goodmachine

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by goodmachine 6mo ago
Nice try, but no: honey is not 'insect vomit.' Honey isn’t actually created or stored in the bee’s stomach. It is excreted through the mouth of the bee: but it is not 'vomit' since it does not empty from the bee's p
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by goodmachine 6mo ago
Stamps for email? This idea has been discussed for decades now. I like it https://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Anti-spam_20_27stamps_27#124...
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by goodmachine 10mo ago
Well, you nailed it there. Nice work
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by goodmachine 1y ago
Wonderful essay! OP's tireless research is appreciated.
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by goodmachine 2y ago
A message from the Skype CEO [NSFW] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI0w_pwZY3E
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by goodmachine 2y ago
"In fact, people have actually made spatial pattern generators that allow you to input the frequency profile that you want, and get the corresponding point pattern out. It’s really quite neat, and I highly recommend reading this paper
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British fusion energy pioneer raises £100M to build first factory(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by goodmachine 2y ago|0 comments
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by goodmachine 2y ago
Hmmm... this is trash. All images are called 'downloaded_image.jpeg' which is hilarious. Who created the image? When? Where? How can I find more from the same book, or by the same artist? Cultural amnesia is one thing, but annihi
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by goodmachine 2y ago
https://cep.museepicassoparis.fr/ Great resource, terrible site. Why can't any serious museum create a good, simple image gallery? Low resolution, missing images, curatorial cruft, bad UI, dead ends. Just show me the w
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by goodmachine 2y ago
In order for that not to happen (uninterpretable ML models) some research on symbolic distillation, aka symbolic regression https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11287 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126&#x2F
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Low-quality studies mean meta-analyses are frequently worse than single studies(cremieux.xyz)
17 points by goodmachine 3y ago|1 comments
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by goodmachine 3y ago
As Gorard has long been at pains to point out (and Wolfram, being preternaturally immodest, has not) the model is a formalism, not a theory . That said, the point of redescribing things we know very well - like QM and GR - in new ways is u
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by goodmachine 3y ago
IANAM but I guess the name for mining OEIS or generating scads of data iteratively for analysis would be empirical mathematics. It's empirical metamathematics if you attempt this with networks of axioms/theories https:/&#x2F
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by goodmachine 3y ago
+1 for human presence. I agree with the commenter upthread that it feels off-puttingly impersonal. Show me the faces! Otherwise, I totally get the problem you're trying to solve so I poked it and quite liked it. As someone with 2091 ye
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by goodmachine 3y ago
Hey, thanks for chiming in! I appreciate the correction. You and Boris seem to have identified the pain-point and got to a similar place independently
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by goodmachine 3y ago
Are you sure? Boris Dalstein first published his work on Vector Graphic Complexes (VGC) at SIGGRAPH in 2014 [1] Figma introduced Vector Networks in 2016 [2] [1] https://www.borisdalstein.com/research/vgc/ [2] htt
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by goodmachine 3y ago
Came here to recommend that great post too. Also, the graphics are much prettier there if you like that kind of thing (which I do).
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by goodmachine 3y ago
Great post! The FSL is interesting because it correctly assumes the existence of parasites, ie 'harmful free-riders'. There are ofc too many projects doing what is in effect free R&D for larger entities... these free riders ha
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by goodmachine 3y ago
Good move! Do you have a link for that? Would be interested to hear it FWIW, the Roland D50 did something similar, and used PCM samples to model the attack/transients... you could then use subtractive synthesis for the body of the soun
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by goodmachine 3y ago
This is a pretty solid list, props to OP for putting his observations all in one place! I definitely agree with 2,3 that clippy hard transients are cool (clipping is in general a bit underrated as a creative synthesis tool). From my general
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by goodmachine 3y ago
Sounds good! Standing by.
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by goodmachine 3y ago
This is exactly right. If you've written further on this subject, I'd like to read it.
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by goodmachine 3y ago
tl;dr: 'Elites' (or at least those to be found in Who's Who) now prefer to affect a taste for 'ordinariness' instead of preferring high culture or horsey pursuits. This is the countersignaling phase: https:/&#
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by goodmachine 3y ago
120 - or twelfty to friends - is a delight. "The long hundred, also known as the great hundred or twelfty,[is the number 120 (in base-10 Hindu-Arabic numerals) that was referred to as hund, hund-teontig, hundrað, hundrath, or hundred i
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by goodmachine 3y ago
Mmm... cadmium
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Towards Monosemanticity: Decomposing Language Models with Dictionary Learning(transformer-circuits.pub)
72 points by goodmachine 3y ago|5 comments
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by goodmachine 3y ago
Yes. But it seems perhaps they haven't even done those things correctly. The project seems to have a slight case of Wolframesque overreach https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.00901 The 8 Fallacies of Assembly Theory https
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by goodmachine 3y ago
That makes sense. If I understand correctly, this 'loopback' technique is being used below as you describe. Alarming video, btw. https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/16uqqrh/ho...
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Plenty of Room Right Here: Biological Systems as Evolved Multi-Scale Machines(mdpi.com)
2 points by goodmachine 3y ago|0 comments
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by goodmachine 3y ago
See also: Quartz Composer

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