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sguwwochqbibon Microsoft’s HoloLens 2: a $3,500 mixed-reality headset for the factory

ok but a precomputed texture isn't scalable

sguwwochqbibon Microsoft’s HoloLens 2: a $3,500 mixed-reality headset for the factory

fonts being defined as a set of bezier curves you'd have thought it would quite easy to write a shader where each fragment computes its distance from the curve & assigns smoothsteped color as a function of that distance

sguwwochqbibon CSS-Powered 3D Engine (2014)

what about the reverse: how is styling done in game engines ?

sguwwochqbibon How to stop saying “um”, “ah”, and “you know”

seems like everyone is saying "right?" and the end of every sentence this year

sguwwochqbibon Another Way of Looking at Lee Sedol vs. AlphaGo

Also, did I say that disagreed with AI ? No. I didn't. I'm all in favour of AI and I expect one day that it will be comparable in terms of energy consumption, generality and other measures we could invent. But for now, amazing though it is, this is not such a huge achievement as it's been made-out to be.

sguwwochqbibon Another Way of Looking at Lee Sedol vs. AlphaGo

sorry, you must have misread my comment I was talking about energy not money, but whatever

sguwwochqbibon Another Way of Looking at Lee Sedol vs. AlphaGo

what about the energy it takes to make the chips ?

sguwwochqbibon Another Way of Looking at Lee Sedol vs. AlphaGo

I love how many of the comments here are along the lines of:

"yes Lee Sedol only consumes 20-40W during a game, but you have to sum all the energy consumed to create him, and the power he consumes when he's not playing etc" but then they fail to apply the same logic to computers

Sum all the energy required to create computers over the past however many 50+ years then let's see if it's the case that computers made by evolved computers are any more efficient than their evolved creators