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by carrolldunham 6y ago
The author left off at precisely the point I was hoping they would get across: How the wave that extends everywhere in space, obviously doesn't. I mean, I know you can make a localised 'packet' or whatever with an infinite su
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by carrolldunham 6y ago
The deformed, grotesque, inflated humanoids they use in flat design are opposite to 'kawaii', and opposite in motivation. Instead of hitting your instincts with a supernormal cuteness/sweetness stimulus, it's supposed to
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by carrolldunham 6y ago
The article and the thread are horribly mixing at least three different things under the word Engineer. Actual Engineer degrees B. Eng., 'programmers' which I guess could be B. Software Eng. and something called IT Engineer which
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by carrolldunham 6y ago
There are some lighting differences but in this case the main 'disparity' seems to be that everything is in focus at once, since they are not attempting to simulate a camera photograph.
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by carrolldunham 6y ago
The author 'calls bullshit' on the saying, implying the author thinks the saying intends to imply that a bad idea will work
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by carrolldunham 6y ago
What I meant by state is status. As in, this type of humble retro styled application is where we find GPT-2 in 2020 instead of dominating the news cycle with what you claim it is so good at. If it excels at text, where are the fake articles
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by carrolldunham 6y ago
the state of this technology after being called 'too dangerous to release'
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by carrolldunham 7y ago
Looking into it a bit, they have a spinning machine and my best guess is they use that to spin (in the crude, wool sense not the molecular-level spinneret sense) some of, I guess their extruded goop, into a thread. You can assume from the v
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by carrolldunham 7y ago
This fizzled because bulk producing the protein is pointless when it still needs to be spun. I remember being amazed at their bizarre hubris in expecting that just pressing the goop through a small hole would create a silk strand
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by carrolldunham 7y ago
>I suggest one mode of accepting responsibility for time and resisting the lure of both “Progress” and prediction is promise. This confused phrasing frustrated me too much to go on.
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by carrolldunham 7y ago
Nothing to do with digital holography. It's a digital lenticular.
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by carrolldunham 7y ago
"the brain" Can any of this grand top-down 'delusions and personality traits are thermodynamic xyz' theorising about "the brain" apply to, say a bee's brain or a worm's?
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by carrolldunham 7y ago
when a case is surprising enough to make it to the main news, isn't it by definition so rare and unlikely it's not really worth thinking about?
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by carrolldunham 7y ago
A good satire of dystopian, anti-human 'design' ideology but... the sidebar promoting something that features HumansOfFlat design (visual newspeak)... is part of the satire right? 'iLLUSTORiA' is reading material in the
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by carrolldunham 7y ago
it made me angry too. i got the urge to jump on here and berate the creator for rationalised reasons. it's because the random flipping in response to your reasoned movement feels like an something between an insult and an assault
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by carrolldunham 7y ago
This paper is so popular all over the web but nobody has ever managed to follow the proof of its 'theorem'. This guy is a math professor and quantum physicist and he was unable to extract any sense from it: https://john