danwills

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by danwills 6y ago
I blindly followed a 'news' item's advice once on my home Gentoo Linux that said a particular version of glibc should be removed. Learned the hard way that you definitely want to make sure you have emerged another version of
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by danwills 6y ago
Maybe there's interesting things to see if you change the parameter settings a bit? One thing that can be particularly interesting is using an exponent other than 2.0, regular Mandelbrot is quite interesting (dense and full of 'cu
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I reckon I'd pay for that too, actually sounds really, really awesome (assuming the performance is there)
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by danwills 6y ago
Agreed, though I found if I pressed reader mode quickly enough (Opera on Android) then I got a pretty readable result.
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by danwills 6y ago
Time most certainly is not a dimension (or even very dimension-like, in general) in my opinion. It structures the orderings of events, more like some ultimate process that all other processes are hanging off (are a part of). The complexity
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by danwills 6y ago
I reckon this phenomena could kinda be phrased like this: Moving through space takes up your turns, when you're moving really fast, most of your turns are taken up by moving (so there's less turns left for the operations of ordina
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by danwills 6y ago
Even just the idea that there are specific cells for this is fascinating, and the fact that they change their 'tick' speed based on mood/interest? I should read the paper!: https://www.pnas.org/content/ea
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by danwills 6y ago
I think they are different layers with TCP/UDP sitting on top of the IP layer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3AUDP_encapsulation.svg From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_
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by danwills 6y ago
Totally worked with sound on mobile Opera, Firefox and Chrome (Android 10)
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by danwills 6y ago
I think a serious effort on animation is absolutely underway in Houdini (the new 'KineFX' released in 18.5 the other day is a foundational element of this, as I understand it.) Haven't heard anything other than vague hints bu
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by danwills 6y ago
I agree with that, sure, but it also makes it less strong in the memetic fight against ideas of atheism
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by danwills 6y ago
Hadn't heard much about this guy before, real smart cookie! Amazing to think of him building and operating that 'Tubeless aerial telescope' back in 1684, 336 years ago! Such a hackery-stance on accepting new knowledge too, an
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by danwills 6y ago
While Maya is widely used at present, in my opinion it is in serious trouble in the near future from competition with Houdini. SideFX keep up an amazing pace of development, and Autodesk don't even seem to be trying to compete at that
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Visualizing binaries with space-filling curves (2011)(corte.si)
80 points by danwills 6y ago|15 comments
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So you want to contact Brian Eno? (2000)(music.hyperreal.org)
133 points by danwills 6y ago|78 comments
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by danwills 6y ago
I think RNA is autocatalytic so it can do it (at least to some degree) on its own.
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by danwills 6y ago
What if dark matter is actually a secondary effect (a-la-turbulence) of the flow of space that gravity causes? (I know the idea that space can flow is a fringe idea, but it seems thinking broadly/laterally in this area is not a terribl
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by danwills 6y ago
The 'Vop' (Vex OPerator) context in SideFX Houdini is the best 'node-based' graphical programming environment that I know of - however you're always working at something like a 'shader'-level. It's st
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by danwills 6y ago
named monty
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On top of this some systems are not only sensitive to initial conditions but actually generate randomness (or destroy order, depending how you look at it), such as class-3 cellular automata.
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by danwills 6y ago
Totally! It looked like the chairs were grown upside-down though, can kinda see why given the topology of most chairs vs tree topology, but hopefully just a bit more and/or stronger training and coppicing, seems like it should be possi
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by danwills 6y ago
This causes such a problem with governance though: Instead of voting for (or contributing to) ideas/policies directly, you have to translate your preference into a selection/ranking of the people who sound like they might support
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by danwills 6y ago
Something that I have found when using graphical programming (by connecting nodes) (My experience with this is with Houdini for VFX) is that some developers do take to it and are comfortable either wayq (hence able to share setups with less
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by danwills 7y ago
I also love the idea that computation (ie rule/recipe-following) is fundamental to nature/reality, but I don't think it's pure-maths that is the bedrock. Pure maths (as a tendency, not strictly) focuses on formal systems
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by danwills 7y ago
It's IFS (Iterated Function Systems): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterated_function_system IFS uses a set of affine transformations (translation, scale, rotation and shear, which can each be represented by a sin
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NeRF: Neural Radiance Fields [video](youtu.be)
5 points by danwills 7y ago|1 comments
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by danwills 7y ago
Sounds like it should be possible if you can terminate the transfer of the file early: > libjpeg has some interesting features as well. Rather than decoding an entire full-resolution JPEG and then scaling it down, for instance (a common
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Prototype Ready (RD Simulator) Importer for Houdini(github.com)
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by danwills 7y ago
There is even much to explore (in Zeus) with the cursor inside the frame too (not only on the edges) this is so fascinating! Genius! I was going to look at code (if visible), but there's an apology in the element that delayed me, at le
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by danwills 7y ago
I don't have my dotfile here (on my phone) but here's some ideas from things I've aliased that I use a lot: cdd : like cd but can take a file path - : cd - (like 1-level undo for cd) .. : cd .. ... : cd ../.. (and so on

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