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> frogmaxxed

raninemandibularprognathism-maxxed?


Don Draper in the elevator meme?

> but the productivity gains and economic surplus.

I think you might be missing out vast swathes of human experience here. Some things are about joy, or god help me - fun.

(For the record I think AI has a role to play here as well)


I find AI a joy to use to build software. I was never the type of engineer who loved the code itself. I was always the type who wanted to see how users would react, how metrics change based on the feature, etc. The code was the most boring part for me generally.

I'm happy for Simon to post what he wants, when he wants. He's earned it.

> I can't say I've been impressed with LLMs generating code

What the hell are these people doing? Running 2 year old models on the lowest settings and then throwing their hands in the air?


> What the hell are these people doing?

Goalpost shifting, mostly


If there's one type of beer I didn't associate with Burton on Trent it was lager.


If it was still possible to get verbatim results from Google then I believe "mwah mwah vision" would have been an authentic Googlewhack pointing at this comment thread.


Nice thought, but I think strict googlewhacking frowned upon quote usage.


Ok but you're commenting on the general concept of animated gaussian splats. That's existed for a while and it's unrelated to what this actual post is about which is a new compression method.


I suppose it's the difficulty in recording them rather than the file size that has kept them experimental. But that's not a problem for AI generated splats. GenAI sites could have a toggle from image to video to splat4d.


> I don't feel like I was getting anything for the 13%+ extra taxes I was paying in California.

Some people might argue that it's not meant to be about what you personally get back. Social contract and all that...

I get your other points but this part was phrased in an unfortunate way.


Of course you expect to get something back. Cleaner streets, better public transit, fewer homeless, less crime, etc.

For example, I would be happy paying those 13% taxes in Switzerland, Japan, the Netherlands, Singapore! (Some even have lower taxes.) But I felt that money was being totally wasted in California.

I genuinely think CA is something like <10% as efficient with tax money as these countries, and it's largely because certain groups take it as a personal attack when you imply tax inefficiency is a problem.


Just because I'm buying something for someone other then myself it doesn't follow that I don't care how the money is spent. If my tax dollars are wasted it's no comfort to tell myself that the money would have been spent by someone else for someone else in any case.


Related work-in-progress if you like polyhedra and tiling transformations: https://ixxyxr.github.io/polyhydra-web/

It has the Kepler-Poinsot polyhedra and allows you to apply a superset of Conway Operators to them. No true stellation currently (stellation isn't an edge-replacement operator so can't be mimicked by Conway-esque operations)


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