Based on what I see in the demos, DLSS 5 is incredible with everything but humans, where it suffers from the typical AI struggle with people of color, and an overly “plastic” output. Honestly I’m optimistic that it will pan out.

Catching up on the tech news over a quiet solo dinner, and am fascinated by the response to NVIDIA DLSS 5. It’s a mixture of “all AI is bad,” “holy shit that’s impressive,” and a vanishingly small contingent of “it’s complicated.”

The Economist has reported that if Anthropic, OpenAI, and the Elon AI turd all offered 15% of their shares in a public offering, it would eclipse the entirety of all IPOs in ten years. Wowza.

SUMANXIANG

at SUMANXIANG

Children’s Palace Metro Station (少年宫地铁站)

at Children’s Palace Metro Station (少年宫地铁站)

Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art & Planning Exhibition (深圳当代艺术与城市规划展览馆)

at Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art & Planning Exhibition (深圳当代艺术与城市规划展览馆)

Convention & Exhibition Center Metro Station (会展中心地铁站)

at Convention & Exhibition Center Metro Station (会展中心地铁站)

Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center (深圳会展中心)

at Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center (深圳会展中心)

Glasses City Dongmen (金世界眼镜城)

at Glasses City Dongmen (金世界眼镜城)

Semir

at Semir

Glasses City Dongmen (金世界眼镜城)

at Glasses City Dongmen (金世界眼镜城)

Shangri-La Hotel, Futian, Shenzhen (深圳福田香格里拉大酒店)

at Shangri-La Hotel, Futian, Shenzhen (深圳福田香格里拉大酒店)

Sheraton Shenzhen Futian Hotel (深圳大中华喜来登酒店)

at Sheraton Shenzhen Futian Hotel (深圳大中华喜来登酒店)

#Social Stream #Typewriters #Watch #baseball scorecard
Mele Cat & Coffee

at Mele Cat & Coffee

Wan Xiang Vegetarian

at Wan Xiang Vegetarian

陕西耀州老坛酸菜馆

at 陕西耀州老坛酸菜馆

I added a banner to go along with my Long Covid Awareness Day post.

“International Long Covid Awareness Color Codes: Teal: #18929A, Grey: #939393, and Black: #000000

https://www.longcovidawareness.life/graphics

Aside: I quite like this teal color. I might have to work that into my site in some places in the longer term.

Previously, Previously

In other news, I’ve ordered an XTEInk X4 and X3. The X4 has already arrived, and I immediately installed the open source Crosspoint Reader firmware and connected it to my Calibre-Web instance. Works great! Looking forward to getting the X3, which may actually fit the back of my iPhone 17 Pro.

Off to Seattle for an AWS event. Always one of my favorite places to visit, even when it’s cold and rainy, which is like 70% of the time.