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Apr 27 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
“Darth Vader on the cover of Vogue magazine” #dalle
“Darth Vader on the cover of a fashion magazine” #dalle
“Darth Vader on the cover of Nikkei newspaper” #dalle
“Darth Vader on the cover of Vanity Fair” #dalle

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Apr 24
“Totoro writing Kanji” #dalle
“A cat writing Kanji” #dalle
“Bill Clinton writing Kanji” #dalle
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Apr 24
I helped build ByteDance's vast censorship machine, by @shenlulushen

“When I was at ByteDance, we received multiple requests to develop an algorithm that could automatically detect when a Douyin user spoke Uyghur, and then cut off the livestream session.”
protocol.com/china/i-built-…
“The truth is, political speech comprised a tiny fraction of deleted content. Chinese netizens are fluent in self-censorship and know what not to say. ByteDance's platforms — Douyin, Toutiao, Xigua and Huoshan — are mostly entertainment apps.”
“Many of my colleagues felt uneasy about what we were doing. Some of them had studied journalism in college. Some were graduates of top universities. They were well-educated and liberal-leaning.”
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Apr 23
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“Vacation house made from toilet paper” #dalle ImageImageImage
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Jan 28, 2021
Great debate with @chamath on CNBC about the deeper structural issues behind $GME and $AMC

Love the comments on YouTube:
“lol this CNBC dude is so concerned about my $200 invested…Fuck man…I never realized how much some people cared about me losing it.”
Apparently, CNBC is trying very hard to remove this full interview and copies of it from YouTube. I wonder why... drive.google.com/file/d/16IV7TI…
Someone called in for a few favors from their broker buddies...
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Dec 14, 2020
I respect Pedro's work, and I also really enjoyed his book. But man, I don't know where I should start with this one…
Maybe can start with “Facial feature discovery for ethnicity recognition” (Published by @WileyInResearch in 2018):
2 years later

“Huawei tested AI software that could recognize Uighur minorities and alert police. The face-scanning system could trigger a ‘Uighur alarm,’ sparking concerns that the software could help fuel China’s crackdown”

The article cited the paper.
washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
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Apr 17, 2020
Why is it that we can recognize objects from line drawings, even though they don't exist in the real world?

A fascinating paper by Aaron Hertzmann hypothesizes that we perceive line drawings as if they were approximate, realistic renderings of 3D scenes.

arxiv.org/abs/2002.06260
The coolest result in this paper is when they took a depth estimation model (single-image input) trained on natural images (arxiv.org/abs/1907.01341), and showed that the pre-trained model also works on certain types of line drawings, such as drawings of streets and indoor scenes.
This paper seems like an alternative, perhaps complementary take, on @scottmccloud's views about visual abstraction:
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