cubefox

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   by cubefox 5mo ago

   There are many ways to represent 3D data, but animations really only work properly with polygon meshes (e.g. triangle surface meshes or volumetric tetrahedral meshes).
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   by cubefox 5mo ago

   NERFs have significantly higher image quality than 3D Gaussian Splatting or more recent similar techniques, though they are much slower to render.
3. 513.▲
   by cubefox 5mo ago

   What Altman and Brockman did still seems highly unethical.
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   by cubefox 5mo ago

   Emil is a highly cited scientist doing lots of empirical research despite relentless cancellation attempts by people who don't like the results: that intelligence is heritable to a substantial degree and that it differs statistically b
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   by cubefox 5mo ago

   So you are allowed to violate the law if you aren't sued quickly enough.
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   by cubefox 5mo ago

   > actually mete out as is claimed because the people who are accused rarely, if ever, have any actual negative consequences. I think the opposite is true. Accusing someone of rape is often very bad for the accused person, even if the cla
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   by cubefox 5mo ago

   > Famously, justice is rarely (if ever) metered out when the accused person is wealthy and influential. This guy (allegedly) violently raped a woman on his boat and he still gets a speaking gig, so. "So"? The fact that someone
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   by cubefox 5mo ago

   You are equating accusation of rape with rape. I shouldn't have to point out there is a big difference.
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   by cubefox 5mo ago

   On the other hand, Microsoft has thousands of SWEs, surely a few of them must be smart enough to figure this out.
10. 520.▲
    by cubefox 5mo ago

    Couldn't they just use the PIN also Windows password? Then the PIN screen would have to look like the Windows login screen.
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    by cubefox 5mo ago

    Why do you need a separate PIN anyway? Shouldn't your Windows password be enough? Having to enter two different codes makes it unlikely a majority would use the system. I would be surprised if iOS or Android required a separate PIN for
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    by cubefox 5mo ago

    Thanks! Guess I don't have to buy a DVD player for now. It seems that the people who don't care to make their old movie available as VOD also don't particularly care about copyright violations.
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    by cubefox 5mo ago

    This movie is not available as video-on-demand where I live. I could rent it on DVD though. And buy a DVD player.
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    by cubefox 5mo ago

    Considering that there is a paper with this many points perhaps once a week here (probably less), #3 of the day is pretty unremarkable.
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    by cubefox 5mo ago

    Papers being voted high on Hacker News are usually uncorrelated with their actual importance. It's basically a lottery. There are regularly more interesting papers going semi viral on Twitter.
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    by cubefox 5mo ago

    Whether something is true or justified is not a matter of taste.
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    The Fall of the Theorem Economy(davidbessis.substack.com)

    5 points by cubefox 5mo ago|0 comments
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    by cubefox 5mo ago

    I think it's plausible that a substantial fraction of the increase in cyber attacks we saw recently was caused by GPT-5.5. So the "too dangerous" framing is plausible, even if the more important reason is a lack of RAM (as th
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    by cubefox 5mo ago

    I believe logistic curves make no sense when you have Elo scores.
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    by cubefox 5mo ago

    If the methodology in the accompanying write-up did look credible, yes. Though I have significantly more trust in US agencies, like NIST in this case.
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    by cubefox 5mo ago

    I think they don't sell their VPN data, because if that ever came out, that would destroy their business. Selling the data would be far too risky for them.
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    by cubefox 5mo ago

    I think no other source exists.
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    by cubefox 5mo ago

    Someone recently made a graph showing that the gap between US American frontier LLMs and Chinese open weight LLMs (including DeepSeek v4) is widening. Unfortunately I can't find it anymore. Update: GPT-5.5 found it. Article: https:&#x
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    by cubefox 5mo ago

    > Almost all commercial VPN services farm and sell your data. Citation needed.
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    by cubefox 5mo ago

    It also changes nothing about being true or justified. If it's "gross" according to your definition/taste that doesn't mean it's false or unjustified.
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    by cubefox 5mo ago

    When you believe some belief to be "gross", this changes nothing about whether it is true or justified.
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    by cubefox 6mo ago

    Beliefs can't be "gross", they can only be true or false, justified or unjustified. There is no such thing as a morally wrong belief. That would be the confusion between fact and value.
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    by cubefox 6mo ago

    Everyone was expecting "iSlate", which would have been far better according to popular opinion at the time.
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    by cubefox 6mo ago

    Anti-periodontic diseases are highly irrelevant compared to cavities. Not even the original cavity application did manage to get enough funding at the time. So there will be no Indian upstart, there is and likely will be nobody who invests
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    by cubefox 6mo ago

    Similar thing, permanent anti-cavity bacteria: https://www.cremieux.xyz/p/the-rise-and-impending-fall-of-th... The patents expired, so nobody can raise the hundreds of millions to do the phase II/III safety trials