dr_scully

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by dr_scully 7d ago
I think the main point is the ubiquity of AI intelligence. If there is a human far surpassing me, but unavailable to me, then I have to work through it myself. If the answer is a prompt away, then why bother.
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by dr_scully 13d ago
He also made a video on the same topic for Big Think: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49551848
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Terence Tao: Speed in science isn't the same thing as progress [video](youtube.com)
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by dr_scully 1mo ago
In theory, you can construct a skin model of any condition you want. It would be a case of knowing the concentration, scattering profiles and reflectance spectra of any chromophores. For the thesis, I wrote a Monte Carlo skin simulator usin
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by dr_scully 1mo ago
That’s sounds very interesting. I’m not sure. In the thesis, I generated spectral curves and transformed them using the light and camera sensitivity curves. So, in theory it could be used in any color space. But I can’t vouch for the accura
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by dr_scully 1mo ago
We used the approximation that the hypodermis was a perfectly white reflector; so the thickness wouldn’t matter. The collagen fibrills scatter light in such a way to create a yellower tint. So a person’s skin might appear this way in the ab
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by dr_scully 1mo ago
If you look at my doctoral thesis, in fact skin colour can be parametrised using melanin and haemoglobin concentration; which it means it is indeed (roughly) two dimensional. This allows you to invert the colour of a pixel and identify some
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by dr_scully 3y ago
If you ask it to write GLSL code implementing Signed Distance Fields, it can generate a 3D rendering of a unicorn as well. Just paste it into ShaderToy. I asked it to implement animation as well, for the legs, and it manage to do something