that gadulka shashtar solo takes the cake. I had to research the exact instrument because they have similar shaped ones with different number of strings throughout Eastern Europe and the Eurasian republics. I think this is the tar or shashtar, but I’ll obsess over it until I’m certain. So far I have three favorite songs from Eurovision, this one from Azerbaijan; Iceland, VÆB – RÓA which also has an epic trad violin solo; and Australia, Milkshake Man for the style and humour.
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The film is so cryptic, it is rendered completely meaningless. If the film does have a meaning, it is doubtless objectionable.
this art film is screening today at Musée des Beaux Arts along with other Paris avant-garde films. It was censored because the critics had no idea what is going on in there.
La coquille et le clergyman (1927)
Germaine Dulac – 40 min
K-Pop Dance Pose Detection AI Model
Speaking of ideas that want to be developed, I’m still waiting for a viable pose detection model to be made. It would be nice to take any dance practice video and ask AI to break down the moves per dancer and make a tutorial, like a dance prof would do. Not like I haven’t asked. At this point any rudimentary model can give you accurate legal information from any jurisdiction and any period of time. Constitution, piece of cake. Criminal law, litigation, novel legal questions, all covered. When it comes to dance however, seems like the hardest thing to do.
Since the paper on Comparative K-Pop Choreography Analysis Through Deep Learning Pose Estimation across a Large Video Corpus came out in 2021 in the Digital Humanities Quarterly, I haven’t seen any advancement.
Since then, the video corpus of dance practice has considerably expanded thanks to humans and it should be so much easier for AI, right? Right?!?
Crickets.
the number of humans you will need to annotate frames to make datasets for the model to run would exceed the number of humans on this planet.
There are AI-based apps from 3 years ago like SyncTrainer that allow you to upload your performance to compare of a K-pop chorus with the original dance practice to tell you approximately how well you did, but this is still on the level where humans get to do all the work. To use the app, I need to first detect all the poses myself, learn them, perform them, film them, upload them, to compare the final result. Quite a nuance. I want an app that can be a dance instructor.
here is where pose estimation is in 2025, (https://viso.ai/deep-learning/pose-estimation-ultimate-overview/ ), so pretty much nowhere. Anyone who tells you that AI can replace humans is misinformed. I personally ain’t gonna lift a finger to change that.
AI’s defense regarding the main challenges of pose detection
Detecting the human pose is a challenging task because the body’s appearance changes dynamically due to diverse forms of clothing, arbitrary occlusion, occlusions due to the viewing angle, and background contexts. Pose estimation needs to be robust to challenging real-world variations such as lighting and weather.
Therefore, it is challenging for image processing models to identify fine-grained joint coordinates. It is especially difficult to track small and barely visible joints.
The main challenges of pose detection in AI and computer vision include:
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Occlusions: When body parts are hidden or blocked by other objects or people, it becomes difficult for the model to accurately detect and track keypoints. This is a significant issue in crowded scenes or when people are interacting closely.
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Crowded Scenes: Detecting and tracking multiple individuals in crowded environments is complex. The model must distinguish between different people and their respective keypoints, which can be challenging when individuals overlap or are in close proximity.
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Motion Blur and Defocus: In video sequences, motion blur and defocused video frames can degrade the performance of pose estimation models. These issues are particularly problematic for real-time tracking, where the model needs to handle dynamic and fast-moving scenarios.
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Temporal Dependency: Capturing the temporal dependency among video frames is crucial for accurate multi-frame human pose estimation. However, this is a challenging task, especially when dealing with high-speed movements or complex interactions.
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Variations in Body Size and Pose: Pose estimation models must account for variations in body size and pose. For example, some bodies may be farther from the camera, making certain body parts almost invisible and difficult to estimate.
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Lighting Conditions and Backgrounds: Different environments with varying light contrast and complex backgrounds can affect the accuracy of pose estimation. The model needs to be robust enough to handle these variations.
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Limited Data and Annotated Datasets: Training pose estimation models requires large and diverse annotated datasets. For highly specific movements, such as those in rehabilitation or sports, custom data is often necessary, which can be time-consuming and costly to obtain.
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Model Complexity and Performance: More advanced pose estimation models with high accuracy can be computationally expensive and have a large memory footprint. Balancing model complexity and performance is a challenge, especially for deployment on various devices with different computational capabilities.
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Privacy Concerns: While privacy concerns are generally less relevant in human pose estimation compared to other computer vision tasks, they can still arise, particularly in applications involving surveillance or personal data.
Addressing these challenges requires ongoing research and development in areas such as dataset creation, model architecture, and algorithm optimization.
Rebelling against the butterfly
A little bird told no one that ideas are like butterflies. They land on you and want to be manifested through no less than your hard labor, sleepless nights, anxiety, workaholism, compromising your health when you have no chance to see a doctor in the next 6 months, and ending up looking like shit in the course of the manifestation of that random idea.
If you don’t start toiling for that uninvited butterfly immediately, it will go land on someone else and that person will develop the idea. Wow!
You know what. Go land somewhere else. I literally couldn’t care less. What I find appalling is that you landed on me! Do I still look like a slave to you buddy?
Not only are we’re at capacity here and the guest-list is closed at the moment, but most importantly, there is zero duty to act in the matter of ideas. I’m always happy when someone else develops some crazy shit I thought of first.
This is hell. Don’t forget you’re here to suffer. Don’t voluntarily take more stupid burdens upon yourself no matter how romanticized. It is like consenting to suffering. For what?
The less you act upon your impulses the better off you’ll be for it. And do not give away biometric data just because the butterfly said so. The only way out is total detachment and cancelation of all desires. So the exact opposite of “hey, I just thought it would be cool to have this product I just thought of, so let’s launch this AI startup, file for a patent, overleverage ourselves to borrow money from the bank, find an openspace concept office in a cool area, hire a bunch of people, and start pitching the product we haven’t developed yet” How about, no thanks!
Tell the butterfly to respectfully go and eff itself, or if you want to sound Canadian tell that butterfly to “butt out”.
PS: the only time I’d recommend doing something and following through is when you can’t sit still or have peace UNLESS you do that. This is not a butterfly, it is more like a mothership that summons you with flashing neons, sirens and alarms. That’s literally the only time I act. If I can’t peace out and something MUST be done and it doesn’t leave me alone, then I will do it. It has to be extremely important or essential.
Otherwise, being and remaining alive is enough work as it is. There is no place for ideas or speech for that matter. I once had an idea that speech should be banned and I had a crush on Justice Moraes for a second. Did I need to act upon that idea? You have no idea the twisted butterflies that come around…
Blackest Day, Lana Del Rey – Darker and Darker
final song of Episode 6 of the 6th season of The Handmaid’s Tale. Very appropriate for the moment. At about the 4:20 mark there is a significant intrapolation from a very old song. I think it is by the Beach Boys but I can’t remember the name.
Just an illusion (original basis for epic intrapolation)
the Weeknd, I’m Love With a Starboy intrapolates a hook from this song from the 80s.
This is an example of sort-up upbeat songs containing vulnerable element that is super melancholic and reminds of some sort of disillusionment, or coming out of the wrong dream or something tragic like that… I can’t pin it.
And This
honestly, the soundtrack of Handmaid’s Tale Season 6 slays so far. It is a major improvement from previous years. It would be helpful to have an official playlist on Spotify.
Was looking for this
i think I heard it in the Handmaid’s Tale Season 6. I can’t wait for the rest of the season.
I wish this room were emptier
When we start comparing our suffering, they’ve won – June Osborne, Handmaid’s Tale, Episode 5
I only caught up yesterday with the new Handmaid’s Tale new season, and binge-watched the first 5 episodes. I really like the softened down version of Gilead and the diplomatic zone between Canada and it. It comes to show that even the most totalitarian regime can’t survive for too long without elements of progress, or rather perceived progress.
The deception necessary for the existence of any world order is not viable without making people believe that things are on the way to become better, all while reinforcing the same patterns of oppression.
The great reset you thought was coming from the pandemic and an irrelevant international economy forum is currently being embraced by the same people who fought it tooth and nail. The precedents for lawlessness, political lawfare (a.k.a. frivolous lawsuits against political opponents) and judicial uselessness have been firmly set over the past 5 years.
The people who complain now were entirely in favor of totalitarian mandates for years, including thousands of executive orders with zero judicial oversight due to covid. Now unlimited executive power has been fully normalized and the people who used to complain are totally on board with executive orders canceling due process. It means that the judicial branch will likely disappear from the map in North America, a bit like the federal parliament disappeared from Canada since last year and everyone thinks it’s perfectly fine to live without parliament. Maybe we never needed the legislative and the judiciary branch ever. Who knows, let’s find out .