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  1. Tuco

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    I don't know about those articles, but "deep learning" is a pretty broad term that will encapsulate pretty much every kind of approach that uses lots of data to produce a custom-built processing system from some kind of very basic mathematical principles like convolutions.
  2. Tuco

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    I don't know what you mean by "already evolved" because for deep learning, sky's the limit. It's just pretty hard to get there and increasing the input domain makes the difficulty/cost grow exponentially.
  3. Tuco

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    We probably agree then. I think the massive glut of papers like that is just because you don't need to do shit to get that 0.002%, so you can coattail ride all day without producing anything novel or worth reading. Most real-world computer science before deep-learning is more closed-form where...
  4. Tuco

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    I don't know what hype bubbles you're watching pop but the hype is at Cleganebowl levels in robotics, vision and autonomous vehicles from where I'm standing. I mean, the first time we came to the thought of, "So we make this chain of weighted convolutions or whatever and end up with a system...
  5. Tuco

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Wait what, deep learning is dead?
  6. Tuco

    Outward (PC/Xbox/PS4 Survival RPG Mar-26)

    Thinking about picking this up. Thoughts?
  7. Tuco

    Everquest - Live Servers

    Have you ever seen such an amazing trailer?
  8. Tuco

    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    well shit.
  9. Tuco

    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    What do you mean? https://www.squaretrade.com/img/merchant/pdf/terms-conditions/(2019-6-1)%20ST-STANDARD-WM.pdf Unless they try to welch on it, that pretty much covers 4 year olds smashing the piss out of a switch.
  10. Tuco

    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    I think I'm going with Walmart and their 4 year, $45 protection plan based on the assumption that when my four year old chumps this thing up for two years I'll just have to argue with a clueless walmart person who gives no fucks instead of a trumped up geek squad person or an amazon drone who...
  11. Tuco

    Dark Alliance (Drizzt and co in Icewind Dale)

    That trailer looks like an art undergrad learned how to attach cameras to random things in 3dsmax and went ham with it.
  12. Tuco

    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    Amazon is sold out of switches until late January, haha. edit: just for a specific joycon color...
  13. Tuco

    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    Where's the best place to buy a switch that has a generous return policy for when my kid sneaks it into the bath with him, barfs on it, throws it out the car window etc?
  14. Tuco

    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    Are you providing instructions on how to steal games while buying a switch?
  15. Tuco

    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    interesting about the 2 systems per account. I could see buying him the switch and getting the lite later. For now I don't even know if I want him roaming around with the thing vs only playing it in one spot with some rules about it.
  16. Tuco

    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    Won't that mean I can't cast it to my TV?
  17. Tuco

    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    I'm thinking about buying a switch for my almost 5 year old for Christmas, someone please convince me not to.
  18. Tuco

    Everquest - Live Servers

    I don't know of a way to do this.
  19. Tuco

    Everquest - Live Servers

    I think itll happen next year.
  20. Tuco

    Everquest - Live Servers

    No, probably not without adding complexity via micro, which EQ kind of has these days if you really push it.
  21. Tuco

    Interesting, Non Political News

    Cities booting these things out will be a problem, but not an insurmountable one I think. NYC itself is just not a good target for this shit politically, geographically or uhh, demographically (lowish density of autonomous vehicle / robotics developers there relative to other developers). Ann...
  22. Tuco

    Everquest - Live Servers

    They've been reducing the mudlfation of the game quite a bit recently. In the ToV release (due Dec 18th btw, announced yesterday) they consolidated a few dozen different abilities throughout the game, including the spire buffs for all the classes and a few other ones (elemental forms for mages...
  23. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

  24. Tuco

    Jedi Fallen Order (By Respawn Entertainment)

    Turns out the jedi knight modding scene is super active for jedi academy. I'll keep y'all up to date on my unrequited love for a jedi knight sequel.
  25. Tuco

    Jedi Fallen Order (By Respawn Entertainment)

    When I first popped the map open I immediately thought, "Such a detailed map system must mean there's a ton of backtracking and nonsense in the game".
  26. Tuco

    Jedi Fallen Order (By Respawn Entertainment)

    Watching videos about Jedi Academy / Outcast is more fun than playing JFO.
  27. Tuco

    Parent Thread

    There is an untapped market for baby and toddler tv shows exclusively with how and scantily clad women.
  28. Tuco

    Autonomous Systems

    Not yet, but getting closer...
  29. Tuco

    Mass Effect: Andromeda - Autism reaches outer space

    Yep. ME3's multiplayer was amazing.
  30. Tuco

    Mass Effect: Andromeda - Autism reaches outer space

    I'll play it if it gets at least a 7/10 on metacritic for user reviews. Andromeda is a 4.9. ME3 is 5.8. ME2 is 8.8. ME1 is 8.6.
  31. Tuco

    Jedi Fallen Order (By Respawn Entertainment)

    Also I got slightly nauseous just looking at the lady who rescues you. She looks like someone who survived anencephaly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anencephaly
  32. Tuco

    Jedi Fallen Order (By Respawn Entertainment)

    Played a little bit last night, just enough to start to explore the first swamp zone. Man do I want to like this game. I think I would love it if: I never played the Jedi Knight games and didn't know how fun a fast movement, freeform jedi game could be I didn't play twenty other slow-movement...
  33. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

  34. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    thought the same thing, I was just bracing for the explosion.
  35. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    How does that video indicate the skyhook will maintain velocity as it's launching shit away from earth? edit: we're probably saying the same thing
  36. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    Survivable in terms of a design existing that introduces fewer than 5gs onto a human occupant and offering substantial acceleration over a longish period of time? Yes that math can work out, but obviously the faster you go and the slower you accelerate the more mass and engineering you need to...
  37. Tuco

    Half-Life: Alyx

    Uncomfortably high chance. Everytime I look into VR they are moving away from seated FPS in VR and toward standing experiences with minimal ingame movement.
  38. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    hey boys can I get a form check? rzLyls2
  39. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    I'd be kind of curious to know what new demands there would be for rare earth metals if the supply dramatically spiked. Like, if Elon Musk started dropshipping asteroids rich in ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium and platinum etc, would we start to be able to make arc reactors and...
  40. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    I'm a sucker for colorful and well designed cartoons, but I don't see a mechanical limitation to the tether as presented. One big problem with it is that there isn't an equitable amount of mass leaving and entering Earth. We're usually sending shit up and letting it de-orbit. It's rare that we...