• Hubi@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    Please join in cheering “Matthew” on

    Featuring Jonathan Nyberg as Matthew McConaughey

    Seems like it’s not the actual Matthew McConaughey unfortunately. What a strange project.

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    9 months ago

    Some back of the envelop math. It took about 8 hours 40 minutes to get to 13,800 digits, give or take.
    That’s an average of 26.5384615384615 digits / minute.
    At the current rate it would take ~37,681 minutes to read 1 million digits.
    Or 628.019323671498 hours.
    Or around 26 days 4 hours.

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    9 months ago

    Crazy times we live in that my first instinct was “what a clever use of AI” only to read the description to see that no AI was used!

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      9 months ago

      It’s easy to do this with a computer and no AI. Just have a recording of him saying each individual number and then get the computer to read the relevant recording while going through the digits of PI. You could have a number of recordings for each number and choose one randomly to simulate variation.

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        Although that will require some mastery on the actor’s part to allow for it to be edited well without special effects

        Edit: watched the stream after commenting, since we can’t see the actor, there is no need for editing the video, that makes it simpler, true