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Here's the link to the neural network site that does this Ostagram: http://ostagram.ru

I can't wait till we start using neural networks to weave together songs on the fly; turn any playlist into a virtual infinite number of novel yet familiar songs to hear.

It is a subreddit where you can share and discuss images from http://ostagram.ru . Basically 2 images merged into one, cool stuff.

Here is a showcase of some great examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhvt3ozLgos

The Subreddit is filled with many submissions as well.

Filtered image using http://ostagram.ru. And yeah, I don't know why people are upset that it is low effort and unoriginal, when some people obviously enjoy it. It isn't like I am trying to sell it, or even claiming it as my own work.

Germany still has a lot of really hardcore simulation games, but it's rare to have a great simulation that has a lot of character and creative aspects like in The Sims.

I think there will definitely be more simulation games that will blow us and our free time away in the future. They may be in VR though. Either way, I do think we'll see more eventually.

EDIT: What really excites me is the state of machine learning and deep learning algorithms. In the not-too-distant future, they will run quickly enough to embed in the AI of characters, animals, and simulation networks. Then simulation games will be crazy awesome. I mean, just imagine the smaller aspects, like if your game character sat down to paint a painting, and actually created an interesting, original piece of work? Check out this site for AI generated art based on a set of inputs, it blows me away: http://ostagram.ru/static_pages/lenta?last_days=30&locale=en

Try playing with this: http://ostagram.ru/static_pages/lenta?last_days=30

It uses neural networks to redraw one image in the style of a second. It takes a long time to process but the results are amazing.

If anyone wants to play around with this and is familiar with building stuff from source on linux there is an implementation called neural-style.

It's absolutely fascinating, but unfortunately very resource intensive (a 512x512px image took my computer a few hours to process, so processing even a single frame of that video would probably take half a day! not really sure how the problem scales).

Edit: alternatively there's Ostagram, but you need to wait in a queue, and the options are limited.

For one, I didnt use Prisma for it, nor even know what Prisma is; I used http://ostagram.ru and had this made over a year ago. For two, if someone offered you a candy bar saying "here, have a candy bar", would you assume it was made by them, themself, and be offended to find that they bought it or similarly was given it for free? Would you expect the artificial packaging of the candy bar to signal, to whomever was being given it, that this candy bar was not homemade? Would you hold it against the person handing out candy bars that some individuals might not consider the packaging and assume it was homemade because it wasn't explicitly stated? Just curious.

Well fortunately, it's absolutely free to use! The only thing you don't get if you don't pay is that it might queue you for longer. Which is totally fine if you're patient. Try it out!

Looks like it was done using a technique using a neural network which can combine two images into one. There are online services which can do this for you, such as http://deepdreamgenerator.com or http://ostagram.ru.

From http://ostagram.ru/clients/sign_up?locale=en

> You can sign up with your account in social networks. > or sign up with email. In this case you'll get an email with registration info in 5 minutes. All fields marked with '*' are mandatrory. Email registration allows only payed image processing.

Why do email account users have to pay? Are they datamining social network users or something?

I'm not sure, but the apps in question to do this are here:

http://ostagram.ru/

https://dreamscopeapp.com/

I believe the first one was the 'official' one mentioned, the second is just similar.