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There is a very very small intersection between the set of people who are well known and the set of people who deserve to be well known
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Maarten Mortier
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DAVID BOWIE delighting in the fact the interviewer can’t believe one of the most beautiful women in the world - his wife, Iman - ironed Bowie’s clothes at 6am that morning.
I miss David Bowie.
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Jean-Paul Belmondo did THIS 51yrs ago.
No stunt double, no green screen, no freakin’ CGI.
THE BURGLARS (1971)
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Funny how it’s “butter scraped over too much bread”, instead of too little butter. Kind of a nice hobbitian idiom
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Jumping back into Japanese studies after leaving it for 6 months due to other attentions - any +40yo’s here finding it harder to multitask? I have to think about Bilbo’s butter spread over too much bread quote sometimes
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Running YOLOv8 with segmentation on Viktor & Rolf fashion show. Lots of surfboards in this Haute Couture collection😄
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If you know the answer, please don't share your answer/insight...yet. Some nice conceptual understanding--and flexible thinking:)
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I realised I had never seen Halfblood Prince before watching it last night. The script is such a mess! It actually has really interesting McGuffins which could’ve made for a great movie.
quaternions are hard, ok?
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Can't believe I had to make my own "weekend calendar" with only weekends in 2023 because nobody apparently has made this - and AI was no help.
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Haha I love this type of aggression
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I really dislike the washed out colour palette of the last three HP movies. It’s an era in the 2000-2010’s where color grading was really going overboard
Severus Snape is supposed to be 38 lol
The fertility problem is huge and completely underhighlighted - isn’t it worse than climate?
I only have two kids so I’m part of the problem. How on Earth are we going to fix this? We need births without pregnancies? Is that realistic?
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Would love to know what Bluetooth is doing in those 10 seconds it can take to connect. What can possibly take 10 seconds?
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Probably the only show that has been live for +50 years..? Crazy
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Lot of people talked about Rubin’s feigned or unfeigned lack of ability but has anyone mentioned how extraordinarily ugly the “60 minutes” logo is in the corner? That is some travesty of visual design
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The fight for token priority :)
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I also think though that ultimately, a biotechnological approach where humans are enhanced to solve bigger problems is a much more closely possible path.
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With "fantasy" I mean there is nothing that indicates any progress in this area. It's smoke and mirrors for intelligence, not intelligence. Of course this has plenty of uses though!
I hope there is more secondary progress from the inevitable wake-up call that will ensue.
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It's an exciting idea to believe making an artificial intelligence leapfrogs all further challenges (fusion energy, nano/femto technology, etc). The machine would work it out, and the only thing we need to do is align it with our goals!
It's exciting but also a complete fantasy.
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Cool, never knew this trick. How to rotate things by doing three shear ops (which have nothing to do with typical sin/cos affine transforms)
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Rotation of sprites using three shears.
cohost.org/tomforsyth/pos
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I dropped FFXV after only like 30 minutes of playing though so perhaps these games just aren't for me anymore..
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FFXII is the last final fantasy I played (it's a pretty good one really). I tried FFXV but just really could not get into it.
So now I will try to hype myself up for FFXVI. Perhaps it can give a little of that nostalgia feeling - although I'm doubtful for now.
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I also feel like predictive AI has a lot of catching up to do. Perhaps the paradigms are running a bit dry..
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By the way people who say ‘AGI is impossible’ are of course in a valley of their own. Nobody knows, I just know that the current age of LLM’s and other generative models are not in any way on this path - and they don’t need to be to be very useful. #
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..will just further confuse people into thinking they come with knowledge. This is really the age of Dunning Kruger I feel. Many really famous Twitter accounts are so deep into this valley. 2/2
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People who are talking about AGI being close are so terribly confused. I just hope this phase will go away because it’s quite frustrating to witness.
Alas the next phase is when LLM’s will peruse (dynamically, not for training data) search engines, which is fine, but.. 1/2
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Haha this graph. The U.S. is the “Right Axis”. Great words to use on a political graph!
Which means it uses the right-hand axis which is three times the left one. Incredible how people are continuously nudged into beliefs.
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An analysis looks at how defense spending among the nations with the highest expenditures has changed since 1992 and what may have driven the changes ow.ly/MyOx50MwEyF
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The fact that algebraic rings that lack an identity element in the secondary operation are sometimes called "rng"s (ring minus the "i") is a bit too far into algebraic lalaland for me. Some of these namings are terrible!
The Notorious Byrd Brothers is such a well crafted album
Watching Magnus play Blitz live while talking through is just 🤯
Also my favourite Dylan record. Short, no bad song on it. Desire is a close second (although both have recordings from various "sessions" which makes them seem less whole).
The other records have tons of gems but aren't spotless.
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Today in 1975 Bob Dylan released perhaps his greatest record ever. Can you pick a favourite song from Blood on the Tracks?
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Two crazy rallies in this thread. If you ever hit a ball with a racket you know how surreal this is!
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Yep well said. It reminded me of this point from Jimmy Connors in his amazing run at the US Open in 1991. youtu.be/Xvuhx1DYWZU