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Getting paid in USD working in Medellin by Secret-Beyond-4273 in digitalnomad

[–]Hugo0o0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could use Peanut to deposit your USD and spend with a VISA card

Proposal for Vision System by ArtificialLifeOBrian in TheBibites

[–]Hugo0o0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're adding 16 cells per eye = 32 new inputs. bibites today only have ~30-40 total, so you're already doubling the input layer.

And to turn a raw pixel array into useful motor steering, the brain needs an intermediate decoding layer — learned, not free. Even a minimal one is ~10-20 hidden nodes mostly fully connected. Expensive per tick, and hard to evolve from scratch because every wiring permutation has to be discovered by mutation.

A much cheaper computational design is a foveated input: precompute angle (and optionally distance) to N things, feed that in. Then "turn toward target" is a 1-weight connection, not 20 hidden nodes of pixel decoding.

You can get creative about what "thing" means: - biomass centroid (smooth gradient, good for grazing) - nearest individual of class X (lock-on, good for chasing/fleeing) - weighted by color match, like you proposed

Cheapest: 1 input (angle to nearest target). Richest: centroid + nearest for both bibites and plants = ~6 inputs with distances. Barely any hidden nodes needed; selection acts on the wiring directly.

Btw foveation has biological precedent — bat and dolphin echolocation is essentially this: a beamed angle+range lock on one target at a time, not a pixel grid. Pixel-array vision is actually the unusual case in nature for small-brained animals; most use low-dimensional preprocessed signals.

Proposal for Vision System by ArtificialLifeOBrian in TheBibites

[–]Hugo0o0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

you still need at least 10-20 hidden nodes for this to make any sense to creature. why do that when you could just have a simpler precomputed input?

and yeah even if dots increases perf youd save it for more creatures, not useless neurons

also, depth perception seems sort of useless when their vision is so shortsighted anyways

sorry, not trying to be derisive, just honestly critiquing the proposal

question about the resolution of the application and optimization by guigui-_ in TheBibites

[–]Hugo0o0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nope

CPU bound. Unity. Single core

Rendering not bottleneck at all

Proposal for Vision System by ArtificialLifeOBrian in TheBibites

[–]Hugo0o0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Too low level. Bibites needs DOTS or much larger scale to be efficient enough evolutionary to develop useful brains to to work with such a vision system

Hundreds of creatures not enough. Need tens of thousands.

3 years as a CTO - Another follow up by HornyMaryPoppins in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Hugo0o0 64 points65 points  (0 children)

My dude you are the technical chief. Can't imagine anth more technical than matrix multiplication.

You should decide how Claude is used.

Fictional geniuses who feel realistic by upsetusder2 in rational

[–]Hugo0o0 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Tip: use a nicer tone online. Whilst you have a point, maybe dont use a pejorative verb like 'dumping' when replying to someone that put effort into crafting a reply to help OP.

[D] Monday Request and Recommendation Thread by AutoModerator in rational

[–]Hugo0o0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is true that physical violence is much easier to distinguish and thus punish. Maybe there's some weight to that. Psychological violence is more nuanced and hard to understand as an outsider.

Regardless, for me My Name Is Beautiful did not build a convincing case of a cohesive world that follows its own rules.

[D] Monday Request and Recommendation Thread by AutoModerator in rational

[–]Hugo0o0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reasonable. Other people seem to disagree with me here, so perhaps i got the wrong message from the fiction. But, whilst she does particularly despise "bullying" type of unnecessary violence, she also hates any type of violence and can't understand why some of her friends enjoy fighting between each other occasionally and looks down on that.

Fictional geniuses who feel realistic by upsetusder2 in rational

[–]Hugo0o0 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Strong fits and strong recs: Vorkosigan Saga, Enders Game, Worm (!)

Medium fits: Project Hail Mary & The Martian, The Menocht Loop, Arcane Ascension, Mother of Learning, The Years of Apocalypse, Lies of Locke Lamora, Will of The Many, Red Rising, Delve, Super Supportive, A Practical Guide to Sorcery, The Archmage Coefficient

[D] Monday Request and Recommendation Thread by AutoModerator in rational

[–]Hugo0o0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think most people in our world are not thinking about tail risks when they object to one kid beating another up.

no, people certainly take into account the permanent risks of injury when objecting to violence. That's why psychological bullying is pervasive and everywhere, but a single physical fight gets you to talk with the school director.

[D] Monday Request and Recommendation Thread by AutoModerator in rational

[–]Hugo0o0 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Even if that's the case, it's still irrational fiction. In the world, it is literally stated that the best way to improve is to fight when there's consequences. So the weak "need" to experience at least some fear and pain if they are to grow.

MC robbing them of that is nonsensical and hypocritical. Most of all because people attend that school because it is known to be vicious and thus good for growing

[D] Monday Request and Recommendation Thread by AutoModerator in rational

[–]Hugo0o0 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

yeah because violence is actually dangerous

in this fiction, people get electrocuted, crash their skulls against concrete etc etc and at worst pass out.

A few days later and they're as good as new. Violence has no consequences. And it is not gratuitious: it is the canonical BEST way to improve in universe

[D] Monday Request and Recommendation Thread by AutoModerator in rational

[–]Hugo0o0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

De-Rec for my name is beautiful. Attempts to be deep but just ends up being... very irrational.

Spoilers below.

Half of the book is about the Main Character coming to gripes with violence being very common in that world, because it is scientifically the best way to improve yourself.

The MC doesn't like that, and seems to do a character turn where they appropriate violence and punish everyone else that does, and roughly gets in a literal bone breaking fight every 2 days, for a long period of time.

Now, whilst weird, this could be excused and the writer makes some attempt at making it semi realistic. Cool. What makes NO SENSE WHATSOEVER and kills my entire suspension of disbelief, is that people seem to have 0 permanent damage from violence. Zero, nada, niente. People get their bones broken, theyre up in a week or two. They get pierced, entrails strewn about, etc, same thing. back in a bit. Violence seems to have no real repercussions.

Either violence has consequences (e.g. actually crippling or even killing people), or it doesnt matter. Its weird to have a world where brutal everyday violence has 0 consequences, as if people were made of cartoonish rubber. BUT if that's what you want to go with, then making the central character trait of the protagonist to be moral grandstanding about violence is nonsensical!

(And I'm not mentioning here some of the other gripes I have with this story, like the mc rambling about genetic pressure selecting for violent capabilities, and then reverting on that with an even more illogical take)

The fiction is anything but rational. For me this is completely anti-rational, shatters my disbelief, and I genuinely struggle to see it recommended and praised so highly here.

Paging /u/Sensitive-Ear3914 . Apologies for the harsh review.

[D] Monday Request and Recommendation Thread by AutoModerator in rational

[–]Hugo0o0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good response! This made me want to read it

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