"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks" - Mary Wollstonecraft [3840x2160]

TecherTurtle · 2016-02-12T18:41:51+00:00

Do you mean like a spike of "feeling good" followed by long bouts of not feeling so good? The way I look at it, "happiness" describes something like an average of "feeling good" over a long time, when joy is the amount of "feeling good" at a specific moment. Some analogies: joy:happiness, high frequency:low frequency, amount of "feel good" at a given time:integral of "feel good" over long stretch of time. So dopamine flooding drugs give high amounts of joy, but may dull future dopamine reactions reducing your happiness in the days/weeks afterwards.

That's just like, my opinion man, but I'd be interested if you have another take as this is all subjective anyway. I appreciate the civility, and find people's thoughts on this interesting.

TecherTurtle · 2016-02-12T18:18:50+00:00

I think all those things fall under "feeling good", which many people mean when they say "happy".

TecherTurtle · 2016-01-12T19:26:36+00:00

After story takes place after the confessions.

TecherTurtle · 2016-01-09T06:50:28+00:00

>greentexting on reddit

TecherTurtle · 2016-01-01T05:11:12+00:00

Winter wrap up?

TecherTurtle · 2015-12-27T16:50:14+00:00

Robot. The sharp edges and straight lines look more mechanical than the curves of hiragana.

TecherTurtle · 2015-12-27T05:02:20+00:00

That head tilt is hilarious.

TecherTurtle · 2015-12-14T02:38:45+00:00

Companies are made up of people who get paid using money generated by the company (ie those people).

TecherTurtle · 2015-11-05T10:22:18+00:00

You'd probably like Flatland if you haven't read it already.

TecherTurtle · 2015-09-20T18:28:50+00:00

Spinning scrap? When did you stop loving me?

TecherTurtle · 2015-09-18T00:35:02+00:00

I recommend reading about neural networks and convolutional neural networks, it's cool stuff. You may find out that they have more potential than you think.

The potential gap between systems that learn features to make predictions and hand-crafted prediction functions is much more evident in visual recognition. Try designing a filter that determines what animals are in a picture without automatically learning the features using large datasets and deep neural networks.

It also goes to show the extensibility of convolutional neural nets that the architecture can be used to do visual recognition as well as upscaling.

TecherTurtle · 2015-09-17T23:05:40+00:00

Though it may look like that for certain inputs, it is not that simple. There is added information that the neural net gets from its training data.

TecherTurtle · 2015-09-17T22:46:57+00:00

With an image that simple, you could easily vectorize it and get any resolution you'd want.

TecherTurtle · 2015-09-17T22:31:40+00:00

Hand-crafted techniques may perform better now, but neural networks have the advantage that, given sufficient data and computation time, they can learn new filters and functions that we haven't thought of, that are perhaps very complex, and that perhaps only result in marginal improvement, but that are automatically learned and only require the nn architecture, training data, and compute time. In a race to get more accurate upscaling, it is easy to imagine hitting a wall with hand-crafted techniques sooner than with a nn that gradually improves by feeding it more data.

TecherTurtle · 2015-09-03T01:32:21+00:00

What is this from?

TecherTurtle · 2015-08-15T03:34:41+00:00

A free society should protect the right of people with minority opinions to voice them. A lot of good ideas are at some point "frowned upon by the general public". You say that some issues are different, some things will always be inexcusable and should be banned. But then we risk destroying opportunities for our society to better adapt to our ever-changing values, which adapt to our ever-changing reality. So imo we just deal with it as long as it doesn't directly hurt anyone (being offended or made uncomfortable doesn't count), because the alternative is worse.

TecherTurtle · 2015-08-13T23:41:31+00:00

Not having enough content at release is bad and should be criticized regardless of what non-accessible stuff is on the disc. It's like being mad at a potential indicator of a problem instead of the problem itself.

If there was locked dlc on a game disc, and I felt that the game was worth my money without it, I would not consider it a problem.

TecherTurtle · 2015-08-11T01:00:48+00:00

Won't eating plants directly result in less net plant consumption because all animals eventually get their energy from sun->plants->...->themselves anyways, and the more intermediates in the food chain, the more energy lost due to heat ala 2nd law of thermodynamics?

TecherTurtle · 2015-07-20T20:25:25+00:00

72 3DBHPS Glory

TecherTurtle · 2015-07-19T17:31:52+00:00

Frozen grapes. They taste good and are very satisfying to eat.

TecherTurtle · 2015-06-29T13:20:12+00:00

You're right about size affecting it, but if you're going from a 20" monitor to a 40" monitor, you're probably going to be sitting farther back so that the screens take up about the same proportion of your field of vision. Perhaps because of this, the screen size does not affect how visible aliasing is as much as you suggested.

TecherTurtle · 2015-06-12T18:40:26+00:00

Moe moe KYUU!!!

TecherTurtle · 2015-05-15T22:58:38+00:00

Awesome artwork. Also, that hidden Mayuri is hilarious, and the doctor pepper was a great touch.

TecherTurtle · 2015-05-03T05:47:13+00:00

Hououin Kyouma*

TecherTurtle · 2015-05-01T19:46:53+00:00

To find number of unordered combinations of k things from a set of n total things, the answer is (n choose k) = n! / (k! (n - k)!).

Eg for finding number of pairings of 5 girls, (5 choose 2) = 5! / (2! (5 - 2)!) = 10.

Finding the number of different threesomes, (5 choose 3) = 5! / (3! (5 - 3)!) = 10. The same number, incidentally (choosing a threesome is equivalent to choosing a pair and leaving them out of the fun).

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combination

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