Oh wow, a network that enhances photorealism of rendered images — we might finally see indie games that need realistic visuals, not just a heavily-stylized ones!
Also grass, hair, fur and other stuff still notoriously difficult to render conventionally
https://wz.ax/photorealism-network-naovnovb
Also grass, hair, fur and other stuff still notoriously difficult to render conventionally
https://wz.ax/photorealism-network-naovnovb
https://wz.ax/phase-spike-encoding-in-neurons
Not to sound arrogant but… reminds me of that famous paper where medical researcher rediscovers integration.
I mean, isn’t encoding data via phase difference about the only way you can transmit both continuous variables and events that is resistant both to “dc offset” and fading?
I always assumed biological neurons *have* to work this way…
Not to sound arrogant but… reminds me of that famous paper where medical researcher rediscovers integration.
I mean, isn’t encoding data via phase difference about the only way you can transmit both continuous variables and events that is resistant both to “dc offset” and fading?
I always assumed biological neurons *have* to work this way…
Quanta Magazine
Neurons Unexpectedly Encode Information in the Timing of Their Firing
A temporal pattern of activity observed in human brains for the first time may explain how we can learn so quickly.
How To Lose Time and Money
an everlasting reminder from Paul Graham (2010)
https://wz.ax/paul-graham-how-to-lose-time-and-money
an everlasting reminder from Paul Graham (2010)
https://wz.ax/paul-graham-how-to-lose-time-and-money
Capacity-achieving Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding
TLDR: Generalized FEC for Markovian additive noise, without lag!
https://wz.ax/generalized-additive-fec/1802.07010 [pdf]
TLDR: Generalized FEC for Markovian additive noise, without lag!
https://wz.ax/generalized-additive-fec/1802.07010 [pdf]
https://wz.ax/evolved-wakefulness
“I think we didn’t evolve sleep, we evolved wakefulness.”
“I think we didn’t evolve sleep, we evolved wakefulness.”
www.science.org
‘If it’s alive, it sleeps.’ Brainless creatures shed light on why we slumber
Sleep’s benefits may extend far beyond the brain, with role for muscles, immune system, and gut
https://wz.ax/skyscraper-factories
building tools also means studying different kinds of tools out there
building tools also means studying different kinds of tools out there
Construction Physics
Japan’s Skyscraper Factories
One interesting thing about the building construction productivity puzzle is that it’s a worldwide phenomenon. Unlike with say, healthcare, or transit, or car manufacturing, where we have examples of other countries with different systems that perform far…
The Autodidactic Universe
- We present an approach to cosmology in which the Universe learns its own physical laws (...)
- Learning is, as we will explain, a much more general notion than evolving by natural selection, it is also a more complex and demanding idea.
https://wz.ax/autodidactic-universe.pdf
- We present an approach to cosmology in which the Universe learns its own physical laws (...)
- Learning is, as we will explain, a much more general notion than evolving by natural selection, it is also a more complex and demanding idea.
https://wz.ax/autodidactic-universe.pdf
Nice and balanced overview by Moxie Marlinspike.
I do like web3 but the overall design of Ethereum and gen3 (Solana, Polkadot etc) blockchains is really weird, and it's not just about latency and tx fees. There's still a long way to go.
https://wz.ax/moxie.org/web3-first-impressions
I do like web3 but the overall design of Ethereum and gen3 (Solana, Polkadot etc) blockchains is really weird, and it's not just about latency and tx fees. There's still a long way to go.
https://wz.ax/moxie.org/web3-first-impressions
Moxie Marlinspike
My first impressions of web3
Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.” I don’t think I’ve ever actually said the words “get off my lawn,” but I’m much more likely to click on Pepperidge Farm Remembers flavored memes about how…
Gentle reminder: A cloud is a someone else's computer.
Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright infringement
https://wz.ax/hn/30060405/gdrive-copyright
> Turns out Google also hates 500, 174, 833, 285 and 302 (from generating files from -1000 to 1000).
Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright infringement
https://wz.ax/hn/30060405/gdrive-copyright
> Turns out Google also hates 500, 174, 833, 285 and 302 (from generating files from -1000 to 1000).
https://wz.ax/goodreads/9780679762881/high-output-management/t
Andy Grove's High Output Management
5/5 Should've read it earlier. Like 10 years earlier.
Or maybe not. I'd surely dismiss some aspects as "does it really matter?" then. Sometimes you need to experience the problem first to understand it.
Includes much more personal productivity tips than I expected.
As always, the important part is to actually do something.
Also, looking at the negative reviews... I'm puzzled.
Sure, well, the book IS dated, it's not all-encompassing, blah blah.
But you can't skip the part "think whether a particular piece of advice is applicable" and run blind even if it feels like the saving grace. Especially if it feels like the saving grace.
Andy Grove's High Output Management
5/5 Should've read it earlier. Like 10 years earlier.
Or maybe not. I'd surely dismiss some aspects as "does it really matter?" then. Sometimes you need to experience the problem first to understand it.
Includes much more personal productivity tips than I expected.
As always, the important part is to actually do something.
Also, looking at the negative reviews... I'm puzzled.
Sure, well, the book IS dated, it's not all-encompassing, blah blah.
But you can't skip the part "think whether a particular piece of advice is applicable" and run blind even if it feels like the saving grace. Especially if it feels like the saving grace.
meantime, another proof SMS as two-factor authentication are insecure - in addition to the fact they could be intercepted by a LOT of parties, Mitto AG, Twitter's 2FA provider, sold user location to surveillance companies when they used SMS to login to Twitter (as you need to know the closest cell tower to deliver the text/place a call)
https://wz.ax/sms-spying-2fa
https://wz.ax/sms-spying-2fa
Engadget
Twitter parts ways with two-factor provider following claims of secret surveillance | Engadget
A Mitto AG founder allegedly operated a secret surveillance operation..
SymForce: Symbolic Computation and Code Generation for Robotics
In theory, Julia should cover both Python and C++ parts of SymForce. In practice, well… Looks impressive and practical at the same time.
https://wz.ax/symforce-skydio
In theory, Julia should cover both Python and C++ parts of SymForce. In practice, well… Looks impressive and practical at the same time.
https://wz.ax/symforce-skydio
Skydio
Open-sourcing SymForce
Skydio has open-sourced SymForce, their in-house library for fast symbolic computation, code generation, and nonlinear optimization for robotics.
ρ-calculus: A Reflective Higher-order Calculus
... an asynchronous message-passing calculus built on a notion of quoting. Names are quoted processes, and as such represent the code of a process, a reification of the syntactic structure of the process as an object for process manipulation.
https://wz.ax/n5-rho-calculus
... an asynchronous message-passing calculus built on a notion of quoting. Names are quoted processes, and as such represent the code of a process, a reification of the syntactic structure of the process as an object for process manipulation.
https://wz.ax/n5-rho-calculus