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New comment by topherclay in "A secret poker game you can play on the subway"

topherclay — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:58:10 +0000

You might also note that in their first blog post they use the French language convention of puting a space before their exclamation marks and in this latest post they use the English language convention of no space.

>Now I can update this blog and push to github, instant deploy !

>I would be delighted to hear from you!

New comment by topherclay in "Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport"

topherclay — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 03:38:53 +0000

Here is the first video I saw posted on the aviation subreddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1is1qoy/video_of_...

New comment by topherclay in "Don't make fun of renowned author Dan Brown (2013)"

topherclay — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 06:21:38 +0000

"I don't really know any high level programming languages, I really only know python."

New comment by topherclay in "TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday"

topherclay — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 03:13:31 +0000

Excuse me, have you never "perceived" a lie before?

New comment by topherclay in "Common misconceptions about the complexity in robotics vs. AI (2024)"

topherclay — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 07:32:26 +0000

> ...the sensor & motor portion of the human brain having had billions of years of experience.

It doesn't really change the significance of the quote, but I can't help but point out that we didn't even have nerve cells more than 0.6 billion of years ago.

New comment by topherclay in "The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?"

topherclay — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 15:45:50 +0000

The way most people refer to this is "driving on autopilot."

New comment by topherclay in "The Bering Land Bridge was more like a swamp"

topherclay — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 08:40:39 +0000

Alaska was never really fully under ice. If you look at this picture of the Laurentide ice sheet [1] during the last glacial maximum [2] then that shows the most Alaska was covered in ice which was 26 to 20 thousand years ago.

The time frame where the Bering land bridge is being looked at for the OP article is a wider 36 to 11 thousand years ago.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurentide_ice_sheet

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Glacial_Maximum

New comment by topherclay in "Gratitude despite the odds"

topherclay — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:55:45 +0000

Wow, shots fired at low income housing.

New comment by topherclay in "IMG_0001"

topherclay — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 07:13:07 +0000

"Between 2009 and 2012" fits with the Kony 2012 documentary.

New comment by topherclay in "A simplified Python simulation of diffusion"

topherclay — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 05:08:03 +0000

OP was suggesting a way to artificially control the temperature, so they would artificially add energy to raise temperature.

New comment by topherclay in "CriticGPT: Finding GPT-4's mistakes with GPT-4"

topherclay — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 07:21:18 +0000

You seem to have interpreted the analogy as meaning "you might run out of turtles" instead of something like: "stacks of turtles aren't stable without stable beneath them, no matter how many turtles you use."

New comment by topherclay in "I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers"

topherclay — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 05:53:15 +0000

OpenCV was not the "AI" here, the "AI" was a computer vision model trained at the roboflow website that he mentioned multiple times and that he used in the line commented with "# Directly pass the frames to the Roboflow model".

New comment by topherclay in "I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers"

topherclay — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 16:23:22 +0000

No the opencv was just to capture video frames and they were iediately passed to the roboflow model through the ssh client.

New comment by topherclay in "Call Your Local Wizard"

topherclay — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 20:31:06 +0000

>Rather coyly, Stanmore refuses to weigh in on the efficacy of such spells. “It is not my place to say whether the magic practiced by cunning folk was real,” she writes: “I don’t know, I wasn’t there.” She does propose that all of their fellow citizens believed in the cunning folk’s powers. Many magicians had excellent reputations in the art of finding buried treasure or directing the outcome of lawsuits, and she maintains that this could only be the result of a consistent record of success.

That last line of this quote and the first line of this quote sound to me like they contradict each other.

New comment by topherclay in "Sir, there's a cat in your mirror dimension"

topherclay — Wed, 15 May 2024 07:53:40 +0000

Well sure, but whatever extra step you use to encode you will also need as an extra step to decode.

New comment by topherclay in "Sir, there's a cat in your mirror dimension"

topherclay — Wed, 15 May 2024 04:48:31 +0000

Of course. the first image of the blog post shows that you can "paint over" the largely unused area and you don't lose much of your original image. The hidden watermarks make use of this unused area so you can just paint over that area with blank data in order to "scrub" any hidden watermarks.

New comment by topherclay in "The 1871 Samuel Morse Statue (2014)"

topherclay — Wed, 15 May 2024 00:35:47 +0000

"counterfeit presentment" is an interesting phrase to use to refer to a statue. I see there's a play by that same name written the same decade but it was actually written six years later.

New comment by topherclay in "Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs"

topherclay — Sat, 11 May 2024 03:39:31 +0000

There's no artificial barriers being errected here by deciding to say "8" instead of writing out 8 zeros.

New comment by topherclay in "All Bad Music Will Eventually Disappear"

topherclay — Tue, 07 May 2024 18:16:23 +0000

I found this article really odd. I thought for the majority of it that the author was conflating "goodness" of music with "survival". Saying all these songs disappeared into obscurity and that's okay because they were bad and we know they were bad because they disappeared into obscurity.

They even invoke "Survival of the Fittest" which often trips up high school kids who think fitness is strength or some other specific quality (like goodness) and you have to correct them that the definition of fitness is "that thing that gives a population survival".

New comment by topherclay in "A 100x speedup with unsafe Python"

topherclay — Tue, 07 May 2024 03:33:42 +0000

Do you mean converting the RGB value to LAB values in the CIELAB color space and doing the interpellation there?

Is there a better way to do it?