Presentation on "Grammar Variational Autoencoder"
Presentation on "Grammar Variational Autoencoder"
"Visual Rhythm and Beat" - SIGGRAPH 2018 work by @AbeDavis on manipulating dance in Video: http://abedavis.com/visualbeat/ #Generative #ML
First global assessment of the State of the World's Fungi - by @KewScience: https://stateoftheworldsfungi.org/ - #Regenerative #Nature
🍄 >2000 new species described in 2017
🍄 90% of plant species estimated to have mycorrhizal root associations
🍄 Only 56 species have @IUCN conservation status evaluated
"New Strategies For Smart Integrated Decentralised Energy Systems" - by @FlorijnDeGraaf @MetabolicHQ @Spectral_Energy: https://www.metabolic.nl/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/SIDE-Systems-Report.pdf #Regenerative
Documentary: "Edward Goldsmith - The Green Revolutionary"
Interview with Jeremy Rifkin (1976) on "Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr":
Visual information seeking using the FilmFinder (1994)
Recorded Future - Intelligence-Driven Security: https://www.recordedfuture.com/.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_Future "founded in 2009, specializing in real-time threat intelligence. Has close links with In-Q-Tel, CIA’s investment arm, and Google Ventures."
Talk by Recorded Future CEO Christopher Ahlberg:
Mightier: EmotionAI for kids with this 'Bioresponsive Learning Loop' device to 'make emotions visible' https://mightier.com/how-it-works/
How long until this device delivers a small electro-shock, every-time the child has an emotion the parents or device maker define as undesirable?
The German Government is launching an extensive public online registry, feat. info on all actors (companies etc.) that put packaging into circulation:
https://www.donaukurier.de/nachrichten/wirtschaft/Abfall-Umwelt-Recycling-Verpackungen-Deutschland-Register-nimmt-Verpackungshersteller-in-die-Pflicht;art154664,3906134
Part of its national Waste Management strategy:
https://www.bmu.de/fileadmin/Daten_BMU/Pools/Broschueren/abfallwirtschaft_2018_en_bf.pdf
Searching for a use-case of Machine Learning & Automation which can make an important contribution to human & planetary health (while making a fortune)? Look into Waste Management & Recycling. Lot's of low hanging fruit.
Nothing conveys the feeling of Infinity as much as Stupitidy does.
- Ödön von Horváth
The reason why people are fine with "templates" that are highly constrained in their possible creative output styles (& don't need truly creative generative "AI's"), is the fact that most creative fields adhere to fashion cycles: You want something similar to X, not something new.
The majority of the commercial "AI for creative field X" offerings have essentially figured out how to do clever use of dynamic templates, combined with massive media libraries. The results are often impressive but have very little todo with "AI", beyond a useful marketing term.
This image tells a fascinating story: Human civilisation's greatest monuments used to be very big but rather useless beyond signalling "I've got a bigger .... than you" The new generation of monuments generates electricity and enables humans and ecosystems to thrive.
Image from "World’s largest offshore wind farm opens off northwest England": https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-windfarm-orsted/worlds-largest-offshore-wind-farm-opens-off-northwest-england-idUSKCN1LL37G #Regenerative
LowGrow SFC: An ecological macroeconomic simulation model: https://www.cusp.ac.uk/themes/s2/lowgrow-sfc/ #Regenerative #Economics
Reflections on Planetary Health, Ecosystem Restoration, and Earth Regeneration - by Daniel Christian Wahl. Part 1:
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Jose Delgado's Bull Experiment. #SE #NeuroScience