{"id":612,"date":"2019-01-15T12:48:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T03:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/?p=612"},"modified":"2019-01-15T12:49:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T03:19:39","slug":"state-of-the-art-dustin-nguyen-on-the-humanizing-art-behind-descender-comics-features-paste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/01\/15\/state-of-the-art-dustin-nguyen-on-the-humanizing-art-behind-descender-comics-features-paste\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the Art: Dustin Nguyen on the Humanizing Art Behind Descender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/articles\/2015\/09\/state-of-the-art-dustin-nguyen.html\">https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/articles\/2015\/09\/state-of-th<\/a><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 499px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.pastemagazine.com\/www\/articles\/assets_c\/2015\/09\/telsa-thumb-500x772-256669.jpg?resize=499%2C772&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Dustin Nguyen Descender\" width=\"499\" height=\"772\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dustin Nguyen Descender<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/articles\/2015\/09\/state-of-the-art-dustin-nguyen.html\">e-art-dustin-nguyen.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/articles\/2015\/09\/state-of-th e-art-dustin-nguyen.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[288,3],"tags":[289,290],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paET2V-9S","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2038,"url":"https:\/\/cosmicheroes.space\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/07\/27\/comix\/","url_meta":{"origin":612,"position":0},"title":"CoMiX","author":"richard","date":"July 27, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a cool project - attempting to get models to caption and analyse comics - https:\/\/github.com\/emanuelevivoli\/CoMix https:\/\/github.com\/emanuelevivoli\/CoMix Visual - Language models should be continually improving. 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