March 23-28 Readings

GPT-4 Creator Ilya Sutskever (Prediction Is Compression)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjhIlw3Iffs

Yan Le Cun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBjPyte2ZZo

AI and the Limits of Language

https://www.noemamag.com/ai-and-the-limits-of-language/

A Walk in the Park: Learning to Walk in 20 Minutes With Model-Free Reinforcement Learning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.07860?utm_campaign=The%20Batch&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=251337027&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9v1_R1jzaE0WAYvudEa5pguSrmrjBmT6N57OTbvZb2A1xvX0hk40aY0gAVyXpZOyPeiWDd9imdXpZwOFXqoFMQ5gDc4g&utm_content=251335039&utm_source=hs_email

Limits of Language https://www.noemamag.com/ai-and-the-limits-of-language/

Brain Controlled Attack Robots https://researchcentre.army.gov.au/rico/robotic-and-autonomous-systems/robotic-autonomous-systems-ras-strategyresearchcentre.army.gov.au \

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldezLFCH9UMYouTube 

Jaron Lainer on the Dangers of AI https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/23/tech-guru-jaron-lanier-the-danger-i[…]AR0BEumj9-Rct3gNyTLfJ74hRQW0evqGsGxDE9xR9ONvmmHjRzou0zXzc9g 

Leonardo AI

https://leonardo.ai/

Luma video to 3D

https://captures.lumalabs.ai/luma-api

Group 1

Audio samples from "Transfer Learning from Speaker Verification to Multispeaker Text-To-Speech Synthesis"

https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/speaker_adaptation/

Vall-e Github

https://github.com/enhuiz/vall-e

PlayHT's new text to speech models that are capable of cloning any voice and generating expressive speech from text.

https://playground.play.ht/

Foucault - Power Is Everywhere

https://www.powercube.net/other-forms-of-power/foucault-power-is-everywhere/

Foucault’s Theory of Power and Knowledge

https://www.powercube.net/other-forms-of-power/foucault-power-is-everywhere/

Resemble app

https://www.resemble.ai

Resemble github  Resemblyzer allows you to derive a high-level representation of a voice through a deep learning model (referred to as the voice encoder). Given an audio file of speech, it creates a summary vector of 256 values (an embedding, often shortened to "embed" in this repo) that summarizes the characteristics of the voice spoken.N.B.: this repo holds 100mb of audio data for demonstration purpose. To get the package alone, run pip install resemblyzer (python 3.5+ is required). https://github.com/resemble-ai/resemblyzer

Resemble localization tool

https://www.engadget.com/resemble-ai-localize-voice-translation-artificial-intelligence-193517036.html

Group 3

The first movie ever made - Muybridge 1878

https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/what-was-the-first-movie-ever-made/

The Zoopraxisscope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG5erS2GNG0&t=2s

In 1888, Le Prince produced a few short films (the first of their kind). And when I say short, I mean short. Like as in two seconds short. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1i40rnpOsA&t=2s

Leger Le Ballet Mecanique 1924

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi53TfeqgWM&t=796s

https://antono.notion.site/How-to-make-videos FFMPG ad327577aa584642a3ec26c4896afb62

Online Video Enhancement Powered by AI

https://neural.love/video

PNG vs JPG

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/102k4bg/png_vs_jpg_format_for_the_highest_quality/

https://huggingface.co/spaces/stabilityai/stable-diffusion/commit/3f24cd0fa4d92f6bd3cd535234ba36dd23073d99

Stable Diffusion Experimental Compression

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/09/better-than-jpeg-researcher-discovers-that-stable-diffusion-can-compress-images/

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Ci1VYHuFJK5eOX9TB0Mq4NsqkeDrMaaH?usp=sharing

Default for Automatic 111 is JPG not PNG

https://github.com/deforum-art/deforum-for-automatic1111-webui/blob/07ff466e36f996[…]4a57e116fb1d7d/scripts/deforum_helpers/video_audio_utilities.py

def vid2frames(video_path, video_in_frame_path, n=1, overwrite=True, extract_from_frame=0, extract_to_frame=-1, out_img_format='jpg', numeric_files_output = Fa

You So Done - Noga Erez

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn813NKlhzI

Ilya Repin e  Isaac Brodsky

Ilya Repin realizó un autorretrato de 1894 en Nápoles, adonde se dirigió, según sus propias palabras, "al valle de la vejez" , en el momento de una crisis creativa. Para la pintura, eligió un esquema de color sobrio y un ángulo inusual: el espectador parece elevarse por encima del artista sentado. Repin se retrató a sí mismo en una pose cómoda pero inusual para autorretratos. Nada en la imagen recuerda su profesión: ni  caballete , ni pinceles, solo un fondo oscuro y libros junto a la ventana.

Repin aparece completamente diferente en el retrato de su alumno, Isaac Brodsky . En 1902, después de graduarse de la Escuela de Arte de Odessa, ingresó en la  Academia de las Artes . Un estudiante talentoso en solo tres meses dominó el programa de la clase preparatoria, que fue diseñado para un año, y comenzó las clases en el taller de Repin.

“Inmediatamente establecí buenas relaciones con Repin, porque era un estudiante diligente y concienzudo y trabajaba duro. Repin amaba a esos estudiantes y les prestaba especial atención ”, recordó el artista en su autobiografía.

En 1908, Brodsky se graduó con honores de la Escuela Superior de Arte de la Academia y se fue al extranjero. Durante este período, trabajó mucho, incluida la creación de un retrato ceremonial de su maestro en el estudio.

En una de sus cartas, Repin escribió: “Empecé a pintar un retrato de I.I. Brodsky, lo tomó bien y conduce de manera interesante; la similitud es completa: me veo y admiro la técnica. Sencillez, gracia, armonía y verdad, verdad sobre todo, ¡y qué bonita! ... Sí, es un gran talento .

En el retrato de Brodsky, Repin ya tiene sesenta y siete años. El artista retrató a su maestro como un reconocido genio de la pintura , más sabio por experiencia, en el ambiente creativo de su taller, con una  paleta y un pincel en las manos. Al fondo, se puede ver un retrato de cuerpo entero del compositor y director de orquesta Anton Rubinstein , en el que Repin trabajó entre 1909 y 1915.

Ilya Tattoo Commission for @nuka-nuke I made this as a way to play around with tiktok formats and thought, I kind of liked it! I had an amazing time working on this piece and learned a lot of new things including a new program. So Thank you Nuka, for everything! Xoxox!!

Sometimes I throw my OCs into prison just for funsies

It’s just ketchup, guys. Don’t worry...

Art Fight attack featuring Ilya, @nuka-nuke‘s Overboss Sole! Absolutely love her design dkagjhkjhdg.

commission I dod for @nuka-nuke <3

commission info 

My art muse was loud and demanded fluff, so here’s some art of @nuka-nuke’s Ilya Valle and @life-is-no-sugarlicking’s Mike Williams, also known as Flirty Trashbags!

Thanks for being awesome friends, and I love you guys 🖤💜 I hope you like your little present. It’s only shows a fraction of how much you mean to me.

I missed your art, I'm so happy you're back!

Thank you!!!! Its good to be back. I'm at a place in my life now where I don't need to be playing RDR2 for every free second of my life.

BTW, while I was gone, I was working on a doodle of Ilya and Six. Hope you like!

Brian decided to cause some chaos in the little household I’d put together. Well, not intentionally. But he set his ass on fire to the point where Maksim got thrown off guard, Ilya rushed in to put him out, then Valentina and Len helped to put him out too!

Look, you don’t have to set yourself on fire to prove that you’re hot...

Brian is to @catastrotaffy Ilya is to @nuka-nuke Len is to @redrocketwarrior Valentina is to @charomiami Maksim is mine

Screencaps are mine.

like fire and powder /  Which as they kiss consume

Attack two is for @nuka-nuke of their character Ilya Valle! The details on her were a real challenge but I enjoyed it, hope you like my interpretation

Scientists just found a previously unknown source of magnetism hidden deep inside Earth

New research has revealed a previously unknown source of magnetism deep within our planet's stupidly hot, squishy layers. Far from being magnetically dead, some of Earth's mantle might have pockets of iron oxide (Fe2O3) with enough magnetic pull to have a real effect. A research team made up of scientists from around the globe has provided evidence that the mineral hematite retains its magnetic properties even when squeezed under mountains of rock and heated to just under 1,000 degrees Celsius. "This new knowledge about Earth's mantle and the strongly magnetic region in the western Pacific could throw new light on any observations of Earth's magnetic field," says mineral physicist Ilya Kupenko from the University of Münster in Germany. For the most part, the giant cage of magnetic field lines that deflects potentially harmful radiation from our planet's surface are the result of our liquid iron core on spin cycle. This dynamo effect is why our planet has a magnetic field and Mars doesn't. (No offence, Mars.) Our core is still turning after all these years, while our red neighbour's heart has grown cold and still. Minerals locked in the solid crust of both worlds hold onto the ghostly imprint of this dynamo, resulting in a second source of magnetic influence we can detect from orbit. While similar minerals are plentiful deep underfoot, the distortions caused by immense heat and pressure should eventually erase that imprint past a critical point the further down you go. That's the theory, at least.  But testing this for specific materials under extreme conditions is easier said than done. With the poles of our planet's magnetic field skipping and jumping around in ways we're struggling to predict, getting a grip on how potentially magnetic materials in our mantle really behave is looking more important than ever. To meet the technical challenges involved in investigating the forms hematite takes at serious depths, the researchers combined something called Mössbauer spectroscopy with laser heating in a diamond anvil. It allowed them to cook a sample of hematite to somewhere between 300 and 1,300 degrees Kelvin (26 to 1,026 Celsius, or 80 to 1,880 Fahrenheit), while squeezing it to 90 gigapascals, or nearly 90,000 times the weight of our atmosphere. Gamma rays were then used to analyse the precise positions of the particles making up the sample, allowing the researchers to calibrate temperatures with enough precision to determine magnetic transitions between different phases. While the mineral's magnetic properties did vanish in the long run, they remained detectable below 1,200 degrees Kelvin. That still rules out most of the mantle, which typically varies from about 1,000 to a sizzling 3,000 degrees Kelvin. But it's a close call, hinting that pockets of hematite up to a few hundred kilometres below the surface could be magnetically active. "As a result, we are able to demonstrate that Earth's mantle is not nearly as magnetically 'dead' as has so far been assumed," says mineralogist Carmen Sanchez-Valle from the University of Münster. "These findings might justify other conclusions relating to Earth's entire magnetic field." For example, this discovery could help us understand why intense areas of the field are drifting faster than our models can explain, prompting a premature update to a particular type of map we use to navigate our way around the globe. Hematite in subducted slabs to the north-west of the Pacific could be affecting how we keep track of magnetic movements. "What we now know – that there are magnetically ordered materials down there in  Earth's mantle – should be taken into account in any future analysis of Earth's magnetic field and of the movement of the poles," says geochemist Leonid Dubrovinsky from Bayreuth University in Germany. Last year, the European Space Agency's Swarm mission detected a faint signal of magnetism arising from the swirl of dissolved ions in our planet's oceans. While subtle effects like these might seem trivial, we rely heavily on the magnetic field to shield technology on our surface from the effects of extreme solar activity. It's important we learn all we can about that protective cage over our heads. This research was published in Nature. Read the full article

J'ai 37 ans et ça fais + de la moitiee de ma vie que je bois trop (d'alcool) et que je fume  trop. Je fumai des joins aussi depuis le lycé mais jai réussi à arrété, c'était trop chèr et j'étais pris la tête avec le voisin ki en vendait. L'alcool j'ai pas arrété.J'ai comencé à boireaux  soirée quand j'été au lycée, et en fait ca me donnait confianse en moi, j'étais moins timide, plus cool, alors aprés j'ai commencé à boire de plusen plus, et puis le soir après le taf  parce que ça me détendait avec les pétards.Et aussi à un ancien taf quand le chef était pas la parce ki yen avait un autre ki buvais.Et maintenant ça fait des annés que j'ai mes abitudes et cé tout les jours pareille: je me lève,je vais travailler,  et quand j'ai fini je prend mon vélo et direct je vais faire les courses (1 bouteille de whisky, 1 bouteille de coca zero et des trucs à manger)et je rentre chez moi,,je ferme le volets je passe ma soirée devant ma télé, mon ordi et ma console à tout boir trop fumer trop manger et je m'endore vers 2h 3h et après ça recommence.J'ai honte d'être comme ça mais je n'arrive pas a m'arrêter.. La matin je vois ma maison ki est dégueulass avec des bouteilles vide partout sur les tables et dans les placarts, de la cendre partout devant mon ordi et mon fauteuil; des restes de bouffe et de la vaisselle salle ki  traînent, les poubelles ki dé bordes, les trucs cassé avec des morceux parterre.Je me suis aussi pisser dessus en dormant tellement jétait assomé............. Ca me fait le honte!!! J'essais de cacher au taf que je vais mal, mais apparamens tout le monde sais  depuis longtemps que je bois parce que je tremble je transpire bcp et je sens l'alcool (alors que je bois pas au travail!!). Mon ancien chef a dit que je fais bien mes mission mais que je ne suis pas fiable.  C'est parce que des fois je vais mal et je suis dans l'incapacité alors je ne vais pas au taf pandant plusieurs jours et je reste chez moi à boire. Et ça me fait mentir en plus parce que des soir en partant je disai au revoir à damien aux collègues alors que je sais que je vais pas être la et quand je reviens et qu'on me pose des questions je suis obligé de dire que j'avais le dos bloqué ou un pb familliale mais en fait ils se doutaient tous de la vérité,,,.... Et cette années j'ai été convoqué par le médecin du travail parce que des collègues m'ont dénoncés d'avoir un problème avec l'alcool. Je sais que je me suicide a petit feux mais je sers à rien, je suis un boulet. Ilya des moments  ki redonnent envie de ne pas quitter le monde,desfois il y a des imprévus ( positif) et des rencontres ki en valle la peine mais je gache tout et je perd  mes copines, mes amis. Tous le monde autour de moi a une famille, une copine, des enfant, des sorties, des voyages, des travaux dans leurs maison, et moi je n'ai rien. Et quand ily a quelque chose de bien je n'arrive pas a le garder parce que quand je bois j'agis mal, je me reconnais pas, je deviens jaloux et agresif et je mans,, j'ai mis la pression à une amie pour qu'elle couche avec moi et pour qu'elle quite son mari et mainentenat elle ne veux plus me voir. Je ne rencontre plus personne, toutes les filles de mon travail sont en couple, mes amis ont leusr vies, je n'ai plus de permis  (à cause de l'alcool.....), je n'ai pas d'argent parce que e dépense tout en whicky  et cigarette alors je ne peux rien faire pour me changer les idées de l'alcool a part regarder les posts facebook des gens que je connais et  ki ont une vie et regarder les photo des collègues en bikinni comme un pervers ou des vidéos sur youtub de gens ki testes des super voiture, des recettes trop bonne ou  des resto et ki ont plein de  jeux vidéo et des superordi et config et moi je peux pas faire avoir ça. Parfois je me dis que je vais redevenir moi mais je ne tiens pas et ça me fait sentir encore plus nul même pas capable de men sortir comme pour arrété de fumer où je reprneds toujours.. Quand je ne vais pas bien du tou ou que jesuis en colère je bois trop et je me renferme sur moi car je veux pas me montré faible, et ça me fait aller encore + mal. On m'a dit de faire une cure,qu'il y a des gens ki sont la pour aidé, mais je n'ai pas envie d'être absent du taf et que les gens saches que je suis alcolique et puis ça sers a rien. G déjà fait un cure et ça ne servait à rien, les autres ne parlaient que de ce qu'ils allaient boire en sortant, parler à la psy ne fesait rien, et j'était enfermé dnas la clinique alors que je voulais être chez moi, et il y avait tout le temps de srendez vous après, et ma mere venait tout le temps alors que je voulait qu'elle me laisse trankil. Je mentais en disant ce qu'ils voulaient mais en fait je rebuvais et je venais voir l'infirmier que parce que j'étais obligé. Je reste en vie uniquement pour mes parents , pour ne pas décevoir,mais comme ça je décois tout le monde quand même.  Je me dis que je ne m'en sortirrai jamais, je suis un pauvre type  que je vais rester dans mes travers et rester seul toute ma vie ou que ça finira par la mauvaise solution; j'aurrai une maladie dufois et ça sera fini. Jen ai marre de cette adiction mais je narrive pas a changer et à être le vrai moi;

Ilya PinUp - Quantum Edition New

Doing the WIPs tags and seeing her use the old work made me remember I had started working on this, redoing THIS for the fab @nuka-nuke. I wanted to stay close to the original design they picked out. Honestly, I thought up a million dynamic poses but this was one of my first pinups, so it’s special to me. Thank you, Nuka for always believing in me

inspired by Charo’s recent pop-art Val and by this great brush I just downloaded 💙

New Findings On Earth's Magnetic Field

The huge magnetic field which surrounds the Earth, protecting it from radiation and charged particles from space -- and which many animals even use for orientation purposes -- is changing constantly, which is why geoscientists keep it constantly under surveillance. The old well-known sources of the Earth's magnetic field are the Earth's core -- down to 6,000 kilometres deep down inside the Earth -- and the Earth's crust: in other words, the ground we stand on. The Earth's mantle, on the other hand, stretching from 35 to 2,900 kilometres below the Earth's surface, has so far largely been regarded as "magnetically dead." An international team of researchers from Germany, France, Denmark and the USA has now demonstrated that a form of iron oxide, hematite, can retain its magnetic properties even deep down in the Earth's mantle. This occurs in relatively cold tectonic plates, called slabs, which are found especially beneath the western Pacific Ocean.

"This new knowledge about the Earth's mantle and the strongly magnetic region in the western Pacific could throw new light on any observations of the Earth's magnetic field," says mineral physicist and first author Dr. Ilya Kupenko from the University of Münster (Germany). The new findings could, for example, be relevant for any future observations of the magnetic anomalies on the Earth and on other planets such as Mars. This is because Mars has no longer a dynamo and thus no source enabling a strong magnetic field originating from the core to be built up such as that on Earth. It might, therefore, now be worth taking a more detailed look on its mantle. The study has been published in the "Nature" journal. Background and methods used: Deep in the metallic core of the Earth, it is liquid iron alloy that triggers electrical flows. In the outermost crust of the Earth, rocks cause magnetic signal. In the deeper regions of the Earth's interior, however, it was believed that the rocks lose their magnetic properties due to the very high temperatures and pressures. The researchers now took a closer look at the main potential sources for magnetism in the Earth's mantle: iron oxides, which have a high critical temperature -- i.e. the temperature above which material is no longer magnetic. In the Earth's mantle, iron oxides occur in slabs that are buried from the Earth's crust further into the mantle, as a result of tectonic shifts, a process called subduction. They can reach a depth within the Earth's interior of between 410 and 660 kilometres -- the so-called transition zone between the upper and the lower mantle of the Earth. Previously, however, no one had succeeded in measuring the magnetic properties of the iron oxides at the extreme conditions of pressure and temperature found in this region. Now the scientists combined two methods. Using a so-called diamond anvil cell, they squeezed micrometric-sized samples of iron oxide hematite between two diamonds, and heated them with lasers to reach pressures of up to 90 gigapascal and temperatures of over 1,000 °C (1,300 K). The researchers combined this method with so-called Mössbauer spectroscopy to probe the magnetic state of the samples by means of synchrotron radiation. This part of the study was carried out at the ESRF synchrotron facility in Grenoble, France, and this made it possible to observe the changes of the magnetic order in iron oxide. The surprising result was that the hematite remained magnetic up to a temperature of around 925 °C (1,200 K) -- the temperature prevailing in the subducted slabs beneath the western part of Pacific Ocean at the Earth's transition zone depth. "As a result, we are able to demonstrate that the Earth's mantle is not nearly as magnetically 'dead' as has so far been assumed," says Prof. Carmen Sanchez-Valle from the Institute of Mineralogy at Münster University. "These findings might justify other conclusions relating to the Earth's entire magnetic field," she adds. Relevance for investigations of the Earth's magnetic field and the movement of the poles By using satellites and studying rocks, researchers observe the Earth's magnetic field, as well as the local and regional changes in magnetic strength. Background: The geomagnetic poles of the Earth -- not to be confused with the geographic poles -- are constantly moving. As a result of this movement they have actually changed positions with each other every 200,000 to 300,000 years in the recent history of the Earth. The last poles flip happened 780,000 years ago, and last decades scientists report acceleration in the movement of the Earth magnetic poles. Flip of magnetic poles would have profound effect on modern human civilisation. Factors which control movements and flip of the magnetic poles, as well as directions they follow during overturn are not understood yet. One of the poles' routes observed during the flips runs over the western Pacific, corresponding very noticeably to the proposed electromagnetic sources in the Earth's mantle. The researchers are therefore considering the possibility that the magnetic fields observed in the Pacific with the aid of rock records do not represent the migration route of the poles measured on the Earth's surface, but originate from the hitherto unknown electromagnetic source of hematite-containing rocks in the Earth's mantle beneath the West Pacific. "What we now know -- that there are magnetically ordered materials down there in the Earth's mantle -- should be taken into account in any future analysis of the Earth's magnetic field and of the movement of the poles," says co-author Prof. Leonid Dubrovinsky at the Bavarian Research Institute of Experimental Geochemistry and Geophysics at Bayreuth University. Read the full article