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#!/bin/bash
for image_file in *.jpg; do
  width=$(identify -format '%w' "$image_file")
  height=$(identify -format '%h' "$image_file")
  width_difference=$((height * 4/5 - width))
  bar_size=$((width_difference/2))
  echo "adding bar of size" $bar_size
  convert $image_file -bordercolor black -border $((bar_size))x0 -quality 100 $image_file
  echo "resizing from" $width "x" $height "to 1080x1350"
  convert $image_file -resize 1080x1350 -quality 95 $image_file

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Anime

US

Convention	Place
Anime Expo	Los Angeles, California
Otakon	Washington DC
Anime Central	Chicago, Illinois
Anime Boston	Boston, Massachusetts
Sakura Con	Seattle, Washington
Anime Matsuri	Houston, Texas

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metadata

ffprobe input.mp4

(no export)

INPUT_VIDEO=input.mp4

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(Shamelessly copied from the similar Michael Niedermayer page)
How can one explain the phenomenon that is Loren Merritt? Perhaps he is a superintelligent alien sent to observe us, who hacks on x264 and ffmpeg for amusement. It's also possible he's either a cybernetically enhanced human, or a wildly successful AI project. Either way, there must be great wisdom contained in his writing. Perhaps most of this is contained in code. But for laypeople, studying some of his quotes might provide some benefits.

I have tried to identify the most prototypical Loren quotes. A large fraction of his messages fall into one of the formats below. A few of the posts highlighted below are special and don't belong into any large category.

Here are a few top ranking candidates. IT IS VERY IMPERATIVE THAT YOU READ EACH AND EVERY LETTER OF EACH AND EVERY ONE.

Loren Merritt...
On Algorithms
On Broadcast and Media

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=====だから=====
～だけあって                 A45
～からには／以上は            I195
～からして                   A199

=====なのに=====
~にもかかわらず              I257
~にしては                   A697
~わりに                    A697
～といっても                I474

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Anti-hype LLM reading list

Goals: Add links that are reasonable and good explanations of how stuff works. No hype and no vendor content if possible. Practical first-hand accounts and experience preferred (super rare at this point).

My own notes from a few months back.

Background

• Survey of LLMS
• Self-attention and transformer networks

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// https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/28905/expected-time-to-roll-all-1-through-6-on-a-die
// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupon_collector%27s_problem
#include <iostream>
#include <random>
#include <set>

using namespace std;

int main() {
  long double expected = 0.0L;

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• Evo
• Anime Expo
• Comic con
• Blizzcon

https://animecons.com/events/schedule.php?loc=usCA

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Math

https://www.youtube.com/@Derivando

https://www.youtube.com/@standupmaths

https://www.youtube.com/@3blue1brown

https://www.youtube.com/@TheMathSorcerer

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read int

const std = @import("std");

pub fn main() !void {
    const stdout = std.io.getStdOut();
    const reader = std.io.getStdIn().reader();

    var buffer: [1024]u8 = undefined;
 while (try reader.readUntilDelimiterOrEof(&buffer, '\n')) |line| {