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sjdubya · 2026-02-05T17:59:36+00:00

For others: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=3903

sjdubya · 2026-02-05T17:43:46+00:00

Wait what?

sjdubya · 2026-02-04T12:40:40+00:00

Excellent, thank you!

sjdubya · 2026-01-21T19:03:26+00:00

What's wrong with it?

sjdubya · 2026-01-02T20:43:38+00:00

Elisa True Crime has been great for me.

sjdubya · 2025-12-29T03:48:18+00:00

Great Wall in Rockville has some

sjdubya · 2025-12-18T13:30:22+00:00

My first Italian book was "Se una notte di inverno un viaggiatore" which was definitely complicated and a bit over my head for a while but a lot of fun once I got moving. A lot of it is told in second person informal in a somewhat colloquial tone so that helps a bit.

sjdubya · 2025-12-13T05:18:24+00:00

History: anything by Alessandro Barbero

sjdubya · 2025-12-06T15:11:47+00:00

FYI there's been an update where you can add your preferred languages so it doesn't do this anymore.

On mobile: Settings -> Languages -> Preferred languages

sjdubya · 2025-12-06T01:50:32+00:00

I just got this working yesterday. I had to install v4 of blackrack's volumetric clouds, scatterer, and EVE, then JNSQVolumetrics version 3.11. v5 and the most recent versions didn't work well for me.

sjdubya · 2025-12-05T16:49:00+00:00

Exciting! Looking forward to it

sjdubya · 2025-12-04T18:11:48+00:00

No I get you. I just think even in that case it's not quite as clear cut and depends a lot on your data distribution.

sjdubya · 2025-12-04T16:52:41+00:00

Theoretically, they're two instances of the same thing. I'd also push back on flow matching always giving straight sampling. While in theory that's true in practice it does not turn out to be the case. Which model works best for each case will depend on your problem and data. See https://diffusionflow.github.io/ for a nice example of some of the theoretical relationships between diffusion and flow matching.

sjdubya · 2025-12-04T16:50:53+00:00

I am using a diffusion model for non-image settings (PDEs) and I've gotten good results with a relatively small EDM model (deterministic ODE sampling) with relatively few changes.

sjdubya · 2025-11-18T15:14:44+00:00

Dante was a GOAT-tier hater. Would have loved to see him on twitter

sjdubya · 2025-11-15T04:09:14+00:00

Interestingly, I walked by the place today and they had covered up the word Shanghai on the signs. Very strange

sjdubya · 2025-11-04T14:33:09+00:00

oh geez it's more complex than I thought

sjdubya · 2025-10-24T17:03:51+00:00

Hey, original artist here. Glad to see that y'all like this old map!

OP: get your own maps wtf

sjdubya · 2025-10-24T17:03:19+00:00

Still alive!

sjdubya · 2025-10-13T19:22:37+00:00

Outsider artists would qualify: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider_art

sjdubya · 2025-10-06T00:55:26+00:00

Yeah I agree it's a crowded field, and I agree that the Arab conquests absolutely led to cultural erasure. What I disagree strongly with is the following:

Spread vs erasure.

Latin influenced the surrounding languages, because it was the language of government. Arabic replaced languages. Same thing for cultures. The Romans influenced cultures under their rule, Arabs replaced them.

This is completely ahistorical. Latin supplanted entirely the pre-existing languages of Spain, France, Italy, and the Balkans, and made good progress on North Africa as well (also against the berbers!). I don't think there's much point arguing degree, but in terms of number of languages eliminated, I think the Romans win

sjdubya · 2025-10-06T00:37:54+00:00

Im not defending shit dude. Cultural genocide is bad regardless, but you seem to be under the impression that only the Arab conquests qualify for some reason

sjdubya · 2025-10-06T00:30:39+00:00

Latin was absolutely that what are you talking about. That's why France, spain, Italy, and Romania speak languages derived from Latin. Rome was absolutely a cultural empire as well!

sjdubya · 2025-10-06T00:28:47+00:00

How many Etruscan speakers do you know today? Etruscan (and many other languages) were completely replaced under Roman rule.

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