Tag: programming
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Violence + Linguistics = Synthesis II (also A Warning for AI Modelers)
Darwin’s “survival of the fittest” model was combined with Gregor Mendel’s genetics which formed what’s known as Modern Synthesis (I’ll call it Synthesis I). It was relatively easy to happen upon Synthesis I: the science was already mostly there for both Darwin’s and Mendel’s schools. All one had to do was combine the fields and…
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When Recycled Plastic Is Your Language
CES always has a theme. Back when I attended for the first and last time in 2019, the theme was VR, but now, 5 years later, I only know 2 or 3 people who have a VR headset. This year, it’s AI and robotics. It’s going to have a bigger future than VR, because almost…
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Software Ideas for Artists – Notepad for Video Editors
It irks me to see fellow film editors suffer because software in the video and art world is inexcusably bad. I have a computer programming background, but programmers’ interests seem to overlap the least with artists’. Yet artists continually prove they’re willing to be screwed over by prohibitively high prices and shoddy quality (Premiere 4…