4 of the speed of raw rocm when I compare it to the shark tooling, which supports rocm via docker on windows.
Expect tooling to be clinky and that you will need to compile everything yourself on linux. Prebuilt stuff will all be for Nvidia.
Amd is pushing hard into the ai space, but aiming at datacenter users. They are rumoured to be building rocm for their windows drivers, but when that will ship is anyone's guess.
So right now, if you need to hit the ground running for your academic work, I would recommend NVidia, as much as it pains me, a long time AMD user.
Please help me understand how this view is intended to work. I have been seeing a lot of content on that view that I am not subscribed to. Today I deleted all of my subscriptions to try and see if the view will change and it does not. Am I missing something in how this is supposed to work, or is there a bug there at the moment?...
I just confirmed that. I am not following anyone yet. I hope one of the more experienced people will chime in with ideas. My profile was created during the crashing chaos a week ago, so it would not be surprising is something is a little iffy there. I noticed the behaviour starting as soon as subbed to a community not on kbin, but on a federated server. Or at lease I think that is when it started. I may be wrong.
Good to know. I am still in the process of getting our server world ready for the update and have not played with the new content just yet. Looking forward to it though.
Hi I noticed this behaviour today on my kbin/sub view where posts started to appear from magazines I am not subscribed to. Is there a setting I am missing or is this a known issue?
Thanks for the response. I tried that, but it still seems to show me everything. Which is why I am wondering. It worked correctly yesterday which I why I wondered if it is a setting somewhere I tweaked. I am accessing: https://kbin.social/sub
I started collecting almost 3 years ago when I kept popping into a record store @waxandbeans. Couldnt afford a decent turntable until recently though so I waited. Money was all over the place so I bought and sold but Ive got back all the ones I sold. For me its a combination of the sound quality and The local community on it....
Greybeard here..... I was lucky enough to grow up when vinyl was the format and CDs the new thing. Early CD players were terrible, usually harsh sounding compared to their vinyl counterparts. A family friend owned a higher end hi-fi store during the era when having a good hi-fi was a status symbol. I got to listen to a lot of new, expensive equipment that way. In the late 80s CD simply did not cut the mustard compared to even an entry level high-end record player. For example a Nad 3020i with a Rega Planer II would outplay the most expensive Marantz or Yamaha cd player at the time.
That kept my teenage record collection safe and allowed me to build a system that I am proud off. Keeping an eye open for sales of both equipment and records through the 90s and 2000s when everyone got rid of their records and record players.
Today, the reasons are a bit different, why do I still listen to vinyl in this age of convenience. Vinyl ticks some unique boxes that cannot be ticked by most other formats.
There is a lot of arcane knowledge needed to get the best results (cartridges, tracking setup, speaker placement)
Playing records require effort, which leads focus.
Dungeons & Dragons tells illustrators to stop using AI to generate artwork for fantasy franchise (apnews.com)
The Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game franchise says it won’t allow artists to use artificial intelligence technology to draw its cast of sorcerers, druids and other characters and scenery.
universal IDs for threadiverse items (re kbin-core #635)
I am not sure what is correct to put in kbin-core/issues without cluttering it up with somewhat speculative requests. I have no idea how to implement this or whether it is possible. So I will post here?...
Meta cancels Quest Pro, stops development of Quest Pro 2 (www.zdnet.com)
Could this be a cautionary tale for another recently turned VR-maker tech giant?
Sci-fi you couldn’t get into?
What’s a piece of SF that you just couldn’t get into, even though you feel like you should?...
Affordable and excellent Kitchen knife: the Victorinox Fibrox (www.youtube.com)
Been trying to learn how to build skyscrapers with a friend in our multi year-old world, very happy with the result! Would appreciate any thoughts and advice!
New research puts age of universe at 26.7 billion years, nearly twice as old as previously believed (phys.org)
Our universe could be twice as old as current estimates, according to a new study that challenges the dominant cosmological model and sheds new light on the so-called "impossible early galaxy problem."
What is a good budget speaker for a first timers setup with rt82 turntable and pp444 preamp?
I got the rt82 for the option of upgrading along with great reviews....
Exo-biology to fill the old bank account. Lets see how many credits we can earn in a week.
So I logged in last night after getting my new operating system to work with ED (ubuntu) and noticed that the useless crew of my fleet carrier once again managed to spend almost their entire annual budget on Indi Bourbon and Kamitra Cigars....
Researchers demonstrate a new single-molecule electronic transistor (phys.org)
Researchers have demonstrated a new material for single-molecule electronic switches, which can effectively vary current at the nanoscale in response to external stimuli....
Chad Linux user (files.catbox.moe)
Stable Diffusion on AMD 6800XT - Ubuntu 22.04 - Experience so far and just how much faster it is than machineML on Windows
I thought I would share my experience this evening with the group here seeing that I still excited as hell for getting this hodgepodge to work at all....
Sidewinder slowly being swallowed by the sands of some unknown desolate world
OC Orb Base me and a friend built a while back
The Schmid Peoplemover is an elevator in germany that goes both horizontal and vertical. (www.youtube.com)
An elevator that can go smoothly from horizontal to vertical isn't possible... right? Turns out that the conventional wisdom is wrong, and the Schmid Peoplem...
For us computer users
Using an AMD GPU for NN training/inference?
I'm looking to buy a new GPU. My main use case will be training and running neural nets (tensorflow+pytorch); gaming isn't really a priority....
EDIT - Resolved Help Needed around understanding the Subscribed view: kbin.social/sub
Please help me understand how this view is intended to work. I have been seeing a lot of content on that view that I am not subscribed to. Today I deleted all of my subscriptions to try and see if the view will change and it does not. Am I missing something in how this is supposed to work, or is there a bug there at the moment?...
OC Anti-water bucket clutch (youtu.be)
OC So it might not be the most useful information in the world, but you can put mending and unbreaking on your archaeology brush. No efficiency or fortune though, sadly...
Question about the kbin subscribed view showing articles from non subscribed magazines
Hi I noticed this behaviour today on my kbin/sub view where posts started to appear from magazines I am not subscribed to. Is there a setting I am missing or is this a known issue?
What got you into Vinyl ?
I started collecting almost 3 years ago when I kept popping into a record store @waxandbeans. Couldnt afford a decent turntable until recently though so I waited. Money was all over the place so I bought and sold but Ive got back all the ones I sold. For me its a combination of the sound quality and The local community on it....
Taking in the view.