DeepDream - a code example for visualizing Neural Networks Posted by Alexander Mordvintsev, Software Engineer, Christopher Olah, Software Engineering Intern and Mike Tyka, Software Engineer Two weeks ago we blogged about a visualization tool designed to help us understand how neural networks work and what each layer has learned. In addition to gaining some insight on how these networks carry out classification tasks, we found that this process also generated some beautiful art. We have seen a lot of interest and received some great questions, from programmers and artists alike, about the details of how these visualizations are made. We have decided to open source the code we used to generate these images in an IPython notebook, so now you can make neural network inspired images yourself! The code is based on Caffe and uses available open source packages, and is designed to have as few dependencies as possible.
Surface Pro 3: Common Problems and How to Fix Them Is your Surface Pro 3 on the fritz? If so, you’re in the right place. Here, we examine some of the most common Surface Pro 3 problems that people have been experiencing, and see if we can figure out workarounds or solutions. Related: Microsoft Surface Pro 3 review, Best accessories for your Surface Pro 3 Click on an issue to jump to it: Problem: Random freezing A lot of people have been complaining that their Surface Pro 3 keeps freezing randomly. There’s no common cause, so try to pay attention to what you were doing when the freeze occurred. Possible workaround: Hold down the Power button and the Volume up button for 15 seconds. Other potential solutions: Make sure that your Surface Pro 3’s firmware is completely up to date. Glitch: Cursor disappears Some Surface Pro 3 owners have found that folding the Type Cover keyboard back makes the cursor disappear, and it refuses to return when the keyboard is flipped back around. Workaround: Try removing and reattaching the cover. Workarounds:
Google is working on a project that will test the artistic ability of AI Google is working on a new project to determine if artificial intelligence can ever be truly creative. The project, called Magenta, was unveiled this weekend at Moogest in Durham, North Carolina, Quartz reports. During a presentation at Moogfest, Google Brain researcher Douglas Eck said the goal of the new group is to determine if AI is capable of creating original music and visual art somewhat independently of humans. Can AI be creative? The Magenta team will use Google's open-source machine learning software TensorFlow, and try to "train" AI to make art. A member of the Magenta team, Adam Roberts, demoed a digital synth program that could make music after listening to notes played by a human. The idea itself — that AI can be used to create art — is not new. Magenta will publicly launch at the start of June, Quartz reports. SourceQuartz
Burrows Apps Blog: How to hack Scribd to download documents for free How to download documents for free I was looking at an online document that SOMEONE ELSE UPLOADED and it was very helpful, so I wanted to download it. Scribd however, wanted to charge a daily fee of around $5 dollars to download the content, when it clearly says someone uploaded it. Here was the document that I wanted: For Public ID's(2012): *document ID* = 90924585 ID*/ or ID*/download Insert the number id in the here ^ Sometimes using the first download link is better because it creates a download button. Update(2/18/12): For Private ID's: Example URLs: Right-click > View Page Source > Save as to a document on your computer *Make sure you do this to get the entire "Generated Source" (I used Mozilla FireFox)
alt-AI Download James Joyce's Ulysses_ A Study - Old Pirate Bay Type: Books Files: Size: Seeders: Leechers: Info Hash: ddae5f78c0b0396a1b01bb74f3846beb4d0bd396 Stuart Gilbert - James Joyces Ulysses: A Study (Vintage, 1955). 405 pages. Alt-AI — Artists and Machine Intelligence Alt-AI I recently attended #alt-ai, a mini conference on Art and MI organized by Gene Kogan, Lauren Gardner, and folks at the School for Poetic Computation (sfpc) in New York City. The event took place in a building that was previously occupied by Bell Labs and was the location of 9 evenings almost 50 years ago. The building later became the Westbeth Artist community (home to many influential and successful artists over the years) and is now home to sfpc. All the #alt-ai talks can be watched in full here: Friday The first day started with a gallery opening (about 30 pieces, many shown on Openframe.io) and 4 speakers. Gene Kogan gave an intro and a bird’s eye view of the sudden explosion of interest in this field over the last year. Cassie Tarakajian presented some VR visualizations of a CNN, based on something like this: but in a VR environment. She also had a live demo in the gallery: Saturday Sunday
Adding new icons to Scrivener | Catherine Felt NOTE: If you have the newest version of Scrivener for Windows — You can do this! It’s a brand new thing for Windows Scrivener… Hope you enjoy! If you’re a visual person like me, you probably use the icons in Scrivener quite a lot. But a lot of people don’t realize that you can import your own custom icons to make your manuscript more friendly for those who rely on visual organization. And now a screenshot of work I did on Saturday, a binder with totally new icons. What is a keyword, you might ask? Let me show you how. Right-click on the item you want to change the icon of. “Okay, cool,” you might be saying. Andygrunt at the Literature and Latte forums collected a great set of almost 200 icons here. Icon Archive has some great icons and is organizedFlaticon has a tremendous number of black and white icons (a lot of them used above)Free Icons! So, how do you do it? At the bottom of the image above you can see where it says “Manage Icons.” What’s the difference between the two options?
8 AI Designers You Need To Know – Forbes Top AI Designers you need to know Advances in the field of artificial intelligence may be easy to trace, but mapping out emerging implications, risks, use cases, and opportunities can easily short-circuit anyone’s brain. Fortunately, a few people make it their passion to specialize in AI and its allied fields, helping make the seemingly encrypted language of artificial intelligence understandable to all. From the technical to the aesthetic, and from the ethical side of AI to its impact on business, here are the eight top AI designers making the important decisions pairing human imagination with machine intelligence. Lili Cheng Distinguished Engineer, Corporate VP and General Manager, Microsoft FUSE Labs Lili Cheng Douglas Eck Research Scientist at Google Brain, leading the Magenta project Douglas Eck You’d think most people who pursue the humanities do it just to escape math, but the truth is — even art can be distilled into numbers. Caroline Sinders Caroline Sinders Mario Klingemann
Icon Archive - Search 558,874 free icons, desktop icons, download icons, social icons, xp icons, vista icons generative art | artnome When you can produce an image or an effect with the push of a button, it usually gets old quick. So it is not hard to imagine that we will see something akin to the tsunami of images with Photoshop filters we were inundated with in the early ‘90s. In fact, Valenzuela is building a tool suite not unlike Photoshop, but leveraging AI to democratize the new tools for artists and designers. I'm not going to lie, I want to be first in line to play with it. As AI technology becomes increasingly available, artistry and technical advancement will only become more important in separating the remarkable AI artists from those repurposing old tools built by others or simply pushing a button to achieve an overused visual paradigm. This post stems from me hearing too many people say they "do not like digital art.” My goal was to help you fall in love with generative art - or at least give you a better understanding of it - without having to talk about code and math.
Want to try Scribd free for 3 months? By Juli Monroe I’ve been a fan of Scribd since they started with ebook subscriptions last year. Even though I’ve also been impressed with Kindle Unlimited, Scribd remains my subscription service of choice for now. They recently updated both their Android and iOS apps with two-columns in landscape (long overdue!), and the apps now mimic the website redesign with new discoverability options. (And my library continues to grow–like I needed to discover more books!) While Scribd is not the best option if you like to read on an eInk device, it’s pretty darned good if you don’t mind reading on a phone or tablet. But don’t take my word for it. Enjoy some free reading!