Name one thing in this photo • Hacker News Board

Re: Name one thing in this photo

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Post by Jeaye » Fri, Apr 26, 2019, 7:00 AM UTC

Wall. Floorboards. Done.

Re: Name one thing in this photo

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Post by gloflo » Fri, Apr 26, 2019, 7:00 AM UTC

fastbeef wrote: post #3

Reminds me of this short story: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLIT_(short_story)

And Snow Crash!

Re: Name one thing in this photo

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Post by ochronus » Fri, Apr 26, 2019, 7:02 AM UTC

chaos

Re: Name one thing in this photo

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Post by cpeterso » Fri, Apr 26, 2019, 7:02 AM UTC

fastbeef wrote: post #3

Reminds me of this short story: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLIT_(short_story)

Peter Watts' science fiction novels Blindsight and Echopraxia include "vampires" that co-evolved with humans. The vampires' aversion to crosses is described as their brains "crashing" when visually processing right angles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echopraxia_(novel)

Re: Name one thing in this photo

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Post by pgl » Fri, Apr 26, 2019, 7:03 AM UTC

Posted on Twitter from a thread on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/bghyv5/t...

From the thread's title:

> This picture is designed to give the viewer the simulated experience of having a stroke (particularly in the occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex, where visual perception occurs.) Everything looks hauntingly familiar but you just can't quite recognize anything

Re: Name one thing in this photo

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Post by erikstarck » Fri, Apr 26, 2019, 7:06 AM UTC

Pixels.

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Post by lostmsu » Fri, Apr 26, 2019, 7:09 AM UTC

A plastic bag

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Post by rocqua » Fri, Apr 26, 2019, 7:10 AM UTC

tehsauce wrote: post #7

How was this made?

I would guess something similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepDream or any other system that tries to invert a convolutional neural network by 'maximizing' the match.

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 26, 2019, 7:13 AM UTC

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Post by cbzry » Fri, Apr 26, 2019, 7:14 AM UTC

The thing at the top left looks like one of those mounted white pads that are used to display jewellery. https://www.jewelrysupply.com/assets/images/white-jewelry-ri...