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Fooling Some of the People All of the Time: A Long, Short Story by David Einhorn is one of my favourite books.


I'm surprised people are consuming special mushrooms so frequently that they would even consider a special gadget for this purpose.


If you want to eat anything other than agaricus it's hard to buy them fresh because most mushrooms don't ship and handle well. You can get them from farmer's markets in medium and largeish cities but if you don't have those your options are sad broken and dried out grocery store stock, if that. Consider also that for things like stroganoff, wellington, or other duxelle-ish dishes it takes quite a lot of mushroom to make the end product, since mushrooms are mostly water and will be 'sweated' of that water.


It's like growing zucchini, sure you won't eat it all but why not?


I assume it's for friends.


You don’t have to be a magician. I was impressing other kids doing exactly this, you just toss so the coin goes high but turns slowly and catch it in your hand rather than let if fall to the ground. After not so many tries you get a pretty good intuition on how you have to throw to get the desired result.


There's also a particular method to get the coin in a tilted spin that looks (and sounds) _remarkably_ like a real flip, and is I think going to be more repeatable than what you're describing.


It works the other way around, this kind of trick is (stage) magic so if you're doing it, hey presto, you're a magician.


If this is legit it would be one of the most impressive things I've seen in many years.


It's legit, just variations / iterations.

Here's what I got for "A still of Kermit The Frog in Blade Runner 2049 (2017)":

https://imgur.com/a/y7t3RKx


None of them scream Blade Runner 2049 to me.


In this case its the overall "tone" and color palette. Very uniform diffuse lighting, muted color, etc.


? Dale is a legit project from openAI


I think "legit" in this context might mean more of the Twitter post author's representation of their use of DALL-E 2:

- Were the prompts shown the ones fed to DALL-E 2 or were there more complex details described in the prompt?

- Were these the first images generated for the prompt, or did the author generate many images and cherry-pick the best example, and if so from how many?


The second one is how everyone does it, by the way. AI may as well be a cherry orchard. There’s nothing wrong with it.

The first one, I’d have a huge problem with. Lying about prompts is a no no. Thankfully there’s not much incentive to lie.


That doesn't mean the images in this tweet thread are output from Dalle though…

Although if an individual created all of these then that's about the same amount of impressive


It's funny that 10 years ago "a human did it" would be, by far, the most plausible explanation. Today, it's "AI did it." Put another way, if a human made these then it'd be as shocking as seeing DALL-E 2 in 2012.


> Sandberg said the decision to step down will allow her to focus more on her philanthropic work.

After heading the company that created enormous psychological and sociological issues in the world and was/is involved in shady, anti privacy, illegal, anti-competition dealings she just gets to retire and focus on her "philanthropic" work. She's the modern equivalent of a robber baron.


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