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    SKT
    見習いボス
    Joined: 26 Aug 2019

    Turkish artist Deniz Sagdic. Short clip of her work. Stuff like this amazes me. Much like the artist you featured @EdH

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      EdH
      Iron Heart Deity
      @SKT
      Joined: 2 Jan 2022

      @SKT That's really clever. I like that a lot!

      Take the dive...

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        ARNC
        啓蒙家
        Joined: 13 Dec 2020

        Before this thread shoots off in a different direction, another artist with unusual methods (and collaborators). I was lucky enough to catch this show a while back. See 2:35 onwards in the video.
        https://www.thisiscolossal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/drupat-11.jpg
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        “Every day that you survive you get a free sunset“

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          EdH
          Iron Heart Deity
          Joined: 2 Jan 2022

          I'd like to know how stable those gold tubes are. Could the larvaes' creations be fixed and worn as jewellery afterwards?

          Take the dive...

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            ARNC
            啓蒙家
            @EdH
            Joined: 13 Dec 2020

            @EdH I don’t know for sure but I think so. At the exhibition some were shown mounted on little stands after the caddisflies had left the cases. They were pretty small though.

            “Every day that you survive you get a free sunset“

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              EdH
              Iron Heart Deity
              Joined: 2 Jan 2022

              The world's first fox-dog hybrid has been confirmed, discovered in Brazil: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/13/first-dog-fox-hybrid-discovered-in-wild-brazil

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              Sadly, the animal has died since it was discovered last year.

              Paraphrased from the article:

              South American foxes belong to the genus lycalopex.

              Lycalopex animals, which includes the pampas fox, are genetically different to both dogs and European foxes. The genus name literally means “wolf fox”. This hybrid is believed to be the first time a dog has bred outside the canis group.

              “Although the common English name is pampas fox, the species is not closely related to the European foxes,” Dr Kretschmer said.

              “The pampas fox is more closely related to dogs. Even so, this hybridisation occurred between two species that are more phylogenetically distant than the previously reported hybridisation reported in other parts of the world.”

              Scientists gave the hybrid the name "dogxim". They looked at the dogxim’s genes and found 76 chromosomes. Only one canid, the maned wolf, has this amount of chromosomes and it looks so different to the newly-discovered Brazilian animal that the scientists ruled it out.

              A dog has 78 chromosomes and a pampas fox 74 and hybridisation of the two would produce 76 chromosomes. No other interspecies could produce the dogxim’s karyotype, the team says.

              Mitochondrial DNA, which is passed down maternally in the cell’s energy-making capsules, revealed fox heritage. However, elsewhere in the genome were clear stretches of dog-like DNA.

              “In our study we recorded the first case of hybridisation between one species of wild canid and the domestic dog,” study first author Bruna Elenara Szynwelski, a PhD student in genetics and molecular biology at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, told The Telegraph.

              “But, different to cases of hybridisation studied in North America, Europe, and Africa, this hybridisation occurred between species from the distinct genera: lycalopex and canis.”

              Take the dive...

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                EdH
                Iron Heart Deity
                Joined: 2 Jan 2022

                Maybe not the most mind blowing thing, but I found it interesting and I know stitching and clothing construction is of interest around here:

                Take the dive...

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                  mclaincausey
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                  @EdH
                  Joined: 12 Apr 2013

                  @EdH badass video by one of the best vloggers out there IMO--thanks for sharing.

                  Think it, be it.

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                    EdH
                    Iron Heart Deity
                    Joined: 2 Jan 2022

                    This could just be vapourware (vapourwear?) but fucking Star Trek could be reality before we know it...

                    No idea if it will actually work, but damn it's a cool idea.

                    Take the dive...

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                      AdamJ
                      IHUK Crew
                      @EdH
                      Joined: 29 Jun 2017

                      @EdH said in This Blew My Mind!:

                      vapourware

                      1 billion dollar kickstarter in bound! Vapourware surely, can't really see the utility advantage over getting your iPhone out of your pocket? Then again, they said something similar about the first Mac

                      The devil is in the detail..

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                        EdH
                        Iron Heart Deity
                        @AdamJ
                        Joined: 2 Jan 2022

                        @AdamJ said in This Blew My Mind!:

                        can't really see the utility advantage over getting your iPhone out of your pocket?

                        Depends on how tight your jeans are... 😅

                        I have a lot of questions on how well it actually works. Apparently the device is available for pre-order already. As for use cases, I didn't see the point in an Apple Watch until I got one, but actually just being able to glance at my wrist when something pings me to know whether I need to get my iPhone out of my pocket is a huge boon and saves me a lot of screen time and distraction. (I don't know about you, but whenever I look at my phone I end up doing 5 things I didn't intend to and forget what I got it out of my pocket for...)

                        Take the dive...

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                          AdamJ
                          IHUK Crew
                          @EdH
                          Joined: 29 Jun 2017

                          @EdH It reminds me of the Google Glasses from way back that were supposed to bring augmented reality to the masses but never happened. I expect to see you donning one of these at the next IH event

                          The devil is in the detail..

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                            EdH
                            Iron Heart Deity
                            Joined: 2 Jan 2022

                            @AdamJ Don't get me wrong, I'm ever the sceptic, but I'm messing around with language AI a fair amount for work and it really is quite powerful once you get used to the 'art' of giving it prompts that generate useful responses. And the next versions will be multi-modal AI's like the one imagined in the promo video above, where you can hold up a picture of someone and ask "tell me about this person".

                            Take the dive...

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                              AdamJ
                              IHUK Crew
                              @EdH
                              Joined: 29 Jun 2017

                              @EdH we can harness that power for Forum Version 4, ask AI "What shirt number was this?" for immediate responses

                              The devil is in the detail..

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                                popvulture
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                                Joined: 2 Oct 2018

                                Definitely need an AI for restock date estimates too 😂

                                WTB
                                IHSH-IHG-BLK XXL
                                Sugar Cane Coke Stripe SS L charcoal

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                                  AdamJ
                                  IHUK Crew
                                  @popvulture
                                  Joined: 29 Jun 2017

                                  @popvulture I don't want to become a statistic in a newspaper article about the workforce being replaced by AI !

                                  The devil is in the detail..

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                                    popvulture
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                                    @AdamJ
                                    Joined: 2 Oct 2018

                                    @AdamJ hahaha fair enough, more just wanted to spare y’all our constant badgering 👉

                                    WTB
                                    IHSH-IHG-BLK XXL
                                    Sugar Cane Coke Stripe SS L charcoal

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                                      Matt
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                                      @EdH
                                      Joined: 4 Oct 2011

                                      @EdH said in This Blew My Mind!:

                                      @AdamJ Don't get me wrong, I'm ever the sceptic, but I'm messing around with language AI a fair amount for work…

                                      Lawyers messing around with AI at work. What could possibly go wrong?

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                                        Nocturama
                                        Haraki san Prodigy
                                        @AdamJ
                                        Joined: 1 Jan 2023

                                        @AdamJ - you’d melt your virtual CPUs with the number of requests this would generate! 😆

                                        #JustStopCrocs

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                                          goosehd
                                          Mod Squad
                                          Joined: 8 Apr 2016

                                          There is a big push going on with Radiology and AI right now. We may be out of jobs in 5 years…

                                          "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

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