csmoak

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by csmoak 14d ago
Good point, re: the CA law. The rule for text output may be limited to the EU AI Act, which Anthropic notes as a reason in the linked article about its implementation.
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by csmoak 14d ago
As far as I can tell, this and the recent change to add watermarking to text outputs[1], is to become compliant with the EU AI Act[2] and CA's AI Transparency Act[3], SB-942[4]. For large enough companies, all generated AI content is r
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by csmoak 2mo ago
I guess the fact we see any at all given the distance and small angles just emphasizes how many there are out there...
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by csmoak 2mo ago
Oh nice, I had not zoomed out enough. I don't think I've seen the relativistic jets rendered before. The AR mode looks great on my phone. Yep, I had fun learning a lot about punchcards, Fortran, and the math behind black holes. I
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by csmoak 2mo ago
I think the contrast between the two sides is typically greater with an optically thick disk, and it looks like you are rendering an optically thin disk. I think that's the main difference from what I was expecting when I saw it. Very
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by csmoak 2mo ago
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it feels like the leading edge of the accretion disk (coming towards the viewer) should be significantly brighter than it is shown here, and the trailing edge (going away from) should be significantl
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by csmoak 2mo ago
Interesting choice to build in Greensboro. That's also where Boom chose to build a factory and it looks massive as you leave the airport. The plan for this company's factory looks like it will be significantly larger.
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by csmoak 7mo ago
this reminds me of Polyworld by Larry Yaeger, an artifical life sim where each creature has a vision system. i played around with this back in the early 2000s though the hardware i had access to was basically insufficient to run it in any r
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by csmoak 8mo ago
whenever i hear about a Cray, i'm always reminded of the scene in the movie Sneakers where they sit on one to have a conversation
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by csmoak 9mo ago
i made some art on this site years ago. some people used this to make plottable art. plotting it is definitely a slower way to watch it work through a drawing :)
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by csmoak 9mo ago
turtletoy was made back around 2018 before web assembly was generally available.
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by csmoak 9mo ago
you can download each as an SVG and then render it out at any resolution using something like inkscape
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by csmoak 10mo ago
The main benefit I see is being able to more accurately represent different light sources. This applies to transmission but also reflectance. sRGB and P3, what most displays show, by definition use the D65 illuminant, which approximates &qu
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by csmoak 10mo ago
The only applications I'm aware of that currently do spectral rendering on the fly are painting apps. I have one called Brushwork ( https://brushworkvr.com ) that upsamples RGB from 3 to a larger number of samples spread ac
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by csmoak 11mo ago
i would expect the more dense part to be the smaller gamut that can be made with paint since we've been naming those colors for a lot longer than the larger gamut that can be made with a screen. The paint/print gamut looks kinda l
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Tell HN: Mechanical Turk is twenty years old today
94 points by csmoak 11mo ago|62 comments
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by csmoak 11mo ago
there is a cool project that explores this topic: https://coolcolors.lbl.gov/
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by csmoak 11mo ago
dreams on playstation and unbound on pc both use sdfs to allow users to make truly round objects for games
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by csmoak 1y ago
diffraction grating wouldnt give you a controlled lighting environment (illuminant). they seem to handle that issue here by using a known spectral reference chart which might let them handle any normal lighting environment.
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by csmoak 1y ago
i lived about a half mile from this house in the same neighborhood -- it could be a lot more expensive if it had the view some properties around there have. note that mulholland dr is just up the street from the house. this overlook is wort
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by csmoak 1y ago
https://www.roundabout.tech/ tackles this problem
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by csmoak 2y ago
diaspora by greg egan is a good example
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by csmoak 2y ago
sliding scale of other liquors of varying subjective quality
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by csmoak 2y ago
the bar Little Brother in Austin has a fun deal. for $5, you roll a d20 and if you get a 20 you get a shot of whistle pig. anything 1-5 and you get a shot of malort.
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by csmoak 5y ago
The speed limit went up to 85 in Texas. It seemed to max out at 75 or 80 in other places. I'm not sure if an extra 5-10mph made the difference, but it could have.
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by csmoak 5y ago
How do you look at spamming private messages to many recipients, resulting in a similar effect to posting publicly? I know of bullying on FB where the harasser sends the same message to dozens of friends of the harassed. FB makes this easy
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by csmoak 5y ago
I just drove across the US (down the east coast, across the south, up the Rockies) and found I had to do this only after driving across Texas.
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by csmoak 6y ago
In Windows Explorer, if you click to the right of the breadcrumbs, you will get a text input with the full path to the current directory. If a solution for URLs were to attempt to switch to breadcrumbs (seems like it should be site-configur
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by csmoak 6y ago
Yes. Here's a video that describes an approach using neural networks to estimate physics instead of using a traditional simulation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atcKO15YVD8
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by csmoak 10y ago
If you are interested in exploring a world where something like what you suggest is a generally-accepted part of life, check out the book Super Sad True Love Story. http://supersadtruelovestory.com/ This novel is set in a w

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