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That's required because off-axis display holograms have spatial frequencies ranging from about 1200 line pairs per mm for transmission holograms to maybe 5000 for reflection holograms.

Because the grain size is so small, these plates tend to be pretty insensitive to light. That's why they have limited use outside of holography these days.

Other types of emulsions such as dichromated gelatin also exist but are also hard to find. DCG is even less sensitive to light.

In either case, the wavelength the material is sensitive to matters when exposing with a single frequency laser.

Then there are issues about the substrate if the emulsion is on film related to polarization preservation.

I might quibble with lenticular displays, since they have a name that predates holography.

In the ideal world, a larger umbrella term would have emerged. "Autostereoscopic" describes any display that provides different views without glasses, but that typically suggests discrete views.

"Plenogram" would have been reasonable following Adelson and Bergen's plenoptic function, but that didn't and won't happen.

"Hologram" now basically means a sufficiently advanced three-dimensional display in popular culture. And that even leaves of other real holograms, such as the ones used for non-destructive testing.

To be effective in using low level languages, LLMs would have to build higher level constructs like subroutines from scratch every program.

It's not that different from why we almost never use assembler for anything more than code islands: even a modest subroutine can overwhelm our own mental context window.

It seems there is no way for a high school student to use Claude for any purpose, including as part of a supervised project or class.

Our puck showed a 90.8dB sound level compared to a 55dB baseline.

We thought a tree had hit the house because of the double boom. That was a repeated observation across all the local social media groups. The local UPS driver, who was outside at the time, said he "felt it in his chest".

Interesting this also happened in South Carolina and Ohio within the past few months.

A skill's instructions can direct the LLM to call the CLI.

Claude skills can be installed into Claude web from a web browser. Those skills can then run on the Claude app on your phone.

So now the administration is attempting to follow those rules to create these new procedures, which they believe will then be lawful.

If they are successful, challenges would have to be made judicially based on non-procedural grounds, or through Congress.

Claude on the web does this. The only issue is controlling network access, which could be fixed by per-skill ACLs.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48335135

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Now most LLMs do multiplication using a tool call to a programming language, akin to a person reaching for a calculator rather than relying on a learned table or working the problem out mentally.

The high level comparison between what LLMs do and what humans do" for this example is fairly parallel.

* references/ Contains additional documentation that agents can read when needed

* scripts/ Contains executable code that agents can run.

* assets/ Contains static resources

Claude Code and similar agents help me execute experiments, prototypes and full designs based on ideas that I have been refining in my head for years, but never had the time or resources to implement.

They also help get me past design paralysis driven by overthinking.

Perhaps the difference between acceleration and slop is the experience to know what to keep, what to throw away, and what to keep refining.

Programs and data are the basis of deterministic results that are accessible to the llm.

Embedding an sqlite database with interesting information (bus schedules, dietary info, or a thousand other things) and a python program run by the skill can access it.

For Claude at least, it does it in a VM and can be used from your phone.

Sure, skills are more convention than a standard right now. Skills lack versioning, distribution, updates, unique naming, selective network access. But they are incredibly useful and accessible.

Not only do many VR and AR systems acquire stereo, we have historical collections of stereo views in many libraries and museums.

Out of the box Claude skills can call python scripts that load modules from Pypi or even GitHub, potentially ones that include data like sqlite files or parquet tables.

Not just in Claude Code. Anywhere, including the mobile app.

Computability (scripts) means being able build documents, access remote data, retrieve data from packaged databases and a bunch of other fundamentally useful things, not just "code things". Computability makes up for many of the LLM's weaknesses and gives it autonomy to perform tasks independently.

On top of that, we can provide the documentation and examples in the skill that help the LLM execute computability effectively.

And if the LLM gets hung up on something while executing the skill, we can ask it why and then have it write better documentation or examples for a new skill version. So skills can self-improve.

It's still so early. We need better packaging, distribution, version control, sharing, composability.

But there's definitely something simple, elegant, and effective here.