Great gwern article on 3 move games and why the mechanic might be so prevalent.

Someone should make a phone that has the projector that the humaneai people were using in their product

Anybody here aware of research on hand written glyphs to be parsed by computer vision? I'm not looking for neural nets interpreting written text. More like qr codes or apriltags written by hand, but designed to be easy for humans to write

Finished "the art of doing science and engineering" recently. Hamming stuffed a lot of good insights in this book, but hidden behind anecdotes and not explicitly stated. Thinking about writing a book review to distill what I got out of reading it

If I see the words "in conclusion" in any piece of writing, be it an article, comment, or in a book my eyes will immediately glaze over and I skip that paragraph with zero regrets

Learned about to folk.computer recently. It's an open source physical computing environment. I'm in the hunt for used hardware to set it up in my place now!

A bit of a hidden gem math explainer about how tensors are useful for calculating derivatives!

A great Trojan horse for some algebraic geometry in a strange premise

Solid playlist for getting a grasp on tensors. I've had some trouble moving from linear algebra into tensors (mostly because I slacked in comprehending change of basis). Now have a solid idea what makes a vector and a covector different, why we do matrix multiplication (and other LA operations) the way we do, and how t... Show more

And it has a sequel: gaussian splatting through time

The most succinct explanation of gaussian splatting I think you'll get

Anyone participating in the upcoming noirhack?