MrScruff

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by MrScruff 1y ago
The significant majority of the film and animation industry uses Linux.
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by MrScruff 1y ago
I've only dabbled with Blender but from what I saw of geometry nodes it's quite a long way away from competing in the same space as Houdini. Houdini's biggest single feature and the thing that allows film studios to use it at
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by MrScruff 1y ago
A lot of art is about pattern recognition. We represent or infer objects or ideas through some indirection or abstraction. The viewer or listener's brain (depending on their level of sophistication) fills in the gaps, and the greater t
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by MrScruff 1y ago
Regardless of the author’s authority on the topic, the broad generalisation he’s making is quite a common one and not really that controversial.
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by MrScruff 1y ago
I have a few friends who've done well out of crypto, and they seem to struggle to follow your advice. I think the success they have with it also gives them a false sense of confidence, like they know what they're doing, rather tha
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by MrScruff 1y ago
That's an interesting point. I can see that, as you say puberty and hormones impact brain function and hence behaviour, and those are inate and not learned. But at least superfically that would appear to be primarily broad behavioural
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by MrScruff 1y ago
By innate do you mean evolved/instinctive? Surely even evolved behaviour must be expressed as brain function, and therefore would need a brain capable of handling that level of processing. I don't think it's clear how much of
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by MrScruff 1y ago
It's always a treat to watch a Carmack lecture or read anything he writes, and his notes here are no exception. He writes as an engineer, for engineers and documents all his thought processes and misteps in the exact detailed yet conci
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by MrScruff 1y ago
I don't think this is just about convenience - you're not going to get these results with a 14B video model. I'd much prefer to have something I could hack on in ComfyUI but the open weights models don't compete with thi
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by MrScruff 1y ago
I don't pay it because I don't watch television anymore, live or otherwise. However I do find the overreach of claiming I need to pay the license if I watch any form of live broadcast is ridiculous. If I wanted to watch the occa
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by MrScruff 1y ago
"It's got a steep learning curve but that's ok, because it means you learn a lot in a short period of time."
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by MrScruff 1y ago
Precisely. The percentage of people making a living from their creative pursuit is vanishingly small.
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by MrScruff 2y ago
I kind of agree - since the Bostrom book there is a cottage industry of people with non-technical backgrounds writing papers about singularity thought experiments, and it does seem to be on the spectrum with hard sci-fi writing. A lot of th
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by MrScruff 2y ago
I would assume this comes from having faith in the overall exponential trend rather than getting that much into the weeds of how this will come about. I can sort of see why you might think that way - everyone was talking about hitting a w
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by MrScruff 2y ago
The evidence given really doesn't justify the conclusion. Maybe it suggests 2.5 Pro might be better if you're asking it to build Javascript apps from scratch, but that hardly equates to "It's better at coding". Feel
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by MrScruff 2y ago
I wonder how much even this approach would help. I would liken it to studying past exam papers with the solutions on hand. My experience is you actually have to solve the problems yourself to actually properly absorb the concepts, rather th
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by MrScruff 2y ago
Different tools for different purposes. Blender is in the Maya paradigm, and doing pretty well in that. Houdini is more like a DSL for computer graphics and can end up being both the most low level and the most high level tool in the indust
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by MrScruff 2y ago
How do they do if you include the updated docs in the context?
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Exactly, the UK’s number one priority right now is growth, otherwise we’re headed for austerity and possibly an election victory for Reform/Nigel Farage. I don’t think entering into a standoff with Apple over this is going to do much t
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by MrScruff 2y ago
Given the desperation for economic growth in the UK, the idea that they would inflict such a massive bit of self harm on themselves over increased spying options is frankly ludicrous.
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by MrScruff 2y ago
As an Apple user for decades and a UK citizen I would honestly rather they withdrew from the UK market rather than engage with this idiocy.
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by MrScruff 2y ago
If you're unable to focus at work because of some personal trauma, then the best thing to do at most companies is talk to your line manager about it to explain the situation. That's entirely reasonable and I would think that most
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by MrScruff 2y ago
It’s not just the US, no-one talked about politics or religion at work in the UK twenty years ago either
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That would still be politics, yes. What would be the benefit of discussing it at work? The particular example you give is one which is especially divisive. If someone feels emotionally affected by an issue to the point where they cannot foc
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Honestly as someone that learnt to mix many years ago on vinyl, the technical skill required to do this well doesn't translate into a better experience for the people dancing. It's not a rock concert with a performer, there's
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by MrScruff 2y ago
I would say from the outside American politics seems to have devolved into this ultra-polarised culture war/identity politics that doesn't seem to benefit the left at all electorally. It probably helps the biggest proponents of it
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If the multimodal model has embedded deep knowledge about words, concepts, moving images - sure it won’t have a humanlike understanding of what those ‘mean’, but it will have it’s own understanding that is required to allow it to make bette
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by MrScruff 2y ago
I think it comes down to your area of interest. As a musician and music lover, I spend a significant amount of time trying to find or create music that is both original and good. AI generated music can be a competent imitation of well estab
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by MrScruff 2y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. Unless the employee has hybrid working in their contract then the decision to reorganise their life around it is their own responsibility, not the company's.
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It's very difficult to have a conversation when you're making so many projections about a business you likely know very little about. Most of the employees in the industry I work in are artist, not SWEs, and they're working o

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