goodmachine
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Comment · 1 month ago
The paper provides four classes of evidence for one theory lacking any.
Comment · 7 months ago
Nice try, but no: honey is not 'insect vomit.'
Honey isn’t actually created or stored in the bee’s stomach. It is excreted through the mouth of the bee: but it is not 'vomit' since it does not empty from the bee's primary digestive stomach, but a separate, dedicated, pleated expandable pouch or crop.
Good work, bees.
Comment · 8 months ago
Stamps for email?
This idea has been discussed for decades now. I like it
https://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Anti-spam_20_27stamps_27#124...
Comment · 11 months ago
Well, you nailed it there. Nice work
Comment · 1 year ago
Wonderful essay! OP's tireless research is appreciated.
Comment · 1 year ago
A message from the Skype CEO [NSFW]
Comment · 1 year ago
"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
Comment · 2 years ago
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.
Comment · 2 years ago
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.
Comment · 2 years ago
In order for that not to happen (uninterpretable ML models) some research on symbolic distillation, aka symbolic regression