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Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
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Data. Narrative. Misinfo. CEO+cofounder
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AuthorColombo, Sri Lankayudhanjaya.comBorn November 26, 1992Joined November 2011
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Umesh Moramudali
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Sri Lankans have been dealing with severe import restrictions since COVID-19. Since then it had gotten worse.
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took a deep dive into SL’s import restrictions and how sustainable it is to address country’s deep rooted economic issues
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Sri Lanka's Import Restriction Predicament
The crippling shortage of foreign exchange forced the government to put a lid on imports. A protectionist policy of sorts. But the question remains. Why do we pay so much for imports? Why did the...
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Converted my old phone into a console emulator. It will help me realize my most ambitious goal yet: To play all the Pokémon games, official and fangame, back to back, on the same device.
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This is cool and a welcome development. It isn't perfect - plenty of matches where you can't make a "collage" argument at all. What I find interesting is how it shows inspirations - you can run plenty of very human art and see what the creators might have been inspired by.
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anton 🏴‍☠️
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announcing stable attribution - a tool which lets anyone find the human creators behind a.i generated images. stableattribution.com
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Oof, tough one. 1. Final Fantasy VII 2. Myst III: Exile 3. Skyrim 4. Outer Wilds 5. Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries 6. Ahriman's Prophecy 7. KNight-Blade: Howling of Kerberos 8. Pokemon Red 9. Dragon Age: Origins 10. Disco Elysium
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Aidan Moher
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10 games to get to know me: 1. Chrono Trigger 2. Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete 3. Suikoden II 4. Outer Wilds 5. Yoshi's Island 6. Illusion of Gaia 7. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night 8. Final Fantasy V 9. Return of the Obra Dinn 10. Nier twitter.com/cianmaher0/sta…
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Beautiful thread.
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Claire Silver 🌸
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On Message: 1) A reminder that Transformative Use has been mainstream for 60 years, by @mg_deangelis 2) A case for emotive, realistic hands by @d0vetaiI 3) A question of art in any medium, by @giokarloart 4) A physical, non-AI piece depicting the start of a prompt, by @Dorkholm
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It's still lightweight, still overtly religious. But there comes a point on the road where you need someone telling you what you already know. Helps you put one step in front of the other and keep going. Not exactly sage advice, but a little bit of water in the desert.
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A few years ago, when I was starting my career as an author, I read Pressfield's "War of Art" and was annoyed by it. It felt stupid, lightweight and annoyingly religious. It felt like the web copy on an MLM scheme. I read it again recently and . . . ok, yeah, I get it.
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François Chollet
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Generative entertainment is absolutely coming within a few years. Things like that always start out as low-quality, "so weird it's funny" type stuff, with a meme-like quality. Next thing you it's shockingly similar to actual TV content.
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The Serfs
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There is now a completely AI generated sitcom that's basically if robots tried to make a late 90's video game cutscene of Seinfeld that has about 15,000 consistent live viewers on Twitch collectively laughing at how weird and funny it can be
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Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
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An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur? “Do you not know, my son, with how very little wisdom the world is governed?" - Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna of Södermöre, in a letter to his son, 1648
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Breaking: Nvidia reveals that ChatGPT has actually been ptrblack on his days off.
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Ferenc Huszár
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BREAKING: OpenAI reveals that ptrblck user who answers every single question on pytorch user forum has in fact been powered by superhuman ChatGPT since 2021
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Adventures in building an earthbag house. Taking levels, tinkering with the design to avoid Big Jak (which is what it calling the tree here), mapping plant species…
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Watching the impact of the Hindenburg Report is restoring my faith in good journalism / research. On that note, isn't this highly leveraged operating style typical of Sri Lankan conglomerates? I know at least a couple of big ones leveraged to the hilt.
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Adani Group: How The World’s 3rd Richest Man Is Pulling The Largest Con In Corporate History
Today we reveal the findings of our 2-year investigation, presenting evidence that the INR 17.8 trillion (U.S. $218 billion) Indian conglomerate Adani Group has engaged in a brazen stock manipulati…
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I’m very curious. Who keeps building these multi-billion rupee software that never function properly? We investigated (and showed) how much of a fiasco the SPC software spec was. I’d love to see IRD’s.
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Rohan Samarajiva
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Inland Revenue Department had started RAMIS in 2014 to increase efficiency of its tax revenue collection by investing about 10 billion rupees. It is not functioning properly. newswire.lk/2023/01/25/rs-
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Personal observation: I used to not believe in vegetables. Now I have begun consuming vegetables and am much healthier. Therefore I’ve decided to switch my disbelief to penguins. Everybody’s happy, the penguins don’t give a shit (and don’t exist anyway) and less harm is done.
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I remain in awe of Kureishi: i don’t think I’d have the ability to write this well in his condition.
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Hanif Kureishi
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ON CUNNILINGUS, ENVY, AND OTHER MATTERS As my more discerning readers will already have noticed, I am - after the incident involving the fish - now more intimate with the Heimlich manoeuvre than I am with cunnilingus.
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Someone call Gnanakka.
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AFP News Agency
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Earth's inner core, a hot iron ball the size of Pluto, has stopped spinning in the same direction as the rest of the planet and might even be rotating the other way, research suggested on Monday. u.afp.com/idwo
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Ancillary point: even with the economic collapse, quality of life for upper classes is significantly higher than many people believe, especially those migrating. You need to understand how much people pay for rent on a shitty NY apartment.
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One thing I've learned from the economic discourse in Sri Lanka is that upper-class (top 20% of income) people somehow insist that they're "middle class". Average monthly income (ie: the middle class) was Rs. 76,414 for an entire household (estate sector is lower: Rs.46,865).
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Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
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JUNG_E is fantastic. Lots of “I did not see that coming!” moments. As of late Korean sci-fi has been clawing itself a solid grip on streaming platforms. Go watch it!
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I was wondering what the finance x tech fad crowd might invent next. Looks like they’ve got around to the concept of “adaptations”. In a few centuries they might actually crawl out of the petrol dish and make noises vaguely resembling language.
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Gaurav Munjal
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Imagine if every Book is converted into an Animated Book and made 10x more engaging. AI will do this. Huge opportunity here to disrupt Kindle and Audible.
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