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A lot of links since the last news update… I had to try out LTX-2 and various other video models, plus the amazing SHARP model for turning a photo into 3d. And the usual giant roundup of fun web games, tools, models for data science/document processing, Claude tips… ! And a mini weird news section.

TITAA #74.5: Trying Not to Lose the Plot

LTX-2 Video - SHARP 3d - Iso City - Mini Weirdness - Game Poems - Narrative Gen - Haunted Dolls - Claude

Lynn Cherny

Jan 17

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*From the Guardian photo view of the Vevcani festival in North Macedonia, of 1400 year old pagan origins, meant to scare away evil spirits and bring in the new calendar.*

A long set of interesting links because it’s been a month since a news update… So rather than a separate weird section, I have sprinkled a few weirdness items in with the rest of the news links.

TOC (will link on the webpage):

AI Creativity (Video, 3d)
Web Misc Fun / Arty / Weird
Games Links (A few)
Narrative / Creativity (a bunch!)
Data Science / Tools / Models
A Poem: Inkblot art

In this issue, among other things: 👉 LTX-2 for video, 👉 SHARP for 3d from a photo 👉 Iso City 👉 tree generator 👉 webGL tips 👉 a giant meteor 👉 the Darien Peak near death experience 👉 nude Mona Lisa 👉 haunted London 👉 Game Poems and tiny web games 👉 When Story Loses the Plot 👉 evaluating LLM narrative for emotional impact 👉 training on author styles 👉 writing LLM poetry with brainstorming 👉 Foreshadowing payoff in story gen 👉 a paper feed for Bsky 👉 Claude tips 👉 models of digital humanities interest 👉 document pipeline tools 👉 LiDAR map data from the US 👉 elasticsearch & AI tips… geez, so much!...

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