HN user

byteware

47 karma
Posts2
Comments44
View on HN

why would foveated rendering break down? it does not stop rendering where you are not looking just lowers the resolution

tangent: do we have to censor words here as well? i thought it was for youtube and tiktok recommendation systems (unalive is particularly funny imo)

in theory some publications are available as torrents, in theory they are in batches zipped together and in theory one could, by requesting certain parts of the zip file using a crafted torrent client, download only the publication they are looking for, in theory

talking as someone who is building such a system, why would an avarage participant of the network give their own money, i dont think they would for the same reason i'm not running a bounty program with my dollars, the only use of having it on the blockchain is rewards without using your own money (so it's economics depends on the eventual value of the coin), for that it has to be bound to the minting process, but a purely algorithmic system for determining who gets how much based on their proofs seems elusive (think of the infinite possible proofs 1+2=3, 1+3=4...), we are going for having a central authority doing the minting for proofs (as voting based on money would hardly reflect mathematical experties)

well for their definition of tech "approaching zero cost", the only tech companies are pure software ones, the cost of manifacturing a rocket can hardly approach zero

although zero knowledge proofs can compress the "proof of gradient" so it takes much less time to verify than recompute, it take orders of more work to generate the proof, moreover can we merge multiple "improvements"? if not then upon the selection of the "winner" all those are lost?

"If you work quickly, the cost of doing something new will seem lower in your mind. So you’ll be inclined to do more." well if it is work that I know I can do quickly I'm just gonna procrastinate the hell out of it, if it is something I enjoy doing I am already inclined to do it

Mental Liquidity 3 years ago

I am curious how one would measure if their "belief network would be strengthened"

not everything is on you, the observation may be valid, but there is always a way to word it such that it is more akin to "brainstorming", realize that some people are just socially inept, even more so in the tech sector, play the game of "this is a stupid response, what is the gist of it, and how could i have worded it were it my observation" (and also fix the mistake if valid)

what I noticed is that rubber ducking works kind of like doing a DFS instead of a BFS, even when I can barely think, but I know that a few more lines at just the right places solves the problem and I simply can't let it go, (going for a walk rarely does it for me) so speaking out loud what and why is happening makes all the difference

I was so psyched about this movie, but the idea that an AI that can design new quantum processors in seconds, is even remotely challenged by a few humans is just so stupid