@nilostolte

Paul Sabatier University πŸ‡«πŸ‡· Retired Computer Graphics researcher, obsessed by vector graphics, Zig, Java, C, GPUs, GLSL, GUI, writing, OOP, HPC - β›” DMs

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nilostolte.github.io/
Joined July 2009
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How I start my day. #espresso #coffee #coffeetime @BrevilleCanada @lavazzagroup
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I've been saying this for quite some time. If everything fails, the infrastructure can be rented and it's business as usual. That's the reason they keep saying that they need more computing power. AI datacenters can be repurposed for more generic uses in a snap of a finger.
Yuchen Jin
@Yuchenj_UWOct 24
Heard from a neolab friend: β€œEven if we fail to train the best model, we locked in GPU capacity early. H100/B200/B300 rental prices have since gone up 2–3x. We can just resell the compute and print money.” OK, so that’s the business model.
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Nilo Stolte, PhD πŸβš™οΈ@nilostolteOct 25
Replying to @matharium
Interesting. Here, the shape on the right was obtained with the plot of y=2Λ£ with variable width along the curve's normal vector, approximated with Bezier curves, and then modified with different colors on Illustrator.
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Nilo Stolte, PhD πŸβš™οΈ@nilostolteOct 25
Replying to @NarcissistBox
The Fool's Triad
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'The Ronster'@BerisfordRonOct 25
2026 really is flying by so quickly now!πŸŽƒ
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@puckrinOct 25
Remember that AI productivity boom they were all promising?? Well, according to Apollo, there are NO signs of this through the broader economy. The only sector that benefits is tech. Read that again. 493 out of 500 companies in the S&P 500 saw no benefit from adopting AI...
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πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘ Nick is the bearded Chad, literally. 😎
Nilo Stolte, PhD πŸβš™οΈ@nilostolteOct 25
Replying to @maietta
@maietta
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JETHRO TULL Thick as a Brick (1972) New animated album cover. I made a transparent hole in the newspaper image in the place of the photo, and combined it with the video underneath it.
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Nilo Stolte, PhD πŸβš™οΈ@nilostolteOct 25
Replying to @SciFiArchives
COLOR-BLIND PLANET Tales of the Unexpected 33 (1959)- Doug Wildey [vectorized]
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Nilo Stolte, PhD πŸβš™οΈ@nilostolteOct 25
Replying to @valigo
You haven't seen nothing yet. This is a division by 3. It's not an approximation, it's exact. It's called Modular Arithmetic.
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Nilo Stolte, PhD πŸβš™οΈ@nilostolteOct 24
Replying to @systemdesignone
People used to say "don't believe everything you see on TV." Nowadays, only boomers watch TV, so, nowadays, this adage should be updated to "don't believe everything you see online."
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ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS (1964) Director: Byron Haskin, who also directed "The War of the Worlds" (1953) Overdubbed Soundtrack: Tangerine Dream "Phaedra" [Extract]
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Nilo Stolte, PhD πŸβš™οΈ@nilostolteOct 24
Replying to @ImmortalBitesDB
Movie that inspired the German version of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid", Cindy und Bert – "Der Hund von Baskerville" πŸ”₯😎
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MOON ZERO TWO (1969) Sound: King Crimson "Providence" [extract]
Humanoid History@HumanoidHistoryOct 23
β€œMoon Zero Two” (1969) publicity still featuring Catherine Schell and unidentified actor.
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Nilo Stolte, PhD πŸβš™οΈ@nilostolteOct 24
Replying to @HumanoidHistory
The real scene, which I overdubbed with a King Crimson's "Providence" extract:
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DUMBO'S 85th ANNIVERSARY TODAY!
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PIXEL PERFECT WATERMARK REMOVAL IN ANIMATION Top: cleaned video. Bottom: original video. I superposed the frames with the flame on the right cleaned by hand. The superposed frames are transparent except for the orange part of the flame.
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The segmentation is simple. I just started selecting between the orange and yellow part of the right flame, including the upper and left part the frame, and delete it. After that paint it with the same yellow as the flame in the right, then make it transparent with 10% tolerance.
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The watermark is removed manually, painting over it with orange color. The missing parts are redrawn by hand. Since the fire is cyclical, I use the same superposing frames. I used Python Avidemux scripts to apply them over the corresponding frames, otherwise it's a tedious job.
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