So for your opinion to carry any weight, please enlighten us as to the games you have shipped that qualify you to comment on their take on programming practices.
Car company makes innovative new car engine for their vehicle. A user wants to get a replacement key made for the vehicle, but company doesn't have the process in place to make replacement keys:
Are you fascinated by this hypothetical companies level of discipline? Or would you consider it negligent and inept?
If the car in question were the probably most hot software in town and the user wants to change the photos on their profiles, I'd find it very interesting if they kept the discipline to focus the whole team away from such a low-priority change and into the priority of keeping it the most hot software in town.
Let's keep in mind that OpenAI is a small company (in people terms), and they are fighting toe to toe with Google.
Heck, if they mess up a quarter they are probably dead.
Besides the fact you're completely shifting the goal post here on analogies, changing email address is a pretty normal feature of any service pretending to be serious. Also, you seem to have the belief it is impossible for such a large company with such investment to work on multiple things simultaneously.
Well, the idea of Linux was "a better minix" and "I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and
professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones".
Not necessarily a corporate distro, but there is somewhat more sustainability in a project based on Debian or Arch than an individual with a bunch of organically handmade scripts.
Why were you expecting this article to specifically mention ray marching? It looks like a comprehensive beginner article on what shaders are, not an exhaustive list of what you can do with them.
Sounds like the perfect filter then. I'd rather have people showing up to my party that are interested in having a good time moreso than how "cool" they appear.
That makes two of us. I've never heard of (or thank god, been to) a party where a host is forcing people to move around, especially in an unnatural way. Nothing feels like a forced party more than, well, forcing.
> I've never heard of (or thank god, been to) a party where a host is forcing people to move around, especially in an unnatural way.
You've never been to a party where you had dispersed throughout the location, and then the host gathered you to eat a meal or a cake (possibly singing a song prior to distributing the cake)?
> You've never been to a party where you had dispersed throughout the location, and then the host gathered you to eat a meal or a cake (possibly singing a song prior to distributing the cake)?
This isn't "an unnatural way". I don't know what the point of mischaracterising the previous comments is.
Calling for dinner is one thing. Forcing seating or forcing rearrangement sounds lunatic but I'm happy I can choose friends well enough that nobody ever tried. Most points in the original article sound crazy to me as well though.
What people do you know that do this? I absolutely read in a linear fashion unless I'm deliberately skimming something to get the gist of it. Who can read the text "all at once"?!
I do this. I'm autistic and have ADHD so I'm not representative of the normal person. However, I don't think this is entirely uncommon.
The relevant technical term is "saccade"
> ADHD: Studies have shown a consistent reduction in ability to suppress unwanted saccades, suggesting an impaired functioning of areas like the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.
> Autism: An elevated number of antisaccade errors has been consistently reported, which may be due to disturbances in frontal cortical areas.
I do this too. I suspect it may involve a subtly different mechanism from the saccade itself though? If the saccade is the behavior, and per the eyewiki link skimming is a voluntary type of saccade, there’s still the question of what leads me to use that behavior when I read (and others to read more linearly). Although you could certainly watch my eyes “saccade” around as I move nonlinearly through a passage, I’m not sure it’s out of a lack of control.
Rather, I feel like I absorb written meaning in units closer to paragraphs than to words or sentences. I’d describe my rapid up-and-down, back-and-forth eye motions as something closer to going back to soak up more, if that makes sense. To reinterpret it in the context of what came after it. The analogy that comes to mind is to a Progressive JPEG getting crisper as more loads.
That eyewiki entry was really cool. Among the unexpectedly interesting bits:
> The initiation of a saccade takes about 200 milliseconds[4]. Saccades are said to be ballistic because the movements are predetermined at initiation, and the saccade generating system cannot respond to subsequent changes in the position of the target after saccade initiation[4].
If you're an adult you probably have compensated for the saccades and developed a strategy that doesn't force you to read linearly. This is much of what "speed reading" courses try to do intentionally.
also ping pong around the page (ADHD'r). At times I read a sentance or two in linear fashion, then start jumping, or start or move to the end and read backwards, or any mix of this depending.
I don't know how common it is, but I tend to read novels in a buttered heterogeneous multithreading mode - image and logical and emotional readings all go at each their own paces, rather than a singular OCR engine feeding them all with 1D text
That description feels relatable to me. Maybe buffered more than buttered, in my case ;)
It seems to me that would be a tick in the “pro” column for this idea of using pixels (or contours, a la JPEG) as the models’ fundamental stimulus to train against (as opposed to textual tokens). Isn’t there a comparison to be drawn between the “threads” you describe here, and the multi-headed attention mechanisms (or whatever it is) that the LLM models use to weigh associations at various distances between tokens?
It's so easy! I hope all the leading robotics researchers come to find this comment and finally deliver us the dexterous humanoid robots we've all been waiting for
Well, in fairness, the kind of deep neural architectures needed to do this stuff have only been available for a relatively short period. The robotics researchers in my institution are basically racing to put all this new capability to work.
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