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by chilmers 2y ago
Evo-Devo! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydqReeTV_vk
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by chilmers 2y ago
Pretty neat. But there doesn't seem to be any way to select or style the anchored element based on which fallback position it is in? This would seem to preclude adding a directional arrow to it, which is a somewhat baseline feature for
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by chilmers 2y ago
Here's the thing: I bet if you were to take the children who performed well at complex abstract mathematical problems and placed them in a job that required complex applied mathematical skill, the ones who eventually performed best w
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by chilmers 2y ago
I have eczema, and I feel like most people who don’t have it cannot understand the experience of giving in to the urge to scratch affected skin after a period of trying to resist it. The best way I can describe it is an orgasm, the length a
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by chilmers 2y ago
It reminds me of a machine-learning startup I worked at for a while. It was a company formed around a single scientist and their research, with the intent of productizing it. It wasn't a scam, people were operating in good faith, but i
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by chilmers 2y ago
The claim was that with WebGL was "the best you can get are shadertoy demos, and product visualisation on ecommerce sites". Figma is neither, regardless of how it's making use of WebGL under the hood. Not sure what relevance
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by chilmers 2y ago
Figma uses WebGL for rendering and they seem to be doing ok.
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by chilmers 2y ago
Well, I think the most interesting point made is that it may not make sense for AI companies to release models _at all_ as they approach AGI. Exposing models allows their capabilities to be easily copied, whereas keeping them internal lets
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by chilmers 2y ago
I guess he’s doing all his writing in the cloud now.
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by chilmers 2y ago
There is something special about looking at dated photos, even if they’re relatively banal. The lower fidelity corresponds with the fuzziness of memory, and is powerfully nostalgic if you lived though that time. I wonder if this effect will
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by chilmers 2y ago
Amazing to watch Gukesh as well as he realised the opportunity. At first confusion and disbelief, then excitement, joy and nervousness as he tried to calm himself down and take the win.
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by chilmers 2y ago
Dying in a domestic accident like a house fire is as "normal" as dying in a car accident. Robots are a novel element in both, so I don't see why one would be more readily accepted than the other.
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by chilmers 2y ago
I recall reading many comments on HN confidently predicting that the moment a self-driving car caused an accident that killed someone, that would be the end of self-driving cars. But while they have caused accidents, and there has been resu
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by chilmers 2y ago
I still live nearby and am similarly amused. 22 Duncan Terrace is an especially nice house, in an area not short of nice houses. Clearly Adams had done pretty well from Hitchhikers and his other work by the 80s. Iain M Banks also lived in I
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by chilmers 2y ago
Also, wouldn't the US and UK insist on a clause in the treaty that Mauritius can't do this?
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by chilmers 2y ago
I was very obviously only making a joke. But ironically your reply perfectly embodies the petty, joyless and argumentative side of HN commenting I was alluding to.
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by chilmers 2y ago
Me too. I like to think that, if humans survive to reach some kind of utopian, post-scarcity state, people will experiment with building places like this, just because they can.
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by chilmers 2y ago
The author of Sauerbraten is also working on new voxel game tech: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2283580/Voxlands/
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by chilmers 2y ago
This has the same issue I have with any theory where the great filter is a technology that evolves roughly contemporaneously with spaceflight (like atomic weapons): It’s just not probable that _every_ civilisation would destroy themselves b
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by chilmers 3y ago
Perhaps I'm missing something, but is program synthesis just writing a compiler for a long-winded functional programming language? I'm not even clear if it will avoid bugs, since your specification could just as easily have a miss
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by chilmers 3y ago
I think this kind of AI "enhancement" is where CGI was in the 90s. It might be state of the art tech, but it's still very unrefined, and in ten or twenty years these remasters will look painfully dated and bad.
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by chilmers 3y ago
Why is it an obstacle?
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by chilmers 3y ago
Right, but is any serious researcher insisting that just scaling will be enough to achieve AGI? Because while I'm a layperson on this stuff, I don't get that impression, meaning this criticism from Marcus is mostly attacking a s
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by chilmers 3y ago
To me the feeling of AI generated content is less "slop" and more "in-flight magazine". It can have a surface sheen of quality that you can lure you in, but you realise it's devoid of any vitality or soul.
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by chilmers 3y ago
By any chance did you used to work in leadership at Nokia or Research in Motion? :-D
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by chilmers 3y ago
The nice thing about the web is that while it’s no company’s favoured platform, it’s valuable to all of them as a way into each other’s platforms. That’s why whoever is “winning” the platform war a particular point tends to neglect the web.
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by chilmers 3y ago
Sure, but then you get the original Doom source release license, which is for non-commercial educational use only: https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM/blob/77735c3ff0772609e9c...
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by chilmers 3y ago
Except the wall curves inward, which pushes your head, neck and upper back forward. Having sat on them, it's rather uncomfortable, and must be worse for people taller than me. That said, I'm not convinced it's deliberately ho
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by chilmers 3y ago
After six hours trying to get the touchpad working you're wishing you'd died in the crash.
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by chilmers 3y ago
Unfortunately, the material they chose for the station walls is a sort of porous cement that is likely uncleanable.

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