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KukiAirani | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: 2D interpolator for AI-generated cats

You can move your mouse anywhere on the screen and get different images for each point. Moving over the the cat vs. the fluid simulator doesn't make a difference, except that the points are mirrored over the Y-axis.

KukiAirani | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: 2D interpolator for AI-generated cats

Yup that is correct! I do like the idea of the cats looking at the mouse cursor. Would need to do some work figuring out how to interpolate just the pose part of the latent space.

KukiAirani | 5 years ago | on: An Incomplete Guide to Ethereum Rollups

Not as delicious, but sure to be just as sticky

KukiAirani | 5 years ago | on: Tankies! - the people who think communist empires are awesome

I forgot that Twitter only became profitable two years ago. Still surprising.

KukiAirani | 5 years ago | on: We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow

My mistake, thanks for pointing this out

KukiAirani | 5 years ago | on: MicroStrategy Announces over $1B in Total Bitcoin Purchases in 2020

At an average purchase price of $15,964, I think they'll do fine in the long term.

KukiAirani | 5 years ago | on: Voat Is Shutting Down

People with views like these shouldn't be given oxygen with platforms that allow them to form community around horrible and hateful ideas. In my opinion they should feel left out, until they realize that it is their immoral views that make them unacceptable to larger society.

KukiAirani | 5 years ago | on: Why California's Musical Road Sounds Terrible

Unbelievable that they managed to make the same mistake twice. Especially when the first mistake was so bad that neighbors complained enough that it had to be paved over.

KukiAirani | 5 years ago | on: Covid bill proposes up to 10 years in prison for “unauthorized streaming”

Anyone who watches any content creator at all will notice that they are already paranoid wrecks due to existing copyright law. Seems like once or twice an hour a streamer will wonder out loud if they've inadvertently DMCAed themselves, even while carefully trying to avoid doing so.

With this law, the risk is going to be so high that even carefully treading won't be worth it. It will completely put the industry on ice.

KukiAirani | 5 years ago | on: Russia’s Hacking Frenzy Is a Reckoning

Wow. That's what I was afraid of. If done properly that's going to be a very long and tedious process.

KukiAirani | 5 years ago | on: Meritocracies Are Unfair – and That's the Point

This is such an odd use of the word "fair"

Fair is understood in a meritocracy to be with respect to skill level, not with respect to any particular person's moral standard.

KukiAirani | 5 years ago | on: Russia’s Hacking Frenzy Is a Reckoning

What worries me even more than information that has been exfiltrated is what backdoors have been left behind. Even when the hatch is closed, how can you be totally sure that there is nothing left behind on the accessed systems?

Could someone who is more familiar with security comment on this?

KukiAirani | 5 years ago | on: VSinder - A dating app for programmers where you swipe on code

This is hilarious and awesome.

But at first I thought this was a serious app to be used for recruiting. I actually thought it was a clever way to screen candidates quickly for their coding ability. I was a little disappointed that it wasn't that.

KukiAirani | 5 years ago | on: Ryan Kaji, 9, earns $29.5m as this year's highest-paid YouTuber

Good summary. Agreed.

KukiAirani | 5 years ago | on: How Offshore Oddsmakers Made a Killing Off Trump Supporters

My jaw has been frequently misplaced recently by the amount of lies that people seem to believe. But I think it became permanently detached when finding out at the very end that people _actually_ believed them.

KukiAirani | 5 years ago | on: Facebook Apologizes for Role in Sri Lankan Violence

Have we seen Facebook stop an ongoing situation yet? Admitting guilt in retrospect is good, but not good enough.

KukiAirani | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: These Cats Are Not Real

Good morning HN

I initially built this just as a fun landing page for a larger AI related project. I ended up building a 2D interpolator for GAN generated outputs. Since the control was 2D, I figured it would be fun to add a fluid simulator that tracks your mouse. And now it's become a fun interactive toy all on its own.

The way it works is by taking a 3x3 grid of GAN outputs, applying a gaussian kernel for blending that maximizes total variance, interpolating the frames and then finally producing a video file. As you move your mouse, it seeks to various points within the video.

I have started with cats here because all great things on the internet lead back to cats, of course. But this can work with any GAN that can be interpolated. In this case, it is Stylegan2.

There are some easter eggs in here as well - see if you can find them :)

Feedback is definitely appreciated. Thank you for taking a look.

KukiAirani | 5 years ago | on: SolarWinds leaked FTP credentials through a public GitHub repo since 2018

I assumed that all software in the supply chain for defense would go through an audit that exposes things like this. Did that never happen?

KukiAirani | 5 years ago | on: Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules

I guess I had a pretty weak understanding of GDPR, I appreciate you and others replying and informing me.

KukiAirani | 5 years ago | on: Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules

I will say one major benefit of the cookie notifications is just raising the public awareness of tracking.