shannifin

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by shannifin 4y ago
I don't mind an artsy-cartoony style, which fit the comical pirate world of the games, but the specific designs do seem to lack the richness and charm of previous games. I don't know, maybe it's the 2D puppet animation that f
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by shannifin 4y ago
Just call 'em up and ask around, or send an email, I suppose. There's gotta be somebody there who knows. Granted, they're unlikely to just give you special access, but you could at least learn something.
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by shannifin 4y ago
I've been using it for a while now, there have been quite a few movies that weren't streaming anywhere else.
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by shannifin 4y ago
The article doesn't seem to mention (although perhaps the book does) the role technology likely plays in the story. Not that long ago (relatively speaking) if you wanted to hear music, someone had to be performing it. With the advent o
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by shannifin 4y ago
I kinda question what the author is thinking of as the "problem". He says: > unfortunately what we had built had only marginal improvements to what was being offered by other platforms ... Is it really a problem if there are al
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by shannifin 4y ago
Yeah, it seemed to glitch out temporarily... maybe too much traffic already?
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by shannifin 4y ago
Sounds nice, I'm all for more search engine competition even regardless of the revenue share model. I'm curious how exactly they pay creators though? If I had a super-popular blog that got millions of hits a month through search,
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by shannifin 4y ago
> When you say "this envelope game", I assume you are also including minor variations of this game? No; it seems obvious to me that the argument for switching presented in the original wikipedia article is meant to apply only t
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by shannifin 4y ago
> Yes yes, you are only gambling your "winnings" that you won earlier, it doesn't make a difference here. It makes all the difference because you don't know what those "winnings" are, and what you're po
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by shannifin 4y ago
> Just like the envelope game, right? No, because you're not actually wagering anything in the envelope game, so it makes no sense to calculate probabilities as though you are. An analogous coin toss example would be something lik
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by shannifin 4y ago
I was thinking more along the lines of there being no need to actually calculate anything at all because the only relevant information is the 50-50 probability of choosing the higher envelope. And since you gain no new information after cho
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by shannifin 4y ago
> Many people interpret the envelope problem as being the same situation. It just seems obvious to me that it's not the same situation. That is, I think the "paradox" is ultimately about the temptation to treat these as
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by shannifin 4y ago
I must admit I don't find the "compelling line of reasoning" all that compelling; to me it seems the "paradox" has more to do with the meaning of probability than with its calculation. That is, the probability is 1&
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by shannifin 4y ago
Saw the short film somewhere (maybe Criterion Channel?) ... He did quite a bit of cheating by eating only a specific portion and not eating it raw... Still pretty funny though. Also look up the story of him jumping into a cactus... Ouch (I
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by shannifin 4y ago
Nice to see another company making progress in the area. I'd love to see more examples of different artistic styles though, my favorite DALL-E images are the ones that look like drawings.
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by shannifin 4y ago
Malformed anatomy is still a pretty good artifact of AI. Problem is some human artists aren't that great either, so easy to confuse with AI.
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by shannifin 4y ago
I find it fascinating and hilarious that DALL-E produces basketball-looking planets! (Or planet-looking basketballs?)
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by shannifin 4y ago
While standard notation already seems optimal to me for performing music, it does leave something to be desired for analyzing harmony and composing, mainly because things like major and minor thirds look exactly the same. So I would love a
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by shannifin 4y ago
In his article [1] he mentions the Internet as part of a possible explanation in terms of it being easier for amateurs to create and distribute material. But I think the Internet also plays a huge part in the consolidation of fandom. Before
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by shannifin 4y ago
Because many of the examples seem to show that the system easily misunderstands certain grammatical implications (prepositional relations, etc), I wonder if it would benefit from of different sort of input system in which the relationships
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by shannifin 4y ago
I think some limitations are interesting in terms of tempering expectations and understanding how DALL-E "thinks" or works in order to best utilize its strengths. Of course, I would always expect limitations based on having to &qu
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by shannifin 4y ago
Indeed, it was actually James Gleick's book The Information that helped me understand the concept better.
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by shannifin 4y ago
> "Entropy is not Disorder One of the most popular belief about entropy is that it represents disorder." This is what confused me the most about entropy in high school, the "order / disorder" lingo. Isn't &q
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by shannifin 4y ago
I remember seeing this story on Youtube a couple years ago... https://youtu.be/49oZt8Sl-JA
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by shannifin 5y ago
Wonder what the effect is of having close-aged siblings? There was little chance I would voluntarily do the dishes or fold laundry by myself while my siblings were doing something else. (But was this because my siblings were doing something
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by shannifin 5y ago
I'm in the same boat! May be more challenging if you, like me, have other obligations competing for your attention. I've also noticed that I'm a bit mentally slower than I was in high school and college. But I am more emotion
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by shannifin 5y ago
Digression: I've had dreams where I am a completely different person; different body, different personality, different memories, different family, etc... and it's only upon waking up and reorienting myself to myself (whatever &quo
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by shannifin 5y ago
> "I guess in short, is it any more absurd to be born twice than once?" If pre-birth and post-death are both a nothing state, then the question is meaningless. (As is the existence between birth and death, for that matter.) The
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by shannifin 5y ago
I actually did for little while as a five year old because it was fun watching trash get squished... The dream didn't last long though
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by shannifin 5y ago
This would be another exciting area to explore... https://experiments.withgoogle.com/ai/sound-maker/view/ I especially love trombone+thunder

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