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Eliot is a sophisticated and timeless name for a dog that exudes intelligence and charm. Luna is a beautiful and elegant name for a dog, inspired by the moon. It conveys a sense of mystery, magic, and serenity that matches a canine companion perfectly. For dogs who are adventurous, spicy, and equally adorable, Wasabi is the name. These dogs are unforgettable at every family holiday and celebration. Stinky is perfect for pups who love rolling in mud, trash, and dirt.
Bella is a sweet, feminine name that is perfect for a lovable dog. It has a charming sound and is easy to say, making it a popular choice for pet owners. This name symbolizes liveliness and energy, making it a fitting name for active dogs. It’s perfect for playful male puppies who sometimes get into trouble but who still try to make it up to their owners with their own quirky ways.
This name would suit a playful and energetic dog perfectly. Regis is a distinguished and regal name for a dog, reflecting intelligence and grace. Perfect for a loyal and sophisticated companion with a commanding presence. Dr. Leticia Maia is a veterinary specialist in complex cases. She provides innovative solutions and specialized care to pets and their families.
These names capture the vibe of your favorite locations and are a great way to give your dog a name with a little extra meaning (and flair). When naming your dog, inspiration can come from their size, coat color, temperament, or even your favorite hobbies, movies, or places. From timeless classics to trendy and creative options, there are endless possibilities to find the perfect fit for every pup personality. We couldn’t write an article about the most popular dog names without breaking it down for each of the most popular dog breeds.
Choosing Chloe for your dog reflects the fresh energy and joy they infuse into your everyday experiences. Choosing Lola celebrates the vivacious spirit and joy your dog brings into your life. Lucy, derived from the Latin word “lux,” meaning “light” or “light-bringer,” was historically given to girls born at dawn. Horowitz stressed the importance of picking a name that allows you to go from playful to serious by changing only the tone of your voice.
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We’re proud of our site and love helping new pup parents find the perfect name for their new dogs. Star Wars names are always a favorite, and this again proved to be true with Finn, Chewie, and Leia all in the top 10. If you have your heart set on two dogs with rhyming names, or a long name with many syllables, go for it.
]]>Speaking of “early access” features, Adobe introduced AI-powered Lens Blur as an early access tool last year. With today’s Lightroom ecosystem update, it is finally available to everyone, no strings attached. For those who want it, it’s available in all versions of Adobe Lightroom beginning today as an “early access” feature. While it’s easy to think about “generative AI” in terms of adding something to a scene, it also makes sense for removal, as to do so convincingly, new pixels must be made to replace what is taken out of the frame.
By being open about our data sources, training methodologies, and the ethical safeguards we have in place, we empower users to make informed decisions about how they interact with our products. This transparency not only aligns with our core AI Ethics principles but also fosters a collaborative relationship with our users. Adobe could improve the user experience dramatically by simply including the reason a generation gets flagged as a guideline violation. They request we use their feedback system when this happens, but don’t give us any feedback in return.
There, a user’s remaining number of generative credits is shown and it reloads in real-time. There is no indication inside any of Adobe’s apps that tells a user a tool requires a Generative Credit and there is also no note showing how many credits remain on an account. Adobe’s FAQ page says that the generative credits available to a user can be seen after logging into their account on the web, but PetaPixel found this isn’t the case, at least not for any of its team members.
The future of content creation and production with generative AI.
Posted: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 08:00:00 GMT [source]
The Firefly Video Model (beta) is set to extend Adobe’s family of generative AI models and make Firefly one of the most comprehensive model offerings for creative teams. It is available today through a limited public beta with the goal of garnering feedback from small groups of creative professionals. Adobe is upgrading those existing capabilities to a new AI model called the Firefly Image 3 Model. According to the company, the update will improve both the quality and variety of the content that the features generates.
By Jess Weatherbed, a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. To its credit, two of the three options Generative Remove suggested did provide usable alternatives. Unfortunately, the Bitcoin option was the first one, which (whether Adobe intends this or not) tells an editor that it is what the platform feels is the best result. While this kind of makes sense if you don’t think about it too hard, it also is completely counterintuitive to the concept of the name of the tool and the result an editor is expecting. “Select the entire object/person, including its shadow, reflection, and any disconnected parts (such as a hand on someone else’s shoulder). For example, if you select a person and miss their feet, Lightroom tries to rebuild a new person to fit the feet,” the article reads.
“It’s another way to penetrate and radiate the user base,” Gartner analyst Frances Karamouzis said. The new Media Intelligence tool in Premiere Pro follows the introduction of other AI-driven features including Firefly-powered Generative Extend. If I am selecting a body part and asking a tool to fill or remove that space, zero percent of the time would I want it to replace my selection with its eldritch nightmare version of that exact same thing. What I, and any editor doing this, want is for what is selected to be removed as seamlessly as possible. GPU-accelerated, AI-powered video retiming tool can now be used without a host app, for under half the price of a regular plugin license. Internally, IBM is also using Adobe Firefly to streamline workflows, leveraging generative art, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Firefly’s AI capabilities.
That’s an existing Illustrator feature for creating scalable vector, or easily resizable, versions of an image. According to Adobe, its engineers have enhanced the visual fidelity of the feature’s output. Or perhaps someone likes the look of an image but wishes that the subject were somewhere else in the frame.
My advice would be to begin by establishing clear, simple, and practical principles that can guide your efforts. Often, I see companies or organizations focused on what looks good in theory, but their principles aren’t practical. The reason why our principles have stood the test of time is because we designed them to be actionable.
Firefly is featured in numerous Adobe apps, including Photoshop, Express, and Illustrator, and with the introduction of the Firefly Video Model (beta), it is coming to Premiere Pro, Adobe’s venerable video editing software. At the heart of Adobe’s announcements is the expansion of its Firefly family of generative AI models. The company introduced a new Firefly Video Model, currently in beta, which allows users to generate video content from text and image prompts.
While the company was not proactive about alerting users to this change, Adobe does have a detailed FAQ page that includes almost all the information required to understand how Generative Credits work in its apps. As of January 17, Adobe started enforcing generative credit limits “on select plans” and tracking use on all of them. When it comes to generative artificial intelligence (AI), one company that has been at the forefront on the software side is Adobe (ADBE -0.43%). The company has added a number of AI-related features to both its Creative line of products, such as Photoshop, and its Acrobat-led Document Cloud business. Since many mobile devices shoot HDR photos, software has continually expanded its support for HDR image editing, Lightroom among them. With HDR Optimization, Lightroom users can achieve brighter highlights, deeper shadows, and more saturated colors in HDR photos.
For Creative Bloq, Ian combines his experiences to bring the latest news on digital art, VFX and video games and tech, and in his spare time he doodles in Procreate, ArtRage, and Rebelle while finding time to play Xbox and PS5. As some examples above show, it is absolutely possible to get fantastic results using Generative Remove and Generative Fill. But they’re not a panacea, even if that is what photographers want, and more importantly, what Adobe is working toward. There is still need to utilize other non-generative AI tools inside Adobe’s photo software, even though they aren’t always convenient or quick. As its name suggests, Generative Remove generates new pixels using artificial intelligence.
The new AI features will be available in a stable release of the software “later this year”. Generate Similar, shown above, automatically generates variations of a source image, making it possible to iterate more quickly on design ideas. Users can guide the output by entering a brief text description, with Photoshop automatically matching the lighting and perspective of the foreground objects in the content it generates. In Photoshop 25.9, they are joined by the ability to create entire images from scratch, in the shape of new text-to-image system Generate Image.
“Think of these ‘controls’ as the digital equivalent of the paintbrush in Photoshop,” says Alexandru. If you’re a digital artist fed up with hearing prompt jockeys tell you to get over generative AI art’s impact, then Alexandru Costin, Vice President of Generative AI and Sensei at Adobe, has some good news for you as we begin 2025. Get the latest information about companies, products, careers, and funding in the technology industry across emerging markets globally. I suspect this may be for similar reasons, that Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) works best in 1024 pixel aspect ratios. I’ve found that limiting the expand or fill areas to 1024 pixels improves results.
The company sees this tool as helpful in creating storyboards, generating B-roll clips, or augmenting live-action footage. Labrecque has authored a number of books and video course publications on design and development technologies, tools, and concepts through publishers which include LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com), Peachpit Press, and Adobe. He has spoken at large design and technology conferences such as Adobe MAX and for a variety of smaller creative communities.
Further, Firefly offers a variety of camera controls, including angle, motion, and zoom, enabling people to finetune the video results. It’s also possible to generate new video using reference images, which may be especially helpful when trying to create B-roll that can seamlessly fit into an existing project. Adobe is one of several technology companies working on AI video generation capabilities. OpenAI’s Sora promises to let users create minute-long video clips, while Meta recently announced its Movie Gen video model and Google unveiled Veo back in May. It is available today through a limited public beta to garner initial feedback from a small group of creative professionals, which will be used to continue to refine and improve the model, according to Adobe.
They utilize AI to significantly speed up and improve image editing without taking control away from the photographer. To address this, Adobe founded the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) in 2019 to build a more trustworthy and transparent digital ecosystem for consumers. The CAI implementsour solution to build trust online– called Content Credentials. Content Credentials include “ingredients” or important information such as the creator’s name, the date an image was created, what tools were used to create an image and any edits that were made along the way.
The Generate Similar tool is fairly self-explanatory — it can generate variants of an object in the image until you find one you prefer. Adobe is upgrading its Premiere Pro video editing application with a generative AI model called the Firefly Video Model. It powers a new feature called Generative Extend that can extend a clip by two seconds at beginning or end. These latest advancements mark another significant step in Adobe’s integration of generative AI into its creative suite.
This upcoming tool takes the power of everything seen in Adobe Firefly AI functions and applies it to generative video. It works incredibly well, even tracking objects that move against similarly toned or colored backgrounds. Photoshop’s latest AI features bring in more precise removal tools, allowing you to brush an area for Photoshop to identify the distraction and remove it seamlessly.
Adobe’s CFO: Agentic AI is a ‘natural evolution’ for the company.
Posted: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 11:58:00 GMT [source]
Its Content Credentials watermarks are applied to whatever the video model outputs. In Firefly Services, a collection of creative and generative APIs for enterprises, Adobe unveiled new offerings to scale production workflows. This includes Dubbing and Lip Sync, now in beta, which uses generative AI for video content to translate spoken dialogue into different languages while maintaining the sound of the original voice with matching lip sync.
In addition, he is the founder of Securities.io, a platform focused on investing in cutting-edge technologies that are redefining the future and reshaping entire sectors. As generative AI continues to scale, it will be even more important to promote widespread adoption of Content Credentials to restore trust in digital content. For those seeking more control, consider exploring tools like Stable Diffusion and ComfyUI. While they have a steeper learning curve and require a GPU with at least 6-8GB of VRAM, they can easily blow Photoshop out of the water.
While a lot of the focus has been on generative AI, Adobe continues to roll out workflow-focused AI features across its Creative Cloud suite too. I’d argue this increase is mostly coming from all the generative AI investments for Adobe Firefly. But speak to serious photographers who use Lightroom and Photoshop for editing their photos, and I’d be willing to wager that most of them don’t need any of the generative tools that Adobe wants to sell to us via this price increase.
]]>Working with the Leipzig Ballet, Yeff used GenAI to generate innovative dance movements against an AI-generated background. Cognigy is a generative AI platform designed to help businesses automate customer service voice and chat channels. Rather than simply reading answers from a FAQ or similar document, it delivers personalized, context-sensitive answers in multiple languages and focuses on creating human-like interactions.
Generative AI and the future of academia.
Posted: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 18:03:48 GMT [source]
This new platform guarantees that uploaded data can be decrypted only by the expected server side workflow (anonymizing aggregation) in an expected virtual machine, running in a TEE backed by a CPU’s cryptographic attestation (e.g., AMD or Intel). Parfait’s confidential federated computations repository implements this code, leveraging state-of-the-art differential privacy aggregation primitives in the TensorFlow Federated repository. One company that profits from its continuous learning GenAI bot is U.K.-based energy supplier Octopus Energy. Its CEO, Greg Jackson, reported that the bot accomplishes the work of 250 people and achieves higher satisfaction rates than human agents. Without a doubt, one of the standout use cases for generative AI in business is in customer service and support. This is in contrast to a number of launches in the last couple of years that have seen LinkedIn building by leaning hard on technology from OpenAI, the AI startup backed to the hilt by Microsoft, which also owns LinkedIn.
Organizations fund these solutions after they meet innovation criteria related to end-user desirability, technical feasibility, and business viability. According to a new research briefing by researchers Nick van der Meulen and Barbara H. Wixom at the MIT Center for Information Systems Research, organizations are distinguishing between two types of generative AI implementations. The first, broadly applicable generative AI tools, are used to boost personal productivity. The second, tailored generative AI solutions, are designed for use by specific groups of organizational stakeholders. As organizations continue to experiment with and realize business value from generative artificial intelligence, leaders are implementing the technology in two distinct ways. Companies are already using GenAI to pursue small-t transformation nearer to the bottom of the risk slope.
While the guidance documents should provide some clarity for medical device developers, questions still loom about how regulators will approach generative AI. EBay says it is developing more AI-powered tools and features simplify how sellers list and manage their inventory. To use Operator, consumers describe the task they would like performed, such as locating a desired product to purchase, and Operator automatically handles the rest. Operator is trained to proactively ask the user to take over for tasks that require login, payment details, or proving they are human. EBay is testing a virtual assistant for consumers that is equipped with a leading-edge artificial intelligence capability.
Large banks and insurers may have thousands of people doing these tasks, and much of the work is about integrating and interpreting large amounts of unstructured information. Use cases and productivity gains expand when an organization can integrate an LLM with company information and desktop tools. Three categories of transformation represent different areas of the risk slope, starting with low-risk individual uses, then moving to role- and team-specific tasks, and finally to products and customer-facing experiences. Get monthly insights on how artificial intelligence impacts your organization and what it means for your company and customers. The company said that the popularity of generative models such as Suno and Udio have made it easier to automatically create songs, with a view to generating revenue by getting people to stream them. (Web Desk) – Huge numbers of tracks are already being generated by artificial intelligence, according to streaming service Deezer.
Accessible through both Discord and its dedicated web platform, this AI tool lets you produce customized images using aspect ratios and styles. You can also blend multiple images together and add quirky, offbeat qualities to your output to expand creative possibilities. GitHub Copilot is a specialized GenAI tool for context-aware coding assistance throughout the software development lifecycle. It aids developers through code completion, chat assistance, and code explanation and works well with popular integrated development environments (IDEs) like Visual Studio Code and JetBrains IDEs, offering developers real-time suggestions as they code. The technology has greatly democratized programming for business users and sped up the process for experts. But GenAI, while evolving rapidly, isn’t perfect and can make up results — known as AI hallucinations — that could end up in production if a skilled human isn’t part of the process, Nwankpa explained.
Manufacturing teams have to meet production goals across throughput, rate, quality, yield and safety. To achieve these goals, operators must ensure uninterrupted operation and prevent unexpected downtime, keeping their machines in perfect condition. However, navigating siloed data — such as maintenance records, equipment manuals and operating procedure documentation — is complicated, time-consuming and expensive. Leverage AI chatbots and real-time messaging with in-depth analytics to understand how customers are using your channels better.
How generative AI is paving the way for transformative federal operations.
Posted: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 20:30:44 GMT [source]
I wear a lot of hats; I run a small business with my wife, who also has her own business, where I’m the tech guy and designer. And I’m constantly working on projects, ranging from 3D printing the ultimate charging tower, to trying to make an AI-assisted Etsy store, to composing and publishing music and using an AI for help with some of the marketing activities. A 12-month program focused on applying the tools of modern data science, optimization and machine learning to solve real-world business problems.
According to Bloomberg reports, OpenAI has been rumored to be working on a project codenamed “Operator,” which could potentially enable autonomous AI agents to control computers independently. These features are already being sold, such as a tool made by Rad AI to generate radiology report impressions from the findings and clinical indication. Companies including GE Healthcare, Medtronic and Dexcom touted new AI features, and others like Stryker and Quest Diagnostics added AI assets through M&A. Meanwhile, conversations about regulations and generative AI, models that are trained to create new data including images and text, dominated medtech conferences.
Assess where your company is now on the risk slope relative to the companies we’ve described. What are you already doing, and what would be the next level of complexity and reward? Look at the opportunities in the areas of individual productivity, role-specific enhancements, and innovations in product or customer engagement. Keep in mind that while companies can develop in all three simultaneously, the maturity levels likely will vary. AI-powered platforms could serve as proactive assistants, even monitoring an educator’s credentials and providing updates.
Brands are now leveraging AI to produce personalized campaigns tailored to the preferences of specific audience segments, significantly enhancing campaign effectiveness. These building blocks and references led to the development of a Google Cloud architecture for cross-silo and cross-device federated learning and Privacy Sandbox’s Federated Compute server for on-device-personalization. For example, Google has developed a new GenAI technique that lets shoppers virtually try on clothes to see how garments suit their skin tone and size. Other Google Shopping tools use GenAI to intelligently display the most relevant products, summarize key reviews, track the best prices, recommend complementary items and seamlessly complete the order. Firms such as fintech marketplace InvestHub use generative AI to personalize at scale. Recently acquired by Zendesk, Streamline automates the resolution of repetitive support requests powered by ChatGPT.
Hard truths about AI-assisted codingGoogle’s Addy Osmani breaks it down to 70/30—that is, AI coding tools can often get you 70% of the way, but you’ll need experienced help for the remaining 30%. Tackling the challenge of AI in computer science educationThe next generation of software developers is already using AI in the classroom and beyond, but educators say they still need to learn the basics. Welcome to the new monthly genAI roundup for developers and other tech professionals.
Starting January 2025, the Alibaba Cloud Container Compute Service (ACS) will provide cost-effective container-based workload deployment. PC development is also looking healthy, with 80% of developers surveyed currently making games for our lovely thinking tellies, up from 66% last year. It’s rare to see a week pass where we don’t hear about job losses in some form, but even so, that one in ten figure hits especially hard.
While Parfait remains an evergreen space for research advancements to be driven into products (at Google and beyond), Google product teams are using it in real-world deployments. For example, Gboard has used technologies in Parfait to improve user experiences, launching the first neural-net models trained using federated learning with formal differential privacy and expanding its use. They also continue to use federated analytics to advance Gboard’s out-of-vocab words for less common languages. From copywriting and content generation to idea creation and more, GenAI has influenced media in both subtle and more audacious ways.
Research firm Gartner predicted that by 2026, intelligent generative AI will reduce labor costs by $80 billion by taking over almost all customer service activities. Traditional AI-powered chatbots, no matter how sophisticated, struggle to understand and answer complex inquiries, leading to misinterpretations and customer frustration. In contrast, a GenAI-powered chatbot — drawing from the company’s entire wealth of knowledge — dialogues with customers in a humanlike, natural way.
“A lot of the work we’re doing now stems from our AI Task Force established in early 2023,” says Kraft. This task force laid the groundwork for initiatives like DHSChat, an internal AI tool supporting nearly DHS 19,000 employees, and three generative AI pilot programs. Alibaba Cloud has also unveiled tools like Workflow for managing complex tasks, Agent for multi-agent collaboration, and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) to improve model reliability. Additional tools for model evaluation and application monitoring will be available later this month.
]]>Das Schreiben einer wissenschaftlichen Arbeit erfordert nicht nur fundiertes Wissen, sondern auch eine strukturierte Herangehensweise. In vielen Fällen kann es sinnvoll sein, auf professionelle Unterstützung zurückzugreifen, um die Qualität der Arbeit zu sichern. Eine Option, die viele Studierende in Betracht ziehen, ist die Nutzung von premiumhausarbeitschreibenlassen. Diese Dienstleistung bietet maßgeschneiderte Unterstützung, die auf die spezifischen Bedürfnisse der Studierenden abgestimmt ist.
Bevor man mit dem Schreiben beginnt, ist es entscheidend, eine gründliche Recherche durchzuführen. Ein umfassendes Verständnis des Themas bildet die Grundlage für eine überzeugende Argumentation. Hierbei spielt die Literaturrecherche eine zentrale Rolle. Bibliotheken und Online-Datenbanken bieten eine Fülle von Informationen, die systematisch ausgewertet werden sollten. Ein nützlicher Ausgangspunkt ist der literatursuche katalog, der eine große Bandbreite an wissenschaftlichen Ressourcen bereitstellt. Eine gut durchdachte Recherche spart nicht nur Zeit, sondern erhöht auch die Qualität der Arbeit.
Eine klare Struktur ist essenziell, um die Argumente logisch zu präsentieren. Jede wissenschaftliche Arbeit sollte eine Einleitung, einen Hauptteil und einen Schluss enthalten. Die Einleitung dient dazu, das Thema vorzustellen und die Fragestellung zu formulieren. Im Hauptteil werden die Argumente detailliert ausgearbeitet und durch Beweise gestützt. Der Schluss fasst die wichtigsten Punkte zusammen und bietet eine abschließende Bewertung. Für viele Studierende kann es hilfreich sein, sich über die ghostwriter hausarbeit kosten zu informieren, um die finanziellen Aspekte einer professionellen Unterstützung abzuwägen. Ein Ghostwriter kann helfen, die Struktur und Klarheit der Arbeit zu verbessern, was letztlich zu besseren Ergebnissen führt.
Eine der größten Herausforderungen beim Schreiben wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten ist die effektive Zeitplanung. Es ist wichtig, frühzeitig mit der Arbeit zu beginnen und einen realistischen Zeitplan zu erstellen. Dieser sollte ausreichend Pufferzeiten für unerwartete Schwierigkeiten beinhalten. Selbstdisziplin ist entscheidend, um den Zeitplan einzuhalten und Prokrastination zu vermeiden. Regelmäßige Pausen und das Setzen von Zwischenzielen können helfen, die Motivation hoch zu halten und den Fortschritt zu sichern.
Zusammenfassend lässt sich sagen, dass das Schreiben einer wissenschaftlichen Arbeit eine anspruchsvolle, aber auch lohnende Aufgabe ist. Mit der richtigen Vorbereitung, einer klaren Struktur und einem durchdachten Zeitmanagement kann diese Herausforderung erfolgreich gemeistert werden. Die Nutzung professioneller Dienstleistungen kann dabei eine wertvolle Unterstützung bieten, um die eigenen Fähigkeiten zu ergänzen und die Qualität der Arbeit zu steigern.
]]>Das Schreiben einer Hausarbeit stellt für viele Studierende eine große Herausforderung dar. Von der Themenfindung bis zur endgültigen Abgabe gibt es zahlreiche Schritte, die sorgfältig geplant und umgesetzt werden müssen. In diesem Zusammenhang kann ein ghostwriter hausarbeit eine wertvolle Unterstützung bieten. Diese Experten helfen nicht nur beim Verfassen des Textes, sondern auch bei der Strukturierung und Recherche.
Eine der wichtigsten Phasen beim Schreiben einer Hausarbeit ist die Planung. Ohne einen klaren Plan kann die Arbeit schnell chaotisch und unübersichtlich werden. Es empfiehlt sich, zunächst eine Gliederung zu erstellen, die alle wichtigen Punkte umfasst. Diese Gliederung dient als Leitfaden und hilft dabei, den roten Faden nicht zu verlieren. Eine gut strukturierte Arbeit ist nicht nur leichter zu lesen, sondern hinterlässt auch einen besseren Eindruck beim Prüfer.
Ein weiterer wichtiger Aspekt der Planung ist die Zeiteinteilung. Viele Studierende neigen dazu, die Arbeit auf die lange Bank zu schieben, was zu unnötigem Stress und Zeitdruck führt. Ein realistischer Zeitplan kann hier Abhilfe schaffen. Er sollte genügend Puffer für unvorhergesehene Ereignisse enthalten und regelmäßige Pausen einplanen, um die Konzentration zu erhalten.
Die Recherche ist das Fundament jeder wissenschaftlichen Arbeit. Es ist entscheidend, relevante und zuverlässige Quellen zu finden, um die eigenen Argumente zu stützen. Dabei ist es hilfreich, verschiedene Recherchemethoden zu kombinieren. Neben Büchern und Fachzeitschriften bieten auch Online-Datenbanken eine Fülle von Informationen. Wichtig ist, die Qualität der Quellen kritisch zu hinterfragen und nur seriöse Publikationen zu verwenden.
Ein oft übersehener Aspekt der Recherche ist die Nutzung von Bildungseinrichtungen und deren Ressourcen. Viele Universitäten bieten Zugang zu umfangreichen Bibliotheken und Datenbanken, die für Studierende kostenlos nutzbar sind. Darüber hinaus gibt es Online-Plattformen, die speziell für die Unterstützung von Studierenden entwickelt wurden. Eine solche Plattform ist Schule und Unterrichtsmodule, die wertvolle Anleitungen und Materialien bereitstellt.
Ein klarer und prägnanter Schreibstil ist entscheidend für den Erfolg einer Hausarbeit. Es ist wichtig, Fachbegriffe korrekt zu verwenden und komplizierte Sachverhalte verständlich darzustellen. Dabei sollte man darauf achten, nicht zu viele Fremdwörter zu verwenden, um die Lesbarkeit zu gewährleisten. Ein guter Tipp ist, den Text nach dem Schreiben laut vorzulesen, um holprige Formulierungen zu erkennen und zu überarbeiten.
Zusätzlich kann es hilfreich sein, Feedback von Kommilitonen oder Tutoren einzuholen. Eine externe Perspektive kann oft Schwachstellen im Text aufdecken, die man selbst übersehen hat. Für diejenigen, die eine professionelle Unterstützung suchen, bietet premiumhausarbeitschreibenlassen.de umfassende Dienstleistungen an, die von der Textkorrektur bis hin zur kompletten Erstellung der Arbeit reichen.
Abschließend lässt sich sagen, dass das Schreiben einer Hausarbeit eine anspruchsvolle, aber auch lohnende Aufgabe ist. Mit der richtigen Planung, effektiven Recherche und einem klaren Schreibstil kann jeder Studierende eine überzeugende Arbeit abliefern. Die genannten Strategien und Ressourcen bieten eine solide Grundlage, um diese Herausforderung erfolgreich zu meistern. Indem man kontinuierlich an seinen Fähigkeiten arbeitet und sich bei Bedarf Unterstützung sucht, kann man das Beste aus seiner akademischen Laufbahn herausholen.
]]>Generate Background automatically replaces the background of images with AI content Photoshop 25.9 also adds a second new generative AI tool, Generate Background. It enables users to generate images – either photorealistic content, or more stylized images suitable for use as illustrations or concept art – by entering simple text descriptions. In addition, IBM’s Consulting solution will collaborate with clients to enhance their content supply chains using Adobe Workfront and Firefly, with an aim to enhance marketing, creative, and design processes.
Using the sidebar menu, users can tell the AI what camera angle and motion to use in the conversion. While Adobe Firefly now has the ability to generate both photos and videos from nothing but text, a majority of today’s announcements focus on using AI to edit something originally shot on camera. Adobe says there will be a fee to use these new tools based on “consumption” — which likely means users will need to pay for a premium Adobe Firefly plan that provides generative credits that can then be “spent” on the features.
Since the launch of the first Firefly model in March 2023, Adobe has generated over 9 billion images with these tools, and that number is only expected to go up. Illustrator’s update includes a Dimension tool for automatic sizing information, a Mockup feature for 3D product previews, and Retype for converting static text in images into editable text. Photoshop enhancements feature the Generate Image tool, now generally available on desktop and web apps, and the Enhance Detail feature for sharper, more detailed large images. The Selection Brush tool is also now generally available, making object selection easier.
With Adobe is being massively careful in filtering certain words right now… I do hope in the future that users will be able to selectively choose exclusions in place of a general list of censored terms as exists now. While the prompt above is meant to be absurd – there are legitimate artistic reasons for many of the word categories which are currently banned. Once you provide a thumbs-up or thumbs-down… the overlay changes to request additional feedback. You don’t necessarily need to provide more feedback – but clicking on the Feedback button will allow you to go more in-depth in terms of why you provided the initial rating.
To me, this just sounds like a fancy way of Adobe saying – Hey folks, we’ve gotten too deep into AI without realizing how expensive it would be. Since we have no way of slowing it down without burning up our cash reserves, we’ve decided to pass on those costs to you. We realize you’ve been long-time users of us now, so we know you don’t really have another alternative to start looking for at such short notice.
In that sense, as with any generative AI, photographers may have different views on its use, which is entirely reasonable. This differs from existing heal functions, which are best suited to small objects like dust spots or minor distractions. Generative Remove is designed to do much more, like removing an entire person from the background or making other complex removals. Adobe is attempting to thread a needle by creating AI-powered tools that help its customers without undercutting its larger service to creativity. At the Adobe MAX creativity conference this week, Adobe announced updates to its Adobe Creative Cloud products, including Premiere Pro and After Effects, as well as to Substance 3D products and the Adobe video ecosystem. Background audio can also be extended for up to 10 seconds, thanks to Adobe’s AI audio generation technology, though spoken dialogue can’t be generated.
We want our readers to share their views and exchange ideas and facts in a safe space. Designers can also test product packaging with multiple patterns and design options, exploring ads with different seasonal variations and producing a range of designs across product mockups in endless combinations. If the admin stuff gets you down, outsource it to AI Assistant for Acrobat — a clever new feature that helps you generate summaries or get answers from your documents in one click. Say you have an otherwise perfect shot that’s ruined by one person in the group looking away or a photobombing animal.
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The latest release of Photoshop also features new ways for creative professionals to more easily produce design concepts and asset creation for complex and custom outputs featuring different styles, colors and variants. When you need to move fast, the new Adobe Express app brings the best of these features together in an easy-to-use content creation tool. Final tweaks can be made using Generative Fill with the new Enhance Detail, a feature that allows you to modify images using text prompts. You can then improve the sharpness of the AI-generated variations to ensure they’re clear and blend with the original picture. When you need to create something from scratch, ask Text-to-Image to design it using text prompts and creative controls. If you have an idea or style that’s too hard to explain with text, upload an image for the AI to use as reference material.
It shares certain features with Photoshop but has a significantly narrower focus. Creative professionals use Illustrator to design visual assets such as logos and infographics. On the other hand, if it’s easy to create something from scratch that doesn’t rely on existing assets at all, AI will hurt stock and product photographers. Stock and product photographers are rightfully worried about how AI will impact their ability to earn a living. On the one hand, if customers can adjust content to fit their needs using AI within Adobe Stock, and the original creator of the content is compensated, they may feel less need to use generative AI to make something from scratch. The ability for a client to swiftly change things about a photo, for example, means they are more likely to license an image that otherwise would not have met their needs.
Photographers used to need to put their images in the cloud before they could edit them on Lightroom mobile. Like with Generative Remove, the Lens Blur is non-destructive, meaning users can tweak or disable it later in editing. Also, all-new presets allow photographers to quickly and easily achieve a specific look. Adobe is bringing even more Firefly-powered artificial intelligence (AI) tools to Adobe Lightroom, including Generative Remove and AI-powered Lens Blur. Not to be lost in the shuffle, the company is also expanding tethering support in Lightroom to Sony cameras. Although Adobe’s direction with Firefly has so far seemed focused on creating the best, most commercially safe generative AI tools, the company has changed its messaging slightly regarding generative video.
It’s joined by a similar capability, Image-to-Video, that allows users to describe the clip they wish to generate using not only a prompt but also a reference image. Adobe has announced new AI-powered tools being added to their software, aimed at enhancing creative workflows. The latest Firefly Vector AI model, available in public beta, introduces features like Generative Shape Fill, allowing users to add detailed vectors to shapes through text prompts. The Text to Pattern beta feature and Style Reference have also been improved, enabling scalable vector patterns and outputs that mirror existing styles. Creators also told me that they were pleased with the safeguards Adobe was trying to implement around AI.
Generative Remove and Fill can be valuable when they work well because they significantly reduce the time a photographer must spend on laborious tasks. Replacing pixels by hand is hard to get right, and even when it works well, it takes an eternity. The promise of a couple of clicks saving as much as an hour or two is appealing for obvious reasons. “Before the update, it was more like 90-95%.” Even when they add a prompt to improve the results, they say they get “absurd” results. As a futurist, he is dedicated to exploring how these innovations will shape our world.
Adobe and IBM are also exploring the integration of watsonx.ai with Adobe Acrobat AI to assist enterprises using on-premises and private cloud environments. Adobe and IBM share a combined mission of digitizing the information supply chain within the enterprise, and generative AI plays an important role in helping to deliver this at scale. IBM and Adobe have announced a “unique alliance” of their tech solutions, as the two firms look to assist their clients with generative AI (GenAI) adoption.
It’s free for now, though Adobe said in a new release that it will reveal pricing information once the Firefly Video model gets a full launch. From Monday, there are two ways to access the Firefly Video model as part of the beta trial. The feature is also limited to a maximum resolution of 1080p for now, so it’s not exactly cinema quality. While Indian brands lead in adoption, consumers are pushing for faster, more ethical advancements,” said Anindita Veluri, Director of Marketing at Adobe India. Adobe has also shared that its AI features are developed in accordance with the company’s AI Ethics principles of accountability, responsibility, and transparency, and it makes use of the Content Authenticity Initiative that it is a part of.
If you’re looking for something in-between, we know some great alternatives, and they’re even free, so you can save on Adobe’s steep subscription prices. Guideline violations are still frequent when there is nothing in the image that seems to have the slightest possibility of being against the guidelines. Although I still don’t know how to prompt well in Photoshop, I have picked up a few things over the last year that could be helpful. You probably know that Adobe has virtually no documentation that is actually helpful if you’ve tried to look up how to prompt well in Photoshop. Much of the information on how to prompt for Adobe Firefly doesn’t apply to Photoshop.
]]>Generate Background automatically replaces the background of images with AI content Photoshop 25.9 also adds a second new generative AI tool, Generate Background. It enables users to generate images – either photorealistic content, or more stylized images suitable for use as illustrations or concept art – by entering simple text descriptions. In addition, IBM’s Consulting solution will collaborate with clients to enhance their content supply chains using Adobe Workfront and Firefly, with an aim to enhance marketing, creative, and design processes.
Using the sidebar menu, users can tell the AI what camera angle and motion to use in the conversion. While Adobe Firefly now has the ability to generate both photos and videos from nothing but text, a majority of today’s announcements focus on using AI to edit something originally shot on camera. Adobe says there will be a fee to use these new tools based on “consumption” — which likely means users will need to pay for a premium Adobe Firefly plan that provides generative credits that can then be “spent” on the features.
Since the launch of the first Firefly model in March 2023, Adobe has generated over 9 billion images with these tools, and that number is only expected to go up. Illustrator’s update includes a Dimension tool for automatic sizing information, a Mockup feature for 3D product previews, and Retype for converting static text in images into editable text. Photoshop enhancements feature the Generate Image tool, now generally available on desktop and web apps, and the Enhance Detail feature for sharper, more detailed large images. The Selection Brush tool is also now generally available, making object selection easier.
With Adobe is being massively careful in filtering certain words right now… I do hope in the future that users will be able to selectively choose exclusions in place of a general list of censored terms as exists now. While the prompt above is meant to be absurd – there are legitimate artistic reasons for many of the word categories which are currently banned. Once you provide a thumbs-up or thumbs-down… the overlay changes to request additional feedback. You don’t necessarily need to provide more feedback – but clicking on the Feedback button will allow you to go more in-depth in terms of why you provided the initial rating.
To me, this just sounds like a fancy way of Adobe saying – Hey folks, we’ve gotten too deep into AI without realizing how expensive it would be. Since we have no way of slowing it down without burning up our cash reserves, we’ve decided to pass on those costs to you. We realize you’ve been long-time users of us now, so we know you don’t really have another alternative to start looking for at such short notice.
In that sense, as with any generative AI, photographers may have different views on its use, which is entirely reasonable. This differs from existing heal functions, which are best suited to small objects like dust spots or minor distractions. Generative Remove is designed to do much more, like removing an entire person from the background or making other complex removals. Adobe is attempting to thread a needle by creating AI-powered tools that help its customers without undercutting its larger service to creativity. At the Adobe MAX creativity conference this week, Adobe announced updates to its Adobe Creative Cloud products, including Premiere Pro and After Effects, as well as to Substance 3D products and the Adobe video ecosystem. Background audio can also be extended for up to 10 seconds, thanks to Adobe’s AI audio generation technology, though spoken dialogue can’t be generated.
We want our readers to share their views and exchange ideas and facts in a safe space. Designers can also test product packaging with multiple patterns and design options, exploring ads with different seasonal variations and producing a range of designs across product mockups in endless combinations. If the admin stuff gets you down, outsource it to AI Assistant for Acrobat — a clever new feature that helps you generate summaries or get answers from your documents in one click. Say you have an otherwise perfect shot that’s ruined by one person in the group looking away or a photobombing animal.
Adobe’s Generative AI Jumps The Shark, Adds Bitcoin to Bird Photo.
Posted: Thu, 09 Jan 2025 08:00:00 GMT [source]
The latest release of Photoshop also features new ways for creative professionals to more easily produce design concepts and asset creation for complex and custom outputs featuring different styles, colors and variants. When you need to move fast, the new Adobe Express app brings the best of these features together in an easy-to-use content creation tool. Final tweaks can be made using Generative Fill with the new Enhance Detail, a feature that allows you to modify images using text prompts. You can then improve the sharpness of the AI-generated variations to ensure they’re clear and blend with the original picture. When you need to create something from scratch, ask Text-to-Image to design it using text prompts and creative controls. If you have an idea or style that’s too hard to explain with text, upload an image for the AI to use as reference material.
It shares certain features with Photoshop but has a significantly narrower focus. Creative professionals use Illustrator to design visual assets such as logos and infographics. On the other hand, if it’s easy to create something from scratch that doesn’t rely on existing assets at all, AI will hurt stock and product photographers. Stock and product photographers are rightfully worried about how AI will impact their ability to earn a living. On the one hand, if customers can adjust content to fit their needs using AI within Adobe Stock, and the original creator of the content is compensated, they may feel less need to use generative AI to make something from scratch. The ability for a client to swiftly change things about a photo, for example, means they are more likely to license an image that otherwise would not have met their needs.
Photographers used to need to put their images in the cloud before they could edit them on Lightroom mobile. Like with Generative Remove, the Lens Blur is non-destructive, meaning users can tweak or disable it later in editing. Also, all-new presets allow photographers to quickly and easily achieve a specific look. Adobe is bringing even more Firefly-powered artificial intelligence (AI) tools to Adobe Lightroom, including Generative Remove and AI-powered Lens Blur. Not to be lost in the shuffle, the company is also expanding tethering support in Lightroom to Sony cameras. Although Adobe’s direction with Firefly has so far seemed focused on creating the best, most commercially safe generative AI tools, the company has changed its messaging slightly regarding generative video.
It’s joined by a similar capability, Image-to-Video, that allows users to describe the clip they wish to generate using not only a prompt but also a reference image. Adobe has announced new AI-powered tools being added to their software, aimed at enhancing creative workflows. The latest Firefly Vector AI model, available in public beta, introduces features like Generative Shape Fill, allowing users to add detailed vectors to shapes through text prompts. The Text to Pattern beta feature and Style Reference have also been improved, enabling scalable vector patterns and outputs that mirror existing styles. Creators also told me that they were pleased with the safeguards Adobe was trying to implement around AI.
Generative Remove and Fill can be valuable when they work well because they significantly reduce the time a photographer must spend on laborious tasks. Replacing pixels by hand is hard to get right, and even when it works well, it takes an eternity. The promise of a couple of clicks saving as much as an hour or two is appealing for obvious reasons. “Before the update, it was more like 90-95%.” Even when they add a prompt to improve the results, they say they get “absurd” results. As a futurist, he is dedicated to exploring how these innovations will shape our world.
Adobe and IBM are also exploring the integration of watsonx.ai with Adobe Acrobat AI to assist enterprises using on-premises and private cloud environments. Adobe and IBM share a combined mission of digitizing the information supply chain within the enterprise, and generative AI plays an important role in helping to deliver this at scale. IBM and Adobe have announced a “unique alliance” of their tech solutions, as the two firms look to assist their clients with generative AI (GenAI) adoption.
It’s free for now, though Adobe said in a new release that it will reveal pricing information once the Firefly Video model gets a full launch. From Monday, there are two ways to access the Firefly Video model as part of the beta trial. The feature is also limited to a maximum resolution of 1080p for now, so it’s not exactly cinema quality. While Indian brands lead in adoption, consumers are pushing for faster, more ethical advancements,” said Anindita Veluri, Director of Marketing at Adobe India. Adobe has also shared that its AI features are developed in accordance with the company’s AI Ethics principles of accountability, responsibility, and transparency, and it makes use of the Content Authenticity Initiative that it is a part of.
If you’re looking for something in-between, we know some great alternatives, and they’re even free, so you can save on Adobe’s steep subscription prices. Guideline violations are still frequent when there is nothing in the image that seems to have the slightest possibility of being against the guidelines. Although I still don’t know how to prompt well in Photoshop, I have picked up a few things over the last year that could be helpful. You probably know that Adobe has virtually no documentation that is actually helpful if you’ve tried to look up how to prompt well in Photoshop. Much of the information on how to prompt for Adobe Firefly doesn’t apply to Photoshop.
]]>Generate Background automatically replaces the background of images with AI content Photoshop 25.9 also adds a second new generative AI tool, Generate Background. It enables users to generate images – either photorealistic content, or more stylized images suitable for use as illustrations or concept art – by entering simple text descriptions. In addition, IBM’s Consulting solution will collaborate with clients to enhance their content supply chains using Adobe Workfront and Firefly, with an aim to enhance marketing, creative, and design processes.
Using the sidebar menu, users can tell the AI what camera angle and motion to use in the conversion. While Adobe Firefly now has the ability to generate both photos and videos from nothing but text, a majority of today’s announcements focus on using AI to edit something originally shot on camera. Adobe says there will be a fee to use these new tools based on “consumption” — which likely means users will need to pay for a premium Adobe Firefly plan that provides generative credits that can then be “spent” on the features.
Since the launch of the first Firefly model in March 2023, Adobe has generated over 9 billion images with these tools, and that number is only expected to go up. Illustrator’s update includes a Dimension tool for automatic sizing information, a Mockup feature for 3D product previews, and Retype for converting static text in images into editable text. Photoshop enhancements feature the Generate Image tool, now generally available on desktop and web apps, and the Enhance Detail feature for sharper, more detailed large images. The Selection Brush tool is also now generally available, making object selection easier.
With Adobe is being massively careful in filtering certain words right now… I do hope in the future that users will be able to selectively choose exclusions in place of a general list of censored terms as exists now. While the prompt above is meant to be absurd – there are legitimate artistic reasons for many of the word categories which are currently banned. Once you provide a thumbs-up or thumbs-down… the overlay changes to request additional feedback. You don’t necessarily need to provide more feedback – but clicking on the Feedback button will allow you to go more in-depth in terms of why you provided the initial rating.
To me, this just sounds like a fancy way of Adobe saying – Hey folks, we’ve gotten too deep into AI without realizing how expensive it would be. Since we have no way of slowing it down without burning up our cash reserves, we’ve decided to pass on those costs to you. We realize you’ve been long-time users of us now, so we know you don’t really have another alternative to start looking for at such short notice.
In that sense, as with any generative AI, photographers may have different views on its use, which is entirely reasonable. This differs from existing heal functions, which are best suited to small objects like dust spots or minor distractions. Generative Remove is designed to do much more, like removing an entire person from the background or making other complex removals. Adobe is attempting to thread a needle by creating AI-powered tools that help its customers without undercutting its larger service to creativity. At the Adobe MAX creativity conference this week, Adobe announced updates to its Adobe Creative Cloud products, including Premiere Pro and After Effects, as well as to Substance 3D products and the Adobe video ecosystem. Background audio can also be extended for up to 10 seconds, thanks to Adobe’s AI audio generation technology, though spoken dialogue can’t be generated.
We want our readers to share their views and exchange ideas and facts in a safe space. Designers can also test product packaging with multiple patterns and design options, exploring ads with different seasonal variations and producing a range of designs across product mockups in endless combinations. If the admin stuff gets you down, outsource it to AI Assistant for Acrobat — a clever new feature that helps you generate summaries or get answers from your documents in one click. Say you have an otherwise perfect shot that’s ruined by one person in the group looking away or a photobombing animal.
Adobe’s Generative AI Jumps The Shark, Adds Bitcoin to Bird Photo.
Posted: Thu, 09 Jan 2025 08:00:00 GMT [source]
The latest release of Photoshop also features new ways for creative professionals to more easily produce design concepts and asset creation for complex and custom outputs featuring different styles, colors and variants. When you need to move fast, the new Adobe Express app brings the best of these features together in an easy-to-use content creation tool. Final tweaks can be made using Generative Fill with the new Enhance Detail, a feature that allows you to modify images using text prompts. You can then improve the sharpness of the AI-generated variations to ensure they’re clear and blend with the original picture. When you need to create something from scratch, ask Text-to-Image to design it using text prompts and creative controls. If you have an idea or style that’s too hard to explain with text, upload an image for the AI to use as reference material.
It shares certain features with Photoshop but has a significantly narrower focus. Creative professionals use Illustrator to design visual assets such as logos and infographics. On the other hand, if it’s easy to create something from scratch that doesn’t rely on existing assets at all, AI will hurt stock and product photographers. Stock and product photographers are rightfully worried about how AI will impact their ability to earn a living. On the one hand, if customers can adjust content to fit their needs using AI within Adobe Stock, and the original creator of the content is compensated, they may feel less need to use generative AI to make something from scratch. The ability for a client to swiftly change things about a photo, for example, means they are more likely to license an image that otherwise would not have met their needs.
Photographers used to need to put their images in the cloud before they could edit them on Lightroom mobile. Like with Generative Remove, the Lens Blur is non-destructive, meaning users can tweak or disable it later in editing. Also, all-new presets allow photographers to quickly and easily achieve a specific look. Adobe is bringing even more Firefly-powered artificial intelligence (AI) tools to Adobe Lightroom, including Generative Remove and AI-powered Lens Blur. Not to be lost in the shuffle, the company is also expanding tethering support in Lightroom to Sony cameras. Although Adobe’s direction with Firefly has so far seemed focused on creating the best, most commercially safe generative AI tools, the company has changed its messaging slightly regarding generative video.
It’s joined by a similar capability, Image-to-Video, that allows users to describe the clip they wish to generate using not only a prompt but also a reference image. Adobe has announced new AI-powered tools being added to their software, aimed at enhancing creative workflows. The latest Firefly Vector AI model, available in public beta, introduces features like Generative Shape Fill, allowing users to add detailed vectors to shapes through text prompts. The Text to Pattern beta feature and Style Reference have also been improved, enabling scalable vector patterns and outputs that mirror existing styles. Creators also told me that they were pleased with the safeguards Adobe was trying to implement around AI.
Generative Remove and Fill can be valuable when they work well because they significantly reduce the time a photographer must spend on laborious tasks. Replacing pixels by hand is hard to get right, and even when it works well, it takes an eternity. The promise of a couple of clicks saving as much as an hour or two is appealing for obvious reasons. “Before the update, it was more like 90-95%.” Even when they add a prompt to improve the results, they say they get “absurd” results. As a futurist, he is dedicated to exploring how these innovations will shape our world.
Adobe and IBM are also exploring the integration of watsonx.ai with Adobe Acrobat AI to assist enterprises using on-premises and private cloud environments. Adobe and IBM share a combined mission of digitizing the information supply chain within the enterprise, and generative AI plays an important role in helping to deliver this at scale. IBM and Adobe have announced a “unique alliance” of their tech solutions, as the two firms look to assist their clients with generative AI (GenAI) adoption.
It’s free for now, though Adobe said in a new release that it will reveal pricing information once the Firefly Video model gets a full launch. From Monday, there are two ways to access the Firefly Video model as part of the beta trial. The feature is also limited to a maximum resolution of 1080p for now, so it’s not exactly cinema quality. While Indian brands lead in adoption, consumers are pushing for faster, more ethical advancements,” said Anindita Veluri, Director of Marketing at Adobe India. Adobe has also shared that its AI features are developed in accordance with the company’s AI Ethics principles of accountability, responsibility, and transparency, and it makes use of the Content Authenticity Initiative that it is a part of.
If you’re looking for something in-between, we know some great alternatives, and they’re even free, so you can save on Adobe’s steep subscription prices. Guideline violations are still frequent when there is nothing in the image that seems to have the slightest possibility of being against the guidelines. Although I still don’t know how to prompt well in Photoshop, I have picked up a few things over the last year that could be helpful. You probably know that Adobe has virtually no documentation that is actually helpful if you’ve tried to look up how to prompt well in Photoshop. Much of the information on how to prompt for Adobe Firefly doesn’t apply to Photoshop.
]]>The operator is licensed by Curacao eGaming and is officially based in Cyprus. What is interesting for us, there is a big betting section on the website and a separate one – for racing. The racing section includes both instant horse racing and greyhound racing. For most players, the risk of encountering this issue is minor, but it’s certainly worth knowing about.
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