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Sentient Play (formerly Chief Design Officer, IBM Watson; Microsoft, Adobe, etc.)

Austin, TX
Joined March 2007
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New game released today for #SXSW2019 itunes.apple.com/app/komrad-… – at Austin, TX
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Models such as Stable Diffusion are trained on copyrighted, trademarked, private, and sensitive images. Yet, our new paper shows that diffusion models memorize images from their training data and emit them at generation time. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2301.13188 👇[1/9]
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Do you sit at a computer for longer than 6 hours a day? You’re destroying your body if so. Here’s the setup you need to protect yourself from posture problems and crippling long-term injuries: 🧵
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Matt Damon providing a materialist explanation of changing cultural forms on a hot wings challenge show was the content I didn't know I needed today
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What's causing all these logos to look the same?
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Technologies are a double-edged sword. Utopia and Dystopia are both enabled by the same systems.
Largest 18th century scenographic or geometric city view - Joseph Huber's 1769 Vienna, Austria, in 24 sheets. 3.5x4.2 meters when joined. In tradition of Turgot's Paris of 1739. Incredible detail of city life and form. davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet…
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Just so you know……
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Hey #indiedev #PitchYaGame time! ⬇️ Share your #indiegame below and we will help promote your game! 🔁 Retweet our thread to help the games below #gamedev #indie #IndieGameDev #gaming
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New study says 4% of cancer studied in 2020 attributable to alcohol. apple.news/A61G8yt4iRyqSuYri…
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In 2018 - "I know God really exists and I have no doubts about it." Silent: 70% Boomers: 59% Gen X: 62% But, look at this huge gap between Gen X and Millennials. Millennials: 44% Gen Z: 33% The decline for Gen Z is staggering, too. 49% in 2014 39% in 2016 33% in 2018.
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100 years ago last week, my great-grandfather from Italy became a US citizen.
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PSA from my stomach: Dieting is just intentionally not eating enough to survive, in order to trick your body into eating itself. Your welcome.
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Actually managed to get vaccinated. A lot of people in line. The world’s not out of the woods yet but things seem to be heading in the right direction.
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The art of respectful disagreement is a lost art
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The Psychological Trick That Can Make Rewards Backfire youtu.be/1ypOUn6rThM via @YouTube good overview not just for game designers but for UX designers interested in designing payoffs into designs.
Ode to Colorado this week: Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. -Frost
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In case you need this:
Happy National Kids 👶🤸‍♂️🤸‍♀️ and Pets 🐕🦜🐢🦎🐍🐠 Day! AROOOOO!!! 🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾 #nationalkidsandpetsday #FridayFeeling #Happyfriday #happy #babies
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"Between 1989 and 2018, the top 1 percent increased its total net worth by $21 trillion. The bottom 50 percent actually saw its net worth decrease by $900 billion over the same period" peoplespolicyproject.org/201…
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