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by gfodor 4y ago
4 months of COBRA? I thought 18 months was required by federal law?
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by gfodor 4y ago
When the UFOs land, we ought to expect large sentient crabs to emerge.
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by gfodor 4y ago
This is why the casino people get upset when you roll the dice at a craps table and continually avoid hitting the back wall. The rubber pyramids lining the wall are critical to ensuring they maintain their edge :)
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by gfodor 4y ago
Imagine being in the room when they realized that, after forty thousand coin tosses, they screwed up the experiment. Oops.
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by gfodor 4y ago
Nice.
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by gfodor 4y ago
You’ll change your mind once you start seeing people walking around in their rPods, or whatever. (Apple’s new headset)
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by gfodor 4y ago
> It's on us as citizens and responsible engineers to help fix the problem we created by our inaction. Engineers don't fix problems by begging the government to create laws that will throw people in jail for using a given tech
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by gfodor 4y ago
This is fundamentally embarrassing to all involved, and will one day feel similar to if a professional software engineer signing a letter condemning Linux as "communist" and demanding the government stop it during the Microsoft he
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by gfodor 4y ago
HS/Link was also the only protocol I remember that also included a chat between sender and receiver during the download. For the first time you could actually continue your conversation while sending files to one another, instead of ha
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by gfodor 4y ago
> Relying on proxies like "innovation tokens" feels to me like a mistake because it is, fundamentally, trying to replace strategic thinking with a points system. No, it’s making it clear that there’s a scarcity you have to mana
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by gfodor 4y ago
I’m guessing you’re simplifying - but a fixed delay like this is a good way to fool yourself, since a system built that can handle fixed latency can go to pieces in the face of jitter and packet loss.
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by gfodor 4y ago
Kind of reminds me of... log4j.
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by gfodor 4y ago
I have a prototype thing that creates a virtual webcam and drives an avatar off of your microphone. It's not photorealistic, but it works.
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by gfodor 4y ago
Seems exactly false. DALL-E 2 seems to end much of the illustrator industry and if the endless array of Twitter posts from early adopters are any indication it works great.
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by gfodor 4y ago
I have no recollection of this lander. Strange.
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by gfodor 4y ago
Huh. I came up with this independently a few years ago, and expanded it to argue that this is what is going on at the galactic level - UFOs are such a surveillance system. https://mobile.twitter.com/gfodor/status/1
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by gfodor 4y ago
It seems like every fusion post is bound to have at least one commenter point out that the sun is a working fusion reactor, as if literally anyone in these threads will learn something from this observation.
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by gfodor 4y ago
This is like the 5th or 6th cycle, at a certain point you realize high volatility is the nature of crypto, and it’s not crazy to presume there will continue to be cycles. The latest crash is overhyped anyway, BTC is 30k and BAYC NFTs still
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by gfodor 4y ago
Crypto crashes every couple years and of course it has grown immensely since the last crash so the scale and scope of these kinds of “analyses” grow with it. I’d imagine in 5 years in the next big crash it will be the top news around the gl
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by gfodor 4y ago
Overcenralization in an environment of increasing disruptive dynamics is a path to eventual catastrophe when survival boils down to minimizing latency to action.
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by gfodor 4y ago
The end result of Communism is always the same, but the details vary. It’s fundamentally fragile.
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by gfodor 4y ago
The idea of an algorithmic stablecoin is genius, time will tell if it works. But overall Luna’s crash isn’t too damning of the idea, because the root cause was a Ponzi scheme. (Which was identified and advertised as dangerous within the c
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by gfodor 4y ago
One Bitcoin is presently worth $30,000.
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by gfodor 4y ago
The crash was in a non-appreciating asset.
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by gfodor 4y ago
It’s all too easy to confuse skepticism with science denialism. It’s important to be skeptical of scientific claims. This is essentially the core engine of scientific progress.
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by gfodor 4y ago
I think Dreams on PS4 kind of answers this question clearly, at least one answer to it. I do think SDFs are a good path for a great potential breakthrough for AI directed 3d modelling tools like DALL-E -- we're pretty close.
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by gfodor 4y ago
There's an incredibly interesting track I've been following trying to find a good latent embedding for AI to generate 3d objects, and SDFs seem like a very good representational format for this. This would, among other things, a
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by gfodor 4y ago
SDFs do not dictate how you approximate the rendering equation beyond the fact that they are a useful way to describe surfaces. (So, for example, they are mismatched with volumetric rendering.) The characteristics you cite are generally sat
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by gfodor 4y ago
A couple of reasons: - SDFs are much more amenable to direct manipulation by humans - SDFs potentially can be decomposed into more human-understandable components - SDFs may provide a better mechanism for constructing a learned latent space
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by gfodor 4y ago
A stated assumption doesn’t require a citation, it’s an assumption, not a claim.

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