l'empathie mécanique @dpwiz@qoto.org

There are 3 types of Visitor:

* Standard Visitor: that are very easy to contain or do not need many resources to contain. It does not mean that the visitor is harmless, just simple to contain.
* Marriage/Civil partnership: that require more resources to contain completely or where containment isn't always reliable. Usually this is because the relationship is insufficiently understood or is inherently unpredictable.
* DELETED.
* Transit visitor: that are very difficult to contain or haven't yet been contained. Generally, the resources used to contain those are often very limited, yet they need much of the resources to contain it. This doesn't mean the visitor is dangerous; just difficult to contain.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules/immigration-rules-appendix-v-visitor

The cat is out of the box!

Figure 3. Fuck around
Figure 4. Find out

@omgubuntu Nice.

BVH is love, BVH is life 📦

Ramped up samples, bounces, and resolution and the rendering time is still less than the first attemts with the linear traversal of all objects in the world.

Converting interaction event into a single-constructor with additive, multiplicative, and scatter components helped a little too.

Also, skipped ray bouncing when attenuation drops below 10-bit range. The limit practically remains to prevent infinite bounces between perfect mirrors.

Cornell box, here I come!

@dneaves `Monad a` by any other name
Would (>>=) as sweet

@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...