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Re:Show HN: 2D interpolator for AI-generated cats on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @08:28PM (#25653715)
You can move your mouse anywhere on the screen and get different images for each point. Moving over the the cat vs. the fluid simulator doesn't make a difference, except that the points are mirrored over the Y-axis.
Re:Show HN: 2D interpolator for AI-generated cats on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @08:26PM (#25653708)
Yup that is correct! I do like the idea of the cats looking at the mouse cursor. Would need to do some work figuring out how to interpolate just the pose part of the latent space.
Re:An Incomplete Guide to Ethereum Rollups on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @07:26AM (#25644821)
Not as delicious, but sure to be just as sticky
Re:Tankies! - the people who think communist empires are awesome on Saturday January 02, 2021 @09:26AM (#25613010)
I forgot that Twitter only became profitable two years ago. Still surprising.
Re:We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @12:50PM (#25520109)
My mistake, thanks for pointing this out
Re:MicroStrategy Announces over $1B in Total Bitcoin Purchases in 2020 on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @03:21AM (#25504162)
At an average purchase price of $15,964, I think they'll do fine in the long term.
Re:Voat Is Shutting Down on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @03:18AM (#25504132)
People with views like these shouldn't be given oxygen with platforms that allow them to form community around horrible and hateful ideas. In my opinion they should feel left out, until they realize that it is their immoral views that make them unacceptable to larger society.
Re:Why California's Musical Road Sounds Terrible on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @03:13AM (#25504106)
Unbelievable that they managed to make the same mistake twice. Especially when the first mistake was so bad that neighbors complained enough that it had to be paved over.
Re:Covid bill proposes up to 10 years in prison for “unauthorized stre... on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @03:07AM (#25504077)
Anyone who watches any content creator at all will notice that they are already paranoid wrecks due to existing copyright law. Seems like once or twice an hour a streamer will wonder out loud if they've inadvertently DMCAed themselves, even while carefully trying to avoid doing so.

With this law, the risk is going to be so high that even carefully treading won't be worth it. It will completely put the industry on ice.

A new phrase: “The Tertullian effect”

Posted by KukiAirani on Sunday December 20, 2020 @01:18PM
from the self-post dept.

Based on a popular misquote of early Christian Tertullian: “I believe because it is absurd”To read more about the origin of this quote: https://aeon.co/ideas/i-believe-because-it-is-absurd-christianitys-first-memeI was searching for a phrase to express an attitude I see in both markets and politics. It’s an attitude in which the more absurd position is the one preferred. This is not only...

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Re:Russia’s Hacking Frenzy Is a Reckoning on Sunday December 20, 2020 @10:24AM (#25486823)
Wow. That's what I was afraid of. If done properly that's going to be a very long and tedious process.

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