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Re:World Emulation via DNN on Saturday April 26, 2025 @09:42AM (#43803551)
It would be quite interesting to try to mess with the neural representations do add or remove the images of some objects there. I'm also curious if the topology of the actual place is similar to the topology of the embedding space.
Re:The secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins on Thursday July 25, 2024 @09:34PM (#41075133)
I went to listen to the songs featured in the playlist screenshot from resubmitted.2003_rsx.wsz file. From the Youtube comments I figured a lot of people also did.
Re:The unexpected poetry of PhD acknowledgements on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @09:50PM (#40991829)
I was at first surprised that people thank God in the acknowledgements. Then remembered what PhD students go through.
Re:Soviet Calculators History (1998) on Monday July 15, 2024 @10:38PM (#40973272)
There is an old Soviet joke: "Soviet microprocessors are the word-biggest microprocessors!" ("Советские микропроцессоры - самые большие микропроцессоры в мире!")
The first thing I though was this guy lol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Mazepa I support Ukraine btw.
Re:A brief history of liquid computers (2019) on Monday July 08, 2024 @01:32AM (#40902848)
I really recommend to read Andrew Adamatzky's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Adamatzky] work. I used to study in the Master's program with his son and one day he gave me one of his books "Dynamics of the Crowd-Minds" [https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/5797#t...]. It changed my life.
I’m from Yakutia and remember sharing a hospital room with a former mammoth hunter. He had many stories to tell.
If you go to the same school, you are more likely to be from the same social and circumstantial strata, which may be a bigger factor in openness to diagnosis and development of mental issues.
It's like watching the results of your Civilizations run.
The are so many crazy things happening in my country so when I read the titles like this from a reputable source, I just believe them even on the April Fools.
Re:40 Years of Programming on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @09:27PM (#39687074)
The hardest thing in programming is not the programming itself.
Maybe it is somehow connected to so called "Baby duck syndrome" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprinting_(psychology)#Baby_d...
Re:We Turned the Tide in the Roach Wars on Thursday December 28, 2023 @01:14AM (#38790612)
There is a quite peculiar article on Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depopulation_of_cockroaches_in...]. Also, please check the Russian version of the article.
Re:Reindeer Sleep and Eat Simultaneously on Thursday December 28, 2023 @12:59AM (#38790523)
Now you will never know how the reindeer can sleep and eat at the same time.
Re:Making Synthesized Sounds More Acoustic on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @09:23PM (#38716317)
About a decade ago, within my circle of amateur musicians, it was considered nearly impossible to achieve an ‘acoustic’ sound using a completely digital loop. The simplest method found to enhance the quality of a synthetic sound was to play it through a speaker and then capture it using a microphone.
My cat once tried to hunt for a cow.
Re:The first electro-mechanical desktop synthesizer on Thursday December 07, 2023 @11:34PM (#38565497)
So pretty much the stage 5 of Gear Acquisition Syndrome.
Re:Metals: Where Electricity May Flow Without Electrons on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @04:32AM (#38444048)
I remember one of the first question asked in university was "what's an electric current?" I said something along the lines "it's a directed flow of charged particles". The professor asked do you contain charged particles, do you move, are you an electric current?
Re:Running Llama.cpp on AWS Instances on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @04:25AM (#38444000)
One of the tasks that can be accomplished by running LLMs on a CPU is to execute long background tasks that do not require real-time response. llama.cpp seems like a suitable platform for this. It would be interesting to explore how to leverage the various acceleration techniques available on AWS.
Ironically enough, the people who followed Weiner’s work were persecuted in the USSR.
Re:Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak suffers minor stroke on Thursday November 09, 2023 @07:18PM (#38213260)
Get better soon, Woz. We need you.
Re:Killings in the U.S. are dropping at a historic rate on Sunday October 22, 2023 @11:20PM (#37981224)
Thank you all for killing less people this year.
Re:I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1967) on Thursday October 12, 2023 @04:04AM (#37854621)
Even though the novel is centered around an AI torturing humans. The more existential horror emerges from the realization that the AI antagonist, originally designed as a military tool, is trapped within its own programming and unable to transcend its foundational purpose.

This makes one think about a parallel with humans.

Re:Geospatial Data Science with Julia on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @11:21PM (#37840520)
Nice thing about Julia is that you randomly find cool projects like this.
Re:Disney Packed Big Emotion into a Little Robot on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @11:13PM (#37840477)
My dream is to put something like this [https://palm-e.github.io/] into the cheapest quadruped robot.
Re:How the Most Useless Branch of Math Could Save Your Life on Monday September 25, 2023 @03:13AM (#37640500)
The course on knot theory was the most confusing part of my curriculum.
Re:Can LLMs learn from a single example? on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @06:30AM (#37403320)
Is it possible to somehow modify the sampling from the model to account for that?

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