Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13@mumak.app
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co-Founder // Chief Science Officer at @geopipe (🖖🏻), PhD from Brown CS Dept (w/ @maurice), SMCVT alum (Math/Physics/CS), admin at Cemetech, AFOL & open-theist.
Decentralizing systems (human & digital). Opinions are my own.
📍 Vermont
Joined Nov 2022
@mango_lacroix @ct_bergstrom @BioTurboNick @shiruken @scott_bot yeah and that’s from 2000 according to Google Scholar
@KevinCarson1 @winterschon any time someone pops off about “biology” as an argument against trans rights, intersex conditions provide strong counterexamples.
@socrates1024 to the extent that anyone could actually observe separate markets with observable boundaries, they have an opportunity for arbitrage thus incentivizing joining the markets.
@mango_lacroix @scott_bot @ct_bergstrom that’s about the oldest problem in visual computing where you *want* the computer to invent details which aren’t present in the source data.
@mango_lacroix @scott_bot @ct_bergstrom I would look at the image super-resolution literature for a starting point (not necessarily even deep-learning originated).
@TarkabarkaHolgy maybe you should get your publisher to start a line of magnifying glasses so you can use smaller font instead 🤪
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🏳️🌈🖖🏽
Today is the Day of Remembrance for the Japanese American community. 81 years ago today, when I was just a boy of four, FDR signed Executive Order 9066, setting in motion the evacuation of people of Japanese descent from the West Coast and our long years of internment inside ten barbed wire prison camps.
We must never let such a thing happen again in America, and and we must strive everywhere to prevent the forced relocation and mass incarceration of innocent people. #NeverForget #NeverAgain
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Incredibly fitting we were first in line for the #Section230 fight.
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There's a layer of irony here though: certain education systems are hell-bent on producing human AIs. Schools focusing on rote memorization and solving cookie cutter problems are basically aiming for the same thing: mindless drones that can do what they've been trained to do, but nothing novel.
I remember I was one of like 3 people who solved the last problem in a Physics I final, out of 100+ students. It wasn't a hard problem at all, it was simply a slight twist on a problem we'd all solved before. You could solve it by just plugging in another equation and doing simple algebra.
But that twist was something we hadn't seen before, and it threw most people off because they'd been trained to expect the same problems they'd seen before. Like all they have is a lookup table in their heads of problems and solutions.
Maybe instead of all the hype over how smart AI looks we should start focusing on not dumbing down actual humans first. *We* can do a lot better.
@mutual_ayyde where do you place left-Rothbardians + Ostrom stans in that mix?
@mutual_ayyde wait, I’m confused by your phrasing. In what context do you mean “there isn’t really an anarchist economics in the 20th century”?
@krismicinski @cross @regehr getting to read assembly to answer questions about your compiler is nice, but getting to write assembly to answer questions about your ASIC is nicer
@annaleen is it safe to assume that @andrewliptak wasn’t able to lure you up to VT post-Boskone? I remember a thread about potential logistics of such a thing from a few months ago
@cross @krismicinski @regehr I think there’s something absolutely joyful about platforms that are powerful enough that you can build legit software for them but simple enough that a single human can plausibly understand every aspect of hardware’s operation if they are sufficiently interested.
*looks pointedly at TI-84+*
@steve @dev @AaronBallman @regehr @cross true is when a word has a bit set, and the more bits it has set, the more true it is.
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Ready for today's session on building multiplayer games?
We'll be using Discord for Q&A- if you’re not already in our Unity Multiplayer Discord, here’s your invite to join! https://discord.gg/unity-multiplayer-network
And here’s the channel for this series: https://discord.com/channels/449263083769036810/1074696953385988167
See you there!
- Personal
- http://sfgp.cemetech.net/
co-Founder // Chief Science Officer at @geopipe (🖖🏻), PhD from Brown CS Dept (w/ @maurice), SMCVT alum (Math/Physics/CS), admin at Cemetech, AFOL & open-theist.
Decentralizing systems (human & digital). Opinions are my own.
📍 Vermont
Joined Nov 2022
