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by samizdatum 11y ago
I used it for well over a year, but I noticed I was always disabling it as soon as it turned on. Eventually, I realised that having an accurate, carefully-calibrated display was pointless if I was going to use f.lux. I tentatively tried usi
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by samizdatum 11y ago
You can wear glasses but it will reduce your field of view.
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by samizdatum 11y ago
Have you tried the consumer version of the Oculus Rift? It's significantly more comfortable than previous iterations, enough for hours of continuous use. Oculus has placed a huge emphasis on comfort, because "presence"- the v
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by samizdatum 11y ago
He does, on page 14.
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by samizdatum 11y ago
Sometimes, at the tail end of a day, I'll be sitting in front of my computer, with a clear idea of exactly what I need to do and how to do it... and yet I'm just sort of sitting there stupidly, because my brain feels fried. It&#x2
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by samizdatum 11y ago
Code written in language that allows imperative constructs != imperative code I would say that React is far more friendly to a declarative style than Angular 1 at least. Immutable data, redux, and virtual dom all encourage this style, where
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by samizdatum 11y ago
In WPF, you call OnPropertyChanged on the setter of a property, giving you two-way data binding. Great, now you can modify the model directly from the view. The problem is that modifying the models directly from the views makes it really di
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by samizdatum 11y ago
That Markov Chain model operates on 4-grams by default. The RNN featured in the article generates output character-by-character, which is significantly more impressive. Here's a sample from the Markov Chain model operating on 4-grams:
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by samizdatum 12y ago
Because Alice already knows the NSA didn't pay, the game effectively reduces to a two-participant model. Obviously, playing this game with only one other participant would provide no anonymity at all. n-1 colluders can deanonymize any
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by samizdatum 12y ago
The biologically-inspired nature of neural nets was a steady, mesmerizing flame for machine learning research. A chance to work on an extremely simple, provably universal system that had embarrassingly obvious rhetorical implications for pr
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by samizdatum 13y ago
Currently, headphones are pretty much required hardware for VR, because the positions of the speakers relative to the ears are fixed. Achieving realistic binaural audio with external speakers isn't currently feasible because of the nee
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by samizdatum 13y ago
The philosopher David Lewis had a lot of critics, and they would often cite the fact that they couldn't possibly see how modal realism could be true, to which Lewis would reply, "I don't know how to refute an incredulous st
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by samizdatum 13y ago
I Need A Drink I'm not sure if there's a specific term for the technique of rewriting a passage of prose to argue for the negation of said passage- I guess it's a distilled reductio ad absurdum, one that's been fractiona
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by samizdatum 13y ago
The long lifespan of whales could actually shed some light on human evolution. Whales, along with many other mammalian species (including humans) exhibit a perplexing divergence of somatic and reproductive senescence. Female whales hit meno
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by samizdatum 13y ago
I no longer need the Internet. My hamster chewed through a CAT cable last week; it took me three days to notice, so complete was my Zen immersion in creating a period-accurate replica of the first Galilean telescope, using only Haskell len
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by samizdatum 13y ago
While it's incidentally true that "you don't just casually fire up a VR experience", it glosses over the more salient fact that you don't have casual VR experiences, full stop. VR is, definitionally, an immersive, e
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by samizdatum 13y ago
Unfortunately, the teams at Valve and Oculus seemed unaware that solving the problems you cited would require "re-engineering the human body", and naively set about solving these problems with more conventional engineering methodo