danwills

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   by danwills 1y ago

   Thanks for the correction there! I was not aware that Easter Bunny was much more like Santa than something associated with Eostre or Pagan. I guess the bunny still got something similar to the Coke-branding that Santa got to help product sa
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   by danwills 1y ago

   I find it odd how Easter, a pre-Christian Pagan festival (worshipping goddess of fertility: Eostre) has become seemingly-arbitrarily connected to the purported events at the end of Jesus' life.. yet it still includes a good amount of t
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   by danwills 1y ago

   Guess it depends on the browser as it looks sharp and free of aliasing for me, including when zooming in (Opera on Android)
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   by danwills 1y ago

   Quite right! I think if the values were linearized (~gamma 0.5) lerp might be mostly ok though, right? And what about doing rgb->hsv, then lerp, then hsv->rgb? I'm unclear whether that also needs linearization, or whether the gam
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   by danwills 2y ago

   Thanks for that threadreaderapp link neonate! For some reason there's no reply-link to your post, but this is the first time in a very long time I've even read a twitter thread because of how much more pleasant it was at threadrea
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   by danwills 2y ago

   The one I've heard is 'just remember ants in pants: the mites go up, the tites come down'
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   by danwills 2y ago

   Thanks for taking on this role tomhow! It's seriously appreciated and I'm also heaps happy that there's now someone in Oz that can moderate while dang gets some no doubt much-needed sleep! Champions! Thanks for making HN so
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   by danwills 2y ago

   Reminds me of 'Wonder Riff' by Baterz, although it's mainly about arguing with David Whiffler about how it's not actually a copy of Stevie Wonder, just slightly similar. Good fun Aussie pub-rock vibe tho I reckon it&#x27
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   by danwills 2y ago

   Definitely have a look at gollygang/Ready I reckon! There are some really fascinating things in the pattern library (including some that I contributed). https://github.com/GollyGang/ready
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    by danwills 2y ago

    I think many types can if you broaden the definition of automata to include 'reaction diffusion' you can even simulate things like the Schrödinger equation under a RD scheme! (there are some examples in gollygang/Ready). RD w
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    by danwills 2y ago

    And Impulse tracker is from South Australia! Jeff Lim is totally one of my local heroes!
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    by danwills 2y ago

    What a great, thought-provoking question! Thanks mromanuk! I started reading the Wikipedia page about free-will to try to work out where I stand on this. I think I quite like the classical way of thinking about free will as simply: Being fr
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    by danwills 2y ago

    No hate from me! You can believe what you like but I do disagree I'm afraid. I think any rule-following (ie ~computational) system is either below, or at the same level of dynamic complexity as all others. I also think that it's t
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    by danwills 2y ago

    I think prokaryotic bacteria can form biofilms which seems like one step on the road to multicellularity, but that's more like a community, and iiuc most biofilms these days at least contain eukaryotic yeasts. I don't know of any
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    by danwills 2y ago

    I would love to check out touchdesigner some day, I'm a Houdini pipeline TD (and creative too) and Touch started as a fork of Houdini from quite some time ago specialised for real-time (and the real-time-ness of demoscene is one of my
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    by danwills 2y ago

    It is possible to change the history length in most shells including bash, when I googled it I found this baeldung.com article which says it can be set to unlimited using this (or use a big number if you'd prefer!): export HISTSIZE=-1;
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    by danwills 2y ago

    English is my first language and I had to look it up too (at least the 'hagi' part!) I think it's a relatively-rarely-used word for sure! Maybe it's recently re-entered the zeitgeist? (And there's another fairly-unc
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    by danwills 2y ago

    I don't think a photon can exist outside of space, but I'd be very interested to hear of any alternate points of view on that!
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    by danwills 2y ago

    Same! To me it's a bit like formatting any document nicely.. we wouldn't usually let paragraphs run into each other, and I think in general it can be helpful to split up long blocks of anything into concept-sized chunks whenever p
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    by danwills 2y ago

    Agreed 100%! I haven't written in go yet but whenever there are brackets I like for them to be vertically aligned with each other like Allman (even in Python!). Agreeing with sibling comment too that K&R can be ok.. seems like K&am
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    by danwills 2y ago

    Where I work in VFX (RSP) we have an ML department and a lot of what they do is about replacing things in footage (face replacement onto double-actors, de-ageing and so on). What they achieve (that brings significant value) seems fairly adj
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    by danwills 2y ago

    While this seems cool and fascinating, I think it'd be good to call it something other than 'slime'! That word is already taken, several times over.. why not get creative? "Electro-squeeze-goo"? "Piezoelectric-
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    by danwills 2y ago

    This would've been meticulously dithered by-hand by the artist to achieve a particular look and the quality of that is what gp was praising iiuc.
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    by danwills 2y ago

    Thanks heaps dahart for your extremely thoughtful reply! I totally see what you're getting at and I feel silly for having even accidentally suggested that Morgan was not across anything tbh! I still think that even an extremely cursory
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    by danwills 2y ago

    Thanks! I see what you're getting-at and mostly agree but I think it really would be helpful to mention a bit more about the actual pixel-production side of things in a document like this, to help make it a more complete picture of the
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    by danwills 2y ago

    These are not requirements (it's your book!) but here are some suggestions for things that I'd find interesting: Convolution (including via-FFT where it's mainly just complex-multiplication). Different neighborhoods and opera
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    by danwills 2y ago

    Ah nice! That is very cool thanks for the heads-up!
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    by danwills 2y ago

    I definitely have a big interest in this (It sounds like it'd be the more advanced-bits mainly (I've worked in VFX for 23 years)) but was a bit disheartened to learn that it was a paid service. I also searched the 'try it for
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    by danwills 2y ago

    Thanks heaps!
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    by danwills 2y ago

    I'd really love to know what the mathematicians are actually doing when they work this stuff out? Is it all on computers now? Can they somehow visualize 24-dimensional-sphere-packings in their minds? Are they maybe rigorously checking