palish

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by palish 15y ago
'twas a joke bro. If I found a laptop, I'd do everything in my power to return it to its owner.
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by palish 15y ago
And people wonder why there aren't more women in computer science...
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by palish 15y ago
Nice. I've actually been working on this. Work in progress: http://content.screencast.com/users/shawnpresser/folders/Jin...
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by palish 15y ago
I certainly wasn't! Oh...
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by palish 15y ago
No idea why you've been downvoted --- this is what google says for me, too.
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by palish 15y ago
As I understand GPU programming, you want to maximize parallelism. Ideally, you would have something small enough to have an independent generator for each processor. You should be able to generate perfectly random-looking numbers using 64
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by palish 15y ago
Whoa, cool. Thanks! I don't suppose you have the code lying around...? Even if it's not pretty, it would still be a big help! =)
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by palish 15y ago
You'll have to take my word for it, or try it yourself: there are visually noticeable repetitive patterns that are a direct result of the naive PRNG. For example I once modeled raindrops as falling billboards that struck the ground at some
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by palish 15y ago
Speaking as a graphics programmer, I hope to see this hardware-level randomness eventually incorporated into GPUs. Randomness on a GPU is hard , and there are so many ways that a RNG can improve visual quality. For example, adding a tiny a
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by palish 15y ago
Is there a way around the 5MB local storage limit yet?
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by palish 15y ago
Is such sorcery possible?
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by palish 15y ago
But those tend not to have a zero derivative at the vertices, no? Which would cause other animation problems, if you try to link two curves together.
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by palish 15y ago
Interesting... It looks like the speed of the dot isn't constant. I wonder if that would cause problems e.g. for animation purposes? (Like using the bezier curve as a way to animate the position of an object moving through 3D space in a g
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by palish 15y ago
This is blogspam. Link to the source: http://www.miller-mccune.com/culture-society/handwriting-is-...
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by palish 15y ago
Interesting... According to ohloh, Ubuntu has just 4k lines of code: http://www.ohloh.net/p/ubuntu Must be some pretty dense code!
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by palish 15y ago
Which two?
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by palish 15y ago
On 32-bit platforms. On 64-bit, you won't. =)
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by palish 15y ago
Wait --- what? They fired Hurd as a direct consequence of him paying a hooker. What's that got to do with strategy? Or are we claiming that it's "okay to lie" about why someone is being fired..?
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by palish 15y ago
Exactly. Seems perfect.
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by palish 15y ago
Oh, you're correct, sorry. I didn't read the link, just the title.
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by palish 15y ago
Seems maintainable to me.
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by palish 15y ago
It's interesting to realize: that's why something like quantum mechanics can't be approached by thinking purely in axioms. We have to push forward first ; it's only after we've correctly approximated nature (via some informal model) that
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by palish 15y ago
Just ignore him. Really, he's not worth it, and his behavior shouldn't be rewarded (publicly calling someone out and framing them in a bad light without context). I appreciated your work, for what it's worth.
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by palish 15y ago
1) By not ignoring him, you'd be just as guilty. 2) However, he's not "complaining" about duplicates in those links. He's cross-referencing previous discussions in order to let people learn from them. 3) For what it's worth, he's been here
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by palish 15y ago
I wish Aidan had been allowed to write this in his own words, rather than his parent's / someone else's words. On the other hand, whoever's taking care of him behind the scenes has done an incredible job. I'd even say Aidan's "set for life
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by palish 15y ago
afford to fly Is it very expensive?
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by palish 15y ago
Indeed. The boy's design is extremely rugged and simple (no moving parts). It should be highly reliable someday.
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by palish 15y ago
I'm not sure the elderly would respond very well to your application's (perfectly awesome!) name.
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by palish 15y ago
- in some circumstances if the destination is unreachable it might be desirable to still compute a "best effort" path to the node that is the minimal heuristic distance from the unreachable destination This is actually very important, esp
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by palish 15y ago
Brilliant! That seems very similar to real life heuristics, actually... "Holy crap, that guy in front of me just got blown away!" runs out the back door

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