goberoi
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Comment · 2 years ago
As an aside: owls being wise is a cultural belief. In India, owls are considered unintelligent, and calling someone an owl is akin to calling them a fool. Interesting how these perceptions are diametrically opposite!
Comment · 5 years ago
Thanks. Alas I don’t have bandwidth to take it on, but encourage you to do so wholeheartedly. Bonne chance!
Comment · 5 years ago
Love that!
I too was inspired to use this dataset in some way, and made this toy program where you point your camera at your face, and it renders your eyes and nose as doodles (and barfs out more if you open your mouth): https://github.com/goberoi/sketch_face
Comment · 6 years ago
Monkey Island and its sequel are some of the defining games of my childhood. My brother and I played all the Sierra Games, and Lucas Arts games, and while we have many loves (Heroes Quest/Quest for Glory, Indian Jones), Monkey Island was by far our favorite.
We few years ago we were lucky enough to meet Ron at PAX when he was there promoting Thimbleweed Park. Since then, I saw him fairly often at a neighborhood coffee shop here in Seattle.
Earlier this year, at the start of the pandemic, my brother and his partner ended up making an adventure game in the style of Monkey Island. It's almost an homage and has a few shout outs to those in the know. Check it out here:
https://www.landlubbersgame.com.
Thanks Ron and team for the good times!
Comment · 7 years ago
For those interested in how EXIF is treated in other apps, a dated but informative article from 2012: https://www.daveperrett.com/articles/2012/07/28/exif-orienta...
Comment · 7 years ago
Totally random question: how did you pick the name?
Comment · 7 years ago
Yes, this sort of tech is likely to make its way into CGI. Some relevant resources if you're interested:
1. This post shows how GANs were used to replicate the Princess Leia scene in Rogue One. The scene in the movie required a team of special effects artists, whereas this required access to lots of images of Carrie Fischer, a GPU, and this technology: https://io9.gizmodo.com/this-video-uses-the-power-of-deepfak...
2. I wrote this popular post on this topic (first page on Google for "deepfakes") that explains how it works, and where it can go for commercial applications: https://hackernoon.com/exploring-deepfakes-20c9947c22d9
3. If you prefer video, I gave a humorous talk on the same recently. It is designed for lay people, and has lots of examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wajS0XHzfpU&feature=youtu.be...
Comment · 8 years ago
tl;dr: Instagram is significantly tightening up access to their platform. The existing API is being deprecated in favor of a heavier permissions based system, and functionality available to all today, will be restricted to medium-to-large businesses down the road.
This is relevant to the HN community: builders who have enjoyed access to Instagram will now be severely restricted, which will limit future applications.
Finally: this is probably not a huge surprise. LinkedIn did this a couple of years ago, and of course Facebook has been tightening up access for years.