![]() We heard a number of different styles and Qi’raat (readings) which beautifully reflected the traditions and culture of each reciter. We were overwhelmed with the response to our open call: we received submissions from women in 20 different countries from beginners to those who had completed their memorization of the Qur’an. In order to do this, we put a callout asking female reciters to submit their recitations of Surah Al-Kahf to us. This Ramadan, Amaliah wanted to join in on those efforts of archiving and amplifying the voices of women through Qur’an recitations. There have been growing efforts to ensure that legacy is maintained, particularly across social media, to encourage more female reciters and the memorisation of, and listening to the Qur’an. Jazakumullah khayr.” – Riham Rabee, participant in the open call “I think this project is fantastic…It’s very much needed, now more than ever. ![]() All these recitations combined are a testament to the legacy of female reciters and the importance of their voice to maintaining this Islamic tradition. Many more still would’ve been taught Qur’an by the women in their families or by female teachers in Islamic schools or online tajweed classes. ![]() ![]() Many would’ve also grown up hearing our mothers and other women in our families reciting the Qur’an around us. For many of us, the first encounter of the Qur’an would’ve taken place in our childhoods, listening to recitations during salah at home, in the mosque, or on a crackly radio or TV channel. The presence and legacy of female reciters in Islamic history is well documented, but many may not be aware of this long standing tradition due to the fact that this act of ibadah and expression of faith is often confined to the private sphere (though this is not the case for many countries such as Indonesia, Nigeria, Sudan and Malaysia where female reciters are listened to widely by women and men alike). Recitations of the Qur’an by Muslim women are by no means a modern phenomenon. ![]()
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![]() ![]() A high-level depiction of how DALL-E’s end-to-end text-to-image generation works.Ī high level depiction of how CLIP can be used to generate art. DALL-E is trained end-to-end for the sole purpose of producing high quality images directly from language, whereas this CLIP method is more like a beautifully hacked together trick for using language to steer existing unconditional image generating models. But in fact, the method here is quite different. In concept, this idea of generating images from a text description is incredibly similar to Open-AI’s DALL-E model (if you’ve seen my previous blog posts, I covered both the technical inner workings and philosophical ideas behind DALL-E in great detail). The natural language input is a total open sandbox, and if you can weild words to the model’s liking, you can create almost anything. There’s a real element of creativity to figuring out what to prompt the model for. It’s really fun and surprising to play with: I never really know what’s going to come out it might be a trippy pseudo-realistic landscape or something more abstract and minimal.Īnd despite the fact that the model does most of the work in actually generating the image, I still feel creative – I feel like an artist – when working with these models. These models have so much creative power: just input some words and the system does its best to render them in its own uncanny, abstract style. In my own experimentation, I tried asking for “Starry Night” and ended up with this pretty cool looking gif: You can create little animations with this same method too. Querying the model for a “studio ghibli landscape” produces a reasonably convincing result: You can even mention specific cultural references and it’ll usually come up with something sort of accurate. Eliot and you get this sublime, calming work: ![]() Or asking for an image of the sunset returns this interesting minimalist thing:Īsking for “an abstract painting of a planet ruled by little castles” results in this satisfying and trippy piece:įeed the system a portion of the poem “The Wasteland” by T.S. In recent months there has been a bit of an explosion in the AI generated art scene.Įver since OpenAI released the weights and code for their CLIP model, various hackers, artists, researchers, and deep learning enthusiasts have figured out how to utilize CLIP as a an effective “natural language steering wheel” for various generative models, allowing artists to create all sorts of interesting visual art merely by inputting some text – a caption, a poem, a lyric, a word – to one of these models.įor instance inputting “a cityscape at night” produces this cool, abstract-looking depiction of some city lights: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This, in addition to the new gameplay elements, makes this mode feels unique and worth playing on its own, even if the level design hasn’t changed that much from the base game. 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As someone well-versed in the series’ history, I can’t help but have a smile on my face seeing Mighty the Armadillo and Ray the Flying Squirrel in action again for the first time since Knuckles’ Chaotix and SegaSonic the Hedgehog respectively. The brand new characters and Encore mode Sonic Mania Plus introduces allow the game to become even more of an addiction to SEGA/ Sonic junkies. The primary campaign should last players more than 5 to 6 hours and offers a ton of replayability with the hidden chaos emeralds, different paths in levels, and multiple playable characters. The labyrinthine (but always easy to navigate) levels are all designed well, and stage designers know when it’s best to speed things up or slow things down. 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This may seem a minor thing to harp on, but most horror games will at least board up your escapes and actually ensure that you feel trapped. ![]() If you are trapped in a building with murderous robots and have video evidence, that is probably a good reason to just break the door down. In CASE: Animatronics, you can actually walk to the glass front door which may be locked, but you could clearly easily break through. In Five Nights at Freddy's, people commonly joke that a normal person wouldn't go back to work or would even leave on the spot in those conditions, but at least there you are trapped in a room. This is not just a silly suggestion by the way. The detective then takes the most logical route and almost cheerfully goes along with the mad man's plan, instead of calling in backup or even just walking out the front door. 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