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by qnleigh 2y ago
At a high level I guess so. I don't know enough about Ray Reconstruction (though the results are impressive), but I was thinking of something more drastic than DLSS. Diffusion models on static images can turn a cartoon into a photoreal
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by qnleigh 2y ago
Could a similar scheme be used to drastically improve the visual quality of a video game? You would train the model on gameplay rendered at low and high quality (say with and without ray tracing, and with low and high density meshing), and
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by qnleigh 2y ago
Nah, Windows 11 finally pushed me over the edge, and as soon as I switched I realized the only Microsoft product I really liked was OneNote, which now works on Android and Mac.
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by qnleigh 2y ago
Does anyone have any insight into how something so obviously broken can be released by such a large company? I'm honestly just confused how large companies with such immense resources put out such buggy software so consistently. Am I u
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by qnleigh 2y ago
> "General relativity is just a model." Everything in physics a model. Quantum mechanics, electromagnetism, Newton's laws... Arguably everything in science is a model. But at some point, a model does so well at explaining
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by qnleigh 2y ago
> but would someone please think of our poor Vim & Emacs users? This comment is sort of ironic given the title of the piece. As a Vim user, I opened it expecting to be called out for optimizing for typing.
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by qnleigh 2y ago
Before people get too excited about this, note that Wolfram has been on about his own fundamental theory of everything for some time, and the wider physics community does not take it seriously. His book 'A New Kind of Science' has
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by qnleigh 2y ago
Is there any reason to think that Gallium would be a particularly good source of sterile neutrinos? Or is it more that if regular neutrinos oscillate into sterile neutrinos, then this would be the first experiment that could detect so at th
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by qnleigh 2y ago
Would anyone be willing to explain the take-away points from these videos/how to spot someone who is drowning? I would love to be educated about this, but I don't have the stomach to actually watch these right now...
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by qnleigh 2y ago
I think entire research subfields can go through a similar process. Plenty of mathematics was done before mathematical rigor really existed. Then axiomatization became more and more important. The intuition never went away, but I have heard
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by qnleigh 2y ago
Edit: after writing what follows, I realized you might have been asking about RL apply to LLMs. I don't know if anyone has made any progress there yet. Depends on what you mean by 'generally?' It won't be able to solve a
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by qnleigh 2y ago
Thank you, I am also very confused on this point. I hope someone else can clarify. As a guess, could it mean that you would run the model forward a few tokens for each of its top predicted tokens, keep track of which branch is performing be
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by qnleigh 2y ago
Yes, but AlphaZero is based on reinforcement learning, where there is a simple cost function to optimize. There hasn't been much progress in applying reinforcement learning to LLMs to get them to self improve. I agree with the quote th
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by qnleigh 2y ago
Yes, thank you!! I have been trying to make this point for years. It seems self-evident to me, but it's hard to convince people of this. But I think it's worth mentioning that what we have is already useful for research and making
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by qnleigh 2y ago
I think there have been advancements in RL that deserve to be on this list. AlphaFold at the very least; I hope you had the pleasure of reading the reactions of researchers who work on protein structure determination and how stunned they we
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by qnleigh 2y ago
Here's a potential analogy: AlphaGo made a major breakthrough when it beat Lee Sedol. For many of us, that was the end of it, but for for professional Go players, it revolutionized the game it ways that no one outside of the Go communi
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by qnleigh 2y ago
If only these conversations were recorded somewhere. They would be wonderful to read.
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by qnleigh 2y ago
Good guesses in the comments so far: VIN number partial matches and targeted search. Anyone going to test what's correct? Ideas: 1. Vin numbers are 17 characters and don't contain I, O or Q, to prevent confusion with other letter
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by qnleigh 2y ago
Are there benchmarks that test usability? I don't care how long it takes to encode a 4k video. I care about how long the UI hangs while doing basic tasks or how many work-arounds I have to look up on Reddit to get my Bluetooth headphon
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by qnleigh 2y ago
I've always wondered this. For example I can't imagine how they ever achieved their quoted battery benchmarks with system processes running in the background, like indexing. These regularly consumed >50% CPU resources on my old
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by qnleigh 2y ago
Windows battery benchmarks have always been wildly overoptimistic on Surface products. Factor of 2 to 4 in my experience. Various bugs and bloat cause them to run hot when idling, or in the case of my most recent purchase, when sleeping! In
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by qnleigh 2y ago
I agree. Sounds like the plan is to have the signals from each probe add up coherently, which means the laser pulses need to be coherent with each other. The wavelength of optical light is 100s of nanometers, so that is the level of precisi
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by qnleigh 2y ago
Did anyone else get served at ad for visiting Canada after finishing this video?
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by qnleigh 2y ago
No. Political parties change their behavior to capture voting demographics. Right now politicians aren't motivated to win the young vote because we vote less.
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by qnleigh 3y ago
I find it really hard to imagine people following famous AI personalities as much as real musicians if they know that the AI are AI. Humans are social creatures. I guess at some point there will be a popular "musician" who is reli
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by qnleigh 3y ago
When I read the headline, I assumed this was to disincentivise uploading thousands of cheap AI-generated songs. There's tons of this on the platform, and it looks like it was generated automatically in bulk. But the article makes it so
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by qnleigh 3y ago
I don't know if I agree with this. Advanced mathematics deals with layer upon layer of abstraction, and oftentimes there aren't significant shortcuts. A good friend of mine did her doctorate in algebraic geometry, and there were i
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by qnleigh 3y ago
Actually gravity does affect massless objects. It can bend the path of light, even though photons are massless. See 'gravitational lensing' for some cool photographic evidence :). The Higg's Boson gives mass to many particles
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by qnleigh 3y ago
There is an entire sub-field of experimental science that involves putting ever larger objects in superpositions of different locations. These experiments are no closer to testing quantum gravity, but they falsify whatever it is you're
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by qnleigh 3y ago
Does anyone else find it implausible that Apple will offload things like the CPU to the external battery pack like claimed here? The R1 chip surely has to stay on the headset to keep their 12 ms latency, and wouldn't there be a similar

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