nuclearsugar

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by nuclearsugar 22d ago
The book that he wrote next, Star Maker, is a wonderful read and is quite early for the genre of scifi. Incredible scope and I still think about it often.
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by nuclearsugar 1mo ago
> “None of our data acquisition programmes buy and destroy rare or antiquarian books.” German booksellers are not convinced. They are sure, based on the vast orders, that the process is happening anyway via third-party service providers.
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by nuclearsugar 2mo ago
Hope the open-weights reduces the VRAM requirement compared to Flux 2.
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by nuclearsugar 3mo ago
This script will extract all of the attachments from a MBOX file - https://gist.github.com/georgy7/3a80bce2cd8bf2f9985c
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by nuclearsugar 3mo ago
I agree with this and have received insights on difficult challenges, but I've found that each year it gets more difficult to find an email address for someone.
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by nuclearsugar 3mo ago
The VJ Curator app is a fork of VLC where you can press the 0-9 hotkeys to easily curate the video clips. After pressing a number key then the video clip will be automatically moved into a folder with a matching number - https://
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by nuclearsugar 3mo ago
A bit of a tangent, but the fictional book "Children of Time" takes this to wild extremes. Really fun read
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by nuclearsugar 8mo ago
For anyone seeking more info, check out these articles - https://www.patreon.com/posts/apple-has-its-on-148395613 https://www.patreon.com/posts/128473586
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by nuclearsugar 8mo ago
I love my Logitech Lift Vertical Ergonomic Mouse since it completely fixed my wrist pain. Also it can memorize 3 different Bluetooth connections and toggle between them via a small button on the bottom. https://www.logitech.com&#
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by nuclearsugar 8mo ago
https://www.jasonfletcher.info/ VJ Loop Artist experimenting with 3D animation, machine learning, and compositing.
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by nuclearsugar 8mo ago
Why'd y'spill yer beans?
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by nuclearsugar 10mo ago
Here are two plugins for After Effects - https://aescripts.com/mask-prompter/ https://aescripts.com/depth-scanner-lite/
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by nuclearsugar 1y ago
Just finished generating alien bugs and then rigging/animating by hand. Loads of fun and very satisfying to visualize the ideas in my mind. https://youtu.be/sMYmnQlF_Ww And here's my tech notes - https:/&#x2
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by nuclearsugar 1y ago
Those of us doing creative production work really don't have a chance since the majority of apps only support Win/Mac. I understand the tech but cannot escape it.
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by nuclearsugar 1y ago
Assume an average user that doesn't understand the core tech, but does understand that it's been trained on internet scale data that was created by humans. How can they be expected to not anthropomorphize it?
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by nuclearsugar 2y ago
I've never heard of Godel's beliefs before. Where did you learn of this?
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by nuclearsugar 2y ago
I think there will certainly be an AI 3D render engine at some point. But currently AI is used in 3D render engines to assist with denoising. https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/2.92/render/layers/den
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by nuclearsugar 2y ago
I recently fine-tuned the Qwen-Coder-7b-Instuct model to generate Milkdrop presets. Pretty amazing to see what can be done locally. https://huggingface.co/InferenceIllusionist/MilkDropLM-7b-v0...
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by nuclearsugar 2y ago
Several years ago I curated through all 52K presets, selected the very best presets, and then organized them into categories and subcategories. So I've been curious if an LLM could be fine-tuned on this dataset. When the Qwen-Coder-7b-
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MilkDropLM – an LLM for generating MilkDrop shader code(huggingface.co)
2 points by nuclearsugar 2y ago|1 comments
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by nuclearsugar 2y ago
I've been obsessed with MilkDrop for a long time. Several years ago I curated through all 52,000 presets, selected the very best presets, and then organized them into categories and subcategories. So I've been curious if an LLM co
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Show HN: MilkDropLM – generate presets for the MilkDrop music visualizer(huggingface.co)
3 points by nuclearsugar 2y ago|1 comments
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by nuclearsugar 2y ago
Star Maker (1937) by Olaf Stapledon
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by nuclearsugar 2y ago
I think its ironic for these pop-ups to frequently only offer "accept necessary" or "accept all"...
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by nuclearsugar 2y ago
I've always figured any device containing a capacitor would fry some part of the board when water short circuited it. Wrong thinking?
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Ask HN: How to grow a concert visuals business?
91 points by nuclearsugar 2y ago|53 comments
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by nuclearsugar 2y ago
While Patreon is often to support an individual artist, it's still a subscription. I wonder how often people sign up and forget they're a member. If your email inbox has 10,000 unreads and you don't check your bank statement,
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by nuclearsugar 2y ago
Plus there really is no replacement for After Effects. Also I have 14 years of prior projects that I sometimes need to reopen, so canceling just isn't an option.
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Kidney Stone Remedies
2 points by nuclearsugar 2y ago|3 comments
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by nuclearsugar 2y ago
Very interesting work! The end result looks fantastic. On a related note, here's an experiment I did using fluids in Maya to create a closeup of Jupiters bands. It was created while I worked at a planetarium - https://thefu

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