hallgrim

6 ms·

1.
by hallgrim 5d ago
As far as I heard they had that strategy as a possibility for decades, US experts had warned the current and prior administrations about it’s possible ramifications, warning against attacking Iran for exactly this reason. The previous Germa
2.
by hallgrim 9d ago
If you follow the ideology of the Silicon Valley billionaire types, based around Ayn Rand (eg “Atlas Shrugged”) and Curtis Yarvin, as well as what Thiel himself has said over the years, the Antichrist is governmental institutions, seen as t
3.
by hallgrim 20d ago
The author is just expressing amusement at the surprising simplicity of the resulting algorithm
4.
by hallgrim 21d ago
They should add labels for auto-tune as well, so I can filter it out more easily
5.
by hallgrim 21d ago
“Hey, I disinvite you from my board game nights, so now your apartment can delight in your prolonged presence!”
6.
by hallgrim 27d ago
The food “photography” I’ve noticed in our local area - and many have started putting up these AI images - all have a weird distribution of shapes to them, a strangely uniform rhythm of same-sized features with almost blue-noise spacing. Ev
7.
by hallgrim 1mo ago
Also, I know this isn’t the definition of free speech per se. Hence the nod at citizens united which made a farce of the whole concept.
8.
by hallgrim 1mo ago
Government funding didn’t use to be political. Humanities existed and got funding even during republican presidents. It has been made political relatively recently. That’s one of my issues.
9.
by hallgrim 1mo ago
*devolution
10.
by hallgrim 1mo ago
Well, the government funds science projects in general, and now they are limiting it based on a very loose list of terms related to ideas counter to their own ideology. The idea of freedom of speech is to not limit expression of ideas count
11.
by hallgrim 1mo ago
Funny. For me, instrumental music is just as distracting. If I don’t know the music I listen to well enough, my attention will go there and make any coding or reading impossible.
12.
by hallgrim 1mo ago
Another awkward overlap with the use of “AI” exists in games, too. Because here AI just means behavior, from a simple Goomba walking left to right to smart squads of soldiers coordinating, taking cover etc.
13.
by hallgrim 1y ago
Check out swiftbar (see my other comment) https://github.com/swiftbar/SwiftBar
14.
by hallgrim 1y ago
On macOS there is xBar (haven't tried it) and SwiftBar [1] Its really cool because it lets you use any shell-executable file, including bash scripts, python scripts (with shebangs and made executable), as a menu bar tool. The standard
15.
by hallgrim 2y ago
I would disagree with this. The prefix notation isn’t hard to understand, but even if I am familiar with how it works, it still requires the reader to do conversion, whereas when I write “a + b” in most other languages, it is quite clear to
16.
by hallgrim 2y ago
Not sure but turbulent diffusion might be an example? Fluid dynamics is emergent from its constituent particles, creating sometimes vortices etc. which can decay into ever smaller vortices through the fluid’s coarser dynamics. At some point
17.
by hallgrim 3y ago
Unfortunately the blog post is so poorly worded that I'm not sure after that. My reading, too, is that once you reach the threshold, you pay for those first 200k installs, too! The table says 'per install', not 'per addi
18.
by hallgrim 5y ago
I can recommend Andrew Trask’s tutorials and even his book on this. The (e-)book doesn’t go too in-depth with more complex NN applications, but you start out implementing your own NN from scratch using only numpy, which I thought was helpfu
19.
by hallgrim 5y ago
We tried using intel python in one of my previous data science jobs, and ultimately gave up because compatibility with some packages from pip was a nightmare. Alas I can’t quite remember exactly what went wrong.
20.
by hallgrim 5y ago
I agree. So far I have never heard any good arguments for why it should be more than an emergent property. Any aspect of consciousness that is usually brought up can either be attributed to some brain function, or the aspect is a wishy wash
21.
by hallgrim 5y ago
What aspect of consciousness does it not explain?
22.
by hallgrim 5y ago
Is it possible that becoming religious has not equipped you with helpful models, but rather it has led you to project your approach to understanding the world onto others? That last paragraph really screams that. I’ve had and witnessed many
23.
by hallgrim 5y ago
Watching day9 explain Starcraft 2 build orders opened my eyes to the powers of recognizing and optimizing for constraints you cannot do anything about, as well as the importance of scouting (I.e. experimenting for the sake of learning), as
24.
by hallgrim 5y ago
Exactly! One aspect to remember is that once you have a self—replicating mechanism, by the nature of it, the replicating parts are becoming more widespread. In other words, small effects with larg, self—reinforcing consequences.
25.
by hallgrim 6y ago
Yes. I think it has to do with the sheer amount of precise information needing to be kept in working memory to be able to complete the tasks. Switching tasks means lots of bandwidth wasted exchanging that information.
26.
by hallgrim 6y ago
In my experience this is absolutely wrong. Context switching is one of those essentials that you cannot cheat or improve upon. It’s like assuming that if I walk to work often enough, eventually it won’t burn any calories because I got so go
27.
by hallgrim 6y ago
They are not deplatformed for their political beliefs, but for their non-moderation of calls for violence. If this happens to be what somebodies politics is about, tough luck. But it’s not the same as persecution.
28.
by hallgrim 6y ago
Huh. I wonder if this is also the reason why my unity game stuttered below 30fps even in menus on a galaxy s6 until I put it to sleep and woke it back up.
29.
by hallgrim 6y ago
I guess Apple just does t like to depend on anyone anymore. It’s not like there hasn’t been legal fighting between Apple and Qualcomm about this very issue: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/14/18307820/app
30.
by hallgrim 6y ago
I can take comments like this seriously only if you are a full-on convinced communist. “A company making profits!?!? By providing a whole industry with extreme value?!?!? With products people love to spend money on????”

More ›