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by monitron 2y ago
It's interesting that they used the Planet Express building from Futurama as one of their examples of 3D-inconsistency, because I'm pretty sure the exteriors are in fact computer-generated from a 3D model. Watch the show and you c
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by monitron 2y ago
I just want to meet the dev who wakes up in the morning, sits down with their cup of coffee, rubs their hands together and says "Boy, I just can't wait to make a website where scrolling feels like trying to run across an ice rink!
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by monitron 3y ago
Yep. I am a current Tesla Model 3 owner, really like my car, but plan to switch to another brand after running this one into the ground. Elon's behavior is awful and dangerous given his fame/money, and luckily, unlike in 2017, the
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by monitron 3y ago
This is fun and has a great symmetry but my brain breaks at the idea of the infinitely fast and large computer that would be required to run it all :)
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by monitron 3y ago
I think the coolest thing about this is the way time works. One step at each level is computed using a large number of steps at the level below. So as you zoom out you are sinking into an exponential vortex where each step takes days, years
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by monitron 3y ago
Yes! The delightful reason why this configuration can repeat within itself is that this Game of Life pattern is a machine with the rules of Game of Life built into it. It's calculating and displaying the game step-by-step. If you watch
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by monitron 3y ago
I know nearly nothing about this field and yet at least one big reason is obvious to me: A country set up for global trade is not ready to lose access to that trade. They depend on things not produced locally, and depend on the proceeds of
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by monitron 3y ago
There is a set of radio buttons in the top right corner you can use to choose a different one :)
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by monitron 3y ago
It happened in my neck of the woods (Maryland) a few years ago: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/11/27/plane-cra...
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by monitron 3y ago
Right now this display has the problem that the darkest color you can achieve is the color/brightness of the light coming through the screen. A sufficiently bright background will wash out the image entirely. Why not put a grayscale LC
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by monitron 3y ago
I am having good luck with Eaton so far. Rock solid and their network monitoring is noticeably less painful to use than APC's!
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by monitron 3y ago
The thing that made it unexpected in my case is that “borders” is an English word and was not previously known to me as a name. I was surprised and amused when I learned it was an eponym. That puts it in the same category as the other examp
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by monitron 3y ago
Borders Books (for anyone who remembers it) was named after founders Tom and Louis Borders. Louis went on to found Webvan (for anyone who remembers that ).
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by monitron 3y ago
"We designed [the Quest 3] to weigh 120 grams less" implies that the AVP is the benchmark by which other headsets are measured. It's funny to say you "designed it to weigh less" than a product that wasn't even
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by monitron 3y ago
Thanks so much for the thoughtful and insightful response!
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by monitron 3y ago
I'm not sure a nail gun is the best analogy; it's a very simple tool that does one thing exactly as "instructed," and can't do any of the "thinking" for you.
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by monitron 3y ago
I’m curious…if you’re writing a path tracer for fun, does using Copilot not take the fun out of it? If it’s already been done a thousand times, it feels like the point has got to be to write your version, otherwise why not just copy-paste
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by monitron 3y ago
This is really neat. I wish it had an alternate color mode, as when the creator chose the endpoints of their scale, they managed to pick the two colors that are least distinguishable for me and about 5% of people!
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by monitron 3y ago
Fascinating. How did you train yourself to improve this?
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by monitron 3y ago
From a Firesign Theatre album, 1969: “That's okay, I brought an Erector Set.” “Throw a towel over it!” “Do some pushups, Pablo, Maybe it’ll go away.”
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by monitron 3y ago
> This doesn't seem that human: https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/01/chatgpt_poetry_ai/ Agreed; that’s why I was very careful to say “one approach.” I suspect that technique exploits a feature
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by monitron 3y ago
Okay. I think you might be yelling at the wrong guy; the conclusion you seem to have drawn is not at all the assertion I was intending to make. To me, "acting like a human" is quite distinct from being a human or being afforded th
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by monitron 3y ago
The LLM is trained on human input and output and aligned to act like a human. So while there’s no individual human involved, you’re essentially trying to social engineer a composite of many humans…because if it would work on the humans it w
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by monitron 3y ago
Wow, that’s mind-blowing. Imagine if the folks back at Bell Labs could have known that was coming.
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by monitron 3y ago
I love that. It’s funny, though – I know the transistor is “little” compared to the vacuum tube, but look at it next to an actual brain cell and it’s enormous!
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by monitron 3y ago
I polled my kids. All of them down to the youngest (19) enjoyed Holy Grail a lot. My 24-year-old says his friends reference it in conversation regularly. We’re not totally out of touch yet!!
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by monitron 3y ago
Wow, thank you for this. Today I learned why the slash-and-underscore ASCII art I came across looked so underwhelming on my PC, and that others were seeing it in all its glorious cohesion.
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by monitron 3y ago
Thanks for sharing. Your uncle sounds a lot like my uncle, actually :)
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by monitron 3y ago
It’s easy to miss, the 990 is a maze! I just happened to get lucky – my work had me doing a project on 990 data recently.
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by monitron 3y ago
Out of their $443,020 expenses in 2021, the biggest line item expense was $187,262 for "CONSULTANTS." Their next biggest was $169,383 of merchant processing fees. It will be interesting to see their Form 990 for 2022, which is pre

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