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"Nvidia turned to 1 million images on Flickr to train the neural network. Most came from Flickr’s Creative Commons, and Catanzaro said the company only uses images with permission. The company says this program can synthesize hundreds of thousands of objects and their relation to other objects in the real world. In GauGAN, change the season and the leaves will disappear from the branches. Or if there’s a pond in front of a tree, the tree will be reflected in the water."

https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/18/nvidia-ai-turns-sketches-into-photorealistic-landscapes-in-seconds/ ⟲

‘Satire is angry and optimistic. It believes that the evil it attacks can be abolished. Comedy is good-tempered and pessimistic; it believes that however much we may wish we could, we cannot change human nature and must make the best of a bad job.’

https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/03/12/why-i-invented-titania-mcgrath/

Why I invented Titania McGrath

spiked columnist Andrew Doyle on his infamous woke Twitter character.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/man-angry-his-photo-was-used-to-prove-all-hipsters-look-alike-then-learns-it-wasn-t-him-1.5046933

Henrik Marstal som "Krænkelsens vogter i kongeriget (2019)" https://www.dr.dk/tv/se/ugen-plus-det-loese-med-huxi-bach/ugen-plus-det-loese-med-huxi-bach-2/ugen-plus-det-loese-med-huxi-bach-5#!/22:35 … giver mig mindelser om Louis de Funès som "Moralens vogter i St. Tropez (1964)"

http://www.allocine.fr/video/player_gen_cmedia=19577777&cfilm=36757.html

Journalisten undersøger DMIs nye design

https://journalisten.dk/kritikken-hagler-ned-over-dmi-hvorfor-er-solen-blaa

I Danmark har vi ikke korruption. Højst svingdøre, der leder til belønningsposter. "I en anden e-mail skriver Hessen-Schmidt – der senere blev ansat i Apples afdeling for datacenter-strategi – at [...]".

https://www.weekendavisen.dk/2019-9/samfund/en-kilden-sag ⟲

The best-educated and highest-earning Americans, who can have whatever they want, have chosen the office for the same reason that devout Christians attend church on Sundays: It’s where they feel most themselves.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/religion-workism-making-americans-miserable/583441/ ⟲

Verdens dyreste penis (0,2 mia. kroner) mestendels destrueret.

https://www.fatherly.com/news/boy-wins-31-million-in-lawsuit-due-to-botched-circumcision/ ⟲

"Når prisen stiger på smør og taxiture, kalder vi det for inflation. Det er skidt, fordi det udhuler købekraften. Men når prisen stiger på parcelhuse og lejligheder, omtales det som prisfest, og bankøkonomer jubler i de landsdækkende medier.

Dette er et af de største paradokser i moderne kapitalisme; hvornår blev vi enige om, at stigende boligpriser, der over de seneste tre årtier er vokset langt hurtigere end lønnen, er godt? Boligprishop er prisinflation, og gavner ret beset kun dem, der ejer boliger i forvejen."

https://finans.dk/debat/ECE11214461/derfor-har-du-ikke-raad-til-et-hus-eller-lejlighed/?ctxref=ext