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Comment · 1 year ago
Just go to Perplexity or something like that, its well trodden ground. And essentially, what you're doing is discretizing the relevant differential equations and getting that to run in a 2D or 3D cellular automaton.

I'll give you a simple example. For diffusion of heat between 2 points, the rate of change (first derivative) is proportional to the difference in temp between them. So you make an update rule for points on a grid that says "calc the average difference of a cell's temp with that of its neighbors, multiply by some constant, and that is the amount to update this cell at this time. Run that for every cell in parallel, many times." Then you tack on a visualization and you can watch the heat diffuse. A fun example would be the cooling of the proto-Earth. You can watch the crust form.

Heat diffusion is a good starter problem. So is gravitational interaction.

Comment · 1 year ago
The entire model of sea-borne power projection has changed. What does it mean when hypersonic missiles can be fitted with optical sensors to autonomously target ships? It means carriers now are about as useful as battleships in WW2. Nobody knows who can dominate which parts of the world ocean anymore.
Comment · 1 year ago
I am in denial.
Comment · 1 year ago
I find for auto turn detection, models work better if you put in the system prompt "if it seems the user hasnt completed their thought yet, output silence". This hack works around their compulsive need to output something.
Comment · 1 year ago
I lived with a host family in Lima for 9 months on their roof. They treated me like a son. Extreme tourism.
Comment · 1 year ago
I would try the Qwen models before LLaVa

Do you need the embeddings to be private? Or just the photos?

Comment · 1 year ago
The point is to colonize Gaza, they won't irradiate it first.
Comment · 1 year ago
Netanyahu, when addressing the troops, even said "Do not forget what Amalek has done to you", invoking the memory of the biblical commandment to genocide the Amalekites.
Comment · 1 year ago
Does anyone think this is about anything other than stamping out criticism of Israel?
Comment · 1 year ago
Is this really that bad for Google? Do Perplexity and OpenAI use paid SERP API under the hood? Google doesn't have to make money from ads on search, if its paid search.
Comment · 1 year ago
Ghislaine Maxwell, for instance, was a mod on /r/worldnews and one of the most prolific posters.
Comment · 1 year ago
No, I (the child) am the dog that would die if it weren't fed in this situation. Sorry that was confusing.
Comment · 1 year ago
Idk, my dad was my best friend growing up and I never fed him.

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