A thing I've been wondering, I might be completely lost in thinking about this, but do you know:
If you grow mushrooms at home is there a risk that it spreads as kind of fungi to the building, furniture etc.?
I agree with the replies so far in that there isn't a major risk of the mushrooms spreading.
That said, it's not completely risk free and I think it's important for folks who decide to get into the hobby at least take a moment to think about it. If you have someone in the household that has respiratory issues, I think it would be worthwhile ensuring that you have good containment to prevent spores from circulating the home (or do it elsewhere). This is particularly true if you decide to scale up (which is natural once you have some success, it truly is fun).
Also the growing environment is subject to infection from whatever environmental molds/fungus/etc are around, so reasonable precautions should be taken when handling/disposing. Once you get your procedures down this is less of an issue but still something to keep in mind.
Personally I didn't do anything but very basic precautions and never had an issue.
Mushrooms are everywhere. There used to be a subreddit of "weird mushrooms" like growing out of people's couches or in the bathroom, etc. In all cases, this is a sign of rot due to water intrusion.
You can grow mushrooms at home, it is fun. The only risk is that the mushrooms with high spore production are not great to have in a closed residence, especially oyster mushrooms which produce very high spore loads. There are vendors who produce cultures of sporeless oyster which can be used to grow oyster mushrooms indoors.
Outdoors, at least in most temperate areas, you are limited to things like shitake on logs or winecaps. The latter are incredibly easy to grow, and very good taste wise, but they are temperamental and basically grow on their own schedule, infrequently.
Normally the risk of airborne spores taking over your growing material is much more likely than your (most of the time very selected and in no way adapted to the "normal" surroundings you try to grow them in) taking over your home. Keep in mind that almost all fungi like similar conditions and there are already loads of spores of fungi that are more adapted to your living conditions in the air.
Nope. Edible mushrooms generally need similar conditions as mold/mildew/rot to grow, i.e. moisture, low light, and the right material -- though they tend to be pickier, and are less suited to human-adjacent conditions. So if you find mushrooms growing where they shouldn't, there's a much deeper moisture and mold issue.
Finnish ocean rower Jari Saario has been rescued after his solo rowing boat was damaged during an unsupported crossing of the South Atlantic from Cape Horn to Cape Town.
Not an expert here.
I am not sure how 3D the videos in the article are. IMO they are 3D in a pixar/animated sort of way.
But I have very recent first hand experience of creating a video for our startup's Facebook post with Minimax image-to-video inference, from an image of our animated avatar character.
...And yes, first the videos were bad quality with lots of inconsistencies, but after adding "animated" to the prompt, in front of the "man" word, the result was pretty great already on the first try! Which I then ended up even using. (you can even check it here if interested https://fb.watch/xRC-fptexM/)
Perhaps it should be self-evident, but still, it was not to me. :)
Edit. I guess my point was also that the animated character in the video ended up being somewhat 3D as well.
Yeah, I see what you mean! When we say 3D here, we mean working with actual 3D scenes—models, depth, and lighting—rather than the '3D movie' style like Pixar. The goal is to use 3D to control AI generations more precisely, so things stay consistent across frames instead of AI hallucinating every frame from scratch."
Your experience with Minimax sounds cool! Adding 'animated' to the prompt helping consistency makes sense—AI models often struggle with structure, so any guidance helps.
Well you work in the field for a while, and you accumulate anecdotes of colleagues dropping tactical sleep(5000)'s so they can shave some milliseconds of latency each week and keep the boss happy.
I love those stories but I could never do that with a straight face. However, the AI field is such an uphill battle against all the crap that LinkedIn influencers are pushing into the minds of the C-suite... I feel it's okay to get a bit creative to get a win-win here ;)
Yes, that's what it seems to me also, that often a RAG or similar is branded as an "agent". Though I personally understand an LLM agent as something that takes input x to use in LLM inference and then uses the output from that inference to create a new input for another LLM inference that includes the first output and so on, and repeats this >1 times.
That's an LLM workflow and not an agent if it's on rails created by a predefined workflow and doesn't make tool calls, or does not have any choice in tool calls. The tool calls are what give it agency.
Yeah. An agentic workflow is nothing but implementation of execution of a bunch of tasks and each task takes a little bit of help from the LLM. Honestly I believe this is applicable to companies that have workflows having a lot of manual tasks and automation of these workflows could be easier with the help of LLM agents.
Interesting! To me 80% hitrate sounds actually pretty good and awesome if it actually improves productivity, though understandably not something that could be left on it's own devices.
I had no idea about Make.com or n8n, they seem interesting. Thanks for the tip! Will check them out.
