Is that finished or still ongoing?

Yeah, that came out of no where. I thought it was great, but also figured it would likely traumatize a number of kids.

I was sad the movie didn’t do better in the box office. It wasn’t the best, but it was a fun original story.

Wikipedia has a pretty good list of big “firsts” for cgi.

It notes that Disney first used cgi for the clock tower in The Great Mouse Detective. However it seems like it may have been cgi generated frames that were then hand animated over.

As for Aladdin, maybe first to have cgi character? As Beauty and the Beast came out 1 year earlier and definitely had cgi effects in the ballroom scene.

Note: no idea how accurate the whole list is, but that one checks out.

It’s hard for me to think of one as many artists may come out with a couple political songs, but it isn’t necessarily their whole discography.

Macklemore and Childish Gambino come to mind for me as both have had political songs and somewhat politically active.

The other thing you didn’t talk about was the size of the market in general.

As onbaord CPUs were becoming popular the biggest reason for a GPU was games or video processing. Which, while significant markets, isn’t huge.

Over the past couple decades, GPUs have made headway as the way to do Machine Learning/AI. Nvidia spent a lot of time and money making this process easier on their GPUs which lead to them not only owning the graphics market, but the much bigger ML/AI market. And I say the AI/ML market is bigger is simply that they are being installed in huge quantities in data centers.

Edit: My point being that the market shrunk before GPUs became so critical. To counteract Nvidias stranglehold, a lot of big tech companies are creating custom TPUs (Tensor processing units) which are just ML/AI specific chips.

While you’re right, it is also the national guard so it’s a supplemental/part-time job and not the primary job for a lot of them.

Yeah, I made a separate comment, but AudioBookshelf can play nicely with ebooks and comics. It’s not super smooth, but provides the most features in a self hosted solution from what I’ve tried.

I just use AudioBookshelf for books. It’s a little annoying, but basically just requires an extra nested folder structure.

The best part is offline reading seems to resync back to the server, so you can download books for local reading or read through an internet connection.

Not only did I really enjoy it, I thought it was really well received critically?

Rotten tomatoes has it rated well too - https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/inside_out_2

It might be worth giving it a shot.

It’s not really possible, especially given that most music is touched up post production to begin with (so isn’t “natural” anyways).

Much like detecting LLMs or AI photos/videos it’s mostly heuristics and so it can only give you a probability something was AI generated. Even worse, any improvement on detection can be used to improve the models that make the content.

I’m not sure what you’re saying. But to expand on my point:

A lot of receipts have an area where they show you a “calculated tip” for some %s. Many restaurants calculate the tips using the total (meal+tax) rather than the subtotal (meal).

On those receipts the person still has to calculate the end amount (meal+tax+tip).

Yeah, you shouldn’t tip on the tax, that has nothing to do with the food or service.

I’m surprised no one mentioned that a lot also calculate the tip after applying taxes.

Example: Meal was $40, then a 20% tip would be $8. But if taxes were $4 (making the total bill $44), then the receipt would show $8.80.

If it’s cold too cold to be outside, it should be cold enough inside for a sweater inside. What are you keeping the heat at in the winter?

Yeah, a little research online says it’s likely only used in perfumes due to expense, but technically it could be used in food.

Most foods though will just use raspberries in some form or another.

It’s actually the more practical of the crypto currencies from my perspective. It’s setup to enable things like smart contracts and exchanges and was a big driver of web 3.0.

Not that I’m a big proponent of web 3.0, it at least tried to be a currency unlike every other crypto currency.

Bowling for Soup: Ohio (Come Back to Texas) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wBWNgg8CClc

Or the reverse, find an 18/19 year old who looks 35!

Actually the torso/feet are just wrong in general, as in not a legitamte Lego piece. Such a weird detail for the AI to mess up.

From the one episode I saw - yes.

Im personally very wary of getting invested in it cause I’m afraid it will just keep upping the ante without answering anything, but my friends who have watched it said that it does seem to have a direction and does actual address things.