I've got a fractal approach working pretty well as of last week:

https://x.com/dgant/status/1851840125065453894 https://x.com/dgant/status/1851835968342446576?t=kCUSWCtJEc_...

How it works:

- World space dithering

- Apply 2D ditheringalong triplanar-mapped surfaces

- Choose coordinate scale based on depth such that the dither pattern ranges on [1px, 2px)

- Paint sufficiently distant surfaces using spherical coordinates

So there's some repainting at depth thresholds but it's not very loud in practice.

Doesn't seem fractal: the dots on the door become big as the camera approaches it rather than revealing underlying fine-grained structure.

Valid critique. I think nothing prevents the technique from being applied at multiple levels of detail to make it do what you describe.

That is wild! It's not every day I get to see a completely new, unique visual effect. Kudos.

I'd love to see a video with vastly slower movement, so I can pay attention to what's actually happening. The fast movement turns it all into a blur (literally).

Some people are willing to serve without resistance because it needs doing. I am one of them.

Me to, twice. Which is where my opinion of jurors was formed.

It will accept multiple verbs for some appropriate cases. I recall any time I thought I had problems with verbs I actually had something else wrong.

The distinction making it RL is that the model is training on data produced by the model itself.

The benefit of RL in general is that you're training on states the agent is likely to find itself in, and the cost is needing an agent which explores salient states. Which is why we keep seeing RL as a finishing step after imitation (eg AlphaStar first learning StarCraft from replays)

The easiest way to be unproductive is to make something nobody wants. I've seen a lot of dev time spent on products where nobody bothered to validate their need at much less expense.

I feel much more joy when my builds are fast and my tests don't flake. Joy and productivity reinforce one another.

When I feel joy and wonder at work, I'm incredibly productive and I work long hours on top of that. When my senses of agency, exploration, and play are undermined, I'm deeply demoralized and find it very difficult to focus and can't wait to walk away from my computer.

I'm still trying to figure out how to better regulate myself away from those extremes (how to put my work down for the sake of other aspects of my life when I'm excited on the one hand, and how to push through and 'reset' when I am frustrated by something outside my control on the other). But one of the things I've already learned is that focusing on productivity in terms of sheer discipline doesn't really work. I get a lot farther working with self-reflection on my emotions and carving out space for joy and freedom in the formal structure of my work week than with sheer mental effort.

I have it similarly. For me, if I can't "play around" or explore something new in a while, my motivation and focus drops to zero.

On the other hand, most days I'm just too mentally exhausted to work on programming when I get home. So I rarely get to scratch that itch on my own time.

To get around that, every now and then I take some time while working on some issue to do something new, like play around with programming language constructs and exploring the limits of the language.

It's not always easy to do though, with deadlines and whatnot. So can be a real struggle at times.

They don't, in full, but does create leverage for settlement, and anything repaid months later in court is an aid to cash flow.

For large categories of questions, I get better answers faster on ChatGPT. If I'm not asking the most basic question on a subject I'm usually better off than I would be searching.

Here's my rule of thumb: if my search doesn't depend on recent information, and it is likely to return blog spam as the top result, then I will use ChatGPT instead.

I still use web search frequently to find project homepages, official and up-to-date documentation, news and announcements, discussion (hearing people's stories of their experiences with a product is a lot better than ChatGPT's noncommittal and abstract pros/cons), searching for videos/images, etc.

GPT 4 just got browsing, so I've actually started telling it to do the entire research phase I was gonna do and just let it grind it out without having to despair at Google's abysmal search results. Still a bit unreliable but actually gets it done quite well on occasion.

The long term vision likely includes Bing as the new default destination for "I have an intent" on the internet, in lieu of Google. How that figures into a unified offering is TBD but the first step is getting more eyes on Bing regularly.