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Linda A. Hill, Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, USA at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 19, 2017
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Christian Clavadetscher
Some of the attendees of the job search workshop. Taken right before I gave my talk about www.howigotmyjob.com, which was actually captured in video by Amelia Pauley Louden and will be uploaded at that website.
Peter T. Grauer, Chairman, Bloomberg, USA at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 19, 2017
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Christian Clavadetscher
Michael Stebbins
President, Science Advisors
Christopher Austin, CEO and Partner, Flagship Pioneering
Margaret Anderson, Managing Director, Deloitte
Designed to maximize the day-to-day activities of players, coaches and staff, the new Allen N. Reeves Football Complex elevates the Clemson University football program, and promotes the recruitment, training and development of student athletes with likely the most functional facility of its type in college or pro football. The building, designed by GMC's sports group and HOK, adjoins the indoor practice facility and outdoor practice fields, consolidating football operations into one complex. Clemson staff visited 36 similar faciltiies across the country and took the best parts from each and made them better. The 142,500-square-foot complex is the largest and most programmatically inclusive football-specific training facility in the nation. Knowing that this facility will serve as a home away from home for many of the users, the project provides amenities that allow the student-athletes to train, study and unwind in the same place. Features include 1.5 acres of outdoor leisure and entertainment space, state-of-the-art hydrotherapy, training, weight equipment and technology, a steam room and recovery room and a Gatorade fuel bar. The design maximizes adjacencies and functionality, with a centralized player concourse that allows coaches and athletes to move efficiently through their routines and better utilize valuable practice and training time. The concourse is connected to the lobby through a slide, bringing Coach Swinney’s focus on fun to the forefront in the design. The multiple atriums in teh facility keep the coaches on the second floor in constant contact with players on the first floor. The complex also features miniature golf, bowling, a movie theater, gaming lounge and basketball, volleyball and bocce ball courts, giving players an opportunity for some friendly competition. Compelling graphics and displays throughout the facility celebrate the team’s storied history and reflect the Clemson spirit, including a scale replica of Memorial Stadium’s famous Hill and Howard’s Rock. Of course the home of the national champions would not be complete without a prominent spot to display their trophies including the 2016 College Football Playoff National Championship trophy, which sits proudly in the main atrium. The project is targeting LEED Silver certification.
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Step across thresholds and enjoy the creativity of interior designers in this one-day, four-house tour, presented by Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts & Humanities (MAC)
CAPE MAY – Home décor lovers, get ready to be inspired! Don’t miss this one-time opportunity to relish exquisite, professionally designed interiors of four of the Cape May area’s finest, privately-owned homes during the third annual Cape May Designer House Tour on Saturday, Sept. 22, 2018 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Cape May Designer House Tour is presented by the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts & Humanities (MAC). In 2016 and 2017, MAC presented one-day Designer House Tours and they were a huge success. This year, the event returns with four more homes, each professionally designed — all open to the public on one day.
The houses and designers featured on the tour are as follows:
The Villa at Willow Creek Farm and Winery
The Villa at Willow Creek Farm and Winery, 168 Stevens St., is the Italianate style residence of Barbara Hamilton Bray Wilde. It is surrounded by breathtaking views of the vineyard and stunning perennial gardens. At the Villa, you will find hand-milled Cedar clapboard in iron oxide wrapped in copper, unusual rain chains and the Villa is crowned with a huge cupola. It is a perfect layout of open entertaining space, with a chef’s kitchen complete with artisan-milled cherry cabinets. The design of this property includes beautiful glass-tiled bathrooms, mahogany porches, and a pool with outside entertainment area.
Villa Dora
Anna and Terry Darby welcome you to their new home at 1221.5 Lafayette St. This home, with its beautiful sunset views, seeks to blend historical style with modern conveniences. It was designed and built with the intent to hold family gatherings and visits by many friends. Terry and Anna worked on the design with the firm of Fenwick Architects and with the builder, Carl J. Roth Carpentry. The interior design was facilitated by Mike Peirson of Island Home, and Ronnie Manzi of Complete Interiors, Avalon.
The Cola Residence
The Cola Residence at 608 Seagrove Ave. is a Carmel-style home built by Kenn Mann. Its unique wavy brick exterior never fails to catch the eye of passersby. The home is situated on a 0.39-acre lot which sits within the boundaries of Cape May Point State Park. A clever walled design of the exterior property maximizes space in the beautifully landscaped back yard. Complete with a spacious wrap-around deck, fire pit, and pool, it gives the feeling of being in a private resort.
House of Harmony
Renovated in 2018, 110 2nd Ave. was a collaboration between Architects Tim and Donna Lisle of Philadelphia, D.L. Miner Construction of Cape May Court House and The Summer House Design Group of Stone Harbor. The objective was to take the footprint of the existing summer rental duplex, and make it into a year-round, single-family home that maximizes the view of the surrounding Cape May beauty. House of Harmony offers views of the bird sanctuary, Cove Beach and the Cape May Lighthouse that are not to be missed!
Self-guided tours of these four homes are offered Saturday, Sept. 22, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Each visitor receives a map and a full-color program book with information about the designers, products and vendors. Admission is $35.
Tickets must be purchased in advance. They may be purchased online at www.capemaymac.org, or in person at the Washington Street Mall Information Booth or the Emlen Physick Estate, or by calling 609-884-5404. Tickets are limited and advance purchase is required.
Since 2005, the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts & Humanities (MAC) has been working with talented regional designers and Cape May property owners to open their exceptional homes to the public. Proceeds of these events benefit MAC, a multifaceted not-for-profit organization committed to promoting the preservation, interpretation, and cultural enrichment of the Cape May region for its residents and visitors. MAC membership is open to all. For information about MAC’s year-round schedule of tours, festivals, and special events, call 609-884-5404 or 800-275-4278, or visit MAC’s Web site at www.capemaymac.org. For information about restaurants, accommodations and shopping, call the Chamber of Commerce of Greater Cape May at 609-884-5508. For information about historic accommodations, contact Cape May Historic Accommodations at www.capemaylodging.com.
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The days of using paper charts for day trading are long gone. We now use computers to manage day trading, giving adequate space to organize data and promptly find required information. The result is that trading is much easier and faster than it was in the past.
Day trading requires the gathering and analyzing of data quickly; but, switching between or continuously maximizing and minimizing windows or applications is time consuming. The solution is to use multiple monitors to create more work space so that all the data can be viewed at the same time.
Usually, only two monitors are needed for beginner traders. Trading platforms can be kept on the main monitor and the traders’ charts can be displayed on the other. As the trading business flourishes, it is wise to invest in more screen space, maybe even a video wall. Video walls consist of multiple monitors that make giant display screens. The important thing to remember is that the greater the volume of trading, the greater the need for screen space.
When speed is important, as it is in day trading, accessing information easily is of the utmost importance. Multiple screen technology enables day traders to work precisely and proficiently.
MaXimiZed interior for everyone to gather in. If you have to wait to get behind this thing and ride, you better be comfortable.
In many cases space is limited. Work with Tuff Shed to maximize the use of your building. In the pictured building not an inch went to waste in this wall. This building contains a full sealed partition allowing for linen storage on one side and chemical storage on the other.
Mitch Barns, Chief Executive Officer, Nielsen, USA at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 19, 2017
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Christian Clavadetscher
Maximizing open slots at the top of racks that fill warehouses and distribution centers has been a challenge for companies seeking to store heavy loads at high height, but the Crown RM 6000 allows businesses to gain utilization, flexibility and financial benefits by leveraging existing open rack space versus building new warehouses or adding onto existing facilities. Learn more at www.crown.com.
Designed to maximize the day-to-day activities of players, coaches and staff, the new Allen N. Reeves Football Complex elevates the Clemson University football program, and promotes the recruitment, training and development of student athletes with likely the most functional facility of its type in college or pro football. The building, designed by GMC's sports group and HOK, adjoins the indoor practice facility and outdoor practice fields, consolidating football operations into one complex. Clemson staff visited 36 similar faciltiies across the country and took the best parts from each and made them better. The 142,500-square-foot complex is the largest and most programmatically inclusive football-specific training facility in the nation. Knowing that this facility will serve as a home away from home for many of the users, the project provides amenities that allow the student-athletes to train, study and unwind in the same place. Features include 1.5 acres of outdoor leisure and entertainment space, state-of-the-art hydrotherapy, training, weight equipment and technology, a steam room and recovery room and a Gatorade fuel bar. The design maximizes adjacencies and functionality, with a centralized player concourse that allows coaches and athletes to move efficiently through their routines and better utilize valuable practice and training time. The concourse is connected to the lobby through a slide, bringing Coach Swinney’s focus on fun to the forefront in the design. The multiple atriums in teh facility keep the coaches on the second floor in constant contact with players on the first floor. The complex also features miniature golf, bowling, a movie theater, gaming lounge and basketball, volleyball and bocce ball courts, giving players an opportunity for some friendly competition. Compelling graphics and displays throughout the facility celebrate the team’s storied history and reflect the Clemson spirit, including a scale replica of Memorial Stadium’s famous Hill and Howard’s Rock. Of course the home of the national champions would not be complete without a prominent spot to display their trophies including the 2016 College Football Playoff National Championship trophy, which sits proudly in the main atrium. The project is targeting LEED Silver certification.
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Mitch Barns, Chief Executive Officer, Nielsen, USA at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 19, 2017
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Christian Clavadetscher
Taken with Pentax Q and Samyang 650-1300mm lens
Focal length equivalent: 7150mm
Distance to subject: 3.5 km
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See my albums list for some of my best work: www.flickr.com/photos/200044612@N04/albums/
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Made with Image Creator from Microsoft Designer, formerly known as the Bing Image Creator. Powered by DALL·E 3.
I think that AI image generation is similar in many ways to photography. The camera itself handles all the fine details, but the photographer is in charge of curating the types of images that will be created.
Ultimately, it is all about maximizing the probability that something good will be created.
This is very similar to AI image generation, in terms of the skills involved and what the human does vs. what the machine does.
You can't compare AI image generation to the process of actually making these images from scratch with 3D software or paint/pencils, where the human controls every detail.
However, I think the process really is very similar to that of photography, as I made the case for above. I think that DALL-E 3 is by far the most powerful AI image generation tool currently available.
- Josh
Taken with Pentax Q and Samyang 650-1300mm lens
Focal length equivalent: 7150mm
Distance to subject: 2.3 km
See my main account for my photography, videos, fractal images and more here: www.flickr.com/photos/josh-rokman/
This is one of a series of images I made with the Bing Image Creator, which is an AI image generator powered by DALL-E 3.
For most of these images I tried to combine multiple elements together into one, rather than creating a scene with multiple separate elements. This pushes the limits of what the AI model can do, and maximizes the amount of human control over the images. For example, I might use the text prompt ‘photo realistic snake plane made out of carbon fiber and gold’.
Here is my take on AI generated images vs. human made art: I think that the quality of AI generated images will NOT dramatically improve, even many years into the future. The ultimate goal of a creative image is to create a certain emotional state in the viewer. - Emotions themselves - are the main tool used to do this. A purely logic driven machine can only create a crude, generalized model of something meant to create a certain emotional state. When someone makes a piece of art, it is always some combination of using logic and emotions to guide the process. Remember that the ultimate goal is to create a certain emotional state in the viewer. Only having access to logic, but not emotions, will always create a very generic looking work. You need to actually be able to feel emotions to fine-tune the work beyond that, since creating emotions is the ultimate goal.
The main difference between an AI model and a human is not the difference in the power of the logic that can be deployed. The difference is that a human can feel emotions, which is key to creating an image (or text) made to create a certain emotional state. The logic that the best AI image generator models currently have seems to already be at the level of what the best human can do (based on some of the results I got, which was quite a shock). The results are still crude and generic compared to what a human can do, because the AI models have no access to emotions, which are the main tool for making and refining a creative work designed to create certain emotional states.
All creative work is built with a combination of logic and emotions (emotions should always be the main tool), and by not having direct access to emotions, a machine can only create crude, generic results. When I make music I always try and use emotions rather than logic to guide the process as much as possible, since creating a certain emotional state in the listener is the ultimate goal. The best AI models have an amazing ability to use logic to mix two different styles of images together since that is a logic driven process. They can’t make those images from scratch, since that is an emotion driven process, since it is all about creating certain emotions in the viewer.
Imagine you were a chef trying to develop a new dish, but you were not allowed to taste the food at any point as you made it. Your ability to determine the correct amount of salt and other seasonings would be very crude and limited. There would always be the possibility of a disaster happening, since you could not add a bit of seasoning at a time and taste it, so you would have to just dump it all in at once. This is the same idea of an AI model that is trying to ultimately create emotional states using sophisticated logic, but without having any access to emotions to guide the process.
The results will always be very generic looking, with the occasional unexpected gruesome image being returned. The power of the logic I have seen in some of the images I have created is quite shocking, but the results are still crude and generic compared to what a human can do, since the AI model is trying to create emotional states without being able to actually feel emotions itself, which is vital to creating emotional states through an image (or text).
The AI models have an amazing ability to combine multiple types of images together into one, but they have no understanding of what the individual elements they are combining together truly are. Again, this is because the individual images are designed to create certain emotional states, and an AI model has no ability to feel emotions, meaning it has no ability to understand them.
Having said all that, there is a good chance that the ability of humans to customize AI generated images will keep going up, and this will allow for this tool to create highly creative works close to what a human could do from scratch after all. I don’t think that the AI models will ever be able to do this by themselves with a simple button push though, as I have made the case for above. Also, I would expect that the number of images that are generated with a button push will keep going up and up.
Now, does making good AI generated images take talent? I say the answer is yes simply because these images are not all equal in quality. To create the best image in a set of 1,000 to 100,000,000 images, and to do so consistently, takes skill. You need to learn something from every single image you create about what the AI model does well and does not do well. You also need creative and artistic skills to come up with really good text prompts, in addition to this. The skills involved in this are similar to the skills involved in coming up with a great line in text, like in books, poems, speeches, scripts, ect. This is like abstract art. I know from experience that randomly applying different colors of paint never yields anything impressive. It takes a lot of talent to make good abstract art. Random combinations of words in text prompts will never create the results that highly targeted ones will, when it comes to AI generated images.
Designed to maximize the day-to-day activities of players, coaches and staff, the new Allen N. Reeves Football Complex elevates the Clemson University football program, and promotes the recruitment, training and development of student athletes with likely the most functional facility of its type in college or pro football. The building, designed by GMC's sports group and HOK, adjoins the indoor practice facility and outdoor practice fields, consolidating football operations into one complex. Clemson staff visited 36 similar faciltiies across the country and took the best parts from each and made them better. The 142,500-square-foot complex is the largest and most programmatically inclusive football-specific training facility in the nation. Knowing that this facility will serve as a home away from home for many of the users, the project provides amenities that allow the student-athletes to train, study and unwind in the same place. Features include 1.5 acres of outdoor leisure and entertainment space, state-of-the-art hydrotherapy, training, weight equipment and technology, a steam room and recovery room and a Gatorade fuel bar. The design maximizes adjacencies and functionality, with a centralized player concourse that allows coaches and athletes to move efficiently through their routines and better utilize valuable practice and training time. The concourse is connected to the lobby through a slide, bringing Coach Swinney’s focus on fun to the forefront in the design. The multiple atriums in teh facility keep the coaches on the second floor in constant contact with players on the first floor. The complex also features miniature golf, bowling, a movie theater, gaming lounge and basketball, volleyball and bocce ball courts, giving players an opportunity for some friendly competition. Compelling graphics and displays throughout the facility celebrate the team’s storied history and reflect the Clemson spirit, including a scale replica of Memorial Stadium’s famous Hill and Howard’s Rock. Of course the home of the national champions would not be complete without a prominent spot to display their trophies including the 2016 College Football Playoff National Championship trophy, which sits proudly in the main atrium. The project is targeting LEED Silver certification.
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A mixture of stone and shake lends an earthy feel that allows the home to blend with the surrounding landscape. A series of bay windows on the rear of the home maximizes views from every room. The main level features an oversized great room, octagonal dining room, an oversized gourmet kitchen, a bedroom/study and an oversized owner’s suite with spectacular master bath.
*Photographed home may have been modified from the original construction documents.
Mitch Barns, Chief Executive Officer, Nielsen, USA and Tonye Cole, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Sahara Group,.Nigeria and Ilene S. Gordon, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer,.Ingredion, USA and Peter T. Grauer, Chairman, Bloomberg, USA and Linda A. Hill, Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, USA at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 19, 2017
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Christian Clavadetscher
Desert Southwest's linemen and electricians took advantage of the special job to conduct other maintenance to nearby transmission infrastructure. (Photo provided by Bo Mortensen)
Designed to maximize the day-to-day activities of players, coaches and staff, the new Allen N. Reeves Football Complex elevates the Clemson University football program, and promotes the recruitment, training and development of student athletes with likely the most functional facility of its type in college or pro football. The building, designed by GMC's sports group and HOK, adjoins the indoor practice facility and outdoor practice fields, consolidating football operations into one complex. Clemson staff visited 36 similar faciltiies across the country and took the best parts from each and made them better. The 142,500-square-foot complex is the largest and most programmatically inclusive football-specific training facility in the nation. Knowing that this facility will serve as a home away from home for many of the users, the project provides amenities that allow the student-athletes to train, study and unwind in the same place. Features include 1.5 acres of outdoor leisure and entertainment space, state-of-the-art hydrotherapy, training, weight equipment and technology, a steam room and recovery room and a Gatorade fuel bar. The design maximizes adjacencies and functionality, with a centralized player concourse that allows coaches and athletes to move efficiently through their routines and better utilize valuable practice and training time. The concourse is connected to the lobby through a slide, bringing Coach Swinney’s focus on fun to the forefront in the design. The multiple atriums in teh facility keep the coaches on the second floor in constant contact with players on the first floor. The complex also features miniature golf, bowling, a movie theater, gaming lounge and basketball, volleyball and bocce ball courts, giving players an opportunity for some friendly competition. Compelling graphics and displays throughout the facility celebrate the team’s storied history and reflect the Clemson spirit, including a scale replica of Memorial Stadium’s famous Hill and Howard’s Rock. Of course the home of the national champions would not be complete without a prominent spot to display their trophies including the 2016 College Football Playoff National Championship trophy, which sits proudly in the main atrium. The project is targeting LEED Silver certification.
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On March 18, 2019 leaders - including bookstore managers, instructional technologists, and librarians - from over half of PALNI’s supported institutions attended a workshop facilitated by the Open Textbook Network (OTN) to learn how to roll out this new program on their campus. Attendees were trained to encourage the faculty adoption of open educational resources (OER) in the classroom, and in doing so maximize student success.
Photos by Steve Kaufman Photography CC-BY