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by astroalex 5y ago
Thanks for your question! I began writing a technical explanation of the art here: https://notes.spacefiller.space/living-wall/ It's a very early draft, but hopefully provides a glimpse into the techniques I use.
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by astroalex 5y ago
I made ~$1000 in earnings in a weekend selling algorithmically generated posters of my art: https://spacefiller.space/prints This was a test run that went surprisingly well. I paused sales so that I can focus on reworking m
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by astroalex 5y ago
There's something magical about writing raw HTML/CSS. Nostalgia must be part of it -- I'm guessing many self-taught programmers growing up in the late 90s/2000s started out by learning HTML/CSS before dabbling with
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by astroalex 5y ago
I wrote a "social media contract" for myself that specifies when and how I am allowed to use social media (HN once a day; YouTube only on weekends; Twitter only to post — never to browse, etc.). I have a simple spreadsheet where I
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by astroalex 5y ago
Do you work at my company? Because that's our biggest fear too. I asked a friend of mine at Google to sleuth around internally and get a sense for the health of the project. He said that it's used on some internal projects and see
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by astroalex 5y ago
No mention of Google MediaPipe ( https://mediapipe.dev/ ), which is a mobile/edge framework for deploying TFLite models. MediaPipe has the advantage of letting you stitch together multiple models, transformations, and he
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by astroalex 5y ago
I have issues with videos on Twitter. It's not every video, but about 10% refuse to play in Firefox.
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by astroalex 5y ago
> only if they police their speech very carefully to avoid breaking a myriad of vague and unwritten rules, and even then they're still subject to being unpersoned for some perceived offense committed off-platform Not sure what you&#
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by astroalex 5y ago
This was created by Casey Reas, who also is one of the original creators of the programming language & IDE called Processing ( https://processing.org/ ). I'm not sure how well known Processing is within the HN commun
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by astroalex 5y ago
This seems a bit backwards to me. It's only futile to blast ABBA songs (or other human-like signals) into space if we think human-like intelligence is special. It's precisely because we believe human-like intelligence is _not_ spe
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by astroalex 5y ago
I'm not an expert, but I became aware of this paper recently: "A Battle of Network Structures: An Empirical Study of CNN, Transformer, and MLP" https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.13002.pdf I can't understan
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by astroalex 5y ago
At the time of this comment, the charts in this article are mixed up. The "Business as usual", "Comprehensive technology" and "stabilized world" charts have incorrect captions.
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by astroalex 5y ago
You don't offer any evidence for your claim except anecdotal experience of not knowing anyone who has died. Do you think it's possible that your local bubble of information (not knowing anyone who has died) is not actually represe
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by astroalex 6y ago
What is going on, exactly? Are there any theories?
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by astroalex 6y ago
The distinction you're making between "solved" and "closely approximated" makes logical sense to me. However, if I'm interpreting the AlphaFold results correctly, this distinction isn't practically signifi
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by astroalex 6y ago
I learned to program making games with AS3. When I applied for an internship at Google, apparently I was one of the only candidates in their internship database that listed AS3 as a preferred programming language. That got me an internship
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by astroalex 6y ago
Ohhh, that makes a lot of sense -- sorry if my comment came off as patronizing.
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by astroalex 6y ago
Completely unrelated to the content of the article, but I find it so annoying when interview responses are rendered in italics. For contrast, here's a nicely typeset interview from the NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/i
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by astroalex 6y ago
Chrome & other browsers have had PDF reading capabilities for a long, long time. I actually can't remember a time when you couldn't view a PDF inside Chrome/Firefox. You might also be interested to know that Google inde
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by astroalex 6y ago
> If you are not interested by the underlying tech of any category of computing, you are not a programmer. I don't know much about Unity, but this gatekeeping ruins your credibility. It might very well be that writing your own game
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by astroalex 6y ago
Genuine question: do you believe it's purely coincidence, then? I'm open to the possibility, but it seems kind of unlikely.
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by astroalex 7y ago
Someone has made a nicer map of where you can get meals: https://nycfreemeals.com/
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by astroalex 7y ago
I happened to work in the lab at the University of Washington that helped maintain the game as an undergrad. Here's a published scientific article about the use of Foldit for science: https://www.nature.com/articles&#x2
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by astroalex 8y ago
Good points. > Likewise, if you get a royal flush in a hand of poker, you probably won't get as good a hand next time. I understand what you mean, but I think that most people who haven't taken a probability class would misinte
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by astroalex 8y ago
> For instance, say you’re in a race at school. You do surprisingly well and beat most of your classmates. All things being equal, the next time around, you’re actually not likely to do as well, relative to the other runners. If the even
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by astroalex 8y ago
I made a tutorial on recreating the generative art of John Whitney in the Processing programming language: https://youtu.be/LaarVR1AOvs It's intended for beginner programmers, but it's surprising what you can do w
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by astroalex 11y ago
I might agree that "CS is the great equalizer" if everyone is given an equal opportunity to pursue it. But I don't think they are. Boys are given the focus by default: just watch any Hollywood movie with a "hacker"