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Some POV-Ray art I created years ago: https://mscharrer.net/povray/scenes/ Source code is always included.

Wolfram works with the full mathematical expression tree. It works very well in practice but the equality test is undecidable in general.

I ran into this issue once while trying to render the Mandelbrot set while learning Haskell. It defaulted to a rational type based on two bignum integers with unlimited precision. …

> Nothing is mining the web for maths, and semantic markup for maths buys you nothing. I find that rather unfortunate. A math search engine that find sites with equivalent formulae…

> However imagine you have a set of keyframes (maybe even multiple fragments per frame) and you need to interpolate between them? Not that hard of a task, isn't it. Intrestingly, t…

Unlike the former, I could also imagine the latter being produced by a Markov chain.

> iv. Never use the passive where you can use the active. One example i see quite often is: "X has been widely criticized for Y", with no mention of either the critics or the argum…

I think fallacy 2 is the big one, and not just in the AI field. Sometimes a simple lookup table (or some other 'dumb' model) works well on tasks that humans generally consider 'har…

Wikipedia has a pretty good article on the banana issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_Regulation_(EC)_No....

How do these ToF systems deal with multiple sensors pointing at the same scene? I've seen it work with two ToF sensors, but haven't been able to find a good explanation for how it …

Isn't the observer model explicitly built into NeRF architectures?

I find the general idea of treating differential equations as infinitely dimensional linear systems quite powerful. I was first introduced to the concept while studying quantum mec…