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by mrob 1y ago
High-CRI LED lighting is about ten times as efficient as the old film-making standard of incandescent lighting. Inverse square law affects incandescent lighting in exactly the same way, but they still managed to shoot indoor scenes at 24fps
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by mrob 1y ago
Looks like I was mistaken and a non-interleaved 120fps version exists. Disappointing that there's apparently no way to actually watch it.
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by mrob 1y ago
I thought that was 2 * 60fps stereoscopic (which technically is 120fps so there's no false advertising, just not in the same way as Showscan is 60fps). I'm also not aware of any way to watch it in 2 * 60fps if you missed the origi
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by mrob 1y ago
I don't understand it at all. As I child, I once visited Futuroscope[0] in France, a kind of cinema theme park. It has many different projection systems, e.g. 3D, dome screen, ultra-wide screen. The one that impressed me most was the S
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by mrob 1y ago
Slow motion is a workaround for the bad motion quality that results from the extremely low frame rate of 24 fps. If we standardized on something less bad, e.g. 120 fps, it wouldn't be necessary. With modern digital cameras and efficien
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by mrob 1y ago
I think the chain slipping off the cogs is one of the most concerning failure modes because it tends to happen only under heavy acceleration, e.g. to dodge traffic at a busy intersection. Everything can seem fine and then you're strand
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by mrob 1y ago
I think eye size is important. Most spiders aren't considered cute but jumping spiders are an exception for many people because they have big eyes, e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_spider#/media&#x2
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by mrob 1y ago
The trouble with chains is you only need to break single link to make them non-functional. In practice, supply chains are more like nets, but they're worryingly sparse nets. It's very likely the US can break enough links to do som
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by mrob 1y ago
Russia is also in a better position, with their own computer architecture used for military applications: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbrus_(computer)
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by mrob 1y ago
Bleak House was first serialized in 1852. The famous Crystal Palace Dinosaurs were commissioned in 1852 and first shown to the public in 1854. The timing lines up with dinosaurs being something new and exciting to the readers. https:/
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by mrob 1y ago
We should stop inventing useless words. "Footgun" has some use because it's shorter than the alternatives. "Upleveled" is just a worse version of "improved".
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by mrob 1y ago
It's common knowledge that em-dashes are a sign of LLM writing. This incentivizes anybody who generates slop to manually search and replace with a different dash or hyphen in an attempt to hide what they did.
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by mrob 1y ago
>the lack of capitalization after the dashes does not feel like LLM output Em-dashes do not start a new sentence. Lack of capitalization is correct, and LLMs generally get spelling/punctuation/grammar right.
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by mrob 1y ago
I checked for "upleveled" in Google Ngram Viewer ( https://books.google.com/ngrams/ ) Although the word alone is found, there are zero matches for it combined with various articles and determiners: >Ngrams
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by mrob 1y ago
The difference is it doesn't include Llama's usage restrictions that disqualify it from being an Open Source license.
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by mrob 1y ago
Agreed it looks like slop, and it's IMO a bad sign. I think a big part of the appeal of old computers is the fact that they're simple enough for a single human to completely understand. Generative AI is a black box that's imp
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by mrob 1y ago
AGI means you win the economy. Even if it's only John von Neumann level and not ASI (which removes the economy entirely), a version of von Neumann that can clone himself and never sleeps is surely capable of organizing an automated kil
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by mrob 1y ago
I don't see how measurement helps. The ASI correctly calculates that collapsing the system maximizes its reward function before it measures the result. We already see degenerate solutions in toy models, e.g. playing Tetris forever by l
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by mrob 1y ago
All prediction tasks can be better accomplished once all biological life is dead. It's trivial to predict the stock market when all the traders are dead. Weather is no longer chaotic when you remove the atmosphere. Biological life can&
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by mrob 1y ago
Resource allocation is where the free market excels. The most dangerous AGI will also be the most profitable, right up to the point when it's too late for us. It will get all the chips it needs.
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by mrob 1y ago
All countries fare worse. I think it's extraordinarily unlikely that some technique can reach AGI but not reach ASI. It won't have the same limits to modification as human brains. Why would it stop at a level that's just slig
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by mrob 1y ago
If you can build an AGI then a few billion autonomous exploding drones is no great difficulty.
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by mrob 1y ago
If it's really impossible for you to allow a game to remain playable after you abandon it, the only reasonable option is to not sell it at all. Instead you can rent it, with the length of the rental clearly stated up front. Advertising
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by mrob 1y ago
>Everybody wanted the Internet. I don't think this is true. A lot of people had no interest until smartphones arrived. Doing anything on a smartphone is a miserable experience compared to using a desktop computer, but it's more
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by mrob 1y ago
I don't think I've ever seen socks or T-shirts that weren't (machine) knitted. Knitting produces more stretchy fabric than weaving so it's better for garments that fit closely.
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by mrob 1y ago
The only video game I can think of that seriously tries to replicate the experience of playing old-school D&D is Nethack and its forks. Nethack goes to great lengths to allow for player creativity, even at the cost of game balance. E.g.
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by mrob 1y ago
The same draining step that removes arsenic also removes starch that's necessary for the traditional sticky texture of Japanese rice. You'll end up with rice that's difficult to eat with chopsticks. But it's great for ma
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by mrob 1y ago
That could be because your added noise is masking other noise with worse effects.
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by mrob 1y ago
Two different meanings of the word. The article is using the traditional non-scientific meaning. Opium is a compound (as in a mixture), containing several different chemical compounds (as in molecules containing more than one element).
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by mrob 1y ago
Comfort can be improved by using a dedicated ebook reader. It's lighter than a paper book, makes it easier to turn the page, and the text can be configured so that every book uses identical typography (the most legible typography is th

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