Sharlin

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601.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
That's obvious. But the moon is so perfectly neutral gray that the reflected light is essentially the same color as the incident sunlight.
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
That's fair, I was thinking of how night, or twilight, as a whole is associated with cool hues, but it's probably true that moonlight in itself is usually thought of as neutral white.
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
Yeah, it's a reflection from the window, of something inside the ship.
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
I referred to the common question (or accusation) of why there are no stars in, say, the Apollo photos taken on the moon. The answer is, of course, that you can't see stars if you're exposing for something bright and sunlit, like
605.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
Yep, that's definitely noise.
606.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
They're much brighter than the noise floor. Photographic noise doesn't really have such outliers.
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
It really is gorgeous. You can see both auroral rings, then there's airglow, and city lights around Gibraltar and on the South American coast, and lightning flashes in the storm clouds over the tropics.
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
Yes, I was also confused when I first saw it – how could the aurora be visible?! The bright sliver of atmosphere in the lower right is, of course, backlit by the sun which is itself eclipsed by Earth. It's the near-full moon that provi
609.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
They're two separate photos, just taken at different exposure settings.
610.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
It's the night-side Earth, taken at a high ISO value to keep shutter speed fast to prevent blur.
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
(To be clear, the bright dots are stars [except the brightest one, in the lower right, is Venus I think], which makes this photo also a great demonstration that of course you can capture stars in space, you just have to expose properly!)
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
I was confused when I first saw this photo, as I don't think I've ever before seen a nightside, moonlit Earth, exposed so that it looks like the dayside at a first glance. I wonder how many casual viewers actually realize it'
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
Around 70% of security vulnerabilities are about memory safety and only exist because software is written in C and C++. Because most vulnerabilities are in newly written code, Google has found that simply starting writing new code in Rust (
614.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
How?
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
It's beyond obvious that a LLM cannot have copyright, any more than a cat or a rock can. The question is whether anyone has or if whatever content generated by a LLM simply does not constitute a work and is thus outside the entire co
616.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
Physics is an exact, quantitative, natural science. Psychology is neither exact, quantitative (usually), nor a natural science. They are not comparable. But like many other fields of study that are not hard sciences, psychology can still be
617.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
You have copyright to a commit authored by you. You (almost certainly) don't have copyright (nobody has) to a commit authored by Claude.
618.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
Your explanation was several years worth of math studies beyond what GP was asking.
619.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
Sure, if you make that clear in all of your marketing rather than lying your ass off and then trying the "lol we didn’t really mean it" defense.
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
I'd think the conclusion you should draw is not that "even the famous experiments were not valid, so nothing in psychology is" but rather "the validity of an experiment does not correlate with how famous it is".
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
I'm not trying to compare them, just noting an interesting thing in the diagram in the article :) Wrt BC cognition, one notable feat is that some of them are known to have learned the words for hundreds of different objects.
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
Indeed, AFAIK neural networks have caused at least two AI winters before finally breaking through thanks to a few good new ideas and the fact that the needs of computer games incidentally led to the development of a big industry of speciali
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
Makes sense, given that to birds, optimizing for weight is everything. But seeing that the ridiculously smart border collies have a comparatively low density of neurons, clearly there’s more to intelligence than that.
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
Problem is contracts mean different things to different people, and that leads standard contracts support being a compromise that makes nobody happy. To some people contracts are something checked at runtime in debug mode and ignored in rel
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
Was required back in the early 2000s already, but that’s not really what the article is about. It’s talking about derived work created by recreating another artist’s existing work in a different medium. Being able to provide WIP material is
626.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
Exactly. You only have to look at animistic religions that are all about anthropomorphizing stuff.
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
Thank you!
628.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
Yes, yes, I know. But how many people have AI companies hired to do RLHF who actually have the expertise to adjust them away from biases like this? As opposed to paying a dollar per day to a bunch of poor people in Africa?
629.
by Sharlin 7mo ago
Of course not. It was meant as an implication, not equivalence.
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
Many housecats are like that, simply absolutely confident that their own territory is totally safe because that’s all they have ever experienced.

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