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hacker_9 commented on Summary of "Improvising cellular playgrounds in Realtalk", Aug 2023 [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=Osn3J... · Posted by u/meanie
hacker_9 · a year ago
Bret Victor is a real visionary in the field, and everyone should check out his website worrydream.com, for his interesting presentations on interactive programming.

Saying that, I can't see how this dynamicland is going to work practically. The requirement first for a shared physical space, in the age of remote working. Secondly the need for programs to fit on a table, which his simple examples even seem to barely do. In a meeting you'd have to be constantly arranging things on the table, putting things away as you move on to the next example, remembering how to arrange the next deck etc.. personally if I do a presentation, I want all the slides on the cloud in case of any issues, not to be carrying round a set of cards in a binder..

I would think the more likely next step in combatting complexity, would be personalised AIs. These would understand the context of the presentation being given, and therefore can provide us remote audience members with explanations and visualisations on demand, that would suit our level of understanding of the problem.

hacker_9 commented on Squatters take over Gordon Ramsay's London pub   bbc.com/news/uk-england-l... · Posted by u/darth_avocado
hacker_9 · 2 years ago
Property law is abysmal in the UK, the fact that the squatters stuck up a sign on the wall naming their rights to occupy, just shows what a joke it is. I dont agree with property being left empty, but there is due process to these things, and the average worker has to suffer through all of it to even get one home.

If no one is buying at the current price then thats the market saying the fair price is lower, and perhaps it should just go to auction. I'm sure it's pocket change to Ramsey, but it set's an ugly precedent letting this go forth.

If you sit on a train without a ticket it's a jailable offence. How is breaking into someone's property and living there not completely illegal? It's completely inconsistent and squatting is a real problem here.

hacker_9 commented on Squatters take over Gordon Ramsay's London pub   bbc.com/news/uk-england-l... · Posted by u/darth_avocado
notatoad · 2 years ago
>The Kitchen Nightmares host unsuccessfully attempted to free himself from the lease in a legal battle at the High Court in 2015.

i'm guessing it's been vacant since at least then?

There needs to be some mechanism for communities to reclaim spaces like this. they have value to a town, and leaving them vacant has a cost. i'm not sure giving them over to squatters is the right solution, but there needs to be consequences for property owners who harm a community by taking up space and ensuring it provides zero value to anybody by leaving it vacant.

hacker_9 · 2 years ago
Google reviews from 10 months ago, so at least active till then
hacker_9 commented on Sub.Rehab – See where Reddit communities have relocated   sub.rehab/... · Posted by u/thunderbong
hacker_9 · 3 years ago
I have to say, watching this car crash in real time has ironically made me browse reddit more, just to watch the drama unfold. It's the same with twitter, these community sites have become so big, that the actions they take themselves are newsworthy.

The way this is unfolding, I can imagine this being a case study in a future revision of 'how to win friends and influence people', on completely what not to do. If that book is worth it's salt, then reddit's management complete unwillingness to work with its community, and constant lies, leading to virtual riots on its sites, should result in it's total collapse.

hacker_9 commented on Modular is building a next-generation AI developer platform   modular.com/... · Posted by u/TechnicolorByte
hacker_9 · 3 years ago
It looks like they took a profiler to the training process of today's largest AI models.

Firstly it'll be a universal low level software layer, that can run on top of any cloud hardware, which can then be developed against to enable maximal cloud reach when training models.

This sort of virtualisation might be considered slower than direct access, but they've also created a DSL on top of python, which looks to enable the compiler to make smarter decisions about how to allocate memory and compute during training. So both together presumably producing a speedup worthy of the hype.

Kudos to them if they deliver on their promise.

hacker_9 commented on Natural language is the lazy user interface   austinhenley.com/blog/nat... · Posted by u/azhenley
jermaustin1 · 3 years ago
I can't help but agree fully. Its worse on telephones where they might be doing NLP, but they cannot understand and parse accents and dialects. I remember my late grandmother trying to call AT&T a couple of years ago (just before COVID), and the robot would ask: "What can I help you with?" and then could not understand how she pronounced "pay my bill" because she said "PAY mah BEEEEEL".

But just hitting 0 did nothing, so after 5 minutes of her repeating "PAY mah BEEEEL" over and over, I took the phone from her and did it. From then on she would have to have other people pay her bill over the phone.

Doing this to a much more complex user interface and providing me no clue what I'm supposed to ask for something I have no way of knowing that I don't know it is a dystopian future I'm glad my grandmother won't have to endure.

hacker_9 · 3 years ago
It's poor thinking on them to only provide a talking interface. I don't think I've encountered that personally, there is always a way to use the keypad - which I will always use anyway, even though they understand my voice, it's just x10 faster. And if you've made the call before you can type on the keypad before the robot on the other side is done talking.
hacker_9 commented on Game prototype using AI assisted graphics   traffickinggame.com/ai-as... · Posted by u/smusamashah
fhd2 · 3 years ago
... which leads to further saturation, which means you need a sizable marketing budget and/or a lot of luck for anyone to discover and pay for your game. If it was up to me, I'd rather pay for art than ad space. But using a Red Dead Redemption quote: "You can't fight change".
hacker_9 · 3 years ago
Not at all. This means we are no long tying production quality of a game to how much money the developers have access to. It enables real creativity. Right now do you not think the AAA market is satured with yet another first person shooter etc? Creativity has lost out to capitalism, this will bring it back.
hacker_9 commented on Game prototype using AI assisted graphics   traffickinggame.com/ai-as... · Posted by u/smusamashah
pronlover723 · 3 years ago
I'm curious how they went from character sheet to fully rigged model.

It sounds like they hand created the model, and hand rigged it, and the entire process took 18 hours (entire meaning from 0 to game proto) so building the model, applying UVs, and rigging, was some sub-portion of that 18 hours

Does that fit other people's experience of how long it generally takes someone to model, UV map, and rig a character?

edit: If it's not clear, it sounds like it took 4-6 hours to model, map, rig. Since they still had to spend time generating the character sheet, generating the city and alley, and turning it all into a playable prototype in that same 18 hours

hacker_9 · 3 years ago
It does, once you have the character sheet, you put these together in blender and use them as reference for the 3d model, so everything comes out in proportion and its just grind really to place the vertices.

The rigging + animation is done by mixamo's AI so just touch up after.

He had to do a UV unwrap and then align the textures to this, this is time consuming just because it requires thinking about where to split the 3d model, to place the seams, then to fit it all in a texture, where you have to think about how much space to give each texture (more space = more quality). And then map the texture into this space too. This is a known pain in the 3d modelling for decades and no doubt AI will solve this in the next decade.

hacker_9 commented on Game prototype using AI assisted graphics   traffickinggame.com/ai-as... · Posted by u/smusamashah
epaulson · 3 years ago
Maybe it's because I don't know the workflow to do game character design, but it looks like the only AI used in the character creation here was the initial character design? Like, before in a normal process you'd get a human artist to draw you a character on that "model" sheet, giving you a front/side/back view of the character, and then take that 2d drawing and hand it off to a 3d modeler who would turn it into a 3D mesh and start taking the 2d drawings and turn them into textures, and then rigging them for animation controls.

It seems like all of that 2d->3d conversion is still being done by a human in this workflow, and so the "only" part that's being done is the 2d drawings. Now, my drawing skills would put me in the lower half of an average 4th grade class, so it's more than I could do, but it still seems like we're quite a ways from going from a couple of prompts to get a 2d design sheet, then a mesh and textures that match that 2d design, and then a rigged mesh, and then motion data to attach to that rigged mesh to give some basic animations.

So, while this is super-cool, it still feels like we're a long way from saying "I want a plumber with a thick mustache wearing blue overalls, a red shirt, and red cap. And now I want him to be able to jump and squat coming down." and start putting that into my game asset library.

hacker_9 · 3 years ago
There is a lot of content in games. The AAA games can have single artists work on one character for the whole game. The author even says it saved him 5 days, and look how small the scene is he's talking about! AI has the ability to scale up the production quality of games, whilst taking half the time or less.

This kind of tech enables an indie to build a prototype with AI generated content, where the art direction is clear, then get funded in order to hire artists for the touch up. Kickstarters are often very visual, so this kind of stuff is required up front.

hacker_9 commented on Production Twitter on one machine? 100Gbps NICs and NVMe are fast   thume.ca/2023/01/02/one-m... · Posted by u/trishume
TacticalCoder · 3 years ago
TFA, to me, touches about something I've wondered about a very long time ago: what are the implications of CPU and storage growing at much faster rates than human population?

Back in the 486 days you wouldn't be keeping, in RAM, data about every single human on earth (let's take "every single human on earth" as the maximum number of humans we'll offer our services to with on our hypothetical server). Nowadays keeping in RAM, say, the GPS coordinates of every single human on earth (if we had a mean to fetch the data) is doable. On my desktop. In RAM.

I still don't know what the implications are.

But I can keep the coordinates of every single humans on earth in my desktop's RAM.

Let that sink in.

P.S: no need to nitpick if it's actually doable on my desktop today. That's not the point. If it's not doable today, it'll be doable tomorrow.

hacker_9 · 3 years ago
Wait until you hear about DNA

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