“This Is Not Like Playing The Two At The Same Time. The Machine And Its Software Aren’t Layering

the clicking sound of the rack is oddly satisfying.

https://instagram.com/p/BQIDI5eh5_m/

Jeff Chang

Designer and artist is experimenting with ARKit to place and control cute characters he has created and place them in realworld scenes:

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Jeff has a Tumblr account [@jeffchangart] but you can find updates on Instagram here

Adversarial Machines

There’s been some interesting developments recently in adversarial training, but I thought it would probably be a good idea to first talk about what adversarial images are in the first place. This Medium article by @samim is an accessible explanation of what’s going on. It references this talk by Ian Goodfellow, asking if statistical models understand the world.

Machine learning can do amazing magical things, but the computer isn’t looking at things the same way that we do. One way to exploit that is by adding patterns that we can’t detect but that create enough of a difference in the data to completely fool the computer. Is it a dog or an ostrich?

There’s been quite a lot of research into finding ways round this problem as well as exploiting it to avoid facial recognition or other surveillance. And, like I said, there’s been some interesting recent developments that I hope to talk about here.

https://medium.com/@samim/adversarial-machines-998d8362e996#.n7j43766v

Google Translate writes weird poetry if you repeat random characters.

(Above, my own experiments. Inspired by https://twitter.com/smutclyde )

Bitcoin mining

Azért szeretek egyszerre hosszabb szabadságot kivenni, mert ilyenkor az első 3-4 napot felölelő elégedett faszlengetés után elöntenek az alkotási vágy hullámai, és a szabadságom hátralevő ideje alatt kötelezettségek nélkül tudok hódolni a hobbijaimnak…

Ma este például Matlaboztam kicsit, melynek eredményeképpen a fenti kis animációt állítottam össze az ilyesmire fogékony olvasóknak. 

Mint azt páran már kitalálhattátok, a kisfilm a Viola-Jones-féle, egyszintű döntési fákon alapuló AdaBoost tanulóalgoritmus konvergenciáját szemlélteti amint normális eloszlású adatsorokat próbál modellezni. 

(a témáról lásd még: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/Compaq-DEC/CRL-2001-1.pdf )

Robotic LED Display

Currently being installed in Times Square, Radius Displays have created a shape changing screen made from an array of motorized panels:

A post shared by Radius (@radiusdisplays) on Jun 16, 2017 at 1:12pm PDT

There is very little information to find about the project, other than it is currently installed and testing and officially launching soon - the best bet is to keep an eye on Instagram here

Update

It will make an official debut on August the 8th [Link]

Fractal Friday ॐ Not my photo ॐ

Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Game Creator

Last episode of the season from tocotocotv profiles developer responsible for many music-related video games, most famously recognized for Rez.

Remember to Click on “CC” to activate English subtitles:

Our last episode of the season features Tetsuya Mizuguchi, game creator and founder of the Enhance Games studio. Mizuguchi is the creator behind the iconic Rez, recently remastered as Rez Infinite, he also created Lumines, Child of Eden or Space Channel 5, which are all gaming experiences strongly influenced by music. Always ahead of his time, Mizuguchi will tell us more about his motivations behind Rez Infinite, and his pursuit of new forms of perception, supported by new technologies such as virtual reality, or through original concepts such as the Synesthesia Suit. Our day with Mizuguchi will take us to the heights of Mori Tower, then to the intimacy of the Restaurant Bohemian, where we will learn more about his philosophy and his work. 

Link

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