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by dwallin 3y ago
Urban density doesn't cause the issue of traffic. The issue of traffic is caused by cars. Urban density allows public transportation, the only current viable alternative, to be financially sound on a large scale.
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by dwallin 3y ago
LLMs don't lie, they are instead ALWAYS hallucinating. Sometimes those hallucinations will coincidentally match a fact from training data, but a LLM has no concept of truth. They are far more reliable when you restrict them to transfor
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by dwallin 3y ago
More so than just compressing the data, I feel like the biggest gains for splats will come from a chunked LOD system, and streaming data into memory. Regardless of how efficient you make the representation, you are still going to run into f
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by dwallin 3y ago
I felt the article pretty thoroughly explained why the author feels that hives are not currently respected as an extended phenotype. Many studies of bee behavior are run on bees in artificial hives. They are treating artificial hives as int
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by dwallin 3y ago
This is really cool to see, I didn't expect anything at this level for a while even if the performance is a ways off. Supposedly they are getting ~30 FPS for simple scenes?
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D3GA – Drivable 3D Gaussian Avatars(zielon.github.io)
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by dwallin 3y ago
System prompt have proven time and time again to be fallible. You should treat them as strong suggestions to the LLM not expect them to be mandates.
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by dwallin 3y ago
Are you truly going to proclaim that we have explored all options for how to structure a global economy? We arrived where we are via a mix of self-interest and local optimization and it seems unlikely we have arrived at even a local maxima.
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by dwallin 3y ago
"Corporate headquarters are easily moved, and Corporate income is easily shifted between corporations and individuals in different tax jurisdictions all over the world." This is a consequence of policy choices, not some inherent n
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by dwallin 3y ago
Except human beings are not optimization machines and the best way to get great people to bring all of themselves to work is to allow them to be all of themselves at work. The best and brightest have diverse interests and if they get bored
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by dwallin 3y ago
This is like looking at an algorithm, thinking of the worse case scenario, running a single step, and deciding that it's not worth it from that alone. This is not a one-and-done rule, and the same dynamics that might push an old lady t
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by dwallin 3y ago
Seem fairly tractable to use Segment Anything or a similar method to derive plausible semantic clusters of splats.
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by dwallin 3y ago
#2 seems very dependent on the competitive landscape in your market. If you have well-funded competitors growing quickly and taking market share you could absolutely fail due to not scaling rapidly enough.
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by dwallin 3y ago
Great, you gain more sales and immediately go out of business since you were already pricing your product near cost. Prices then rise back up as your nearest competitor was smart enough to not lower price below their cost. Or do you somehow
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by dwallin 3y ago
Clearly you are not a believer in free markets, because by the theory of free markets these prices would naturally arrive at the lowest possible price all on their own. You are right that this policy is very simple, it's very clear bot
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by dwallin 3y ago
You are a seller. Amazon makes up 40% of your sales. You have your own first party website where you can profitably offer your product for 5% less and still make an additional 10% profit but it only makes up 5% of your sales currently. What
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by dwallin 3y ago
It's not pro-consumer in any way. If the seller can profitably list it for a given price on a given platform, competition will almost certainly drive their price down to that level. The only time a policy like this becomes significant
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by dwallin 3y ago
Ideally you decide by voting. It’s either that or you decide things by who has the most money / power / guns.
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by dwallin 3y ago
Seems like the real utility of this technique will be as a way to vastly improve the temporal stability with a variety of generative video techniques. For example, if you are trying to use a video as a base for a new generative video: Take
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by dwallin 3y ago
It’s not an either/or situation. You have a bunch of tools with pros and cons and you have to use the proper tool where each one is most appropriate. The best transportation systems are a blend of transportation types. Use rail where t
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by dwallin 3y ago
In this case it’s likely not. The advantage of Gaussian splats is that it allows you to bake in advanced lighting effects for a static scene. If you already have detailed renders there are plenty of existing approaches that perform plenty w
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by dwallin 3y ago
The devil is in the details (which was the problem with the original terms). The original plan seemed reasonable at face value but when you dived into the details it was really problematic. The revised terms are transformatively better, but
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by dwallin 3y ago
Immigration is such a straw man, an influx of people with generally low capital availability and incomes is clearly not the cause of expensively priced housing and rents. Saying government regulation causes it is also meaningless unless you
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by dwallin 3y ago
Just because a behavior may end up profitable for its owners doesn’t mean we should be just accepting it as a society. Also viewing a company as just a collection of assets owned by capital can be somewhat limiting. Companies are generally
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by dwallin 3y ago
It’s not the fact that Unity wants to make more money from its engine that has gotten people so up in arms about it, it’s the way it was structured. If they simply took a percent of revenue, everyone would have shrugged, you might have had
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by dwallin 3y ago
Penalizing private car owners in favor of taxis in a borough where less than a quarter of households own a car seems about right.
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by dwallin 3y ago
In addition, it gives the United States and EU the chance to catch up and build up their domestic semiconductor capabilities without being undercut by chips from China. Countries have too slowly realized the importance of this and are playi
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by dwallin 3y ago
No, you just need a properly set land value tax to discourage simple rent seeking behavior from driving up the price of land / housing.
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by dwallin 3y ago
It's not even really inefficiencies, it's just straight up queuing theory. As you approach maximum throughput, average queue size – and therefore average wait time – approaches infinity. In order to have a quick and nimble organiz
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by dwallin 3y ago
Serving size is an often arbitrary and gameable number. This is a case where the fda need to improve their definitions. Eg. zeroing-out amounts could take serving size into account.

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