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album stream: Luke Hess - Arkeo (DeepLabs, 2025)

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Heritage News of the Week

Discoveries!

As construction crews churned up dirt to renovate a football pitch in Vienna last October, they happened upon an unprecedented find: a heap of intertwined skeletal remains in a mass grave dating to the first-century Roman empire, most likely the bodies of warriors killed in a battle involving Germanic tribes.

Obsidian artifacts unearthed in Alberta offer new clues on prehistoric trade routes

Inky black shards of volcanic glass unearthed in Alberta are helping researchers trace the movements of Indigenous people across Western Canada centuries ago.

“House of Life” among new discoveries at the Ramesseum

A joint French and Egyptian archaeological mission has made several major new discoveries at the Ramesseum, the mortuary temple for Ramesses II.

Walls of ancient Greek colony of Selinunte discovered

Italian authorities announced a series of new discoveries at the site of Selinunte that underscore the city’s illustrious past

A life-sized statue of a bejeweled ancient priestess is unearthed in Pompeii

Archaeologists in Pompeii have made the astonishing discovery of two life-sized relief sculptures of a man and a woman draped in classical robes. The pair, possibly husband and wife, stand within a niche on the boundary wall of a monumental ancient tomb.

Ukrainian soldiers unearth ancient Greek burial

Ukrainian soldiers digging defensive fortifications stumbled upon an ancient Greek burial site in southern Ukraine.

Tiny pot!

Ancient mausoleum with gladiator’s epitaph unearthed in Italy

Archaeologists excavating a necropolis in Liternum Archaeological Park in Campania, southern Italy, have uncovered two ornate funerary enclosures, one of which belonged to a gladiator and bears an epitaph etched in marble.

Researchers study erratic boulders from Frosh Giant legends

A study funded by The National Science Centre, Poland, has analysed both the geological and mythical origins of the erratic boulders scattered across northern Poland.

Rare wall paintings found in Cumbria show tastes of well-off Tudors

Rare and fantastical 16th-century wall paintings which shine light on the interior design tastes of well-off Tudors have been revealed in a former hunting lodge.

3-year-old picks up 'beautiful stone,' discovers 3,800-year-old scarab amulet in Israel

A 3-year-old girl who was walking with her family along a trail in Israel unexpectedly found a piece of history: a 3,800-year-old scarab amulet.

Extensive Roman settlement found beyond the borders of the Roman Empire

Archaeologists excavating in Delbrück-Bentfeld, northwestern Germany, have uncovered evidence of an extensive Roman-era settlement beyond the borders of the Roman Empire.

More caves discovered in Nottingham’s hidden subterranean world

Nottingham, nestled in England’s East Midlands, is famously known as the legendary home of Robin Hood. But beyond its folklore, the city also boasts the UK’s largest network of caves, carved by hand into the soft sandstone bedrock as early as the 9th century AD.

Stunning reconstruction reveals warrior and his weapons from 4,000-year-old burial in Siberia

A new full-body reconstruction depicts a warrior wearing armor and holding weapons, all of which were found in a 4,000-year-old burial in Siberia.

Hallstatt dagger discovered on Baltic Coast

Researchers from the St. Cordula Association for the Protection of Monuments have discovered a rare Hallstatt-era dagger, revealed after a storm caused a section of a Baltic Sea cliff to collapse.

Unknown human lineage lived in 'Green Sahara' 7,000 years ago, ancient DNA reveals

Researchers analyzed the ancient DNA of two mummies from what is now Libya to learn about people who lived in the "Green Sahara" 7,000 years ago.

AI assists archaeologist in mapping Angkorian-period structures

Archaeologists have created deep learning models, specifically with DeepLab V3+, for semantic segmentation to identify previously unknown reservoirs from the Angkor period.

Researchers posit new theory about children's role in prehistory

A new study suggests that children may have played a special role as mediators between the physical and spiritual worlds,

Traces of Ecuador’s first colonial-era city unearthed in Riobamba

Archaeologists from Ecuador’s National Institute of Cultural Heritage have uncovered remnants of an early colonial-era city that was destroyed by a devastating earthquake in 1797.

Oldest vanilla pod in Europe found in Prague

Excavations within Prague Castle yielded the oldest vanilla bean pod in Europe. Radiocarbon dating indicates that it was placed there between 1513 and 1666, a time that coincided with the reign of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II.

Museums

From Guy Burgess’s briefcase to microdots secreted in talc, an exhibition reveals remarkable items from the agency’s archives – and the extraordinary stories behind them

Take two Van Goghs daily: the growing popularity of museum prescriptions

Research backs schemes that encourage doctors to prescribe time in cultural institutions to boost mental health and reduce loneliness

Smithsonian director pledges museum’s independence amid White House order of internal review

The Smithsonian Institution’s leadership is standing firm after the Trump administration ordered a review last month of its exhibits, accusing the museum network of pushing a “race-centered ideology.”

Dozens of museum agency workers put on leave amid Trump overhaul

Processing of 2025 grant applications has been halted after Trump moved to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

US museums seek to provide safe spaces for LGBTQ+ communities amid government rollbacks of their rights

As Republicans and the Trump administration target DEI initiatives and queer and trans communities, vocal leaders at a few institutions are standing firm

Three historical treasures rescued from London’s River Thames

Thanks to the efforts of mudlarks, Londoners can marvel at Tudor headwear and an elaborate Viking weapon.

God, I wish I could see this exhibit

'Last in England' smashed medieval statue recreated

A 15th century statue that was found smashed into 170 fragments behind a church wall has been painstakingly pieced together using computer animation.

Museums in southern Brazil still recovering after last year’s floods

Damage and destruction decimated visitor numbers to cultural events and institutions last year but optimism is high they will return in 2025

Yorkshire Museum crowdfunds to acquire ‘game-changing’ iron age hoard

The Yorkshire Museum in York is close to raising £30,000 through a crowdfunding campaign to acquire a major iron age hoard recently discovered in the local area by a metal detectorist.

Medieval scroll found in shoebox goes on display

A rare medieval illuminated manuscript uncovered in the archive of a York convent is going on display for the very first time.

Museums are losing social media followers amid users' mass X-odus

Some institutions have ditched their accounts in protest, while others have chosen to “quiet quit” and stopped posting on the Elon Musk-owned platform

Repatriation

The famed museum recently returned a 12th-century Buddha sculpture that it says was stolen from the Kathmandu Valley. However, the institute’s announcement failed to mention the statue had once belonged to wealthy donor Marilynn Alsdorf.

Heritage at risk

Videos of Sudan’s national museum showing empty rooms, piles of rubble and broken artefacts posted on social media after the Sudanese army recaptured the area from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in recent days show the extent of looting of the country’s antiquities.

EPA head shutters agency’s National Environmental Museum

In a statement issued on March 31, EPA administrator Lee Zeldin said the closure would save taxpayers about $600,000 per year. The small museum was created in 2016, dedicated to the nation’s environmental history, and included exhibits about prevention measures during the Covid-19 pandemic, environmental justice, and efforts to address climate change.

$600,000 a year is like one day of the military budget

ETA: I have been informed it's actually less than 30 seconds of the daily military budget o_O

Historians condemn executive order targeting Smithsonian

The American Historical Association, a D.C.-based advocacy group, has issued a statement condemning a recent White House executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institution, which relies on federal funding to drive a significant part of its operation.

New York Attorney General sues Trump administration over museum and library funding cuts

New York State Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit—alongside 20 other attorneys general—against the Trump administration over an executive order that effectively shuts down three federal agencies responsible for supporting libraries, museums, minority-owned businesses, and labor mediation services.

What the dismantling of USAID means for world heritage

Does USAID still exist? For the heritage world, this – and the fate of heritage projects connected to shrinking amounts of development funding more generally – is a pressing one. Building on previous American efforts in technical assistance during the early years of the cold war, the Kennedy administration founded USAID in 1961 at the start of the UN’s first ‘Development Decade’. Under the second Trump administration, however, the organisation has found itself cut to ribbons.

Odds and ends

Amid the site in rural Jamaica that once belonged to a Guardian financier may lie a treasure trove of artefacts that tell the story of Britain’s history of colonisation and enslavement.

Bid to boost Hadrian's Wall dog ranger volunteers

Volunteer dog rangers are being recruited to help visitors at Hadrian's Wall. Current rangers - golden retriever Mr Darcy and Bear, a mioritic shepherd dog - have been walking the area since last summer along with their owners, who offer advice and hand out poo bags, water and treats.

The best museum volunteers

Salvaging the historic tiles of California’s burned fireplaces

After devastating fires blazed through the region, residents are holding on to the intricate glazed tiles that survived — small but meaningful remnants of their homes.

Dublin's Molly Malone statue to get stewards to stop 'groping'

Stewards are to be stationed next to a statue of Molly Malone in Dublin to discourage people from touching it. Dublin City Council is running a pilot scheme for a week in May after complaints of people groping the sculpture's breasts.

Cute when it's a dog statue, weird and kind of gross when it's a woman

'I love my country': Ken Burns on showing the dark parts of US history

Ahead of his upcoming PBS documentary, The American Revolution, acclaimed film-maker Ken Burns tells BBC special correspondent Katty Kay about his unique approach to chronicling US history, from war and conflict to baseball and jazz.

In search of Greece's once-great Jewish city

Once home to a thriving Jewish majority, Thessaloniki holds fragments of a lost world. One traveller's journey to find them leads to something even more powerful: living memory.

Point:

Counterpoint:

Dinosaur tracks uncovered at site of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s refuge

When Bonnie Prince Charlie fled the Scottish Highlands after defeat at the Battle of Culloden, his route may have crossed the fossilised footsteps of massive meat-eating dinosaurs, researchers say.

Bonnie Prince Charlie being eaten by a theropod would be an incredible ending to Outlander

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The Hidden Galaxy, IC 342 // DeepLab

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Hands-On with Object Detection: From YOLO to Deeplab

Introduction Object detection is a fundamental problem in computer vision that involves identifying specific objects within images or videos. In recent years, object detection has made significant progress with the advent of deep learning models, particularly YOLO (You Only Look Once) and Deeplab. However, these advanced models require extensive knowledge and expertise to implement and deploy…

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The world through the eyes of a neural net

What would happen if I fed a video to an AI that turns images into blobs of labeled objects, and then fed THAT video to another AI that attempts to reconstruct the original picture from those labeled blobs?

I used runwayml’s new chaining feature to tie two algorithms together. The first is DeepLab, a neural net that detects and outlines objects in an image. In other words, it’s a segmentation algorithm.

So DeepLab segments this frame of the Last Jedi:

into this schematic (I added the labels so you can see the categories).

You will notice that DeepLab correctly detected Luke as a person (in fact we will see later that DeepLab is often overgenerous in its person detection), but that without a category for “lightsaber” it has decided to go with “baseball bat”.

The second algorithm I used is NVIDIA’s SPADE, which I’ve talked about before. Starting from a segmented image like the one above, SPADE tries to paint in all the missing detail, including lighting and so forth. Here’s its reconstruction of the original movie frame:

It has decided to go with an aluminum bat and, perhaps sensibly, has decided to paint the “human” blob with something resembling a baseball jersey and cap. That same colorfest shirt actually shows up fairly frequently in SPADE’s paintings.

So, feeding each frame through DeepLab and then SPADE in this way, we arrive at the following reconstruction of the Crait fight scene from The Last Jedi. (The background flashes a lot b/c the AIs can’t make up their mind about what the salt planet’s made of - so be aware if you’re sensitive to that sort of thing).

https://youtu.be/sEd1EO8eIfw

I’d like to highlight a couple of my favorite frames.

DeepLab is not sure how to label the salt flat they’re fighting on, so sometimes it goes with pavement or sand. Here it has gone with snow.

SPADE, therefore, faced with two person-blobs on snow, decides to put the people in snowsuits. Also there is a surfboard.

For this frame, DeepLab makes a couple of choices that make life difficult for SPADE.

DeepLab, in its eagerness to see humans everywhere, has decided the at-ats in the background are people. It also decides that part of Kylo is a fire hydrant.

SPADE has to just work with it. The person-blobs in the background become legs in snowsuits. It does its best attempt at a fire hydrant floating in a sea of “person” with flecks of car.

It will be amazing to see what these kinds of reconstructions end up looking like as algorithms like DeepLab and SPADE get better and better at their jobs. Could one segment a scene from Pride and Prejudice and replace all the "human" labels with "bear"? Or "refrigerator"?

Experiment with runwayml here!

You can also check out a cool variation on this where Jonathan Fly gives SPADE not a DeepLab segmentation but frames from cartoons or 8-bit video games. 

Subscribers get bonus content: more Star Wars reconstruction attempts (did you catch the teddy bears in The Last Jedi?) and an epic Inception fail.

[lya-under-y-octo]

Is it a rational space, this labyrinthic laboratory world? Sometimes the weird creeps up. I should record it maybe. The little neuronal change between the known and unknown.

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Luke Hess & Jeff Hess turns up together on the new DeepLabs

Three wonderful tracks for your shedule

https://www.deejay.de/Luke_Hess_%26_Jeff_Hess_The_Sea_Was_No_More_DL010_Vinyl__965184

#Luke_Hess #Jeff_Hess #Techno #Vinyl #DeepLabs

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Sorry if this is out of nowhere but I see you posting a lot abt Wrench, so was Wrench married??? Who is Zane??? Where did u see it, was it in the game? And when? Thank u aaa

IT'S CHIILL JSKDHDKS it gives me the opportunity to talk about Wrench which I love to do

SPOILERS INBOUND FOR THE BLOODLINE DLC (I'm on mobile atm so I can't do a read more but I will tag as spoilers)

So YES Wrench was canonically married to a man named Zane. We know practically nothing about Zane sadly but we do know that their relationship ended up getting rocky and ends with a messy divorce.

This took place after WD2 but before Bloodline of course. There is a 13 year gap between the two games, WD2 taking place in 2016 (in which Wrench was 28 at the time) and Legion taking place in 2029 (where Wrench is now 41). So somewhere between there, Wrench decided he wanted to maybe stop being Wrench and do his own thing (in the beginning mission for Bloodline he mentions something along the lines of "getting tired of Dedsec ops" though for what reason we don't know).

So he starts going by his actual name, Reginald Blechman (Reggie for short as used by Marcus and Rempart. Jackson and Aiden Pearce also refer to him as Reggie at least once) and starts up his own tech company (as said by Marcus in a voicemail in Wrench's safehouse, most likely a company that specializes in robotics as Wrench says that be knew robots but Rempart knew business). However I'm guessing the company goes to shit when Rempart fucks him over. Some where within that timeline (after wd2 and before Rempart fucked him over) Wrench met, fell in love with, married, and then divorced this mysterious Zane. What caused their relationship to get rocky is unknown.

The first hint (that I noticed) towards Zane we see is in the cutscene after Aiden breaks into Wrench's safehouse for the Brocabridge. On Wrench's workbench there is a heart with the name Zane carved into it, but it's been scratched out.

Marcus's voicemails also mention Zane, not directly, but about how he(Marcus) knows Wrench's divorce was rough (and offers for them to meet up since Marcus knows a guy who drives monstertrucks that Wrench may be interested in). Also in the final Fixer contract from Jordi, in which we actually get to hear Marcus and Wrench talk, Marcus mentions "Z" in which Wrench calls Z "He who must not be named". I'm not sure if it's also in that Fixer mission or somewhere else where Wrench says Zane can "fall down a well for all he cares".

There's also a file that can be found that contents are an email from Wrench to Rempart (I think in the retaking the deeplabs scene mission??) that shows Wrench's reaction to Rempart ghosting him while taking Wrench's MK1 design as his own. Wrench states that even after Z kicked him out and he was living in his var he still gave Rempart his all with the robots.

The last mention of Zane I've seen in the dlc (I haven't done much exploring post-bloodline as I restarted the campaign as Wrench and the Bloodline world is seperate from the campaign world since Bloodline takes place after the campaign intro with Dalton but before when you (the first operative) are contacted to help Dedsec in finding Zer0-Day) is in the retaking the BrocaTech deep labs in which Rempart says "Like your ex, I've moved onto better" in which Wrench responds with "And like his car, I'm going to fuck your shit up with a sledgehammer"

I'll have to search around for other documents in the bloodline playspace to see if there are any other mentions or details, but basically above is all that I know of at the moment!

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NGC 3344 // DeepLab

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ep stream: Luke Hess - Psalm EP (DeepLabs, 2023)

[jbaquerot]

Semantic image segmentation, the task of assigning a semantic label, such as “road”, “sky”, “person”, “dog”, to every pixel in an image enables numerous new applications, such as the synthetic shallow depth-of-field effect shipped in the portrait mode of the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL smartphones and mobile real-time video segmentation. Assigning these semantic labels requires pinpointing the outline of objects, and thus imposes much stricter localization accuracy requirements than other visual entity recognition tasks such as image-level classification or bounding box-level detection.

Today, we are excited to announce the open source release of our latest and best performing semantic image segmentation model, DeepLab-v3+ [1]*, implemented in TensorFlow. This release includes DeepLab-v3+ models built on top of a powerful convolutional neural network (CNN) backbone architecture [2, 3] for the most accurate results, intended for server-side deployment. As part of this release, we are additionally sharing our TensorFlow model training and evaluation code, as well as models already pre-trained on the Pascal VOC 2012 and Cityscapes benchmark semantic segmentation tasks.

Since the first incarnation of our DeepLab model [4] three years ago, improved CNN feature extractors, better object scale modeling, careful assimilation of contextual information, improved training procedures, and increasingly powerful hardware and software have led to improvements with DeepLab-v2 [5] and DeepLab-v3 [6]. With DeepLab-v3+, we extend DeepLab-v3 by adding a simple yet effective decoder module to refine the segmentation results especially along object boundaries. We further apply the depthwise separable convolution to both atrous spatial pyramid pooling [5, 6] and decoder modules, resulting in a faster and stronger encoder-decoder network for semantic segmentation.

Modern semantic image segmentation systems built on top of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have reached accuracy levels that were hard to imagine even five years ago, thanks to advances in methods, hardware, and datasets. We hope that publicly sharing our system with the community will make it easier for other groups in academia and industry to reproduce and further improve upon state-of-art systems, train models on new datasets, and envision new applications for this technology.

[seychellb]

Black coffee mock up 

<a href='https://www.freepik.com/psd/mockup'>Mockup psd created by Deeplab - www.freepik.com</a>

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Jen Lowe :: Deep Lab Lecture Series from STUDIO for Creative Inquiry on Vimeo.

A complete transcript of Jen Lowe's Deep Lab presentation appears at opentranscripts.org/transcript/jen-lowe-deep-lab/, courtesy of @opentranscripts / opentranscripts.org.

Deep Lab is a collective of cyberfeminist researchers, organized by STUDIO Fellow Addie Wagenknecht to examine how privacy, security, surveillance, and anonymity are problematized in the arts and society. The Deep Lab participants, all women, are an international group of new-media artists, visualization designers, data scientists, software engineers, hackers, journalists and theoreticians, who are engaged in the critical assessment of contemporary digital culture. In the second week of December, these experts will work at the STUDIO on an accelerated pressure project, and deliver four evenings of public presentations: the Deep Lab Lecture Series.

Dates: Monday through Thursday (inclusive), December 8-11, 2014 Time: 5:00-6:30pm. There will be three presentations each evening. Location: The STUDIO (Room CFA-111 in the CMU College of Fine Arts) Google Map: http://bit.ly/cmucfa (GPS: 40.441544,-79.942907) Hashtag: #deeplab. Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

Presentation Schedule:

Monday 12/8: Addie Wagenknecht, Allison Burtch, Runa Sandvik Tuesday 12/9: Harlo Holmes, Ingrid Burrington Wednesday 12/10: Maral Pourkazemi, Denise Caruso, Lindsay Howard Thursday 12/11: Maddy Varner, Jen Lowe, Lorrie Cranor