Posts by mmby@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #Aisjr55bnElIjcJbPs by mmby@mastodon.social
2024-06-13T10:23:20Z
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@futurebird ooh I like that
(DIR) Post #Aj6JZs55xCIhERnKy0 by mmby@mastodon.social
2024-06-19T23:34:51Z
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@futurebird @apophis@brain.worm.pink one wonders whether there will be a polymer fossil record or whether those microplastics will be metabolized too quickly in the endI've been watching live streams of ROV deep submergence vehicles recently and you can find plastic bags at depths of 3km+
(DIR) Post #Aj6Jt4WBwB3JJ5cmPo by mmby@mastodon.social
2024-06-19T23:38:18Z
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@futurebird undisturbed, suddenly appearing from the dark on the mostly featureless sedimenthttps://www.geomar.de/en/news/article/plastik-in-der-tiefsee-nach-einem-vierteljahrhundert-noch-wie-neu
(DIR) Post #AjWHShIWUKrgzfmgnA by mmby@mastodon.social
2024-07-02T12:13:37Z
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@futurebird this reminds me about something I've been told about my great-grandma - television didn't exist when she was a child and young adultuntil she died, she had trouble distinguishing fictional TV content from factual footage - I think she had the same thing to say about fictional TV: What does it say about us if we spend our days gazing at recordings of staged situations with fake people?Now the recording isn't a recording anymore but the same question still has merit.
(DIR) Post #AjeWpICF28TANfl2yu by mmby@mastodon.social
2024-07-06T11:43:29Z
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@futurebird nazi germany worked on a test of perceived "is the person/class of people dilligent or lazy"?all kinds of racial, social, ableist bias goes into that - but first, everyone in the in-group was convinced that they're the hard workers, they're the victims of someone else not doing their partso first working on making a class of people seem lazy in the public's eye makes it easy to throw away economic considerations
(DIR) Post #AjinlnnG5e5X4WpjVY by mmby@mastodon.social
2024-07-08T13:12:01Z
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@futurebird too few surveillants
(DIR) Post #AkjYtQ5rpZCMA0R02S by mmby@mastodon.social
2024-08-07T19:51:18Z
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@futurebird an empirical investigation into the causal relationship of scream and treat
(DIR) Post #An8Bbi2FzUjsaPd3Cq by mmby@mastodon.social
2024-10-18T12:43:23Z
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@futurebird mu
(DIR) Post #AnvskShffDMrSLxffs by mmby@mastodon.social
2024-11-11T12:07:38Z
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@futurebird a common 'trick' in ray tracing for sampling arbitrary probability distribution functions relies on thatyou use the cumulative distribution function, which is usually strictly increasing and invert it for uniform samplinghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_transform_samplingwhen I first encountered that I also felt a sort of surprise at it
(DIR) Post #AoZP96vXr0IWf6RNPk by mmby@mastodon.social
2024-11-30T13:44:23Z
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@futurebird which is possible because the system converges to monopolypersonal loyalty of feudalism is replaced by brand loyaltylands are the markets and fortresses the walled gardens. the subsidiaries trying to claim monopoly in their respective domainsare the accelerationists the clergy?
(DIR) Post #AolYi8MDl6ruiYDDfc by mmby@mastodon.social
2024-12-06T10:28:07Z
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@futurebird the social rules in such a small and brittle ecosystem might be very harsh, while I think it can be done technically, can habitats survive their social dynamics?
(DIR) Post #ApyRxKbAxfpvSk6DFw by mmby@mastodon.social
2025-01-11T13:35:42Z
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@futurebird literally? "dissipate everywhere"?
(DIR) Post #Aq2ODaUU1KZqCSIwvQ by mmby@mastodon.social
2025-01-13T11:12:40Z
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@futurebird @dalias @llewelly @kechpaja what kind of resolution do you need? what is the smallest feature you need to be able to distinguish?
(DIR) Post #AqXrZuTtIVg98nmWi8 by mmby@mastodon.social
2025-01-28T15:35:51Z
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@futurebird I learned with MSDOS qbasic back in the daythis is basically the same environment with less text and worrying about typesI replicated your program kinda in how I would have made it in qbasic back in the day (no numbers printed tho) - you already have to understand variable types and conversions or it doesn't workhttps://qbjs.org/?code=U0NSRUVOIDEzCgpDYWxsIE15U2hhcGUoMynOEDXPEDcpCgpTdWLIECAoTiBBcyBJbnRlZ2VyKQogIAogIERpbSBTaWRlc8sbCiDHEz0gTscmcmF3ICJCTTE2MCwxMDAiICdtb3ZlIHRvIGNlbnRlciBvZiAzMjB4MjAwxC/RASdzY3JlZW4gd2l0aG91dCBkcmF3aW5nxl1Gb3IgaSA9IDAgVE/GecVDxnRUQSIgKyBTVFIkKC0zNjAvxSAqaSkgJ3JvdGF0ZSBmb3IgbmV4xlQgY29tbWFuZMtBUjQwIvMAkiAgJ8UxNDAgdW5pdHPkAMxsb2NhbCByaWdodAogIE7EVWkKCkVuZCBTdWI=
(DIR) Post #ArF5Z3GhrrUVePpj2O by mmby@mastodon.social
2025-02-18T12:06:57Z
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@futurebird when I absolutely wanted to do something (usually work at a hobby project on a PC) I'd call my SO and tell them I want to work on this for 1.5h - and then stream my desktop to themI can do things related to the task but nothing else
(DIR) Post #AsHCl5UXWmzNWvEJQ8 by mmby@mastodon.social
2025-03-21T10:29:10Z
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@futurebird @adef187 @teslatakedown.co.uk I'm afraid that generating this reality noise will have horrible consequences down the line - if nothing is true, only opinion/ideology/in-out-group matters
(DIR) Post #AsHDBirJmdCl9faJdo by mmby@mastodon.social
2025-03-21T10:34:00Z
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@futurebird @adef187 @teslatakedown.co.uk if it means something, I have the same reaction - but it's also because of knowing what's behind the technologyit's like meat eater vs. vegan looking at a steak - even not having to eat it the reactions are different on a visceral level
(DIR) Post #Asg5IuiRGgWSGQSwca by mmby@mastodon.social
2025-04-02T10:32:58Z
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@foone
(DIR) Post #AwajZeLmQtSv1Eniee by mmby@mastodon.social
2025-07-28T12:04:48Z
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@futurebird looking at the recent publications, invest in water purification and attached suppliers
(DIR) Post #Awam9C5VBo67hJGOdU by mmby@mastodon.social
2025-07-28T12:33:11Z
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@lffontenelle @xinit @futurebird ask them whether they'd use an LLM to predict the weather (no cheating by querying proper models!)