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by nimbleal 3y ago
You’re right the VFX is often rushed and under budgeted. However realistic fire IS really hard and frankly I’m sceptical you can do it yourself on your desktop. On its own on a plain background, maybe. The moment you comp it in to a live pl
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by nimbleal 3y ago
Either the most violent or the least depending on how your gerrymander your sample. Hypothesis: violence is effectively monopolised to a degree it has never been before. So it is used far less frequently but when it is used, is far more d
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by nimbleal 3y ago
Agree it has nothing to do with AI. Even if we, for the sake of argument, agree that human beings are machines, why should the appearance of human-mimicking reasoning imply sentience above and beyond any other (complex?) computation? Why ar
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A Hacker News Upvote Is Apparently Worth £3.80(upwork.com)
6 points by nimbleal 3y ago|6 comments
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by nimbleal 3y ago
Yes, it’s terrible at writing fiction. Cliché laden, dull, repetitive prose and somehow, in terms of actual content, it never generates anything of interest. Its desire to always wrap things up into a happy ending within a couple of paragra
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by nimbleal 3y ago
A stop is double the amount of light. Useful for equivalence across different ways of changing exposure. So I halve my shutter speed I’ve lost a stop. But I increase my aperture from 4 to 2.8 I’ve gained that stop back. Or I double the sens
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by nimbleal 3y ago
Or ND the windows. Or shot on a modern cinema camera, tbh. 1000x is what, ~10 stops? Arri claims 17 for the new 35, though I’ve not had a play
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by nimbleal 3y ago
I hear this a lot but have never seen anything other than hypothetical mechanisms. I’d be interested to see actual evidence, if there’s any you can share. I’m cautious here because it’s the kind of thing that plays to my own bias.
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by nimbleal 3y ago
Interesting— I like both but I wouldn’t think of Tarkovsky as having an influence on Malick. What would you say are the similarities, for you? Tarkovsky is intensely formal, seems blocked to the point of almost being choreographed, while Ma
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by nimbleal 4y ago
By adding noise to the world, perhaps we can all recalibrate our noise floor, so to speak, and lose some of the human-generated nonsense along with ChatGPTs? My hope is that these tools will end content farms and thus (eventually) improve m
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by nimbleal 4y ago
There's correlation in longitudinal studies, I recall. Not sure how robust the findings are though.
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by nimbleal 4y ago
The “unto what end” vs “due to what cause” definition of “why“ but, yes — I’m aware.
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by nimbleal 4y ago
“Whys” are hard but arguably —- and not a direct answer to your question of course — the why of cows producing (most of their) milk is analogous to the why of dogs acting cute: it’s for humans.
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by nimbleal 4y ago
Although I understand it differs hugely by country, so worth investigating your own location. Not everywhere is as horrible as the US in this regard.
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by nimbleal 4y ago
Perhaps we’re looking for the feeling of memory or dream. I believe that’s why 24 fps persists in film, for example — because it’s less real in the immediate, analytical sense, but more real in that it feels closer in some undefinable way t
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by nimbleal 4y ago
That’s about as fair as a characterisation of that debate as saying “people want to keep R vs. W because they love killing babies”. The simple difference between the sides is one thinks whatever it is that’s in the womb is a human life, the
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by nimbleal 4y ago
> wondering maybe you're starting from a fairly low skill level It's a fair assumption but unfortunately I think I would lack in specifically the areas that online courses don't tend to address, i.e everything that's
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by nimbleal 4y ago
> How do you have 20 years of experience yet no portfolio? (There is another similar question below) I never anticipated doing this as a career, so the projects are just scattered over the hard drives of old laptops. Also, some of them a
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by nimbleal 4y ago
I’m currently in a part-time work situation that more than covers my expenses but leaves me with a lot of time on my hands (I.e a great position to be in). However, for non-career related reasons, I don’t anticipate that lasting more than a
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Ask HN: If you had 3-6 months to demonstrate your skills?
35 points by nimbleal 4y ago|33 comments
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by nimbleal 4y ago
I’m pretty sure we don’t know that. A 400lb person will probably be healthier a year from now if they eat 1500 calories of MacDonald’s a day vs. 4000 cals of “home-cooked plant-based foods”.
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by nimbleal 5y ago
These practices would typically be associated with the idea that the dead have a genuine existence beyond simply “existing in my memory of them” and would be restricted in the forms they take by surrounding ritual, so I’m not sure there’s a
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by nimbleal 5y ago
It would also seem to be a pretty obvious fallacy (although I’m very happy to hear the counter argument). It assumes the “game” is not only infinite in length but infinitely open in terms of the space it explores: a million monkeys on a mil
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by nimbleal 5y ago
> we won't know what's real at all. I am struggling to see how we will function That's where we started, in a way. Perhaps our short time of feeling we had a grip on reality will just have been a passing phase, before retu
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by nimbleal 5y ago
May be a US/elsewhere thing but for me more important in this sort of circumstance are >= middle class dress, hair cut, accent/idiom if spoken to, demeanour etc. Not directly related to race.
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by nimbleal 5y ago
Good thing, yes, but the parent argued omicron “happened because there isn’t enough vaccines in third world countries.” I’m asking if that makes sense given the evidence, and commenting that my (lay) intuition says it isn’t.
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by nimbleal 5y ago
The question is — is it significant enough for: a) eradication to be a possibility (intuitively, it would seem not); or, failing that b) to lower the possibility of novel mutations emerging to a negligible level (I don’t have the knowledge
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by nimbleal 5y ago
Do the vaccines have a significant enough impact on transmissibility for that to be true? My understanding is that, while they significantly improve instances of serious illness and death, the effect on transmission is limited (or at least
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by nimbleal 5y ago
Yes, but as mentioned elsewhere weight alone would do little to solve this issue. Males would still dominate. So presumably you include other factors — but then you are simply dividing by ability. You could conceivably attempt to divide by
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by nimbleal 5y ago
Hmmmm. At that point are you not simply beginning to divide by ability? Basketball for short people? Weightlifting for weak people? It would seem to both go against the spirit of sport and be impossible to implement in practice (for e.g how

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