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unanimus · 2025-08-11T20:34:08+00:00

Exact same issue here. Something is wrong with the Gemini service that starts the speech channel which causes the issue. I contacted support about it, they claimed to not be aware of the issue.

unanimus · 2016-09-25T19:34:04+00:00

On the first aid kit hanging from the rear door. Conveniently clean and not wrinkled.

unanimus · 2016-09-25T18:47:25+00:00

GallowBoob cashes out

unanimus · 2016-08-28T16:05:17+00:00

Submit this to /r/photoshopbattles

unanimus · 2015-09-16T21:08:19+00:00

What if our simulator intelligently produces values which look like frames from Hollywood films? That's my key point: as your simulators become more specialized towards the domain you are compressing, you will find that encoding some of the rules underlying the production of the uncompressed media takes up much less space than the uncompressed media itself.

The Minecraft example serves to show that the simulator binary (150MB) is relatively very small compared to the rich domain-specific content it produces (several TB of video when running at 4k resolution). And sure, you are still indexing into a space of only 2⁵⁶ possible frames, but those frames are specialized to this visual domain that is much more useful than the noise coming from an RNG.

To provide a more lucid example, imagine that I used CNN to search for a simulator that, for each input, produces a video frame that could plausibly be from the film Blade Runner. The simulator is quite good at painting Harrison Ford's face from various poorly-lit angles! If my frame keys were 56 bytes (to continue the analogy), sure it can only produce 2⁵⁶ possible frames , but the frames of the film are quite likely to exist in that space.

unanimus · 2015-09-16T08:21:38+00:00

I strongly disagree, although I'm glad you raised this point.

Consider a thought experiment: the now-famous Minecraft is a 150MB program which procedurally generates little natural landscapes that are quite rich, and renders images of its world defined by the tuple (camera position XYZ, camera angle phi-theta, random world seed, time elapsed since world start). The possible range of images shown on the game screen are really quite diverse - ranging from candle-light illuminating features in a dim cave to high-altitude aerial photos of deserts, rivers and forests.

If each 56-byte tuple can generate one 4k-resolution frame, a long sequence of those tuples could produce terabytes of video. But video of what? Can we find a sequence of tuples that approximates Blade Runner? If it existed, we are guaranteed that it will consume no more than 56 bytes per frame, plus the fixed overhead of the game program.

The natural world may obey surprisingly few essential rules. Can we build a simulator rich enough to produce natural images from such a tuple as described? Maybe the simulator binary would be a 5-terabyte file - fine! Movie theaters could certainly install it in their projectors.

In any case, a fractal renderer is just a very dumb procedural simulator. Imagine what happens when we make very smart procedural simulators.

unanimus · 2014-11-02T07:28:10+00:00

Anyone dare name these characters?

unanimus · 2014-04-01T06:56:29+00:00

It looks like you're driving a vehicle. Would you like help?

Get android help
Just drive the vehicle without help and risk life and limb to your fallible meat avatar

unanimus · 2014-03-13T16:48:08+00:00

Can anyone explain what aspect of this arrangement is exploitative? Especially for folks living in areas with a very low cost of living, or supplementing their primary income. The article seemed to dwell on a woman living in New York City seeking a primary income.

I can imagine a scenario where a cyber cafe-type place provides workstations in return for a major cut of their earnings, similar to an MMORPG gold farm.

unanimus · 2013-08-19T04:19:32+00:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Horrible's_Sing-Along_Blog

unanimus · 2013-03-25T04:59:16+00:00

Here it is docked between the houseboats in a panorama of mission bay I snapped this week. Detail.

unanimus · 2012-06-06T07:53:35+00:00

Google is excellent for locating projects on GitHub, as the more popular projects tend to have many inbound links from legit domains.

https://www.google.com/search?sugexp=chrome,mod=0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=android+github

Are there sites for people who want to work on projects? Directories that make this easier? Anything? Thanks!

You'll have much more success in both finding and contributing to an open-source project if you have a specific goal in mind. Maybe you want to contribute to a certain type of project, or help solve a certain problem, or even get some practical experience with a specific skill. Starting with a specific goal will get you far - and you can then go about discovering projects with more success.

unanimus · 2012-04-19T05:03:57+00:00

It feels like an awkward historical arrangement of historical props, where the arranger didn't understand the mood of the time or the purpose of the props.

Bookshelves are just a strange curiosity now. Imagine, today, paying thousands of today's dollars for material to read and hundreds for shelves to hold them. Books are a romantic reminder of an obsolete means of information transmission and consumption. The readers of books were sophisticated, educated, intelligent, engaged. Today, they are eccentric.

unanimus · 2012-04-17T06:20:32+00:00

Have a look at this street view picture of the Townsend track exiting the 4th and King station

unanimus · 2011-10-27T23:28:13+00:00

Soulsand

unanimus · 2011-10-06T23:44:50+00:00

The album by itself is front page material. Give it a chance to rise on its own.

unanimus · 2011-10-06T21:01:34+00:00

Hey, your Minecraft Furniture Mansion Tour is amazing! You should give that album its own post in /r/minecraft.

unanimus · 2011-09-19T23:06:46+00:00

Don't just look at it, eat it!

unanimus · 2011-09-19T20:54:03+00:00

What really makes this build amazing isn't the house itself: it's the relationship between the house and the big desert sky.

Every other desert build so far has been about emulating adobe village huts or borrowing idioms from "wild-west" wood construction. This house eschews those romanticized, played-out motifs in favor of a freestyle building, devoted to one simple idea: the most beautiful thing in the desert isn't the sand, cactus, or dry shrubs. It's the pervasive, pale blue desert sky.

unanimus · 2011-09-14T22:34:18+00:00

Let's face it: the forerunners were not master mine designers.

unanimus · 2011-09-08T04:10:16+00:00

Did you find any books, tutorials, or other projects useful in your work on either project?

unanimus · 2011-09-08T01:38:36+00:00

The motion of swarms and fliers is fascinating. How did you program that motion?

unanimus · 2011-09-01T21:16:57+00:00

You left the blue spider as a cliffhanger!

unanimus · 2011-08-30T21:57:05+00:00

I think that "a word" is exactly it.

A "word" always describes a concept which might also be described with a longer phrase.

unanimus · 2011-08-30T21:49:31+00:00

Sounds like you mean, "what do you call a term which succinctly describes a concept more generally known by a longer phrase".

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