pixelpoet

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   by pixelpoet 8y ago

   Use the power for crypto mining (while it's still based on hashing), use returns for energy storage infrastructure.
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   by pixelpoet 8y ago

   Be skeptical of anyone who says they can predict markets and is not a trillionaire.
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   by pixelpoet 8y ago

   Aside: I'm always surprised how few people notice that e.g. "cos" is rendered differently to "\cos" in TeX; for a discipline largely characterised by attention to detail, almost no programmers seem to notice.
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   by pixelpoet 8y ago

   I want this too, but it leads me to worry that in the not too distant future, poor people will deal mostly with robots in a sort of 2nd apartheid where social status dictates how many humans you can reach.
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   by pixelpoet 8y ago

   Nothing less from the son of the captain of the Millennium Falcon.
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   by pixelpoet 9y ago

   This looks really good, thanks!
7. 1237.▲
   by pixelpoet 9y ago

   Thanks, after a little digging I was able to find it: http://incompleteideas.net/book/the-book-2nd.html
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   by pixelpoet 9y ago

   I'd really like a good tutorial for combining MCTS with NNs, but this tutorial didn't help me at all really. MCTS is easy enough to learn on its own, but the details of connecting it to NN learning is still mysterious to me after
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   by pixelpoet 9y ago

   Just want to say thank you for writing this and bringing it to HN attention. Gtalk was absolutely amazing, and you could even send files to your friends just so , just drag it into the window! It's 2018 and this functionality is hardl
10. 1240.▲
    by pixelpoet 9y ago

    Haha, good to hear from you! Your secret's safe with me ;)
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    by pixelpoet 9y ago

    Sure, it's mainly architectural and product viz, sometimes lookdev for CG studios. It's a super tough industry, everyone else is at least 4x our size. Somehow we're still around, doing better than ever really :)
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    by pixelpoet 9y ago

    I'm part of a 3-man company, Glare Technologies, and we develop and market two products: a high end 3D renderer with plugins for several 3D modelling apps, and a fractal art application. We do basically everything, from the online stor
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    by pixelpoet 9y ago

    A nice example of such a practical tool for microscopic analysis is X-ray crystallography, once you have the theory of Fourier transforms and lattices.
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    by pixelpoet 9y ago

    Non-mobile link: http://www.kgw.com/news/bill-gates-buys-big-chunk-of-land-in...