The trailer one was obvious, but THAT is getting a tad obscure. :likecat:



Unrelated, Hancock tower as seen from Sears tower this morning:


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King of the Road reference made me think of this truck driving song:

PSA:

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Air traffic control operators at Sheremetyevo Airport, Moscow region, 1961.

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Rule 34:

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Yes, everything.

Quite possibly the earliest cat video ever recorded:

For real. Like, this is literally a one hundred and twenty year old cat video.

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Widget is unhappy, because her pop-tart has been burned.


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One of the coolest things i've seen from an engineering standpoint.

Dr makes paper crane using laparoscopic robotic arm thing

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This is both exciting to me and terrifying as our ability to distinguish real video vs AI-generated content has become very challenging as of yesterday with the release of Sora by OpenAI. Here is a link to a completely AI generated "video" of a cat walking through the woods using Sora 1.0. Each iteration of this software will likely produce even more realistic video.

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What really impresses me most about that video is that kitty interacts with the environment around it.

It hits leaves and plant stalks.

And they deflect, rebound, and oscillate in a realistic way.

It's not perfect. A lot of objects just pass straight through kitty. But some do not.

So the algorithm, while selective in its attention, has got mass and stiffness figure out. Something which few human animators do well.


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A couple gets into their BMW Isetta through the front door, 1950s.