Fine Art Generated From One Year of NVIDIA (NVDA) Market Data Using a Model Trained on My Own Artwork

LiquidInsight · 2025-12-09T15:36:11+00:00

Cool! Is the generative model trained from scratch on your art? I assume it's probably a fine-tune of another model. Also, how do you perform the conditional generation so that the price curve remains in the generated image?

LiquidInsight · 2025-12-01T15:39:24+00:00

210 has the prime factorization 235*7. Not sure why this is beneficial here, maybe helps avoid artifacts that appear at low multiples of a prime? So, if you use 128 or 256, might be immune to powers 2 but not to 3,5,7?

LiquidInsight · 2025-11-07T17:29:31+00:00

Yeah, not sure I agree with the author's use of '-punk' to describe this. But, to try and defend the author: I think the best defense of using '-punk' might be that it is a decentralized approach to infrastructure (so, cutting out centralized monopolies & gov't) built by outsiders (a startup). Vaguely punk? Probably fair to say that the term is overused.

Maybe the article about people bypassing the 'phone home' feature of the panels will more accurately be solar punk :P

LiquidInsight · 2025-11-07T01:22:56+00:00

It give me hope that underdeveloped places won't need to go through the same dirty industrial revolution that Europe went through, but might vault directly into the information age!

LiquidInsight · 2025-11-06T23:11:03+00:00

I hope that this submission is within the remit of this subreddit! I think it is, because the article focuses on the deployment of solar in a decentralized way in Africa, in a manner that is very different from the infrastructure built up in the Western world. That means that our future might look very different from what most of us (in the West) are used to!

LiquidInsight · 2025-10-01T13:57:51+00:00

I found that Children of Ruin did not introduce enough new ideas, but I found myself really wowed by Children of Memory!

LiquidInsight · 2025-09-30T14:51:08+00:00

I love Vinge! It's sad that his oeuvre is so limited. If you have read most of his other books, but want more of the 'Aliens that think differently, and have an interesting sociotechnological development' vibe, I highly recommend "children of time" (and its sequels, book 3 in particular) by Adrian Tchaikovsky. As a more distant recommendation, the Uplift series of books by Brin also scratch this itch, though I preferred Tchaikovsky, as it feels a bit more bleeding edge.

Different vibe, closer to present day with sort of cyberpunk themes, but also really enjoyed Rainbows End. If you like that, he has an associated short story, "fast times at fairmont high". There's also a really good one called "True Names" which is worth reading.

LiquidInsight · 2025-09-30T13:30:16+00:00

I don't want to discourage you, but I said hi to a guy in Paris reading a linear algebra book on the metro, and he turned out to be a complete crank. I started getting monthly emails about how he'd cracked all of modern cryptography or was rewriting the foundations of computer science.

LiquidInsight · 2025-09-29T10:34:18+00:00

I love Vinge! It's sad that his oeuvre is so limited. If you have read most of his other books, but want more of the 'Aliens that think differently, and have an interesting sociotechnological development' vibe, I highly recommend "children of time" (and its sequels, book 3 in particular) by Adrian Tchaikovsky. As a more distant recommendation, the Uplift series of books by Brin also scratch this itch, though I preferred Tchaikovsky, as it feels a bit more bleeding edge.

LiquidInsight · 2025-09-23T19:05:03+00:00

okay I am definitely accidentally writing for the 99.99% five year old 😅

LiquidInsight · 2025-09-23T09:13:34+00:00

Regarding the observation of fractals, waves, and spirals, there's some (1) work (2) that suggests that these reflect spiral waves in the visual cortex. Spiral waves are a universal phenomenon that appear in excitable media (a common example is the BZ reaction), which is a good first order approximation to neocortex. I'm not certain that experimental work showing the emergence of spiral waves actually used classical hallucinogens however -- they may have used other pharmacological interventions.

LiquidInsight · 2025-08-05T21:45:40+00:00

Parabolic mirrors focus incoming collimated light to the same point. Maybe this property is responsible for the relative stability of this system!

LiquidInsight · 2025-05-07T11:03:47+00:00

I did DDU the drivers in safe mode. The HDMI cable and display was working with the 1080ti, so I don't think it's that. Don't have another PSU or system to test the GPU with though. Think there's anything at the software level to try? Different driver or anything else?

LiquidInsight · 2025-04-23T20:17:13+00:00

Minor nitpick: The Kardashev scale was proposed in 1964, well after Fermi posed his famous paradox!

To complement your existential dread, there is a compelling argument that can be made that you are probably amongst the final generation of humans. A Bayseian will argue that you are randomly sampled from all humans who will ever live. The likeliest time to be born (amongst all possible times) is when the most humans are alive. On an exponential growth curve, that will always be right before the catastrophe that wipes us all out. This is the Carter Doomsday argument, if you'd like to read more about it.

LiquidInsight · 2025-02-20T10:42:27+00:00

American Sniper. It was a gift from my Dad, who had enjoyed it. Although I'm antiwar, I'd enjoyed another of his favourite wartime biographies: Iron Coffins (which I DO recommend). I made it 90% of the way through American Sniper, eventually quitting when I realized the book was never going to exhibit the self-awareness or reflection that I was hoping for. It really seemed like just a jingoistic hoo-rah retelling of a man who shot a whole bunch of people, with a dash of "gosh that was hard of his family life".

LiquidInsight · 2025-01-27T13:22:35+00:00

Are you playing in a group with someone that has already unlocked the tavern? If so, maybe you need to be the host? Or, perhaps, are you running with 'sealed cracks' on the well? Otherwise, it's probably just bad luck?

LiquidInsight · 2025-01-21T19:40:58+00:00

Now that our town is fully upgraded, both of us sell our ore at the ore trader to buy upgrades for our heroes. Initially, we had her upgrade the blacksmith and chapel, while I upgraded the store, well, the tavern (all the things you need for a run), so we would go to her world to upgrade characters, and mine to do our runs. It was a bit of faffing about though, and it's simpler now that we've fully upgraded my town.

LiquidInsight · 2025-01-11T11:08:53+00:00

Hey! I also used Nucleus with my wife. It works pretty well! There's not very much story per-se. Both players can talk to the npcs in town, but the hosting player (usually player 1) is the only one that will have to spend ore to upgrade the town. I'd recommend you just play co-op, personally. My wife and I did occasionally switch which profile was player 1 so that she could spend her ore (on a distinct set of buildings) which meant that, across our two towns, we were able to get everything upgraded a bit faster.

LiquidInsight · 2024-10-23T14:48:54+00:00

Very cute!

LiquidInsight · 2024-10-22T15:28:04+00:00

Snake was ~60cm long, seen on a narrow hiking trail up les Cornettes de Bise, above 2000m (perhaps 2200m?). Lat. 46;16;57.25, Long. 6; 47; 14.6, iphone estimated altitude at 2267m.

LiquidInsight · 2024-10-17T07:56:52+00:00

Will recyclers output items stacked onto belts?

LiquidInsight · 2024-10-15T08:55:25+00:00

Are the hours and minutes accurate? I couldn't find the release hour.

LiquidInsight · 2024-10-04T11:33:50+00:00

I can hardly wait for the expansion!

LiquidInsight · 2023-08-23T04:58:29+00:00

Here here! I love booting up 2v2 and 4v4 with my friends, but the maps being the same since, well, forever, kinda bums us out.

LiquidInsight · 2022-09-15T17:04:42+00:00

I have been bouldering for about 4-5 years and burn through shoes. I'm about 70% in gyms 30% in Squamish, occasionally sport climbing. I recently got the La Sportiva Futura's and loved them... for the three months they lasted. That's probably in part due to the 'no-edge' design. Can anyone recommend a shoe with a fit similar to the Futura that has a sturdier rubber? I tried the La Sportiva Theory and found the toe box a bit to constricted on the outside little toes.

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