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by tpmx 4y ago
Robotics-driven stop-motion isn't (generally considered?) CGI/Computer Generated Imagery.
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by tpmx 4y ago
"we didn't want any CG in the film" The fire/explosion effects look very CG though. They say they're compositing this through lots of layers of physical objects. Have a look at the fire-shaped cut-outs at around 7m1
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by tpmx 4y ago
Especially when the software-based solution very likely will fail in weather that is very unusual in California but relatively common elsewhere.
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by tpmx 4y ago
Baseline models are relatively affordable but they charge about 5x more for memory and storage than the prices of corresponding PC parts. That's been their trick for decades but it seems like the multiplier has been getting higher la
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by tpmx 4y ago
> They also said the last time they used windows was version 8. No, they say Windows 8 was the last version I used daily .
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by tpmx 4y ago
> The author pulled an old laptop from under their desk The blog post doesn't say it was old. Did you misread So far, I have only used it a couple of times to debug old software I wrote long ago that needed some fixes ?
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by tpmx 4y ago
> They awarded Obama a Nobel before he ever had a chance to do anything. That one was the celebrity-hungry Norwegian Nobel Committee's fault. They award the peace prize.
578.
by tpmx 4y ago
This is the thing I'm always fascinated by in these stories - the complete lack of understanding for why not everyone can have everything in a particular place with finite resources. > I'm in the highest percentiles of income i
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by tpmx 4y ago
There's nothing special about the buildings - the same kind exist all over the country in large numbers.
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by tpmx 4y ago
And how much end-user privacy was thereby saved?
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by tpmx 4y ago
There are plenty of more affordable, densely walkable city areas in Sweden. Every single city in the country is built this way, from the smallest to the largest. That's not the factor. The factor at play here is that these all these pe
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by tpmx 4y ago
Young people are upset they can't live centrally in the capital for cheap. Same story as everywhere else. Now go forth with the ritual flogging, er, downvoting. (I live and work in the countryside of Sweden. I recommend it.)
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by tpmx 4y ago
Watching Corey's LastWeekinAWS Youtube channel (criminally underviewed and not actually weekly) simultaneously makes me chortle (for a former sysadmin he's a pretty good comedian) and become a little sad about about being reminded
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by tpmx 4y ago
We should really all just bow in awe as we are clearly inferior.
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by tpmx 4y ago
Did you also skim the accompanying (or rather, main) repo, https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm ? From a quick clone and line-count, it has: 235 kLOC .scala 136 kLOC .java 22 kLOC .py 7 kLOC .rs So
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by tpmx 4y ago
The article is talking about the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paige_Compositor . It refers to an 1887 patent application with 218 pages. Here's part 1 (specification) at 55 pages: http://www.archive.or
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by tpmx 4y ago
Ugh, that's a depressing thought - needing to enter an aggressively buerocractic field in order to avoid being replaced by an AI. That's probably also a short term fix. I think the (so far) human regulators will soon find that AI&
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by tpmx 4y ago
Volvo seems to be getting it right hardware-wise with it's forthcoming EX90 (electric XC90). 250 meter range LIDAR (kept clear from ice, snow and dirt by it's own heat emisssions and nozzles at the end of the windshield wipers - y
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by tpmx 4y ago
The UK police seem to be doing a disturbing amount of policing around what people say online. I'm not sure if this is part of the anti immigration/brexit campaign or not, but it certainly caused me to cancel my previous idea/
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by tpmx 4y ago
What the actual f? Good thing I don't live in a very high ARPU area. That insulates you from a surprising amount of crazy stuff. I mean, just not living in US/UK will get you quite far.
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by tpmx 4y ago
Found a 1998 Alias|Wavefront video showing an evolution of this concept (starting from a 1990 design according to the intro) - in 6DOF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov8VbxyQ8Yc
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by tpmx 4y ago
Or they are badly managed and are stuck optimizing for some local maxima.
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by tpmx 4y ago
In the end it's about who can do the most (probably low precision) FLOPS/$ - CUDA becomes less of a moat the more established the field becomes and the software settles. There's nothing magical about the low-level arithmetics
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by tpmx 4y ago
They have been going pretty much everywhere with their CUDA runtime. LLMs was a random hit. At the same time, it doesn't seem like a great moat - I think AMD should be to able compete pretty well soon. I think TSMC/Samsung/AS
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by tpmx 4y ago
Yeah. A better counterpoint would have been "but your brain scanning tech is subpar", to which I say phooey, it's a fiction movie.
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by tpmx 4y ago
Yeah. Widths are very badly defined. I also have wide feet; in Europe I find that some random Ecco models fit me well, but finding them is a puzzle every time. They're even worse than Apple when it comes to model name consistency over
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by tpmx 4y ago
Shoe sizes should be at least 2D.
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by tpmx 4y ago
The victimhood claim didn't take long. Sure, that's Lex's editing, but.. Anyway, then read: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34471720 > Ask HN: How did Sam Altman fail upward so well? > 245 points b
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by tpmx 4y ago
Thanks! :)
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by tpmx 4y ago
This is Microsoft PR; please ignore.

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