Interesting Links for 01-12-2022

[andrewducker]

1. 1 in 4 US hiring managers say they are less likely to move forward with Jewish applicants

(tags:usa Jews bigotry jobs OhForFucksSake )

2. A list of practical feminist behaviours for men

(tags:men feminism advice )

3. Copyright, cost, and ageing code: why some games disappear from Steam

(tags:games history copyright )

4. Ofgem reveals plan for cheaper, cleaner electricity supplies

(tags:electricity renewables UK thefuture )

5. Twitter Thrills Far-Right Trolls by Silencing Left-Wing Voices

(tags:Twitter censorship ElonMusk )

6. Disney's new neural network can change an actor's age with ease

(tags:age cgi ai Disney )

Comments

[bens_dad]

6. Faces re-aged well, but they appear not to have attempted to re-age the hair. I noticed one of the alternative ageing methods *did* age the hair and that seemed much more convincing to me.

[ My PhD was in this area; interesting to see what is being done now. ]

[andrewducker]

Hair definitely makes a big difference. I can't help but feel that the face shapes haven't changed as much as I'd expect, but it may well be that I'm expecting a more exaggerated effect than actually happens in real life.

Your PhD sounds fascinating!

[bens_dad]

I got the impression from some of the videos that the ageing stopped between the eyebrows and the forehead, as if the face was cut out of the head, re-aged and put back.

What is odd, is that the training data was generated with StyleGAN2 but the hair morphs much better in the StyleGAN2 video. Otherwise I might have said that although the AI probably doesn't explicitly cut the face out, perhaps the training set did.

> Your PhD sounds fascinating!
Text at https://www.aitchison.me.uk/thesis/thesis.pdf
Code for appendix C in the same directory.