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by samfriedman 4y ago
I always imagined just a bouncing Roku logo.
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Social Simulacra – Creating Populated Prototypes for Social Computing Systems(social-simulacra.herokuapp.com)
2 points by samfriedman 4y ago|0 comments
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by samfriedman 4y ago
My favorite internet horror stories were always by an anonymous poster named Josef K: I recently found their blog. My favorite story: https://thejosefkstories.com/2008/10/27/quiet/
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by samfriedman 4y ago
Without this technology, if I want to procure a concept-art quality image to promote my video game, I need to pay at least an amateur artist for their time and skill. With this technology, I can simply run some generations and maybe tweak
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by samfriedman 4y ago
I've been using the beta test of this model for a little while, and plan to use it in academic applications as well. It's really remarkable in its performance and coherence: in my personal experience it's easier and faster t
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Startup is setting a DALL-E 2-like AI free, consequences be damned(techcrunch.com)
63 points by samfriedman 4y ago|20 comments
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by samfriedman 4y ago
The version my professor told was, “Why is politics in Poland so volatile? Because all the Poles on the right are unstable!”
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by samfriedman 5y ago
He also did Jason Molina's Magnolia Electric Co., an amazingly recorded and engineered record that I think accomplishes his idea of "capturing the band's music and existence" as he describes in the letter.
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by samfriedman 5y ago
Lilypond helped me learn a lot of music theory I had missed in my learning to play piano; I use it to transcribe music now and it’s a fantastic piece of software (with fantastic docs!)
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by samfriedman 5y ago
It's just an Android tablet, and it appears to be rootable: https://www.reddit.com/r/pelotoncycle/wiki/index/howto/root Not sure how recent those instructions are.
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by samfriedman 5y ago
The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi. It's chock full of ideas that any technologist would find fascinating. A post-singularity society in which those who "got there first" ascended to technological godhood, and the rest most
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Mass Bogus DMCA Takedowns Impersonate Reddit to Attack Downloading Tools(torrentfreak.com)
2 points by samfriedman 5y ago|0 comments
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by samfriedman 5y ago
To that end, I know that the science itinerary of the rovers is typically planned years in advance. What process exists for sending new experiments to the "top of the stack" in a situation of serious significance?
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by samfriedman 6y ago
War is hell, indeed.
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Huawei tested AI software that could recognize Uighur minorities, alert police(washingtonpost.com)
30 points by samfriedman 6y ago|1 comments
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by samfriedman 6y ago
Quite an interesting puzzle game, but it's not all that similar to chess given the extra dimension. This means that a knight might move two spaces forward and one back in time: a lot of patterns you may be used to seeing & respond
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DARPA AlphaDogfight Finals: AI agents compete to face a human F-16 pilot(youtube.com)
8 points by samfriedman 6y ago|3 comments
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by samfriedman 6y ago
NYC law makes a first-degree charge a little more difficult even with premeditation. You need aggravating factors such as murder in the process of another crime (robbery, kidnapping, arson, rape, ...) or if the victim is a cop, judge, witn
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by samfriedman 6y ago
FTA: Ouchi said the boy, now 17, was released in April and will require surgery to treat the physical issues he developed as a result of the estrogen treatment. ... The boy’s father said the hormone therapy has had a long-term effect on
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by samfriedman 6y ago
The title should be updated, as T_D was just one of a large number of subs banned today; even then, it has been largely irrelevant since the admins' earlier decision to quarantine it and impose other restrictions. Other larger banned s
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by samfriedman 6y ago
The flagging comes not from moderators, but from users.
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by samfriedman 6y ago
Even if "all the data" were accessible by all citizens, there would still be a massive asymmetry present in the government's ability to process that data into useful information.
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by samfriedman 6y ago
There is a difference between someone who is a confidential source on a story, and someone who is the subject of a story - it appears the NYT argue that those who are a story's subject are fair game for full-naming. However people hav
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by samfriedman 6y ago
Not to mention our military.
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by samfriedman 7y ago
It seems to be based on the manipulation of weak magnetic fields, so aluminum should not have a noticeable effect.
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by samfriedman 7y ago
>people's experience varies wildly Here's an article about two Chinese women with COVID-19, with very different outcomes. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/13/world/asia/c
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by samfriedman 7y ago
I'd really hope that people about to retire don't have a significant amount of their investments in equities...
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by samfriedman 7y ago
some smaller ones focused more on professional work/discussion: /r/museum /r/contemporaryart /r/BackgroundArt /r/ArtsHub /r/artsphere /r/Cu
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by samfriedman 7y ago
Robinhood has disputed this https://twitter.com/AskRobinhood/status/1234861941413351434
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by samfriedman 7y ago
Time Cube could be another well-known example

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