Lichtso

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by Lichtso 3y ago
Yes and no. A local GIT repo can be changed (including its history) however you please. But once you have shared it with others you can't take that back. If you try to, then others will notice that the hashes mismatch and that their HE
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by Lichtso 3y ago
I literally said "they", I know, I know, in English that can also be interpreted as a gender unspecific singular. Anyways, yes it is an interesting question whether he/she is alone or they are a group. Conway's law proba
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by Lichtso 3y ago
Once somebody actually does this people are gonna complain the same as always: "The sole purpose of your project is to rewrite perfectly fine stuff in Rust for the sake of it" or something along these lines.
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by Lichtso 3y ago
They might have burnt the reputation built for this particular pseudonym but what is stopping them from doing it again? They were clearly in it for the long run.
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by Lichtso 3y ago
Here is one of the recent advancements in performing similarity (including nearest neighbor) search on sparse high dimensional data using learned indices: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.10028 The paper basically deals with
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by Lichtso 3y ago
Am I imagining things or is there a trend here? Seems like we get more and more generalist approaches which are less specific and combine a lot of what used to be individual steps and techniques. In doing so they don't only become conc
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by Lichtso 3y ago
The article mentions this in the very end, but isn't the "Shirky principle" just a case of perverse incentives? Allocating a budget to solving a problem continuously does set the incentives to prolong the problem. I wonder ho
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by Lichtso 3y ago
If you think about doing something using ROCm, read these first to get a feeling for what to expect: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/a9tjge/amd_rocm_hcc_pr... https://www.reddit.com&#x2F
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by Lichtso 3y ago
Germany had many big external investment + government subvention projects involving factories, data centers etc. announced in the recent years. None of them materialized and they got canceled because of the German balanced budget amendment
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by Lichtso 3y ago
There is no such thing. Information is not a physical good that you can store in a safe. Access to it implies sharing it. At best what you can do is an API limit so that the thing is not immediately copied in its entirety. But then again, w
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by Lichtso 3y ago
Here is my prediction of how this will play out for the entertainment industry in the coming decades: Phase 1 (we are here now): While generative AI is not good enough to directly produce parts of the final product, it can already be used t
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by Lichtso 3y ago
Cool project! Wish we would see more applications of SAT solvers or logic programming in general.
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by Lichtso 3y ago
> we find that the technology has not been widely adopted in rendering engines so far That is funny considering that Vulkan has added support for mesh shading roughly a year ago [1]. And, if you take a look at the members list of the Khr
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by Lichtso 3y ago
> Your approach doesn't apply to the semantic web. Not sure which approach you are talking about. > Two dimensional non-tree graph are neat but in most cases at best a debugging tool or whirlygig. That is what I was saying. Layou
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by Lichtso 3y ago
Oh yes, edges of different types and their direction are definitely what the author of the post was missing. This is precisely where triple (hyper) graphs and the idea of semantic networks comes in. Unfortunately, the designs, architecture
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by Lichtso 3y ago
It is shocking to me how little known the rope data structure [0] and the order statistic tree [1] are. Especially in the context of text editors. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_(data_structure) [1]: https:&#
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by Lichtso 3y ago
I might have expressed myself in an ambiguous and extravagated way, just to be clear, I was not complaining about WGSL. I actually do like it a little better than GLSL and HLSL, though it still leads to more standards / fragmentation.
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by Lichtso 3y ago
While that is true, it also true that Apple had a major influence on the current design and is e.g. the reason why we got WGSL [0] as a source language instead of a bytecode (a GPU WASM equivalent if you will). [0]: https://www.w
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by Lichtso 3y ago
The uncertainty principle is just a really misunderstood concept because it was first discovered in the context of quantum physics (Heisenberg 1927) and only later (Gabor 1946) the underlying mathematical principle that causes it was discov
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by Lichtso 3y ago
The end of the gold standard [0]: "1971 when the United States unilaterally terminated convertibility of the US dollar to gold" [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard
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by Lichtso 3y ago
The GA community in general is very small. So yes, tooling could be better, but IMO that is not even the problem. The lack of understanding how to use it is, because GA is not explicitly taught in schools or universities. I have written a c
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by Lichtso 3y ago
I read the paper and I am aware that the gaussian projection is an approximation anyway (hence I spoke about ellipsoids, not gaussians). Still, one could at least aim to get the iso contour right and yes using the Jacobian matrix is not uns
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by Lichtso 3y ago
Depends, radiance field approaches (like gaussian splatting) are basically 3D photos. They do only capture color at geometry (position and direction), but have no concept of surfaces, materials and light transport in general (emission, abso
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by Lichtso 3y ago
Really cool, I am also working on a port of gaussian-splatting [0] but to WebGPU. Like all the other implementations I have seen so far, this also makes the same mistake when projecting the ellipsoids in a perspective: First you calculate t
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by Lichtso 3y ago
That is a good point and the answer in short is: No. Radiance fields have no concept of light emission, reflection, absorption, etc. instead everything is mushed into one value: The light transported. In that sense radiance fields are just
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by Lichtso 3y ago
Talks in length about suffix arrays and yet never mentions the BWT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrows%E2%80%93Wheeler_transf...
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by Lichtso 3y ago
Not as a number, but as a unit it actually exists. It is called a "mort" (from mortality). In that sense one mort is "so much, you'll die". Though, the commonly used scale is a mort * 10 ^ -6. https://en.
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by Lichtso 3y ago
"The opposite of free will is not determinism or coercion, it's compulsion" - Joscha Bach Joscha Bach argues that nondeterminism would not sustain will at all, because it is all unguided randomness. Only determinism can lead
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by Lichtso 3y ago
I assume by "http" you mean http1.1 and http2, not http3? Would be nice to differentiate these in the testing as well. WebSockets still seem to be stuck with TCP as rfc9220 [0] is not implemented I think. [0]: https://d
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by Lichtso 3y ago
> only that we can "tell them apart" That is irrelevant, we don't need to be able to tell them apart, the membrane needs to be able to. Besides that, they can be completely identical. > I'm confused because on one

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