Yeah, that was the idea.
Well, you nailed it there. Nice work
Readit Newsgoodmachine commented on Show HN: Unflip – a puzzle game about XOR patterns of squares unflipgame.com/... · Posted by u/bogdanoff_2
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Wonderful essay! OP's tireless research is appreciated.
goodmachine commented on Microsoft is killing Skype windowscentral.com/micros... · Posted by u/thund
The way Microsoft and Skype missed their opportunity during the pandemic to maintain or even expand their lead in video conferencing, while allowing a complete unknown (outside of the corporate world, at least) like Zoom to become the dominant platform, should be studied in business schools.
The term 'Skype' is so synonymous with video calling that, based on personal experience, it is still used in place of FaceTime and other services, especially by older people.
A message from the Skype CEO [NSFW]
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goodmachine commented on The Color of Noise (2014) caseymuratori.com/blog_00... · Posted by u/ekzhang
"In fact, people have actually made spatial pattern generators that allow you to input the frequency profile that you want, and get the corresponding point pattern out. It’s really quite neat, and I highly recommend reading this paper so you can see some other possible noise parameters, like anisotropy."
I had to hunt this 'custom colour' noise paper out since that link was dead. It is quite neat. Here it is on ACM in case anyone else is interested:
Point Sampling with General Noise Spectrum (2012) https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2185520.2185572
goodmachine commented on Public Work: a search engine for public domain images public.work... · Posted by u/throw0101d
Hmmm... this is trash. All images are called 'downloaded_image.jpeg' which is hilarious.
Who created the image? When? Where? How can I find more from the same book, or by the same artist?
Cultural amnesia is one thing, but annihilating the credits and context deliberately is very bad indeed.
Pinterest does this evil trick, and Cosmos bills itself as 'Pinterest for creatives' = pure internet cancer.
goodmachine commented on Thousands of Pablo Picasso’s works in a new online archive smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
https://cep.museepicassoparis.fr/
Great resource, terrible site.
Why can't any serious museum create a good, simple image gallery? Low resolution, missing images, curatorial cruft, bad UI, dead ends.
Just show me the work. It shouldn't be so hard to use.
Stepping back, the high-order bit here is an ML method is beating physically-based methods for accurately predicting the world.
What happens when the best methods for computational fluid dynamics, molecular dynamics, nuclear physics are all uninterpretable ML models? Does this decouple progress from our current understanding of the scientific process - moving to better and better models of the world without human-interpretable theories and mathematical models / explanations? Is that even iteratively sustainable in the way that scientific progress has proven to be?
Interesting times ahead.
In order for that not to happen (uninterpretable ML models) some research on symbolic distillation, aka symbolic regression