Why did a shoe company get $50 million in funding for their AI pivot?

Because VCs are braindead... I see your point.

The only reason I haven't switched back to VS Code is pure laziness, not using any AI features in Cursor other than resolving diffs these days.

> band poster doesn't have to be a labor of love artisanal thing

Very few bands would agree with that statement.

Are camera manufacturers working on signed images? That seems like the only way our trust in any digital media doesn't collapse entirely.

Signed images don’t get you much. You can just hardwire the image sensor to a computer and sign raw pixels.

Is the situation brighter for a company who owns the hardware and the software, for Apple?

Taking a picture of an AI generated image aside, theoretically could Apple attest to origin of photos taken in the native camera app and uploaded to iCloud?

Fascinating, by the way, thank you!

Make cameras tamper resistant, like POS terminals.

Ultimately even with that tech, you can still take a photo of an AI generated scene. Maybe coupled with geolocation data in the signature or something it might work.

Any thoughts on attempted multiple camera/360 camera solutions? Can make it cost prohibitive to generate exceptional fakes… for a little while

Kind of like showing the proctor around your room with your webcam before starting the exam.

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I think legacy media stands a chance at coming back as long as they maintain a reputation of deeply verifying images, not being fooled.

I see signing chains as the way to go here. Your camera signs an image, you sign the signed image, your client or editor signs the image you signed etc etc. Might finally have a use for blockchain.

Yes, I think they have been for years. C2PA Content Credentials are supported in cameras and some phones already today.

> but in general though - will people believe in anything photographic ?

Hopefully film makes a come back.

It's just burger wabi sabi.

You guys learn one term...

Yeah just say horse radish geeze

You're missing a syllable

I was going to say feng shui, but the handful of times I've seen it brought up in the context of food plating the whole point was harmony and balance . . .

Having food askew is probably messing with the eater's qi.

I think this is the reason.

For a deeper look at this philosophy of craft you won't do much better than The Beauty of Everyday Things, by Soetsu Yanagi: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-beauty-of-everyday-thing...

This seems the most likely explanation to me.

It's just much more visually interesting than a page full of perfect burgers. Each one looks like a unique thing from the real world; they don't "look AI", as the kids say these days.

Japoneses aesthetics favor assimetry. There's a lovely book , Book of Tea, that have fun with west tastes https://www.gutenberg.org/files/769/769-h/769-h.htm

Burger chizutsugi needs to be a thing.

Like go pieces being deliberately too large for the board they are used on.

Doesn't that make it impossible to place the stones in the correct positions?

Yes, exactly.

I'm seriously starting to understand Toyotomi Hideyoshi's feelings... (/j)

"I like how mine's a bit off-center"

Design is more than styling, it is also behaviour and state, which is what react helps you encapsulate in a component.

> Design is more than styling, it is also behaviour and state,

Maybe I need an example of this for buttons: what behaviour on buttons should be consistent? What about state - what state on buttons should be consistent?

The core value of front-end JavaScript frameworks is state management. You don't need to use a framework, but the need to manage complex application state doesn't go away.

Take this example: when a checkout button on an ecommerce website/application is triggered, the button should reflect that state and prevent re-triggering the same action so the button has to be disabled, then ideally a loading state has to be shown. When that action fails, an error may need to be displayed. Ideally you would use native DOM states first, ARIA states may be used if no native DOM states can be used, and if that's not enough then custom data states may be necessary.

Styling should be reacting to application state, preventing impossible states and bugs to create predictable UIs. Thus, styling is also a state management concern. UI=fn(state).

You can imagine all you want, but my understanding is there is no credible evidence that scaling LLMs will result in true AGI.

Obviously there's no "evidence". Why would you even think we need AGI? But I'm happy to hear your reasoning if you were one of the few/only? people who imagined that software that could predict the next word could do what it now is doing.

false dichotomy - you need to care about both.

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