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Planning to move jobs? These cities are now so expensive they’re considered ‘impossibly unaffordable’
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/14/business/house-prices-impossibly-unaffordable-intl-hnk/index.html
Top 10 “impossibly unaffordable” cities
- Hong Kong
- Sydney
- Vancouver
- San Jose
- Los Angeles
- Honolulu
- Melbourne
- San Francisco/Adelaide
- San Diego
- Toronto
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Lighting Every Darkness with 3DGS: Fast Training and Real-Time Rendering and Denoising for HDR View Synthesis
https://srameo.github.io/projects/le3d/
LE3D is a method for real-time HDR view synthesis from RAW images. It is particularly effective for nighttime scenes.
https://github.com/Srameo/LE3D
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Study finds a quarter of bosses hoped Return-To-the-Office would make employees quit
https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/09/rto_quit_study
A study by BambooHR found that about 25% of executives and 20% of HR professionals hoped return-to-office (RTO) mandates would lead to employee resignations. Despite some staff quitting, the exodus was insufficient, prompting some companies to undertake layoffs. The study indicates that RTO policies have fostered a distrustful and performative work culture, negatively impacting productivity and employee happiness.
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Nir Zicherman – How AI Image Models Work
https://every.to/p/how-ai-image-models-work
By drawing an analogy to a children’s game where noise in sentences must be corrected to reveal coherent plots, Zicherman elucidates how AI models iteratively remove noise from images to generate clear visuals. The process involves training AI to recognize patterns in noisy data and directing it with specific textual prompts to produce desired images. This demystifies the complex mathematics and computing underlying modern AI image generation.
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The new Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive camera – 8160 x 7200 resolution per eye
Based on the new Blackmagic URSA Cine platform, the new Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive model features a fixed, custom lens system with a sensor that features 8160 x 7200 resolution per eye with pixel level synchronization. It has an extremely wide 16 stops of dynamic range, and shoots at 90 fps stereoscopic into a Blackmagic RAW Immersive file. The new Blackmagic RAW Immersive file format is an enhanced version of Blackmagic RAW that’s been designed to make immersive video simple to use through the post production workflow.
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Scratchapixel 4.0 – Free course on Computer Graphics
Teaching computer graphics programming to regular folks. Original content written by professionals with years of field experience. We dive straight into code, dissect equations, avoid fancy jargon and external libraries. Explained in plain English. Free.
https://www.scratchapixel.com/
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Joseph Bell – VFX Studio Growth 2022 – 2024
Color represents whether they’ve grown over the past 2 years (blue) or downsized (red).
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How to Build and Code Anything Extremely Quickly
https://learnhowtolearn.org/how-to-build-extremely-quickly
This article presents a method called “outline speedrunning” to accelerate project completion. This approach involves recursively outlining tasks and filling them in rapidly, delaying perfection until the end.
Outlining is essential for planning and executing projects efficiently. The outline speedrunning method boosts productivity by focusing on rapid task completion and deferring perfection, leading to improved outcomes and reduced stress.
Methodology
- Outline Creation: Develop an initial outline and recursively break it into smaller tasks.
- Speedrunning: Quickly fill in tasks without perfecting.
- Finalization: Once the project is complete, refine and perfect details.
Coding Applications
- Writing: Speeds up document creation by drafting outlines and filling them in rapidly.
- Programming: Enhances coding efficiency by breaking down functions and implementing components quickly.
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This legendary DC Comics style guide was nearly lost for years – now you can buy it
https://www.fastcompany.com/91133306/dc-comics-style-guide-was-lost-for-years-now-you-can-buy-it
Reproduced from a rare original copy, the book features over 165 highly-detailed scans of the legendary art by José Luis García-López, with an introduction by Paul Levitz, former president of DC Comics.
https://standardsmanual.com/products/1982-dc-comics-style-guide
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