riotnrrd

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by riotnrrd 4mo ago
I just had my hole inspected and all the preparation was with over-the-counter supplies. My prep drink was gatorade with some flavorless powder mixed in. It made no change in the taste or texture of this drink. Having the squirts for a day
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by riotnrrd 5mo ago
This was done in 2012: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOCK_Act
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by riotnrrd 6mo ago
It's a tech demo.
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by riotnrrd 7mo ago
When you post on a public forum defending child pornography, it's maybe a good time to take a step back and evaluate your life.
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by riotnrrd 7mo ago
What are saying? Spell it out for us.
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by riotnrrd 7mo ago
We'll worry about that when the Presidency and both houses of Congress are controlled by the Communist Party
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by riotnrrd 8mo ago
If you're not afraid of DIY and it looking (much) uglier than these lamps, you can buy extremely bright "cob lights" and make something yourself: https://meaningness.com/sad-light-lumens
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by riotnrrd 8mo ago
It takes an act of Congress to change the name. Trump just made one of his dictatorial proclamations.
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by riotnrrd 8mo ago
That's a pretty well-solved problem at this point, if you want to do it yourself. You'll want some kind of NeRF tool and a way to calculate the camera poses of the photos you took. COLMAP is the tool most people use for the latter
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by riotnrrd 9mo ago
NVIDIA has been selling automotive-specific silicon for a decade.
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by riotnrrd 10mo ago
We experimented with a rig with more cameras on it (four, in a square) but the baseline of the cameras on the drones we were using could be measured in centimeters, so the vertical stereo pairs didn't provide much better results. Furt
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by riotnrrd 10mo ago
All cables? Everywhere in the entire country? Accurate to the centimeter level and updated on the hour? Edit: This was flippant, but the real issues are: any map you get will be incomplete and obsolete almost immediately and cables move and
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by riotnrrd 10mo ago
Statistics are not theft. Judges have written over and over again that training a neural network (which is just fitting a high-dimensional function to a dataset) is transformative and therefore fair use. Putting it another way, me summariz
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by riotnrrd 10mo ago
I used to work in perception for autonomous aerial vehicles and horizontal wires were the hardest common object to avoid. Traditional stereo won't help you localize them -- wires are thin so even mere detection can be hard, and one po
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by riotnrrd 11mo ago
> My naive understanding is that by having skins be worth tangible and significant value; this was the primary motivator for players to purchase keys to unbox cases, which was the dominant direct revenue generator for CS. Yes. The Valve
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by riotnrrd 11mo ago
I used to work at Valve -- on the CS:GO team, no less -- although I left nearly a decade ago. I don't know what prompted this change but I have some suspicions. Even when I was there and the loot box system was new to CS:GO, there we
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by riotnrrd 1y ago
I would say the Federal Government is different from a private company.
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by riotnrrd 1y ago
One of the difficulties -- and one that is currently a big problem in LLM research -- is that comparisons with or evaluations of commercial models are very expensive. I co-wrote a paper recently and we spent more than $10,000 on various SOT
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by riotnrrd 1y ago
> Specifically, the new paper finds that the mud is between 20,700 and 22,400 years old If these results are as strong as they claim, this absolutely nukes the Clovis-first hypothesis.
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by riotnrrd 1y ago
I worked with Nick back in the ILM R&D group. He's an incredibly kind man and one of the best developers I've ever met; truly a genius.
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by riotnrrd 2y ago
In your rush to condemn it, did you actually read the linked article? Let me quote: "These tests [...] were “supposedly applicable to both white and black prospective voters who couldn’t prove a certain level of education” (typically
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by riotnrrd 2y ago
> I've never been involved in films, but from my own experience, the answer is a strong 'yes' I worked in film visual effects for a decade and the answer is a strong 'no.' In my case, we were in it for the enjoym
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by riotnrrd 2y ago
Data augmentation in CPU-space is often compute-light, but requires rapid access to memory. There are libraries (like NVIDIA's Dali) that can do augmentation on the GPU, but this takes up GPU resources that could be used by training.
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by riotnrrd 2y ago
Having worked in film in the US, I developed a deep hatred of film tax breaks because they work. "Work" in the sense that studios will chase them, and they make it harder for companies outside a tax-advantaged location to compet
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by riotnrrd 2y ago
The effects of relativity cause that thought experiment to fall apart quickly. I build two clocks, and send one to alpha centauri and back in a spaceship. When the travelling clock gets back to Earth it will be showing a different time (bec
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by riotnrrd 2y ago
I used to work in film, although not in the accountancy/deal-making aspect. Film tax breaks are direct discounts on money spent. If you make a film in Georgia, for example, you get a transferable tax credit (20-30%) on money spent in
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by riotnrrd 2y ago
> i mean does the pay stub simply not reflect all the hours they worked? That's very common, yes. Bosses simply lie about the hours worked or force employees to work undocumented hours. > are they talking about overtime? Overtim
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by riotnrrd 3y ago
Similar questions netted me about $7000 from the Google age discrimination class-action lawsuit.
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by riotnrrd 3y ago
Not really. If you include the costs of marketing and distribution, a film needs to gross about twice its "budget" to break even. Furthermore, this rule of thumb only applies to US gross, where studios get much more of the actual
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by riotnrrd 3y ago
What brand and model did you buy? I've been looking for something like this for my family.

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