I've created multiple videos using Claude Code, including music and speech. It generates python which in turn generates frame PNGs that it runs through ffmpeg.
Please don't judge me too harshly for this particular poop video. But here is an example of something 100% generated with claude prompts only.
To clarify the ”100%” part - the Python script generated the video output, and you did nothing? No video edit at all?
Then I think it is impressive! Are you able to share the prompts you used?
> are heavily subsidised by the Chinese government
We hear this about literally every industry the Chinese excel in - that it's only because the government subsidizes them that they succeed. For chip manufacturing, for batteries, for EVs, for solar, for AI. I don't see how the chinese government can afford to subsidize all of these industries and still have them contribute to the GDP.
Having introduced my younger siblings, who grew up with much later systems like the PS3 and Nintendo Switch, I would have to agree with this statement. The Atari 2600 is pretty graphically primitive (feel like I read somewherre that it was only designed to display 5 movable objects on the entire screen at once) even though its super impressive what they were able to accomplish with it.
Another thing to remember: the NES sort of cheats in a sense, because the cartridges themselves could include onboard chips like the MMC3/5 [1] that extended the capabilities of the original NES, stretching its lifetime far further.
The Atari cheated too; Pitfall II used a David Crane-designed DPC chip [0], Atari's SARA Superchip on a number of the later carts like Crystal Castles and Jr. Pac-Man, and the Starpath Supercharger's [1] games were undeniably bigger and better looking.
The VCS released in 1978, Pitfall II in 1984 which shows the idea of offloading processing and memory came a looong way in just 4 years between Pitfall II, Nintendo's MMC1 in stuff like Legend of Zelda (1986) and the MMC3 in SMB3 (1988). Crane's DPC wasn't officially patented until 1987, the video game gap between 1984-88 is still mind-boggling.
Sounding like desktop/laptop with a mouse is the only way to interact with this site. It's a great first try though. I spent a few minutes poking around for sure.
It's only unified because we have republicans in power. As soon as we have democrats in power, republicans will only want the opposite of what is being proposed.
My mother's high school graduation present was a fully illustrated, complete set of the World Book Encyclopedia. It played second fiddle and competitor to Encyclopedia Britannica. Many families would purchase these as a limited subscription, where one volume would be delivered per month, until they collected the entire A-Z set.
Mom's encyclopedia contained some amazing anachronisms, by the time I started reading the books in the 1980s. The most interesting one to me was the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi. It included black-and-white photographs of natives in grass skirts and the ocean surf.
Imagine an app that could go back into Wikipedia's article revision history and present them, as they were, 25+ years ago. That's actually sort of impossible for technical reasons.
That doesn't matter a single bit, and I'm unsure of the effort of pointing it out to us. By the way, you are only looking at the English Wikipedia, not the whole thing.
The 12,000 articles in English is a vast amount, albeit many were stubs or rather deficient. But the World Book Encyclopedia covered any topic a college girl could ask for at the time.
Moreover, the book series is perfectly preserved to this day. In the 1980s it was already aged by 20-30 years, but the formatting, crisp photos, fonts, and all pages and references/index were still intact. I could page through it today and be transported back to the world of 70+ years ago without issues. That's how books work, right?
In contrast, English Wikipedia's history (and every other project) is a tangled tech-mess. It's chaos back there. Sure: you can grovel back in "View History" and recover any basic text of an article that your heart desires. But where shall you find a definitive one, a validated one? And moreover, you'll never recover its formatting, the associated images, and the external links have 100% rotted away to useless typosquatters and 404s. All the templates once used are modified, deleted, or broken. Wikimedia's vast Commons doesn't deliberately sync with anything else, so it's up to each language-project to keep track of the images they want to import from the Commons. You're essentially looking at thousands of huge file cabinets full of jumbled papers and media.
In all its touted wiki-glory, Wikipedia being a living library is astoundingly deficient and caught in a literal web of tech debt. Its pages today are geopolitical battlegrounds and fiefdoms of autists all across the spectrum. We can't avoid it; we can't live without it; but can we afford its monopoly on "truth"?
Now more to the point of this thread and the telescope images. Olden images were photographic plates. Before that, sketches and drawings. We still have Galileo's "moon dots" from Jupiter discovery!! Wow! But as we progressed from piles of photographic plates into digital data, who will process, catalog, and preserve all that data? The new telescopes coming online all represent veritable firehoses for scientists to drink from. How will they organize the torrents so that future generations will not die from thirst?
Enough alarm bells are ringing to suggest that this is not normal. The persecution of political enemies isn't even a veiled threat, they are spoken outright in public.
Right like the ~400 subpoenas on Republican lawmakers by Jack S with the tenuous linkage to the Jan riot. You might have reason to subpoena 10 or even 30 lawmakers who may have had some linkage but going after ~400 seems dubious.
An event like the Jan 6th putsch attempt would, in pretty much every democracy that has got some sense of self-preservation, result in at the very least intense public hearings, and outside of the European Union that bans the death penalty under all circumstances, followed by the chief perpetrators getting strung up at the same gallows they brought to hang Mike Pence off of.
The fact that barely any consequences came for those instigating the putsch, except a few of those dumb enough to do stuff like parade around in front of cameras, is completely inexcusable.
The brought a mock up of a gallows -the same kind other protesters bring to anti-Trump rallies. Should we punish people who went into the Congressional buildings? Yes! (Keep in mind we have hosted protests in Congress too) Do they need to subpoena ~400 lawmakers and $10 donors to the campaign? I think it’s obvious that that is overreach and intimidation.
> The brought a mock up of a gallows -the same kind other protesters bring to anti-Trump rallies.
I'm not aware of this being a widespread practice at anti-Trump rallies.
> Do they need to subpoena ~400 lawmakers and $10 donors to the campaign? I think it’s obvious that that is overreach and intimidation.
Well... it's not unlikely that there might have been "inside help" from lawmakers and/or their staff or even general Congressional staff. The purpose of an investigation is to go, dig deep and fully take apart whatever conspiracy there was.
As for the donors - anti-terrorist laws in pretty much every country don't care if it was just a $10 donation. Donate to a cause that ends up being terrorists, be labeled as a terrorism supporter.
the gallows mockup was one of the reasons for the reaction to the Jan 6th stuff.[0] , although as far as what political party the owning group is using it for or against is sort of up for grabs.
Rioting is not terrorism. Terrorism usually involves conspiracy and planning they're typically not one-time, ad-hoc events. I know governments all over the world like to go overboard with that terms since Sep 11 because it's a get-them for free kind of card, but to me it means actual infliction of terror. A mock gallows is not. If it were, lots of protests with burning effigies, etc. could quite possibly be considered terroristic events.
Subpoenas are an investigating tool. It's part of gathering the data. I think you may be confused. It's not in any way a punishment.
Do you think at that point he had it out for Republicans in general? Republican congressmen were appalled by what happened on Jan 6th, and it was only because they thought Trump would just go away that he wasn't convicted in the Senate.
Trying to frame that investigation as some sort of political witch hunt is ridiculous.
Please don't judge me too harshly for this particular poop video. But here is an example of something 100% generated with claude prompts only.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EqMplbt0gU
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