Lichtso

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by Lichtso 1y ago
The normal key layout with its irregular (within an octave) gaps allow one to play blind without having press and hear where you are with your fingers. Would be interesting to add braille or similar haptic markers on the keys to compensate
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by Lichtso 1y ago
That is compatible with my statement: Not all concurrency is parallelism, but all parallelism is concurrency.
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by Lichtso 1y ago
yes, some people swap the meaning of concurrency and asynchrony. But, almost all implementations of async use main event loops, global interpreter lock, co-routines etc. and thus at the end of the day only do one thing at a time. Therefore
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by Lichtso 1y ago
Concurrency is parallelism and/or asynchrony, simply the superset of the other two. Asynchrony means things happen out of order, interleaved, interrupted, preempted, etc. but could still be just one thing at a time sequentially. Parall
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by Lichtso 1y ago
By asking that question you are making an assumption which is likely misguided. Instead, take a step back and ask: What group of people will fare better? What will they have in common? Will they even form an organization? You assumed these
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by Lichtso 1y ago
> Why bother developing chatbots Maybe it is the reverse? It is not them offering a product, it is the users offering their interaction data. Data which might be harvested for further training of the real deal, which is not the product.
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by Lichtso 1y ago
I think caring and competence do correlate. If you do not care about something you are not going to become competent. And once you are competent you are also more likely to care: E.g. once you learn a music instrument, or a craft, or the ar
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by Lichtso 1y ago
Yes, pretty much. I don't say the custom engine first path can't work, heck I did ship my own games on custom engines first myself, but it is probably not the path of least resistance.
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by Lichtso 1y ago
Made me realize that most of the games I really enjoyed have their own custom engines (made for a single game or franchise): Starbound, Stardew Valley, Minecraft, Factorio, RollerCoaster Tycoon, Empire Earth, The Sims, Project Zomboid ... O
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by Lichtso 1y ago
Right, yet you did not read my post: > However, that is not even what I worry about because that is nothing new, viruses have existed longer than most other kinds of life on this planet.
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by Lichtso 1y ago
Not to downplay what a huge achievement this is and how far the field of medicine has come, but ... this still leaves a slight bitter taste in my mouth: If they edit specific genes one way they can also do the opposite direction. And if I u
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by Lichtso 1y ago
The Weighted Reservoir Sampling (WRS) variant is used in ReSTIR (spatiotemporal reservoir resampling for real-time ray tracing). Which is a stochastic light transport estimator with inbuilt spatiotemporal denoising. A light transport estima
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by Lichtso 2y ago
> They’re calling a public figure a bozo. That’s always been fine. Not in Germany. Public insults are punishable. Doing so in a permanent way with lots of outreach (like the web is) increases the consequences.
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by Lichtso 2y ago
> Maybe quantum computing will offer new horizons with additional computing power When somebody starts talking about quantum computing outside cryptography I immediately know that they have no idea what they are talking about. That is be
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by Lichtso 2y ago
Operating electrical power grids requires a very careful balance between production and consumption. Long term trends are regulated on the consumption side through pricing, short term jitter is regulated on the production side through switc
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by Lichtso 2y ago
There are libraries building on top of WebGPU for that, like: https://github.com/linebender/vello and (shameless plug): https://github.com/Lichtso/contrast_renderer
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by Lichtso 2y ago
My implementation does: - Implicit Curve Rendering (Loop-Blinn) and stencil geometry (tessellation-less) for filling - Polygonization (with tangent space parameter distribution) of offset curves for stroking > by converting it to quadrat
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by Lichtso 2y ago
Don't forget about implicit curve rendering [0]. The patent will expire soon [1]. [0]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/... [1]: https://patents.google.com&#x2F
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by Lichtso 2y ago
Great write-up! Though a little caveat from my side, as I have written both 2D and 3D rendering engines. Let me tell you, they could not be more different. It is not just another dimension but completely different goals, use-cases and expec
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by Lichtso 2y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/14/world/europe/nord-stream-...
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by Lichtso 2y ago
Lawyers commenting on this publicly will add their bias to reinforce the stances of their clientele. Thus somebody usually representing the copyright holders will say it is likely infringing and someone usually representing the AI companies
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by Lichtso 2y ago
> You can absolutely write a license that contains the clauses I mentioned and it would be enforceable. A license (copyright law) is not a contract (contract law). Simply publishing something does not make the whole world enter into a co
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by Lichtso 2y ago
Sure, you can write all kinds of stuff in a license, but it is simply plain prose at that point. Not enforcable. There is a reason why it is generally advised to go with the established licenses and not invent your own, similarly to how you
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by Lichtso 2y ago
Unfortunately not how it works, or at least not to the extend you wish it to be. One can train a model exclusively on source code from the linux kernel (GPL) and then generate a bunch of C programs or libraries from that. And they could pub
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by Lichtso 2y ago
Lawsuits based on what? Copyright? People crying for copyright in the context of AI training don't understand what copyright is, how it works and when it applies. What they think how copyright works: When you take someones work as insp
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by Lichtso 2y ago
While better understanding of logic and reason are certainly not harmful, they are not the solution to the problems the article describes, because it is not the lack thereof that is causing these problems in the first place: Fighting conspi
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by Lichtso 2y ago
Can you challenge it and e.g. double the radius of the last circle? That should make the rendered output unintelligible. Let's see if it still thinks it represents the iconic logo.
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by Lichtso 2y ago
What an awful paper title, saying "Symbolic Graphics Programs" when they just mean "vector graphics". I don't understand why they can not just use the established term instead. Also, there is no "program"
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by Lichtso 2y ago
Well, the Schrödinger equation only describes the evolution of the wavefunction over time (which is indeed a similarity with classical mechanics). But how the wavefunction then further relates to the actual "state of system" is up
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by Lichtso 2y ago
> Both describe the evolution of a system using differential equations in time All areas of physics use differential equations, and so does relativity which you are contrasting these two against next. > both treat the world as having

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