N1ckFG

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by N1ckFG 17d ago
In my experience so far, separately from privacy concerns there's a specific use case where cheap local shines--when unlimited shots on /goal with a dumber model is better than limited time with a smarter model. This looks less li
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by N1ckFG 2mo ago
It's also New Wave science fiction, and once you get past the conlang and the genre conventions, it's still incredibly violent! Kubrick iirc even once said in an interview that he removed some book scenes from his (initially X-rat
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by N1ckFG 3mo ago
In my experience, yes to hardware-accelerated video from CLI--running in EGL mode, with no window manager, that RPi model works very well. (A C++ app that uses video as a texture can be surprisingly performant, too.) But no to playing video
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by N1ckFG 4mo ago
An imo fascinating wrinkle that the article doesn't get into, Black Forest's main use case for their Flux models is "analytical" (modifying the user's pre-existing material, storyboards in this case) rather than &qu
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by N1ckFG 4mo ago
imo it's not setting up the site once that's the problem, it's keeping it maintained indefinitely without making mistakes, because hostile automated systems will keep on rattling the doorknob like Jurassic Park velociraptors.
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by N1ckFG 10mo ago
Afaik the basis of the Bluetooth thing is that out of all the different kinds of spread-spectrum radio we use now, Bluetooth happens to be the closest to her original design. So it's a drastic simplification, but not wrong.
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by N1ckFG 1y ago
Informative-Drawings already has monocular depth estimation built in--that's why its line results are so beautifully consistent. But without this extra step combining results from multiple camera positions, you get 2.5D geometry, not 3
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by N1ckFG 1y ago
Afaik it's a misconception that MRT necessarily involves the destruction of an embryo. The spindle transfer method transplants the mother's egg's DNA into the donor's egg before fertilization, so only one embryo is ever
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by N1ckFG 2y ago
Afaik they do respond to DMCA requests for the individual uploads, and they do more active curation for the collections where only specific user accounts have upload access.
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by N1ckFG 3y ago
Yeah it's a common misconception; I think it's it's because After Effects has far outlived the source of its original UI metaphor, the Oxberry (rostrum) animation camera, which at this point few people still have firsthand ex
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by N1ckFG 3y ago
And imo up till now the original Java flavor of Processing has been maintained very well! They've kept up with Java versions, done an Apple ARM port, added modern conveniences like debuggable shaders and a library to run ONNX ML models
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by N1ckFG 3y ago
Based on price/performance alone an 8GB RPi 4 doesn't make sense even in its own category--it can't compete with an Nvidia Jetson. But if you're doing a lot of Pi work then the more expensive models earn their keep as de
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by N1ckFG 3y ago
It's a matter of resources and time imo. Blender is currently about thirty people and started in 1994; Krita and Gimp are each currently four people and both started in 1998. (Also, 3D graphics turned out to have a Blender-shaped hole-
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by N1ckFG 3y ago
I bet most of the community here defaults to Following (non-curated timeline). Mine's gotten a lot quieter, without as many interesting threads cutting across fields, but talking to friends hasn't changed. However I've seen t
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by N1ckFG 4y ago
imo the "echo chamber" scenario would be if you only followed people from your local server, and also set your posts to only show there. If you set your posts to public and gather a couple hundred mutuals...I find the Mastodon 202
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by N1ckFG 4y ago
Experimental animation: https://youtube.com/n1ckfg
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by N1ckFG 4y ago
Yeah y'all are right, I can't find anything to support the notion the HoloLens 2 uses an Android fork for its OS. (Possibly the person who told me this had it confused with Magic Leap...?)
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by N1ckFG 4y ago
Afaik theoretically you could reproduce any image in the training set using the full weights (not a fraction of them) and the correct prompt. In practice since this is an extremely lossy process, some or most of them aren't reproducibl
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by N1ckFG 4y ago
HoloLens 2 switched to <strike>Android</strike> ARM and UWP apps running on heavily modified Android, but imo the insistence on hand tracking as the primary interface still walled it off from the other Android XR developer
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by N1ckFG 4y ago
There's an Eevee update in the works that includes some Lumen ideas, real emissive materials for instance (iirc). Even for now, you can dive into the options and enable some stuff like refraction that defaults to off for the folks with
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by N1ckFG 4y ago
Mastodon's at the "email in 1994" stage--the general public is starting to become aware that it exists, and folks who were running small servers for their own purposes suddenly find themselves in a position to earn social cap