Doug Merritt ๐๐
@DougMerritt
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programmer and philomath ๐จโ๐ปโกโ๐ ( @[email protected] since May 10, 2022) Computer programmer; compilers, OS, AI; math, physics, cogsci, linguistics
silicon valley
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I've published 50+ shader tutorials so far. Topics vary widely, including specific effects, math, abstract concepts, shader theory and algorithms https://t.co/njE75P6g0v I hope you find these helpful! I'll give someone who shares this a free subscription for full access
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dear imgui 1.90 released! https://t.co/dOZZ0bj0IX resizable child windows, angled table headers, hundreds other fixes & improvements for separators, tooltips, drag and drop, tables, docking, menus, inputtext, fonts, backends, multiselect (wip branch), etc. (RT appreciated ๐)
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it is only called reasoning if a meat brain does it, otherwise itโs just retrieval of approximate algorithms present in the pre-training data mixture
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I am once again asking philosophers to quit trying to do physics.
'Many physicists assume we must live in a multiverse โ but their basic maths may beย wrong.' This just out! https://t.co/m5LN09NKsg
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Some commentators (surprise!) didnโt get the key point: that climatologists distinguish between โthermodynamicโ and โdynamicโ effects of climate change. So far weโve mostly seen thermodynamic effects on extremes, but we argue thereโs more: we can now also see changes in dynamics.
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@__phantomderp There is always time for another language but never time to fix the languages we already have.
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#Hurricane #OTIS. Stunning specimen. So much to sayโwhere to begin? Literally came out of the blueโcomputer models didn't even hint at this. & now we're looking at direct, Cat-5 hit on #Acapulco, a city of 1 million people. Global models, in particular, failed spectacularly. 1/2
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It's not just you, strawberries have less flavor and aroma than they used to. One surprising reason was published this year. No one wants anthracnose and botrytis eating their strawberries, so growers apply a fungicide like Pristine 38WG or Abound 2.08F or Quadris Top 1.67SC.
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Hackaday Prize 2023: Jumperless, The Jumperless Jumperboard Uses a programmable analog switching matrix. No doubt many of us thought of the rough concept at some point but dismissed it as impractical. Kudos to for what appears to be excellent execution. https://t.co/TREYKy0HXo
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Jumperless is a jumperless breadboard with multicolored LED visualization of signals in real-time. Sounds like magic? This beautifully executed entry to the 2023 Hackaday Prize by [Kevin Santo Cappโฆ
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Retweet if you were part of one of those first tiny 4 bars. [source: https://t.co/zc1cGViVcy]
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'A major part of the Renaissance was the "rediscovery" of Ancient Greek and Roman culture. But it wasn't original Greco-Roman texts they read โ it was those copies made by Charlemagne's scribes'
1,255 years ago today Charlemagne was crowned King of the Franks. You've heard of him before, but why is he so famous? Well, it wasn't because of his military conquests. Even though he couldn't read or write, the mighty Charlemagne is important because... he really loved books.
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1,255 years ago today Charlemagne was crowned King of the Franks. You've heard of him before, but why is he so famous? Well, it wasn't because of his military conquests. Even though he couldn't read or write, the mighty Charlemagne is important because... he really loved books.
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Show this photo to anyone who even dares to offer any negotiations with russia. russians hit a grocery store and a cafe in Groza village, Kharkiv oblast. Earlier today they struck Beryslav hospital in Kherson oblast. Burn in hell, russian bastards. Condolences to the families.
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Cutting off Ukraine aid makes America unreliable, weakens the cause of democracy, threatens the international legal order, encourages tyrants around the world, and hastens Chinese aggression.
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ChatGPT โprovesโ the cube root of 27 is irrational, then computes it to be 3, then admits it was wrong about its irrationality, and then finally, when asked to find its error, claims it was right all along. Undisputed king of BS.
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All types of single lenses produce inverted images and must be center-aligned with the object being imaged. A new type of lens circumvents both limitations by shifting light rays rather than bending them https://t.co/hDWNib8oKb
#PRXjustpublished #PRXmetamaterials #openaccess
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