brandonjm

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by brandonjm 3y ago
I remember going to a planetarium at the local university while in school some 15 years ago. They told us how they use Stellarium to create the skies and Celestia ( https://celestiaproject.space/ ) to create scripted tours fo
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by brandonjm 3y ago
I have also tried one and I had a similar experience but only in some scenarios. It might be a different effect to what you had but I’ll try to explain. In my experience I got a good 3D effect for objects that were right in the center but t
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by brandonjm 5y ago
They did, the README was updated 4 days ago with a banner explaining the situation.
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by brandonjm 7y ago
Typically the AI to detect the AI is exactly what they use to train networks like Deep Fake in the first place. GANs are effectively just a local arms race between two machine learning networks.
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by brandonjm 7y ago
I imagine all the necessary hands are already on deck for Crew Dragon. Starship wasn’t built by the Falcon or Crew Dragon manufacturing teams, and the vast majority of the design and engineering currently happening for Starship has long bee
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by brandonjm 7y ago
It is certainly a little bold of Bridenstine to comment on other space companies being behind schedule given NASA’s own delays.
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by brandonjm 7y ago
This is missing the particularly annoying 'halts for 5 seconds then catches up' option.
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by brandonjm 7y ago
Not parent commenter but they may mean this: Bula (Fijian greeting) [1] The same article also mentions Aloha being trademarked followed by cease and desists being sent restaurants in Hawaii using the word. [1] https://www.rnz.co.
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by brandonjm 7y ago
There are plenty of others but these are some that have stood out to me. SIGGRAPH has a VR Theatre where they show short VR films [1]. EyeJack is a platform for AR art, though you may need to visit an exhibit to see the actual art. [2] [1]
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by brandonjm 7y ago
The renders aren't that bad, but that is a terrible choice for the cutout image given the lighting angle with thin shadows.
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by brandonjm 7y ago
Good question, and you are probably correct, not worth the effort. There was one launch where they broadcast the drone ship landing from a nearby support ship (or helicopter, I don't remember exactly) which was cool to see but I haven&
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by brandonjm 7y ago
> Then the data was compiled and rendered into an image A digital camera is just an array of tiny sensors that detect how much light hit them and a computer takes those values and renders an image from them. > you really think it&#x27
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by brandonjm 7y ago
A fourth reason: Wouldn't a pilot rather spend some time to train for a new potential issue than not know what to do when that issue came up?
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by brandonjm 8y ago
You can choose to publish open access conference papers through IEEE but you have to pay around $2000 (I forget if it was USD or AUD). I'm not sure about the exact costs for an open access Journal paper though. That said, IEEE don&#x27
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by brandonjm 8y ago
Is the contract simply "selling Hololens to the military"? My understanding was that they already had contracts in place to sell them to the military for training purposes and have done so for many years. I was under the impressio
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by brandonjm 8y ago
Also they will not involve humans because it removes their ability to blame the system. If a human employee fails to correctly flag something (which is likely given the sheer volume of incoming content to review) and it slips through, YouTu
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by brandonjm 8y ago
It's more difficult for law enforcement to prosecute illegal usage of social media than other 'utilities'. Given the international nature of most social media, illegal usage could happen anywhere on Earth and no one but local
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by brandonjm 8y ago
We also learn far more from robot/probe missions per million dollars spent than manned missions. The Mars rovers have explored for years on end (albeit slowly) while a manned mission to Mars and back may only be able to stay for a few
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by brandonjm 8y ago
Safari, Chrome and Firefox all do not trust it on macOS as well.
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by brandonjm 8y ago
Curiosity is doing well at about 6.5 years and had a 2 year mission but it probably won't stay fully operational that long. Its RTG could last that long but it will eventually stop producing enough power for the rover to move.
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by brandonjm 8y ago
I had the same question, I don't imagine it takes too many people to decide what it should do and give the robot commands while monitoring it.
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by brandonjm 8y ago
It did have some interesting effects though. I know of several of my old school acquaintances who were very technologically challenged that managed to navigate their network settings far enough to change DNS.
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by brandonjm 8y ago
> their RTX crap I was hyped about RTX when it came out and I'm all for more performant raytracing however my hype has seriously waned since the RTX release due to the lack of support. Until we have more games that support it I&#x27
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by brandonjm 8y ago
> There would be short-term blowback about it and that would pass in a matter of weeks. They could potentially stop selling software products and disable service access entirely. What if all customer photos on iCloud become inaccessible,
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by brandonjm 8y ago
Meanwhile the same guy wanted Australia to become an "innovation nation" [1]. You can not innovate technology without mathematics and when you can not export due to fear of it being compromised. [1] https://www.abc.ne
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by brandonjm 8y ago
Do you mean the "ISP-only" DNS restrictions of 2016? That was just a lame attempt to appease the film and media companies. Unfortunately for Aus Gov, DNS registries are not solely operated by Australia.
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by brandonjm 8y ago
"...while reducing the risk of engine damage caused by knock while running on low octane fuels." That doesn't necessarily mean it reduces the risk of engine damage to zero. The engine still has to knock for the sensors to det
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by brandonjm 8y ago
If humans were forced to start eating "dystopian future soymeat" and stop eating meat, I'm sure it would become far cheaper as it becomes more readily available. As it stands currently, most humans do eat meat so it is cheape
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by brandonjm 8y ago
I experienced this with my PhD topic decision. My focus generally is VR/AR and I was considering looking at health care applications or haptic tech. In the end I decided on haptics because it seemed more interesting however I have ofte
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by brandonjm 8y ago
If you are developing a AAA title with "hyper-realistic graphics" or a more artistic, cinematic game you can use raytracing to achieve effects which are otherwise 'faked', give you unique effects, or just to get more dyn

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