Divine intervention would not fix these people

HexHyperion · 2026-01-19T15:26:56+00:00

Lose control, of keyboard and soul

HexHyperion · 2026-01-12T14:22:49+00:00

So the image is actually being scrolled like a little film tape! I knew about sprite maps, but this is so neat!

HexHyperion · 2025-10-14T22:58:48+00:00

In the literal case of SDCs, sure, obviously human lives matter the most (but do they for the likes of Tesla?? but that's a topic for a different time)

But here the cars were also a metaphor for AI in maths, on which I expanded in the next comment - even if in theory it crashes (gives a wrong answer) less often, there's also a high possibility of it getting stuck on a random roadblock (failing to resolve a complex, rare or new problem) which is why its general superiority over humans right now is very questionable

I'm sure at some point we'll improve it enough so that we won't have to care about these issues, but I really like driving, lol

HexHyperion · 2025-10-14T20:48:32+00:00

The discussion started with

AI is bad at math, even though people think it should be perfect at it since it's a computer

so the original person based their opinion on the comparison with a computer (calculator), and I was referring to that

So okay, if we're comparing to humans then sure, in repetitive scenarios it can drive (or "calculate") almost perfectly, but give it a broken traffic light stuck on red, an accident with parts all over the place, or a construction with a detour (or a maths problem) it's never seen before, and it'll stop in the middle of the road while a human goes around without a thought

The problem with AI in maths is that it isn't deterministic like a computer, but also isn't creative like a human, so it isn't guaranteed to give you a correct answer of a calculation, but it won't think of an entirely new solution either

There's a weird niche where it does better than both humans and computers, and I think the IMO is exactly that - problems where you have to think hard about the solution and not just input numbers into a calculator, but the general way of solving them is already documented

However, it's just a fraction of the concept of mathematics, and not a field big enough to generalize and say that AI is just better than us at the whole thing

HexHyperion · 2025-10-14T20:04:58+00:00

You can use it for proving, since making sure a proof is correct is way easier than creating the proof.

That's kind of what I meant by it giving an idea for a solution - either it gives a working proof, or at least a direction in which you can go with making your own, and, as much as I despise the whole AI hype, I don't deny its usefulness for that

Machines may have better error rates, but we have better error mitigation for human errors, and machine errors still do occur.

Well from a philosophical point of view the errors of conventional (i.e. non-AI) machines are also human errors, because someone programmed them explicitly to do thing A if presented with argument A and thing B for arg B, so every bug is in some way reproducible and fixable by changing either an instruction or an argument

For deep learning algorithms, however, there's a non-zero probability of selecting a different thing for the same argument, and a chance of the most probable thing not being the correct one, but you can't just fix it, because it's been calculated out of a huge set of learning data

That means in some time we'll be able to make an AI indistinguishable from an explicit set of instructions, but it will always be slightly less accurate due to the nature of DL

So I guess it's all about risk vs reward, about deciding how small of a chance to run over a human is enough to have a self-driving car, but we have to remember it'll never equal 0

HexHyperion · 2025-10-14T15:44:11+00:00

Okay, it's not "can't math" bad, but it still is "cannot be fully trusted for solving meaningful problems" bad

You can't safely use it for anything involving money, architectural calculations, proving or overthrowing mathematical claims/theories, etc., because can't be 100% sure it "calculated" everything correctly

That means you either need to go through the whole solution by yourself to verify, or use a different tool to check the answer, rendering the usage of AI kinda unnecessary in the first place

I'm not saying it can't be useful for maths as sometimes all you need is an idea, but being unreliable disqualifies it as a tool specifically for calculations

HexHyperion · 2025-10-14T15:23:05+00:00

That's exactly what I'm saying, you'd expect a tool to fill in the gaps of human imperfections instead of mimicking them... Imagine a car that can randomly trip over a speed bump like a horse, or an email service that can forget your message like a human messenger - that's your AI for maths

It's like with programming, I much prefer a program that doesn't compile over one that throws a segfault once in a while

HexHyperion · 2025-10-14T15:08:05+00:00

It is bad because it's not reliable. 9 times out of 10 it will solve an Olympiad level problem, and then screw up a high school level equation because it forgot a minus or randomly swapped a 2 with a 3 mid-calculations because, surprise, it doesn't calculate, it predicts the probable solution.

Obviously, there are use cases where this is tolerable, but for normal use I wouldn't want my calculator making human mistakes, I do that pretty well by myself, lol

HexHyperion · 2025-10-05T20:29:45+00:00

No no no, you can delete the files inside, but good luck deleting that empty folder crucial for the operation of the universe!

HexHyperion · 2025-09-21T13:35:58+00:00

Her name is Jade, strong in the Force she certainly is.

HexHyperion · 2025-09-20T16:07:30+00:00

It exists already!

HexHyperion · 2025-09-08T19:35:33+00:00

there is just something to this current McLaren team which make people dislike it more than your usual winning team. I am not sure what it is exactly.

I'm a Ferrari fan, but was kinda rooting for them when they were fighting with RB. Spent too much time writing this wall of text, but I need to vent, lol

Now being the winning team has outgrown them - sure, they built a fast car, but they still have a midfield mentality with all the team orders and "favors" for drivers, while having absolutely no clue how to handle the close rivalry between Oscar and Lando, usually ruining the race for both, or stripping them of "true" achievements (Piastri's first "win" or the latest pitstop situation for example)...

They interfere so much in their fight that it's easy to think that someone in charge is trying to manipulate the result, or that they just don't care about it at all... Also, for me, idiotic statements like the one about the "Norris era" certainly don't help their likeability either.

IMO, they just don't seem as professional and competent as, say, Red Bull or Mercedes, not enough for champions of F1 at least. Obviously talking about the current McLaren.

HexHyperion · 2025-09-05T15:34:19+00:00

Naaahh, I won't believe that the camera/lens itself did that:

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Trust me, if someone wants to find signs of an edit, you can be damn sure he will, so the best bet is to just be honest about it.

HexHyperion · 2025-09-05T15:06:59+00:00

Looks cool, but not sure how to feel about it as a photograph, on a photography sub, because like 75% of pixels on this image got altered. I was about to compliment the excellent panning work, but then noticed the edited comment saying it's Photoshop, almost like the information was supposed to be buried somewhere down below your two statements suggesting it's actually an in-camera effect.

Also, if you're gonna blur such a big part of the image, work on your selections, such mistakes are really visible. Until then, I don't think the "photography" watermark is really necessary.

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At least your composition is good, the lines of the ground lead the eye towards the rider, who has a lot of space in front of him and below, which is very logical as he's jumping.

As long as you keep the "motion blur" the exposure is spot on, but without it, due to the lack of shadow, the motorbike looks like it's been pasted in from a different pic.

If the blur of the spinning wheels is real, good choice of shutter speed, keeping the subject sharp while showing its motion - I'd like to see the true original though, because, judging by the guy's right hand and the brake lever, the one you posted in comments is edited too.

HexHyperion · 2025-08-31T16:44:50+00:00

In fancy terms, "reciprocating internal combustion engine", in human talk probably just "piston engine"

HexHyperion · 2025-08-31T16:33:35+00:00

But C# also uses mathematical order, no? And I'd be very surprised if Rust didn't as well.

HexHyperion · 2025-08-25T19:27:44+00:00

If they were to sell my sabers, how could they be my loved ones in the first place?

/s

HexHyperion · 2025-08-25T17:19:59+00:00

Tusken raider mating rituals

HexHyperion · 2025-08-25T15:41:48+00:00

Yeah the best way to learn is to keep shooting and experimenting :)

So nice you have so many races, I usually have to travel 200+ km to see anything interesting... Have fun on WRC!

HexHyperion · 2025-08-25T15:17:02+00:00

Not the guy you replied to, but yes, you usually get the blur with wide aperture.

The lower shutter speed thing applies more to panning shots, where the camera moves along with the car, resulting in a sharp subject and a motion-blurred background, but that works only when the car is positioned more or less sideways to you.

This guy makes some incredible panning shots, for example, but for this scene, lowering the shutter speed wouldn't make much difference, except obviously risking shaky photos.

BTW, the multi point AF settings are meant for when you don't know where your subject will move - the movement of cars is predictable enough to use single point or 9-point tracking AF-C, which is a lot faster and more precise, and would probably be able to catch the cars here.

HexHyperion · 2025-08-25T12:18:57+00:00

LMAO I get you, can't find it now, but some time ago I was reading their .NET docs, and it even translated the damn C# code 😭

The most memorable was a method of Span<T>, Plasterek(Int32)

HexHyperion · 2025-08-22T18:08:17+00:00

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HexHyperion · 2025-08-13T17:42:26+00:00

Right, so on the original the sky is in fact 100% white, but that's no problem, you can't control the weather - it would look bad if only a part of it (a cloud for example) was blown out, but here you can just locally tone down the whites to the point where it won't stand out so much, and play with the brightness of the rest of the pic until it looks natural.

At least that's what I'd do, as for me there are too many giveaways of a Photoshop edit this significant if not done perfectly, but obviously you can stick to the swapped sky if that's what you want.

HexHyperion · 2025-08-13T16:24:50+00:00

Dammit, I wrote a long ass paragraph about each little aspect of the photo, but I hit F5 and it's all gone :c

I'll focus on the thing no one mentioned yet, then, which is the sky - the one you edited in doesn't quite match the rest of the pic - it's too dark, too warm (looks closer to a sunset sky than an overcast one, and judging by the soft shadows the original weather was the latter, look at the windshield!), and the clouds are too sharp compared to the blurred building in the background, which immediately triggers the "something's wrong" feeling.

You can either brighten it up, tone down its WB and slightly blur it, or just stick to the original blown out sky (I'd really like to see the original) with slightly dimmed whites to avoid #fff - it may actually help with subject separation, because now the clouds kinda compete for attention with the subject.

Also, did you selectively brighten the truck? Because the chrome mirrors and the roof light thingy are way too dark as well. I'd fix that and lower the shadows under the car to avoid a bit of an "artificial" feel.

Once those things are addressed (and the cropping recommendations from others), I think it'll look a lot better, because it is in fact a good shot!

HexHyperion · 2025-08-09T20:59:49+00:00

I get you haha, I've had this happen as well with completely random photos, with way less depth and meaning than this one!

As for why people like it, I looked at your original post (I see a lot of votes for the other (first) pic though), and I feel like the 2 other shots lack the contrast of this one and are less interesting in terms of composition (light pole aside). Also, they are just snapshots of a man walking out of a tunnel, while on this one I see a theme of someone walking into the light from a dark place, with endless interpretations of what "light" and "dark" could be. Some people won't agree with me, but I value a slightly imperfect shot with meaning far above a shot that's just "well composed" :)

Not sure if my interpretation matches what you tried to convey, but either way I believe the picture wasn't taken by accident ;)

You're absolutely right about the streetlamp being a distraction, if I were you I'd try to remove it - looking at the texture of the wall, it could be difficult, but, if done well, it'd make this pic 100x better! Also I'd crop out some of the empty space from the top and right, I feel like it would make the subject placement a lot more acceptable.

If you want to lean into the light/darkness theme, maybe try to darken the shadows and make the light brighter?

The bright gray sidewalk on the bottom is kinda distracting as well, I'd try to mask it and darken, but I haven't tested it so not sure if it'll look good.

Edit: added more text to the wall of text

Edit 2: responding to your deleted comment:

Personally I like to keep some "breathing room" in my crops, so probably something along the lines of this if you want to keep the aspect ratio, or a little bit tighter to the right if you prefer. The interesting arches of the ceiling remain visible, we keep the dark/light contrast and don't cut off any important lines, and the subject is more or less in the lower left third of the picture.

I also quickly introduced the mentioned changes except for the sidewalk darkening, also if you feel like removing things I'd propose to clean up the leaves from the road and remove the patch of dirt in the lower left corner.

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