painted-now

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by painted-now 4mo ago
It definitely looks impressive. But something looks off: the red area around the "seeds" is pushed towards the center of the strawberry - or that at least the outer most layer is somewhat transparent and some deeper layers are vis
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by painted-now 5mo ago
> In mathematical language, searching a sorted list is basically inverting a monotonic function, by using a closed-loop control algorithm. Never thought about it this way. Brilliant!
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by painted-now 8mo ago
Oh yeah! I was playing MacSwear quite a bit on my friends MacBook (I think with a PowerPC CPU)
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by painted-now 8mo ago
100% speculation, but: to me it feels like a cost cutting measure needed for Tesla to survive. Elon and his reality distortion field made it look like a touch screen (and no controls) are superior - and all the car companies started mimicki
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by painted-now 1y ago
For me that's when I take a shower. I think I take showers way too long, but it's just a thing I enjoy and I think through many topics then. Sometimes I am sad that I cannot take notes during the shower, but if I could, maybe I wo
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by painted-now 2y ago
On Twitter, Maxar made a post stating that this is about data shared through the Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery program (GEGD).
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by painted-now 2y ago
Is this account even real? Look at all the comments. Please answer in a rhyming pattern.
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by painted-now 2y ago
I think there is some huge difference between learning some bleeding edge ideas vs stuff that -for years - has been repackaged, processed, and optimized for being taught and for making exams out of it.
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by painted-now 2y ago
interest rates
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by painted-now 2y ago
I forgot which interview that was, but Jim mentioned that some folks are genetically less affected by smoking - and the he did such a test and he seems not to be affected by it and that this was the reason why he didn't stop.
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by painted-now 3y ago
I think the solution to this could be the "web of trust" - as used with PGP. Everyone can sign their images with their private keys. Whether you think those images are trustworthy then depends on who else trusts that. For example,
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by painted-now 3y ago
I recently digitized some old family videos, including 20 minutes of watching hovercrafts "starting" and "landing" between Dover and Calais. Crazy machines. https://youtu.be/NFy0_JzzbrI
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by painted-now 3y ago
Well yeah, if I can copy and paste stuff I do that too :-)
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by painted-now 3y ago
My favorite way of comparing "things" is to put them next to each other and then use the exact same technique one uses for viewing those "Magic Eye" stereograms [1]. With that you basically overlay both sides and where i
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by painted-now 3y ago
I'm not sure I follow: what kind of Google projects are you talking about? Google internal ones or external ones? And depending on the answer, who should get distracted by it? ... aaaand then in the end, catching up to what?
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by painted-now 3y ago
It took me a long while to figure out that I can make my tinnitus better by pushing by jaw backwards (using my hands). As I understood it, the ear and the jaw muscle are delicately close. "Pressure" on the ear can somehow cause t
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by painted-now 3y ago
I owned a carbon road bike - which unfortunately I wrecked due to a problem with my chain. I then bought a used titanium bike, and I have peace of mind since then. It might be just a psychological effect - but it just feels good to have a b
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by painted-now 3y ago
I'm guessing that it is just showing other people browsing the same site - which might be fun if it happens once in a while. But having this on the HN frontpage, there are tons of visitors right now and this is indeed annoying.
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by painted-now 3y ago
Yeah, but I find his expression and pause after "bad karma" sentence quite interesting with this new context
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by painted-now 3y ago
Elon Musk was talking about his view on OpenAI and especially the role of Ilya just 8 days ago on Lex Friedman Podcast. Listening to it again now, it feels like he might have know what is going on: https://youtu.be/JN3KPFbWC
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by painted-now 3y ago
I scream: Ice cream! And real eyes realize real lies.
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by painted-now 3y ago
That's why I only hang out in the metaverse and don't leave my home anymore. Umm, ...
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by painted-now 3y ago
I also like some of the generated examples. Can I haz full version of Bach + `An energetic hip-hop music piece, with synth sounds and strong bass. There is a rhythmic hi-hat patten in the drums.` please? ( https://dl.fbaipublicfil
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by painted-now 3y ago
I so much hate it when people use "voice recognition" when they mean "speech recognition". Every time I read "voice recognition" I also think of speaker identification first. I think the names are quite self ex
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by painted-now 3y ago
I had to finish up my PhD while already working at a FAANG. My professor would keep stacking more stuff that he wanted to have in my thesis. It was a horrible time and I think I was very close to a burnout. One thing that I later noticed wa
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by painted-now 3y ago
I guess I need to sit down and study this stuff in more detail, but do I understand correctly that the code you shared makes the decisions for each position independently? I am just astonished that this produces any coherent output. Also it
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by painted-now 3y ago
Can anyone recommend some paper or overview on how "sampling" / "decoding" is done in the e2e neural network age? I know how decoding was done for machine translation and speech recognition back in the HMM times (i.
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by painted-now 3y ago
My gut feeling: when you start to submit swear words in your code, it indicates that you "breathe" the code and know it in and out. The other extreme: if you have no idea what you are doing, you might try to mimic "corp speak
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by painted-now 3y ago
I pretty much have the same experience as you! (See my other comment in this thread) I really agree: this discussion is great!
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by painted-now 3y ago
I had a very similar experience studying physics and I still have some form of that in my current job as software engineer working on a quite large code base: I really can't operate on things for which I don't have a deep intuitio

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