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by smokel 2y ago
That's just for show. A grid is visible in the background of the drawing. Such a grid is used to set up the initial outlines, by copying it from the reference photo with a grid drawn on top of it (typically done in Photoshop). Other
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by smokel 2y ago
These kinds of drawings are indeed copied from photographs. There is no secret in that. Sometimes an artist uses multiple photos, and adds some personal imagination for details, but sometimes no creativity is added at all. The skill is mo
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by smokel 2y ago
I find that exercises without answer help me to build confidence. It requires me to be sure of every step, and the actual answer is less relevant. Of course this all depends on the type of exercise. For some, you can easily check the answ
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by smokel 2y ago
The hardcover version comes in 7 volumes! [1] Unfortunately the thing is from 2008 and I suppose this kind of book doesn't age well. [1] http://titan.princeton.edu/2010-10-11/EoO2/Encyclopedia_Opti...
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by smokel 2y ago
No, you are not buying that in your salary. The cost of living is shared more evenly in most European countries. You may consider it an insurance, and most insurance policies don't work if there is only one buyer.
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by smokel 2y ago
This is a silly game. At MIT, 29.1% of students are international. [1] [1] https://facts.mit.edu/enrollment-statistics/
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by smokel 2y ago
Not as I understand it. The device is apparently hooked to the neurons that are responsible for activating muscle tissue that would ordinarily articulate speech. It is not connected to the "part" where ones inner voice lives, bec
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by smokel 2y ago
Seems very reasonable to me. Note that this statistic applies to an average person, not to an average genius.
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by smokel 2y ago
What could be the main cause for things being so hard to cross over from simulation to reality? Should we invest some more in stochastic programming to handle all the little quirks that cannot be modeled perfectly? Or is the major issue tha
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by smokel 2y ago
> I've yet to see any form of measured example where architectural work actually provided a measurable net benefit for an organisation though. These things are hard to measure, but I've seen too much of the reverse as well: o
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by smokel 2y ago
Very interesting, thanks for sharing. There have been multiple discussions on this text here before, but I seem to have missed them all :)
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by smokel 2y ago
> Both creators of the Agile movement come from US Military experience. Last time I checked, the Agile Manifesto was drafted up by no less than 17 developers [1], the most prominent of them being Kent Beck, who's not directly famo
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by smokel 2y ago
I think this touches on an interesting problem. I don't see a reason to praise security experts though. Here's a theory on why (some form of) Agile is problematic: Subdividing work into smaller parts is typically beneficial. Howe
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by smokel 2y ago
You might be impressed by his achievements, but you may also feel some comfort in knowing that this random poster finds those inflated statistics a bit off-putting. I prefer a modest introduction followed by a pleasant surprise, but that&#x
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by smokel 2y ago
Sorry for the harsh comment. I just found it highly unlikely that Nvidia would change its ways due to this, and I don't really see how we're being "squeezed". Nvidia are delivering amazing products (as are AMD), and it
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Reinforcement Learning Conference 2024(rl-conference.cc)
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by smokel 2y ago
> the point of an open cuda is to force Nvidia to stop squeezing us Nobody is forcing you to buy GPUs. Your logic is flawed in the sense that enough people could also simply write alternatives to Torch, which, by the way, is already op
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by smokel 2y ago
The test appears to have been implemented as a JavaScript button with a timer. How many people would have simply set a timer for 10 minutes, then wait for a bit and return to the page to see if they had won a prize?
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by smokel 2y ago
I think this is a bit of an oversimplification that does not help to understand the problem at hand. What exactly is "the product" here? Google is constantly innovating and its search engine is in no way comparable to the one fro
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by smokel 2y ago
> The concept was simple to understand; the GPU would examine several real-time frames of a game and analyze the construction of the images using the NPU. Next, the image’s resolution would be reduced, and a ray-traced version of the an
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by smokel 2y ago
Hm, I don't think the "one way of doing things" koan holds up in practice, other than being a nice narrative. Nearly all other languages strive for doing things in one way, it is not something that makes Python unique. In fa
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by smokel 2y ago
Rhombus appears to be a relatively new language, built in the Racket ecosystem, with similar capabilities such as macro expansion. Racket uses a Lisp-style syntax, and Rhombus uses a more Python-like style that could attract a wider audienc
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by smokel 2y ago
There are multiple parts to this problem, but it seems quite doable. Shazam can do generic look-up of music since around 2003, see for example this page on abracadabra [1]. I'd guess that if you limit things to a piano, one could relat
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by smokel 2y ago
Looks nice, but after downloading it, I was a bit disappointed. I mistakenly assumed that this would compare to something like Alfred's Adult Piano Courses [1], but it's much simpler than that. Personally, I doubt that is wise to
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by smokel 2y ago
There is obviously a spectrum at work, as some people seem to be better at visualizing things in their mind than others. This does not surprise me at all. What does surprise me is that most discussions on aphantasia are very similar to tho
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by smokel 2y ago
Seeing most likely takes place deeper in the brain, not in the eyes. One hint for this is that we see the world upside-down by default. Another is the evidence that visual evidence cannot be trusted in a court case. It then seems likely th
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by smokel 2y ago
It may be worth investigating aphantasia from the perspective that space is a latent sequence [1]. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41132023
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by smokel 2y ago
Thank you for your support. I probably shouldn't have mentioned God, and I guess my remark was a little bit too concise. I'm not too familiar with contemporary philosophy, but recent insights brought on by LLMs sure made me want
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by smokel 2y ago
Back in 2004, people had microchips inserted under their skin to enter their discos more quickly. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn5022-clubbers-choose-...
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by smokel 2y ago
Why do you think that? MRI scanners are still terribly expensive machines, for example. And in most countries, the hourly wage for a dentist need not be high. It is more likely that some robot company is going to make a fortune. Whether

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