AstixAndBelix

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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
And did you give a single thought about some occasional video compression artifacts?
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
This sounds like PR speak. Games are meant to be played, optimizing for watching should be at the bottom of any developer's to-do list. Some minor quirks with noise or the UI are not enough to justify pouring God knows how many hours t
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
I think this blog post only applies to simplistic time-sink videogames designed to seamlessly fit between the finely oiled cogs of capitalism. Anything story-driven and/or single-player with even a pretense of artistic integrity should
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
But what happens when you are using a Google product not served from the browser?
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
Couldn't you buy Microsoft Store gift cards so you can use your kid's account to keep the subscription active while not using your credit card directly?
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
I mean, this sounds to me exactly like what happens when trying to mix normal Google accounts and Google Workspace ones, especially if the admin enabling all the service is not yourself. It's not just Microsoft, this is a problem all t
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
This is a very funny situation because it's the result of the mental shortcircuit caused by fetishizing both the past and the present at the same time for economic reasons Let's say that I believe that past authors are problematic
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
Dunno, at my college course we were taught that probability is about knowing the probabilistic properties of an experiment and predicting its outcomes, whereas statistic is about knowing the outcomes and predicting the probabilistic propert
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
Wait, isn't "experimental probability" literally what statistics is?
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
You didn't stare at your computer while you were on a date in a coffee shop or while you were hiking in the woods. Also there is a precedent: decade of successful science fiction that has made people drool about the thought of VR
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
you realize every single thing you said would have been true when talking about the first smartphones? The iPhone in 2007 was not a good general computing device, and people were made fun of for looking like dorks because they stared consta
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
I might be going against the narrative, but I enjoy the same-y web. I like having the same design philosophy and navigation on wildly different websites. I like knowing exactly where to find information at a glance because things have been
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
It depends. If you are well versed in ML then you know the concepts very well and have already played with them extensively. Thus reading a paper might be enough to learn it because you have done all the conceptual work up front. But even i
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
Depends on what you mean by learning. Anything that requires active work (STEM subjects or crafts) cannot be learnt by just reading. Of course if you read a history book simply reading and remembering the information is considered learning
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
Printing stuff in the real world would create physical abundance, which I'm in favor of. Until the AIs aren't able to produce real world object then they're not that awesome
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
Digital abundance is meaningless. Until these AIs allow us to never think about famine, war, disease and whatnot they are basically toys.
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
I really dislike this narrative about AI helping people learn. Learning is the act of actively reaching for something you didn't know before and making it yours. You do not learn by simply reading information that has been given to you
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
And I don't read coffee table books, so now what?
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
Your comment clearly shows your bias. Amateur orchestras are a mess just like amateur sports teams. Nobody has a common vision and each is mostly left to their own devices. Now switch to professional ensembles and professional sports teams
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
Dancing is just a game we play, like everything else we do. Once you see it like that it all makes sense
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
You are reading too much Twitter
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
I had a course about queue theory in my SWE degree. I left the course with a deep sense of dread because I knew most people studying CS and SWE in other universities would be oblivious to such a fundamental piece of knowledge. Basically eve
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
Yes, if you throw away all the nutritional concerns...
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
AI won't make artists redundant because it does not experience human sensations. The only thing an AI can do is read the flow of data we make available to it, which is text, audio and video. An AI will never be able to represent what i
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
At least if you capture someone you have to feed them. But if you freeze their money? That's hell
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
Can't wait to capture all the CO2 and bury it underground so it becomes oil again in millions of years and our descendants can too enjoy the wonders of petrol combustion all over again!
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
For me, the moment I see two videos in a row of the same format and with the same music under it I get a sense of existential dread and close the app. Something stops feeling human and that's why I deleted my tiktok and might delete my
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
How do you determine the quality of the citations? How do you determine the quality of the books? How do you determine the quality of the awards? How do you determine the quality of links on the web? This is not "simple" in the sl
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
How do you determine which is the most accomplished author?
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by AstixAndBelix 4y ago
>Why does everything have to keep innovating? would you like to remove the ability to add labeled chapters to your videos? would you like to remove browseable transcriptions to videos? Youtube has a ton of things that it still needs to a

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