Bret Victor is a real visionary in the field, and everyone should check out his website worrydream.com, for his interesting presentations on interactive programming.
Saying that, I can't see how this dynamicland is going to work practically. The requirement first for a shared physical space, in the age of remote working. Secondly the need for programs to fit on a table, which his simple examples even seem to barely do. In a meeting you'd have to be constantly arranging things on the table, putting things away as you move on to the next example, remembering how to arrange the next deck etc.. personally if I do a presentation, I want all the slides on the cloud in case of any issues, not to be carrying round a set of cards in a binder..
I would think the more likely next step in combatting complexity, would be personalised AIs. These would understand the context of the presentation being given, and therefore can provide us remote audience members with explanations and visualisations on demand, that would suit our level of understanding of the problem.
Property law is abysmal in the UK, the fact that the squatters stuck up a sign on the wall naming their rights to occupy, just shows what a joke it is. I dont agree with property being left empty, but there is due process to these things, and the average worker has to suffer through all of it to even get one home.
If no one is buying at the current price then thats the market saying the fair price is lower, and perhaps it should just go to auction. I'm sure it's pocket change to Ramsey, but it set's an ugly precedent letting this go forth.
If you sit on a train without a ticket it's a jailable offence. How is breaking into someone's property and living there not completely illegal? It's completely inconsistent and squatting is a real problem here.
I have to say, watching this car crash in real time has ironically made me browse reddit more, just to watch the drama unfold. It's the same with twitter, these community sites have become so big, that the actions they take themselves are newsworthy.
The way this is unfolding, I can imagine this being a case study in a future revision of 'how to
win friends and influence people', on completely what not to do. If that book is worth it's salt, then reddit's management complete unwillingness to work with its community, and constant lies, leading to virtual riots on its sites, should result in it's total collapse.
It looks like they took a profiler to the training process of today's largest AI models.
Firstly it'll be a universal low level software layer, that can run on top of any cloud hardware, which can then be developed against to enable maximal cloud reach when training models.
This sort of virtualisation might be considered slower than direct access, but they've also created a DSL on top of python, which looks to enable the compiler to make smarter decisions about how to allocate memory and compute during training. So both together presumably producing a speedup worthy of the hype.
It's poor thinking on them to only provide a talking interface. I don't think I've encountered that personally, there is always a way to use the keypad - which I will always use anyway, even though they understand my voice, it's just x10 faster. And if you've made the call before you can type on the keypad before the robot on the other side is done talking.
Not at all. This means we are no long tying production quality of a game to how much money the developers have access to. It enables real creativity. Right now do you not think the AAA market is satured with yet another first person shooter etc? Creativity has lost out to capitalism, this will bring it back.
It does, once you have the character sheet, you put these together in blender and use them as reference for the 3d model, so everything comes out in proportion and its just grind really to place the vertices.
The rigging + animation is done by mixamo's AI so just touch up after.
He had to do a UV unwrap and then align the textures to this, this is time consuming just because it requires thinking about where to split the 3d model, to place the seams, then to fit it all in a texture, where you have to think about how much space to give each texture (more space = more quality). And then map the texture into this space too. This is a known pain in the 3d modelling for decades and no doubt AI will solve this in the next decade.
There is a lot of content in games. The AAA games can have single artists work on one character for the whole game. The author even says it saved him 5 days, and look how small the scene is he's talking about! AI has the ability to scale up the production quality of games, whilst taking half the time or less.
This kind of tech enables an indie to build a prototype with AI generated content, where the art direction is clear, then get funded in order to hire artists for the touch up. Kickstarters are often very visual, so this kind of stuff is required up front.
There is a simple explanation for why humans tend to say how things could be 'better', when you ask them how things could be 'different'. It's even one of the core beliefs of buddhism: life is suffering.
To unpack that statement, think about someone that does nothing with their life. Literally nothing. They'll quickly suffer hunger, starvation and finally a slow death. These are the defaults of life, you cannot sit still. It is not a choice. Even us who feed ourselves, and live a life, will still suffer old age and death. All one can do is take action in their life to reduce their suffering now, and in the future. You can apply this model to all facets of life, from relationships, work, gym, healthy eating, art and so on.
So really the study has just thought about it from the wrong angle. It's not people thinking 'how things could be better', its the brain naturally thinking 'how can I reduce my suffering further'.
The issue is we have to pre bake decisions into the application, and until the application is literally an AI this is as good as it gets. When building a program 'errors' occur all the time, but we make design decisions to handle them because we can identify the right path forward in the given context.
Remember you may consciously focus on the eyes, but the brain is taking in the whole image and importantly context - so the surrounding skin plays a role
Psychology has always been part of the market, and this event can be explained by Soros' theory of reflexivity - that the stock market leads the fundementals, not the other way around. Once you forgo the efficient market hypothesis (and it's never been more obvious how incorrect this is), this event makes more sense. Same as Tesla, momentum is a psychological event lead by a positive feedback loop.
As a .Net developer I've.. never seen people write code at work like this. This looks like a hefty amount of boilerplate to achieve practically nothing. I'm guessing this guy learned Asp.Net first.
Saying that, I can't see how this dynamicland is going to work practically. The requirement first for a shared physical space, in the age of remote working. Secondly the need for programs to fit on a table, which his simple examples even seem to barely do. In a meeting you'd have to be constantly arranging things on the table, putting things away as you move on to the next example, remembering how to arrange the next deck etc.. personally if I do a presentation, I want all the slides on the cloud in case of any issues, not to be carrying round a set of cards in a binder..
I would think the more likely next step in combatting complexity, would be personalised AIs. These would understand the context of the presentation being given, and therefore can provide us remote audience members with explanations and visualisations on demand, that would suit our level of understanding of the problem.