If you die in a Waffle House, you die in real life.
Cedar Waxwings are a big fan of Serviceberries. This is a younger bird as he/she doesn't have the waxy red tips on the wings.
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography
A point I've just now realized: generative neural net models that are intended to produce 'artistic' images (I suppose a more accurate term would be 'decorative') are trained on human-produced art. Not, say, photographs.
Hildegard von Blingin's Bardcore cover of Losing My Religion by R.E.M.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oh6...
'Superman II' was released on this day 45 years ago! (June 19, 1981)
Directed by Richard Lester.
Written by Mario Puzo, and David & Leslie Newman.
Starring Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman, Terence Stamp, Ned Beatty, Sarah Douglas, Margot Kidder, Jack O'Halloran, & more.
#OnThisDay
Well, it's Juneteenth, and I have one objection about the holiday:
The name is awful. It neither expresses what it's about, nor when. Unless possibly it's interpreted as indicating the period between June 13th and June 19th... which it does not.
They could have done better.
That's the fundamental reason why they can't be considered to be creative entities. They merely mimic human style and skill, they don't produce styles and skills from the raw material of experience of the real world. They have to be spoon-fed narrow subsets of reality and don't go beyond that.
Photographs are used to train nets to parse photographic images. Art is used to train nets to produce decoration.
When humans train in an craft like drawing, if they're interested in one particular variety (like comics) they might use samples of comic art as training tools.
