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by pistachiopro 6y ago
Really enjoyed the stories (the third one, especially), thanks for posting them. It's exciting to see a writer embrace this technology and use it in such an effective way. Are there any other GPT-3 "collaborations" you'd
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by pistachiopro 6y ago
Looking back at my regular American public high school, I'm really impressed how they handled students who didn't fit the standard pace. One thing, they were very flexible about credit replacements, so if you didn't want to t
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by pistachiopro 6y ago
This post did not reach the conclusion I was expecting based on the title. For me, I think I've largely experienced the opposite relationship between ego and my programming productivity. Learning to program as a kid was probably one of
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by pistachiopro 6y ago
Feels to me like: https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1026182/ (which Nvidia has wrapped up in their RTXGI library: https://developer.nvidia.com/rtxgi ). The idea is to supplement basic irradiance probes
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by pistachiopro 6y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if it has something to do with "Geometry Images." Like REYES, the goal is to target pixel-sized polygons, but it handles tessellation differently. Brian Karis, the programmer speaking in the video link
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by pistachiopro 7y ago
The last comment was a giant full screen goatse and then it shut down.
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There's something wrong with my code(twitter.com)
1 points by pistachiopro 7y ago|0 comments
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by pistachiopro 7y ago
It's more about trying to prevent flying from increasing by 5x as huge new populations become affluent enough to start using planes regularly. Pushing back against the culture of flying while supporting alternative technologies that ar
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by pistachiopro 7y ago
I've never heard a complete and convincing explanation for what "yourself" could be, but meditating on the extreme unintuitiveness of self-reference and recursion (a la Douglas Hofstadter's I am a Strange Loop ) increas
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by pistachiopro 7y ago
For those who have experienced their first big startup success, what did you end up doing next? Are you satisfied with the decision? Is your life better or worse than before the exit?
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by pistachiopro 7y ago
I agree there would be a large moral shift, and it kind of boggles my mind to try to think about it, but I don't think it's necessarily untenable. Taking the candy bar example, in current society, even someone who doesn't bel
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by pistachiopro 7y ago
Could you expand on this?
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by pistachiopro 7y ago
There are some interesting arguments that we'd be better off not assuming free will. Yuval Noah Harari (of Sapiens fame) talks about it quite a bit. He mentions his stance briefly in this interview https://www.theguardian.co
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Mark Zuckerberg and Yuval Noah Harari in Conversation(youtube.com)
3 points by pistachiopro 7y ago|1 comments
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by pistachiopro 8y ago
That's right, the Soraa Healthy was very green! So, even without the flicker, the fact that it makes everybody look like undead zombies would be reason enough to disqualify it as a bedroom night light.
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by pistachiopro 8y ago
Thanks to GP for the links, I completely missed that previous thread! And, yeah, I tried that Soraa healthy bulb, and it was shockingly bad, given how it was advertised. Even the regular Soraa bulbs were disappointingly flickery, though les
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by pistachiopro 8y ago
I completely agree, flicker has been the most distracting part of switching to LEDs, for me. Here are two good sites that posted graphs of light intensity over time for a bunch of different bulbs: http://www.ledbenchmark.com&#x2F
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by pistachiopro 8y ago
I can't find the source right now, but I read that the fastest cells in the visual pathway can respond at a bit under 500Hz. Part of the reason the ieee suggests a minimum PWM frequency of 3000Hz is, for signal processing reasons I don
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Visual Acuity is not “What the eye can see” (2015)(filmicworlds.com)
2 points by pistachiopro 8y ago|0 comments
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by pistachiopro 8y ago
Specifically, here's a good blog post explaining hyperacuity, and why 8k is at least marginally better: http://filmicworlds.com/blog/visual-acuity-is-not-what-the-e...
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by pistachiopro 8y ago
Color transitions are hard, and that illusion is pretty trippy. Beyond that, my sense is another big problem most people run into when they try to light pixel art (or any hand-painted asset) is that the asset is almost always "pre-tone
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by pistachiopro 8y ago
Loosely related, here's a transcript of the reactions of 10 prominent German nuclear physicists upon hearing the U.S. forces dropped the first atomic bomb: http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/pdf/eng/English10
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We All Live in Parasocial Hell(digg.com)
2 points by pistachiopro 8y ago|0 comments
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by pistachiopro 8y ago
It's tricky, though, since most LED bulbs use a single wavelength of blue LEDs which get downshifted by phosphors, even in high CRI bulbs, you can have an unnaturally large spike in the blue (often around 450nm).
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by pistachiopro 8y ago
Amazing work, and feels like it implies so much potential. Scrolling through the author's twitter feed, though, I found this retweet of Ian Bogost (an earlier maker of games designed to communicate complex systems) that feels almost li
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by pistachiopro 8y ago
The discussion of the movie Eighth Grade has some interesting reflections on how modern kids interact with technology. At least as relevant, though, is hearing how Burnham is trying to break through his early success and continue to find me
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Bo Burnham, from Having Panic Attacks Onstage to Making Eighth Grade(vulture.com)
1 points by pistachiopro 8y ago|1 comments
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Mirror Drop, Ray Traced Psychedelic 3D Puzzle Game(mirrordropgame.com)
2 points by pistachiopro 8y ago|0 comments
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If Sociologists Had as Much Influence as Economists(nytimes.com)
126 points by pistachiopro 10y ago|147 comments
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Beyond Floating Point(github.com)
3 points by pistachiopro 10y ago|0 comments

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