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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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MiniMax-Remover – Taming Bad Noise Helps Video Object Removal Rotoscoping
https://github.com/zibojia/MiniMax-Remover
MiniMax-Remover is a fast and effective video object remover based on minimax optimization. It operates in two stages: the first stage trains a remover using a simplified DiT architecture, while the second stage distills a robust remover with CFG removal and fewer inference steps.
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sRGB vs REC709 – An introduction and FFmpeg implementations
1. Basic Comparison
- What they are
- sRGB: A standard “web”/computer-display RGB color space defined by IEC 61966-2-1. It’s used for most monitors, cameras, printers, and the vast majority of images on the Internet.
- Rec. 709: An HD-video color space defined by ITU-R BT.709. It’s the go-to standard for HDTV broadcasts, Blu-ray discs, and professional video pipelines.
- Why they exist
- sRGB: Ensures consistent colors across different consumer devices (PCs, phones, webcams).
- Rec. 709: Ensures consistent colors across video production and playback chains (cameras → editing → broadcast → TV).
- What you’ll see
- On your desktop or phone, images tagged sRGB will look “right” without extra tweaking.
- On an HDTV or video-editing timeline, footage tagged Rec. 709 will display accurate contrast and hue on broadcast-grade monitors.
2. Digging Deeper
Feature sRGB Rec. 709 White point D65 (6504 K), same for both D65 (6504 K) Primaries (x,y) R: (0.640, 0.330) G: (0.300, 0.600) B: (0.150, 0.060) R: (0.640, 0.330) G: (0.300, 0.600) B: (0.150, 0.060) Gamut size Identical triangle on CIE 1931 chart Identical to sRGB Gamma / transfer Piecewise curve: approximate 2.2 with linear toe Pure power-law γ≈2.4 (often approximated as 2.2 in practice) Matrix coefficients N/A (pure RGB usage) Y = 0.2126 R + 0.7152 G + 0.0722 B (Rec. 709 matrix) Typical bit-depth 8-bit/channel (with 16-bit variants) 8-bit/channel (10-bit for professional video) Usage metadata Tagged as “sRGB” in image files (PNG, JPEG, etc.) Tagged as “bt709” in video containers (MP4, MOV) Color range Full-range RGB (0–255) Studio-range Y′CbCr (Y′ [16–235], Cb/Cr [16–240])
Why the Small Differences Matter
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Open Source Nvidia Omniverse
blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2019/03/18/omniverse-collaboration-platform/
developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-omniverse
An open, Interactive 3D Design Collaboration Platform for Multi-Tool Workflows to simplify studio workflows for real-time graphics.
It supports Pixar’s Universal Scene Description technology for exchanging information about modeling, shading, animation, lighting, visual effects and rendering across multiple applications.
It also supports NVIDIA’s Material Definition Language, which allows artists to exchange information about surface materials across multiple tools.
With Omniverse, artists can see live updates made by other artists working in different applications. They can also see changes reflected in multiple tools at the same time.
For example an artist using Maya with a portal to Omniverse can collaborate with another artist using UE4 and both will see live updates of each others’ changes in their application.