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by epeus 13y ago
This EFF site is a good resource: https://trollingeffects.org/
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UK Govt wants evidence for Women in STEM enquiry(parliament.uk)
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Is bias fixable? Lean Startup Conference says yes(blogs.hbr.org)
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by epeus 13y ago
Interested to hear HN feedback on these points
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by epeus 13y ago
Quite. You can define a textures+trimeshes+motion format and have the decoder be well defined, then have encoders compete to do better, as we have seen with the 2d codecs. Clearly starting form something in GL, like a game walkthrough (How
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by epeus 13y ago
Using wavelets for encoding the textures makes sense. The challenge with JPEG200 is that you need the decoder in the read loop to know when to stop getting more detail. The degenerate case would be 2 triangles and a texture, but if you have
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by epeus 13y ago
The world is 3D. I bet the last few films you saw had extensive 3D modelled scenes in them. I bet all the video games you play have 3D cutscenes.
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Finally some progress in video codecs: trimeshes, textures and OpenGL(epeus.blogspot.com)
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by epeus 13y ago
Yes they are, because existing video codecs are based on 1980s signal processing ideas, and increasingly video starts out as being 3D models that are naturally better suited to a trimesh and textures approach instead. I wrote about it here:
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by epeus 14y ago
Microsoft has a very dedicated set of devs that like .Net, and for them Azure is lovely. I doubt if any of them are on Hacker News though. These will be the people this chap is talking to, so he won't see the existential threat of Cloud to