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Storytelling is not confined to a single technology or form of communication. Throughout the entirety of human existence, storytelling has evolved significantly. It began with simple grunts and gestures, progressed to drawings on cave walls, and then developed into oral traditions and tales shared around a fire. As societies advanced, storytelling took on new forms, such as dancing by tribal men and women, singing, and writing on clay tablets, copper scrolls, and papyrus. Over time, it expanded to include statues, books, and paintings, as well as performances in auditoriums and on stages, encompassing plays and scripts. The advent of photography and cinema further transformed storytelling, leading to the creation of computer-generated imagery with 3D puppets and virtual environments. This evolution continued with procedural generation and particle effects, and now we have generative models. It is absurd to assume that no new forms of storytelling can be created today or will exist in the future. The key is to execute these new forms well. Production planning remains unchanged, and the need for the best talent you can afford is as crucial as ever. By actually reducing set costs, you can afford to pay more to aspiring actors, artists, writers, and post-production crew, ensuring the quality and success of your storytelling endeavours. #cgi #ai #film #animation

Bakshi animating Last Days of Coney Island in 2014

人類史上初めて宇宙探査機が太陽コロナに突入し窓の外に見えるプラズマを撮影した様子

@ZackKorman No that’s not happening at all. Google, Nvidia, Mistral and others will keep dropping open weights.

Anthropic wants to control who gets access to their models and what they're allowed to do with them, but also wants the US government to block Chinese labs from developing open weight models. Sorry, but fuck that.

Everyone is focusing, quite correctly, on how this dumb, unelected bureaucrat is trying to block Apple from building products with users’ privacy in mind. But I want to focus on something else: the factual error he makes in this video when he says Siri AI is powered by Google. That is, of course, wrong. Apple was quite explicit that the models were distilled from Gemini, but they are Apple’s own models. So I’m not even sure how this guy can be taken seriously on this issue if he can’t even get the basic facts right.

It’s a temporary glitch because they overengineered the safety protocols due to all the fear mongering and regulatory fears. No need to make conspiracy theories when the basic truth is right in front of us every day. There are also dozens of AI models and many of them run locally and can fetch info from the web.

The scary part about Anthorpic's Fable nerf is not that it refuses to answer biology or cryptography. It's that it foreshadows what's coming. A world where a couple companies decide what you can and cannot do. They're building a new ruling class and you're not in it...

@MuseumCommodore The blister maker.

@TheBobPony HomePod isn’t doing on-device models. The other products in the current line up are doing a mix of on-device models and cloud models depending on how much memory they have and battery limitations.

❌ Supporting Apple Watch Series 6, 7, 8, and Ultra 1 ❌ Supporting iPad Mini 5th gen ❌ Supporting iPad 8th gen ❌ Supporting Apple TV HD ❌ Supporting Apple TV 4K (1st gen) ❌ Supporting Intel Macs ✅ Supporting the original HomePad that uses the same chip from an iPhone 6 (A8)

There used to be a dozen different smartphone operating systems (PalmOS, Blackberry, Symbian, etc) and the field was such an incompatible mess that most OEMs dropped those operating systems for Android. Nobody forced them to do it. They saw what Apple achieved and they listened to customer complaints. So they gave customers a system they could all understand. That is called ‘standardisation’. The EU is simply out of touch with customers and try to impose insecure standards on top working standards. That’s why they scare away innovation. It’s a long pattern of autocratic incompetency, corruption and roadblocks. They do these things for bribes ans to distract the population from all the economic harm they do.

I buy a videogame console I am stuck with their stores. I buy a car I am stuck with their system. I buy a TV I am stuck with their OS. What are you doing to change that? Apply the DMA everywhere otherwise this just seems a personal pet peeve against apple.

Stephen King famously had the guts to run this experiment. His alter-ego found a publisher and a small audience but would never have become wealthy.

演出ガー作画ガーと喚く人間は本人が絵コンテ・演出・作画監督をやるべき

DMA is fundamentally flawed. Applying these standards only to specific companies highlights its absurdity and contradiction. By the same logic, if Sony or Nintendo were forced to allow third party game stores, their business models would be completely ruined.

‘TOY STORY 5’ directors Andrew Stanton and Kenna Harris tell us why they cast Greta Lee as Lilypad. “The sound of her voice alone, she makes a compliment sound like a diss, and she’s really good at it!”

Basado

Gyotaku, a traditional Japanese art of fish printing. Originating in 1800s, fishermen used it as a "natural photograph" to record the exact species and size of their trophy catches before the invention of modern photography. 🇯🇵🐟😍 © explaineverything

Non sarà Siri a farmi cambiare idea. Il DMA l’ho sempre trovato una stupidaggine. Dove non potevano colpire con la posizione dominante, si sono inventata sto accrocco. Mentre l’America innova, noi regoliamo. Questa Europa così com’è è una barca che affonda. #WWDC

We’re giving parents more tools so they can manage their kids’ experiences with their devices. Because we care about keeping families safe in the digital world. apple.com/child-safety/

@BDisgusting Manhunter was absolute art. Another film that ages like wine and critics at the time didn’t understand.

Michael Mann's MANHUNTER. THE FINAL CUT. StudioCanal is unleashing a brand new 4K restoration in select US theaters on July 24. "The ultimate immersive version" of the film.

@codevsdev There were always docs. Some computers even came with a BASIC manual. Magazines had code samples and we had to copy them line by line.

how did people even learn to code when there was no docs, no YouTube... nothing?