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Back in my day, each color channel had its own cable. And the audio; don't get me started on the audio. |
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| Eddie Izzard |
I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn't have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts. |
| Paulo Coelho |
You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle. |
| C. S. Lewis |
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief. |
| Monte Irvin |
We used to look at each other and say, 'We play the same game with the same rules, the same bat, the same ball, the same field. What the hell does color have to do with it? You don't play with color. You play with talent.' |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer |
I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day. |
| Jose Pablo Cantillo |
In martial arts, the way that they train really does channel that killer instinct. We used to put motorcycle helmets on and go full force at each other with these sticks to train. |
| Ariel Garten |
I think we're all very curious about our own minds, but we just may not have the tools to channel that. |
| Michelle Obama |
And in my own life, in my own small way, I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation. |
| Joe Garagiola |
Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray. |
| Kirk Acevedo |
Because I'm seen on 'Oz', a lot of the urban cats in the city are like, 'Yo, I thought you'd be rolling in a Mercedes?' And I'm just like, 'Not at all!' This is cable money. There is a big difference between that and a network. But still I can't complain. It's better than doing a 9 to 5 any day. |
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Researchers Have Figured Out How To Fake News Video With AI
A team of computer scientists at the University of Washington have used artificial intelligence to render visually convincing videos of Barack Obama saying things he's said before, but in a totally new context. In a paper published this month, the researchers explained their methodology: Using a neural network trained on 17 hours of footage of the former U.S. president's weekly addresses, they were able to generate mouth shapes from arbitrary audio clips of Obama's voice. The shapes were then textured to photorealistic quality and overlaid onto Obama's face in a different "target" video. Finally, the researchers retimed the target video to move Obama's body naturally to the rhythm of the new audio track. In their paper, the res...
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oogle's Voice-Generating AI Is Now Indistinguishable From Humans
Anonymous Coward 6 hours ago 75
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Quartz: A research paper published by Google this month -- which has not been peer reviewed -- details a text-to-speech system called Tacotron 2, which claims near-human accuracy at imitating audio of a person speaking from text. The system is Google's second official generation of the technology, which consists of two deep neural networks. The first network translates the text into a spectrogram (pdf), a visual way to represent audio frequencies over time. That spectrogram is then fed into WaveNet, a system from Alphabet's AI research lab DeepMind, which reads the chart and generates the corresponding audio elements accordingly. The Google researchers ...
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Google Works Out a Fascinating, Slightly Scary Way For AI To Isolate Voices In a Crowd
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/04/google-works-out-a-fascinating-slightly-scary-way-for-ai-to-isolate-voices-in-a-crowd/
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica:
Google researchers have developed a deep-learning system designed to help computers better identify and isolate individual voices within a noisy environment. As noted in a post on the company's Google Research Blog this week, a...
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Researchers Fool ReCAPTCHA With Google's Own Speech-To-Text Service
Researchers at the University of Maryland have managed to trick Google's reCaptcha system by using Google's own speech-to-text service. "[The researchers] claim that their CAPTCHA-fooling method, unCaptcha, can fool Google's reCaptcha, one of the most popular CAPTCHA systems currently used by hundreds of thousands of websites, with a 90 percent success rate," reports Motherboard. From the report:
The researchers originally developed UnCaptcha in 2017, which uses Google's own free speech-to-text service to trick the system into thinking a robot is a human. It's an oroborus of bots: According to their paper, UnCaptcha downl...
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As the plot unfolds, it becomes clear that Elliot hacks and doxes the people in his life (including himself), then stores the information he finds onto CDs. He then labels them with some classic band label.
Many have wondered why he'd be doing that and how safe would that be?
The answer is that Eliot is hiding the data on those CDs. He is actually copying music to those CDs, then embedding encrypted information on them that only he can recover. So anyone who finds them will see and hear only audio and will be unable to find or retrieve the hidden information. In this way, Elliot's data on h...
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Last time it happened ABC news played fucking audio tapes from inside the kindergarten classroom as the shooting was taking place. Thats not educating or informing me about anything I didnt already know. Thats grisly entertainment for the sake of ratings and drama.
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Citizen Science Task: Come up with a color to match the crayon name!
Procedure:
1. Open up a color picker, for example, https://colorpicker.me/ or https://color.adobe.com/.
2. For each item in the numbered list: read them crayon names in list below and picture the color it describes.
3. Find that color in from your mind on your color picker and aim for high precision.
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i find they use blurry images a lot and hide the subject in the picture well enough to be hardly distinguishable if it wasnt for context. like when it asks to identify a storefront, it also shows like apartments or parking garages that youd have to successfully decipher that its not actually a shop. but then again you are going of probability and a numbers game because you get a few different captchas you can try if you suck at it.i think switching it to the audio version and deciphering it out of there would be easier or just reading the subtitles off of the videos. they use a lot of different specific methods.
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I had a dream that I was in my car with my co-worker and he was driving. We were driving out of a cemetery and into the road. He started to turn back into the cemetery. I said don't go that way. He said oh okay. Then he proceeded to go that way anyway and he got the car stuck between a river and some graves. Then the car started falling into the river and he was trying to get it out and made it worse and worse and then all the bodies and coffins ended up in the river with us mixed up in the mess.
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Lyrebird claims it can recreate any voice using just one minute of sample audio
Artificial intelligence is making human speech as malleable and replicable as pixels. Today, a Canadian AI startup named Lyrebird unveiled its first product: a set of algorithms the company claims can clone anyone’s voice by listening to just a single minute of sample audio.
A few years ago this would have been impossible, but the analytic prowess of machine learning has proven to be a perfect fit for the idiosyncrasies of human speech. Using artificial intelligence, companies like Google have been able to creat...
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