mncharity

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by mncharity 2mo ago
I played with XR UX years back. Three quick thoughts. I liked a hierarchy of context switching devices. Open tabs, windows, workspaces, for me are distracting clutter, scaled by some distance metric. Having to physically carry a laptop to e
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by mncharity 2mo ago
> right about everything else I suggest people greatly underestimate how localized expertise is. How very rapidly someone's expertise deteriorates as you move away from some focus, from the usually-very-narrow region where that
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by mncharity 2mo ago
UX report: On desktop chromium, clicked on a "14 restaurants nearby" restaurant item, and... nothing changed on the map. Little idea where it is. Got address from popup and... map wasn't showing that street name. Zoom in, pan
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by mncharity 2mo ago
> unfortunately, WebXR restrictions make AR passthrough and the camera feed mutually exclusive It looks like Chromium-based browsers might be doable?[1][2] Meta: About a decade ago, I rolled my own WebXR-like stack with passthrough, and
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by mncharity 2mo ago
> [local, but for] extremely niche or higher intelligence tasks Access to a centralized copy of the web/literature/media, scraped and indexed/integrated, seems another non-local center of gravity. Versus a local model&#x27
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by mncharity 2mo ago
>> I consider the colormap choice to be completely arbitrary though > Arguing about colormap choice seems very strange to be – this is such a common practice in astronomy (and other fields!). Let's see if I can give a feel for
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by mncharity 3mo ago
Similar issues arose with automated learning companions for XR. Mismatches between a learner's mental model of the companion, and its actual capabilities and limitations, can cause so many problematic misunderstandings. So one idea, is
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by mncharity 3mo ago
> the hidden state for different layers carry meaningful self-awareness signal for various situations. Is it plausible to wonder if some developer judgement feels, like maybe "the code I just wrote is clean/crufty", or &q
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by mncharity 3mo ago
I'm not oriented, but am puzzled by the diagonal avenue - it's like a mirrored Broadway?
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by mncharity 3mo ago
> Reach out (email in my profile), Meta thought: Having recently learned of WeChat Groups in China, I'm now repeatedly noticing situations where familiar alternatives are higher friction.
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by mncharity 3mo ago
> What might it look like to lower the barriers AI as salonnière. It's not enough to get lots of interesting people in a room (as at a meetup). That merely gets you to "there are so many valuable conversations latent in this
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by mncharity 3mo ago
> To build the dataset, we keep only sketches that have been recognized by the neural network in the QuickDraw game. To prevent imbalance from overly represented countries (e.g., the US), we down-sample the data by focusing on the 100 mo
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by mncharity 3mo ago
>> children figure out what they want to do and the learning comes along with it; the model views adults wanting children to learn something specific as generally counterproductive > One thing AI is uniquely good at is meeting lear
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by mncharity 3mo ago
Yes, it's easy to forget context. Especially the time component. Several 100 k children will be born tomorrow. 100+ M in the coming year. Then in six years, almost all of them will hit schools. Schools which are, pervasively, really r
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by mncharity 3mo ago
Fyi fwiw, x.com video requires Sign-up/Log-in to view.
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by mncharity 3mo ago
> What happens when the low-hanging fruit is gone? Depends on why it's gone? For example, before the shocker of Facebook buying Oculus, there was an active community of side-gig businesses selling kits around VR, large touch panels,
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by mncharity 3mo ago
paper: https://arxiv.org/html/2602.03315v2 , Appendix Case Studies: https://arxiv.org/html/2602.03315v2#A5 , Prompts: https://arxiv.org/html/2602.03315v2#A1
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by mncharity 3mo ago
Consider "spec -> plan -> implement" as an unremarkable agentic workflow. TFA suggests that Spec be organized by cross-cutting concerns. This seems a nice thought. Doubts in comments so far seem around expectations of an AOP
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by mncharity 3mo ago
I once worked on a medical hackathon concept for computer-assisted population screening for cervical cancer in a developing nation. Community health workers take photos. The AI would look at the images, and make a call of "clearly nega
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by mncharity 3mo ago
With direct discussion, the same tendency to harmonize towards groupthink applies. Aside from the statelessness GP mentioned, one can insert anti-conciliatory intermediation. "I saw a random claim go by, but something about it seems no
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by mncharity 4mo ago
While diffusion from joint space is perfusion limited, some work suggests ultrasound might increase that perfusion? By vasodilation and microvascular recruitment, from heating and shear stress on endothelial cells. With bubble vibration and
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by mncharity 4mo ago
> Open weights/source doesn't necessarily mean running on local hardware, though. And we've barely started to scratch the surface on helping open-weight models "be the best they can be", with cloud burst parallel
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by mncharity 4mo ago
Hmm. Wouldn't a long neck permit amortizing the body lift across a lot of foliage?
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by mncharity 4mo ago
Apparently there's a population of African elephants which rear up and balance to feed higher.[1] [1] nature video starts with example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XzQ4BQe4fM short clip: https://www.re
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by mncharity 4mo ago
Includes repo for finding pictures taken from slightly different perspectives in a photo archive, and making wigglegrams from them.
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by mncharity 4mo ago
The existence of SOSUS wasn't all upside for whale data. Startup goes to patent a hydrophone improvement for marine research. Is told it's already secretly patented, and being classified, they can't make them - thank you for
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by mncharity 4mo ago
Another flatworms-are-fun story: If you irradiate a flatworm using a nuclear reactor, to kill off its stem-cell equivalents, it sort of "rots" as other cells eventually die and aren't being replaced. If after zap, you insert
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by mncharity 4mo ago
Neat. Years ago I did a spike with order-of-magnitude measure sliders. So mosquito mass, with imaginary handcrank force, quickly goes relativistic. And low order 10 kg gives a picture of cat, with high order 100 bpm heart rate beeping (meta
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by mncharity 4mo ago
Fwiw, I'll share some surfing: Nice article on an earlier demo: https://newatlas.com/energy/quaise-energy-millimeter-wave-dr... ; linked from this (nice but lots lots of ads): https://newatlas.com&#x2
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by mncharity 4mo ago
> rerunning [...] but differently framed or worded input, and seeing how much they diverged I'm surprised how little attention this is getting in today's comments. Open-weights means being able to afford multiple runs, space sa

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