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by darkmighty 7y ago
> why shadows have fuzzy edges ? Shadows have fuzzy edges in geometric optics as well (unless you're mentioning usually micrometer-scale diffraction effects). It's because illuminators are not point-like, so when viewed near an
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by darkmighty 7y ago
As soon as your photon interacts with a realistic scene (thermal), I believe it loses coherence with any apparatus you might have prepared in the detector. In short, no, I don't think this is possible, unless you consider idealized env
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by darkmighty 7y ago
Intuition tells me variable extrusion generally should yield stronger parts. Adhesion between stair-stepped and non-planar layers in this method is probably subpar (with the emergence of new gaps). With variable extrusion, as long as the va
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by darkmighty 7y ago
> I don't actually understand how Markforged and BASF can print with a material that obviously becomes runny at about 250°C, and yet retains its shape while in the sintering furnace at 1300°C. It would be good to learn more about ho
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by darkmighty 7y ago
The use of hyperbolic space to encode hierarchies is absolutely genius (in not small part because it should be obvious), given the properties of hyperbolic space to "expand" around fixed points exponentially, exactly like trees do
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by darkmighty 7y ago
The first versions used what you might call 'camerahack', it just sees the entire map at once but as the player himself would see (i.e. fog of war included). The latest version has camera control, only seeing one screen at a time
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by darkmighty 7y ago
Negative comments are usually much less useful also. They are usually one of those: 1) Animosity (the person dislikes you) 2) A broad description of a mistake 3) Different taste Only (2) can be somewhat useful, although (3) is permissible s
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by darkmighty 7y ago
Sleep is a very technical thing, it's a 'Brain maintenance time'. It's not about saving energy or anything that could/should be bypassed (otherwise we'd be tired awake at night, useful for defending against pre
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by darkmighty 7y ago
Emissivity is mostly what matters in this case. Whether the material is reflective or transmissive just means you'll be "seeing" IR sources reflected off the target or from behind the target, respectively. You do have to keep
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by darkmighty 7y ago
Indeed, but note it usually works well enough, because most surfaces have high IR emissivity (in particular with organics like plastics, papers, woods, fabrics, etc.; soils and liquids as well). The one exception you have to be careful is w
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by darkmighty 7y ago
Yea some state of the art results are just inaccessible without large budgets, simply because models can scale (and because some orgs have a lot of money to train those scaled models). You can always just use smaller models and/or lowe
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by darkmighty 7y ago
This is almost all of the software we use, I guess :) (that isn't strictly for entertainment) The most notable productivity boosts/cognition boosts found so far have got to be Google [search engines] and Stack Overflow. Yes you co
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by darkmighty 7y ago
Do you have any purchase advice/recommendations?
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by darkmighty 7y ago
There are several kinds of procrastination, so it's impossible to generalize. Some projects require very large time commitment to get right, reworking several times, etc. Some others reach a diminishing return stage very quickly and co
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by darkmighty 7y ago
I don't see any figures comparing the error of the formula with the previous error from numerical methods. While mathematically the discovery seems significant, it isn't clear to me this will actually improve lenses.
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by darkmighty 7y ago
The coldest parts usually have double doors at the entrances right? So temperature doesn't really swing so much from people transit. Beside, office buildings are usually extremely large compared to volume of exchanged air at the entran
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by darkmighty 7y ago
A fun dream I've had (context: I've always been confined to apartments) is some sort of cat/pet utopia in a block, so they wouldn't be stuck inside alone. But that wouldn't be feasible since they have to navigate th
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by darkmighty 7y ago
There's such an elegant solution here: cups could have individually tailored patterns (or chosen from a large library of a few 100s) on the outside s.t. you wouldn't confuse yours for another. We're (at least I am) pretty goo
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by darkmighty 7y ago
Europe, and to a certain extent the, US seem to be doing fine, thank you very much -- without need for artificial scarcity or dictatorships. Europe in particular, isn't, for the most part a "Failure of capitalism" -- people a
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by darkmighty 7y ago
Just wanted to say thanks. This is a little piece of magic. That's what technology is for , I guess.
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by darkmighty 7y ago
Well, it should be possible to hide components inside the PCB, see: (1) https://hackaday.com/2017/09/11/the-components-are-inside-th... (2) https://hackaday.com/2019/01/18/oreo-
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by darkmighty 7y ago
> Gradient optimisation gets stuck in local minima, and it will always get stuck in local minima, and therefore always be dumb as bricks. Which is evident in the way deep neural nets overfit and are incapable of extrapolating outside the
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by darkmighty 7y ago
> Note also that you don't need something to be Turing-complete for it to be a program. For instance, a regular automaton is a program, but it's not Turing complete. Turing completeness makes something, well, a Universal Turing
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by darkmighty 7y ago
> In fact, I'd go as far as to say that this is a new kind of Inductive Programming. I wouldn't. Traditional NNs are widely called funciton approximators, or function induction. That's because they're not Turing-compl
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by darkmighty 7y ago
> Wealth = freedom to do what you want Once you're wealthy, kind of :) (there are some complications and the fact that often the main limitations of doing what we want are usually not wealth, but not knowing what we'd want the
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by darkmighty 7y ago
> - Earn as much as you can from your own work. Take a 2nd job, change to a higher paying job, ask for more responsibility and a raise at your current job, go back to school for a more lucrative degree, ... I think that's a much bet
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by darkmighty 7y ago
I recommend this (well fundamented as usual) post from SSC: 'Basic Income, Not Basic Jobs: Against Hijacking Utopia.' https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/16/basic-income-not-basic... I think the main
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by darkmighty 7y ago
Moreover, if power becomes significant you can add regenerative breaking to regain a large fraction of energy (if they're not doing so already; maybe not because of the age of the trains).
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by darkmighty 7y ago
This discussion really depends on how animals experience the world, if we can assign them consciousness and value to their experience, etc. But if we give them some degree of conscious experience, it seems the jungle is far preferable to fa
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by darkmighty 7y ago
Yea, sometimes if the stakes are high enough you may have to get it right without multiple attempts. Depending on your time constraints, the tips given here seem to apply particularly well: find proxy problems that allows you to learn witho

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