EmilioMartinez

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by EmilioMartinez 4y ago
This AI Does Not Exist (IDEA) is an AI system that can answer questions about itself. The system was created by the research team at the University of Cambridge and is based on the concept of an "AI mirror", which can be trained t
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by EmilioMartinez 5y ago
First instance of a news report I could find on Youtube, precisely two years ago. I did my best to preserve the original title.
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Unidentified virus behind pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan (Jan 3, 2020)(youtube.com)
2 points by EmilioMartinez 5y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Decorative technological gadgets I could buy today?
2 points by EmilioMartinez 5y ago|0 comments
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by EmilioMartinez 5y ago
Notably, pixel similarity along a particular order. If I understood correctly something like a vertical rainbow would compress significantly different than the same picture rotated.
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by EmilioMartinez 5y ago
This is patently so. Taken to absurd proportions, you can compress a specific rendition of the Mona Lisa with just one bit. 1 means Mona, and 0 is undefined behaviour.
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by EmilioMartinez 5y ago
Waiting for the Black Mirror ripoff of the movie
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by EmilioMartinez 5y ago
My favorite one was a site that capped the password length in the creation form in a way you couldn't tell it was being truncated, but then let you enter any length when you logged in. And being a finance thing, it blocked your passwor
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by EmilioMartinez 5y ago
A hard-to-cancel suscription is basically automatic theft, and should be treated as such
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by EmilioMartinez 5y ago
Agreed, and then there are titles like the article's with a similar over-assuming sentiment. I always read them like eg "Spiders are much smarter than the writer of this piece thought"
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by EmilioMartinez 5y ago
Most people don't want that though, and that is why VR was a bust (compared to last century's dreams I mean).
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by EmilioMartinez 5y ago
"Welcome to our walled garden, please don't eat from the tree of knowledge"
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by EmilioMartinez 5y ago
Perhaps FB made it too late
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by EmilioMartinez 5y ago
I meant specifically in the context of a pandemic when working from home is state mandated in many parts of the world. Arguably even constitutions have been bent.
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by EmilioMartinez 5y ago
This is just a framing issue and I don't get the hate here. It would make sense that ISP's openly decide to charge flat rates to users while charging special fees to really large content providers. What's ridiculous is that t
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by EmilioMartinez 5y ago
The lawsuit and court rule are not really about "siding" morally speaking. It's about deciding what money collection scheme to use. You can either charge user for the internet they use, or simply target the really large conte
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by EmilioMartinez 5y ago
He meant the volume is arguably similar to torrent leeching, although that comparison is a bit outdated; Today it's easy to get high quality torrents that are orders of magnitude more network-intense than Netflix streaming, while in t
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by EmilioMartinez 5y ago
It really sounds like a waste of time and money though. What judge would ever side with them? I would fire a lawyer that even proposes that seriously
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by EmilioMartinez 5y ago
Any source, extra info or further insight on that last bit? Comes to mind: "Be the change you want to see in the world, and get paid for it"
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
The theory sounds simple, but my (barely) educated guess is that an "evenly lit grey card" is an understimated endeavor. There is a reason why 3D rendering is difficult; light bounces an awful lot. Objects slightly tint the whole
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
>post-truth age This sad term makes me feel like there are adults out there still grappling with the fact that lies and uncertainty exist
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
JPEG compression is calculated locally in small segments, so variations across the whole surface can still survive, each segment being independent. JPEG is not "meant" to remove detail, more like prioritize large-scale phenomena,
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
>It completely destroyed the anglo-centric epochism I was taught in school. Could you elaborate on the worldview you were taught?
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
Dabrowski's overexcitabilities and his theory of positive desintegration is a deep rabbit hole. Simply put, he argued that gifted people transcended levels of humanity through their emotional intensity. https://en.wikipedia.
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
https://archive.is/cNmEv
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
>It allows the seller to have a huge markup on buyers who have little experience or time Honestly, that sounds like ripping people off to me. An important part of social mobility is being able to venture into different businesses. Experi
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
They figured out how to market genocide to western audiences
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
You might enjoy this take on the matter: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YtRfmao1vvs
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
>Worse, the ferrous rocks make compass needles whirl erratically ok, now that's a bit over the top, but that cape being impassible helps make sense of world history a bit
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
>at first glance like it belongs as a basic homework problem The culprit is that (most) education involves churning through problems and their often formulaic solutions, merely with increasing levels of difficult. You get used to simple

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