Category: Geeky shit
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AI Spirits
Something spooky for Hallowe’en is this video from MIT’s Deep Angel showing ‘AI Spirits’ – the reverse of neural networks and ‘deep mind’ removing people from photographs is to try and put them back again. The result is something akin to Doctor Who’s Army of Ghosts: (via Boing Boing)
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Cassetteboy vs The Snoopers’ Charter
I’m hoping the genie is out of the bottle with encryption and even WhatsApp joining the end-to-end encryption battle, but there is no room for complacency. Certainly Teresa May and David Cameron want to spy on us, and already are. Like with Apple vs the FBI in the States it’s no longer something purely for…
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How to automatically set ‘remember position’ in iTunes (Mac)
Something that’s bugged me for years is the fact I download a lot of podcasts, radio shows and long mixes, but was having to set ‘Remember Playback Position’ formerly known as Bookmarks manually for most of them. If you download your podcasts via the inbuilt iTunes Podcast receiver then you’re fine, that (book)marks the shows…
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Audio from silent footage?
I remember Daedulus aka David E. H. Jones, a Mensan (I read his ‘The Inventions of Daedalus: A Compendium of Plausible Schemes’ as a kid, my mother was a Mensan so she bought it for me) talking about the idea of picking up vibrations from the Ancient Greek plasterers to hear what songs they sung…
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The Post-Punk / New Wave Super Friends
Loving the pop-culture mashups of Butcher Billy including these Post Punk Super Friends series. MORRISSEY SMASH! I don’t use the M-word lightly – but looking through his online portfolio you will see similarities to a some of mashup cover work out there. I can see why clubs want his graphics, would be great to see…