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M31, apart from the dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way, is the closest galaxy to us. It is 2.5 million light-years away from Earth, with a diameter of 220,000 light-years (twice the size of the Milky Way). The Andromeda Galaxy is approaching us at a speed of 110 kilometers per second, so it will collide with our galaxy in about 2–3 billion years.
It is a common misconception that when two galaxies collide, their stars also collide with each other—BOOM! In reality, the stars are so tiny compared to the vast empty space between them that the probability of any collision is negligible. The two galaxies essentially “flow” through each other, and over the course of billions of years, they slowly merge into one enormous elliptical galaxy.
The two largest companions of the Milky Way, which unfortunately cannot be seen from Hungary, are the dwarf galaxies known as the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud. Similar companions can also be found around the Andromeda Galaxy: in the image, the bright white patch just below the galaxy is M32, while the elongated patch above the galaxy is the M110 dwarf galaxy.
The photo was taken with a ZWO Seestar S50 camera.
1227 x 20 sec
A wolverine (Gulo gulo) hunts for small mammals in a high elevation meadow, Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, Montana.
My hiking partner and I stood on a small granite knob to the side of the valley, resting for a moment in the afternoon light and taking off the packs for a minute. We arrived at this point after having been off-trail in the mountain wilderness for 15 miles. Our route led over several passes, up and down drainages that were first choked with downed logs in the forest, and were then transformed by elevation into rock-strewn, twisted heights. Prior to this point, we saw zero mammalian wildlife save the regal Least Chipmunk and the scolding Chickaree Squirrel. There were plenty of deer, elk, and moose tracks and lots of fresh scat, and we also noticed several places in which elk had bedded down the previous night. We must appear oblivious to them, since they were all able to avoid us for many days.
As we stood plotting a route across the stream and consulting the map once more to re-affirm the path we wanted out of the meadow, this thrilling animal moved with singular purpose into view. It pounced into hollows near the stream looking for rodents to eat, and it dug furiously into one of the stream banks. It was unclear whether the effort resulted in a meal due to the angle of observation. It then crossed the meadow, and as it did, it would sometimes leap into the air and pounce with its front paws, similar to what I have seen coyotes and dogs do when hunting rodents. It ultimately leapt across the stream, hunted along another bank, and then it climbed up a granite shelf and disappeared from view amongst the rocks and low vegetation. We stood for awhile just gibbering about the probability and luck involved in us being there to watch and photograph. The wolverine didn't bother to look at us once, though I have no doubt it knew we were there and immediately pegged us as doofuses.
This photo is an extreme crop due to a stripped-down camera setup for backpacking, and I admit is of poor quality. However, I never thought I would see this species in the wild, let alone photograph it, so I decided to post it anyway. The essence of wilderness cannot be more absolutely defined than by the presence of the wolverine.
Una mañana, a pesar de un retraso en la llegada al lugar, y junto a un amigo. Amanecía la isla de Ibiza con una explosión de color, a pesar de que el tiempo esos días era de fuerte viento y lluvias constantes durante el mes de febrero.
Los amaneceres y atardeceres, antes y después, de un tormenta tienen una alta probabilidad de mostrarte una gama de colores prácticamente inimaginables.
One morning, despite a delay in arriving at the place, and with a friend. The island of Ibiza dawned with a burst of color, even though the weather during those days was a strong wind and constant rains during the month of February.
The sunrises and sunsets, before and after, of a storm have a high probability of showing you an almost unimaginable range of colors.
Levante is called to the area where the sun rises.
Anima Series 6
Lismore NSW Australia 2025
HUMANITY 101
When we communicate with someone through a social network, we’re already disconnected from them physically.
We’re not in each other’s physical presence to experience the tone of their voice, their body language and gestures, their personal energy – but at least there’s ‘someone’ on the other end of the line.
Yet when the other person uses an AI to communicate, there’s a double layer of disconnect.
No longer are we indirectly sharing with or responding to another human being, but instead we’re indirectly talking to their program!
And here’s the rub -
Once we normalize communicating via AI, the last vestige of human contact disappears altogether and is replaced by an automated proxy.
It’s not thoughts and feelings typed directly by hand into a keyboard we’re dealing with, but a language model that mimics human behaviour through a probability distribution algorithm that predicts a likely human response.
There’s no beating heart at the other end of the phone line, no lived history, no physical encounter of the world – just a set of mathematical instructions.
Speaking for myself, I’d rather communicate with a real person.
I’d rather invest my valuable time and energy with a fellow biology rather than with a soulless machine – however clever.
Why?
Because I value humanity. I value our physical existence and the opportunity to share that experience with likeminded souls.
It’s what being human is all about – reaching out to someone, not some ‘thing’.
”E.M.M.I. stands for Extraplanetary Multiform Mobile Identifier. It can procedurally modify and enhance its own capabilities.
I estimate a 99% probability of death if an E.M.M.I. captures you.
You are faced with overwhelming power. Accept your helplessness.”
More photos in the album.
Villains of Metroid
The probability of life originating by accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a print shop.
Last year I volunteered for the first time at the Open House New York yearly event that had been held since 2001 when it was organized by Scott Lauer, a former Open House London volunteer that brought the principals of what Victoria Thornton had established yearly in London since 1992 opening public and private buildings that were generally closed to the public for one weekend and as an added bonus after the shift the volunteers were allowed on the cupola of the McKim, Mead and White designed Manhattan Municipal Building with spectacular views [ flic.kr/p/Ppq1ac ]. Well I volunteered again this year and was assigned the Essex Market which is closing at the end of this year and was excited. Well I got news on the Wednesday before the October weekend that Essex Market was going to reduce the number of hours and my services would not be need, Open House New York is completely at the disposal of each location and each proprietor/manager has the right to change accessibility as they see fit. Disappointed, I put myself in the standby pool, thinking well maybe not this year. So starting Thursday night, I started getting emails with lists of Open House events throughout the city that needed volunteers, I tried for 3, they were all filled by the time I responded. Finally Saturday I got the latest list, they needed someone on Governors Island National Monument Sunday, I got it, now I would have to coordinate to get there on Sunday morning. I had posted earlier this year about the National Parks Service Governors Island National Monument [ flic.kr/p/Y2H1Ae ], a small island located just south of Manhattan that served as a military installation protecting New York since after the American Revolutionary War, then a Coast Guard facility and finally a national monument that is only accessible via ferry, though now there are private ferried both from New York Waterway and the ‘new’ New York City Ferry system in addition to the free ferry service. I got to Manhattan late, missed what would have been the ideal free ferry and had an Uber shuttle me over to the Wall Street Pier of New York City’s Mayor De Blasio’s new New York City Ferry system for my inaugural ride on the ferry to get me to Governors Island, albeit 15 minutes late. I called the Governors Island coordinator Shane Brennan PhD who is the Assistant Director of Program Development for the Trust of Governors Island, who told me told me that it would take me an additional 15 minutes to get to the location from the ferry, Liggett’s Terrace but it was OK because the actual tour actually began 45 minutes into our shift as we were the first crew so to not run and thanked me for going. When I got there, I met Shane and the other two volunteers at the large archway at Liggett Terrace.
Liggett Hall as it’s known actually traces its origin back to the turn of the 20th Century in 1904 when then US President (POTUS-President of the United States) Theodore Roosevelt’s Secretary of War Elihu Root put together a master plan to upgrade the US army’s defense facilities on Governors Island to modernize as the troops posted on the island the 16th Infantry Regiment were living in substandard wooden barracks and using outdated dilapidated warehouses. While the whole master plan was not executed, after World War I and several fires the need for barracks became urgent. Again the design firm of McKim, Meade and White got the assignment and what they designed beautiful brick nearly 400,000 square foot Georgian Revival Liggett Hall which was modeled after French Barracks used by the United States during the First World War. Interesting side note is New York City Mayor La Guardia had been eyeing Governors Island and the open spaces to the south of Fort Jay as a airstrip for New York City, possibly a small city airport. Well, the McKim, Mead and White design stretched across the half the width of the island basically putting the kibosh of his honor’s idea. There was a small strip used by the military just to the south of Liggett Hall, but it was short and airplanes soon needed longer strips so it became outdated very quickly. As defenses became more mechanized, the need to actually army bases to defend key cities has led to closing of the bases, Governors Island was no exception, though in it was really an amazing place, Officers Row, directly to the north of Liggett Hall, housing for offices are beautiful house, the base had its own Broadway sized theater, its own YMCA, a Burger King and various other establishments on the island, literally a little city. The island had more than doubled in size, when landfill as a result of the New York City Subway was added to the southern end early in the 20th Century. Here’s a factoid for those who like this kind of stuff about Broadway Theaters and what’s considered a Broadway Theater. So a Broadway Theater in the city of New York is a theater that seats 500 or more, and off-Broadway Theater seats 100-499 and an off-off-Broadway theater has 1-99 seats. The Coast Guard would take over the island after the US Army departed until 1996 though their footprint and use of the island was greatly less than the Army.
So the center of the Liggett Hall Barracks is the massive archway that divides the building and like I said before that where I met Shane and the other two volunteers, it is an impressive mammoth structure. So Shane takes us up to our destination, this part of the Barracks had never been open to public before and actually had been closed to all for about 9 years and not utilized for 20 years since the Coast Guard’s departure. There was no electricity as we wound up 5 flights of stairs (not the greatest thing for an asthmatic like me), dust everywhere was witness to length of time as was the peeling in probability lead based paint up to the top where I think my fellow volunteer’s and I were completely blown away by what we saw. We walked into a massive gymnasium, 3 stories up, with hoops that had been utilized by the Coast Guard until they departed in 1996 and had the Coast Guard Badge center court. It was huge, plain and simple but Shane explained the length of the gymnasium was the same as the Chrysler Building is tall 1,049 feet actually and it was not originally designed as a gymnasium. One of the issues the army troops had on the island was the winters of New York. So the original purpose of this massive area in the center of the barracks was as a massive drill hall. The soldiers could drill no matter what the weather outside was. So in the image I’ve posted, take under one of the basketball hoop so not even the entire length, the size of the gymnasium can be seen as well as the dust on the floor and if you examine closely, the peeling paint. The McKim, Mead and White design is amazing because from the outside looking at the building, one is hard pressed to realize that there is this mass open space within.
The Trust of Governors Island is looking to preserve this space, figure out what to use it for, maybe an indoor arena for venues like concerts? The organization is looking to preserve some of the historical edifices on the island by creative re-use, looking for private investors to buy in. When the US Government, actually President Bill Clinton specifically sold the island to New York State and New York City for a buck at the end of his term, they put certain conditions on both. One was no permanent residents, so it would not become like Roosevelt Island, it was to be public space. Each year they keep the island open a little long and open a little earlier. Shane said one of the goals is to get it to be a year around public space, national park.
Image captured on an Olympus E-5 using an Olympus Zuiko Digital ED 12-60mm F2.8-4.0 SWD lens on MeFoto tripod, because of the light coming through the windows the broad dynamic range this is an HDR of 3 images processed in Photomatix Pro and cleaned up in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.
New book! Epic Landscape Photography: The Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography!
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Working on a couple photography books! 45EPIC GODDESS PHOTOGRAPHY: A classic guide to exalting the archetypal woman. And 45EPIC Fine Art Landscape Photography!
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Greetings all! I have been busy finishing a few books on photography, while traveling all over--to Zion and the Sierras--shooting fall colors. Please see some here: facebook.com/mcgucken
Let me know in the comments if you would like a free review copy of one of my photography books! :)
Titles include:
The Tao of Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art with the Yin-Yang Wisdom of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography
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And I am also working on a book on photographing the goddesses! :) More goddesses soon!
Best wishes on your epic hero's odyssey!:)
I love voyaging forth into nature to contemplate poetry, physics, the golden ratio, and the Tao te Ching! What's your favorite epic poetry reflecting epic landscapes? I recently finished a book titled Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photographers:
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Did you know that John Muir, Thoreau, and Emerson all loved epic poetry and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, and Robert Burns?
I recently finished my fourth book on Light Time Dimension Theory, much of which was inspired by an autumn trip to Zion!
www.facebook.com/lightimedimensiontheory/
Via its simple principle of a fourth expanding dimension, LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
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First case detected in Wuhan, China on 17 November 2019 (Source: The Guardian UK).
The UK population has been asked by the government to practice social distancing to reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the population.
Social distancing is a set of nonpharmaceutical infection control actions intended to stop or slow down the spread of a contagious disease. The objective of social distancing is to reduce the probability of contact between persons carrying an infection, and others who are not infected, so as to minimize disease transmission, morbidity and ultimately, mortality. (Wikipedia).
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. – John Milton
Have you ever thought – in life we receive a lot more than we ever give. Yet, it is easy for us to remember about things we wanted but haven’t got yet, plans that were planned but haven’t worked out yet etc. But you just reading this, shows you are among the gifted – who got to learn to read, have the will to read, probably have the basic needs met and among the the ones who have WiFi or mobile with a data plan. If nothing else, just the probability of you even existing now at all comes out to 1 in 10 power 2,685,000. Basically, the odds you even exist is zero. Yet you exist.
Realize the miracle you are and yet how wonderfully insignificant you are. Be thankful… live… live a life filled with Gratitude :)
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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
One from my archive taken back in the summer of 2017.
Canon PowerShot SX160 IS
f/4
1640s
ISO 200
f/l 5mm
The monument consists of the remains of a pillow mound dating to the medieval period. A pillow mound is a pillow-shaped, flat topped rectangular mound surrounded by a shallow ditch used to farm rabbits. The three mounds remain, out of eleven on the common at Cefn Hirgoed. They are probably associated with the medieval moated site to the south and/or Coity Castle. Rabbits were a source of meat restricted largely to the higher social strata until the 16th or 17th centuries. Warrens were constructed away from arable crops and were devised to encourage nesting. Documentary sources suggest that rabbits were chased out by ferrets and caught in nets. Partial excavation of two mounds revealed that the mounds were formed of earth piled over a grid of stones laid on the earlier ground surface, forming a series of stone lined compartments.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of agricultural techniques. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Source: Cadw, Wales
Supa Luna, one day after. Yesterday, it was raining, but a cold clear sky let me capture it early this morning.
The large white spot north and slightly west of center is Copernicus. To its northwest is Kepler. Go farther north and back east above Copernicus is Aristarchus.
The image presented to us rotates 90 degrees and sometimes those 3 markings are on the side.
Man has pondered the moon for as long as it has been here. Some believe that man was here before the moon.
www.varchive.org/itb/sansmoon.htm
The probability of two things is the probability of each multiplied:
1. 1 rotation = 1 revolution, keeping the same face to us &
2. the apparent size is the same as the sun.
Multiply those tiny probabilities of each to see this thing is highly odd.
With one side always facing earth, what came from earth to cause the craters?
Why does Australia see the same face as New York at the same time??
Why isn't it seen before or after a solar eclipse??!!
Devastated to say I lost Thea on Tuesday. When I adopted her 6 months ago, I knew she had a heart murmur and there was a probability that her condition would deteriorate in time. However, I had still expected to be talking years rather than months, and that the monitoring I was doing would give some warning. Sadly it wasn't to be. She was taken ill suddenly on Tuesday and though I rushed her to the vets, there was ultimately nothing that could be done.
I may only have had her for 6 months, but she had become very much my adored little girl, and needless to say, I'm going to miss her greatly.
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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
New book! Epic Landscape Photography: The Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography!
www.facebook.com/epiclandscapephotography/
Join my new 45EPIC fine art landscapes page on facebook!
facebook.com/mcgucken
Working on a couple photography books! 45EPIC GODDESS PHOTOGRAPHY: A classic guide to exalting the archetypal woman. And 45EPIC Fine Art Landscape Photography!
More on my golden ratio musings: facebook.com/goldennumberratio
instagram.com/goldennumberratio
Greetings all! I have been busy finishing a few books on photography, while traveling all over--to Zion and the Sierras--shooting fall colors. Please see some here: facebook.com/mcgucken
Let me know in the comments if you would like a free review copy of one of my photography books! :)
Titles include:
The Tao of Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art with the Yin-Yang Wisdom of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography
facebook.com/goldennumberratio
And I am also working on a book on photographing the goddesses! :) More goddesses soon!
Best wishes on your epic hero's odyssey!:)
I love voyaging forth into nature to contemplate poetry, physics, the golden ratio, and the Tao te Ching! What's your favorite epic poetry reflecting epic landscapes? I recently finished a book titled Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photographers:
www.facebook.com/Epic-Poetry-for-Epic-Landscape-Photograp...
Did you know that John Muir, Thoreau, and Emerson all loved epic poetry and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, and Robert Burns?
I recently finished my fourth book on Light Time Dimension Theory, much of which was inspired by an autumn trip to Zion!
www.facebook.com/lightimedimensiontheory/
Via its simple principle of a fourth expanding dimension, LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
Follow me on instagram!
Join my new 45EPIC fine art landscapes page on facebook!
Pak Endut - one of the local guide to Kampung Naga, I prefer to address him as someone who look after the visitors- sat in front of me and talking about do and don't in his beloved village. First came out from my lips, "Why this beautiful village called 'Naga'?- Is that refer to a water serpent in [most] Asian countries named 'naga' or dragon? He smiles and I should interpret it by my own, that means no. Nothing to do with a water serpent legend!
Then a friend of mine, asking about the probability the terms of 'naga' might be derived from 'dina-gawir', taken from Sundanese, means 'nestled in the foothills'. He said so, based on a reference on the net. But Pak Endut is smiling again. -Maybe you might ask to the Chieftain,' finally he gives a 'clue'.
But what I had as an answer about this water serpent? None. Once again the Chieftain explain me, this name is not about the dragon.
The Rio-Antirrio bridge in Patra, Greece, formally named "Charilaos Trikoupis" bridge.
This bridge is widely considered to be an engineering masterpiece, owing to several solutions applied to span the difficult site. These difficulties include deep water, insecure materials for foundations, seismic activity, the probability of tsunamis, and the expansion of the Gulf of Corinth due to plate tectonics. (wikipedia)
Megastructures Megabridges Greece Rio Antirio Bridge (National Geographic)
Once a week, I try to take an hour for a longer sketch. At this place here, there is a bench and a high probability for sun in the late afternoon - today only a few minutes. The buildings, an ancient factory for big machines, belong to the university of berne.
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L'IA serait aussi potentiellement destructrice qu'une guerre nucléaire, pour certains acteurs de la tech !
« Réduire le risque d'extinction à cause de l'IA devrait être une priorité mondiale, au même titre que des risques de société comme les pandémies et la guerre nucléaire. »
Cette phrase lapidaire constitue l'intégralité du communiqué posté sur le site du Center for AI Safety, une organisation dont le but est de réduire les risques posés sur la société par le développement de l'IA.
Loin d'être la première du genre, son originalité est à chercher chez ses signataires. On y trouve les dirigeants d'Open AI, de la division DeepMind de chez Google, ou encore des chercheurs reconnus dans le domaine.
Espérons qu'ils trouveront les responsables de tout cela.
La probabilité qu'un événement grave, voire cataclysmique soit causé dans le futur par l'intelligence artificielle ne relève absolument pas de la science-fiction. Les risques, tant envisagés (deepfakes, manipulation des élections, perte de contrôle de systèmes d'armement, etc.) qu'encore inconnus sont pris très au sérieux par les chercheurs et autres acteurs du sujet. Au point de développer le concept de P(doom), qui symbolise la probabilité estimée par chacun que l'IA cause une extinction de l'humanité ou une autre catastrophe mondiale irréversible. Rares sont ceux qui placent leur P(doom) à moins de 10 %…
Le laboratoire OpenAI, dirigé par Sam Altman, a été créé en 2015 spécifiquement pour contrer les dérives des « mauvaises » IA, et était sans but lucratif. Ce dernier point a été rapidement abandonné à partir de 2019.
Quant au premier… cela reste à voir !!!
Enfin, il n'est peut-être pas inutile de rappeler que, comme il l'a lui-même expliqué dans une interview, Altman est un survivaliste.
Cela signifie qu'il a déjà préparé (armes et masques à gaz, entre autres) tout ce qui sera nécessaire à sa survie quand l'heure de l'Apocalypse aura sonné 😳
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AI would be as potentially destructive as nuclear war, for some tech players!
“Reducing the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority, along with societal risks like pandemics and nuclear war. »
This pithy sentence is the entire statement posted on the site of the Center for AI Safety, an organization whose goal is to reduce the risks posed to society by the development of AI.
Far from being the first of its kind, its originality is to be found among its signatories. There are the leaders of Open AI, the DeepMind division of Google, or even recognized researchers in the field.
Hopefully they find those responsible for all of this.
The probability that a serious, even cataclysmic event will be caused in the future by artificial intelligence is absolutely not science fiction. The risks, both considered (deepfakes, manipulation of elections, loss of control of weapon systems, etc.) and still unknown, are taken very seriously by researchers and other actors in the subject. To the point of developing the concept of P(doom), which symbolizes the probability estimated by everyone that AI will cause an extinction of humanity or another irreversible global catastrophe. Rare are those who place their P(doom) at less than 10%…
The OpenAI Lab, led by Sam Altman, was created in 2015 specifically to counter the abuses of "bad" AI, and was non-profit. This last point was quickly dropped from 2019.
As for the first… that remains to be seen !!!
Finally, it is perhaps worth remembering that, as he himself explained in an interview, Altman is a survivalist.
This means that he has already prepared (weapons and gas masks, among others) everything that will be necessary for his survival when the hour of the Apocalypse has come 😳
Certains se souviendront peut-être que j'ai mentionné que l'élan est mon animal préféré. Evidemment la probabilité de rencontrer un élan en Belgique est égale à zéro MDR et les élans que je "connais" sont uniquement sur des photos ou vidéos. Du coup, en rencontrer "en vrai", même dans un zoo a été un grand moment de bonheur.
Malheureusement photo à contre-jour, 2 autres photos en commentaire.
Some may remember that I mentioned the moose as my favourite animal. Obviously the probability of meeting a moose in Belgium is equal to zero LOL and the moose that I "know" are only on photos or videos. As a result, meeting them "in real life", even in a zoo, was a great moment of happiness.
Unfortunately backlight photo. 2 more photos in the comment field
...the clock ticks...decisions are made alone...somtimes the outcome is due to probability and chance...other times it is the culmination of reason and logic...but, always there are consequences...
NOTE: I INADVERTENTLY DELETED THIS PHOTOGRAPH WHILE TRYING TO DO SOME 'HOUSE CLEANING' AND I AM RE-POSTING IT. FORTUNATELY I ONLY PUT IT IN ONE GROUP. UNFORTUNATELY, A LOT OF PEOPLE FAVED IT...FOR THAT I APOLOGIZE!.. .THEREFORE, I'M STARTING OVER...'CHOICES & CONSEQUENCES'...HOW FITTING AND IRONIC...!!! ... PERFECT, REALLY...
Location:This shot was taken from the summit of Mount Washburn, (10,243 ft) looking south toward the Teton Range and overlooking the Yellowstone cauldera...From this vantage point you can essentially see the edges of the volcano that formed the Yellowstone Plateau. The obvious canyon that is to the left and in front of this perspective is the 'Grand Canyon', which forces a divide between two mountains and in nearly a straight line all the way to Warm Springs (below). It was said in 1870 by Gustavious Doane '...It's depth is so profound that the river bed is no where visible. No sound reaches the ear from the bottom of the abyss: the suns rays are reflected on the further wall and then lost in the darkness below...". I'd say that was exactly my impression when I took this photograph When I was there this storm was rolling in from the SE and it was spectacular....
At the National Museum of Computing, Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire
Colossus was a set of computers developed by British codebreakers in the years 1943–1945 to help in the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher. Colossus used thermionic valves to perform Boolean and counting operations. Colossus is thus regarded as the world's first programmable, electronic, digital computer, although it was programmed by switches and plugs and not by a stored program.
Colossus was designed by research telephone engineer Tommy Flowers to solve a problem posed by mathematician Max Newman at the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park. Alan Turing's use of probability in cryptanalysis contributed to its design. It has sometimes been erroneously stated that Turing designed Colossus to aid the cryptanalysis of the Enigma. Turing's machine that helped decode Enigma was the electromechanical Bombe, not Colossus.
The prototype, Colossus Mark 1, was shown to be working in December 1943 and was operational at Bletchley Park by January 1944. An improved Colossus Mark 2 that used shift registers to quintuple the processing speed, first worked on 1 June 1944, just in time for the Normandy landings on D-Day. Ten Colossi were in use by the end of the war and an eleventh was being commissioned. Bletchley Park's use of these machines allowed the Allies to obtain a vast amount of high-level military intelligence from intercepted radiotelegraphy messages between the German High Command and their army commands throughout occupied Europe.
The existence of the Colossus machines was kept secret until the mid-1970s; the machines and the plans for building them had previously been destroyed in the 1960s as part of the effort to maintain the secrecy of the project. This deprived most of those involved with Colossus of the credit for pioneering electronic digital computing during their lifetimes. A functioning rebuild of a Mark 2 Colossus was completed in 2008 by Tony Sale and some volunteers; it is on display at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park.
Construction of a fully functional rebuild of a Colossus Mark 2 was undertaken between 1993 and 2008 by a team led by Tony Sale. In spite of the blueprints and hardware being destroyed, a surprising amount of material survived, mainly in engineers' notebooks, but a considerable amount of it in the U.S. The optical tape reader might have posed the biggest problem, but Dr. Arnold Lynch, its original designer, was able to redesign it to his own original specification. The reconstruction is on display, in the historically correct place for Colossus No. 9, at The National Museum of Computing, in H Block Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.
In November 2007, to celebrate the project completion and to mark the start of a fundraising initiative for The National Museum of Computing, a Cipher Challenge pitted the rebuilt Colossus against radio amateurs worldwide in being first to receive and decode three messages enciphered using the Lorenz SZ42 and transmitted from radio station DL0HNF in the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum computer museum. The challenge was easily won by radio amateur Joachim Schüth, who had carefully prepared for the event and developed his own signal processing and code-breaking code using Ada. The Colossus team were hampered by their wish to use World War II radio equipment, delaying them by a day because of poor reception conditions. Nevertheless, the victor's 1.4 GHz laptop, running his own code, took less than a minute to find the settings for all 12 wheels. The German codebreaker said: "My laptop digested ciphertext at a speed of 1.2 million characters per second—240 times faster than Colossus. If you scale the CPU frequency by that factor, you get an equivalent clock of 5.8 MHz for Colossus. That is a remarkable speed for a computer built in 1944."
The Cipher Challenge verified the successful completion of the rebuild project. "On the strength of today's performance Colossus is as good as it was six decades ago", commented Tony Sale. "We are delighted to have produced a fitting tribute to the people who worked at Bletchley Park and whose brainpower devised these fantastic machines which broke these ciphers and shortened the war by many months."
Located at no. 5 Sattlertorstraße.
"Residential building, an extension of the town hall since 1900, so-called Frechshaus.
Three-story half-timbered building with heavily projecting upper floors, around 1500.
Forchheim (German pronunciation: [ˈfɔʁçhæɪ̯m]) is a town in Upper Franconia (German: Oberfranken) in northern Bavaria, and also the seat of the administrative district of Forchheim. Forchheim is a former royal city, and is sometimes called the Gateway to the Franconian Switzerland, referring to the region of outstanding natural beauty to the north east of the town. Nowadays Forchheim is most famous for its ten day long beer and music festival (Annafest) which takes place in late July in an idyllic wooded hillside, home to 24 beer gardens, on the outskirts of the town. Forchheim's population, as of December 2013, was 30,705, and its land area is 44.95 square kilometres (17.36 square miles). Its position is 49° 44' N, 11° 04' E and its elevation is 265 metres (869 feet) above sea level.
When the coat of arms was bestowed upon the town at the beginning of the 13th century, people wrongly believed that their town's name, "Vorchheim" originates from the Old High German word vorhe (“trout”). This resulted in the coat of arms showing two trout (above). Although the rivers around the town were certainly home to a great number of trout in those days, it seems likelier that the town's name was actually derived from the Old High German word vorha, forha (Föhre=“pine”). Hence, the name means “pine home” with a probability bordering on certainty.
The name most likely originates in the 7th century, when Frankish settlers first ensconced themselves in the region. They established many riverside towns with names ending in –heim.
Upper Franconia (German: Oberfranken) is a Regierungsbezirk (administrative [Regierungs] region [bezirk]) of the state of Bavaria, southern Germany. It forms part of the historically significant region of Franconia, the others being Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia, which are all now part of the German Federal State of Bayern (Bavaria).
With more than 200 independent breweries which brew approximately 1000 different types of beer, Upper Franconia has the world's highest brewery-density per capita. A special Franconian beer route (Fränkische Brauereistraße) runs through many popular breweries.
The administrative region borders on Thuringia (Thüringen) to the north, Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) to the west, Middle Franconia (Mittelfranken) to the south-west, and Upper Palatinate (Oberpfalz) to the south-east, Saxony (Sachsen) to the north-east and the Czech Republic to the east.
After the founding of the Kingdom of Bavaria the state was totally reorganized and, in 1808, divided into 15 administrative government regions (German: Regierungsbezirke (singular Regierungsbezirk)), in Bavaria called Kreise (singular: Kreis). They were created in the fashion of the French departements, quite even in size and population, and named after their main rivers.
In the following years, due to territorial changes (e. g. loss of Tyrol, addition of the Palatinate), the number of Kreise was reduced to 8. One of these was the Mainkreis (Main District). In 1837 king Ludwig I of Bavaria renamed the Kreise after historical territorial names and tribes of the area. This also involved some border changes or territorial swaps. Thus the name Mainkreis changed to Upper Franconia.
Next to the former episcopal residence city of Bamberg, the capital Bayreuth, the former residence city of Coburg and the classicist centre of Hof, as well as the towns of Lichtenfels, Kronach, Gößweinstein and Kulmbach, the Weißenstein Palace, Banz Abbey and the Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, the scenic attractions of the River Main and the low mountain ranges of the Fichtel Mountains with the town of Wunsiedel and the Franconian Forest belong among the region's major tourist attractions. There are also numerous spas like Bad Rodach, Bad Steben, Bad Staffelstein, Bad Berneck and Bad Alexandersbad.
" - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
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"Many and long were the conversations between Lord Byron and Shelley, to which I was a devout but nearly silent listener. During one of these, various philosophical doctrines were discussed, and among others the nature of the principle of life, and whether there was any probability of its ever being discovered and communicated.
They talked of the experiments of Dr. Darwin (I speak not of what the doctor really did, or said that he did, but, as more to my purpose, of what was then spoken of as having been done by him), who preserved a piece of vermicelli in a glass case, till by some extraordinary means it began to move with voluntary motion. Not thus, after all, would life be given. Perhaps a corpse would be reanimated; galvanism had given token of such things; perhaps the component parts of a creature might be manufactured, brought together, and endued with vital warmth.
Night waned upon this talk, and even the witching hour had gone by before we retired to rest. When I placed my head on my pillow, I did not sleep, nor could I be said to think. My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me, gifting the successive images that arose in my mind with a vividness far beyond the usual bound of reverie. I saw - with shut eyes, but acute mental vision - I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together; I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out; and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion.
Frightful must it be; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavour to mock the stupendous mechanism of the creator of the world. His success would terrify the artist; he would rush away from his odious handiwork, horror-stricken. He would hope that, left to itself, the slight spark of life which he had communicated would fade - that this thing, which had received such imperfect animation, would subside into dead matter, and he might sleep in the belief that the silence of the grave would quench for ever the transient existence of the hideous corpse which he had looked upon as the cradle of life. He sleeps, but he is awakened; he opens his eyes, behold the horrid thing stands at his bedside, opening his curtains, and looking on him with yellow, watery, but speculative eyes! I opened mine in terror.
The idea so possessed my mind that a thrill of terror ran through me, and I wished to exchange the ghastly image of my fancy for the realities around. I see them still. The very room, dark parquet, the closed shutters, with the moonlight struggling through, and the sense I had that the glassy lake and white high Alps were beyond. I could not so easily get rid of my hideous phantom; still it haunted me. I must try to think of something else.
I returned to my ghost story - my tiresome unlucky ghost story! O! if I could only contrive one which would frighten my reader as I myself had been frightened that night! Swift as light and as cheering was the idea that broke in upon me. "I have found it! What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow."
On the morrow I announced that I had thought of a story. I began that day with the words, it was on a dreary night of November, making only a transcript of the grim terrors of my waking dream. At first I thought but of a few pages - of a short tale; but Shelley urged me to develop the idea at greater length. I certainly did not owe the suggestion of one incident, nor scarcely of one train of feeling, to my husband, and yet but for his incitement it would never have taken the form in which it was presented to the world."
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Preface to the Colburn & Bentley edition
A collaboration between goat transforming into a cathedral
and myself.
Inspired by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's "Frankenstein"
The great 20th-century physicist Richard Feynman said that the double-slit experiment “has in it the heart of quantum mechanics,” and “is impossible, absolutely impossible, to explain in any classical way.”
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One of the most frustrating spots in England for steam train photography. By this time, steam was confined to freight, and workings were extremely few. The probability of sunshine with a train was also very low in this high Penine location.
Image and caption from a large album by an unknown photographer.
The caption refelcts the fact that the sun was just off the front of the train! However this is one of the better images around of this fantastic structure, bult from cast iron in the 1850's, on the over-ambitious trans-pennine line from Castle Barnard to Tebay. Closed 1962.
>>> A recent roll of processed film that remains a bit mysterious. Well, it's been sitting around for quite some time, and being mostly single exposures, it seems to have been in all probability set aside for collaboration [my old CPP experiment]. The mystery starts with not recalling the camera used, which is mundane (again, it's been a long time, and the cannister was unmarked ;), but is more engaging just looking at this image... I obviously don't know with any certainty, but don't believe that I had this result in mind when shooting this. A time capsule surprise, a photo I might actually like if the evidence didn't so directly implicate me as the perpetrator. ;-}
Thank you for taking a look. Prost.
Penrhos or Brymbo Colliery (Grade II* Listed) dates from the 18th Century. It was established by John “Iron Mad” Wilkinson who along with his brother William owned the nearby Brymbo Ironworks.
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In 1792 Wilkinson purchased Brymbo Hall and its 500-acre estate from the Assheton-Smith family for the sum of £14,000, some of which may have been lent by Boulton and Watt.
The estate was rich in coal and ironstone deposits, several small coal pits having existed even before Wilkinson purchased the estate.
Penrhos Engine house was constructed shortly afterwards and is believed to have housed a Boulton and Watt beam engine.
Colliery coal was believed to have been used at Wilkinson’s Ironworks and the local lead smelter that refined ore from lead mines in the area.
Steam for the engine was created in an adjacent boiler house which stood on the north side of the site.
The engine continued in use until circa 1840 when the engine house was converted into a residence. At this time two domestic brick chimneys were inserted and remain visible today.
The remains of a building adjacent to the engine house is believed to have housed a pig stye and bread oven.
The building, believed to be the oldest mine engine house in Wales, remains are of national importance for its potential to enhance knowledge of mining in Wales. The site retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits. The structure itself may be expected to contain archaeological information concerning chronology and building techniques. It is a grade II* listed structure.
...of precipitation at lunchtime! And yes,I got wet! Again! Yesterday, showers were forecast during that time and it was sunny! ;-)
Ho-hum! What a lovely summer!
Upton Magna - Shropshire
Details of water cooled copper coils as part of the MOLLER Experiment is seen inside the SRF Test Lab at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Wednesday, May 9, 2024. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)
The Measurement of a Lepton-Lepton Electroweak Reaction (MOLLER) experiment proposes to measure the parity-violating asymmetry in electron-electron (Møller) scattering. The measurement will be carried out at Jefferson Laboratory's state-of-the-art accelerator by rapidly flipping the longitudinal polarization of electrons that have been accelerated to 11 GeV and observing the resulting fractional difference in the probability of these electrons scattering off atomic electrons in a liquid hydrogen target. This asymmetry is proportional to the weak charge of the electron, which in turn is a function of the electroweak mixing angle, a fundamental parameter of the electroweak theory. The accuracy of the proposed measurement allows for a low energy determination of the mixing angle with precision on par with the two best measurements at electron-positron colliders.
I keep telling myself that getting that killer sunrise is a numbers game, a bit like roulette, red and black, but with a few additional tones in between.
I've been betting red, (obvs!) but chance is very much in black terroritory at the moment.
Saltwick Bay did hint at a lucky gamble... but the result? Even money I reckon.
Thanks for looking :)
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Greetings mate! I love voyaging forth into nature to contemplate poetry, physics, the golden ratio, and the Tao te Ching! What's your favorite epic poetry reflecting epic landscapes? I recently finished a book titled Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photographers:
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Did you know that John Muir, Thoreau, and Emerson all loved epic poetry and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, and Robert Burns?
I recently finished my fourth book on Light Time Dimension Theory, much of which was inspired by an autumn trip to Zion!
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Via its simple principle of a fourth expanding dimension, LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
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Best wishes on your epic hero's odyssey!:)
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Sunset
Cincinnati, Ohio
5 Image HDR
Image is featured on the cover of the Capture Cincinnati IV coffee table book.
A series of storms moved through Friday evening and I witnessed one of the most unusual clouds I've ever seen, believe me, I wasn't happy I didn't have my camera with me. So when I got home and the rain had come to an end I noticed there was a high probability of a good looking sunset and my other half and myself headed up to Mt. Adams and get some shots of the unfolding scene. My, what drama we had in store for us.
Manchester's Peregrine Falcon (Falco Peregrinus) (male) with prey. I watched this bird land on a building but on a part which meant it was out of sight. I stood on a wall to get as high as possible and waited for the bird to emerge. Peregrines can take a long time to butcher their prey items and it took this one about 3/4s of an hour before I saw it emerge with the prey item. I sometimes question if I made the right decision to stand on the wall because it meant that I could not turn around for what would in all probability be just another back shot. The bird on this occasion attempted a very low food pass to a juvenile so I missed the shot. So there you go, you live by the decisions you make.
I might add that the pass was not successful.
LO SCRIBA ROSSO.
Lo Scriba rosso o Scriba seduto è uno dei più importanti esempi di arte egizia dell'Antico Regno. Si tratta di una statua in pietra calcarea dipinta raffigurante uno scriba all'opera. La scultura venne scoperta a nord del Corridoio delle Sfingi del Serapeo di Saqqara nel novembre 1850 dall'egittologo francese Auguste Mariette. Attualmente fa parte della collezione di antichità egiziane del Louvre ed è la più celebre di una serie di «scribi» tra cui è anche famoso quello del Museo del Cairo.
Lo Scriba rosso, alto circa 54 cm, indossa un gonnellino bianco teso sulle ginocchia e tra le mani trattiene un papiro semiarrotolato. Le mani sono in posizione di scrittura e con tutta probabilità la destra teneva un pennello, oramai perduto. Mani, dita e unghie della scultura sono finemente modellate, tanto da farle sembrare perfette.
Per realizzare i capezzoli sono state applicate sull'ampio petto due piccole borchie di legno.
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THE RED SCRIBE.
The Red Scribe or Seated Scribe is one of the most important examples of Egyptian art of the Old Kingdom. It is a painted limestone statue depicting a scribe at work. The sculpture was discovered north of the Sphinx Corridor of the Saqqara Serapeum in November 1850 by the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette. It is currently part of the Louvre's collection of Egyptian antiquities and is the most famous of a series of "scribes" among which the one of the Cairo Museum is also famous.
The red Scribe, about 54 cm tall, wears a white skirt stretched over his knees and holds a semi-rolled papyrus in his hands. The hands are in a writing position and in all probability the right held a brush, now lost. Hands, fingers and nails of the sculpture are finely modeled, so that they look perfect.
To make the nipples, two small wooden studs were applied to the broad chest.
Informazioni tratte da "Wikipedia" l'enciclopedia libera.
CANON EOS 600D con ob. SIGMA 10-20 f./4-5,6 EX DC HSM
An hour earlier, I stood on top of Coltraiseal Beag, overlooking the southernmost tract of the sprawling Loch Ròg, generally not expecting the day to get much better. I'd climbed the hill with a new paraglider that I really needed to take out for a proper thermic flight so that I could decide whether it handled in a way I'd enjoy if I kept it, but the weather didn't appear to be working in my favour. A perfect 'street' of clouds had formed, starting almost above my head and extending for miles, like an aerial spine, north through the heart of the island. If I were soaring near them I'd be almost guaranteed to remain there, harnessing the converging, rising air caused by sea-breeze from both east and west coasts being drawn in to replace the warm air that was being cooked off the land in the sun; the problem was, getting off the ground in the first place. No wind, or a little puff in an awkward direction, and most of the land below the hill in the shadow of the very clouds that I desperately wanted to be climbing underneath, left me resigned to the probability of my vertical journey only having one direction. The sun did break through, but yet there was no wind, not even a cycle of a thermal rolling up the face of the hill. Frustrated by the midgies, and overheating in the sun, I took off my down jacket, packed it in my harness, then clipped back in ready for the 'sled-run' back to the car. Finally, a breeze rolled up the hill; at least now my short flight wouldn't have to start with a clumsy sprint across rocky and uneven ground. As I pulled on the wing to kite it into the breeze, I realised it was a strong gust, and before I knew it I was airbourne. The assessment of the grace of the launch was dismissed quickly as I realised it might just be possible to soar a little after all.
Ten minutes of searching the face of the hill for lift paid off, and ten minutes later again, I found myself popping out of the side of a cloud here, 1200m above Loch Ròg. To the west, I looked down on clouds that had formed below me, ode to the dampness of the air nearer the coast, and surveyed a view out to the Atlantic Ocean. To the south-west the unmistakeable profile of St Kilda loomed on the horizon; to the north and west the islands and coastline Loch Ròg and the south-west Lewis coast were laid out before me, and below my feet; to the north-east the moorland of Lewis extended seemingly endlessly; and to the south-east, the mountains of Harris competed with the profiles of Skye and Wester Ross for my attention.
Now in air 10 degrees cooler than the top of the hill, compounded by soaring through the damp air in the shadow of the base of the clouds, I was simultaeneously elated at where I was, and shivering at being in an effective termperature close to zero degrees, with nothing more than a thin wool top on. And so it was but a brief visit to the Hebridean heavens, but now I've seen what's possible I know I'll be back to explore more of it..
This view looks along Loch Ròg Beag, below, with Great Bernerary half in sun a little in from the right of the frame. The beach in the distance near the centre of the frame is Traigh na Berigh, and a little bit of Traigh Uige can be seen at the far left of the frame. I'll tag some of the places of interest on the photo once uploaded.
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One song can spark a moment
One flower can wake the dream
One tree can start a forest
One bird can herald spring
One smile begins a friendship
One handclasp lifts a soul
One star can guide a ship at sea
One word can frame the goal
One vote can change a nation
One sunbeam lights a room
One candle wipes out darkness
One laugh will conquer gloom
One step must start each journey
One word must start each prayer
One hope will raise our spirits
One touch can show you care
One voice can speak with wisdom
One heart can know what's true
One life can make the difference
You see, it's up to you!!
Take care and let us be as one ;) Car xx
Today's Carsounds- Bob Marley - One Love
This surface is planar and horizontal. There's a lineation from upper right to lower left; a record of the prevailing weather; perhaps? Something has lined up the black bits. The surface itself is grus — weathered granite. Now we're getting somewhere!
Underlying all this, on a regional scale, are soils weathered from the deep sea sediments of the Pittman Formation. This grus is evidently not in situ!
Until roughly thirty years ago, this was impoverished and unproductive farmland. It couldn't have paid for the transport of grus on the scale of the roads it now paves. But when the leasehold land was resumed by Government, public resources could.
Wait! What's that? There's a plastic bag weathering out of the compacted surface. Here's where stratigraphy meets hypothesis. If it is improbable that anyone would scratch away at the compacted road surface to bury a plastic bag, then it must be older or contemporaneous with the laying down of the grus!
Alarmingly, here's an evidently 30+ years old piece of plastic garbage, slowly fragmenting and scattering into the environment. This is how we'll be remembered — as stratigraphic markers in the Anthropocene …a.k.a. the Plasticene Epoch.
A tractor scrapes a dusty field in Leduc County.
Over the next two weeks, Environment and Climate Change Canada forecasts a low probability of significant rainfall throughout the driest regions of the Prairies. There was no rainfall in April in the Edmonton region that I remember or that I can find recorded. With little to no spring runoff, on-farm water supplies are very low, forcing some producers to begin to haul water for farm operations.
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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.
- Josh
Dictionary may defines luck as being an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event, good or ill, to result in a person’s life. I tend to disagree with this definition. I define luck as simply being the end result of consistent, persistent effort towards a meaningful goal.
Did not get the point. Let me make the things more clear. Imagine you’re holding a Gun and you’re pointing it at a target 100 yards down range. Unless you’re an expert marksman, there’s only a small statistical probability that you’re going to hit the bulls eye the first time. But if you keep firing and correcting your aim, the law of statistical probability dictates that eventually you must hit the bull’s-eye. Creating luck in your life obeys the same law of statistical probability—if you keep performing actions that lead towards your goal, eventually you are going to reach that goal. So luck in life is guaranteed, you just have to be willing to try enough times.
So let me boil down this into some simple rules.
Identify your target and keep firing & Believe that you are lucky.
Taken: a hundred year old double barreled shotgun of my friend's grandfather, in hand of my friend and me practicing some Depth of Field.
As pretty and tranquil as Whiteman's Valley is, this Wreck was a rather sad sight to come across the other day.
Twenty-four hours earlier, this was no doubt someone's pride and joy,. It could have been their first car, and they might have spent all their savings buying it... In all probability, the Owner has been left feeling violated, cheated, robbed and upset - and maybe with no way of either getting to their new job, or getting to a crucial school exam...!
It was a very sad sight indeed...!
I've got some work to do before Sunday, so if you don't hear from me over the next few days, be assured: I'm ok but busy trying to write something that might be inspirational...!
Keep well everyone, and thanks for taking the time and the trouble to leave a Comment...! It's always nice to hear from you, and your comments are always greatly appreciated...!
Some Words..
That August afternoon I was out to shoot some seascapes during sunset.
I had heard the weather forecast the night before and I was expecting a lot of clouds and maybe some rain (I also had in mind the probability of a storm) but to be honest, I hadn't imagined something like this !
Anyway, I drove to a nearby beach just after 18.00 (local time) and took a place down to the sand, having my tripod in front of me with my camera on it.
And very soon the weather went crazy. The strong wind bring closer some menacing clouds and the thunderstorm party began, with me watching breathless in the front seat !
Wow ! Just wow ! It was an amazing experience !
Technique
Damn, I hate saying it, but for this type of shooting, I always shoot Raw...
Nikon D800 has an amazing dynamic range and when you shoot raw, you simply get the best out of it..
So, to continue, I didn't use any special gadget to catch the lightning. It was all about timing.
I found a nice looking scene, set the White balance to cloudy to warm things up and started to “count”..
You see, I had to count the time between lightnings to find what was the "interval" and when I found it, it was just a matter of time to catch a lightning with my camera.
Christophe Anagnostopoulos
Not posted for a while, sorry. Have now joined Instagram, so have been posting on there for a bit to get used to it. I will be using both Flickr and IG but probability have some different photos on each one.
These photos are from last week where I got the chance to be Ann for 5 days, so went on some adventurers. The first image is my arrival back home from the cinema to see Downton Abbey (bit of a fan) then poped into the Crown LGBTQ pub. The other two photos are my travels up to Leeds to do some shopping.
Hankyu Electric Railway Co., Ltd.: this company operates a powerful network of suburban railways around Ōsaka, of just over 140 km, which transports about 1.7 million daily travelers. For this, the railway has just over 1,300 vehicles, which normally form EMUs of eight cars, all of them painted in the characteristic garnet color that, in my opinion, makes them the most elegant trains in Japan.
On board an Express train of the Takarazuka Main Line to Ōsaka Umeda, we can observe the driver following the safety procedure pointing and calling (shisa kanko), for avoiding mistakes by pointing at important indicators and calling out the status. It has been shown that the probability of occurrence of errors or accidents at work is significantly reduced by applying this procedure.
Like all the drivers of Japan, our protagonist follows the procedure closely, with a really admirable concentration in his. (No less Japanese and admirable is the impeccable uniform).