Posts for: mallen1330
Apr 28, 2024 21:20:42 #
Curmudgeon wrote:
As we know Adobe has been integrating more and more AI features...
It would help if the "AI" image software included EXIF metadata in the image files revealing how it was created.
The term "AI" is a headline grabbing, misleading catch phrase that gets applied to all kinds of software that has nothing to do with "intelligence" - artificial or otherwise. "Machine Learning" is a better description, even though these algorithms do not "learn" the way humans do. Using super computer power, they are able to wade through huge data sets and be trained to recognize specific patterns in timely ways above human ability. The ones and zeros in a digital image is a fairly large data set. For example machine learning software can be trained to recognize the signs of lung cancer by analyzing hundreds of X-Ray or CT scan images.
60 Minutes had a segment tonight on "AI" and Nvidia, the company that made deep machine learning possible with its graphics processing chips and super computers. It also discusses why "AI" is not magic and cannot eclipse human creativity. View the 60 Minutes segment here: https://www.cbsnews.com/video/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-60-minutes-video-2024-04-28/
Apr 26, 2024 22:52:26 #
Nice shots! Thanks for posting.
I love urban parking garages as they provide great views from the top levels for photos of the surrounding architecture.
I love urban parking garages as they provide great views from the top levels for photos of the surrounding architecture.
Mar 21, 2024 13:17:24 #
That's what happens to Ektachrome slides after 48 years. The colors fade, but magenta last longer than the others. It didn't bother me, as I'm red-green colorblind
Mar 6, 2024 22:24:33 #
I just realized that this place, one of my favorite places in the Chicago Loop embodies similar concepts of the protective environment in a project I did during my freshman first year in the School of Architecture and Allied Arts at the University of Oregon in 1964. I think the task was to design a space that reflects or supports a basic human need or emotion. I thought that a somewhat mysterious, fortress-like structure full of gardens and other artistic delights would foster people of different backgrounds and experience to feel safe to come together, engage in a community, discussing issues in a protective environment. Physical and emotional safety leads to dialog and growth.
The photos were taken 12 years later when I worked for an architectural firm in the loop.
The photos were taken 12 years later when I worked for an architectural firm in the loop.
Nov 18, 2023 11:59:22 #
Great images. Thanks for posting.
Jul 24, 2023 19:47:48 #
Here's more history of this magnificent building and it's father time clock:
http://drloihjournal.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-father-time-clock-at-the-jewelers-building-chicago.html
http://drloihjournal.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-father-time-clock-at-the-jewelers-building-chicago.html
Jul 12, 2023 14:58:13 #
First National Plaza:
My favorite place to eat my lunch on hot summer days in the center of the Chicago Loop.
10 South Dearborn Street, is a 60-story skyscraper Designed by Perkins+Will completed in 1969 as First National Plaza. It's now JPMorgan Chase Bank,
It was a great public space to meet friends in the deep sunken plaza with a jet fountain and Marc Chagall's ceramic multi-sided mural "Four Seasons".
These 70s photos bridge between architecture and street.
My favorite place to eat my lunch on hot summer days in the center of the Chicago Loop.
10 South Dearborn Street, is a 60-story skyscraper Designed by Perkins+Will completed in 1969 as First National Plaza. It's now JPMorgan Chase Bank,
It was a great public space to meet friends in the deep sunken plaza with a jet fountain and Marc Chagall's ceramic multi-sided mural "Four Seasons".
These 70s photos bridge between architecture and street.
Jul 11, 2023 18:25:04 #
Marina City:
Designed in 1959 by architect Bertrand Goldberg and constructed between 1961 and 1968
It had it all: Residential; Offices; Marina; Theater; Gym; Swimming Pool; Ice Rink; Bowling Alley; Retail Shopping and Restaurants
Bertrand didn't like right angles. I liked it for the urban patterns.
Designed in 1959 by architect Bertrand Goldberg and constructed between 1961 and 1968
It had it all: Residential; Offices; Marina; Theater; Gym; Swimming Pool; Ice Rink; Bowling Alley; Retail Shopping and Restaurants
Bertrand didn't like right angles. I liked it for the urban patterns.
Jul 10, 2023 19:16:29 #
Here's a more contemporary shot from about the same angle, taken during the Chicago Open House tour a couple years ago. In the top image from the 70s on the right you can see Grant Park with the exposed Illinois Central tracks.
This one has new skyscrapers in the way, but if you look closely you can see the Chicago "bean" in the newer Millennium Park at the right edge of the shot.
This one has new skyscrapers in the way, but if you look closely you can see the Chicago "bean" in the newer Millennium Park at the right edge of the shot.
Jul 10, 2023 12:24:37 #
Jewelers' Building
Built from 1925 to 1927, and was co-designed by Joachim Giæver and Frederick P. Dinkelberg.
The showroom of architect Helmut Jahn was atop the building inside the dome, which was also once a restaurant called the Stratosphere Club
Helmut Jahn (January 4, 1940 – May 8, 2021) a member of the "Chicago Seven" designed several landmarks such as the Thompson Center was killed while riding his bicycle where I used to live in St. Charles.
In the background: Prudential Building, Standard Oil (Aon Center), Carbide and Carbon Building.
Photos were taken from my drafting board when I worked for Metz and Associates - on the top floor of the United Insurance Building (now Kemper Insurance Building).
Built from 1925 to 1927, and was co-designed by Joachim Giæver and Frederick P. Dinkelberg.
The showroom of architect Helmut Jahn was atop the building inside the dome, which was also once a restaurant called the Stratosphere Club
Helmut Jahn (January 4, 1940 – May 8, 2021) a member of the "Chicago Seven" designed several landmarks such as the Thompson Center was killed while riding his bicycle where I used to live in St. Charles.
In the background: Prudential Building, Standard Oil (Aon Center), Carbide and Carbon Building.
Photos were taken from my drafting board when I worked for Metz and Associates - on the top floor of the United Insurance Building (now Kemper Insurance Building).
Jul 9, 2023 13:14:54 #
33 W Kinzie St, Chicago, IL 60654
Kinzie House (70s) later became Harry Caray's Italian Steakhouse
Built for the Chicago Varnish Company in 1895 under the supervision of its renowned architect, Henry Ives Cobb, 33 West Kinzie is the only remaining example of 19th century Dutch Renaissance Architecture left in the city.
The historic landmark building which houses the restaurant has a storied past, including ties to notorious gangsters Frank Nitti and Al Capone.
http://www.harrycarays.com/nitti.html
Kinzie House (70s) later became Harry Caray's Italian Steakhouse
Built for the Chicago Varnish Company in 1895 under the supervision of its renowned architect, Henry Ives Cobb, 33 West Kinzie is the only remaining example of 19th century Dutch Renaissance Architecture left in the city.
The historic landmark building which houses the restaurant has a storied past, including ties to notorious gangsters Frank Nitti and Al Capone.
http://www.harrycarays.com/nitti.html
Jul 8, 2023 11:56:54 #
Sun Times - Daily News, Wrigley Building, Tribune Tower along the river.
Chicago Sun-Times Building -- Ugly but loved.
401 N. Wabash, was demolished in 2004 to make way for the Trump International Hotel and Tower.
Wrigley:
Its two towers in an elaborate style were built between 1920 and 1924 to house the corporate headquarters of the chewing gum Wrigley Company. Designed by the architectural firm of Graham, Anderson, Probst & White
Tribune Tower:
built in 1923-1925, the result of an international interior and exterior design competition for Tribune's new headquarters. It has gargoyles and flying buttresses.
Chicago Sun-Times Building -- Ugly but loved.
401 N. Wabash, was demolished in 2004 to make way for the Trump International Hotel and Tower.
Wrigley:
Its two towers in an elaborate style were built between 1920 and 1924 to house the corporate headquarters of the chewing gum Wrigley Company. Designed by the architectural firm of Graham, Anderson, Probst & White
Tribune Tower:
built in 1923-1925, the result of an international interior and exterior design competition for Tribune's new headquarters. It has gargoyles and flying buttresses.
Jun 6, 2023 22:04:02 #
OwlHarbor wrote:
Yes, but it is machine/equipment/device-specific, third-party apps can not be used. The simple part limits the flexibility of the camera.
Longshadow wrote:
What does it really need to do other than take pictures?
I've been happily using a great third-party app on my Canon EOS for the last couple years: Magic Lantern (http://magiclantern.fm/) It adds many features that I find indispensable now...
Jun 3, 2023 11:05:02 #
Jerry G wrote:
The rule of en passant, white has made three moves black has made two, that is probably what they are talking about.
And yet, all of black's pieces are on their original squares.
Jun 2, 2023 18:51:00 #
Here's an example of "AI" changing our world:
I play chess on Chess.com where you can play against "bots" or "Chess Engines", at various skill levels.
Stockfish is a free open-source engine - the strongest chess engine available to the public. Developed using C++ in 2008. Originally using a brute force algorithm, it was updated a few years ago to use "Efficiently Updatable Neural Networks" (EUNN) in order to maintain its superiority over newer programs using NN tech (AlphaZero and Leela Chess Zero). At its highest level of difficulty, even chess grand masters cannot beat it.
Chess.com uses Stockfish for its bots and its tools members can use to analyze games.
High level players note that Stockfish often makes moves that seem weird, or "That's not a move a human would make" But, it is always a winning move!
Since now chess is mostly played online, it is easy to cheat by checking engine moves and feeding them into your online game. This happens a lot. However Chess.com and other sites have developed algorithms that detect move sequences that are too perfect, "strange inhuman" engine moves, and other "tells" that indicate an engine is involved.
They out cheaters and suspend or ban them from the site and online tournaments.
The world (at least the chess world) was rocked by the accusation by Magnus Carlsen (the world champion) after his surprising loss to Hans Niemann in an in-person "over the board" tournament, that Hans secretly used a chess engine somehow.
http://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/sports/chess-cheating-hans-niemann-magnus-carlsen.html
I play chess on Chess.com where you can play against "bots" or "Chess Engines", at various skill levels.
Stockfish is a free open-source engine - the strongest chess engine available to the public. Developed using C++ in 2008. Originally using a brute force algorithm, it was updated a few years ago to use "Efficiently Updatable Neural Networks" (EUNN) in order to maintain its superiority over newer programs using NN tech (AlphaZero and Leela Chess Zero). At its highest level of difficulty, even chess grand masters cannot beat it.
Chess.com uses Stockfish for its bots and its tools members can use to analyze games.
High level players note that Stockfish often makes moves that seem weird, or "That's not a move a human would make" But, it is always a winning move!
Since now chess is mostly played online, it is easy to cheat by checking engine moves and feeding them into your online game. This happens a lot. However Chess.com and other sites have developed algorithms that detect move sequences that are too perfect, "strange inhuman" engine moves, and other "tells" that indicate an engine is involved.
They out cheaters and suspend or ban them from the site and online tournaments.
The world (at least the chess world) was rocked by the accusation by Magnus Carlsen (the world champion) after his surprising loss to Hans Niemann in an in-person "over the board" tournament, that Hans secretly used a chess engine somehow.
http://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/sports/chess-cheating-hans-niemann-magnus-carlsen.html