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Oscar winner. Best commentary of all time on the Armageddon DVD. Kind of alcoholic you root for, not feel sad for. Lingering relationships with the Jenny from next door and Jenny from the block...Python engineer.
Ben Affleck reveals he writes Python, understands convolutional neural networks, worked extensively with GPUs, and used his celebrity status to get private looks at Google and OpenAI’s video models
“I’ve always been kind of into computers since I was young. Then, when film started to move from analog film to digital, I became more interested in that aspect of it. The visual-effects workflow for many years has included machine learning, so I can write pretty shitty Python scripts and stuff like that.
“With convolutional neural networks, which were the precursors to what the transformer can do, which is much more computation simultaneously, you would do things like look at what’s called a tensor. That’s the numerical translation of a visual image in numbers, like the batch number, the frame number and the red, green and blue values of each pixel in each frame. It’s just that simple. That numeric is called a tensor.
“You’d use a convolutional neural network to identify patterns that reveal what’s called edge detection or feature extraction, which is identifying patterns well enough to know, this is where the window ledge is, so we can more easily take the green-screen image out and replace it with something.
“That was familiar to me early on because, prior to Artists Equity, I had a small visual-effects company. I’ve worked with GPUs a lot too. The visual-effects guys said, ‘Hey, you should see. There are a couple: Google and this other company, OpenAI, are doing really interesting stuff with transformers in video.’
“I’ve learned that I can actually just call up and go, ‘Hey, it’s Ben Affleck. Can I come see what you’re doing?’ Sometimes people say yes, to my astonishment.”
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Warning to my 40 years olds:
Nobody gives a f*ck about your experience, potential, or credentials anymore. You’re either creating daily proof-of-work and are deep in the game, or you’re full of sh*t and nobody trusts you.
Midnight Gospel is the most imaginative cartoon series of in the past decade. On a top ten list of all time. Somehow it’s not weird to me its creator is on Alex Jones. Adds to his aura
Consciousness Imprinting: The Breakaway Elite Are Obsessed With Body Hopping - The Ability To Pass Their Conscious Into Another Form & Become Immortal
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Bring this vibe back
never not thinking about the 2014 corn cover
ALT a glorious cover of bloomberg businessweek that features 5 faceless normies holding hands in a circle around a giant floating ear of corn that says "Don't Hate Me Because I'm Beautiful" on it. they are frolicking in a field that looks like the bucolic windows XP wallpaper, Bliss
Can't begin to understand how illegal this is bbc.com/news/articles/ce3q5n…
Non-Angelenos will never know the childhood joy when the whole city stops to flip on KCAL 9 and watch a fellow citizen speed 140 mph on the 105 to avoid a warrant for a fixit ticket from 1989
the best minute and thirteen seconds you'll see of today's car chase which, bless you @ABC7 for sticking with it.
Dude narrowly misses an Angeleno on a scooter, then gets off the road to hit the 110 freeway where he just happens to get an escort from a half dozen youngsters on dirt bikes.
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