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hexual OP ,
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That’s very nice of you to say! Ta very much!

hexual OP ,
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And that’s precisely why I shot it! Thank you!

hexual OP ,
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Thanks!

hexual OP ,
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A large part of the Yorkshire Dales is comprised of limestone. Limestone kinda dissolves a bit in water and acid rain, so when the water runs through the cracks and joints in the limestone, it can create cool slabs called “clints” separated by deep fissures known as “grikes” or “grykes”.

A System to Remove Real-World Reflections from RAW Photos (arxiv.org)

“We describe a system to remove real-world reflections from images for consumer photography. Our system operates on linear (RAW) photos, with the (optional) addition of a contextual photo looking in the opposite direction, e.g., using the selfie camera on a mobile device, which helps disambiguate what should be considered the...

hexual OP ,
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Totally. Become a firm favourite of mine when visiting Skye.

hexual OP ,
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I am not. I hadn’t heard of it tbh.

hexual OP ,
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Thanks! This is a single exposure from a 210mm zoomed in composition. I saw the band of light hitting the distant house and moorland, with the Storr in deep shadow due to the storm above, so nabbed it quick as I could.

hexual OP ,
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You’re exactly. Sunlight was scanning across the moorland, so I had to be quick.

hexual OP ,
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Ah, your shot is taken from Elgol on the Strathaird peninsula, north of where my image is from (on the Sleat peninsula). Lovely moody conditions! Skye’s beautiful no matter what.

hexual OP ,
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Oh aye, the ruins of Dun Scaich castle. Totally agree, an ancient place; you feel it in your bones.

Bard becomes Gemini: Google launches their most powerful LLM, Ultra 1.0 (blog.google)

Today we’re launching Gemini Advanced — a new experience that gives you access to Ultra 1.0, our largest and most capable state-of-the-art AI model. In blind evaluations with our third-party raters, Gemini Advanced with Ultra 1.0 is now the most preferred chatbot compared to leading alternatives....

Weaver: New Specialised Writing LLMs Outperform GPT-4 (arxiv.org)

Weaver introduces a new family of specialised large language models tailored for creative and professional writing. Offering models ranging from 1.8B to 34B parameters, said to outperform larger generalist models like GPT-4 by focusing on human-like text production and diverse content creation capabilities.

hexual ,
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This was also exactly why I moved away from Spotify.

Auckland Tower in Bishop Auckland, England (lemmy.world)

Its design is inspired by medieval wooden siege engines, which were propped against castle and fort walls to help invading armies breach defences. Adopting and inverting that same intention, the Auckland Tower borrows the design of those historic constructs to allow visitors to “breach” the castle’s history and allow...

hexual OP ,
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Thanks! Yeah there were a lot of folk taking sneaky snaps of that Ferrari.

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It’s about a 60-foot drop. All the plants are bracken, which turns a lovely rusty hue in the autumn.

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