Raro

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by Raro 7mo ago
If this were on Mad Men: "You don't need a hamburger... you need McDonald's".
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by Raro 2y ago
Maybe it was exterminated?
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by Raro 3y ago
Ha, my previous comment was before your new edit mentioning Sora. There is a good reason why the accompanying research report to the Sora demo isn't titled "Awesome Generative Video," but references world models. The interes
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by Raro 3y ago
Yeah, I've been thinking about similar concepts in a different context. Fascinating. Regarding the role of time, the idea of a purely conserved quantity is that it is conserved under the conditions of the system (that's why the ar
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by Raro 3y ago
Could it be something like "failure is the mother of success"? (失败乃成功之母) I am no expert, I was curious myself and went down an internet-sleuthing rabbit-hole. Apparently this is a common phrase, but I am not fluent in Mandarin, s
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by Raro 4y ago
Yes, Mercury was very prominent a couple of weeks ago. Of course it's always close to the Sun, so perhaps your horizon viewing conditions have obscured it (I have to walk so that the trees and street lights are out of the way). I'
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by Raro 5y ago
"AI is 'Machine Learning' for journalists" Unfortunately I can't recall where I first heard this great quip.
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by Raro 5y ago
Ohhh, that's where this came from! I directed a short film in the late 90s and we used this as an 'event' at a party (minus the floating part). We removed the glass from a light bulb to act as a remote fuse. Acetylene was per
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by Raro 5y ago
Codex has the capacity to write decent Python code. A large part of getting great results from it is writing clear, well separated, prompts. Also taking it off streaming mode, to get best N results, and penalizing repetition, improves the
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by Raro 5y ago
What a great video. I appreciate the care and effort that went into this. If you are interested in growing some oyster mushrooms, you can pick up a self-contained growing kit for ~US$20. It's not difficult, and it really is a lot of
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by Raro 5y ago
Python's NumPy library deliberately emulates much of the functionality of Matlab's core (similarly, fundamental plotting with matplotlib follow similar design cues). As a lapsed long-time Matlab user, I think they're just as
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by Raro 6y ago
Thanks for that! This is right up my alley. The signal separation makes sense, as the three pick-ups each provide a different sound, but none emulate the live experience quite so well. The under-the-saddle piezo acts as an accelerometer rig
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by Raro 6y ago
Thank you for this. I am currently bread-boarding two guitar pedals for myself, and there is great discussion on modulargrid.net on filtering. > You can occasionally see guitarists' signal flows and stopbox arrays in interviews etc
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by Raro 6y ago
On the contrary, I personally think the suggestion is a useful thought exercise. There are a lot of interviews in Guitar magazine on the total rig used by particular guitarists. For example: https://guitar.com/wp-content&#x2
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by Raro 6y ago
I like the suggestion of the analogy in general. But a metaphor I'd use is a feedback system with a very long delay and very low decay constant. So definitely cyclic from that perspective! The signal chain is often split by guitarists
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by Raro 6y ago
Thank you for pointing this out; this accords with my recollection, but you clearly stated a fundamental issue with the approach in its current state. I thought of the idea as more a sketch of how things might be looked at with a perspectiv
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by Raro 6y ago
Oh cool! Thank you. I am always looking for decent sci-fi recommendations.
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by Raro 6y ago
The 'Amplituhedron': https://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.2007.pdf The idea is to focus on the amplitude of scattering interactions from the momentum-space twistor perspective, rather than perturbations about a point i
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by Raro 6y ago
> I would go even further: Natalie Wolchover only interviewed string theorists and quantum field theorists. They all assume that gravity in some way or another will just be yet another quantum field theory. I didn't want to push tha
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by Raro 6y ago
Very much! We periodically update our understanding. For example, we only knew basic details about the strong nuclear force from the 1910s, and the empirical ingredients for the weak force weren't around until the 1930s. We still have
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by Raro 6y ago
For some context: the article only interviews quantum gravity researchers, so it has that particular slant. They are concerned with coming up with different strategies to mitigate the issues general relativity has with singularities, and th
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by Raro 8y ago
The general style guide is to "write it how you say it": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_(grammar)#Indefinite_a... https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topi
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by Raro 10y ago
I too have a great fondness for Noether's First Theorem! However, just a slight technical correction: the theorem only goes one way. A conservation law alone doesn't necessarily imply a (continuous) symmetry of the system. For exa