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Haruharuharuko
Mar 24, 2008

Yeah I lied; so what is the truth?


Can do.

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Dr. Fraiser Chain
May 18, 2004

Redlining my shit posting machine


MizPiz posted:

It's believable. I know there is/was a bridge near NYC where that happened. I think one of the bridges going across the Florida Keys had that happen, too (which looks like where one of the pictures was taken).

I think the problem I have with the pictures is how staged they look. They both have guys pouring over plans right at the edge of the bridge. Also it seems like you would know with modern survey equipment long before they got close.

No accounting for idiocy though so maybe!

NO FUCK YOU DAD
Oct 23, 2008

Choco1980 posted:

Yeah, like, the backwards roadsigns or things off in alignment I can kinda understand as a whoops, but so many of these seem deliberately awful, like they were just trying to piss someone off, or they truly didn't give a gently caress about their job.
A lot of the doors to nowhere are most likely from building conversions. My old university had a building that used to be a jam factory, so a lot of the lecture halls would have old doors 20ft off the ground where there used to be catwalks, etc. No sense wasting public money bricking them up if they're not hurting anyone.

One of the bedrooms in my student flat had a balcony that was only accessible if you climbed out of the window. Presumably they bricked up the door because they didn't want people arguing over who got the sweet balcony, but didn't bother removing the actual structure because knocking poo poo off the side of a 15-storey tower block is difficult.

Lady Disdain
Jan 14, 2013


are you yet living?

NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:

A lot of the doors to nowhere are most likely from building conversions.

At my primary school, they built 2 of exactly the same building (standard primary school building around here) right next to each other, with only a couple of inches of space between them. But the buildings come in a kit, so in order to change things (replacing a door with a wall, for example), you have to switch out materials and the construction company doesn't like doing that. So one end of each building had doors and windows that just opened up to a brick wall.
There was only 1 window that actually lined up (mostly) with a window in the other building, but it eventually got boarded up because kids were constantly pulling faces at each other and stuff.

gbut
Mar 28, 2008

😤I put the UN🇺🇳 in 🎊FUN🎉




in case you missed it: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/18/google-image-recognition-neural-network-androids-dream-electric-sheep

http://i.imgur.com/jq1BGt5.jpg

Tea In A Shoe
Feb 1, 2009


Someone forgot to plug in the correct cables:

Admiral Bosch
Apr 19, 2007
Who is Admiral Aken Bosch, and what is that old scoundrel up to?

What the gently caress? This isn't funny, it's horrifying.

Lead out in cuffs
Sep 18, 2012

"That's right. We've evolved."

"I can see that. Cool mutations."




Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist

Admiral Bosch posted:

What the gently caress? This isn't funny, it's horrifying.

This is great.

quote:

The pictures are stunning, but they’re more than just for show. Neural networks are a common feature of machine learning: rather than explicitly programme a computer so that it knows how to recognise an image, the company feeds it images and lets it piece together the key features itself.

But that can result in software that is rather opaque. It’s difficult to know what features the software is examining, and which it has overlooked. For instance, asking the network to discover dumbbells in a picture of random noise reveals it thinks that a dumbbell has to have a muscular arm gripping it.

The solution might be to feed it more images of dumbbells sitting on the ground, until it understands that the arm isn’t an intrinsic part of the dumbbell.

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?

Tea In A Shoe posted:



Someone forgot to plug in the correct cables:



I know that's fake. It's got to be fake. But I have to ask why. Where is that from?

a kitten
Aug 5, 2006

Met posted:

This is great.




Yeah i don't know if it's "funny" exactly but it is super loving cool!

Be sure to follow the link to the google research blog about it too.
link for the lazy

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

New Leaf posted:

I know that's fake. It's got to be fake. But I have to ask why. Where is that from?

I was a general manager at RadioShack for over 5 years. I cannot tell you how often people came in and insisted that they needed a dumb thing to stupid thing adapter that could not possibly do what they expected it to, and I always jokingly referred to a Cat5 to garden hose connection as one such possibility of a thing you could physically have, but that would not loving do anything. As such, I laughed my rear end off at this.

Come And See
Sep 15, 2008

We're all awash in a sea of blood, and the least we can do is wave to each other.



You really need the hi-res for full effect:


Also, what we see vs what it sees:
vs

The landscapes are something else:












We've seen the future, and the future is Lisa Frank.

RyokoTK
Feb 12, 2012

I am cool.
Those landscapes are genuinely fantastic.

Krinkle
Feb 9, 2003

Ah do believe Ah've got the vapors...
Ah mean the farts


I don't like the everything-is-made-of-dogs ones, but yeah the fractal cities and landscapes are beautiful.

Reign Of Pain
May 1, 2005

Nap Ghost

Tomero_the_Great posted:

You really need the hi-res for full effect:


Also, what we see vs what it sees:
vs

The landscapes are something else:












We've seen the future, and the future is Lisa Frank.

Welp, think I'm gonna look into doing acid again

captainOrbital
Jan 23, 2003

Wrathchild!
💢🧒

What happens if they turn off SafeSearch?

Pierson
Oct 31, 2004



College Slice
This one is loving incredible.

Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

wiggle wiggle




Tomero_the_Great posted:

You really need the hi-res for full effect:


Also, what we see vs what it sees:
vs

The landscapes are something else:












We've seen the future, and the future is Lisa Frank.

Okay kids time give up on your dreams of art school. Computers have taken over abstract and impressionistic art, there is nothing left for you.

Krinkle
Feb 9, 2003

Ah do believe Ah've got the vapors...
Ah mean the farts


captainOrbital posted:

What happens if they turn off SafeSearch?

In progress quest, an rpg that plays itself, you are sometimes notified your character has gone off to battle porn elementals. I always wondered what that would look like. I think you have answered that for me.

Desuwa
Jun 2, 2011

I'm telling my mommy. That pubbie doesn't do video games right!

Angela Christine posted:

Okay kids time give up on your dreams of art school. Computers have taken over abstract and impressionistic art, there is nothing left for you.

Keru
Aug 2, 2004

'n suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us 'n the sky was full of what looked like 'uge bats, all swooping 'n screeching 'n divin' around the ute.
The landscape ones remind me of Starry Night, actually.

Broken Cog
Dec 29, 2009

We're all friends here
Hello new desktop background.

Google's Gallery has some more really amazing ones.

Broken Cog has a new favorite as of 23:44 on Jun 20, 2015

Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

wiggle wiggle




Next time a show does Zoom-Enhance-Zoom-Enhance until the computer is basically making poo poo up, I want the results to come out looking like these things.

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

📈📊🍪😋



Tomero_the_Great posted:

You really need the hi-res for full effect:


I like how the program goal on this one was "Find animals in this picture"

They were expecting "<-- horse"

They got "Dogs, dogs everywhere :byodood:"

Buff Skeleton
Oct 24, 2005

Google is just now seeing what haunted H.P. Lovecraft's dreams and will soon consume us all

bustercasey
Apr 9, 2012
Gary’s Answer

This is in Rhode Island.

Reign Of Pain
May 1, 2005

Nap Ghost

bustercasey posted:


This is in Rhode Island.

Post the other 3 pictures of Rhode Island

GOTTA STAY FAI
Mar 24, 2005

~no glitter in the gutter~
~no twilight galaxy~
College Slice

Buff Skeleton posted:

Google is just now seeing what haunts Junji Ito's dreams and will soon consume us all

ftfy

Auxiliary Treats
Jun 26, 2013

Broken Cog posted:

Hello new desktop background.

Google's Gallery has some more really amazing ones.


There's a video tucked in there that's really trippy.
Link

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

SLOSifl
Aug 10, 2002


Pierson posted:

This one is loving incredible.
Even more amazing, a lot of them were generated from pure random noise.

Soulex
Apr 1, 2009


Cacati in mano e pigliati a schiaffi!

That poo poo is equal parts terrifying and amazing. I wonder what they would make of Evildraed's pictures or something really loving creepy already.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right

captainOrbital posted:

What happens if they turn off SafeSearch?

They recreate HR Giger's entire portfolio

SnowblindFatal
Jan 7, 2011

Soulex posted:

That poo poo is equal parts terrifying and amazing. I wonder what they would make of Evildraed's pictures or something really loving creepy already.

:nws: http://i.imgur.com/9o2FDsl.jpg :nws:

dialhforhero
Apr 3, 2008
Am I 🧑‍🏫 out of touch🤔? No🧐, it's the children👶 who are wrong🤷🏼‍♂️

:stonk: was all I could see in this.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right

Didn't someone making an animated .gif version of something like this which was even more horrifying?

Ra Ra Rasputin
Apr 2, 2011
The rabbit hole always goes deeper.

fosborb
Dec 15, 2006



Chronic Good Poster
Look at this guy, doesn't even know what a cervix is.

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mrkillboy
May 13, 2003

"Something witty."

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