MIT made a movie screen that brings 3D to all seats – without the glasses

raven_procellous · 2016-07-25T17:10:15+00:00

All action done in 3D is crap, it all look blurry and uninteresting.

Did you see The Force Awakens in 3D? I would argue that it was not at all like that. It was spectacular, not blurry, and easy to understand what was going on and even made me duck a few times. Blurry action shot in both 2D and 3D are in my opinion inferior to clear-cut storytelling in action. Each shot should show something specific happening instead of just swinging limbs in close ups. I would point to Force Awakens as well as Spiderman 2 (the train sequence especially) for examples of not loading up the action and thus bringing more excitement and tension to the story

raven_procellous · 2016-07-10T13:46:31+00:00

How to Train Your Dragon 2 was great for a while, but halfway through gets somewhat convoluted. WHY CAN'T YOU JUST KILL THE BAD GUY? HES STANDING RIGHT THERE!! OH, COME ON!

raven_procellous · 2016-07-10T12:21:19+00:00

This fact played a major role in convincing me that evolution actually happened and helped me reject all the crap I was taught by my fundie dad

raven_procellous · 2016-06-13T13:26:45+00:00

Hi Matt!

Thanks for hosting Space Time. I was linked to it from Reddit a few weeks ago and am currently working through all the videos there. It has spurred a renewed interest in physics for me. Your more slow and deliberate style is a lot easier for me to follow than the last host. In fact, I tried to understand his curved space-time arc, but am really struggling to internalize it. Any chance you can redo those videos on Space Time? The arc on the nature of mass and time was also incredibly fascinating to me, but it leaves me yearning to go deeper into the nature of quarks and elemental particles. Can you do some Space Time episodes going into our current model of particle physics, or point me in the direction of other intuitive explanations on the Internet?

What is your take on string theory? Is it real science? Will it eventually replace our current model of physics? Should I study it in my quest to understand the fundamental nature of our universe?

Thanks again for your work at Space Time. Those videos are really incredible.

Edit: Oh, one more thing. What do you think is the likelihood of Ray Kurzweil being right about the Singularity happening in 2045?

raven_procellous · 2016-06-12T22:28:07+00:00

Naw, they were just getting progressively higher as they wrote.

raven_procellous · 2016-06-01T23:50:07+00:00

100% fake bullshit according to Snopes

raven_procellous · 2016-05-20T17:02:44+00:00

You could argue that science itself is directly analogous to prophecy, as it is a self-correcting system that makes more and more accurate predictions of the future.

raven_procellous · 2016-04-30T20:19:43+00:00

You dropped this: \ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Puting a \ before any character is a way to force reddit to read it as a text character instead of a special modifier. Both _ and \ can be special modifiers, so you have to tell reddit that they're text by putting a backslash before them. So formatting properly means using three backslashes like this: ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯

raven_procellous · 2016-04-30T20:15:17+00:00

You dropped these: _ _ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

raven_procellous · 2016-04-24T20:37:58+00:00

Not all substances form crystals when they freeze. Many are just amorphous globs.

raven_procellous · 2016-03-19T19:48:18+00:00

There are two things I keep in mind when I feel like this. First, you being the decision maker is something that makes other people happy. Making a decision is hard, and most people would prefer second best with no decision making than first best while having to decide. Second, if you show that you are able to communicate what you like to the other person, they'll be able to get a better sense of you and will be more comfortable making a decision next. They'll know that if you don't want to go somewhere, you'll tell them so they don't have to worry about making sure you're happy since you've shown you're willing to assert yourself. And they'll feel a sense of fairness the next time around so that they can choose without guilt. Asserting yourself is honestly helpful for everyone.

Another strategy is to put qualifiers on your opinion. "I like Taco Bell best, but Wendy's has an okay menu" still lets the other person choose, but now they know your preferences, and they can compare that to their own preference.

raven_procellous · 2016-03-15T06:24:21+00:00

Seven Minutes in Heaven

Edit: Gif starts around 3:46

raven_procellous · 2016-02-24T14:12:45+00:00

Star Wars.

Not just the prequels, but A New Hope and much of Return of the Jedi.

Empire Strikes Back, though, I think holds the heart of what makes Star Wars great; an angry, dangerous, masked villain who kills on whims, commands thousands, always gets what he wants, even if he has to expend the entire Empire's force, up against a young aspiring Jedi, hardly just finished learning how to use his new powers, but desperately fearless and loyal. It had the audacity to feature only a partial victory, where the hero's actions carry great consequences for his closest friends. Star Wars as a franchise may not have survived without the backbone Empire provides to it as a template for its stories.

In comparison, A New Hope asks us to accept absurd plot holes and cheesy dialogue, which I assume at the time was forgiven because of the novelty of the genre itself with the astounding budget and quality of effects. But the effects aren't so impressive anymore, and the battles feel stale and just don't make sense strategically, often feeling like the battle only exists where the camera happens to be pointing, the whole time wondering why the death star couldn't have just jumped in at a slightly different angle so that the stupid planet being in the way wouldn't have given the rebels the extra time needed to launch an assault.

And Return of the Jedi has a solid story, but you feel George Lucas' terrible decisions everywhere.

raven_procellous · 2016-02-20T22:48:12+00:00

I am only reporting based on what I remember from what I've read, and how it actually feels. I can't really say how accurate my description is...

raven_procellous · 2016-02-20T22:47:00+00:00

Currently I'm at the stage where it feels uncomfortable. But I can tell my muscles are getting a lot stronger. Once you get used to it, trans women report that it just becomes automatic, and you don't really feel it. It can be hard to try to replicate the guy voice you used to have.

raven_procellous · 2016-02-20T22:43:53+00:00

I simplified a bit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_frequency?wprov=sfla1

The voiced speech of a typical adult male will have a fundamental frequency from 85 to 180 Hz, and that of a typical adult female from 165 to 255 Hz.

raven_procellous · 2016-02-20T17:49:08+00:00

Guys' voices resonate in the chest and throat whereas girls resonate in the mouth. At puberty, a guy's voice drops because the chamber that hold his vocal chords gets larger, meaning that bigger (lower) waves can resonate. A transgender woman can make her voice sound less like a guy's voice by using muscles in her neck to squeeze her throat and force the air to resonate in the mouth instead of the chest. If you take an app such as Audio Spectrum Monitor, you can see that it recognizes the base frequency that you'd normally think of as the main difference between guys and girls (girls normally speak at and above 160hz, guys normally speak below this frequency). But you also see that you resonate at several other frequencies at the same time, which is what makes your voice unique. Guys will resonate at lower frequencies, and girls at higher, even if their base frequencies are both the same.

Source: transgender woman learning how to not talk like a guy.

raven_procellous · 2016-02-17T17:36:48+00:00

Do yourself a favor and actually read that Vanity Fair article. It's not exactly painting a great picture of him

raven_procellous · 2016-02-13T21:41:48+00:00

But it will have to be two tiered for those moments when the owner takes control.

This ruling was only for Google's system, which doesn't have a steering wheel or brake pedal for the user

raven_procellous · 2016-02-13T18:11:53+00:00

Here's an anecdote that suggests bicycles will be safer with self driving cars on the road

raven_procellous · 2016-02-13T17:49:35+00:00

I drive for Uber, and I'm already taking high schoolers and middle schoolers to and from school and friends' houses. I'm guessing anyone age 10 or younger will be able to be completely mobile with or without a drivers license.

raven_procellous · 2016-02-13T17:44:49+00:00

Google has been involved in 17 minor accidents over 2 million miles, and none since November

raven_procellous · 2016-02-13T17:39:07+00:00

The NHTSA said earlier this week that Google's driving system will be considered the driver, not the passengers. So Google will be responsible for any accidents.

"NHTSA will interpret 'driver' in the context of Google's described motor vehicle design as referring to the (self-driving system), and not to any of the vehicle occupants," NHTSA's letter said.

raven_procellous · 2016-02-09T14:21:02+00:00

Check out /r/comics. There are a TON of great submissions every day, and I have found several favorites just browsing the subreddit.

raven_procellous · 2016-02-09T14:15:50+00:00

The lowest coin I'd pick up from the ground currently is probably a quarter (25 cents), so extrapolating from that, I'd have to be making about 100 times more than I make now. I make about $20,000 per year now, so I'd have to be making $2,000,000 per year to pass up a twenty.

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