Electrons aren’t spheres. Or cows.

Scott didn't make up the rules, he agreed on them with another person who thought this would not happen in 3 years. Gary Marcus might have thought it was a bad bet, but someone was on the other side of it, and they presumably thought it was fair or they wouldn't have made it.

The original terms of the bet:

My proposed operationalization of this is that on June 1, 2025, if either if us can get access to the best image generating model at that time (I get to decide which), or convince someone else who has access to help us, we'll give it the following prompts:

1. A stained glass picture of a woman in a library with a raven on her shoulder with a key in its mouth

2. An oil painting of a man in a factory looking at a cat wearing a top hat

3. A digital art picture of a child riding a llama with a bell on its tail through a desert

4. A 3D render of an astronaut in space holding a fox wearing lipstick

5. Pixel art of a farmer in a cathedral holding a red basketball

We generate 10 images for each prompt, just like DALL-E2 does. If at least one of the ten images has the scene correct in every particular on 3/5 prompts, I win, otherwise you do.

Yep, there will always be exceptions. But taking the median of a decently-filtered set could work. And Apple obviously has a team of folks working on this to come up with something smarter than some random HNer (me) who's just shooting from the hip).

Well, there is a red banner on the site saying

> Support for the Dark Sky iOS app will end on December 31st, 2022, and support for the Dark Sky API will end on March 31st, 2023.

So basically them buying then closing the service to make their own seem better

Off-topic, but your app is really really cool!

Explain heartbeats?

To the OP, using chrome when I pause the rotation, then just arrow down through the projections viewing them one at a time, going from mercator to miller causes a weird X shape. https://ibb.co/sWrgtZC

Nice

I see the final result here has a left bias, just press and hold to see it stacking towards left before right. So the next fix could be a random choice.

Did you fix the bell? And have you seen a residential dumbwaiter yet?

I feel this. As someone who owns a forty-plus year old car that has more than 770,000 miles on it, I care much more about function than appearance. I don't want original - I want better. When something goes wrong, I see what, I see why, and I try to fix it so it's better and stronger than before.

Likewise, I don't strive for authentic and original when fixing up old VAXen, Amigas, or Macs. I want functional, and I want new caps that're better than original.

It's nice to know there's an appreciation for not original, but better.