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Daily News Stuff 15 August 2019
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Tech News
- Humble Bundle has Acid Pro 8.0 (music editing) and Sound Forge Pro 12 (audio editing) for $25.
As usual these are last year's versions (though Acid Pro 9.0 only came out in May) but they are the full professional releases for about 5% of the full professional price.
- Huaweis behaving badly. (Tom's Hardware)
Telecommunications company controlled by a totalitarian fascist state meets African kleptocracy. What could possibly go wrong?
- WeWork IPO shows it's the most magical unicorn. (Bloomberg)
WeWork is losing billions and plans to go public soon. (WCCFTech)
How bad do you have to be at your job for WCCFTech to be so obviously better?
- A cure has been found for a deadly, multi-drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis. (New York Times)
And it's relatively cheap and safe.
TB doesn't get the attention of Ebola but this strain killed 75% of its victims before they could even get a diagnosis.
- Anime4K is a new anime upscaling algorithm. (GitHub)
It looks to my eye to be slightly better than Waifu2x while being dramatically faster.
- A dump of internal Google docs revealed a list of blocked news sites. (One Angry Gamer)
Including some site called "oneangrygamer.net".
- Oh, and 40 pages of YouTube search terms where the algorithm was carefully tweaked to keep you safe from harmful facts. (One Angry Gamer)
- Just get a mid-range Android phone. (ZDNet)
Or a low-end one from a reputable brand. Apple and the Android high end have been captured entirely by fashion trends at this point.
- Star Wars Barbie actually looks pretty cool (Amazon)
At $100 I'd hope so.
There's also a Darth Vader Barbie who looks like a 90s New York advertising exec, and... An R2-D2 Barbie.
Okay. You do you, Mattel. You've sold literally a billion of these things so I won't presume to tell you your business
Disclaimer: Do or do not, that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind's eye to suffer the blaster bolts of outrageous fortunes, or take robotic arms against a sea of troubles...
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Comment from their paper: "Interesting enough, waifu2x performed very poorly on anime. A plausible explaination is that the network was simply not trained to upscale these types of images. Usually anime style art have sharper lines and contain much more small details/textures compared to anime. The distribution of images used to train waifu2x must have been mostly art images from sites like DevianArt/Danbooru/Pixiv, and not anime."
They also suggest running Anime4K after Waifu2x to improve its output.
-j
They also suggest running Anime4K after Waifu2x to improve its output.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Friday, August 16 2019 01:26 AM (ZlYZd)
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"Just get a mid-range Android phone."
Or wait for price drops. I picked up an unlocked Galaxy S9 a couple weeks ago for $450.
Still pricey, of course, but the regular price is still about $600, and "mid-range" these days is creeping up to $300 or more.
Or wait for price drops. I picked up an unlocked Galaxy S9 a couple weeks ago for $450.
Still pricey, of course, but the regular price is still about $600, and "mid-range" these days is creeping up to $300 or more.
Posted by: Rick C at Friday, August 16 2019 05:25 AM (Iwkd4)
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Shame they don't drop in price by 95% whenever a new version is released like my audio and video software.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, August 16 2019 11:19 AM (PiXy!)
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Hmm...I wonder if the mClassic could be modified to run Anime4K...
Posted by: benzeen at Friday, August 16 2019 03:32 PM (5uTz6)
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