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People talk about how neural network research is the next great job to get into after programming, but personally I suspect adversarial neural network research is going to be even bigger.
Know what's bigger than making a thing? Knowing how to break it - or securing it from being broken.
For example, this video that demonstrates a 3D printed turtle purposely designed to make a network think its looking at a rifle instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piYnd_wYlT8
Welcome to #cyberpunk
Well this is slightly concerning, a whole bunch of new accounts registered from weird email addresses that haven't set any profile information or posted anything yet.
I'm noticing a suspiciously large number of new signups with names that look like they were generated by an algorithm.
Can the new folks within the past 48 hours or so please introduce themselves? Thanks!
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I don't know what the heck they are
But there is some sort of local bird whose spring "wanna smash" call sounds a lot like the Ythotha's gatling gun from Supreme Commander.
It's weird.
📣 PSA 📣
Looks like there is an influx of spam accounts being created on the federverse right now.
If you find any on our instances, please flag them and smush the report button.
I'm keeping an eye on things but may miss a few here and there.
If you know users looking for an account but have been squashed due to the influx of account creations, please let me know and I can send them a registration link.
protip: Whatever you are doing doesn't involve enough dragons.
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Well, got a lot of refactoring and reworking of ggez's graphics innards done. Should soon be able easily solve The Great sRGB Fustercluck.
In the mean time, just gotta figure out a couple bugs and write up some docs and another point release can be made...
Ok, BuildBot might be simpler to set up than Gitlab CI, but it also takes a bit more work to configure for more sophisticated things.
Goodness, gitlab is a *giant hairy beast* these days. Or more like some sort of coven of hairy beasts, all sitting in a dour circle and growling at anything that looks at them like it might dare manage some of these tightly-intertwingled components itself.
Gotta say though, it only takes about half an hour of messing around and setting up before my project was successfully failing CI jobs...
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The *best* part about tabletop RPG's:
Having the alien mercenary captain fight off this horrible giant predatory python SNEK thing after it drops on him from a tree
while the only nominally-Earthling party member insists on his life "jeez no we don't want to eat that thing, it's totally poisonous!"
John L. Gustafson's claims for a more convenient variable-precision numeric format than floating point are compelling. I might have to write an implementation and see how it goes in practice.
Also, as a scientist, interesting to see how the formats and arguments have evolved in the last 5 years. This guy must have had some interesting post-conference bar talks with hardware engineers.
Happy Friday, beautiful people.
Always seed, tip your bar tender, think before you speak, drink some water and eat some fruits/veggies every once in awhile and you'll be ok.
Every little bit counts. Promise.
oh nooooooooo, someone wants ggez to render right-to-left text correctly. Arabic, no less!
Heck. I'm going to have to learn how to do this Right, aren't I.
New rule: there has to be viable alternate economic model where billions of people are lifted out of extreme poverty and starvation is almost eradicated before you advocate destroying capitalism.
Yes, income inequality is a terrible now, but that's failing tax policy, not failing capitalism. Yes, greed causes harm, but that's failing regulation, not failing capitalism. If you're angry at the system like I am, hold your politicians accountable for the failing of government.
In other news, I respect wacky computer architectures, but what the heck do PIC #microcontrollers have to offer that can't be done by something a little less bonkers? 6502 springs to mind.
