l'empathie mécanique @dpwiz@qoto.org

@boilingsteam A car model where the Windows powers multimedia AND drivetrain

@tante

> The technology that was at this time last year being somberly touted as so powerful that it posed an existential threat to humanity is now worrying investors because it is apparently incapable of generating passable marketing emails reliably enough.

No, the x-tech that can end it for humanity is not LLM (of a current generation).
The x-tech that will do it is only brewing in the "AI gain of function" labs.

I suspect people who claim "they say matrix multiplication will kill us" didn't do their homework before posting.

Found this little gem while testing UV generation code.

(The UVs came out wrong, though.)

Textures are just `Material a` combinators concerned with producing stuff at hit points.

Since the Material is a Monad now, no need for special cases for colors and then another bunch of combinators for materials.
A sampler can be used to pick entire materials if needed.
(Ooops, I actually CPSd a little...)

#haskell

`instance Monad Material where`

Sitting on my hands to avoid going full CPS on it (again)

#haskell

white_noise.jpg

@johncarlosbaez @BartoszMilewski Diaspora, and then Incandescence, had an interpersonal take on this: What if the life itself is so successful that it is possible to collectively exhaust all the interesting bits galaxy-wide?

@BartoszMilewski @johncarlosbaez The Culture has 400 years cutoff, which seems... arbitrarily little to the point of being "deathist".

@BartoszMilewski I'll take "long enough" over "not enough", thanks.

@enigmatico > there isn't much to do with them aside of that

All of my dudes are "playing" gamified squats on Quests. Can't long session *that* unless you're one athletic MFer, but then you're usually fine with some discomfort anyway 😅

@enigmatico Okay, I've just checked quests specifically and, yeah, the numbers up there are BS. The quests have only a few million sales in 2023 while having up to half the market.

IDK.. still looks far from being forgotten.

OTOH, the human visual system is quite shite^W noisy in low light too. And that's even with all the built-in "neural denoising".

Maybe if it's neurons were activated by light instead of being suppressed (yes, it's inverted in there too) there would be far less noise. But that may push it out to bright light instead. And being activated most of the time will give higher levels of oxidative stress/faster degradation.
Tradeoffs everywhere...

@enigmatico Does the headset matter? If you can your stick your face in it, it's VR, no?

I doubt the "cardboards" are in there. That fad should have been peaked and then passed a few years ago by now.

@enigmatico Betteridge's law of headlines

@enigmatico Apparently, a few dozen millions do.

@enigmatico No.

@tristanC Dumped everything salient I could remember about the experience

https://gitlab.com/dpwiz/rtow/-/blob/main/notes/week-1.md

Been fever-dreamin' some DIY material layering and light sources (before I get to the chapter 7 of the second book).

The amount of noise from emissive materials is.. ugh. Apparently this is why we bother with "light sources" instead of just dropping some light bulbs here and there.