Pretty cool, #netflix in #japan are using #ai to #generate #anime #background #images https://mosfet.net/new-netflix-animated-.. You might think this reduces #jobs , but there is a massive #labour #shortage in the #animation #industry .
Interesting to see #troyhunt of #haveibeenpwned #fame #publishing a #book about the #background behind the #posts https://www.troyhunt.com/pwned-the-book-.. Apparently it can be #purchased from here: https://book.troyhunt.com If it's cheap enough I will consider it!
The #bbc casually not even doing the most #basic #background #checks on their #documentaries https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/f.. Makes you wonder about their other publications... #theguardian of course #blame #budget #cuts - but if we're honest, they make more than enough #money ... This is what 10 years of #hiring based on #diversity rather than #merit leads to...
Great #background on the #greenknight by #scottmannion https://youtube.com/watch?v=loaXMQnFQoY I have really been enjoying his explanation of various subjects, although I really suspect that sometimes he is looking a little too deeply to pull out meaning where there may be none. The Green Knight #movie #resonated with me, despite being relatively "meaningless" (as some I watched it with concluded).
@barray on Fri Jul 30 16:32:43 UTC 2021 said: &eStill have no real answer to the #background #music for the #coffeespace #texttospeech #audio ... I thought about perhaps using some #procedural music, but it can be not so great to listen to, especially with #lowquality audio #encoding parameters. Looking at #ffmpeg this is currently #twochannel (didn't make a difference), 22050 sampling frequency and 40k #bitrate - derived through experimentation. There might not really be an acceptable solution to this problem...When I created the new #background #music for the #coffeespace #texttospeech #audio that reads articles, I never thought that I would end up writing an article longer than 45 minutes of reading. I would suggest that the current article is about half way complete from where it will be - that's really quite considerable. This is getting into the #book territory - some books are not this long. Pretty impressive if I don't say so myself.
@barray on Fri Jul 30 16:19:12 UTC 2021 said: &eWhen I created the new #background #music for the #coffeespace #texttospeech #audio that reads articles, I never thought that I would end up writing an article longer than 45 minutes of reading. I would suggest that the current article is about half way complete from where it will be - that's really quite considerable. This is getting into the #book territory - some books are not this long. Pretty impressive if I don't say so myself.The latest article I'm working on for #coffeespace is so long that even formatting it has become a *massive* undertaking in terms of time. It's an article about the #eu and the #farright - I hope to be able to #publish it some time today.