For anyone who knows me well, you’ll most likely realize that I have an unhealthy obsession with LEGO for an adult. There’s something very satisfying about using small building blocks to create something bigger, whether you’re following preset instructions or taking the time to plan and create something truly unique. …

Disdéri’s photographic cards André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819–1889) was a self-taught photographic artist located in France. Disdéri is most renowned for his ground breaking creation of the ‘carte de visite’, a modestly sized photograph mounted on a card which transformed the photography industry. In the 1850s, Disdéri embarked on his career as a portrait photographer…

The period between 1840 and 1850 was a time of rapid evolution for the art and science of photography. A number of notable events happened which has shaped modern photography. The calotype process and multiple prints The calotype (or Talbot) process was an early form of negative-positive photography developed by Henry Fox Talbot in 1841. The…

In my previous articles, I have explored how the ‘founding fathers’ of Artificial Intelligence contributed to the field; however, the term “Artificial Intelligence” didn’t yet exist. It would take another five years for the field of study to be defined and recognised. Before diving into to when the field was…

Upon release, ChatGPT became the fastest-adopted technology platform in history[1]; it was backed by one of the largest technology companies[2]and was created by the people behind some of the world’s most impressive breakthroughs in the field of AI[3]. …

Determining if an image is tricky and it isn't as straight forward as using the variance from the Laplacian function... Consider the following images, which images do you consider blurry? Disclaimer — images 2 to 4 was generated with thispersondoesnotexist.com These images are an interesting example as each presents a…

The late 1830’s saw the invention of photography as a new artform when Louis Daguerre publicised the daguerreotype process. When his work of Boulevard du Temple went on display it caused excitement amongst artists and observers alike as the picture was said to be free of errors and demonstrated the…

Textual inversion allows you to train stable diffusion models on custom tokens. This allows you to create consistent images of someone (i.e. yourself) or something using stable diffusion! …

In 1951, Marvin Minsky and Dean Edmonds, supported by John von Neumann, built the very first neural network computer, the computer was known as SNARC. The Stochastic Neural Analog Reinforcement Calculator (SNARC) embodied a type of neural network that is designed to learn from experience and improve its performance through…