Greg Zuro
@softboyled
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All comments are “hypothetical” and not intended to convey facts
Portland, OR
Joined April 2007
"Let's all do magnets" sounds like it came from the same mind as "wanna smoke dirt?": https://t.co/ttIpgB3GoY I need each on a tee shirt.
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THIS IS SO COOL!!!
Brb making thermochromic color changing cement that goes from blue to colorless at 31°C, lol. Data in 15mins
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This Date In Manka Bros History - April 10, 1950: After Arthur Miller's success with 'Death of a Salesman,' Manka Bros hired him to write the script for ‘Marzan’ (Tarzan on Mars). Miller’s script was rejected for being ‘too stupid.’ https://t.co/NpWQmXYZ1g
#hollywood #satire
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I am utterly disgusted that so many people are taking Hayao Miyazaki's quote completely out of context.
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A new #XTDB v2 pre-release snapshot is out, along with an accompanying dev diary: https://t.co/BJiYlxgeeC ...featuring loads of #SQL improvements and an overview of our online, zero-install 'playground' at
xtdb.com
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Someone in China just reversed the footage of Apple’s horrible iPad ad, and now the sentiment is beautiful lol
Someone in China reversed Apple's awful new iPad Pro ad — and made something surprisingly beautiful
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Smart mouthware for hands-free computer control allows cursor control, clicks, and swipes only through subtle tongue movements. https://t.co/XeBwKM50Je
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🤯Fantastic work that achieves incredible quality using only three views of a subject! I'm genuinely impressed that even minor details like nose piercing are view-consistent. The results are best viewed on the project page: https://t.co/faOj5Tj39P. Congrats, Marcel & the team!
Introducing "Preface: A Data-driven Volumetric Prior for Few-shot Ultra High-resolution Face Synthesis". TL;DR: Novel views of faces at ultra-high 4K resolution from very few input images. @GoogleARVR @ETH_en @ait_eth #ICCV2023. https://t.co/n2FZ6jmaxk See thread below.
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around the year 1500, medieval painter hieronymus bosch drew a person with sheet music written on their butt being tortured in hell. 500 years later, someone decided to transcribe and play the song. now, you can hear it too!
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This OpenAI paper might as well have been titled “Moving Away From PaperClip Maxxing” So good - they took a base GPT-4, fine tuned it a bit on math so that it understood the language as well as the output format - then no RL. Instead they trained and compared two reward
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This window gives you privacy by using falling sand for blinds [learn more: https://t.co/NGmxTaxBSg]
https://t.co/bqy2ql3Who
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This octopus was captured on camera waving back to his keeper at London's Sea Life Aquarium in March 2019. The wave was captured on camera behind the scenes at the Sea Life centre, during one of the octopus' twice-daily "playtimes" [full story: https://t.co/InIUUympMn]
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On World Theater Day, I'm sharing the works of 🇺🇦 theater designer Vadym Meller (1884-1962). Known, in particular, for his collaboration with director Les Kurbas in "Berezil". He was a very important figure in the Ukrainian avant-garde.
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Yup. Every exponential is a sigmoid in disguise.
@random_walker Tech hype misstates the significance of singularities - in practice, it simply means another factor not in your model eventually dominates and becomes rate limiting
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How did Russian cosmonauts know where they were? The Globus INK (1967) showed the position of their Soyuz spacecraft on a rotating globe. It is an analog computer built from tiny gears. I reverse-engineered the wiring (which inconveniently had been cut) and we powered it up. 🧵
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These are the oldest masks known, discovered in Israel on the Judean Hills. They were made in the Neolithic era, about 9,000 years ago [read more: https://t.co/RI06PUGeIM]
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This clip shows an AI app developed by Masataka Hakozaki using Unity that models the behavior of goldfish. This short video illustrates the catch food test [full video, HD: https://t.co/e85zawFRma]
https://t.co/tCk4KPj2nT
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