medlyyy

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by medlyyy 1y ago
It's also incorrect: there is the back of a stop sign visible on the left of the picture but you must not select this to pass the level. Par for the course with these captcha-like tests though.
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by medlyyy 5y ago
You've missed the point. He isn't advocating for everyone to suddenly use JPEG where they wouldn't before. He's advocating that, since there are so many JPEGs already in use, the architecture for displaying them should a
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by medlyyy 5y ago
So, you have experience in UI/UX yourself then to say this authoritatively?
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by medlyyy 5y ago
>global capitalism is the major force for extreme poverty in this century. The complete opposite. Where do you think globalised capitalism gets cheap labour from? Hint: it's not developed countries. Then to get them to work for them
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by medlyyy 5y ago
Why the fuck are you worrying about "metaphysical frameworks?" The things EA mostly focuses on are people dying of easily preventable starvation and disease. There is no need to bring up highly abstract ideas about "metaphysi
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by medlyyy 5y ago
Yep. It's just bad. He's essentially advocating for effective altruism to become another lobbying group or NGO.
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by medlyyy 5y ago
Wow. If Amazon is being held up as a good example, things are truly bad. My only experience is with Audible, and it is way too difficult and obscure to figure out how to cancel your subscription. Although at least once you do they don&#
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by medlyyy 5y ago
At the very least, if you are showing the instalment price, you have to show the number of instalments, and the fact that it is an instalment rather than a pay-as-you-go subscription. You could certainly argue that describing the plan as $x
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by medlyyy 5y ago
So you're in favour of people phone-scamming the elderly? They just need to take personal responsibility and do their due diligence, right? Or do you want to take away the ability to buy things of people you deem incompetent? It is a b
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by medlyyy 6y ago
I mean, the only reason things like this aren't commonplace is cost (of the skillset, tools). Basically anything's possible these days with CGI, everything is purely a matter of the amount of effort you want to put in. And for art
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by medlyyy 6y ago
Yep. To be useful for exploring potential "true" values, a system would probably need some way of showing you the distribution of its guesses, so you can get an idea of whether there is any significant information there. That asid
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by medlyyy 6y ago
That's a fair point. Police use artist sketches from witness descriptions to help identify a suspect. It's a similar idea. The difficulty will be making sure people treat it the same way, because it looks like a normal image.
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by medlyyy 6y ago
Seems like Firefox doesn't have this feature yet either? https://wiki.mozilla.org/Project_Fission
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by medlyyy 6y ago
I will admit I don't fully understand the implications of this. Doesn't this mean it's essentially game over for running untrusted JS by-default? Doesn't default-deny functionality like NoScript have to become mandatory
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by medlyyy 6y ago
I believe it's this: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.00165 And then the NTK paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.07572 There is also this which seems to have been produced in parallel, closely relate
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by medlyyy 6y ago
Thanks for your [2] link paper, it's an interesting one. If you think about it, the high-level idea makes some intuitive sense. Since NNs are known to be "equivalent" to kernel methods - which are, to oversimplify, essentiall
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by medlyyy 6y ago
Why exactly is it a problem that powerful models can memorise training data with random labels, if they generalise well on non-memorisation problems? I also think that a lot of progress is being made seemingly in parallel on this "unde
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by medlyyy 6y ago
Absolutely. The fact that China almost completely disregards IP and shows no signs of "innovation" slowing down disproves the notion that you need government backed monopolies on inventions in order to encourage innovation.
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by medlyyy 6y ago
That's a really great, interesting paper ([2]). Thanks for linking it here. This is a more recent (Dec 2020) paper by one of the authors on combining empowerment and extrinsic goals: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract
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by medlyyy 6y ago
These arguments get trotted out every time this comes up, and they are bad. >1. The inventor would pay the R&D costs with no good way to recoup them, because he'd be competing against knockoffs who didn't have to make that
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by medlyyy 6y ago
It's easier to make a very specific style of application that's very similar to what a lot of other people make. Anything outside that is probably significantly more difficult though, because of the massive complexity of everythin
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by medlyyy 6y ago
I would consider the advances in ML to be mainly mathematical and hardware rather than software. Being able to write the libraries to support ML operations wouldn't have been a problem in 1996 if the hardware & theory had existed.
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by medlyyy 6y ago
Okay - could you give some examples of where you think huge advances in software have been made?
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by medlyyy 6y ago
You're also closer to a laptop screen. After using a 14" 1080p laptop I definitely would never go lower than 1440p at that size again.
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by medlyyy 6y ago
With you on that. I think I only made it about 20 minutes in. Maybe it's better live.
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by medlyyy 6y ago
I think you're misunderstanding what "placebo effect" means. Colloquially it's applied to things that "do nothing," or have only a psychological impact but in reality the placebo effect continues to work even w
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by medlyyy 6y ago
I don't think it's subjective. It's moments like this: https://youtu.be/nJ_9kli9gwU?t=961 that reveal the limitations of SC's engine. Coming from playing CP2077 the lighting looks badly off. I do agree i
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by medlyyy 6y ago
That's essentially what PBR game engines do. They take in base textures/resources (NB: a "texture" doesn't necessarily correspond in any straightforward way to the final image, and shouldn't be thought of as an
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by medlyyy 6y ago
Thanks for the link. To me you've kinda proved my point. Nothing in that video strikes me as being "next gen" in terms of graphics. They have a decent filmic post processing filter and high res textures, I guess? CP2077 looks
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by medlyyy 6y ago
100% agree. I think the people that harp on about this are expecting the game to be something it's just not. Why not focus on the aspects of it that are good, instead - like, literally anything else? Visuals? Story? Tactics? Ambience?

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