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TrevorJ

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About TrevorJ

Lifelong learner, graphic designer, VFX artist, animator. Started State Machine, a tiny indie games company.

I highly enjoy meeting interesting people and discussing new ideas, please feel free to contact me.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #41989800

    Not sure if the format for this article is standard these days, but oh man do I hate it.

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    Comment #41989784

    Coatings that don't cut down on reflections is the biggest issue I've had the various times I have used this route.

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    Comment #41413555

    there are third party vector databases though

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    Comment #41413525

    100% agree. This guy is next level.

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    Comment #41270793

    "The last few moments have disproven this idea that ships need to stop hitting icebergs. Now, dear guests on this great ship Titanic, let us go back to enjoying our dinners!" Timef…

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    Comment #41173057

    "a recession is when your neighbor loses his job; a depression is when you lose yours"

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    Comment #41123372

    There are some laptop desk arms that you could use to extend them out to either side. If you search on amazon you can find a bunch. I use the one that is only articulated in one di…

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    Comment #40867927

    This assumes that categorizing a hot dog as a sandwich is logical though.

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    Comment #40860011

    Hard disagree, as someone in the industry.

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    Comment #40578058

    Mental health conditions are typically defined by a collection of symptoms though, aren't they? I am not suggesting there is no underlying cause, but our ability to detect and quan…

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    Comment #40006566

    Sure it does, if those tokens appear in the training data.

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    Comment #39947189

    Businesses will charge what the market will bear. And if 'the market' can get government loans to pay for tuition, then the market will bear an awful lot.

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    Comment #39945115

    I agree that most people are not biased towards action, and fixing that is the first step. However, the article is clearly aimed at people who have made that change and now are fac…

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    Comment #39923517

    The issue here is that running a website at all is hitching yourself to the google bus.

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    Comment #39901141

    Location:Colorado Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python, game engines (Unreal, Unity et.al.) DCC's (Max, Maya, Blender, Adobe etc), AI assisted Artistry, Git, L…

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    Comment #39900899

    To build on this, personal cybersecurity is complex in general, and only seems 'simple' if you've been blessed to grow up around computers, the internet AND have more than a simply…

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    Comment #39899411

    It's a very underrated side effect of this whole LLM thing: We've created a super compact representation of human knowledge in a form that requires a FAR less complex tech stack to…

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    Comment #39350290

    This seems fraudulent, given the fact that the AI is creating scenarios that would not actually work in the real property. Books on a windowsill that is way too narrow for books, f…

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    Comment #39210699

    >It's not a replacement for search, it simply makes search worse. I strenuously disagree with this. Search has become all but useless in the last few years. LLM's provide a huge ju…

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    Comment #39109880

    The reason some of these vehicles ARE so big IS the regulations. We could look at rolling back THOSE changes first.

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    Comment #38659618

    this elides the discovery problem somewhat.

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    Comment #38659610

    This is not very much different than the current state of the indie market.

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    Comment #38522889

    As someone who's learning was significantly accelerated by the "written tutorial" phase of the internet this would be a really great little tool. I find video tutorials to be far m…

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    Comment #38479112

    If I had to guess at what the next leap for AI would be, it looks something like a collection of small and large special-purpose models, with a model on top that excels at understa…