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I think, it's a matter of the parable of the puppet theatre. According to this, we may either "naively" enjoy the play, immersing ourselves in the story presented, sustaining our disbelief regarding the puppets, taking the sc
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I can just try to relate what kind of impact this has on me. As mentioned above, visual media are important to me. I graduated in the theoretical side of this, part of my work is visual design. First, I observed that these images made me de
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I'd argue, there's a difference between media and the world as-is. Media are crucially a projection , transposing an impression as an expression into another space, implying a difference in these two spaces and their respective d
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I'd argue, AI art occupies the negative space of abstract expressionism and informal painting. It has more or less catapulted us back in time, before there was photography and subjective impression and expression became the actual subj
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So what is it that you enjoy, when looking at a certain image (especially, when it comes to this particular image, as compared to any other representation of the same subject matter), if not the artistic choices? A weighted average? I'
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Another reason why AI makes me sad: take for example images. There is really no reason anymore to look at any posted art, image or article illustration, since, while it may look like an image, it may not be an image in the sense of an opus
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Quite interesting is the apparently bit-mapped dark-on-light ("paper green"?) monitor shown in that thread ("CMC DSKY And State Buffer Monitor"). Also interesting to see these various technologies side by side.
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As I understand it (from documentation only) the Operator Information Area is exclusively system controlled and features its own characters/glyphs, which are not available for general use. Like a status line, it reflects the state of t
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Regarding that "spare line", the IBM 3276 documentation gives the following screen dimensions: Models 1 and 11 960 - character display 12 rows of 80 characters Models 2 and 12 1920 - character display 24 rows of 80 char
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Maybe worth mentioning is also the alternatives to 80 x 24: One of the first "glass" terminals were the Uniscope series by Univac, and these featured originally 64 characters in 16 rows for (wonder of wonders) 1024 characters tota
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We could come up with a fun explanation, like the "secret browser" [1] in Android being responsible for this seemingly un-trackable aberration. :-) [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39226754
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On the other hand, much of this had always been anticipated. E.g, Fermi's question from 1950 and the Drake equation are essentially based on the presumption of exoplanets. Or, the sensors (automatic mini labs) of the Viking probes in t
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Arguably, iOS compensated much (and even added) in the original skeuomorphic / Forstall-era designs. (Famously, toddlers were able to operate these interfaces.) The crucial failure was not reconsidering this from the basics for flat UI
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OMG, it's 6502 code! (Or for some variant of the 6502.) Marginally interesting, the source uses standard MOS assembler syntax, but Intel-like xxH notation for hex values, rather than $xx . --- [Edit] According to Wikipedia, actually
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Personally, I can't see the answer being "yellow", as this is all about nouns and tangible objects (like things and animals). Having said that, I enjoyed how the case was built on the faded outline, while this entire spot of
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In a sense, the question of the "intelligent machine" is somewhat self-contradictory: To us , the question of intelligence matters as a preposition or qualifying term, for to what extent, probability and prospects we may pose an
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On a not so serious note, most political careers seem to be built on public utterances that seem to be generated by a rule set that could fit into 3 pages, triggered by a handful of keywords or trigger phrases, also known as talking points
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With the small reservation that this is not how Eliza works. Eliza sits on top of MAD/SLIP which does all the heavy work and provides lists and integer indexes, which is what is processed by Eliza. This allows Eliza to work on decompos
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Hum, note that this was not an argument about or against GPT, but about the "unreasonable" success of a, by all standards, primitive algorithm that manages to get (somewhat) away by crafting the pre- and context of the conversatio
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To me, Turing's argument had always been that the attribution of intelligence (or not) doesn't make much sense: rather than being a question of any substance, it merely diffuses into a matter of appearance. However, as things usua
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Maybe worth noting in the context of HN: There are two types of electron emissions in a CRT. The primary emission, which produces the visible image, and the secondary emission, which causes an electron well around the excited spot, as free
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MS had licensed JavaScript – and, of course, their implementation was incompatible (at least in certain parts).
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Regarding implicit type conversion: Arguably, this is the way all scripting language went about that time, and, notably, shell scripting, as well. (Meaning, it was pretty much the expected behavior for a language of that kind. Hence, the ap
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Speaking of the Alps and related regions, this was also considered a condition typical for Styrians (inhabitants of the country of Styria) in Austria.
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> so there was no possibility of loading the OS from volatile storage. There are exceptions to this rule: Sharp was known for their concept of "clean computers" (MZ series and X1), which came only with a simple monitor in ROM,
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See the button "Prg Liberary" for some games and more…
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Yes. Anyway, what is more important to preserve: artistic choices made according to the medium (which importantly includes the kind of film stock for any movie) or bandwidth? And, if it's all about bandwidth, why do a high definition v
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A Merry 8-bit Christmas! This is a recreation of one of the scenes from the Commodore 64 demo disk, for any Commodore PET. Download at: https://www.masswerk.at/pet/prgs/#seasonsgreetings
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Commodore Season's Greetings for the PET(masswerk.at)
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So, here ist your comment with the grain removed (quote -> GTP summary -> GTP re-expanded to original length): > Removing film grain significantly improves compression efficiency, resulting in reduced streaming costs. Why didn&#x27

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