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Deep Dreaming Bob Ross
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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"This artwork represents what it would be like for an AI to watch Bob Ross on LSD (once someone invents digital drugs). It shows some of the unreasonable effectiveness and strange inner workings of deep learning systems. The unique characteristics of the human voice is learned and generated as well as hallucinations of a system trying to find images which are not there."
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Google Maps
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Recently Google Maps updated it's maps with new imagery, removing all those areas obfuscated by cloud cover. Presumably they didn't map Skull Island because it's perpetually shrouded by clouds, but wherever a clear image existed it replaced one with clouds, allowing you to view a (presumably) sunnier world.
Which explains the curious patchwork of winter and clouds I found in this image:
The couldn't get all the clouds (Maybe THAT's where King Kong is living), but they got some. Note the curious squares of winter...
Living Someplace Ordinary
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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And always the Grass is Greener. By which I mean I watch the prospecting videos, read the literature, think to myself "If Only I was in Australia/Nevada/Arizona/London/Alberta...", always, always the game is elsewhere...
Somewhere in Australia a poor bloke's found no gold and is wishing he was in the Kootenays, away from the deadly spiders and venomous snakes and crocodiles...someplace easy, with shade and fresh, abundant water...
I'm well aware of the fallacy that treasure is never underfoot, when very often it is, I resist the urge to pack up, confine my explorations to an hour's drive.
Yesterday, good, a good spot, I was there before, few years ago, nothing great, but if I crossed over the creek, found a way to get to the other side, there's abundant potential. It's not as easy as it sounds, 6-8 feet wide, deep, swift current and abundant boulders, slip and things won't be so good, but I can see the potential, a good day, try it out, snipe, clean the rocks, the crevices, the moss from the boulders, fill a bucket and pan it out, I might be surprised.
For the moment, living someplace ordinary, but making my plans to improve it...
Coffee Creek
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Grey day, fine walk up coffee creek...
The higher you go, the more interesting the mineralization...
A curiously crystallized quartz boulder.
Large Dogstooth Spar (Calcite) crystals coating the bottom of a boulder, many were a couple of inches in length. They'd need the weathering to be cleaned off to attractive...
In the distance the Ferry making it's way from Crawford Bay to Balfour.
A lot of Elk and Deer tracks, and so naturally a rather large Cougar Track...
Waterfall...
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