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by lambdaloop 6mo ago
There is sooo much hype around this, when the Eon team did almost nothing new compared to the published research. (For context I did my PhD in a fly motor control lab and still follow this field. My colleagues are authors on the research pa
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by lambdaloop 7mo ago
This is fascinating! Having a really strong video encoder model and then a simpler decoder from that reminds me of the recent D4RT from DeepMind as well: https://d4rt-paper.github.io/ I think we'll see more of these vi
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by lambdaloop 9mo ago
Does streaming compression work if some packets are lost or arrive in a different order? Seems like the compression context may end up different on the encoding/decoding side.. or is that handled somehow?
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by lambdaloop 2y ago
This is amazing, I just ran it and it works perfectly for my needs! For context, I recently switched to the KDE window manager (KWin) after a decade of xmonad, to simplify my configuration. KWin supports some tiling but isn't really bu
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by lambdaloop 3y ago
I'm not OP, but I've been interested in something like this, but from the perspective of memory systems within oral cultures. I'd love to talk more! I wonder if you know (and maybe have thoughts about) the arrangement of anci
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by lambdaloop 3y ago
I read her whole retrospective last summer and it was the story that made me feel like I not only had a place as a trans woman in science, but could be ambitious as well! Retrospective: https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people&#x2F
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by lambdaloop 3y ago
There was a radiolab episode about the other side, interviewing the people advocating for critical theory in debate: https://radiolab.org/podcast/debatable It's true that it goes against the debate in the moment,
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by lambdaloop 3y ago
I don't know, as a neuroscientist this is very confusing. Blue light generally is linked to arousal, as in this study for instance: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32973462/ I wonder if there is some paradoxical e
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State of the Art in Animal Tracking(writings.lambdaloop.com)
2 points by lambdaloop 3y ago|0 comments
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by lambdaloop 3y ago
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2730/
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by lambdaloop 3y ago
Ahh that's right, I remember using the steam-run wrapper a lot. If I remember correctly, it would work in 80% of cases and fail on the last 20% (usually if some library is missing or if it has some strange binary installation procedure
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by lambdaloop 3y ago
I've had a rather similar experience with NicOS a few years ago. I did get comfortable with the language and even contributed a small package! I did like having a reproducible config file for my whole OS setup. However, everything was
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by lambdaloop 3y ago
For the past couple years, I've been using this hacked version of xf86-input-evdev (by Teika Kazura), which allows the use of a space bar for the space and as a "control" modifier if held: https://github.com/l
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by lambdaloop 3y ago
It's funny, I was just thinking about this article this morning. When I first read it over 10 years ago, this quote really struck with me: > Another personality defect is ego assertion and I'll speak in this case of my own exp
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From Matlab to Python with ChatGPT: Lessons from porting a light-field framework(writings.lambdaloop.com)
2 points by lambdaloop 3y ago|0 comments
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by lambdaloop 3y ago
Everyone has their own machine with a hard drive containing their data. Google drive is the secondary cloud backup.
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by lambdaloop 3y ago
This is with a regular Google Workspace plan, independent of the university-wide research plan. The research plan unlimited storage is indeed going away for us as well ( https://itconnect.uw.edu/tools-services-support/s
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by lambdaloop 3y ago
Google drive is great for storing research data. I work it in a fly neuroscience lab and we use it to store all our electrophysiology and video data. Each person in the lab is storing on average 5TB of data, and the lab as a whole stores 10
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Thinking through AI developments by analogy with computer history(musings.lambdaloop.com)
1 points by lambdaloop 4y ago|0 comments
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by lambdaloop 4y ago
Responding to this video, I really liked this take from Aaron Blaise (animator on Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin and director of Brother Bear) on AI in animation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm7BwEsdVbQ > To be ho
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by lambdaloop 4y ago
Ohh good idea. Will write it sometime. If you're interested in the progress in animal tracking, I wrote a post summarizing some up and coming research here: https://writing.lambdaloop.com/posts/cv4animals-2021&#x2F
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by lambdaloop 4y ago
As I was told, pretty much any PhD graduate can get a postdoc somewhere. PhD -> postdoc transition is really about whether you want to stay in academia at all. From my rough impressions, maybe about 10% of the grad students I know are th
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by lambdaloop 4y ago
Yes absolutely this! This is 100% a thing in the US as well. Moving around between undergrad and PhD has wrecked my social life. Many of the students in my program are not doing a postdoc because they don't want to move out of Seattle.
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by lambdaloop 4y ago
That's a great point! Honestly this was a quick post I wrote to practice writing and wrote it from my own personal experiences. I agree with you about research being really open ended, which makes it hard. Several of us have dealt with
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by lambdaloop 4y ago
That's true, I meant to write that it's on the upper end. I think my current stipend is about $36k for a neuroscience PhD in Seattle. I've updated it to this: > A "good" STEM PhD student stipend in the US is abou
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by lambdaloop 4y ago
Oh this is wild, I didn't expect this to make it anywhere outside of my little site. Thanks for dropping in!
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by lambdaloop 4y ago
All the comments here are so negative for such a beautiful essay! This paragraph at the end in particular really struck a chord with me: > In the real world, people associate computers with many different things: corporate dehumanization
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by lambdaloop 4y ago
I had some similar thoughts a few days ago. In personal projects, it's better to value the process rather than the end result. This way, you get excited by playing around with a thing and discovering new aspects about it. So what if th
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by lambdaloop 4y ago
Like the other commenters have written here, art is a lot more fluid than you give it credit for. Professional illustrators will always have work, but their work may be in a different shape than current one, relying on AI as an additional t
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by lambdaloop 4y ago
I read this article 10 years ago and have since revered these little YKK zippers and paid particular attention to how well they work in practice. They're... okay. At the end of the day, they're still zippers. They do jam less than

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