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Tokyo Prime 1 Studio 2022 + XM Studios Boots | Batman, Movies, Anime & Games Statues and Collectibles
nearly 140 statues at the booth from licenses including DC Comics, Lord of the Rings, Uncharted, The Last of Us, Bloodborne, Demon Souls, God of War, Jurassic Park, Godzilla, Predator, Aliens, Transformers, Berserk, Evangelion, My Hero Academia, Chainsaw Man, Attack on Titan, the DC movie universe, X-Men, Spider-man and much more
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Anne-Laure Le Cunff – The Curse of Knowledge
The Curse of Knowledge is a cognitive bias that occurs when someone incorrectly assumes that others have the same or enough background to understand each other.
You can avoid the negative effects of the curse of knowledge by constantly questioning your assumptions as to how much exactly your audience knows.
- Get to know your audience
- Simplify your language
- Use storytelling
- Show, don’t tell
- Engage in active teaching
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AI image generators could be their own demise due to inbreeding
A paper by computer scientists Matyas Bohacek and Hany Farid with the catchy title ‘Nepotistically Trained Generative-AI Models Collapse‘ shows that training AI image generators on AI images quite quickly leads to a deterioration in the quality of output. Farid likened the phenomenon to inbreeding. “If a species inbreeds with their own offspring and doesn’t diversify their gene pool, it can lead to a collapse of the species,” he said.
https://www.creativebloq.com/ai/ai-art/research-shows-ai-image-generators-could-be-their-own-demise
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.12202
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Public Work – A search engine for free public domain content
Explore 100,000+ copyright-free images from The MET, New York Public Library, and other sources.
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The most expensive software bug in human history
How a manually misconfigured and untested server continued running old test code during a live trading session, lead the bot to make $8.65 billion in unintended stock trades in just 28 minutes.
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Ben Meer – Techniques for Staying Calm in Stressful Situations
https://benmeer.com/newsletter/staying-calm/
Stress is your body’s way of signaling that something important is happening.
- Slow Down
- Breathe
- Write
- Focus on Brain Health
- Zoom Out
- Reframe Negative Words
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Composition – 5 tips for creating perfect cinematic lighting and making your work look stunning
http://www.diyphotography.net/5-tips-creating-perfect-cinematic-lighting-making-work-look-stunning/
1. Learn the rules of lighting
2. Learn when to break the rules
3. Make your key light larger
4. Reverse keying
5. Always be backlighting
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Photography basics: Lumens vs Candelas (candle) vs Lux vs FootCandle vs Watts vs Irradiance vs Illuminance
https://www.translatorscafe.com/unit-converter/en-US/illumination/1-11/
The power output of a light source is measured using the unit of watts W. This is a direct measure to calculate how much power the light is going to drain from your socket and it is not relatable to the light brightness itself.
The amount of energy emitted from it per second. That energy comes out in a form of photons which we can crudely represent with rays of light coming out of the source. The higher the power the more rays emitted from the source in a unit of time.
Not all energy emitted is visible to the human eye, so we often rely on photometric measurements, which takes in account the sensitivity of human eye to different wavelenghts
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Survivorship Bias: The error resulting from systematically focusing on successes and ignoring failures. How a young statistician saved his planes during WW2.
A young statistician saved their lives.
His insight (and how it can change yours):
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During World War II, the U.S. wanted to add reinforcement armor to specific areas of its planes.
Analysts examined returning bombers, plotted the bullet holes and damage on them (as in the image below), and came to the conclusion that adding armor to the tail, body, and wings would improve their odds of survival.
But a young statistician named Abraham Wald noted that this would be a tragic mistake. By only plotting data on the planes that returned, they were systematically omitting the data on a critical, informative subset: The planes that were damaged and unable to return.
