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by arketyp 10y ago
Presumably it is a demonstration of the network extracting the texture of an image, ignoring "spatiality", such that when a style/texture transfer is applied on one and the same image, the texture may very well order up diffe
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by arketyp 10y ago
Yes. I would guess, because of this, city dwellers are more susceptible to the idea of anthropogenic effects, while people in rural areas in contrast are used to witnessing a more resilient character in nature.
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by arketyp 10y ago
Would that, so to speak, be a negative correlation? Seeing how today the no-questions-asked progressive dogma of the deepest concrete city dwellers seems to be to accept even the worst painted climate change scenarios.
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by arketyp 10y ago
How does this relate to automata theory and Wolfram's principle of computational equivalence (spare me any lectures about his self-promotion) and the conjecture that universal Turing machines are virtually ubiquitous and arise from the
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by arketyp 10y ago
Do you have anything to say about Nowak's work on evolutionary dynamics? I have a book in my shelf in which I have only glanced the pictures, and as of yet my understanding of altriusm in nature is pretty much limited to readings of Ax
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by arketyp 10y ago
We were presented with this problem in a course in constraint programming where we used a library called Gecode [2] to implicitly express and effectively search the solution space in terms of variable relationships/constraints. I remem
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by arketyp 10y ago
I agree, and I was hinting at that dissonance by saying intelligible content. But I also think we find ourselves today in a post-postmodern era. The promise of deconstruction never delivered and the allure of metaphysics and the structures
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by arketyp 10y ago
Cage was influenced by Zen teachings and other post-modern notions such as the obliteration of the dualist subject. Reading his famous debut book Silence, one gets the impression that his provocations were done almost in a state of exigency
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by arketyp 10y ago
It comes down to the characterizing architecture of convolutional nets, that is weight sharing, and the assumption on data this makes. If by image one means something where you can expect any pattern (at some level in the hierarchy) being e
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by arketyp 11y ago
I'm guessing recent progress in texture synthesis [1] and content generation [2] using deep convolutional nets made this possible. It would be interesting to see what was actually fed into the generating system. That would be a piece o
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by arketyp 11y ago
If you took every image agreeing with your conception of a magpie and composed it into one image, would it look anything like a magpie? The Google inceptionism team did the same experiment but supplied the networks with natural image priors
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by arketyp 11y ago
Nice work. The triangulation is a nice structure to get to know. You might be interested in something called data-dependent triangulation. The idea is that non-conventional triangulations (i.e., not Delaunay) make for good interpolating sch
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by arketyp 11y ago
What about [1] for example. I'm also thinking about the growing trend of technologies related to auto calibration such as Microsoft's Photosynth. It seems pretty certain to me that 3D modeling is the future of animation. [1] ht
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by arketyp 11y ago
It does seem like this technology is either old or just a decade or two too late. Aren't there ways nowadays of generating 3D models from 2D sketches that would serve better for this kind of intuitive topology animation?
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by arketyp 11y ago
Sounds a whole lot like Kant's synthetic a priori judgements.
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by arketyp 11y ago
This makes me feel obligated to share my ongoing master thesis project. Among other things, my approach is the reverse to this, namely decimating a full detail mesh using edge/ridge detection. https://femtondev.wordpress.com
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by arketyp 12y ago
As far as this technology will deliver I belive it will become a engineering or scientific branch in its own right. I suspect it will be a bit like economics, with lots of clever people deriving sophisticated models but expert knowledge is
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by arketyp 12y ago
I once read a proof of Gödel's first incompleteness theorem that used a version of Turing's undecidability proof, which have had great impact on me. That being said, I find the point of this article, if not nitpicking, then asking
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by arketyp 12y ago
That is very harsh critique which you leave unsubstantiated. Did you have something particular in mind? Preferably something you have made an honest attempt to benevolently interpret. This being said, I too am confused about this being popp
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by arketyp 12y ago
I think the amplification and come-down cycle is probably the most reliable lesson of psychedelics. Once you've experienced the caricature of yourself, you begin to look differently on the composition of thoughts and feelings that is y
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by arketyp 12y ago
I find it interesting that the interviewer almost calls out on the disappointing fact that the surface smoothness is essentially just "blobized" interpolation: "It doesn't seem very subtle." It's like when a di
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by arketyp 12y ago
I'm beginning to suspect Turing consciously captured the moving target definition when he conceived of his famous test.
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by arketyp 12y ago
Asking a mathematician for their favorite constant is like asking a painter what their favorite color is. I like Tao's diplomatic answer.
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by arketyp 12y ago
I'm not sure how you interpreted me as a denier or opponent of sexual selection theory. I was pointing out that that very Wikipedia article you refer to clearly states that sexual selection is a mode of natural selection, which is the
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by arketyp 12y ago
I am familiar with the gene-centered view of evolution proposed by Williams and popularized by Dawkins with the so-called selfish gene theory. Within this school of thought sexual selection by no means stands in contrast to natural selectio
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by arketyp 12y ago
I agree with you. I wrote an essay once about the need to be sentient about what characteristics of biological evolution one adopts in genetic programming, arguing that sex is arguably just a serendipitous side-effect or at least a sub-opti
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by arketyp 12y ago
I think it is in Plato's Phaedo where Socrates considers joy impossible without pain. I always thought that this ancient idea of harmony, dating back to the earliest philosophical records and pertaining also to the philosophy of the Ea
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by arketyp 12y ago
I'm confused by your distinction between natural selection and sexual selection. I always thought the latter was encompassed by the former. Are you talking about random phenomena like genetic drift, or that some complexities are not su
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by arketyp 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmother_cell#Individual_spe...
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by arketyp 12y ago
The microbial theory too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_ring

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