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mkaic
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About mkaic
blog: https://mkaic.blog
youtube: https://youtube.com/@EmkaiSea
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tiktok: https://tiktok.com/@mkaic
github: https://github.com/mkaic
twitter: https://twitter.com/EmkaiSea
email: poppers-osmotic0t icloud com
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Comment #49187579
I investigated a gradient-descent-based concept adjacent to this back in like 2023 [0] inspired by the original 3DGS paper, I was pretty happy with the results I got with back-to-f…
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Comment #46951117
Just cancelled mine after reading this comment, I only really cared about the bigger file uploads and the HD screen-sharing anyways and I can live without those. Now that I think o…
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Comment #46334082
I suppose both of us watched the same Youtube video by Metta Beshay (i think that is his name?)
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Comment #46259934
perhaps I shouldn't share my workaround, but I've found that Mullvad's Norway nodes consistently get past Reddit's IP-blocking :)
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Comment #46246251
Heavy and chronic usage of cannabis is associated with some of these things. I think "plenty of evidence that marijuana can cause {effects}" is somewhat overstating the consensus o…
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Comment #46111514
"It's... a regional dialect." "What region?" "Er, upstate New York." "Really. Well, I'm from Utica and I've never heard anyone use the phrase '100M' to mean '100 thousand'" "Oh, no…
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Comment #45976406
I think some of the coolest changes in this release are on the nodes side of things — they added Closures (kinda like lambdas!), Bundles (tuples/structs, I guess?), and Repeat (loo…
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Comment #45816422
IIIII HHHAAAAAVE THE POWERRRRR
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Comment #45122559
Location: Boulder, Colorado Remote: Open to Remote, Hybrid, or In-Person Willing to relocate: Only for an exceptional offer. Technologies: AI / Machine Learning, Docker, Python, Py…
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Comment #45094717
My favorite Spherical Minecraft-like gamedev project is PlanetSmith [0], which uses hexagonal voxels (and a few pentagonal voxels). The devlogs are very well produced and I highly …
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Comment #44998948
My favorite way to generate random points on a n-dimensional sphere is to just sample n times from a Gaussian distribution to get a n-dimensional vector, and then normalizing that …
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Comment #44707126
Have you kept up with recent ML papers like MindEye, which have managed to reconstruct seen images using image generator models conditioned on fMRI signals? Ever since that paper c…
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Comment #44627118
I second this recommendation, I've been listening to the Wanderstop OST on shuffle for over a month now and find it delightful. The sister album "Wanderstop FM", which contains tra…
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Comment #44475567
I feel a bit shaken after reading this comment, to be honest. I don't think I've ever heard someone so perfectly describe such a major component of my life experience. It's like yo…
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Comment #44398481
I think in casual speech at this point (at least in my experience) the two are used interchangeably. In professional or legal settings I'm sure the distinction matters more, but I …
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Comment #44352306
If they can manage to make good on their plans to open-source it, I'll breathe a tentative sigh of relief. I'm also rooting for them, but until they're open-source, I'm not willing…
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Comment #44069788
Here's an unpaywalled PDF I found of the same: https://labs.la.utexas.edu/gilden/files/2016/04/theketchupco...
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Comment #43988114
I love the look and feel of Nim, but found it to be stuck in a weird chicken-and-egg situation where it didn't have enough of a following to have a Convenient Package For Everythin…
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Comment #43246161
Damn, this is a strikingly simple modification. Basically, modern deep learning optimizers typically calculate the update to the weights each step using some kind of momentum and/o…
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Comment #43198791
In a hilarious act of accidental satire, it seems that the AI-generated audio version of the post has a weird glitch/mispronunciation within the first three words — it struggles to…
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Comment #43190039
I don't think there is such a legal obligation, because videos like this one exist where devs do share the exact financials of their Steam releases: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
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Comment #43164193
Not with that attitude it's not :P