cwmoore

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by cwmoore 6y ago
I see this as a way to engage with one's own thought rather than to replace, improve, or guardrail debate generally, and the textual syntax to visualization path has potential to catch on where something like D3 or graphviz have limite
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by cwmoore 6y ago
So many things we see as beautiful are that way because of mathematical foundations. These are beautifully well done and I am happy to see them here. My recent work is a little less perfetc: https://www.curtiswmoore.com/imag
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by cwmoore 6y ago
This is a photograph made by photosynthesis: https://www.curtiswmoore.com/image_detail.php?title=16068701... Not made by hands? Koons and Pollack, eat your hearts out.
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by cwmoore 6y ago
Just a couple of weeks ago, northern summer, I saw two pairs of crows near the peak of a rooftop about forty feet apart. One of the birds had a round plastic lid in its beak and appeared to be trying to get the attention of the other, picki
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by cwmoore 6y ago
Off-topic, but the wonderfully specific word "mantissa" comes up so infrequently that I just have to share this painting [0] of mine that features it. [0] https://www.curtiswmoore.com/image_detail.php?title=manta.j
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by cwmoore 7y ago
Norvig is so another level maybe because of being so literate. I came across a Kakuro (Soduku * crossword) puzzle in a newsprint puzzle booklet, and failing to solve it with a pencil, attempted it in JavaScript. I am now >10x at solving
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by cwmoore 7y ago
There was a mural in Honolulu?
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by cwmoore 7y ago
Within the boundaries of the demo, it feels like all my time reading man pages is a landline network, and this is cellular.
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by cwmoore 7y ago
So the way I read this, “sending” is an ambiguous statement that could be really ok, or really bad. 1. Sending in clear text over HTTPS from the login form to validate authorization: normal and OK, this simply is how auth works. Here the us
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by cwmoore 7y ago
When an ocean wave hits a beach, the swashing action pushes grains of sand up and pulls them down. The shape of the beach (as observable in any given moment) is steady relative to a number of waves and governed by cumulative averages of the
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by cwmoore 7y ago
!!
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by cwmoore 7y ago
I once worked with a guy who'd coordinated planting on the ground with aerial seedling drops, saplings in cones from airplanes, as illustrated here: https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-scienc...
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by cwmoore 8y ago
The interview with the reproductions company from the link was fascinating: Are the reproductions good enough to be mistaken for real masterpieces? No, it is impossible. No one can do it. Even the original artist can’t do it. Can’t do what?
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by cwmoore 8y ago
Primarily because their mechanisms of action are easier to study in vivo. Sentience is a red herring. I addressed this in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18000854
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by cwmoore 8y ago
Consider 3D reproductions of plates of food in restaurant displays. Can they really look edible? What level of texture would be "sufficient" in that case?
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by cwmoore 8y ago
I am not prepared to properly address this at the moment, but at root it has to do with the great complexity of plant's adaptation without the advantages of locomotion. Certainly interested in your thoughts and others'.
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by cwmoore 8y ago
Similarly to the fallacies of anthropomorphism, the amygdala-hijacking that often occurs when ascribing sentience undermines the effectiveness of the animal model for AI. The central-nervous system ('best "brain"') analo
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by cwmoore 8y ago
"Perfectly reproduced" is a reach. "Reproduced with relief texture" is more accurate. A key reason these are inferior to hand-painted originals has less to do with snobbery and more to do material qualities of eg. oil pa
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by cwmoore 8y ago
What does veganism have to do with HN or the article? This seems like basically a political discussion hijacking a science post.
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by cwmoore 8y ago
Any experience you could share about [1] or other tools, specifically, with regard to choices and tracking of Internet/app usage appreciated. [1] https://flowdash.co/app/about
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Life-Logging(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by cwmoore 8y ago|1 comments
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by cwmoore 8y ago
I certainly hope anyone who gets the idea to print these out will take a moment (or a year) to find the originals and appreciate the quality of the paint used before they try to get this impact out of a dot-matrix++ printer. Also, note the
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by cwmoore 8y ago
They can produce noxious chemicals or retrieve resources from threatened parts among other responses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_defense_against_herbivor...
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by cwmoore 8y ago
It seems to me that AI is more plant than animal, and the specific biological response mechanisms that plants use have explanatory power toward understanding and communicating about AI in a more productive way than the popular conception of
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by cwmoore 8y ago
Painful headline... "#" is only a "hashtag" on Twitter and other social media. It's also used to abbreviate "number", "pounds", a "sharp" note, part of hash-bang to indicate a runtime (
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Van Gogh Museum's High-Quality Reproductions(vangoghmuseum.nl)
142 points by cwmoore 8y ago|49 comments
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by cwmoore 8y ago
Somebody made a way to start cleaning this up, and a proposal to pay to do it (front page 3 days later): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17899395
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Productivity 101: A Primer to the Pomodoro Technique(lifehacker.com)
3 points by cwmoore 8y ago|0 comments
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by cwmoore 8y ago
That is an interesting result. A 20 mi long piece of electronics floating in the open ocean would have [:deadpan:] more prohibitory issues than drag. Even if it were more optimistically estimated, this has obvious maneuverability (not to me
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by cwmoore 8y ago
Rereading with the principle of charity in mind, I think the original poster meant (300m)^2, though it was not clearly so.

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