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by empiricus 9mo ago
And then we have peace :)
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by empiricus 9mo ago
I completely agree. Theoretically you could capture and reproduce the entire spectrum for each pixel, but even that is not "true" because it is not the entire light field. But I still think that we can look at the picture on phone
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by empiricus 9mo ago
In a way, this actually touches on a real issue. Instead of trying to please random ppl and make heuristics that work in arbitrary conditions, maybe start from the objective reality? I mean, for the start, take a picture, and then immediate
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by empiricus 9mo ago
Well, I know what you mean, color is complicated. BUT, I can look at a hundred skys and they look like sky. I will look at the sky on the tv, and it looks like sky on the tv, not like the real sky. And sky is probably easy to replicate, but
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by empiricus 9mo ago
Is is code a form of AST rewrite rules for optimization? This operation still looks like a incomprehensible wall of code 40 years later (I looked in the past inside the C++ compiler).
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by empiricus 9mo ago
It means that the colors should be correct. The sky on tv should look like the sky. The grass on tv should look like grass. If I look at the screen and then I look outside, it should look the same. HDR screens and sensors are getting pretty
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by empiricus 9mo ago
Disclaimer: i prefer movies to look like reality. but apparently this is far away from "artistic purpose".
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by empiricus 9mo ago
still looks like yellow piss.
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by empiricus 10mo ago
Hm, from what I know about physics, time and space are actually much more absolute and inviolable than our imperfect perceptions. the laws are quite different than our intuition, but everything is water-tight and there is no room for any de
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by empiricus 10mo ago
Trying to read the paper... I guess if you ignore the difference between finite and infinite tape Turing machine, and if all physical constraints are outside the scope of the paper, then it is easy to prove the universe can simulate itself.
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by empiricus 10mo ago
Sorry, I don't understand what you are saying. What do you mean by "something reasonable, that reality is virtual"? In many ways, by definition, reality is what is real not virtual. I have other questions, but this is a good
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by empiricus 10mo ago
Well, python for AI is just the syntactic sugar to call pytorch cuda code on the gpu.
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by empiricus 10mo ago
All nice and beautiful, but I don't understand how will this work in the winter in the temperate areas. You maintain parallel natural gas installations and ramp them up in the winter? Does this doubles the cost?
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by empiricus 10mo ago
Thanks, that's a reasonable argument. Some critique: based on this argument it is very surprising that LLM work so well, or at all. The fact that even small LLM do something suggests that the human substrate is quite inefficient for th
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by empiricus 10mo ago
Well, for some reason horse numbers and horse usage dropped sharply at a moment in time. Probably there was some horse pandemic I forgot about.
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by empiricus 10mo ago
I agree that the current models are far from perfect. But I am curious how you see the future. Do you really think/feel they will stop here?
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by empiricus 10mo ago
Well, the secret is not how you crawl the web, but how you decide what to show to the users.
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by empiricus 11mo ago
I think the genome might be mostly just the "config file". So the cell already contains most of the information and mechanisms needed for the organism. The genome is config flags and some more detailed settings that turn things on
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by empiricus 11mo ago
By the time stellarator designs become economical (tens of years in the most optimistic case), you can cover the entire Germany in PV panels. Or even grow an entire new generation of forrest. So far stellarators look just like interesting v
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by empiricus 11mo ago
I "like" when ppl talk about UBI and say "but ppl on UBI are not happy and lack purpose". Compare with being poor.
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by empiricus 11mo ago
This looks nice, but somebody should pay the difference, and maybe it should be those that oppose the normal looking supports.
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by empiricus 11mo ago
well, cochlea is working withing the realm of biological and physical possibilities. basically it is a triangle through which waves are propagating, and sensors along the edge. smth smth this is similar to a filter bank of gabor filters tha
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by empiricus 11mo ago
Well, the actual interesting part is that when the vector dimension grows then random vectors will become almost orthogonal. smth smth exponential number of almost orthogonal vectors. this is probably the most important reason why text embe
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by empiricus 1y ago
Hm, these are just called AC in Europe. To my knowledge, AC has always worked both ways here. In Europe we call heap pumps when they heat the water. So they are are Air-Water (the outdoor unit looks like a bigger AC outdoor unit) or Water-W
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by empiricus 1y ago
well, if you look at the animation, it surely seems to work, there is no place where it fakes the untwist. I can also replicate that with a belt, but not so smoothly. manually with the belt, the twist from 2 full rotations of the cube are u
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by empiricus 1y ago
I wonder how much is related to the aging of the population. You see the world differently when surrounded by young and children. Which is now gone in many parts of the world.
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by empiricus 1y ago
tangent: all my pants have zipper pockets. after almost losing my phone in a taxi in dubai a long time ago, I always get pants with zippers, even though I do not always close them...
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by empiricus 1y ago
Well, for some context, most new NATO members were previously under communism regimes and soviet influence in the past. After getting their freedom, the next step was to make sure they are safe from Russia.
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by empiricus 1y ago
Economy of scale. Musk in his vaporware style said a humanoid robot will cost 10k usd.
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by empiricus 1y ago
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