dorkwood

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by dorkwood 3y ago
Out of curiosity, do you already make films without the use of AI? And if not, why?
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It’s the bananas that are hiding the tarantula. Behind a seemingly tasty treat lurks a deadly foe.
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I’m not sure I understand your argument. If you’re suggesting that illustrating by hand requires more effort than automatically generating an image with AI, then we agree with each other.
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I was talking to a friend about career options the other day and said they could always learn to code. Their face screwed up. They didn’t want to do something boring like that, they said. In that moment I realized that some people perceive
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by dorkwood 4y ago
I think they’re talking about a broader effect at work here, and using themselves as an example. Your advice may prevent one Hacker News poster from further locking themselves in, but there are about a billion others who won’t get the chanc
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by dorkwood 4y ago
> Some modern AI art workflows often require more effort than actually illustrating using conventional media. Then why don’t they illustrate it instead, and save themselves some time?
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I’d be careful trying to cheat using this tool. By the sounds of it, you’d lose every time.
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The method that works most reliably that no one talks about is to pinch your nose closed and try to inhale through it. If you’re dreaming, you can still inhale through a pinched nose. Always a useful check to perform before hurling yourself
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by dorkwood 4y ago
> Also, if it doesn’t work out, I’m scared of leaving a broken heart in another person. I used to have the same worry when I was younger. I think it came from overestimating the fragility of the average person, and underestimating their
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by dorkwood 4y ago
> Could Google, or any other company out there, build a digital copy of you that answers questions exactly the way you would? "Hey, we're going to cancel the interview- we found that you aren't a good culture fit here in 7
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by dorkwood 4y ago
I've been accused of cheating several times over the years. It's because I don't perform well in a classroom environment. I don't think on my feet very well, so I tend to sound a bit dumb. But if I take a problem away an
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by dorkwood 4y ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if this was part of his plan, though. If he appears technically incompetent in a public fashion, it means his opponents are likely to underestimate him. As Sun Tzu said, when you are strong, appear weak.
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by dorkwood 4y ago
Fun fact: that infamous scene from Jurassic Park featured a real file manager for Unix, known as fsn. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn_(file_manager)
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> Subscribing to Twitter Blue signifies a user's commitment to engaging more deeply with the platform and fostering thoughtful conversations. Firstly, this hasn’t been my impression of Twitter Blue subscribers so far, so I’m curious
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> Now its easy to see who is engaged and have their foot put forward in the platform, and who are just using it as another simple social media site. I’m interested to hear how this information is helpful to you. Let’s say you find two ar
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by dorkwood 4y ago
I’d like to hear more about this kind of thing. Has Twitter censored brands like this in the past?
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I’m surprised how many users of ChatGPT don’t realize how often it makes things up. I had a conversation with an Uber driver the other day who said he used ChatGPT all the time. At one point I mentioned its tendency to make stuff up, and he
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by dorkwood 4y ago
To be fair, they use the same word in the article. Perhaps machismo is relative. “Many South Korean women are so fed up with machismo that, in recent years, they’ve taken up a radical stance: refusing to marry, date men, have sex and reprod
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If engagement on the tweets of that user goes down after a change has been implemented, you can roll back the change to prevent that user from being negatively impacted.
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I’m similar. I’ve been working for almost 15 years, and got all but one of my jobs through connections. I think I’m now so out of touch with the hiring game that I’d fail spectacularly if I ever had to do it again. I don’t even know what a
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by dorkwood 4y ago
I feel vindicated reading this. Yesterday in a separate thread I claimed that it was wrong on 80% of the coding problems I gave it, and received the response from multiple readers that I was probably phrasing my questions poorly. I started
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> Do you ask it properly Maybe not! But how would I gauge such a thing? I try to be very specific with my wording. And I’m very wary of including keywords that might have it land in a category that I don’t want it to land in. Clearly my
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by dorkwood 4y ago
Lately it’s been game-development questions related to physics. Mostly using JavaScript and GLSL, but sometimes Houdini’s VEX, which it probably has the worst success rate with. I have a feeling if my domain was more mainstream I’d be getti
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I interface with it every day and it gives me wrong answers about 80% of the time. Is that about to change too? I keep using it because it often has interesting clues, like the name of an algorithm I’ve never heard of, buried amongst the no
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by dorkwood 4y ago
Here’s an excerpt from Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman! If anyone’s curious: “Then I looked at the bookshelf and said, ‘Those books you haven’t looked at for a while, right? This time, when I go out, take one book off the shelf, and just o
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by dorkwood 4y ago
FaceCap gives you an FBX animated with about 50 different morph targets. If you wanted to use that in a game, you’d probably need to load all the morph targets into a shader yourself. I agree that the automatic integration with MetaHuman is
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It’s worth noting that both the FaceCap and Moves By Maxon apps can also capture facial animation using only an iPhone with no additional equipment. It’s hard to tell from the video, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they used their face captu
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Unity AI Beta Program(create.unity.com)
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My prediction is that in 20 years, we’ll have a shortage of programmers. Most of the hype seems to rest on the assumption that LLMs will eventually stop hallucinating falsities. But what if that doesn’t come to fruition? I subscribe to the
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Similar tools I’ve tried seem to want photographs taken under different lighting scenarios in different environments. Photos all taken in the same room, apparently, produce worse results.

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