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by nynx 5y ago
This paper is worth reading, the whole reality shifting thing (and related concepts like tulpamancy) is a very interesting psychological phenomenon.
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by nynx 5y ago
That's true, but the labor that actually produced the data is not receiving the full value of the money that people pay to access the data. If the money went directly to the creators, I think people (and myself certainly) would feel mu
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by nynx 5y ago
There is a fundamental difference (at least for now)–there is nearly zero cost involved in copying data and moving it around. There's no real scarcity of data. There is some real scarcity of candy bars.
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by nynx 5y ago
This is not a good idea. Giant companies could buy the copyrights for all intellectual property and no individuals would be able to own valuable intellectual property.
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by nynx 5y ago
I love the ideas behind pinephone, but I think it's just not powerful enough. I'm not sure if there's enough access to more powerful mobile phone processors though.
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by nynx 5y ago
Looks like a company doing meaningful work. Wonder if they have internships.
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by nynx 5y ago
You might want alignment there as well.
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by nynx 5y ago
The best way to do it is probably the way rust-gpu does it: https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/rust-gpu/blob/main/docs/src... The entry point of the kernel would supply any objects that have special p
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by nynx 5y ago
I think people will be happier about turning the rest of the solar system into o'neil cylinders than they would of Earth. There's plenty of potential volume, it's just not in the right form yet.
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by nynx 5y ago
Gotcha. I assumed that was the case, but I was seeing some other stuff that implied otherwise elsewhere in this thread. Yeah, in that case, it'd probably have to be a transformation on top of static variables or something like that.
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by nynx 5y ago
If memory is exposed in CUDA more like allocators than pre-allocated static memory, look into using the alloc crate with custom allocators that hand out global or shared memory.
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by nynx 5y ago
I can't guarantee that it'd be implemented like this, but I could see it working like this in Rust. struct Ray { origin: Vec3, dir: Vec3, remaining_bounces: u32, } and then using it like this: stati
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by nynx 5y ago
No, I do understand this. Some sort of type which exposes __shared__ semantics will need to be exposed in the rust-cuda crate. Clearly this isn't just type-level stuff, but the way rust exposes features like that is usually through a n
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by nynx 5y ago
That sounds a little complicated to deal with, but I see no reason why either the Rust atomic types or a new type supplied by the rust-cuda library couldn't handle that just fine. I just want to make sure that you realize that Rust doe
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by nynx 5y ago
Looks like they just haven't gotten around to it. Rust has fine language support for atomics and shared memory.
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by nynx 5y ago
wgpu is a library for running wgsl on GPUs, not Rust.
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by nynx 5y ago
Fascinating that they can actually use STMs to manufacture qubits.
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by nynx 5y ago
The continuous vs. discrete thing is largely moot in my opinion. The low-significant bits of any model of a physical process are going to be noise anyhow. You can model more accurately if there's some data that's missing, but the
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by nynx 5y ago
You can keep adding compartments and solving Hodgkin-Huxley at small time-steps to get basically arbitrary resolution. It definitely gets a lot of expensive than simpler models (and there’s some evidence that simpler models will converge to
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by nynx 5y ago
This isn’t really true. It’s completely feasible to simulate large numbers of biologically plausible neurons these days at varying levels of accuracy. Brian 2 is one widely used package for that.
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by nynx 5y ago
We're using rust on STM32F1 chips as part of the electronics for a liquid rocket engine that my university's SEDS chapter is developing. Rust makes this all so much easier and quicker to write.
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by nynx 5y ago
I might be. I think the term wholesome has been somewhat redefined to mean feelgood colloquially though. Could you explain why wholesome stories are boring to you?
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by nynx 5y ago
Okay, maybe not antithesis , but I think of wholesome stories as being full of easy choices where no one dies at the end. From the books I've read that I'd say fit into hopepunk, they're not like that at all. Good people die
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by nynx 5y ago
Wholesomeness does often end up being boring, but hopepunk is almost the antithesis of wholesome. It's about how working hard, getting your hands dirty, and making hard decisions can lead to a better world.
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by nynx 5y ago
Thank you for your well-thought-out response! I don't think hopepunk or its variants, solarpunk, etc, provide solace, but moreso act as reference points to help people say, "Our society could be more like that. What can we do to m
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by nynx 5y ago
I just read through it, and realized that I had read it before. To be honest, it's very poorly written and the story isn't particular believable.
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by nynx 5y ago
Really beautiful post. We need hopepunk stories more now than ever before. While I didn't think Walkaway was a particularly well-written book, the setting was fascinating and pretty unique as far as I could see: it told the story of ci
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by nynx 5y ago
its “memory safety”, not “accesses memory”
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by nynx 5y ago
This would be a slightly less insane argument (though only slightly) if many states in the US, the state this women lives in for instance, weren’t so puritan about right to abortion. This women had about a week to decide whether to abort—th
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by nynx 5y ago
This is very impressive, but I’ll be honest, I wouldn’t want to expose any new software written in C to the internet.

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