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For me it was reading into the database engineering literature that hammered this factoid home *hard*. A lot of algorithms that look neat on paper have uggly hiden constants that make them unattractive to actually apply to a problem.

Y'see, a "Light Field" is a mathematical description of light passing through a given space, such as a window. Through a number of different technologies - such as phased array optics - it is, at least theoretically, possible to reconstruct a light field rather than just an image.

Light-Field Displays are the closest thing to sci-fi holograms that are actually possible and it's disappointing that more SF doesn't use them. A normal display replicates an image. But what if we took light directionality into account, and replicated the entire light field?

"You're getting off lucky, Sweens. Imagine if studios' store pages had to disclose details like how many hours of mandatory dev overtime went into getting a game over the line, the size of their gender pay gap, or, god forbid, [how big the pay gap is to the] lowest ranking junior!" sickos.png

Using Black people’s likenesses for AI-generated ads where you cast them as stereotypes isn’t just incredibly unethical, it should be illegal www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/hou...

when i was in school, "revising a draft to make it yours" was called plagiariasm

hey all i dont know what authorsdaily dot com is? but they have an "Interview" with me posted that i - never gave - is full of lies - has my wrong pronouns - is full of things i dont do - or would never say? so i emailed them and told them to take it down but jfc, i am tired

In 2005, Time Magazine did a cover story on “The Battle Over Gay Teens.” It’s the same handwringing we see now from “concerned” adults on behalf of young people. “Kids are disclosing their homosexuality with unprecedented regularity–and they are doing so much younger.” time.com/archive/6596...

>Microsoft wants to fire 25% of its staff because of AI investments Are we winning yet folks?

NOT CHEKOV! Not again!

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

The speed with which so many execs cozied up to this authoritarian says more about their revealed preferences than long term strategic thinking. They saw a chance for what they saw as a "business friendly" autocrat and oligarchic consolidation and jumped at it.

...I have to remark, with frustration. People outside the imperial core actually *get* that the fascists and autocrats will do them harm. Meanwhile people in the imperial core get shafted again and again and nothing changes and yet they keep voting for violence. A remarkable death drive.

Donc ouais, je trouve le sort de Bioware triste, même si prévisible. Mais j'oublie pas que ce qui a construit les jeux de mon adolescence, ce ne sont pas des marques, ce ne sont pas des franchises, ce sont des gens, et ce sont elleux qui devraient avoir notre attention, pas un logo, mm légendaire.

Est-ce Bioware a eu le mérite d'apporter un peu de queerness, même maladroitement, même avec d'énormes angles morts, dans un milieu AAA des 2000s hyper conservateur ? Oui. Est-ce que le monde a changé sans elleux ? Oui aussi.

Peut-être que ME5 aurait fait un carton. Peut-être qu'en l'an de grâce 2026, on peut s'épargner un RPG de plus où on joue un opérateur badass qui prend les décisions que les autres n'osent pas prendre et exécute des aliens au ralenti dans des bars. On a grandi, on a mûri, tant pis, tant mieux.

Bioware c'est un pan de mon adolescence, avec Mass Effect et Dragon Age. C'est aussi le studio qui a démoli ses devs avec le crunch et le recours abusif aux contrats courts. C'est le studio qui a poussé certaines de ses figures à quitter purement et simplement l'industrie.

Je ne vais pas pleurer Bioware. Souhaiter à David Gaider, Mary Kirby et toustes les autres, largué·es maintenant ou il y a dix ans, le succès et la reconnaissance, oui. Mais le studio et ses franchises : fin bien moche, parcours chaotique, qq belles réussites, et c'est comme ça.

There is blatant voter suppression happening right now in Brazil: flights cancelled and buses suspended to Northeastern capitals where Lula holds the majority, polling stations changed to thousands of kms away last-minute, voters in London told they need to go to Edinburgh… This is criminal.

Our First Nations traditional territory maps are progressing. We're likely a week away from completing our alpha build. This will replace the Native-Land.ca territory maps, which went offline earlier this year (though they have other maps still online). It'll go online at knowledgekeepr.com

Hi. I, a trans woman, am the Executive Producer of this show. I wrote the question. He called trans girls men. He has now said it in three different places in the past week.

The first time I got the police called on me I was 10 years old. A white girl stole and broke my glasses and knew everyone would side with her if she cried and pretended I choked her because I was not white. This was not the last time something like this would happen as a kid.

So in the end, it doesn't matter what kinds of experiments people do comparing review-shaped objects extruded from LLMs to actual reviews written by people. Comparing them is and always will be a category error. >>

Not only are all of these contingent notions, they also misframe what it is we are doing when we review papers. Yes, we are evaluating papers, but we are evaluating them not against some ground truth of the world, but against our own understanding, as scientists and scholars, of our fields. >>

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

The elite hate us being educated, us educating you, you educating each other, and you having time to do this. Stop granting that it's the university that is elitist inherently: it's been made that way for a reason. Some more points below also on the marriages between patriarchy, AI, capitalism...

Decades of hard-won progress erased in a few short years by a handful of politicians & newspaper editors who figured that non-stop screeching about asylum seekers and trans people was the only way to maintain electoral consent for perma-austerity while every part of the state visibly rots.

The thing with choosing the lesser of two evils is that it incentivizes the "good" side to be only slightly less evil then the "evil" side. Gotta reward being good, not just less evil.

Third, automating science is not really possible in the way described. In the same way a machine cannot eat food for us because we'd starve: scientific understanding is for us to experience and share with others as a psychological state. It's a process and a cognitive state not an output.

Just going to be straight here — no pun intended: I am the only journalist who has been covering this issue in depth, was often the only journalist at hearings, and was the only one explaining what DOJ was actually arguing here. Support my work if you can: www.lawdork.com/subscribe

he mentions how, even if AI can accomplish something (which he also mentions it doesn’t get it), it halts any progress of the craft in the future source: youtu.be/jiTS9LclmeM?...