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Interesting thing about tomorrow's tarot show, rendering now, is that I upgraded from Blender 4.0 to blender 4.4 and it's quite a bit nicer to look at the timeline editor.
Was sad to find that the render time was up though. From about 3 seconds per frame usually to more like 12!?
Trying it with an old version I see that the lights and textures look way better with 4.4 than 4.0 though. A substantial step up in the way the show looks without me even doing anything other than waiting four times longer per frame.
Seems to be heavily dependent upon lighting now. The slow frames are like 12 seconds but the fast frames with minimal lighting and close up on the video are more like 2.
Looks too beautiful now to go back though. Upgraded my cloud-remote render machines too. We will render on four machines tonight. FOUR! The power of it all.
g3.4xlarge is no faster than g3.large but g6.xlarge seems to be twice the speed.
But hard to be sure really coz of the massive variance in time depending on the lighting.
Anyway, great show coming tomorrow. Sometimes I wonder what the hell I'm trying to do with it but tomorrow's show is the answer. Hide the angry bitter political rant behind a strange CGI tarot show. When the rant comes together well I like it.
https://wordcloudtarot.com/@wordcloudtarot/statuses/01JYFF0GQV1680Z0VG0YTFZDTP

📢Das #Kundenglücklichmachungsposteinlieferungsgeräusch antreten zum Wiegen und Vermessen bitte, das #Kundenglücklichmachungsposteinlieferungsgeräusch! 📢

Na immerhin ein vernichtender #Faktencheck. Ich Strafe das Sommerinterview übrigens mit Nichtbeachtung. Wenn keiner einschaltet oder streamt, bleibt uns das vielleicht nächstes Jahr erspart
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Das ARD-Sommerinterview mit AfD-Vorsitzender Weidel im Faktencheck
Im ARD-Sommerinterview war die AfD-Vorsitzende Weidel zu Gast. Nicht alle ihre Behauptungen halten einer Überprüfung stand, zum Beispiel gibt es deutlich weniger ausreisepflichtige Syrer als behauptet.

Temporal Neural Cellular Automata: Application to modeling of contrast enhancement in breast MRI
Daniel M. Lang, Richard Osuala, Veronika Spieker, Karim Lekadir, Rickmer Braren, Julia A. Schnabel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18720

Temporal Neural Cellular Automata: Application to modeling of contrast enhancement in breast MRI
Synthetic contrast enhancement offers fast image acquisition and eliminates the need for intravenous injection of contrast agent. This is particularly beneficial for breast imaging, where long acquisition times and high cost are significantly limiting the applicability of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as a widespread screening modality. Recent studies have demonstrated the feasibility of synthetic contrast generation. However, current state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods lack sufficient measures …

Optically tunable linear and nonlinear enhancement of index of refraction
Elif Ozturk, Hira Asif, Mehmet Gunay, Mehmet Emre Tasgin, Ramazan Sahin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17703 …

Optically tunable linear and nonlinear enhancement of index of refraction
Control of optical properties of materials by tuning their refractive index can revolutionize the current state-of-the-art technology to manipulate light propagation in the high loss media. Here we demonstrate active optical tuning of the plasmonic analog of enhancement of index of refraction (EIR) in both linear and nonlinear regimes using a quantum mechanical approach. By employing a pump-probe scheme, we investigate the tuning of refractive index of the probe field by varying amplitude and p…

Wenn die Eliten ihre Stellung halten, indem sie hart an der Grenze der Gesetze segeln. Und diese Eliten dann ihre Technik in die Politik tragen. Dann dehnt der Staat seine Privilegien auch. So endet aber auch die Vermutung der Rechtmäßigkeit der Verwaltung und es wird irgendwann auch für die Verwaltung Sanktionen geben müssen, persönlicher Art, weil wenn der Staat an den Staat zahlt, ist das sinnlos.

SDBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark Suite for Speaker Diarization
Eduardo Pacheco, Atila Orhon, Berkin Durmus, Blaise Munyampirwa, Andrey Leonov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16136

SDBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark Suite for Speaker Diarization
Even state-of-the-art speaker diarization systems exhibit high variance in error rates across different datasets, representing numerous use cases and domains. Furthermore, comparing across systems requires careful application of best practices such as dataset splits and metric definitions to allow for apples-to-apples comparison. We propose SDBench (Speaker Diarization Benchmark), an open-source benchmark suite that integrates 13 diverse datasets with built-in tooling for consistent and fine-gr…

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Vorhang auf! Das Ballett-Thema hat noch einen weiteren Auftritt im Shop, dort habe ich eben diese 30x40mm-Miniaturen gelistet. Außer wie hier in Echt 925 Sterling Silber auch Fassung in gold- oder silberfarbenem Edelstahl möglich. Zu finden auf #miniaturepainting #art #ballet #ballett #watercolor #artjewellery #fediArt #mastoArt #creativeToots