What a clever idea! By the way, there are over 400,000 naturally occurring species of beetles. Beetles make up 25% of all animal forms according to Wikipedia.
Humans: by mass, a very insignificant species.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reminds me of video game art: every game has two sets of art, the “real” art which is part of the mechanics of the game world, and the “pretty bits” which dangle off the game objects and try to trick you into believing there’s more to the game world than there is. A lot of gameplay involves testing for this boundary... Trying to figure out whether you can actually do things that are implied by the art. Are there any…
Minecraft?
Also, the clouds.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
-> https://thisrentaldoesnotexist.com All of the dynamic content on each listing is generated via a series of different machine-learned AI models.
"The laundry are converted into a mini central heating for every guest."
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#45Is the source/model/network available to run?
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#46Excellent. I did something similar a few months ago using a dataset of zoological silhouettes, resulting in a menagerie of mammals, bugs, spiders and other mutant wonders. https://twitter.com/cortesi/status/1153075801891278848 https://twitter.com/cortesi/status/1153088629972934656
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#47I thought it was now basically the law that this must be named thisbeetledoesnotexist.com