Mandelmus

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by Mandelmus 4y ago
At the end of the bell curve you have higher variance between people? Aren't two people at close points of the curve by definition similarly skilled? In fact, for two close x-values of two people at the tail end of the curve the y-valu
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by Mandelmus 4y ago
Can you show me a source for that full quote? I can’t seem to find it.
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by Mandelmus 4y ago
I have yet to find a way to use Obsidian with images (sketches, diagrams) as easily as I would like. If there was a way to combine Obsidian's keyboard-based note-taking features (including LaTeX equations) with graphics and diagrams dr
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by Mandelmus 4y ago
> Academia is accustomed to publishing in the form of papers (e.g. pdf). This form has fixed margins, cannot contain animations or interactive widgets. Would publishing in an environment that allow for more flexibility be better for comm
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by Mandelmus 4y ago
You base that confident statement on what exactly?
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by Mandelmus 4y ago
> That’s because the ethnicity of a criminal is usually not a relevant detail. That’s a big assumption rooted in a moral framework rather than in objective science.
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by Mandelmus 4y ago
Your thinly veiled accusation of racism notwithstanding, I don’t think there’s anything morally deplorable in thinking the media should help the public build a more statistically representative model of the world we live in, regardless of t
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by Mandelmus 4y ago
> I love Swift’s syntax. So much of the repetitive boilerplate code that was necessary for C++ melted away in Swift, leaving only code necessary to represent the logic, making the meaning clearer. I switch between Python, Swift, and C++,
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by Mandelmus 4y ago
>Block retweets which aren't quotes. How do you do that? I only know you can disable all retweets from a particular person you follow. I didn't know you could disable non-quote retweets from all accounts you follow.
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by Mandelmus 4y ago
>Games are designed to be addictive It depends strongly on kind of game, and especially on the business model involved. Gacha games, free-to-play, and similar models are very much optimised around addictiveness. Personally I've foun
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by Mandelmus 4y ago
It is stupid, but I see this attitude in several people I personally know who are in their 20s. I'm talking about people who could afford to save or invest some money, but don't. I keep telling them that whatever doom and gloom
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by Mandelmus 4y ago
> italian universities being ranked 1/1000th lower than US universities I don't even know what that means. That sounds like they'd be ranked only a tenth of a percent lower than US universities, which doesn't jive wit
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by Mandelmus 4y ago
I feel like the percentage of "Let me make a blog post or YouTube tutorial about this thing I learned about yesterday" content on technical topics is trending towards 100% as time goes on.
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The weird computers and claustrophobic hallways of Severance(theverge.com)
5 points by Mandelmus 5y ago|0 comments
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
The key difference is that this TensoRF is discrete (like a JPG) whereas NeRFs are continuous (like vector graphics).
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
No, there is no mesh. A NeRF is a neural network trained to work as a function f(x, y, z, θ, φ). You put in your viewing position (x, y, z) in 3D space and the direction (θ, φ) you're looking into (where θ and φ are the angles for up&#
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It’s Time for New C++ Leadership(brycelelbach.github.io)
14 points by Mandelmus 5y ago|8 comments
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
This might fix that: https://dorverbin.github.io/refnerf/
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
My guess would be the dividing line goes between science and engineering. The top level science work requires a lot more (mathematical) rigor than the top level engineering jobs. (I say that as more of an engineering type myself, albeit wit
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
It’s a rather cutesy and forced connection to make a point, but you can absolutely ignore that passage and the article still has a point. Word association games, even tenuous ones, are much more accepted and enjoyed in art and design discip
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The Dream of Virtual Reality(theconvivialsociety.substack.com)
1 points by Mandelmus 5y ago|0 comments
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
Of course there exists no problem that HN won’t unironically propose solving with a startup.
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
Researching immortality or unnatural longevity isn't worth the investment for a society because a society of immortals becomes either stagnant or unsustainable. But making individual billionaires immortal is something billionaires migh
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” – Max Planck[1] Often paraphrased as "Sc
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
When I watched The Hobbit in high frame rate (HFR) it was jarring for the first 10 minutes, but after that I really enjoyed the look, and wished it would become the new standard. Unfortunately the list of HFR movies remains rather short, wi
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29716900 re:Axie Infinity and the “ saving the Philippines/Vietnam from poverty” bs
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Shots of AR interfaces from the film “Swan Song”(twitter.com)
2 points by Mandelmus 5y ago|0 comments
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The Metaverse Land Rush Is an Illusion(wired.com)
2 points by Mandelmus 5y ago|0 comments
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Embark Studios: Homegrown Rendering with Rust(medium.com)
31 points by Mandelmus 5y ago|5 comments
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
So did I but since they changed the input field on their website to the weird new “Math Input” UI, most inputs that would just work perfectly fine a year or so ago now don’t get parsed correctly anymore. It’s made WolframAlpha virtually unu

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