https://danielicious615.gumroad.com/l/wtbtrx

Link all your passes and aovs into the output node automatically. It can works with EEVEE and CYCLES. The default output for Blender is really bad, but after use this script can really save your life and make your life easier!

https://viggle.ai/

https://ai.meta.com/blog/segment-anything-2/

https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/ridley-scott-gladiator-2-ai-rhino-fight-scene-1235030508/

Despite embracing technology, the “Blade Runner” and “Alien” director has long incorporated the fear of AI in his stories onscreen and knows better than most about its ramifications. Scott previously told Rolling Stone in November 2023 that when it came to his concerns about artificial intelligence broadly, he said that AI was “dangerous” and akin to a “technical hydrogen bomb.”

https://www.freethink.com/hard-tech/future-of-solid-state-batteries

https://designer.sendune.com/

https://www.demandcurve.com/newsletters/growth-newsletter-199

Look at the “benefit of a benefit.”

Step 1:

Write a list of your product’s benefits AND its downsides.

Step 2:

Analyze each and ask, “what’s a unexpected / obvious / helpful / interesting / funny / convenient / comforting / amazing / wild / beautiful / exciting / weird… benefit of this benefit/downside?”

In other words, what’s a second-order benefit of that benefit/downside?

It can either be directly for the user (kids on a trampoline) or for the real buyer/user (relaxed parent).

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https://brev.ai/

https://help.prusa3d.com/materials

https://www.simplify3d.com/resources/materials-guide/properties-table/

https://kingroon.com/blogs/3d-printing-guides/3d-printer-filament-types

https://www.wevolver.com/article/3d-printer-filament-types-functional-filaments

https://ultimate3dprintingstore.com/blogs/ultimate-3d-printing-guide/3d-printing-filament-guide

https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/ais-600b-question

The expanding economic impact of AI, highlights a significant gap between AI infrastructure investments and actual revenue generation. Despite easing GPU shortages and increased investments by cloud providers, AI-related revenue, particularly dominated by OpenAI, remains insufficient to justify the massive capital expenditures. The analysis reveals that this gap has grown from $125 billion to $500 billion, posing challenges for the AI industry while emphasizing the need for realistic expectations and sustainable value creation.

OpenAI training and inference costs could reach $7bn for 2024, AI startup set to lose $5bn – report

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/openai-training-and-inference-costs-could-reach-7bn-for-2024-ai-startup-set-to-lose-5bn-report

AI: Are we in another dot-com bubble?

The power of AI will transform every facet of our society, from the micro changes in our day-to-day lives to the macro changes in global geopolitics. It will challenge our values and assumptions and make us reconsider what it means to be human. It is inevitable that some capital will be wasted getting there. We may even experience a bubble or two. But this is part of the growing pains of advancing humankind. Society, like our individual lives, seldom take the shortest route. As to the argument that we are in a bubble right now, we think it deserves some reconsidering.

https://kelvinmu.substack.com/p/ai-are-we-in-another-dot-com-bubble

Most common ways to smooth 3D prints

https://www.xometry.com/resources/3d-printing/smooth-3d-prints/

1. Using Paint and Sanding Material for PLA filaments
2. Using Abrasive Smoothing Methods
3. Using XTC-3D epoxy resin
4. Using 3D Gloop
5. Using PolyMaker PolySmooth PVB Filament
6. Using Chemical Smoothing like Resin, Ethyl Acetate, Acetone for ABS filaments or Isopropyl Alcohol for PVB filaments
7. Using Heat Gun
8. Using hardware like Polymaker Polysher
9. Automotive Spray Putty for PLA
10. Using bees wax
11. Changing inner/outer order

Note: Some methods apply to only a few types of 3D print technologies

3D Printing Hack – Smoothing 3D Prints with Resin

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https://research.google/blog/smoothly-editing-material-properties-of-objects-with-text-to-image-models-and-synthetic-data/

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https://www.elysian.press/p/employee-ownership

The article advocates for employee ownership of companies, using Central States Manufacturing as a model. The company, owned by its employees through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), demonstrates how such structures can create significant wealth for workers across all levels, improve long-term company performance, and reduce wealth inequality. Employee ownership aligns worker and company interests, leading to sustainable growth and better employee benefits. The article highlights the benefits of ESOPs and calls for broader adoption and awareness of such models.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sag-aftra-calls-strike-against-major-video-game-studios-1235957116

SAG-AFTRA has called a strike against major video game companies, set to begin on July 26, 2024. This decision follows a vote by union members, with 98.32% in favor of authorizing the strike. The union has been negotiating with companies like Activision, Disney, EA, Insomniac Games, and others since October 2022 to renew the Interactive Media Agreement.

The core issues leading to the strike include demands for wage increases to combat inflation, protections against the use of artificial intelligence, and basic safety precautions. SAG-AFTRA seeks an 11% retroactive increase in rates for video game performers, followed by 4% annual increases, similar to their demands in the film and TV industries

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/ai-data-science/audio2face/

https://colors.muz.li/ai-color-combination-generator

https://artvee.com/

https://opendesigndocs.com/

https://www.chrbutler.com/understanding-the-eye-mind-connection

The intricate relationship between the eyes and the brain, often termed the eye-mind connection, reveals that vision is predominantly a cognitive process. This understanding has profound implications for fields such as design, where capturing and maintaining attention is paramount. This essay delves into the nuances of visual perception, the brain’s role in interpreting visual data, and how this knowledge can be applied to effective design strategies.

This cognitive aspect of vision is evident in phenomena such as optical illusions, where the brain interprets visual information in a way that contradicts physical reality. These illusions underscore that what we “see” is not merely a direct recording of the external world but a constructed experience shaped by cognitive processes.

Understanding the cognitive nature of vision is crucial for effective design. Designers must consider how the brain processes visual information to create compelling and engaging visuals. This involves several key principles:

1. Attention and Engagement
2. Visual Hierarchy
3. Cognitive Load Management
4. Context and Meaning

https://80.lv/articles/new-project-revolutionizes-real-time-hair-rendering-with-major-time-storage-cuts/

http://cemyuksel.com/research/hairmesh_rendering/

https://llama.meta.com/

https://github.com/iperov/DeepFaceLive

https://flowgpt.com/flow-studio

https://flowgpt.com/flow-studio/MXkvETDXP9-vNYtHeHpnc?content=18b334aa-26c4-45f8-a03f-cbb31fd292a6&cursor=1641&prevCursor=1642

https://github.com/exo-explore/exo

https://www.workingtheorys.com/p/cool-self

The theory, in brief: Life is about finding your cool self and then living as much of it as you can being that person.

https://beanheads.robertbroersma.com/

https://wistlabs.com/

https://xraispotlight.substack.com/p/capture-and-relieve-your-memories

https://80.lv/articles/check-out-this-awesome-3d-model-of-medusa-made-in-blender/

https://www.pixelsham.com/2024/06/20/capturing-stereo-images-with-the-rf-s7-8mm-f4-stm-dual-and-the-canon-rf-s3-9mm-f3-5-stm-dual-fisheye-lenses-for-eos-r7/

https://kartaverse.github.io/Reactor-Docs/#/com.AndrewHazelden.KartaVR

https://github.com/Kartaverse

Kartaverse is a free open source post-production pipeline that is optimized for the immersive media sector. If you can imagine it, Kartaverse can help you create it in XR!

“Karta” is the Swedish word for map. With KartaVR you can stitch, composite, retouch, and remap any kind of panoramic video: from any projection to any projection. This provides the essential tools for 360VR, panoramic video stitching, depthmap, lightfield, and fulldome image editing workflows.

Kartaverse makes it a breeze to accessibly and affordably create content for use with virtual reality HMDs (head mounted displays) and fulldome theatres by providing ready to go scripts, templates, plugins, and command-line tools that allow you to work efficiently with XR media. The toolset works inside of Blackmagic Design’s powerful node based Fusion Studio and DaVinci Resolve Studio software.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-canada-is-no-longer-one-of-the-richest-nations-on-earth-country-after/

“… the problem with Canada’s economy is not cyclical, but secular; not one of utilization, but capacity. It is not so much that growth is temporarily below potential as that potential growth has slowed to a crawl.

More to the point, the economy is now growing slower than the population, which is why per capita GDP is now falling. And it’s per capita GDP that really counts, as far as living standards are concerned.

They are no longer one of the richest countries on Earth. Among the richer countries, they are on course to being one of the poorer.

The economist Trevor Tombe has shown that Canada’s richest province, Alberta, would rank 14th among U.S. states. The poorest five provinces now rank among the six poorest jurisdictions in North America. Ontario ranks just ahead of Alabama. British Columbia is poorer than Kentucky.”

https://www.eggnog.ai/infinite