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SAG-AFTRA Members Vote To Authorize Video Game Workers Strike
SAG-AFTRA members have voted to authorize a strike among video game voice actors and performers, a group of workers who weren’t part of the original actors strike that began back in July.
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Australia’s NSW Government reverses 60M cuts to Made in NSW fund, PDV and games rebates
The NSW government has responded to mounting pressure from the film sector, reversing cuts and restoring funding to develop new screen projects.
Former news
https://if.com.au/nsw-government-flags-cuts-to-made-in-nsw-fund-pdv-rebate/
https://if.com.au/dneg-slams-proposed-cuts-to-nsw-screen-funding
The NSW Government has signalled it will make cuts to screen funding in next week’s state budget, including the Made in NSW fund, the Post, Digital and Visual Effects (PDV) rebate and the Digital Games Development Rebate Program.
Screen Producers Australia (SPA) has called the proposed changes “devastating”, and argued they will put jobs, revenue and investment growth at risk for years to come. The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) similarly said the cuts would damage the state’s credibility and competitiveness as a global film and television “powerhouse”.
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Pika Labs – generate AI videos from stills with embedded text messages
https://discord.com/invite/pika
generate AI videos with encrypted text message using this amazing new mind-blowing feature from Pika Labs !
- command: /encrypt_text
- message: The text to encrypt
- prompt: The theme of the video, previous parameters still apply
- image (optional): A reference image for the video theme.
- font (optional): you can choose from 5 available font styles
- -w: A weight factor for the embedded message
- -size: The size of the embedded text
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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. -
Macro Probe Lens Comparison: AstrHori 28mm vs Laowa 24mm
https://visualeducation.com/macro-probe-lens-comparison-astrhori-28mm-vs-laowa-24mm/
https://petapixel.com/2022/11/01/astrhori-has-a-28mm-macro-probe-lens-that-looks-a-lot-like-laowas/
Overall, the Laowa did perform better than the AstrHori across all of our tests. The AstrHori lost contrast and suffered from flare when the subject was backlit. It also struggled to achieve perfect neutrality in terms of colour balance.
However, as mentioned above, the cost difference between these two lenses is significant. Considering that it costs less than half as much as the Laowa, the AstrHori is an impressive macro probe lens for the price.
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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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