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Location: Detroit (the part with no rules or laws)
Posts: 5,677
Total Cats: 800
Cammy at the vet again. Not eating, throws up when she does. Doc says she has enlarged thyroid glands, bacteria in stool. Could be kidney failure.
I almost feel like not dumping money into a munchkin that is at least 13 years old. She was unknown age when picked up from the pound 13 years ago. Blood work will be back in 3 or 4 days, medicine in the meantime. I guess we'll have to decide what to do then.
I almost feel like not dumping money into a munchkin that is at least 13 years old. She was unknown age when picked up from the pound 13 years ago. Blood work will be back in 3 or 4 days, medicine in the meantime. I guess we'll have to decide what to do then.
Pets get old, and they die. It sucks, but it's a fact of life. I feel your pain, man.
Website generates real cats from your sketches Christina Bonnington— Feb 22 at 5:19AM
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve drawn a sketch of a cat and thought, gosh, I wish I could turn this crappy doodle into an image of a real cat. OK, I’ve never, ever had that thought before, but now there’s a site that does just that, and it will probably make you wonder how you survived without such a glorious tool in your life until now.
Pushbullet co-founder Christopher Hesse created an image-to-image translation demonstration that generates a corresponding photograph from any image you feed it. In this case, though, Hesse trained his system on roughly 2,000 stock images of cats. When you sketch out a cat on his site here, it’ll produce an image of a cat that best matches your sketch.
However, if your cat sketching skills are as “good” as ours, the results can be hilarious, or mildly terrifying.
Unfortunately, cats really aren’t the best example of how this technique can be used. Hesse notes: “Some of the pictures look especially creepy, I think because it’s easier to notice when an animal looks wrong, especially around the eyes. The auto-detected edges are not very good and in many cases didn’t detect the cat’s eyes, making it a bit worse for training the image translation model.”
That’s OK, though. On his site, there are three other image translation examples you can fool around with, as well: one for building facades, one that generates a shoe from your line drawing, and one that generates handbags. Clearly, though, the cat-creating version is superior to these other options. I mean, come on.
You can head over to Affinelayer.com to try it out yourself.
Location: Detroit (the part with no rules or laws)
Posts: 5,677
Total Cats: 800
Cammy got her results back a day or two ago. Everything came back negative, which is good. No failing organs, yet.
She is supper chipper and playful again. But still throws up every time she eats.
Miss Margaret was put down today. My wife's grandparents were feeding her as a stray kitten 14 years ago. When her grandfather died her grandmother was worried about the cat, so I trapped her and brought her here. She was wild and we put her on our screened porch with another we had rescued. She eventually warmed up but was quite a handful for such a little girl when you wanted to get her into the cat carrier to go to the vet. Fluffy, sweet little girl. She developed a huge tumor on her chest that was exposed outside the skin in very short order. It was weeping and bleeding for a couple of weeks and the truth was inevitable. It was time.
Thanks guys. I didn't mean to bring the place down.
It's ok, you gotta take the good with the bad. I think by now we all know how that goes. Margret there looks like a long haired version of our Lola. My condolences sir.
On a different note:
Little Nugget went to the vet on Tuesday and got her lady bits snipped, so she gets to wear the Cone of Shame for the rest of the week. We've got pain meds for her that make her really dopey, and as you can imagine stoned kitty + cone is the saddest/funniest thing ever.
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