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I found the name confusing, thinking this was a tool to create stipple effects or implemented a stipple effect algorithm, whereas it's the name given to the pixel art editor. It says so in the title and directly in the repo, it was jus
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I don't think dating apps are going to get much better than they are. To me, trying to make a dating app that solves the problems this article and others talk about is a "cursed problem". I heard an interview from a dating ap
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It's a question of cost, knowledge and time. Avatar was in 2009 and the motion capture there was well beyond what was on display in Rogue One. My take on it is that ILM had their own in house animation process and rather than admit tha
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In my opinion, the failing of Tarkin was one of animation, not so much rendering. If you watch some of the deepfake videos where they swap the original actors face over the CGI version (e.g. [0]), to me, it looks better but the movement is
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It's a little hard to understand what the post is talking about until you play with the demo, which I recommend doing. As the items are dragged and near other labels, slow down to see the other labels displace. You can start stacking l
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For what it's worth, there's a study (N=123) on recall for people with aphantansia [0]. One of the tests was to take a look at a picture, of a living room with furniture in it, say, and then have the subject try to redraw the room
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I would advise to keep at it and not overcomplicate things. There was a recent video on creating generative trees [0] and the hack was to just let the cylinders intersect, so even hacky tricks can work and produce good results. As you say,
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Another case of "open-washing". Llama is not available open source, under the common definition of open source, as the license doesn't allow for commercial re-use by default [0]. They provide their model, with weights and cod
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Also known as "the number of bits to describe a system". For example, 2^N equally probable states, N bits to describe each state.
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Starting at $599 [0]. [0] https://www.evenrealities.com/products/g1-a
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This is horrible advice. Getting burnt out is very natural. The first thing that should be attempted is to get space to recharge. If, after there's been some distance, the OP feels the same way, then, yes, consider abandoning the proje
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The articles that are most relevant are probably ones from YC itself, along with ancillary material on startup woes, pitfalls, etc. Among the advice is how to validate ideas, is how to maintain momentum, knowing when to ship, when to wringi
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This is talking about models that publish their code ("source available") but only allow sub-licensing through explicit negotiation. Source available is a type of proprietary software but a specialization thereof that DeVault is h
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Excellent article. Some choice quotes: """ While open source was proven to be incredibly profitable and profoundly useful for the software industry as a whole, the economics of making open source work for one business are muc
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Note that correlation is logarithmic, meaning that for a linear increase in happiness one needs exponentially more money. Fig. 1 in the article is a semi-log plot with a log plot of income vs (linear) life satisfaction. I suspect this study
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You're saying that LBFGS is fundamental to the success of KANs? Why is this so?
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Here are what I think are the main conclusions of the article: """ ... the most significant factor controlling performance is just parameter count. """ """ No matter what I did, the most simple n
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My apologies, I'm just unfamiliar with what would look normal. These are the results of the buggy TCP implementation? Could you show a comparison for the fixed TCP implementation and the TLS implementation?
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The paper in question is "A Benchmark for Learning to Translate a New Language from One Grammar Book" by Garrett Tanzer, Mirac Suzgun, Eline Visser, Dan Jurafsky, Luke Melas-Kyriazi [0]. [0] https://arxiv.org/abs&#
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Prompting LLMs to Learn Language from a Single Book(twitter.com)
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Note also that Gibson semi-predicted 2035 [0] and Ghost in the Shell also predicted 2029 [1] (maybe basing their number off of Kurzweil, I don't know). I think there are many ways to get at a concrete prediction of 2029, or thereabouts
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Thanks for the link. I haven't read much written text by Chomsky but, in my defense, I've listened to a lot more video and audio of his talks than mere "soundbytes". I stand by my statement about his talks.
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Interesting. Do you have a link to some of his statements to that effect? I have a lot of respect for Chomsky but sometimes it does seem he's lazy in giving a well balanced argument for the things he advocates for. The above clip I sha
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In contrast to Noam Chomsky who was pushing the idea that language was developed primarily for thought [0]. I don't know how much weight should be given to this paper but, if true, directly contradicts Chomsky. Here is one quote from C
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We are in the process of seeing a rapid and vast shift to solar. Infrastructure takes time to roll out so the timeframe of solar is maybe 10-15 years before we see 50% of the worlds power switch to solar. If the 10-15 year estimate is true,
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Is there any alternative right now that blocks these ads?
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I was wondering when this would become a more mainstream position. When you have a manufacturing base where you can iterate on hardware, PCB design, chip manufacture and other fundamental technology, it's only a matter of time before s
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Complexity and Criticality by Christensen and Moloney [0]. It goes through three main systems, percolation, the Ising model and the rice pile model. It's an introduction that gives the tools to analyze each and provides the foundation
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From the article: > In December 2001, Argentine President Fernando de la Rua imposed an ATM withdrawal limit of $250 per week. > I sometimes read from people in developed countries, offended by bitcoin’s carbon emissions or by the hug
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There's a large cohort of people who want to hate on anything related to cryptocurrency, whether it's a specific currency like Bitcoin, NFTs, web3 or related technology. You may be right that cryptocurrency proper is easier to def

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