Zach Powers

Real Estate Insurance / AI Integration into Legacy Industries

[Zach Powers @ZachPowers8]

Here is a project called Subtext. Have ai convert movies into audio books.

https://t.co/14pFW91Nd8

[Zach Powers @ZachPowers8]

@bnemehh At least in my office, my whiteboard needs both force and spray when it dries. Have you thought about the stability to have a spray like a swiffer sweeper?

[Zach Powers @ZachPowers8]

I made a 3Mb Mac Native Excalidraw (open sourced)

https://t.co/abTgKhNesX

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[Zach Powers @ZachPowers8]

A simple way to keep track of all your clients, with a built in manager.

Then Auto pilot keeps them warm to review and book again.

Connects to your existing Cals.

[Zach Powers @ZachPowers8]

I made Calandly for Freelancers & Service Professionals,

For anyone who needs to show up in person. Send your https://t.co/r2zDDHFJ4z link

Customize your link with services and price. get booked for reoccurring appointments with one click. get google reviews automatically

[Zach Powers @ZachPowers8]

@GoogleDeepMind Using Omni videos with the sample prompts you provided to test out. Still somehow violates terms. Any thoughts here?

[Zach Powers @ZachPowers8]

@McDonalds my wife is XTRA upset about the fact that there was no cheese. What’s the deal?

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

You're watching a $248 million film and not a single green or blue screen was used. The alien is a handmade puppet. The cockpit physically rotates to simulate gravity. I looked at the production tech behind this 95% score, and the engineering is wild.

Phil Lord and Chris Miller, directing their first live-action movie in 12 years, built the entire Hail Mary spacecraft as a real set at Shepperton Studios in England. Not a miniature. Not a digital model. A full-size ship interior you can walk through. Production designer Charlie Wood studied the International Space Station, Russia's Mir station, and the Boeing 747 cockpit to get the look right. He deliberately made the panels mismatched, because real spacecraft are assembled from parts made by different companies. Nothing matches perfectly. That's what makes it feel real.

The cockpit is only about 8 feet wide. It sits on a mechanical platform that can tilt, spin, and shake, so when the ship changes direction or enters different gravity conditions, the whole set moves. Chairs end up on walls. Ladders flip direction. Gosling was suspended inside a spinning ring so he could float and move through the ship for real, reacting to actual hardware around him. No guessing where a wall might be added later.

Then there's Rocky. He's the alien co-lead, and he's not CGI. Neal Scanlan, the creature designer who built the Porgs for Star Wars, spent a full year on this character. Over 300 designs before they landed on the final look. Rocky is a thin, hollow shell, 3D-printed from a digital sculpture, then hand-painted in see-through layers so light passes through him like skin. His arms pop off and swap out depending on the scene: one set has a closed fist for walking, another has tiny motorized fingers strong enough to pick up objects. Five puppeteers (nicknamed the "Rockyteers") operated him in every scene. James Ortiz, an award-winning puppet designer from New York theater, voiced Rocky and controlled him on set. When Scanlan met him, he told Ortiz, "You're Frank Oz, and I'm making Yoda for you." Every reaction Gosling gives to the alien is to something physically in front of him.

Greig Fraser, who won the Oscar for shooting Dune, filmed the space scenes in the larger IMAX format (that taller image you see in IMAX theaters) and the Earth flashbacks in regular widescreen. Then the team did something unusual: they took the digital footage and printed it onto real film strips, twice, using two different types of film stock. Then they scanned those strips back into digital. It sounds redundant, but it adds a texture and warmth that you can only get from physical film. Fraser used the same technique on Dune and The Batman.

Drew Goddard spent six years writing this screenplay. His last adaptation of Andy Weir's novel, The Martian, earned him an Oscar nomination. He described the challenge this way: a screenplay gets about 5% of a novel's word count. The lead is alone for most of the runtime. When he finally gets a co-star, that co-star doesn't speak English, communicates through sounds closer to whale song, and has no face. Goddard called it a screenwriter's nightmare, then said that difficulty was the whole point. He and the directors fought studio pushback to keep Weir's original ending intact.

95% from 212 critics. 98% from over 2,500 audience ratings. And the lead isn't a superhero, a cop, or a soldier. He's just an ordinary middle school science teacher.

[Zach Powers @ZachPowers8]

I was tired of focus tools that made me do all the work setting things up. I built Envelop with reactive focus. Type what you're working on. The AI reads your task, understands all your applications and figures out what to block. Just hit go. https://t.co/Wb1aFM4XB6

[Zach Powers @ZachPowers8]

@CoughdropPeter This doesn’t solve for lender insurance requirements.

[Andy Bush @bushontheradio]

Time to repost this classic

[Annie Wu (all socials: @annie_wu_22) @Annie_Wu_22]

the body and blood of Christ

[Zach Powers @ZachPowers8]

@samreich , where are you from?

[Zach Powers @ZachPowers8]

Temple Ran so Subway could Surf

[DatNoFact ↗ (@datnofact.bsky.social) @datnofact]

hello I'm new to the stock market is it good when the intel ceo starts praying

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

Trump's NABJ interview was a great example of why calling the guy weird is so effective. He wants to look like a strongman. He loves when we build him up. But the reality is he's a petulant little bitch who can't get through an interview without flipping out.

[Organizermemes @OrganizerMemes]

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