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Chicago's Old Post Office, the Largest Building Reuse Project in the US(chicagotribune.com)
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by 60654 7y ago
Yeah, I think every line has elements that are elevated over streets as well as underground. And it's working fine, but that's because we fund them properly instead of closing them. ;) By the way - CTA just released an update of t
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by 60654 7y ago
I'm very glad to see this summit is happening. I missed GDC Online after that got discontinued a few years back.
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by 60654 7y ago
This is a great novel just as a sci-fi book. But if you read it through the lens of 1960s communist-era Poland, it adds a layer of poignant political and philosophical commentary. TLDR: under post-WW2 communism there was a huge emphasis on
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by 60654 7y ago
Oh hah, that's a bit unexpected. Ahh the crazy days of 386SX desktops without math coprocessors :)
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by 60654 7y ago
The third one looks like a LFSR [0]. I didn't recognize it at first because the factors used here are not the common ones that produce well known periods; not sure what period this one would have. For what it's worth, LFSRs can be
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by 60654 7y ago
These prints are currently on display at the Art Institute of Chicago [1] and if you're in the area, it's a highly recommended temp exhibition. AIC is having a great run with prints lately. Before this they did a whole exhibit on
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by 60654 7y ago
Right, so you need to support mixing some lists in, to complement meaningful whitespace, the way sweet-expressions or SRFI-49 do. But that's exactly because the consequences of "whitespace only" syntax are too severe.
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by 60654 7y ago
Cool idea with splitting function arguments into separate lines. It's a bit verbose, but avoids some of Python's old problems regarding what to do about inline lambdas. But on the down side, now macros have to do string formattin
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by 60654 7y ago
If you want to use Common Lisp, the best implementation by far is Allegro Common Lisp from Franz ( https://franz.com/ ). This is the Lisp that gets used by research labs whose bread and butter is Lisp and AI work, and their
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by 60654 7y ago
Well said. Autonomous navigation is still a huge open research problem, in the sense that we don't even know how it _could_ work, there is no AI work capable of integrating all of the necessary pieces. Heck, we don't even know how
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by 60654 7y ago
While the article mentioned McNamee and "Zucked", on the topic of behavioral manipulation strategy by big tech, there's a much better, more thorough recent book: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff, a pr
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by 60654 7y ago
Nice benchmarking on Microsoft .Net CLR. Looks like the JIT compiler is smart enough to recognize that array.Length is an invariant and hoist it out of the loop, which is awesome for the common use cases! One nitpick about the title: C# run
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by 60654 7y ago
That's a nice paper, thanks for posting this!
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by 60654 7y ago
Multi-armed bandits are also well known in game AI. They got popular with the introduction of Monte Carlo Tree Search, where MAB are used there to select which subtrees to search for largest expected payoff, e.g.: https://www.aaa
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by 60654 7y ago
From this [1] it sounds like the texture is a modified variant of ETC1, which gets loaded up from disk into memory as such, and transcoded on the CPU into target GPU format (DXT, PVRTC, etc), and then uploaded to VRAM. If so that sounds sim
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by 60654 7y ago
For what it's worth - the title is a bit misleading. The tax began its life as an extension/adaptation of an existing 9% "amusement tax" on patrons of amusements (movie theaters, bowling alleys, etc) in the city. But unt
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by 60654 7y ago
The opposition to this is not just from the privacy perspective, there's also the issue of data ownership, and giving all this data away to Google for free. And once it's owned, both cities and citizens lose all control and oversi
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by 60654 7y ago
What a great reminder to authors that it's possible. Especially in tech, since the various technologies get replaced so quickly - quite a few books barely sell out the first printing before they're already obsolete. Why not put th
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by 60654 7y ago
Oh sure, and especially for custom materials with specific lighting or masking properties, or for tweaking instanced meshes, etc. The standard materials only get you so far. But post fx like bloom or vignette? I'm okay using a stock sh
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by 60654 7y ago
That's a very cool intro to a variety of shader techniques, especially post-processing effects. What's even more wild, is that modern engines include all of this stuff out of the box, you just have to tick a few check boxes to ena
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Google is pushing back against ad tracking in Chrome(theverge.com)
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by 60654 7y ago
These enormous underground projects are so interesting. I've been following the Chicago Deep Tunnel project, which is nearing completion after half a century of work.[1] Because Chicago was built on swampland and next to the lake, rain
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by 60654 7y ago
Oh, they're switching to RMGUI in the editor as well, though more slowly. More info here: https://blogs.unity3d.com/2019/04/23/whats-new-with-uielemen...
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by 60654 7y ago
Oh no, not again! (Just kidding :) ) Immediate mode UIs come up every now and then, especially in games, and for relatively simple things they're a neat idea (imagine not retaining any extra view state!) But - and there's a big &
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by 60654 8y ago
Yeah this is where these things fall apart. I haven't used Mozilla's Fluent but I used a very similar closed source system at another company some years back. Some failure modes: - Gender agreement is not trivial. In French, in
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by 60654 8y ago
I'm not sure the logic gate metaphor works here, because the domain is so different, the questions relate to the charge-voltage relationship and its first and second derivatives. Maybe a different metaphor would be better: a bank state
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by 60654 8y ago
Oh what a thoroughly impressive academic hatchet job, and I mean that in the kindest possible sense. It's intended to kill the idea of memristors as fundamental passive circuit elements, and it's very good at doing just that. TLDR
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by 60654 8y ago
Gah, I see the confusion, in one sentence I was talking about single element access, and in the next about full copy, and I was just assuming the jump was clear to the reader but clearly it wasn't. So just to be fully explicit: Single
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by 60654 8y ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. It's plainly true that hash tables accesses are only O(1) amortized. The real worst case is ~O(n log n) (or whatever the bucket data structure is) in the case of collisions and/or fill

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