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by abetusk 4y ago
I'm sorry, I thought this essay was great. I think people are reading it too much as a scientific treatise, which it's not. This is more of a beatnik train-of-thought exercise trying to make sense of their own life experience and
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by abetusk 4y ago
$20M / 100 = $200k
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by abetusk 4y ago
Clerks - $27,575 [0] A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night - $56,000 [1] Butt Boy - $100,000 [2] The Blue - <$100k [3] Call Me Brother - <$100k [3] Frances Ferguson - <$100k [3] Greenlight - <$100k [3] Love in Dangerous Times - <$
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by abetusk 4y ago
I guess I wasn't clear. I'm talking about the ability of artists to get funded and the ability to make a living off of it. Maybe also the quality and quantity of new movies or shows. My belief is that it's easier now than eve
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by abetusk 4y ago
I might be wrong, I'm not well versed in this area, but it'd be nice to have some data that backs up claims (either yours or mine). The first thing is that making a living off of art is hard, so we're really talking about the
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by abetusk 4y ago
The tenor of the post is more along the lines of "how can I adapt" rather than pining for the glory days, so that's nice, but I also have very little sympathy for this person. The movie market was like a fiefdom, much like th
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by abetusk 4y ago
"The Library of Babel" by Jorge Luis Borges [0]. Borges was a direct influence on William Gibson most notably (to me at least) seen with the short story "The Aleph" by Borges [1]. Gibson had an "aleph" device s
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by abetusk 4y ago
A visualization of the basis functions for the discrete cosine transform by Brian Hayes in his American Scientist post a long time ago [0]. For some reason, Fourier transforms just didn't click until I saw that picture. [0] http:&#x2F
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by abetusk 4y ago
Can someone tell me about the person dressed in full camo gear and sporting an assault rifle during the raid? Do police departments outsource some of their work to third party contractors for raids like this? Is this person part of some loc
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by abetusk 4y ago
I think this dovetails nicely with Graeber's "Bullshit Jobs" [0] thesis. From the Wikipedia entry, it looks like 37% of Britons polled thought their jobs were "bullshit", with the HVB article talking about an excess
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by abetusk 4y ago
It looks like this thesis is mostly about making the preprocessing step to create the constraints XML for WFC for a tiled instantiation (as opposed to an overlapping instantiation) automatically from a given image. The thesis seems interest
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by abetusk 4y ago
I only skimmed the article and skipped to the 3Brown1Blue [0] video which I found very enlightening. Basically, the tldr version is that product under the integral can be considered a sum, of sorts, in the Fourier domain (convolution <-&
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by abetusk 4y ago
I am better than what you're accusing me of. It's too bad that you either can't see it or purposefully ignoring it. I suspect what you're doing is arguing in bad faith but accusing me of it first to shield yourself from
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by abetusk 4y ago
It's a weird distinction you make. To say that it's a philosophical motivation is ignoring motivation of a lot of innovation and kind of beside the point. The "philosophy" of the internet was to build a network that woul
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by abetusk 4y ago
Love this quote: > It has been said that any company that can afford an organization like Bell Labs Research will ignore it.
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by abetusk 4y ago
People forget how hyped the internet was circa 1996-2000. During the early days, one of the most popular sites was a web cam pointed at a coffee mug [0] and a webcam pointed at a "lifecaster" showing her everyday life [1]. Email
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by abetusk 4y ago
I would like to remind people, yet again, that things like "fuckedcompany.com" existed [0] and there was also a lot of hate for dot-com era startups during the late 1990s to 2000s. From the article: """ $4.27 billio
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by abetusk 4y ago
Wow, crazy. Thanks for the detail!
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by abetusk 4y ago
https://serratus.io/
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by abetusk 4y ago
Have you submitted your DNA results to 23andMe or other services? Is this how you were doing the "color clustering", by matching 2nd and 3rd cousins from matches on those sites? I have no experience in the matter but presumably th
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by abetusk 4y ago
I've been thinking about this a bit since I saw your reply. I'm not sure how to respond to this and I'm not sure references I would give would be satisfactory to you. What kind of reading and references are you looking for? C
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by abetusk 4y ago
This seems pretty cool and like a step in an interesting direction but I'm having trouble running the code. It maybe just be HN formatting. If you indent by 4, this will do "block code" type formatting. So, to copy code, try
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by abetusk 4y ago
To your point 1, arguments of this sort are not that we can't make a computer, someday, that will encapsulate consciousness, it's an argument that we will never be able to . People will try to use fancy contortions to get around
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by abetusk 4y ago
Nope, I take it back. The article is not coming from a place of (in my opinion) reason. This is, in fancy language and snowed under by enumeration of historical research, math and science, an argument that "computers can never have a s
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by abetusk 4y ago
I've only skimmed but it seems like the general idea is sound, that neural networks are good at pattern matching and that shallow pattern matching is only one aspect of "deep thought", logical reasoning being the other one. I
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by abetusk 4y ago
To me, this is not quite there. Stable diffusion produces, in some cases, really high quality output. The Riffusion is cool but still sounds a bit muddled. Put it this way, if Riffusion came out in 2023, I would only give myself partial cre
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by abetusk 4y ago
Here's one that I think might actually have a chance of happening: - Stable diffusion but for music. That is, give a text prompt and get a 2-5 minute song out. So people can say things like "give me a song in the style of Siouxsie
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by abetusk 4y ago
Sorry, I don't understand. One (mathematical) definition of "prime" is an adjective [0]. This is why we can say things like "5 is a prime number". "number" is a noun, "prime" is the adjective. Th
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by abetusk 4y ago
Ah, well, this is of course doing constraint propagation but is doing full backtracking search to find solutions. WFC, as usually presented in the procgen community (that I've seen) is a "one-shot" algorithm without any backt
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by abetusk 4y ago
As others have mentioned, this is "just" constraint propagation. I think much of the success is that it's a simple idea to grasp and implement, that provides very good results, and has a compelling name. I don't want to

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