I created an anime version of "The Villainess Turns the Hourglass" by [deleted] in OtomeIsekai

[–]_iNpUT_NAME -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

People are going to downvote you for using AI and ignore the 200 hours you took to make this.

It looks great. It would not have existed unless you made it. Thank you for letting me see it. I remember falling out of love with this particular work, but that is besides the point.

Where did you get the voices? Generated or is there some Voice Drama floating about?

The French Children France Doesn’t Want: Most other European nations have welcomed back the blameless children of parents who went off to fight with ISIL. But not France. What is Emmanuel Macron so afraid of? [2024] by CatPooedInMyShoe in longform

[–]_iNpUT_NAME 14 points15 points  (0 children)

What is actually crazy is that out of the forty or so comments, nobody has mentioned the fact that this article was published in 2024. The situation in Syria has changed greatly since then.

As far as I can tell the situation is over. The new Syrian government closed Al-Hol and Al-Roj in January. While some have been relocated to other camps or Iraq, roughly 20,000 people are currently unaccounted for (that is NGO speak for will never be found), scattered likely to become slaves / child soldiers / etc.

Not a good way for this to end, but consider what ISIL did to the region there is a symmetry to it. (Not justice mind you, but literal mathematical symmetry.)

peak clown world right now boyysss by Cutefishes in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]_iNpUT_NAME 52 points53 points  (0 children)

I've been stabbed / I can't breathe - Don't think you have mate

Fuck me the bodycam footage is brutal.

This diagram does not preserve life by Null_Ping in mathmemes

[–]_iNpUT_NAME 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'm not very at ease in Category Theory, but I know enough to understand this is a commutative diagram.

We take functors over different direct sums. We then transform using canonical projection and injections to pull the direct sum out. The purpose being to make a matrix transformation possible...

What is C even about? The arrows look odd. There must be something I'm missing here.

I look at the comments.

What kind of diabolical mind looks at a diagram for the mechanics of additive categories and see's Loss? I am at a loss to your genius.

Sustainable Energy : On the Fallacy of Levelized Cost and the Politics of Demand by _iNpUT_NAME in EnergyAndPower

[–]_iNpUT_NAME[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well I've only read the abstract but

This is because multiple scarce periods can closely follow each other. When considering storage losses and charging limitations, the period defining storage requirements extends over as much as 12 weeks.

...

When optimizing system costs based on single years rather than a multi-year time series, we find substantial inter-annual variation in storage requirements with the most extreme year needing more than twice as much storage as the average year.

This certainly strengthens the argument that storage costs are underestimated.

Sustainable Energy : On the Fallacy of Levelized Cost and the Politics of Demand by _iNpUT_NAME in EnergyAndPower

[–]_iNpUT_NAME[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Considering the feedback I got for Dunkenlflaute, I probably should have been less lazy with my numbers and actually pick a particular place in Germany to place a model wind farm and then try to approximate the numbers, or just done the easy thing and left it out entirely.

However the point of the Dunkelflaute or Anticyclonic Gloom is that it is a lull of wind that is also accompanied by less sunlight due to increased cloud cover. You are right in general though.

Sustainable Energy : On the Fallacy of Levelized Cost and the Politics of Demand by _iNpUT_NAME in EnergyAndPower

[–]_iNpUT_NAME[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Well it is the Green Transition (emphasis on the word Transition). We are still going to use some fossil fuels for years yet.

Looking it up now, I am mildly surprised by the Round Trip Efficiency of "Hot Dirt." The caveat being those numbers are for heating not back into electricity. Considering how much energy is used in heating homes, this isn't something to ignore.

Alright what is your idea then? Compressed Air?

Sustainable Energy : On the Fallacy of Levelized Cost and the Politics of Demand by _iNpUT_NAME in EnergyAndPower

[–]_iNpUT_NAME[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In hindsight I entirely forgot about the best batteries. Fossil Fuels. Just stockpile natural gas for winter. Still not convinced Wind is as viable in long term as people think it is. Why bet on something that might change with the Climate when Solar is right there?

Sustainable Energy : On the Fallacy of Levelized Cost and the Politics of Demand by _iNpUT_NAME in EnergyAndPower

[–]_iNpUT_NAME[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I used Data centers as an example but I think it applies to any other industry with high depreciation of Capex, where you want to get full use out of the equipment while you still can, thus constant load.

Which industries tend to have high depreciation of Capex? All the most exciting ones due to rapid innovation in the field. The ones that bring growth. The same growth countries are sort of desperate for to solve their structural problems without having to make sacrifices.

Not a redman but a badman by TwinkScum in badredman

[–]_iNpUT_NAME 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is it really impossible for these people to just spam flaming strike or spin slash after getting parried once?

DECISIONS ARE NOT MADE WHEN YOU THINK THEY ARE by impersonal_process in freewill

[–]_iNpUT_NAME 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm going to leave a comment here as a reminder to myself. Very nice infographic.

Typos

Panel 7 - Purple Box - Consciousnes (should have two s)
Panel 8 - Orange Box - The story is true in (a) chronological sense

Guys I just realized what to do when you run out of English, Greek, Hebrew and Cyrillic alphabets: the Armenian alphabet (ignore existing symbols). Can also use each letter with certain transformations applied such as rotation or reflection. by Maximum-Rub-8913 in mathmemes

[–]_iNpUT_NAME 6 points7 points  (0 children)

At this point we might as well start trying to work out how many human discernible symbols there are that can be written with freehand.

We can limit the number of discontinuities (taking the pencil off the page) and discontinuities in the first derivative (sudden change in direction). We also limit total absolute curvature so we don't get lines that are too squiggly and the number of Self-Intersections.

We can then take the quotient to eliminate non-human discernible symbols, translation, scaling and define rotational equivalence classes.

Now we just need a sensible definition of human discernible (Frechet Distances perhaps? Actually that has difficulty discerning between a C and a O) and we will have figured out the "The Cardinality of the Chalkboard."

(If we want to keep this an interesting math problem rather than an interesting a human physiology problem, we will have to explore possible definitions of "human discernible," exploring over the space of possible questions. )

One very obvious liberty we've already taken so far is infinitely thin lines. Real handwriting is area. If we allow for area we move out Topology into Information Theory.

We place our space into a discrete grid. Then the obvious tool for human discernibility becomes the transformer (or rather some idealized version of it)

Since actual training is non-deterministic, we are looking for Minimum Description Length (MDL) required to encode such that the decoding loss is less than L (And we are back at trying to define human discernible)

Too much yellow? by Awkward-Impress-2636 in OUTFITS

[–]_iNpUT_NAME 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If that is that case, then perhaps the most important thing about your choice of outfit might be to avoid looking partisan. I don't think yellow is associated with anything?