porphyra

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by porphyra 6y ago
It's a bit complicated. Some say the Uyghurs arrived in that area 900 or so years ago, some say they have been there for over 6400 years. Most likely, modern Uyghurs are descended from a mix of peoples, including the original ancient U
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by porphyra 6y ago
It is pretty awesome that there are people like /r/datahoarder that are obsessed with backing up the collective knowledge of humanity.
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by porphyra 6y ago
Looks very slick, but I am extremely stressed out by the inconsistent font sizes and button spacing across platforms in the example calculator app.
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by porphyra 6y ago
Lack of ROCm support in consumer RDNA 2 GPUs really makes it impossible for regular people to use ROCm. As an owner of an AMD Radeon RX 6800 I'm pretty salty about it.
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by porphyra 6y ago
omg I was looking for this! I remember seeing this build on /r/battlestations or somewhere like ages ago, but I could never find it. (Googling for "carvac hepa filter" doesn't seem to yield any relevant results)
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by porphyra 6y ago
Yes!!! Linear algebra! I am a huge fan of nalgebra and having const generics would make the API and implementation much nicer. Hopefully the robotics industry can move towards implementing stuff in Rust. Having low level robotics algorithms
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by porphyra 6y ago
If you scroll down there is a section about blowing Earth up with an antimatter bomb made of a lot less antimatter.
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by porphyra 6y ago
damn your contribution graph is literally more than this meme [1] [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/aqqvl1/you...
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by porphyra 6y ago
For certain types of multiplayer games the recent Elo-MMR is even better (faster, provable guarantees) [1][2]. Quote from the paper regarding TrueSkill: > The main disadvantage of TrueSkill is its complexity: originally developed by Micr
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by porphyra 6y ago
Glicko2 has a fatal flaw for massively multiplayer games such as Pokemon Go. Basically, by intentionally losing certain games, you can increase the volatility in your rating, and then you can win a few games in a row against low ranked play
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by porphyra 6y ago
A more detailed and technical writeup on the benefits of active learning: You should try active learning - https://medium.com/aquarium-learning/you-should-try-active-l... Also, Aquarium Learning is just awesome. Super
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by porphyra 6y ago
light.co is also doing vehicular stereo vision: https://light.co/ The downsides of stereo are: * range uncertainty grows quadratically with range * range uncertainty is unbounded in the case of featureless surfaces or bad i
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by porphyra 6y ago
I thought you can make mean shift go faster with the Fast Multipole Method. See: https://home.cscamm.umd.edu/programs/fam04/fgt_duraiswami_fa... (PDF file)
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by porphyra 6y ago
Instead of returning the mean rgb values, a better idea is to cluster the colors (e.g. using mean-shift algorithm) in a perceptually uniform color space [2] (such as CIELAB). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_shift
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by porphyra 6y ago
Not OP, but Beat Saber and Project Cars 2 work flawlessly in VR via Proton. Pretty surprising tbh. And of course Half Life Alyx is natively supported.
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by porphyra 6y ago
Reminds me of GTK which stands for GIMP Toolkit where GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program where GNU stands for GNU is Not UNIX where UNIX stands for Uniplexed Information and Computing System And on top of that there is a variety
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by porphyra 6y ago
By now the word laser is so common that it is a just an uncapitalised word accepted by major dictionaries [1][2]. There are also inflections (lased, lasing) [3]. Nobody spells it in all caps now. Likewise with radar and soon lidar. [1] htt
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by porphyra 6y ago
I'm pretty excited about the future of VCSEL technology. Not only is it profoundly useful for lidar and stuff, dense arrays of lasers could also be used for all kinds of display technology. If we can somehow make cheap VCSELs that emit
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by porphyra 6y ago
I don't think the F-22 has better aesthetics than the YF-23. The YF-23 looks super awesome with its diamond-shaped wing. The Boeing X-32's frog-mouthed appearance is a bit ugly though.
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by porphyra 6y ago
A lot of what makes Comic Sans so ugly (lack of consistency or uniformity) also happens to make it more legible for people with dyslexia or similar reading disabilities.
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by porphyra 6y ago
and the relevant HN discussion that hit the front page with over 1000 points: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9405284
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by porphyra 6y ago
I own both the Sennheiser HD 280 Pro and the Bose QC35 II. The active noise cancelling Bose headphones are vastly better on a plane trip. The HD 280 Pros are just not very good at reducing ambient noise.
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by porphyra 6y ago
Text-based formats like XML and JSON are good if most of your data is strings, but storing numeric data in decimal strings is both inefficient and inaccurate. That's why I think that HTML is an appropriate use of XML-like markup but pe
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by porphyra 6y ago
One could conceivably make a binary format based on Messagepack or Flatbuffers for vector data, which would be much more efficient and eliminate rounding problems of converting between floats and decimal numbers in text representations.
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by porphyra 6y ago
I think allowing scripts and stuff in SVGs was a huge mistake that is why they are still not widely supported yet. For example you can't upload or send SVGs as images in typical messaging services or image sharing sited, in part becaus
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by porphyra 6y ago
> EC2 Mac instances with the Apple M1 chip are already in the works, and planned for 2021. Also for those wondering
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by porphyra 6y ago
On Linux you can use gphoto2 + v4l2loopback and use the Sony camera as a webcam over USB: https://superuser.com/questions/870768/can-i-use-my-dslr-as-... sudo modprobe v4l2loopback devices=1 exclusive_caps=1
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by porphyra 6y ago
And the lord spake, "Then shalt thou count to seven, no more–no less. Seven shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be seven. Eight shalt thou not count, neither count thou six, excepting that thou th
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by porphyra 6y ago
I think that, for my use case, it would be a good combo to put both an Nvidia card and an AMD card in the same Linux machine, using the AMD one on Linux and spinning up VM guests using the Nvidia card for Windows gaming or for ML work. This
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by porphyra 6y ago
Wow, I never knew about the print view. It's way more readable, and the lack of comments section makes it quite fast to load despite the very long page. The tiny drop-down menu in the default view is very hard to discover and quite ann

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