will.stedden @bonkerfield@fosstodon.org

i just joined #mastodon and noticed it's tough to find active people to follow. #trunk https://communitywiki.org/trunk has built themed lists, which are a great start, but many accounts are stale and there's a lot of clicking to navigate online.

so last night i played with #trunk's API and packaged up some filtering and automation into #python/#selenium so all i have to do is 1 click confirm. i put it on gh this morning for other #newbies like me. https://github.com/lots-of-things/pytrunk

Note: I'm just pinning this here so you have to scroll down further to see the dumb stuff I normally say.

Personal Pledge to Keep Mastodon Not Shitty.

1. Post no distractions. Our time is so short, and so much to do. Each thing I write should aim to make others better off.

2. Ignore shock and flash. Support quiet voices of value. Don't reward outrageous, it breeds more outrage.

3. Reply for the better. Don't pander. Don't doggie-pile on dissenters.

4. Assume humanity, prepare for trolls. I might not see the harm I do. Others don't see how they are perceived. Remain aware of others' intentions.

It was created with a modification of Big Sleep called Story2Hallucination, and the code to produce one of your own is here: https://github.com/lots-of-things/Story2Hallucination/

I just finished animating a short story http://a.ttent.io/n using a deep learning algorithm. It might be the first short film where the animation is invented entirely from an AI just based on the words of the story. Hope you enjoy it.

And here are two runs of Story2Hallucination based off of William Wordsworth's "I wandered lonely as a cloud" poem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOXXQhQf0SE

Introducing Story2Hallucination! For the #ComputerVision #AI #ML people on here, I made a modification to Big Sleep's CLIP algorithm to allow the text input to be updated while it's running.

What does that mean? That now I can input series of phrases to animate stories.

Here it is running on a short story I wrote about Octopus and Adderall:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y-UZquQDf0

For all the programmers who say "premature optimization is the root of all evil," I present to you my silverware drawer.

Been recording some original rag-like music today. Just finished up a song called Crooked. There's a rough part or two, but it's most of the way there.

https://soundcloud.com/bonkerfield/crooked/s-C8aqgTepAiE

I am 100% here for a worker-owned takedown of this gig economy bullshit:

https://www.curbed.com/2020/12/can-a-worker-owned-app-pull-drivers-from-uber-and-lyft.html

A piece on a graphical representation of democracy and capitalism as decision making systems.

It also touches on the similarity of these graphs to deep recurrent neural networks and how social democracies with free markets act as an adaptive feedback system between the two.

https://viewfoil.bonkerfield.org/2020/12/augmented-democracy-intentional.html

I just found this very cool GAN video synthesis tutorial, wherein an AI learns to make fire from scratch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxCWEbywjdE&feature=youtu.be

Please tell the good people of the internet that they can use these to make memes about memes.

Is anyone around here ever using https://www.are.na? I'm just starting to get into it, and while I like just wandering through it like a wikipedia black hole of images I'm wondering how other people use it.

A lot of people seem to be very "designery" on it, but I like the other kinds of nerdy weirdness I find.

Recently, my partner and I moved to a more rural area, and now my partner's mom is visiting so we got her the NYTimes.

The Sunday edition arrives on Tuesday at our house.

I think I like it here.