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by subb 9mo ago
Definitely not _only_ knowledge.
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by subb 9mo ago
I suspect a lot of people but especially nerdy folks might mix up knowledge and intelligence, because they've been told "you know so much stuff, you are very smart!" And so when they interact with a bot that knows everything,
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by subb 10mo ago
There's a spectrum of human involvement in producing a thing, and art is possibly the last thing I want to see automate. In the end, art is about human connection. There's a difference between an print of some generated AI slop fo
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by subb 11mo ago
Unfortunately, it seems like we will not reach any agreement here.
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by subb 11mo ago
The problem is that we mix up physical and perception, including in our language. If you look at the physical stuff, there's nothing in this specific range of EM radiation that is different from UV or IR light (or further). The physica
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by subb 11mo ago
Yes exactly. I'm intentionally using "color" as a perceptual thing, not as a physical thing. If we are talking about a color model, then it needs to model perception. As such, RGB, as a predictor of perception, can often fail
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by subb 11mo ago
They are very useful to encode stimuli, but stimuli is "not yet" color. When you have an image that is not just a patch of RGB value, a lot of things will influence what color you will compute based on the exact same RGB. Akiyoshi
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by subb 11mo ago
Except color is a construction of your eye-brain derived from stimuli, surround, memories, etc. It's definitely not something you can plug into a three-value model. Those are good stimuli encoding space, however. The distinction betwee
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by subb 1y ago
Maybe that's a language issue, because purple and violet are color names around here. And as such, they are both a construct of the brain, as any other colors, like... white. What we label as "violet wavelength" is only a nar
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by subb 1y ago
No, they are all constructed, including blue. If I shine some wavelength to your eyeball and you say "it looks blue", but then I change the surrounding and now it looks white, I don't think you would conclude that the origina
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by subb 1y ago
The waves aren't inherently special, your retina is. What if we were sensitive to the 200 to 500nm range? What would be blue, violet and red then? Our eyes and brain are the one constructing what we perceive as color. It doesn't e
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by subb 1y ago
You did send a specific wavelength to your retina, but that wasn't violet. Because violet is a construct by your brain. Color is not a property of wavelength. There's nothing special about photons wiggling in the 380 to 750nm rang
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by subb 2y ago
Sidestepping what is defined as an "edge", quite a lot of work is done in the retina, including differential computation across cones - some "aggregator" cells will fire when it detect lines, movement, etc. You can read
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by subb 2y ago
Consider that just after the cone cells, there are other cells doing some computation / aggregate of cone signals. Don't forget that color is a brain construct. For those reasons (and others), there's often a strong disconnec
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by subb 2y ago
Capitalism is generally good at the startup scale, to figure out who has the best ideas. Once we have collectively decided (or was forced into) a single or a few implementations, good job, you won! Now you are non-profit / state-owned
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by subb 3y ago
Games are not the real world. When you play a game, you are look at an image. For the current topic, motion blur in games is like motion blur with a camera, not like when you turn your head. It's photorealism, not realism.
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by subb 3y ago
Anyone permanently burned their retina yet?
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by subb 3y ago
Let me know when we have the tech to render the real sun's power on your TV screen. Reproduction of reality is not the goal, because it's unachievable.
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by subb 3y ago
The information travelling down the optic nerve is already processed heavily by the retina. At a minimum, you have compression by differentiation, i.e. a bunch of rods and cones are bundled together by comparing their signal. But I suppose
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by subb 4y ago
You cannot watch raw footage without some transformation unfortunately. It's better to think of RAW as pure data, just like infrared telescope capture data needs transformation to be displayed on a screen. Displaying raw as-is means cl
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by subb 4y ago
Mmm maybe. A bit annoying to backup regularly, but maybe by doing an hybrid approach like other have suggested here could help reduce the backup frequency/annoyance, i.e. duplicated two-factor key for important accounts, and the rest i
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by subb 4y ago
I did a roundtrip to the password security rabbithole since the LastPass incident and my conclusion is there's virtually no way to have something truly safe - you can have a lot of layers to protect your accounts, but there's alwa
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by subb 4y ago
Maybe start by having a sustainable growth (or you know, no growth!) so you don't have to write a completely emotionless letter explaining why you have to lay off a whole village?
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by subb 4y ago
Engineers wants C++, scripters and artists wants Visual Scripting. Seems like an obvious choice to make everyone happy instead of trying to find a middle ground where nobody is?
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by subb 4y ago
Linear vs non-linear is a confusing terminology. Linearity is a relationship. Anyway, usually it means values are encoded in the sRGB color space (with sRGB primaries) without applying any "gamma" curve (also bad term).
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by subb 4y ago
Colors don't exist outside of your brain.
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by subb 4y ago
Because I believe a search engine for the internet should be nationalized, like the internet itself. Google "solved" the internet search engine problem. Other competitors are just replicating it poorly. There's nothing good f
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by subb 4y ago
Most hand animations are done with keyframes, because mocapping hands is difficult. And with keyframes animation, much like modelling geometry traditionally vs photogrammetry, we can't produce the needed amount of details in animations
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by subb 5y ago
It's a love letter to past times, with little extras. It's made in partnership with Teenage Engineering, which created all sorts of little (and bigger) devices like this, mostly for audio. https://teenage.engineering&#x
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by subb 5y ago
Whether or not I use Signal is private info, which is separate from my phone number info. Signal is mixing the two as if it was the same. A username kinda restore that, but it could be taken a step further and ask for a secret token when ad

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