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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.
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...
Well, you nailed it there. Nice work
Wonderful essay! OP's tireless research is appreciated.
A message from the Skype CEO [NSFW]
"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
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.
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.
In order for that not to happen (uninterpretable ML models) some research on symbolic distillation, aka symbolic regression
As Gorard has long been at pains to point out (and Wolfram, being preternaturally immodest, has not) the model is a formalism, not a theory.
That said, the point of redescribing things we know very well - like QM and GR - in new ways is ultimately to make testable predictions. So:
IANAM but I guess the name for mining OEIS or generating scads of data iteratively for analysis would be empirical mathematics.
It's empirical metamathematics if you attempt this with networks of axioms/theories
https://www.wolframscience.com/metamathematics/empirical-met...
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/09/the-empirical-me...
+1 for human presence. I agree with the commenter upthread that it feels off-puttingly impersonal. Show me the faces!
Otherwise, I totally get the problem you're trying to solve so I poked it and quite liked it.
As someone with 2091 years worth of Slack convos (and Slack wanting me to upgrade to export them) can you let me know how you handle imports and exports?
Hey, thanks for chiming in! I appreciate the correction.
You and Boris seem to have identified the pain-point and got to a similar place independently
Are you sure?
Boris Dalstein first published his work on Vector Graphic Complexes (VGC) at SIGGRAPH in 2014 [1]
Figma introduced Vector Networks in 2016 [2]
Came here to recommend that great post too.
Also, the graphics are much prettier there if you like that kind of thing (which I do).
Great post!
The FSL is interesting because it correctly assumes the existence of parasites, ie 'harmful free-riders'.
There are ofc too many projects doing what is in effect free R&D for larger entities... these free riders having zero interest in the health or longevity of open technical ecosystems, so game theory is the right lens, I think.
I'd be very interested to learn of any other proposed structures along the lines of the FSL: particularly if anyone here has opinions on/ direct experience with them!
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Earlier incarnation/s of this approach are mentioned on the FSL page.
Open Core https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-core_model BUSL https://mariadb.com/bsl11/ FSL https://fsl.software/
Good move! Do you have a link for that? Would be interested to hear it
FWIW, the Roland D50 did something similar, and used PCM samples to model the attack/transients... you could then use subtractive synthesis for the body of the sound. I would guess Pianoteq's key/striker modelling is a lot subtler!
This is a pretty solid list, props to OP for putting his observations all in one place!
I definitely agree with 2,3 that clippy hard transients are cool (clipping is in general a bit underrated as a creative synthesis tool).
From my general experience playing and designing with the 'classical' synth approaches (additive, subtractive, FM/PM) nice results are the cumulative result of many tiny hacks of the kind listed, well-judged micro-aberrations.
The spice makes the dish, that is.
This makes design and testing patches a somewhat infinite, fiddly task. Or endless fun, depending on your point of view.
Obviously, if you want to productise your thing - ie you'd like other people to use it - this you now have a control problem: bake in dozens of parameters such that 'it just works' or make them all available and let the user figure it out themselves.
Sounds good! Standing by.
This is exactly right.
If you've written further on this subject, I'd like to read it.
tl;dr: 'Elites' (or at least those to be found in Who's Who) now prefer to affect a taste for 'ordinariness' instead of preferring high culture or horsey pursuits.
This is the countersignaling phase:
120 - or twelfty to friends - is a delight.
"The long hundred, also known as the great hundred or twelfty,[is the number 120 (in base-10 Hindu-Arabic numerals) that was referred to as hund, hund-teontig, hundrað, hundrath, or hundred in Germanic languages prior to the 15th century, and is now known as one hundred twenty, or six score."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_hundred
"120 is highly composite, superior highly composite, superabundant,[3] and colossally abundant. With sixteen divisors, 120 is the smallest number to have that many divisors..."
Mmm... cadmium
Yes. But it seems perhaps they haven't even done those things correctly.
The project seems to have a slight case of Wolframesque overreach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.00901
The 8 Fallacies of Assembly Theory
That makes sense. If I understand correctly, this 'loopback' technique is being used below as you describe. Alarming video, btw.
https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/16uqqrh/ho...
See also: Quartz Composer
"With the financial world anxiously awaiting the start of Arm’s roadshow in the hopes that Son can reignite the flaccid IPO market, Son has decided that his chip-maker is worth $64 billion because Son agreed to buy a chunk of it from Son for that price.
In so doing, Son agreed to pay Son twice what Son sold it to Son for six years earlier."
Unfortunate nameclash with this LibGen browser https://github.com/Samin100/Alexandria/releases
Good old Tim Hunkin. As a kid, I used to look forward to his Rudiments of Wisdom comic strip, every Sunday in The Observer
https://www.timhunkin.com/40_rudiments_book.htm
There's a nice essay of his on that site too: Is it Art?
Much better name