orenjacob

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Grok3 vs. ChatGPT(twitter.com)
8 points by orenjacob 2y ago|1 comments
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by orenjacob 2y ago
This is quite the conversation...
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Natural Language and Spreadsheets(sheetlang.ai)
1 points by orenjacob 2y ago|1 comments
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by orenjacob 2y ago
Seen a few attempts at this.. this one seems quite appealing.
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by orenjacob 5y ago
I think the other post above is referring to the version of a Toy Story sequel that was in production down in Burbank at Disney in the early 2000's (after TS2 came out). That production was shut down when Disney and Pixar merged in the
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by orenjacob 5y ago
scrapped - after we got this version of the film back, we decided to rewrite the story. that meant that we substantially rebuild the film in the next year, even after we had recovered the version from Galyn's machine.
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by orenjacob 5y ago
OK, yeah, that would have been another approach. Perhaps the emotion of the moment motivated us to get the machine back on-prem as soon as possible.
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by orenjacob 5y ago
Also, here's the HackerNews thread from 2012 that answers a bunch of additional questions too... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3972798
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by orenjacob 5y ago
Hi folks, I'm the Oren mentioned in the story(ies) above. This comes up on HN every year or two. Quick reference to lots more detail posted here -> https://www.quora.com/Did-Pixar-accidentally-delete-Toy-Stor...
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by orenjacob 5y ago
That’s certainly possible. But if folks on this site don’t know how ToyStory or JurassicPark were rendered back in the day, let alone like almost every movie with CG in it since, that would be a little surprising. But maybe?
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by orenjacob 8y ago
I developed the curriculum for and then taught the first Pixar University course for newly hired Technical Directors (10 weeks, full time, from day 1 when you started). That was probably around the Summer of 1996 as the studio was growing r
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It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle (2004)(paradise.caltech.edu)
234 points by orenjacob 9y ago|87 comments
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NeXT v Xcode 9 beta and ^L ^Y stress(openradar.appspot.com)
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by orenjacob 12y ago
I had been a beekeeper for several years, my daughter manifested an anaphylactic reaction to a sting a year ago, and sadly our bees are now in the Central Valley, but... Yes, the work you mention is significant. But harvesting honey from 4
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by orenjacob 12y ago
For those interested, Beekeeping For Dummies ( http://www.amazon.com/dp/0470430656 ) is actually quite a good way to start. We've had our queen replaced by our swarm and it was quite an amazing thing to witness. Our
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by orenjacob 12y ago
And a link to one of the previous threads here on HN... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3972798
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by orenjacob 12y ago
For more details, here's my answer in a Quuora thread from 2 years ago... http://qr.ae/sjteB
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A record setting drought for California(wunderground.com)
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by orenjacob 13y ago
Has anyone calculated the energy usage of sending a 1kg package 10km alongside 100s of other packages on a diesel powered UPS truck vs sending it by itself, hanging below a battery powered octacopter? How much more/less energy does the
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Fix YouTube/Google+ integration [video](youtube.com)
2 points by orenjacob 13y ago|0 comments
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Pixar’s RenderMan turns 25(fxguide.com)
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by orenjacob 13y ago
I believe Microsoft took one round of venture financing, and that VC (Dave Marquardt) is both still quite an active investor (as founder of August Capital) and is also still on Microsoft's Board. See http://en.wikipedia.org&
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Jurassic Park anyone?(news.nationalpost.com)
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The Steve Jobs quotes, "The Toy Story Story" Wired 1995(wired.com)
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by orenjacob 13y ago
The other responders are correct, in a public place you do not have an expectation of privacy, so a photographer can capture you image and you can't stop them. However, should that photographer chose to publish the image, things get more co
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by orenjacob 13y ago
There can be a very real issue if HN accounts have an age or birthdate associated with them which indicate that the user is under 13. In that situation where knowledge of age is in the hands of the website operator, the FTC has taken notice
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by orenjacob 14y ago
As this gets rolled out to the whole district, has anyone looked into how this plan meshes with COPPA? Seems like a very significant amount of PII will be collected for under-13 year olds on internet connected servers. At the same time, par
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From Stanford LeanLaunchpad class - a laser powered, weed killing robot.(economist.com)
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Microsoft vs Apple fonts and logos(andrewbrettwatson.com)
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by orenjacob 14y ago
In the past, Pixar chose to hold certain patents close to its chest, and then when 3rd party application developers chose to implement similar features, they had to avoid the patents. This meant that industry standard 3rd party software so

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