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Zulu Traditional Male Ethnic Dancing at Shakaland Village Shaka Zulu Kraal Cultural Replication of a Zulu “Umuzi” or Homestead Normanhurst Farm Nkwalini Kwazulu-Natal South Africa May 1998
The 3D model: www.thingiverse.com/thing:11705
The 3D printer: bit.ly/1sJQB0d
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These images show the unboxing and setup of the MakerBot Replicator 2 personal 3D printer.
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Zulu Traditional Male Ethnic Dancing at Shakaland Village Shaka Zulu Kraal Cultural Replication of a Zulu “Umuzi” or Homestead Normanhurst Farm Nkwalini Kwazulu-Natal South Africa May 1998
Experimental adjustable drive block for the Replicator 2X extruder. The purpose of this design is to allow the operator to fine-tune the pressure applied to the filament by the idler ball bearing.
The 3D-files: www.thingiverse.com/thing:267394
Instructions: bit.ly/1eaYi3p
The 3D-printer: bit.ly/1ehTaKU
Zulu Traditional Male Ethnic Dancing at Shakaland Village Shaka Zulu Kraal Cultural Replication of a Zulu “Umuzi” or Homestead Normanhurst Farm Nkwalini Kwazulu-Natal South Africa May 1998
After successfully replicating a LUT that I liked from another image processing program, I realized it might work well on some photos I took last May around the Perigord Noir region of France.
From a message shared with a friend here on Flickr -
RawTherapee is free - rawtherapee.com/
You'll need to add Pat David's HaldCLUT film emulation collection - rawpedia.rawtherapee.com/Film_Simulation
Relatedly, if you already use the Gimp (see: www.gimp.org/ ) their most recent versions include 32bit floating-point color-space precision settings. I've been waiting 18 years for this (which is why I went with RawTherapee some years back as it was built to have a large color space to work in).
To get film emulation and some other interesting LUTs into the Gimp, check out G'Mic - patdavid.net/2013/08/film-emulation-presets-in-gmic-gimp/
G'Mic site - gmic.eu/
Neuroscience Prof. Anil Seth argues that conscious human intelligence is tightly coupled to our living, biological substrate, not replicable or simulatable in silicon. Here are some of my reactions to his thought-provoking piece:
If human intelligence and consciousness is substrate dependent, as asserted, even down to individual neurons being irreplaceable by silicon substrates, then some precise and strong claims emerge: uploading human consciousness to a new substrate (as referenced in the article) would not be possible, and the BCI companies should not be able to augment the core of human intelligence. This would have profound implications on the possibility of “humanity” going along for the ride of exponential progress in AI.
(As an aside, it’s far more likely that our biology is left behind, and building an AI that exceeds human intelligence will likely happen before we fully understand the brains we have. It’s easier to build a new one than reverse engineer the complex product of an iterative algorithm like evolution, cortical pruning, or neural net development. The locus of learning shifts to the process, not the product of development.)
Let me lend further evidence to the article’s claim that neural complexity vastly exceeds the neural net abstractions of current AI, and that human intelligence may be substrate dependent. At the high level of the connectome, the average adult has 1000 input synapses to each neuron, and a newborn baby has 10,000. Silicon chips do not have enough metal layers to implement this level of fan-in per gate. And these connections are dynamic; 90% are pruned in childhood development, and neurons that fire together wire together in a dynamic and ongoing remapping over time. Pure, detailed biomimicry of the brain in mainstream CMOS silicon may be impossible, for now and the foreseeable future. Dynamic interconnect is the issue, and it may require a fully 3D, fluid, low power substrate. Like the brain. And it might take some of the special chemical properties of carbon to capture the richness (I wondered about this in 2005)
On the other end of the spectrum, the complexity of the neuron vastly exceeds a simple sigmoid voting circuit or digital gate abstraction. Ion channels activate like a bucket brigade down each synapse. HIV-like particles and endogenous cannabinoids may play a role in nearest neighbor interactions outside the synapse. The extra-cellular matrix, like the potting soil outside the neuron, relaxes in a long series of critical periods of childhood development, and under the influence of psychedelics, changing the neuroplasticity for interconnect changes. And the neuron types may be vastly more varied that the observable phenotypic buckets (pyramidal, mirror neurons, etc.). MIT’s Ed Boyden believes that the gene expression of each neuron is unique — literally billions of different neuron types.
But, even if human intelligence and consciousness are fully substrate dependent, it does not follow that human-level intelligence is impossible with a different substrate. We may have only one existence proof from biological evolution, but that does not imply exclusivity in the space of possibilities. The substrate of our brains is not very different from less intelligent animals; our unique advancement came from layering on more self-similar cortex — not a better substrate but more of it.
There is much of our substrate that is unique from its evolutionary origins and as a way to make the most of it – it’s quite a miracle that meat can think at all… and do math and compute, even if we choose not to. We can imagine a certain percentage of our substrate is for basic metabolic support and garbage collection and not fundamentally essential for the thinking at hand, when abstracted at the right level. It’s like the power supply implementation of a computer not being essential to the computation architecture itself. Some portion of the genetic code in each neuron is a vestigial passenger from viral transposons of the past.
It’s safe to say that some fraction of our substrate is critical to the architecture of intelligence, and the critical exercise of biomimicry is to figure out the right level of abstraction, the right level of detail, if we wish to follow a similar path in a different substrate.
The critique of current AI approaches as falling short with an over-simplistic simplification may be correct, but not insurmountable. Or the shortcomings could be a vestige of the architecture and process of training the LLMs of today. A number of the AI advances of the past decade were focused on Reinforcement Learning. It was Deep Mind’s initial focus. There has been a revival of late, with some like Yann LeCun arguing that LLMs will never get us there… but RL will. We have believed for many years that the future of AI compute will be analog in-memory compute, as implemented in Mythic chips, and the brain. Some believe it will require an embodied intelligence interacting with the world of physical AI. Jeff Hawkins is working on a memory prediction architecture arguing that the brain is not a computer at all (and perhaps the qualia of consciousness is the merely the retrospective sensemaking of predictions occurring continuously at all layers of the cortex). Perhaps we will need a coincidence detector for asynchronous circuits to mimic the fire-together/wire-together paradigm (perhaps with reversible-computing resonators). Perhaps a neurosymbolic hybrid will bear fruit in mimicking different brain regions distinctly. Perhaps we will need a series of critical periods, like human children, with a path dependence on the sequencing of neural net training. There are many possibilities and exciting work to come, a Cambrian explosion of sorts, exploring different abstractions of architecture and processes of training.
While we humans want to feel special, unique, and central to the future, it does not make it so. One day, we will have a more advanced non-human intelligence that is conscious. That will happen quite simply by considering the next million years of continued biological evolution, with a selection function that rewards intelligence. To argue otherwise is to argue that homo sapiens are somehow the endpoint of evolution. Evolution does not suddenly end, even if we wish it to. The biological substrate of our successor species will likely be similar to ours, as the primary vector of evolutionary progress operates most rapidly at the highest level of abstraction. The open question is whether non-biological evolutionary algorithms will usher in non-biological intelligence that is superhuman and conscious in a handful of years if we are pursuing the right level of abstraction for conscious intelligence or maybe decades if we need to explore radically different analogs to our analog meat minds.
— Anil Seth is the director of the Centre for Consciousness Science at the University of Sussex. Here is his article in Noema
Zulu Traditional Male Ethnic Dancing at Shakaland Village Shaka Zulu Kraal Cultural Replication of a Zulu “Umuzi” or Homestead Normanhurst Farm Nkwalini Kwazulu-Natal South Africa May 1998
Experimental adjustable drive block for the Replicator 2X extruder. The purpose of this design is to allow the operator to fine-tune the pressure applied to the filament by the idler ball bearing.
The 3D-files: www.thingiverse.com/thing:267394
Instructions: bit.ly/1eaYi3p
The 3D-printer: bit.ly/1ehTaKU
Experimental adjustable drive block for the Replicator 2X extruder. The purpose of this design is to allow the operator to fine-tune the pressure applied to the filament by the idler ball bearing.
The 3D-files: www.thingiverse.com/thing:267394
Instructions: bit.ly/1eaYi3p
The 3D-printer: bit.ly/1ehTaKU
www.goalfinder.com/product.asp?productid=151
Watch various movie clips related to Virus Replication. These are 1) Virus Attachment 2) Virus Penetration 3) Virus Uncoating 4) Virus synthesis 5) Virus Assembly Maturation 6) Virus Release 7) Virus Complete Reproductive cycle (replication)
World's first movies on bird flu - This is the first part of bird flu the virus - This animated, 45 minute, movie arms you with detailed information on virus, it answers those questions that had been bothering you but did not know whom to ask?, like how can a "bird virus" infect human beings, How can the virus jump from chicken to humans? If this H5N1 virus has been present since 1997, why is there no medicine or vaccine available even today to fight it?
www.goalfinder.com/product.asp?productid=151
Watch various movie clips related to Virus Replication. These are 1) Virus Attachment 2) Virus Penetration 3) Virus Uncoating 4) Virus synthesis 5) Virus Assembly Maturation 6) Virus Release 7) Virus Complete Reproductive cycle (replication)
World's first movies on bird flu - This is the first part of bird flu the virus - This animated, 45 minute, movie arms you with detailed information on virus, it answers those questions that had been bothering you but did not know whom to ask?, like how can a "bird virus" infect human beings, How can the virus jump from chicken to humans? If this H5N1 virus has been present since 1997, why is there no medicine or vaccine available even today to fight it?
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These images show the unboxing and setup of the MakerBot Replicator 2 personal 3D printer.
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Dessa bilder visar uppackningen och igångsättning av MakerBot Replicator 3D-skrivare.
BOXPOP® REPLICATES HARRY’S HOUSE
Austin, Texas
situation
You may be familiar with Harry Styles. Former boyband member turned soloist debonair popstar. Performer with a magnetizing presence on and off the stage. Conductor of electrifying concerts to sold-out arenas. That Harry Styles. Having just released a highly acclaimed studio album, and currently in the midst of a whirlwind world tour, it could be said that Mr. Styles is enjoying a moment of unprecedented global popularity. One prominent stop of this continent-trekking tour was the Moody Center in Austin, TX this October. A town renowned for its own eclectic fair, this sold out arena was packed to the brim with the Styles faithful. Often camping out the day (or days) before gates opened, once admitted into the arena, there were hours of downtime for fans before Harry would take the stage. Hoping to occupy the time and attentions of devoted concertgoers, Hannah Baker of the Moody Center concocted an interactive set piece in miniature. Looking to recreate scenes from Style’s music videos, the Moody Center entrusted BoxPop® and the Britten Events team to replicate Harry’s House into an experiential event that would promote fan engagement and let them envision themselves as extras on a Harry Styles music video production.
solution
The Britten team started with a 20-foot single container as the template for this set design. A drop stage door was cut and installed along the container length, allowing the full interior to be viewed and utilized. Next a finished partition was framed through the center of the container, creating two juxtaposed sets that could be viewed simultaneously. On the right was a finished bedroom scene, complete with brooding navy floral wallpaper, a clean white coiffured accent wall, complete with installed flooring. This bedroom set was later staged with furnishings to round out the retro inspired, cozy aesthetic interior. The left side was a true spectacle. Drawing direct inspiration from the Harry’s House album cover, the team recreated an inverted living room scene. Complete with a fully carpeted ceiling with lounge chair, midcentury modern couch, and end table with lamp mounted upside down, the result was an upending experience that paid close homage to the album artwork. Accented with a groovy, amorphous meld of vibrant sherbet oranges, sweet reds, and bubblegum pinks, the exterior of the container was befitting of the 70’s inspired, forward blended palette and aesthetic of Harry Styles himself.
impact
The result was a widely popular space for Styles fans to photograph and experience. Inserting themselves into either half of the presentation, concertgoers could envision one another as cast members within the highly curated world of a Harry’s House reality. Perfect for selfie’s along with actual interaction with the set pieces, it was an immediate draw for fans who sought to deepen their concert experience and was a magnetizing focal point for entrants looking for something to do before the show. A substantial addition for the Moody Center venue, this curated portable set piece was a highly successful element of fan engagement, connecting individuals with the mood and vision of Style’s new album, and helped to enrich the concertgoing experience.
Experimental adjustable drive block for the Replicator 2X extruder. The purpose of this design is to allow the operator to fine-tune the pressure applied to the filament by the idler ball bearing.
The 3D-files: www.thingiverse.com/thing:267394
Instructions: bit.ly/1eaYi3p
The 3D-printer: bit.ly/1ehTaKU
Zulu Traditional Male Ethnic Dancing at Shakaland Village Shaka Zulu Kraal Cultural Replication of a Zulu “Umuzi” or Homestead Normanhurst Farm Nkwalini Kwazulu-Natal South Africa May 1998
Experimental adjustable drive block for the Replicator 2X extruder. The purpose of this design is to allow the operator to fine-tune the pressure applied to the filament by the idler ball bearing.
The 3D-files: www.thingiverse.com/thing:267394
Instructions: bit.ly/1eaYi3p
The 3D-printer: bit.ly/1ehTaKU
The idea of replicating one of these posters came to my mind a few days ago and today I remembered and went for it.
For those who don't know: The guy on this photo is me. ;)
I think it came out pretty cool.
What do you think of it?
Have a nice sunday.
Strobist info: 1x 560II front, 45° down, shoot-thru umbrella, triggered with 602's
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Zulu Traditional Male Ethnic Dancing at Shakaland Village Shaka Zulu Kraal Cultural Replication of a Zulu “Umuzi” or Homestead Normanhurst Farm Nkwalini Kwazulu-Natal South Africa May 1998
Experimental adjustable drive block for the Replicator 2X extruder. The purpose of this design is to allow the operator to fine-tune the pressure applied to the filament by the idler ball bearing.
The 3D-files: www.thingiverse.com/thing:267394
Instructions: bit.ly/1eaYi3p
The 3D-printer: bit.ly/1ehTaKU
Clashing Knights. Jousting. Maryland Renaissance Festival. Sep/2016
Jousting is a martial game or hastilude between two horsemen wielding lances with blunted tips, often as part of a tournament. The primary aim was to replicate a clash of heavy cavalry, with each opponent endeavoring to strike the opponent while riding towards him at high speed, if possible breaking the lance on the opponent's shield or jousting armour, or unhorsing him. The joust became an iconic characteristic of the knight in Romantic medievalism.
The term is derived from Old French joster, ultimately from a Late Latin infare "to approach, to meet". The word was loaned into Middle English around 1300, when jousting was a very popular sport among the Anglo-Norman knighthood. The synonym tilt dates ca. 1510.
Jousting is based on the military use of the lance by heavy cavalry. It transformed into a specialised sport during the Late Middle Ages, and remained popular with the nobility in England and Wales and Germany throughout the whole of the 16th century (while in France, it was discontinued after the death of King Henry II in an accident in 1559).[1] In England, jousting was the highlight of the Accession Day tiltsof Elizabeth I and James I, and also was part of the festivities at the marriage of Charles I.[2]
Jousting was discontinued in favour of other equestrian sports in the 17th century, although non-contact forms of "equestrian skill-at-arms" disciplines survived. There has been a limited revival of theatrical jousting re-enactment since the 1970s
The Maryland Renaissance Festival is a Renaissance fair located in Crownsville, Maryland.
Source: Wikipedia
Justa é um desporto jogado por dois cavaleiros com armaduras montados em cavalos. Consiste numa competição marcial entre doiscavaleiros montados, usando uma variedade de armas, geralmente em grupos de três por arma (como a inclinação com um lança, os golpes com machados, ou os golpes com a espada), entre outros, muitas vezes, como parte de um torneio.[1]
A justa foi um jogo marcial na Idade Média, sendo necessário ter uma habilidade muito grande para praticar este desporto. Embora o primeiro torneio foi feito em 1066, a justa não ganhou popularidade generalizada até o século XII. É mantido o seu estatuto como um desporto popular europeu até ao início do século XVII.
A justa foi incorporada em torneios vários séculos após a sua estreia. O torneio permitiu uma melhor exibição da habilidade individual e, embora perigosa, ofereceram grandes somas de dinheiro do prémio. Muitos cavaleiros fizeram a sua fortuna com esses eventos, enquanto muitos perderam a fortuna ou mesmo a vida. Por exemplo, Henrique II da França morreu quando uma lança do seu adversário atravessou a sua viseira e a quebrou em fragmentos, cegando o olho direito e penetrando na sua órbita direita e têmpora. 1. As Justas eram disputadas entre dois cavaleiros, convenientemente revestidos de pesadas armaduras e protegidos por escudos especiais.Eram torneios realizados em terra plana, onde os combatentes tinham de ter uma boa preparação física e as suas armas bem preparadas. Eles empunhavam pesadíssimas lanças de ferro.
Fonte: Wikipedia
Posing with my para car a couple of years ago..
Now trying a similar pose with my car!!
Not quite the same!! 😅
But taken at almost the same spot in Loxley Sheffield..
So now time for a bit more NHS/YAS stuff again!!
Been retired a year and a bit, so been there and done that!!
CFR-ing is a volunteer roll, no dosh.
Have to use own car, (can claim milage) no blue lights or speeding either!!
www.yas.nhs.uk/get-involved/volunteer-with-us/community-f...
Our Community First Responder (CFR) scheme is a life-saving partnership with local communities. As authorised volunteers CFRs form teams across Yorkshire to help reduce the number of pre-hospital deaths.
Our CFRs are trained to provide life-saving treatment to patients in the vital first few minutes of an emergency until our ambulance crew arrives. If effective treatment is provided quickly, lives can be saved and disability reduced. This is especially true for heart attacks and medical conditions which have caused someone to lose consciousness.
When a 999 call is received in our Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), an ambulance response is dispatched. At the same time, a CFR on-call in the area can be alerted and asked to attend the incident to ensure that help reaches the patient as quickly as possible.
This large representation of a strand of microscopically small DNA will be transformed by the growth of a climbing plant during the spring and summer.
Part of the Barcode Sculpture Exhibition by Sculpture Cymru at the National Botanic Garden of Wales.
At the National Botanic Garden of Wales we have DNA barcoded of all Wales’ flowering plants and conifers – we’re the first country in the world to do this.
Nine artists from Sculpture Cymru (sculpturecymru.org.uk) have created a response to this research. Their outdoor exhibition runs from January to September 2015 throughout the Garden.
A catalogue will be available in March 2015 and a Sculpture Weekend will be held on June 6-7 2015.
Experimental adjustable drive block for the Replicator 2X extruder. The purpose of this design is to allow the operator to fine-tune the pressure applied to the filament by the idler ball bearing.
The 3D-files: www.thingiverse.com/thing:267394
Instructions: bit.ly/1eaYi3p
The 3D-printer: bit.ly/1ehTaKU
DNA replication is one of several central genetic processes that demand an association between proteins and DNA. With images such as this, the scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) has revealed many of the details of DNA replication in the tumor virus SV40. Twelve subunits of a protein known as T antigen assemble themselves in two ringlike hexamers around the DNA, precisely at the origin of replication.
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Zulu Boys Traditional Ethnic Dancing at Shakaland Village Shaka Zulu Kraal Cultural Replication of a Zulu “Umuzi” or Homestead Normanhurst Farm Nkwalini Kwazulu-Natal South Africa May 1998
This replicated fort was created by the local historical society, celebrating its past as a former Hudson's Bay Company fort on the busy fur trade routes on the Athabasca River from Jasper and the Rocky Mountains and beyond both east, west and north.
The fur trading council (after the merger of the HBC and the NWC in 1821) adopted a resolution in 1823 calling for a fort further up the Athabasca River to reduce transport times. Fort Assiniboine on the Athabasca River became the northwest end of an overland 80 miles (129 km) horse track to Edmonton House/Fort Edmonton on the North Saskatchewan River, thus providing a straighter route from Athabasca Pass within the Rocky Mountains to York Factory on Hudson Bay.
A party on horseback could make the trip in about two days. The new route was used by the York Factory Express. The old canoe route involved going far north-northeast up the Athabasca to Fort Chipewyan and then southeast through Methye Portage to Lake Winnipeg.
Zulu Traditional Male Ethnic Dancing at Shakaland Village Shaka Zulu Kraal Cultural Replication of a Zulu “Umuzi” or Homestead Normanhurst Farm Nkwalini Kwazulu-Natal South Africa May 1998
Experimental adjustable drive block for the Replicator 2X extruder. The purpose of this design is to allow the operator to fine-tune the pressure applied to the filament by the idler ball bearing.
The 3D-files: www.thingiverse.com/thing:267394
Instructions: bit.ly/1eaYi3p
The 3D-printer: bit.ly/1ehTaKU