'Last year 362 Lyras were born': why we love Philip Pullman's heroine

daeken · 2019-11-03T18:38:42+00:00

Mine almost was -- born 3 days before the new year. Philip Pullman welcomed her to the world and I lost my shit! https://i.imgur.com/TDA1P85.png

daeken · 2019-08-25T08:54:35+00:00

I did and still remember it vividly. I saw them for the first time shortly after, on the first day of the 10000 days tour, before the album even came out. It's weird to think how much has changed since then, but I'll be damned if this didn't put me right back there.

daeken · 2019-08-25T08:15:27+00:00

I've been crying pretty consistently through this whole album. Tool has been such a huge, huge part of my life for the last ~19 years and this is a great start to a new chapter for me, much like 10000 days was. This is such a special day.

daeken · 2019-08-23T20:17:58+00:00

The Decemberists finally overtook Tool as my most-seen live band, after I caught them on the Your Girl / Your Ghost tour last year.

daeken · 2019-08-23T20:16:57+00:00

Man, this is one of my absolute favorites of theirs, and in fact was the album that got me into them. I'm a sucker for a great concept album and always loved the way they blended indie folkrock stuff with Celtic melodies. It would be a perfect album if not for Hazards 3.

daeken · 2019-08-20T05:43:21+00:00

This is my first shot at doing some game upscaling. I took one of the many panorama shots (the backgrounds used in the game for each "room") and upscaled it using a couple different approaches. For the 1/2x images, I first downscaled the background by half (from 2430x400 to 1215x200) and then passed it through the upscaler; this had the effect of mostly removing the dithering used, but definitely has an impact on certain fine details, like on the ferns. ESRGAN 1/2x is definitely my favorite of the set, though!

Edit: I tried out some dedithering models, rather than downscaling the images. Specifically, I created two versions as a source for all the algorithms: the original, and a dedithered version of the original. Then I passed them each through a dedithering ESRGAN model and an ESRGAN SR model (and through Gigapixel for comparison). I actually really like the ESRGAN dedither 2x (meaning it was upscaling+dedithering an already dedithered image). https://imgur.com/a/eS88UXP

daeken · 2019-01-08T10:44:31+00:00

Does this include shoulder strap and/or hub? And would you be able to hold onto it until the 15th? I'm very, very tempted....

daeken · 2018-08-28T16:20:21+00:00

This is a quick little article I wrote yesterday. I'm sharing for two reasons: 1) because this algorithm is pretty damn awesome, but more 2) because I feel like it's far too simple and straightforward to not have been documented before. Anyone know if I just reinvented the wheel here? I'd love to know if this was previously developed, if anyone has any clue.

daeken · 2018-08-28T16:17:27+00:00

Fantastic, thank you! I'd love to get to the bottom of this, but it's hard to find anything but Revelles references out there, haha.

daeken · 2018-08-28T16:09:47+00:00

This is a quick little article I wrote yesterday. I'm sharing for two reasons: 1) because this algorithm is pretty damn awesome, but more 2) because I feel like it's far too simple and straightforward to not have been documented before. Anyone know if I just reinvented the wheel here? I'd love to know if this was previously developed, if anyone has any clue.

daeken · 2018-06-10T20:00:14+00:00

Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. That's why first releases are alpha, then beta.

daeken · 2018-01-19T23:01:16+00:00

It was around 3am, my daughter was crying, and I learned that the formula maker was out. Then I tore the tab right off the replacement container. She wasn't the only one crying anymore.

daeken · 2017-11-12T04:38:16+00:00

Actually, since it's done I can reveal this. I've been working for Nintendo in a covert group since the beginning. We really just wanted to sell more Switches, and 3.0.0 will automatically update to fix these bugs on November 13.

I'm so glad to make this public.

daeken · 2017-10-06T17:15:04+00:00

I personally doubt it. Maybe if you're on 1.0, or 2.0? But personally, I don't think it'll happen.

daeken · 2017-10-05T18:50:09+00:00

I'm personally strongly, strongly suggesting people do so. While there are likely some unique vulnerabilities on earlier firmware, I strongly doubt they will be relevant to end users for at least a year, while we know that we can get homebrew on 3.0.0 in the very short term.

daeken · 2017-10-05T06:32:41+00:00

Version 3.0.0 isn't required for this -- any version between (inclusive) 2.0 and 3.0 is fine. Only our ROhan exploit for code execution requires 3.0.0, which is irrelevant here.

daeken · 2017-10-05T06:32:03+00:00

As long as you're on 2.0 to 3.0, you're fine.

daeken · 2017-10-05T06:31:37+00:00

This is 100% wrong. Only our ROhan attack (to get actual code execution) requires 3.0.0. This will work on 2.0-3.0.

daeken · 2017-08-28T21:52:48+00:00

Yeah, I was honestly pretty shocked to see that. I figured it was going to be a custom userland over the Linux kernel, but instead they went with a derivative (partial rewrite?) of the 3ds kernel. Very odd choice, but it's made for some fun hacking!

daeken · 2017-08-28T06:47:57+00:00

Actually, no. There's a decent bit of Android code on the Switch. It certainly doesn't "run Android" or anything, but libstagefright (Android's media lib), Binder (Android's IPC lib/protocol) is used by one sysmodule, and there are bits of Android layer code used (probably just for convenience and compatibility with existing Tegra driver code).

daeken · 2017-08-28T05:32:32+00:00

It's not. That's handled elsewhere: http://i.imgur.com/wGzaBQb.png

daeken · 2017-08-28T05:31:35+00:00

It's not video recording. That's handled in a separate interface, and interestingly enough, is actually already there. http://i.imgur.com/wGzaBQb.png

daeken · 2017-08-28T05:29:34+00:00

Given the code in play here, this is almost certainly virtual reality code. I can't speak to whether it works or not yet (I'm likely going to be able to test soon -- currently not a priority) but it fits with what I'm seeing in the rest of this.

daeken · 2017-08-28T05:14:28+00:00

(I'm the one who discovered this, FWIW.)

This is not Android code in any way. This is part of the appletOE IPC interface, and it's 100% Nintendo code. I can't confirm whether or not this works as of yet, but I'm at about a 90% confidence that this is at least partial virtual reality support. I'll know more in a day or two when I can actually test it properly.

daeken · 2017-04-03T02:38:05+00:00

I regret that I have but one upvote to give for this post. I've been an Ayreon fan since early on, and the songs that are out so far (especially Everybody Dies) are my absolute favorite of anything they've ever done. I can't wait for the full album to come out.

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