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Neural Filters Tutorial for Gifmakers by @antoniosvivaldi

Hi everyone! In light of my blog’s 10th birthday, I’m delighted to reveal my highly anticipated gifmaking tutorial using Neural Filters - a very powerful collection of filters that really broadened my scope in gifmaking over the past 12 months.

Before I get into this tutorial, I want to thank @laurabenanti, @maines , @cobbbvanth, and @cal-kestis for their unconditional support over the course of my journey of investigating the Neural Filters & their valuable inputs on the rendering performance!

In this tutorial, I will outline what the Photoshop Neural Filters do and how I use them in my workflow - multiple examples will be provided for better clarity. Finally, I will talk about some known performance issues with the filters & some feasible workarounds.

Tutorial Structure:

Meet the Neural Filters: What they are and what they do

Why I use Neural Filters? How I use Neural Filters in my giffing workflow

Getting started: The giffing workflow in a nutshell and installing the Neural Filters

Applying Neural Filters onto your gif: Making use of the Neural Filters settings; with multiple examples

Testing your system: recommended if you’re using Neural Filters for the first time

Rendering performance: Common Neural Filters performance issues & workarounds

For quick reference, here are the examples that I will show in this tutorial:

Example 1: Image Enhancement | improving the image quality of gifs prepared from highly compressed video files

Example 2: Facial Enhancement | enhancing an individual's facial features

Example 3: Colour Manipulation | colourising B&W gifs for a colourful gifset

Example 4: Artistic effects | transforming landscapes & adding artistic effects onto your gifs

Example 5: Putting it all together | my usual giffing workflow using Neural Filters

What you need & need to know:

Software: Photoshop 2021 or later (recommended: 2023 or later)*

Hardware: 8GB of RAM; having a supported GPU is highly recommended*

Difficulty: Advanced (requires a lot of patience); knowledge in gifmaking and using video timeline assumed

Key concepts: Smart Layer / Smart Filters

Benchmarking your system: Neural Filters test files**

Supplementary materials: Tutorial Resources / Detailed findings on rendering gifs with Neural Filters + known issues***

*I primarily gif on an M2 Max MacBook Pro that's running Photoshop 2024, but I also have experiences gifmaking on few other Mac models from 2012 ~ 2023.

**Using Neural Filters can be resource intensive, so it’s helpful to run the test files yourself. I’ll outline some known performance issues with Neural Filters and workarounds later in the tutorial.

***This supplementary page contains additional Neural Filters benchmark tests and instructions, as well as more information on the rendering performance (for Apple Silicon-based devices) when subject to heavy Neural Filters gifmaking workflows

Tutorial under the cut. Like / Reblog this post if you find this tutorial helpful. Linking this post as an inspo link will also be greatly appreciated!

1. Meet the Neural Filters!

Neural Filters are powered by Adobe's machine learning engine known as Adobe Sensei. It is a non-destructive method to help streamline workflows that would've been difficult and/or tedious to do manually.

Here are the Neural Filters available in Photoshop 2024:

Skin Smoothing: Removes blemishes on the skin

Smart Portrait: This a cloud-based filter that allows you to change the mood, facial age, hair, etc using the sliders+

Makeup Transfer: Applies the makeup (from a reference image) to the eyes & mouth area of your image

Landscape Mixer: Transforms the landscape of your image (e.g. seasons & time of the day, etc), based on the landscape features of a reference image

Style Transfer: Applies artistic styles e.g. texturings (from a reference image) onto your image

Harmonisation: Applies the colour balance of your image based on the lighting of the background image+

Colour Transfer: Applies the colour scheme (of a reference image) onto your image

Colourise: Adds colours onto a B&W image

Super Zoom: Zoom / crop an image without losing resolution+

Depth Blur: Blurs the background of the image

JPEG Artefacts Removal: Removes artefacts caused by JPEG compression

Photo Restoration: Enhances image quality & facial details

+These three filters aren't used in my giffing workflow. The cloud-based nature of Smart Portrait leads to disjointed looking frames. For Harmonisation, applying this on a gif causes Neural Filter timeout error. Finally, Super Zoom does not currently support output as a Smart Filter

If you're running Photoshop 2021 or earlier version of Photoshop 2022, you will see a smaller selection of Neural Filters:

Things to be aware of:

You can apply up to six Neural Filters at the same time

Filters where you can use your own reference images: Makeup Transfer (portraits only), Landscape Mixer, Style Transfer (not available in Photoshop 2021), and Colour Transfer

Later iterations of Photoshop 2023 & newer: The first three default presets for Landscape Mixer and Colour Transfer are currently broken.

2. Why I use Neural Filters?

Here are my four main Neural Filters use cases in my gifmaking process. In each use case I'll list out the filters that I use:

Enhancing Image Quality:

Common wisdom is to find the highest quality video to gif from for a media release & avoid YouTube whenever possible. However for smaller / niche media (e.g. new & upcoming musical artists), prepping gifs from highly compressed YouTube videos is inevitable.

So how do I get around with this? I have found Neural Filters pretty handy when it comes to both correcting issues from video compression & enhancing details in gifs prepared from these highly compressed video files.

Filters used: JPEG Artefacts Removal / Photo Restoration

Facial Enhancement:

When I prepare gifs from highly compressed videos, something I like to do is to enhance the facial features. This is again useful when I make gifsets from compressed videos & want to fill up my final panel with a close-up shot.

Filters used: Skin Smoothing / Makeup Transfer / Photo Restoration (Facial Enhancement slider)

Colour Manipulation:

Neural Filters is a powerful way to do advanced colour manipulation - whether I want to quickly transform the colour scheme of a gif or transform a B&W clip into something colourful.

Filters used: Colourise / Colour Transfer

Artistic Effects:

This is one of my favourite things to do with Neural Filters! I enjoy using the filters to create artistic effects by feeding textures that I've downloaded as reference images. I also enjoy using these filters to transform the overall the atmosphere of my composite gifs. The gifsets where I've leveraged Neural Filters for artistic effects could be found under this tag on usergif.

Filters used: Landscape Mixer / Style Transfer / Depth Blur

How I use Neural Filters over different stages of my gifmaking workflow:

I want to outline how I use different Neural Filters throughout my gifmaking process. This can be roughly divided into two stages:

Stage I: Enhancement and/or Colourising | Takes place early in my gifmaking process. I process a large amount of component gifs by applying Neural Filters for enhancement purposes and adding some base colourings.++

Stage II: Artistic Effects & more Colour Manipulation | Takes place when I'm assembling my component gifs in the big PSD / PSB composition file that will be my final gif panel.

I will walk through this in more detail later in the tutorial.

++I personally like to keep the size of the component gifs in their original resolution (a mixture of 1080p & 4K), to get best possible results from the Neural Filters and have more flexibility later on in my workflow. I resize & sharpen these gifs after they're placed into my final PSD composition files in Tumblr dimensions.

3. Getting started

The essence is to output Neural Filters as a Smart Filter on the smart object when working with the Video Timeline interface. Your workflow will contain the following steps:

Prepare your gif

In the frame animation interface, set the frame delay to 0.03s and convert your gif to the Video Timeline

In the Video Timeline interface, go to Filter > Neural Filters and output to a Smart Filter

Flatten or render your gif (either approach is fine). To flatten your gif, play the "flatten" action from the gif prep action pack. To render your gif as a .mov file, go to File > Export > Render Video & use the following settings.

Setting up:

o.) To get started, prepare your gifs the usual way - whether you screencap or clip videos. You should see your prepared gif in the frame animation interface as follows:

Note: As mentioned earlier, I keep the gifs in their original resolution right now because working with a larger dimension document allows more flexibility later on in my workflow. I have also found that I get higher quality results working with more pixels. I eventually do my final sharpening & resizing when I fit all of my component gifs to a main PSD composition file (that's of Tumblr dimension).

i.) To use Smart Filters, convert your gif to a Smart Video Layer.

As an aside, I like to work with everything in 0.03s until I finish everything (then correct the frame delay to 0.05s when I upload my panels onto Tumblr).

For convenience, I use my own action pack to first set the frame delay to 0.03s (highlighted in yellow) and then convert to timeline (highlighted in red) to access the Video Timeline interface. To play an action, press the play button highlighted in green.

Once you've converted this gif to a Smart Video Layer, you'll see the Video Timeline interface as follows:

ii.) Select your gif (now as a Smart Layer) and go to Filter > Neural Filters

Installing Neural Filters:

Install the individual Neural Filters that you want to use. If the filter isn't installed, it will show a cloud symbol (highlighted in yellow). If the filter is already installed, it will show a toggle button (highlighted in green)

When you toggle this button, the Neural Filters preview window will look like this (where the toggle button next to the filter that you use turns blue)

4. Using Neural Filters

Once you have installed the Neural Filters that you want to use in your gif, you can toggle on a filter and play around with the sliders until you're satisfied. Here I'll walkthrough multiple concrete examples of how I use Neural Filters in my giffing process.

Example 1: Image enhancement | sample gifset

This is my typical Stage I Neural Filters gifmaking workflow. When giffing older or more niche media releases, my main concern is the video compression that leads to a lot of artefacts in the screencapped / video clipped gifs.

To fix the artefacts from compression, I go to Filter > Neural Filters, and toggle JPEG Artefacts Removal filter. Then I choose the strength of the filter (boxed in green), output this as a Smart Filter (boxed in yellow), and press OK (boxed in red).

Note: The filter has to be fully processed before you could press the OK button!

After applying the Neural Filters, you'll see "Neural Filters" under the Smart Filters property of the smart layer

Flatten / render your gif

Example 2: Facial enhancement | sample gifset

This is my routine use case during my Stage I Neural Filters gifmaking workflow. For musical artists (e.g. Maisie Peters), YouTube is often the only place where I'm able to find some videos to prepare gifs from. However even the highest resolution video available on YouTube is highly compressed.

Go to Filter > Neural Filters and toggle on Photo Restoration. If Photoshop recognises faces in the image, there will be a "Facial Enhancement" slider under the filter settings.

Play around with the Photo Enhancement & Facial Enhancement sliders. You can also expand the "Adjustment" menu make additional adjustments e.g. remove noises and reducing different types of artefacts.

Once you're happy with the results, press OK and then flatten / render your gif.

Example 3: Colour Manipulation | sample gifset

Want to make a colourful gifset but the source video is in B&W? This is where Colourise from Neural Filters comes in handy! This same colourising approach is also very helpful for colouring poor-lit scenes as detailed in this tutorial.

Here's a B&W gif that we want to colourise:

Highly recommended: add some adjustment layers onto the B&W gif to improve the contrast & depth. This will give you higher quality results when you colourise your gif.

Go to Filter > Neural Filters and toggle on Colourise.

Make sure "Auto colour image" is enabled.

Play around with further adjustments e.g. colour balance, until you're satisfied then press OK.

Important: When you colourise a gif, you need to double check that the resulting skin tone is accurate to real life. I personally go to Google Images and search up photoshoots of the individual / character that I'm giffing for quick reference.

Add additional adjustment layers until you're happy with the colouring of the skin tone.

Once you're happy with the additional adjustments, flatten / render your gif. And voila!

Note: For Colour Manipulation, I use Colourise in my Stage I workflow and Colour Transfer in my Stage II workflow to do other types of colour manipulations (e.g. transforming the colour scheme of the component gifs)

Example 4: Artistic Effects | sample gifset

This is where I use Neural Filters for the bulk of my Stage II workflow: the most enjoyable stage in my editing process!

Normally I would be working with my big composition files with multiple component gifs inside it. To begin the fun, drag a component gif (in PSD file) to the main PSD composition file.

Resize this gif in the composition file until you're happy with the placement

Duplicate this gif. Sharpen the bottom layer (highlighted in yellow), and then select the top layer (highlighted in green) & go to Filter > Neural Filters

I like to use Style Transfer and Landscape Mixer to create artistic effects from Neural Filters. In this particular example, I've chosen Landscape Mixer

Select a preset or feed a custom image to the filter (here I chose a texture that I've on my computer)

Play around with the different sliders e.g. time of the day / seasons

Important: uncheck "Harmonise Subject" & "Preserve Subject" - these two settings are known to cause performance issues when you render a multiframe smart object (e.g. for a gif)

Once you're happy with the artistic effect, press OK

To ensure you preserve the actual subject you want to gif (bc Preserve Subject is unchecked), add a layer mask onto the top layer (with Neural Filters) and mask out the facial region. You might need to play around with the Layer Mask Position keyframes or Rotoscope your subject in the process.

After you're happy with the masking, flatten / render this composition file and voila!

Example 5: Putting it all together | sample gifset

Let's recap on the Neural Filters gifmaking workflow and where Stage I and Stage II fit in my gifmaking process:

i. Preparing & enhancing the component gifs

Prepare all component gifs and convert them to smart layers

Stage I: Add base colourings & apply Photo Restoration / JPEG Artefacts Removal to enhance the gif's image quality

Flatten all of these component gifs and convert them back to Smart Video Layers (this process can take a lot of time)

Some of these enhanced gifs will be Rotoscoped so this is done before adding the gifs to the big PSD composition file

ii. Setting up the big PSD composition file

Make a separate PSD composition file (Ctrl / Cmmd + N) that's of Tumblr dimension (e.g. 540px in width)

Drag all of the component gifs used into this PSD composition file

Enable Video Timeline and trim the work area

In the composition file, resize / move the component gifs until you're happy with the placement & sharpen these gifs if you haven't already done so

Duplicate the layers that you want to use Neural Filters on

iii. Working with Neural Filters in the PSD composition file

Stage II: Neural Filters to create artistic effects / more colour manipulations!

Mask the smart layers with Neural Filters to both preserve the subject and avoid colouring issues from the filters

Flatten / render the PSD composition file: the more component gifs in your composition file, the longer the exporting will take. (I prefer to render the composition file into a .mov clip to prevent overriding a file that I've spent effort putting together.)

Note: In some of my layout gifsets (where I've heavily used Neural Filters in Stage II), the rendering time for the panel took more than 20 minutes. This is one of the rare instances where I was maxing out my computer's memory.

Useful things to take note of:

Important: If you're using Neural Filters for Colour Manipulation or Artistic Effects, you need to take a lot of care ensuring that the skin tone of nonwhite characters / individuals is accurately coloured

Use the Facial Enhancement slider from Photo Restoration in moderation, if you max out the slider value you risk oversharpening your gif later on in your gifmaking workflow

You will get higher quality results from Neural Filters by working with larger image dimensions: This gives Neural Filters more pixels to work with. You also get better quality results by feeding higher resolution reference images to the Neural Filters.

Makeup Transfer is more stable when the person / character has minimal motion in your gif

You might get unexpected results from Landscape Mixer if you feed a reference image that don't feature a distinctive landscape. This is not always a bad thing: for instance, I have used this texture as a reference image for Landscape Mixer, to create the shimmery effects as seen in this gifset

5. Testing your system

If this is the first time you're applying Neural Filters directly onto a gif, it will be helpful to test out your system yourself. This will help:

Gauge the expected rendering time that you'll need to wait for your gif to export, given specific Neural Filters that you've used

Identify potential performance issues when you render the gif: this is important and will determine whether you will need to fully playback your gif before flattening / rendering the file.

Understand how your system's resources are being utilised: Inputs from Windows PC users & Mac users alike are welcome!

About the Neural Filters test files:

Contains six distinct files, each using different Neural Filters

Two sizes of test files: one copy in full HD (1080p) and another copy downsized to 540px

One folder containing the flattened / rendered test files

How to use the Neural Filters test files:

What you need:

Photoshop 2022 or newer (recommended: 2023 or later)

Install the following Neural Filters: Landscape Mixer / Style Transfer / Colour Transfer / Colourise / Photo Restoration / Depth Blur

Recommended for some Apple Silicon-based MacBook Pro models: Enable High Power Mode

How to use the test files:

For optimal performance, close all background apps

Open a test file

Flatten the test file into frames (load this action pack & play the “flatten” action)

Take note of the time it takes until you’re directed to the frame animation interface

Compare the rendered frames to the expected results in this folder: check that all of the frames look the same. If they don't, you will need to fully playback the test file in full before flattening the file.†

Re-run the test file without the Neural Filters and take note of how long it takes before you're directed to the frame animation interface

Recommended: Take note of how your system is utilised during the rendering process (more info here for MacOS users)

†This is a performance issue known as flickering that I will discuss in the next section. If you come across this, you'll have to playback a gif where you've used Neural Filters (on the video timeline) in full, prior to flattening / rendering it.

Factors that could affect the rendering performance / time (more info):

The number of frames, dimension, and colour bit depth of your gif

If you use Neural Filters with facial recognition features, the rendering time will be affected by the number of characters / individuals in your gif

Most resource intensive filters (powered by largest machine learning models): Landscape Mixer / Photo Restoration (with Facial Enhancement) / and JPEG Artefacts Removal

Least resource intensive filters (smallest machine learning models): Colour Transfer / Colourise

The number of Neural Filters that you apply at once / The number of component gifs with Neural Filters in your PSD file

Your system: system memory, the GPU, and the architecture of the system's CPU+++

+++ Rendering a gif with Neural Filters demands a lot of system memory & GPU horsepower. Rendering will be faster & more reliable on newer computers, as these systems have CPU & GPU with more modern instruction sets that are geared towards machine learning-based tasks.

Additionally, the unified memory architecture of Apple Silicon M-series chips are found to be quite efficient at processing Neural Filters.

6. Performance issues & workarounds

Common Performance issues:

I will discuss several common issues related to rendering or exporting a multi-frame smart object (e.g. your composite gif) that uses Neural Filters below. This is commonly caused by insufficient system memory and/or the GPU.

Flickering frames: in the flattened / rendered file, Neural Filters aren't applied to some of the frames+-+

Scrambled frames: the frames in the flattened / rendered file isn't in order

Neural Filters exceeded the timeout limit error: this is normally a software related issue

Long export / rendering time: long rendering time is expected in heavy workflows

Laggy Photoshop / system interface: having to wait quite a long time to preview the next frame on the timeline

Issues with Landscape Mixer: Using the filter gives ill-defined defined results (Common in older systems)--

Workarounds:

Workarounds that could reduce unreliable rendering performance & long rendering time:

Close other apps running in the background

Work with smaller colour bit depth (i.e. 8-bit rather than 16-bit)

Downsize your gif before converting to the video timeline-+-

Try to keep the number of frames as low as possible

Avoid stacking multiple Neural Filters at once. Try applying & rendering the filters that you want one by one

Specific workarounds for specific issues:

How to resolve flickering frames: If you come across flickering, you will need to playback your gif on the video timeline in full to find the frames where the filter isn't applied. You will need to select all of the frames to allow Photoshop to reprocess these, before you render your gif.+-+

What to do if you come across Neural Filters timeout error? This is caused by several incompatible Neural Filters e.g. Harmonisation (both the filter itself and as a setting in Landscape Mixer), Scratch Reduction in Photo Restoration, and trying to stack multiple Neural Filters with facial recognition features.

If the timeout error is caused by stacking multiple filters, a feasible workaround is to apply the Neural Filters that you want to use one by one over multiple rendering sessions, rather all of them in one go.

+-+This is a very common issue for Apple Silicon-based Macs. Flickering happens when a gif with Neural Filters is rendered without being previously played back in the timeline.

This issue is likely related to the memory bandwidth & the GPU cores of the chips, because not all Apple Silicon-based Macs exhibit this behaviour (i.e. devices equipped with Max / Ultra M-series chips are mostly unaffected).

-- As mentioned in the supplementary page, Landscape Mixer requires a lot of GPU horsepower to be fully rendered. For older systems (pre-2017 builds), there are no workarounds other than to avoid using this filter.

-+- For smaller dimensions, the size of the machine learning models powering the filters play an outsized role in the rendering time (i.e. marginal reduction in rendering time when downsizing 1080p file to Tumblr dimensions). If you use filters powered by larger models e.g. Landscape Mixer and Photo Restoration, you will need to be very patient when exporting your gif.

7. More useful resources on using Neural Filters

Creating animations with Neural Filters effects | Max Novak

Using Neural Filters to colour correct by @edteachs

I hope this is helpful! If you have any questions or need any help related to the tutorial, feel free to send me an ask 💖

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dorkofclanlavellan · 5 months

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Obsessive Cleaning (FO4 Preference)

Fandom: Fallout 4 Request: x x Pairings: Danse x Reader, Hancock x Reader, MacCready x Reader, Nick x Reader, Preston x Reader.

Notes:

I included Nick because he should be romanceable.

Idk if manic cleaning is the correct term for this so I didn't use it because I didn't want to be offensive.

Zero uses of Y/N or Sole so you can decide if Reader is Sole or not.

Trigger Warning: Reader obsessively cleaning and neglecting their own needs.

Danse:

Danse wakes up to an empty bed and immediately heads out to find you. He discovers you engrossed in your task of cleaning and making repairs to Sanctuary, impressed by your attention to detail.

He joins in to help, using his military training to streamline the process and increase efficiency.

Danse appreciates your dedication to improving your surroundings and sees it as a reflection of your strong work ethic.

After a bit when he notices that you're showing no signs of slowing or even taking a a break, that's when Danse would intervene. He'd make sure you're okay and encourage you to at least stop long enough for food and water.

"Alright, soldier, you're no good to anyone passed out from hunger. Let's just sit over here and take a brief respite."

Hancock:

Hancock wakes up and immediately notices your absence. He follows the sounds of cleaning to find you fully immersed in your task, determined to make Sanctuary perfect.

He admires your dedication but worries that you're neglecting your own well-being.

Hancock encourages you to take breaks and assures you that Sanctuary already looks great.

He'd even join in once he realizes that you're probably not going to stop until you believe Sanctuary is as good as it's going to get. And he'd do his best to keep the mood light.

"Damn, sweetheart, you keep at it like this you'll make the rest of us look like a bunch of do-nothings. How about we take a quick...nap?"

MacCready:

When MacCready wakes to find you missing and sets out to locate you. He discovers you hard at work, fixing and cleaning various areas of Sanctuary with a determined expression.

He's impressed by your dedication but also concerned that you're pushing yourself too hard.

He offers to help and tries to convince you to take breaks, knowing how important it is to avoid burnout.

He admires your commitment to making Sanctuary a better place and supports you throughout the process, ensuring you take breaks and stay hydrated.

"Sweetie, you need rest...and breakfast. I promise this rubble will still be here in a couple of hours."

Nick Valentine:

Being a synth, Nick doesn't need sleep. He was, however, going over some information on a case he was working when he noticed faint noises. He decided to investigate and found you diligently working around Sanctuary.

He's intrigued by your hyperfocus and deduces that you won't stop until you're satisfied with the results.

Nick offers his assistance, impressed by the progress you've already made. You were cleaning up trash and rubble, recycling anything that could be repurposed.

He keeps an eye on your well-being, reminding you to take breaks as you work together to improve

"You're definitely impressive but unlike me you do need food and sleep. How about you take a break and while I finish up?"

Preston Garvey:

Preston wakes up in the middle of the night and notices your absence. Concerned, he sets out to find you and is surprised to discover you tirelessly cleaning and fixing things in Sanctuary.

He admires your dedication to helping others but worries that you're neglecting your own needs.

Preston offers to assist you and encourages you to take breaks and rest.

Preston appreciates your commitment to making Sanctuary a safe and comfortable place for everyone and supports you throughout the cleaning process.

"You know, you really are amazing. But even you need water to continue going, honey."

#no use of y/n #fallout 4 #preferences #fallout 4 preferences #fallout 4 companions react #fallout 4 romances #fallout 4 headcanons #cait x reader #curie x reader #paladin danse x reader #porter gage x reader #john hancock x reader #gender neutral reader #maccready x reader #nick valentine x reader #piper wright x reader #preston garvey x reader #tw: self neglect #tw: reader neglecting biological needs

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Have you played dgs? I didn't like dgs 1 very much but thought dgs 2 was the best game in the franchise (I've yet to play investigations). I think there's huge potential for dgs 3 someday.... dgs 3... reunion! And the Britain gang comes to Japan

I have played dgs. Dgs 1 I enjoyed a ton while playing because on a technical level it was just such a well made game. The animations the music the new mechanics... but looking back on it it was SO unnecessarily bloated that even though I really do need to do a second pass on dgs I'm really dreading it because it's a grind.

Dgs2 was overall MUCH better paces. I can never get into dgs as much as I am I to mainline just because I feel like the trilogy was so streamlined and efficient in its storytelling in a way the dgs games didn't manage to be. But even if it's a bit messy in areas what's there in dgs is REALLY good.

I think there's definitely a ton of directions a hypothetical dgs 3 could go but I think to really shine it would need to de escalate the stakes a bit and focus on really letting those interpersonal dynamics simmer.

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dailyunsolvedmysteries · 1 year

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24 People Perished In A Train Derailment Caused By Unknown Saboteurs

The City of San Francisco luxury train was running 30 minutes behind schedule the night of August 12, 1939. To make up for lost time, engineer Ed Hecox pushed the state-of-the-art streamliner to 90 miles per hour while traveling through the Nevada desert. Hecox knew the area well - he had been transporting travelers from Chicago to Oakland and back since he was a stagecoach driver in the 1880s.

The train was at top speed as it approached bridge #4 over the Humboldt River Gorge. Just before the train crossed the overpass, Hecox noticed a tumbleweed on the tracks. The conductor immediately slammed on the brakes, but it was too late. As the momentum from the engines propelled the derailed front cars forward over the bridge, five other cars decoupled and plunged into the riverbed below.

Twenty-four people perished from the impact, and severely injured passengers had to crawl over dismembered body parts in the dark night to seek help. One of the passengers was a doctor, who helped triage and stabilize as many victims as possible. Hecox ran for help, but the next town was miles away. When he finally reached Harney, he alerted authorities and gathered volunteers. The injured lit portions of the train on fire to provide visibility as they awaited Hecox's return. All 170 passengers suffered injuries, and the first rescue train didn't arrive until the following day.

Upon investigation, authorities found that someone had tampered with a 30-foot section of tracks near the bridge. Its spikes had been pulled out, and the track was bent inward. Additionally, the tumbleweed had been tied to the damaged railing to camouflage the saboteurs' work.

Investigators never caught the perpetrators, and the motive behind the sabotage remains a mystery. Officials estimated the job would've taken more than 90 pounds of tools and several hours to complete - an impossible feat for one person. But instead of focusing on suspects with ties to the railroad or its passengers, investigators focused on transient men in the area made homeless from the Great Depression. After numerous interviews, they found that none of the local homeless men could've been responsible for the incident. Volunteers and looters looking for souvenirs the night of the crash had destroyed any clues that may have led to catching any plausible suspects. When the US entered WWII a few years later, officials abandoned the investigation.

#train crash #mass murder #cold cases #unsolved #unsolved mysteries #history

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Taking Call Centers to New Heights: Discovering DialerKing Success Story

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In today's fast-paced business environment, call centers are crucial in ensuring that businesses and their customers communicate effectively. In the midst of the steadily developing industry drifts and arising innovations, DialerKing, a main call-center software supplier organization, has ascended to unmistakable quality with its uncommon programming arrangements.

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Unveiling the Versatility of Accounting Careers: Beyond Number Crunching

When people think of accounting careers, the image of number crunching, spreadsheets, and tax forms often comes to mind. However, the field of accounting offers much more than meets the eye. In this blog, we will explore the versatility of accounting careers, delving into the diverse range of opportunities that go beyond traditional roles. From strategic financial planning to forensic accounting and sustainability reporting, we will showcase the exciting and multifaceted paths available to accounting professionals. So, let's uncover the hidden gems and expand our understanding of the dynamic world of accounting.

Strategic Financial Planning and Analysis: Accounting professionals play a crucial role in strategic financial planning and analysis. They collaborate with management teams to analyze financial data, identify trends, and provide insights for decision-making. By evaluating financial performance and market conditions, accountants contribute to formulating effective business strategies. This role requires strong analytical skills, business acumen, and the ability to communicate financial information to stakeholders effectively.

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How to Streamline your Logistic Processes: Tips for Improving Efficiency

Introduction

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After identifying wasteful steps, the next step is to analyze the root causes of process inefficiencies. This involves investigating the underlying factors that contribute to wasteful steps, such as manual processes, lack of communication, or inefficient systems.

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Once you have identified the root causes of inefficiencies, you can start streamlining your logistic processes. This may involve implementing new processes, reorganizing workflows, or consolidating steps to reduce waste and increase efficiency.

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I've had an idea banging around in my head after playing FNAF Security Breach, and also hearing criticisms of it, plus my own. I don't think it's a fundamentally broken game, I think it just suffers from a lack of organization that would streamline the experience. So, out of sheer boredom, I'm going to post a series of simple fixes for FNAFSB.

Most of these are going to be simpler changes, nothing too terribly high-end, not making a whole new game, adding new mechanics and characters, etc.

Fix 1: Five Nights.

The open world of the Pizzaplex is nice, but too much free-roam yields for glitches and deadspace in terms of planned experiences, so pick and choose carefully. This was attempted with elevators and certain passageways, but lean into it more with some structure. Start off by breaking the game into the classic five nights.

This doesn't necessitate any additional assets, and the animatronics already all seem to be designed to look increasingly filthy (prior to being shattered), so break it up by nights, and each night by hours.

12:00 Free Roam

This is the player's opportunity to explore some of the pizzaplex, look for hidden goodies and challenges (more on that later). This also serves as the time when any "defeated" animatronic stalks the place looking for you. As one is defeated each night, this section gets trickier with each subsequent night. Once you and Freddy choose an animatronic's area to investigate, that locks you into...

1:00 Gaining Access

This sequence will vary for each, but it's where your minibosses (i.e. DJ Musicman) will take place. Overcome this section to grant access to each animatronic's domain. Usually this part will be an environment limited to just one kind of animatronic you have to deal with, whether evading the DJ, playing Capture the Flag, etc.

2:00 FNAF Challenge

Once you gain access, you're in a classic FNAF security office, and have to survive the hour. Lock down player movement so it becomes.easier to focus on bouncing around the cameras and hitting buttons.

3:00 Animatronic Face-Off

You face your chosen animatronic in their basic form, which can be either sneaking around to find components of a puzzle, leading them to a particular point, or defeating them in a challenge. Completing this portion shatters them, leading to...

4:00 Explore Behind the Scenes

After retrieving the parts you need, you're mostly alone, wandering the darker areas of the Pizzaplex, such as the garbage mines, the furnaces, backrooms, etc. This is where you can immerse the player in lore and get in details that things aren't quite right. Leave them mostly to their own devices, no real threats, rely on your atmosphere here. This could also be a decent time to have Vanny randomly appear, making the player need to hide until she vanishes, akin to the Ink Demon in Bendy and the Dark Revival, or have her briefly appear in scripted moments, like she's stalking you so always just out of the corner of your eye.

5:00 Escape the Shattered Variant

The night ends with the shattered animatronic being introduced to chase you out of their domain. You need to escape their area while evading them to complete this hour. Afterwards, they're added to the roster that hunts you at midnight in the main area.

Night One: ...Mostly safe! Vanessa hunts you briefly to familiarize you with the mechanics. She quickly catches you and due to some plot convenience, has you briefly assist with a FNAF style challenge, again, getting you familiar with things. Then? Friendly mode. All of the animatronics are... Friendly! Vanessa escorts you around each area. This is important. You get to see the areas as they're MEANT to be. This leads to payoff later when you're sneaking back in the dark and everything feels wrong. Vanny gets a call, she can't leave you alone, so she sticks you in daycare under watch by Sundrop aka Daycare Attendant until she gets back. While she's gone, power outage, Moondrop sequence, and then Moondrop becomes the first animatronic to pursue you in the free roam mode.

Nights 2-4: Roxy, Chica, Monty. Your choice. But again, once you choose, you're locked in. Vanessa is missing, everything's now dark or dimly lit.

Night 5: Freddy. After getting fully "upgraded", Freddy is turned somehow and you have to fight off him and the others, leading to the first possible ending.

Nights 6 and 7: accessible by finding secrets to change the course of events, leading to confronting Vanny or the other hidden boss.

Phew.

So there's a rough idea of cleaning things up a bit. Notice most everything mentioned is already present in the game, just a bit messy and not terribly straightforward.

I plan to babble on a bit more with some extra fixes and flesh out some things I touched on here.

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How Patient Care Is Being Improved by Technology Everyday

With technology becoming more integral to patient care in recent years, innovation in the medtech space is progressing at an unprecedented level. From streamlining long-held manual processes to creating entirely new diagnostic devices, new tech is cropping up all over the industry—resulting in a real-world impact on patients’ quality of life.

These technologies are helping companies to enable faster and more efficient engagement with patients, improve traditional devices, incorporate more software solutions into patient care, and even launch wholly new products. Further, these modern tools help medtech companies keep up with the rapid pace of innovation, by launching new products faster and quickly extending to new markets.

As hospitals face consolidation and CIOs are asked to increase staff productivity, tech companies that can support automation with solutions that are easy to onboard are getting heightened interest.

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In medtech especially, quality is the name of the game. The speed at which companies can address post-market or field issues is vital to success. After all, if a product meant to improve patient care isn’t performing the way it’s intended to, there could be tangible life-saving implications.

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The Covid-19 pandemic has forced life sciences companies to take a fresh look at how they do business. But as they reinvent their operations, companies often overlook a critical function: Their learning and development programs.

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Technology is helping to both manage difficult symptoms of these diseases, and find proactive ways to prevent them before the onset.

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Smart technology is virtually inescapable today. We use software devices in many aspects of our lives—in our homes, in our cars, in our pockets. And our medical needs are no exception.

Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) is one of the fastest growing areas of medtech innovation, enabling tangible life-saving results from:

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The pace of medtech innovation is accelerating so much it almost feels as if we’ve stepped into the future. There are groundbreaking companies focused on eradicating certain cancers that are offering comprehensive genomic profiling (CGP) which provides results from a simple blood draw in days. This allows oncologists to obtain information quicker and advise the right treatment to each of their cancer patients.

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How to choose a right IT staffing agency for your organization?

Anyone who has accomplished anything noteworthy didn't do it by themselves. And you shouldn't either! Your team is the support for your aspirations. Ensure that they are sturdy enough! Finding, attracting, hiring, and keeping bright workers who will not only perform at a high level but also fit in with your workplace naturally is one of the most important factors in corporate success.

Any hire, whether temporary or permanent, falls under this. Staff is in control of what has been successfully constructed and what has to be accomplished in the future, supported by the organization's values, objectives, and purpose. Because of this, it's critical to recruit, develop, and keep a talented and effective workforce. But sometimes speaking the truth is simpler than acting. Hiring procedures take time and don't always yield the expected outcomes. You wouldn't want to waste your time and money working with a staffing company that couldn't understand and fulfill you’re hiring needs, after all.

So how do you pick a right IT staffing agency for your organization?

Here are some helpful suggestions to take into account when choosing a staffing agency to help you with the decision-making process. But first, let's take a quick look at some of the advantages of working with a hiring firm.

What Benefits Can You Get from Working with Remote Staffing services?

A staggering 77% of millennial clients plan to increase their use of staffing firms over the next five years, according to a survey. So let's examine the rationale behind why businesses depend on staffing firms to streamline and expedite the recruiting process.

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According to the most recent Manpower Group data, 69% of employers worldwide are having trouble finding talent with the ideal mix of soft, technical, and personal skills. This is a 15-year high.

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Should you search for contingent, contract-to-hire, or direct-hire talent? What qualifications do you need to look for in a specific position? How many more team members are needed to reach your workforce expansion objectives for the upcoming year?

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Staffing assistance is required in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, or Chennai even though your head office may be in Bangalore. Do they have a location close to your branches in all of India to facilitate talent acquisition branch-, city-, and state-specific? Verify how many recruiters are on hand at the specified location. Verify their historical employee deployment rate.

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In general, a company that has been around for more than 15 years and has worked with reputable clients or your competitors is likely to provide high-quality service. A fast conversation regarding "Service so far, reliability, professionalism, efficiency, closure timeframes, quality of talent & other pertinent questions" should be had if you can connect with any current clients of the staffing agency.

Examine the hiring and selection procedure:

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The recruitment agency is likely to give you effective outcomes in a cost-effective way & also in a shorter amount of time if it appropriately utilizes different talent search platforms, outdoor talent outreach techniques, social channels, and digital marketing.

Discover the retention rates by asking:

Consider finding the ideal candidate and releasing the offer letter as having completed 20% of the work. 35% of the DOJ is when the employee accepts and shows up for work. The retention of the same staff over the long term, or until the project or contract job is completed, makes up the remaining 45% and is crucial. Check the employee retention rates for your sector as well as the overall rate for all employees. One of the crucial factors in determining the caliber of the talent offered by the staffing agency is this.

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The Essential Role of Private Investigators: Unveiling the Truth with Professional Expertise

In an increasingly complex world filled with swirling information and uncertainties, private investigators play a crucial role in uncovering truths, gathering evidence, and ensuring peace of mind. Whether in cases of infidelity, corporate investigations, or missing persons, private investigators are skilled professionals equipped with the tools and techniques to get to the heart of the matter.

Understanding the Role of a Private Investigator

Private investigators, often called PIs, are professionals who provide investigative services to individuals, businesses, and legal entities. Their roles can be diverse, ranging from conducting background checks and surveillance to performing fraud investigations and locating missing persons. Their work is discreet and meticulous, requiring a keen eye for detail and a methodical approach to gathering information.

One of the significant advantages of hiring a private investigator is their ability to access resources and databases that the general public cannot. With the right licenses and training, PIs utilize both traditional investigative methods and modern technology to collect the information needed by their clients.

Areas of Expertise

Private investigators operate in various areas, including:

Infidelity Investigations: Many individuals hire PIs to confirm or dispel suspicions about a partner's fidelity. PIs gather evidence through surveillance, tracking, and background checks, providing clients with peace of mind.

Corporate Investigations: Businesses may require the expertise of private investigators for matters such as employee theft, fraud, or workplace misconduct. PIs can help uncover unethical practices and provide evidence for legal proceedings if necessary.

Missing Persons Cases: Whether searching for a lost loved one or tracking down a debtor, PIs possess the skills and resources needed to locate missing persons efficiently.

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AI vs. Human Intelligence: How AI Complements Critical Thinking in Research

Recent years have seen the incorporation with Artificial Intelligence (AI) in diverse fields has raised questions regarding its significance in comparison with human cognitive. As research methods evolve and AI becomes more sophisticated, understanding the ways in which AI can enhance critical thinking is crucial especially in areas like academic research, data analysis and the process of making decisions. Photon Insights, a leader in AI-driven research solutions shows the ways in which AI can improve human cognitive capabilities rather than replace them.

The Nature of Intelligence

Human intelligence is defined by emotional intelligence, creativity and the capacity to be able to consider things critically. Critical thinking involves the analysis of information in a way, connecting it with other information, and drawing conclusions based upon evidence. Contrary to this, AI, particularly through machine learning and natural language processing excels in processing large quantities of data in a short time as well as recognizing patterns which might remain undiscovered by human researchers.

The Role of AI in Research

The role of AI in research is multi-faceted. It increases the speed and effectiveness process of processing data, which allows researchers to concentrate on tasks that require higher order thinking. Here are some of the key ways AI can benefit research:

1. Data Analysis AI algorithms can analyze large datasets at speeds that are beyond the capabilities of humans. This technology allows researchers to find new insights and patterns that might not immediately be apparent.

2. Literature Review: AI tools can streamline the process of analyzing the literature of academics, highlighting results and highlighting relevant research. This greatly reduces the time that researchers devote to preliminary research.

3. Predictive Analytics: AI models are able to predict outcomes from previous data, providing valuable insights for studies and experiments. This ability to predict outcomes can aid in the creation of hypothesis and test.

4. Enhanced Collaboration AI platforms help facilitate collaboration between researchers through improving communication and sharing information that can result in better research outcomes.

Complementing Critical Thinking

Although AI offers significant advantages in handling data however, the necessity of the ability to think critically remains essential. Human intelligence plays an essential part in interpreting data, understanding findings, and deciding on ethical issues. Here’s how AI can complement human critical thinking in research:

1. Augmented Decision-Making AI offers data-driven insights that inform human decision-making. Researchers can make use of AI-generated advice as they apply their judgment and knowledge to interpret these results within the context of their own.

2. Encouragement of curiosity To encourage curiosity: With AI taking care of regular tasks, experts can have more time to investigate new ideas, pose more complex questions and engage in innovative problem-solving. This change creates curiosity-driven culture which drives research forward.

3. Reducing Bias : AI can help to identify research methods that are biased by analysing patterns in data in a non-biased manner. Through identifying biases that could be a cause researchers can improve their methods and increase the credibility of their research findings.

4. Interdisciplinary approaches: AI can integrate data from a variety of fields, encouraging researchers to take on interdisciplinary perspectives. This expands the field of inquiry and improves the ability to think critically by exposing researchers theories and methodologies.

Case Study: Photon Insights

Photon Insights stands at the forefront of this connection with AI as well as human development. Through the tools for research that are driven by AI, Photon Insights empowers researchers to make use of data more efficiently. This is how Photon Insights illustrates the synergy between AI as well as critical thinking

1. Advanced analytical tools: Photon Insights offers advanced analytics that can speed up the processing of data. Researchers can quickly discover information, which allows them to concentrate on interpretation and application instead of collecting data.

2. Users-Friendly Interfaces: Its easy-to-use design allows it to be used by researchers of varying levels of technical proficiency. This ease of use encourages critical engagement with data, allowing users to experiment with different methods of analysis.

3. The Collaborative features: Photon Insights fosters collaboration by the ability to allow multiple users be able to access and analyze data at the same time. This feature improves collective critical thinking because different perspectives can be incorporated into research methods.

4. Ethics AI: Photon Insights emphasizes ethical considerations when it comes to AI development. With a focus on openness and transparency, the platform makes sure that AI can be used to improve instead of being a source for inaccurate or misleading information.

Future Implications

While AI advances and technology continue to develop and evolve, the connection that exists between AI with human beings’ intelligence is bound to increase. Researchers need to adapt to this evolving landscape by embracing AI as a partner instead of a competitor. This approach to collaboration will be vital to address difficult global issues, like climate change, healthcare as well as social injustice.

1. Continuous Learning. Researchers must to continue their training on AI technologies to ensure they are able to use these tools efficiently. Continuous learning can lead to an informed research community.

2. Ethical Frameworks: Establishing ethical frameworks to guide AI usage in scientific research is vital. Researchers should be aware of the potential consequences of AI particularly in regards to privacy of data and algorithmic biases.

3. Interdisciplinary Collaboration Research’s future will be increasingly dependent on interdisciplinarity collaboration, which will be enhanced by AI helping to facilitate collaboration and sharing of data across disciplines. Collaboration will improve the quality of thinking by integrating different perspectives.

Conclusion

In the world of science, interaction with AI with human brains isn’t an argument for supremacy, rather a collaboration that improves the ability to think critically. Photon Insights is a great example of the ways in which AI can be used to augment human abilities, offering tools that facilitate efficiency as well as collaboration and deep inquiry. When researchers join forces with this alliance they will not just enhance their work, but also help create an improved and sustainable research environment. In the new age AI’s analytical skills and human cognitive thinking will redefine what’s feasible in research, opening the way for innovations that could tackle the world’s biggest challenges.

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