murbard2

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by murbard2 11y ago
IMAX demands are ridiculous, but Ars's claim that IMAX is merely used as an example of "something awesome" is dubious when high quality VR happens to provide a substitute for going to an IMAX theater. This is why IMAX is anno
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by murbard2 11y ago
Yes they play with various layers. Layers closer to the input act more like edge enhancers, while higher layers emphasize whole objects ("animal" enhancers). You get increasingly less syntactical and increasingly more semantic as
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by murbard2 11y ago
That is my understanding of the blog post, yes. That plus a prior on the input pixels to keep it image-like.
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by murbard2 11y ago
The detection layer will detect very faint random signals. For example, if you have a unit that's supposed to detect dogs, it might be very faintly activated if by random chance there is a doggish quality to some part of the image. Wha
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by murbard2 11y ago
TL;DR practice
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by murbard2 11y ago
Two remarks 1) Captain obvious says: the "tripiness" of these images is hardly coincidental, these networks are inspired by the visual cortex. 2) They had to put a prior on the low level pixels to get some sort of image out. This
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by murbard2 11y ago
Yes, "let" will finally fix the horrible scoping - 20 years after the creation of JavaScript. In the meantime you'll still be stuck using lovely constructs like === and !== And yes, JS support for lambda expression is surpris
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by murbard2 11y ago
That's irrelevant; advancing the language isn't an exercise in programming language design, it's an exercise in getting everyone to support the extension and in avoiding breaking legacy code. It has almost nothing to do with
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by murbard2 11y ago
Missing advice: learn to program well in a few well designed programming language. JavaScript was designed in 10 days and the main reason it still exists today is incredibly strong path dependence. There's nothing wrong with wanting to
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by murbard2 11y ago
More prosaically because it allows the hero to defuse the bomb at the last minute. But it always pinches my suspension of disbelief when it happens.
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by murbard2 11y ago
I've always wondered why the bombs often portrayed in movies weren't designed according to those same principles. It seems that it is indeed possible to make it completely tamper proof.
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by murbard2 11y ago
This is also reminiscent of the Gumbel trick[1] If your noise is Gumbel noise, you can actually get the probability to exceed the threshold to be proportional to the intensity of the pixel. [1] https://hips.seas.harvard.edu/
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by murbard2 11y ago
An interesting approach is join calculus. This tutorial builds on the same "chemical" metaphor used in the article https://sites.google.com/site/winitzki/tutorial-on-join-calc...
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by murbard2 11y ago
Would you consider Stairway to Heaven to be poetry when read without the music?
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by murbard2 11y ago
Poetry is hugely successful in the modern world, it just happens to be set to music most of the time.
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by murbard2 11y ago
Sure, this is how you compute Hofstader's Q sequence in J Q=: 1:`(+&$:/@:- $:@-& 1 2)@.(>&2)"0 M. http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Hofstadter_Q_sequence#J
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by murbard2 11y ago
Would have to be a one to many relationship. Part of the problem with K is that the meaning of an operator depends on the type of the operands. "?" can be "generate a random number" or "search for an element in a li
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by murbard2 11y ago
They have vectorization in common, but the commonalities really stop there.
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by murbard2 11y ago
Multiple generations used to share a dwelling, it's still an option.
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by murbard2 11y ago
That's two glaring flaws. You may want to try J, which only has one glaring flaw.
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by murbard2 11y ago
That sounds good, but it only means that you have to be able to execute the client code on the server. You locally (i.e. on the server) simulate a client connecting and doing some rendering, then send a continuation to the real (remote) cli
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by murbard2 11y ago
This is a bit tangential, but I really don't get the value of using the same language on the client and the server. The advantages I see would be: 1) You need to know / be comfortable with one language less 2) During development,
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by murbard2 11y ago
Price discrimination? Denying credit? Sure, but there are far worse things to worry about. How many people have escaped genocides with fake passports, or fake laissez-passer? Worry that biometric will make it harder to escape being sent to
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by murbard2 11y ago
That's not exactly it though. The mistake is in thinking that your idea is detailed when it merely feels detailed. Somewhat similarly, entheogens do not really give you profound ideas so much as the feeling that the ideas you are con
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by murbard2 11y ago
That's only because you think your thought exists and is correct. Programming forces you to confront the fact that it isn't, and that there are many aspects of it that you've overlooked.
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by murbard2 11y ago
He can still get those for an extra $0. What you're really getting for your money is convenience and integration.
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by murbard2 11y ago
For a fraction of a second, part of me really hoped it could somehow be a pause button for life itself.
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by murbard2 11y ago
Give the venerable dc a try. It can be quite succinct. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dc_%28computer_program%29
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by murbard2 11y ago
The examples are meta-constraints. The fitness function is the parsimoniousness of layout constraints, under the constraint that they reproduce the examples.
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by murbard2 11y ago
Perhaps the right approach would be to still use constraints to describe the layout, but to infer those constraints from examples provided interactively by the designer. The workflow would be: 10 designer creates an initial mock-up 20 desig

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