<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:10:44 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@disillusional/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Us - a Review]]></title><description><![CDATA[I guess there might be slight spoilers but I'll try not to do anything drastic, like give away the ending, say. I see he movie Us is a spiritual sequel to Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the 1979 version]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/us/@disillusional/us-a-review</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/us/@disillusional/us-a-review</guid><category><![CDATA[us]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[disillusional]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2019 11:33:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNaPs7vzNXHueW5ZM76DSHWEY7onmfLxcK2iQNBaTxriX3eTk2cjmXpwMKch3SKySjPWSbBPEyY2JSWennMAFChyUF5tztSwp4VTtZS1xgwhzW?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human Hangups]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why are human beings obsessed with rectangles? We should be aware that if an AI is ever really awakened it won't have these cultural hangups. It may one day learn to force things into shapes humans expect]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/neuralnetwork/@disillusional/human-hangups</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/neuralnetwork/@disillusional/human-hangups</guid><category><![CDATA[neuralnetwork]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[disillusional]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2019 16:59:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNaPs7vzNXHueW5ZM76DSHWEY7onmfLxcK2iPEPCYcQx1ru2aAsJ6bT3dPim2b9HqKizFKkkTLPegds2NSfeW9qKdoK8AsigSwoJyRE3WeEXfU?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[White - A Review]]></title><description><![CDATA[This review is about Bret Easton Ellis' book and not a review of the color white itself although the two seem to coalesce when you throw in the adjective old. The artist should be separated from their]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/technology/@disillusional/white-a-review</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/technology/@disillusional/white-a-review</guid><category><![CDATA[technology]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[disillusional]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2019 18:47:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNaPs7vzNXHueW5ZM76DSHWEY7onmfLxcK2iPYfrGdNo7uzc2o4BwErkCcLEL4wSB9ZxFLJciQtWhLy25knhAj5ayJwtutrdkmmKH3ub94Jfjt?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Art of Neural Networks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Been getting some truly bizarre images generated from a neural network this morning. It kind of looks like what another species creating art would be like. It's alien and weird. It's also as devoid of]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/neuralnetwork/@disillusional/the-art-of-neural-networks</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/neuralnetwork/@disillusional/the-art-of-neural-networks</guid><category><![CDATA[neuralnetwork]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[disillusional]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2019 17:12:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45eQNEvrXWsWNYHSL7KkW1vtjA4Ux5CFudnSA?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Truth is Much Worse]]></title><description><![CDATA[As you watch Game of Thrones just remember that no matter what level of death and destruction they show, we humans in this multiverse have done much much worse. We've done stuff they can't yet show on]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/thrones/@disillusional/the-truth-is-much-worse</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/thrones/@disillusional/the-truth-is-much-worse</guid><category><![CDATA[thrones]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[disillusional]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2019 02:57:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the Neural Network Sees]]></title><description><![CDATA[I recently created a video for my sick, near death (probably) friend Jamie. I used another neural network to generate the images I put along with the neural network generated music. check it out here But]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/technology/@disillusional/what-the-neural-network-sees</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/technology/@disillusional/what-the-neural-network-sees</guid><category><![CDATA[technology]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[disillusional]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2019 03:33:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45eFVjiVmhmt8yrwdszJsK23cKDaEjzVmuUzJ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neural Network Generated Music Playlist]]></title><description><![CDATA["It’s the best hold music I’ve ever heard." from a review Praise, indeed. I put all the songs into one playlist on youtube. Enjoy it for the mediocrity that inspired it.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/neuralnetwork/@disillusional/neural-network-generated-music-playlist</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/neuralnetwork/@disillusional/neural-network-generated-music-playlist</guid><category><![CDATA[neuralnetwork]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[disillusional]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2019 02:14:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[DNA Modification and the Pitfalls of Technology]]></title><description><![CDATA[Once you learn how to control something, leaving it alone is a choice. So once we're able to alter DNA whenever we want to we're going to have to ask ourselves what sort of genetic traits are we willing]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/technology/@disillusional/dna-modification-and-the-pitfalls-of-technology</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/technology/@disillusional/dna-modification-and-the-pitfalls-of-technology</guid><category><![CDATA[technology]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[disillusional]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2019 01:51:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Game of Thrones - Fantasy Ending (Spoilers)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Like many people I was disappointed in the last few seasons of Game of Thrones. The biggest mistake might be them shrinking an entire world with massive seasonal changes and culture to a world that seems]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/game/@disillusional/u</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/game/@disillusional/u</guid><category><![CDATA[game]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[disillusional]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2019 01:03:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[More Mediocre Music]]></title><description><![CDATA[Creating mediocre music will soon be easier than even "modern" art. This was generated with Google's Musenet neural network.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/neuralnetwork/@disillusional/more-mediocre-music</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/neuralnetwork/@disillusional/more-mediocre-music</guid><category><![CDATA[neuralnetwork]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[disillusional]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2019 05:10:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making Music is Easy]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is the early stages and mediocre, talent-less music is just a few clicks away. This is something hundreds of thousands of Americans try very hard to create. Part 3 of our music generated by neural]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/neuralnetworks/@disillusional/making-music-is-easy</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/neuralnetworks/@disillusional/making-music-is-easy</guid><category><![CDATA[neuralnetworks]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[disillusional]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2019 00:39:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another piece of Neural Network Generated Music]]></title><description><![CDATA[I created this (generated it?) using google's Musenet. Most of the songs sound like some hipster garbage out of Brooklyn but if you live in Brooklyn you'll understand that this matches reality pretty closely.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/neuralnetwork/@disillusional/another-piece-of-neural-network-generated-music</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/neuralnetwork/@disillusional/another-piece-of-neural-network-generated-music</guid><category><![CDATA[neuralnetwork]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[disillusional]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2019 15:33:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neural Network Generated Song]]></title><description><![CDATA[This song was generated using Google's neural network Musenet. I swear it sounds like one of several bands I've heard play live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/neuralnetwork/@disillusional/technology-analysis-fire</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/neuralnetwork/@disillusional/technology-analysis-fire</guid><category><![CDATA[neuralnetwork]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[disillusional]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2019 02:49:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[IntroduceYourself: Who I am and What I'm Doing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hello, I'm a former tech sector survivor who has worked as a software engineer and project manager in the pharmaceutical industry, entertainment and international publishing, racked up some high-end consulting]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/introduceyourself/@disillusional/introduceyourself-who-i-am-and-what-i-m-doing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/introduceyourself/@disillusional/introduceyourself-who-i-am-and-what-i-m-doing</guid><category><![CDATA[introduceyourself]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[disillusional]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2019 21:34:45 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>