Lee Reitz

Digital artist. Background in functional art: graphic design, technical illustration, engineering drawing, electrical packaging, stock photography, etc.

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I started today to write an article explaining Elon Musk’s use of Ketamine and Ambien. Most people talking about it online view it very superficially, acting like Musk is some fool kid escaping into street drugs. But Musk himself is working closely with some of the top people on the bleeding edge of neuroscience. He is literally producing prosthesis for broken brains. It is ludicrous to think he does not know what he is doing.

I personally would not take those drugs but I am not in his shoes and the things he has said about his reasons indicate he knows exactly what he is doing. But explaining to the general public the science behind it would be much like getting an AI to create a picture it was never trained for. I can sum it up simply thus… The greatest obstacle to humanity’s understanding of human behavior is… human behavior.

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A true Gordian knot as Michelangelo is recreated in a lab and sets out to prove he is more creative and artistic than an AI (even though the entire video, including Michelangelo’s art, is created by AI.) This fits beautifully with the article I just posted. Outstanding cinematic work.

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A Masterpiece. Generated in 0.3 Seconds

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Paul and I just finished rewiring our network. We switched ISPs and went up to gigabit speed. But it was choked at 100/100 by few wire connections that could not handle gigabit. Needed to hunt them down and replace them.

Things are pretty zippy now. A couple nice windows machines, a tolerable linux server to play with and a solid network with gigabit internet. Next I need to get back to setting up local models and such. But real life is demanding time as well. The starter went out in my truck and need to fix that next.

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The latest AI art challenge is drinking coffee on the fastest train in the world. Well... I don’t drink coffee but I don’t have anything against it. And this isn’t the fastest train in the world but I think it’s cool :)

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Good Morning World!

So I got opensim running yesterday on the Linux server and got all my old content loaded in. This is a picture of the welcome area and freebie store that I built in about 2014. By my current standards it needs a serious makeover. But probably not worth the time and effort it would take except possibly for personal entertainment value.

Not sure how useful it will be as a tool. The concept of Second Life and Open Simulator was a sandbox MMO. It was a place to go in and build stuff for artistic expression. That is simply no longer supported inworld because the creation tools and materials are archaic. Most attempts to upgrade the system have been dismal failures.

The default avatar was one of the earliest from Poser and the software no longer supports the targeted transparency on it that made things like high heels possible. All that the current technology allows is making the entire default avatar invisible and replacing it with an imported mesh avatar.

I am also pushing the limits of my Linux server, particularly the Ryzen 7 1700x CPU. That was where I started upgrading it before. Not going to do it again :) I got a 2TB SATA SSD for it and 16GB more memory and that will be it for this computer. It is just a test bed really.

So I think my next project will be setting up blender

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I am slowly stepping through the process of setting up a local opensim server. I last worked with open simulator in about 2018. I still have all the files and assets from that. So once I get it up and running I will not be starting from scratch.

I have also set up Visual Studio Code, which I have never worked with. I am learning that as I go as well. Taking it all slow and easy with tiny baby steps. Using VS code to work with the opensim files is a giving me hands on experience which is the best teacher.

I understand I can use a local LLM for coding in VS Code but I have not tried setting that up yet. I am very glad that I dove so deeply into AI. It is a very useful tool and will become even more useful as I progress. But I have a lot to catch up on and relearn. I need to get Blender going again also. Slow and easy. One baby step at a time.

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