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> The problem with generative art is

There are no problems. It's just another art form.

> I’ve met a lot of people who hate all things digital, as well as a lot of people who get what I do and love it

So just ignore them. There is always an audience who will appreciate your work.

> I explored what it might take to make a living from generative art

I'm doing that currently as well, but I think it always will be my side project. If it pays the rent, I'll be more than happy :)
I think you've got a critical detail wrong here: You're attributing way too much deciding power to the "decider".

The head of IT (or whoever) is not someone who gets to just make decisions by fiat. It's someone whose job is fundamentally to respond to the needs and demands of others. Until a significant number of the staff start demanding a Linux desktop environment, a Linux desktop environment is not realistically an option for the "decider". Not if they want to keep their job, anyway.

And, when it comes to the non-techie business members, I just don't see Linux having anything to attract them. What can it do better than Windows, from the perspective of Bob from accounting? Not abstract political stuff, mind -- he's just interested in being able to get his job done more easily so he can go home at 5 and kick a ball around with his kid before dinner.
Wow that's quite a journey. I had a similar one when I started maintaining TensorFlow on Gentoo Linux. It's working pretty well now, emerge tensorflow will have everything installed and working with no fuss.
I think the poster's referring to the overrepresentation of black scientists in that result, implying political motivation. It's pretty clear that it's just an artifact of the collision with the common search term "african american scientists". The result for "united states scientists" more or less proves this to be the case.
> Often much easier to find a domain expert and a programmer and have the programmer rework the code done by the domain expert. In fact that used to be my job for a while (working with physicists), and it was actually quite fun.

It's basically what people are now calling 'Research Software Engineers'
Yeah, fair point. I think the thread that tweet is part of reads better the way you read it. Will edit my comment.
Would you care to further explain your point and how that relates to the article at all? Bonus points if you can do it without saying something racist or already debunked.
This is aimed purely at Russia (not implying there is anything wrong with that). The question is whether or not Russia is able to differentiate between decoys and real jets. At the very least, this will slow down the decision making process or force a trade of missile for decoy. At $350,000 a pop, that's a fairly expensive trade, though if it makes a hole in an air defense net, it makes sense.

Russia has proven unable to back up claims of its S-300/S-400 systems being able to intercept even the slowest of US cruise missiles (Tomawhawks are embarrassingly slow and high), so in practice, this probably WILL really confuse Russian systems.
I've had a custom house built by a very well-respected GC in my region. Despite not doing any of the actual labor, I'm doing an incredible amount of work. Since it's a totally custom house, I spent all weekend for five or so months going to supplier offices to pick out materials, designing tile work & shelving, tweaking layouts, etc. Since the project has taken so long, I've had to deal with suppliers running out of materials and having to redesign a significant portion of the house. I even hired a professional designer to help with ordering and negotiating.

I'm at the house after every trade leaves to ensure things are done correctly. I've had to ask for dozens of things to be redone because it was just wrong. Doors were the wrong size (and installed anyway, despite having written on the door the correct size), the wrong color, outlets were missed, the stairs had to be moved (!!!), the tub was backwards, etc.

Additionally, even though it's a custom house, I already regret some design decisions, but it's impossible to fix them now.
I had same reaction over weekend when I reset my password. I tried to use 20 char length with some special characters and their "validation" blocks it. Poor password management irritates me to no end.
ACs have improved leaps and bounds over the last 20 years. I don't think we need any extra effort into this. The nature of the beast is to lower cost while providing a good product. It is simply what customers will demand.

On the other hand, bitcoin is an issue, and it is only going to get worse. No need to split focus until that beast is tamed.
This seems to be the actual letter: https://cyprus-mail.com/2018/08/28/neighbouring-rights-a-que...

Which is very light on policy and heavy on the emotion.

If any form of link tax is passed you can probably expect the same result as in Spain where internet orgs simply refuse to link to content that it applies to and shutdown products like Google News that cannot function without the content.
I do not believe Silicon Valley has shown thoughtfulness and care for the republic in a way that I would trust them to enact this regulation.
Why, they don't run A/C there? 'cuz they do in Seattle, which I find to be ridiculous. I keep a fleece vest in my office during the summer. There are going to be historians digging through our rubble, trying to figure out what happened four hundred years from now, and they're going to say, "they lived in a temperate climate where it rarely got above 80F, but they ran A/C non-stop for four months out of the year. No wonder the fucking ice caps melted."

And I think that's something some commenters are missing: no one is asking India to turn off the A/C. But maybe we don't need to replicate the grocer's freezer section in my office just because the weather finally turned nice.
Antidepressant Use in Cancer Patients May Affect Length of Hospital Stay
Humanity had millennia of lower productivity summers before a/c. Do we really need to be 100% productive year round? Would giving summers off to more job categories maybe boost employee morale and things like hobby/vacation spending?

We've passed the point where individual laborers typically benefit from the huge productivity gains of their employers, so maybe its time to pay back the increased overall efficiency with fewer labor hours and more free time for the same pay? I think we've passed scarcity in most labor markets, too, but if not we're dangerously close, and halving the total labor hours per person in a year, but doubling the total labor force might be a good idea. Most companies could afford it, even if they would loudly complain about it. That sort of increase in bandwidth of pay would also do well for the economy.

I've been joking a lot lately that maybe a/c was a bad idea for the human spirit. It deprived us from natural excuses to need afternoon siestas and summers off for better overall productivity, and it helped industrialization believe people were replaceable parts in machines that could run 40 hour work weeks every single week of the year.

That said, I couldn't imagine someone actually running a campaign with a platform of abolishing a/c in white collar office buildings, but it is fun/amusing to imagine. It's an interesting thought experiment: do we really need a/c to get work done?
I disagree that ~$70,000 for a four year degree should be considered affordable, even if private universities cost many times that.

I do agree that public schools are generally a better financial option, as are community colleges.
YouTube used to have an open feed for any search term, but they took it away. This seems to have search but I don't know if you need to authenticate first.
Yep, but I use that as well; there's a good Web interface.
> Without drastic improvements in air-conditioners’ efficiency, the IEA reckons, they will be burning up 6,000 TWhs by 2050.

I feel like future improvements in the efficiency and greenness of energy production have the potential to offset increasing energy demands. We could solve much of this faster if we'd just properly utilize nuclear, but politics get in the way of using efficient designs and public perception is unfairly negative despite it being the safest of all energy production methods[1]. If electric vehicles gain more traction then the emissions from the transport of materials for nuclear etc. also stop being a factor.

Side note, I hate this font they use that makes a 1 look like a seriffed I. Unnecessarily hard to read.

1: https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-the-safest-form-of-energy
Don’t forget transaction fees. If you sell bond X that pays out 100$ in 1 year for bond Y which pays out 100$ in one year you gained nothing.
Seems like this would be defeatable by radar that sends out pings with an unpredictable characteristic that the decoy won't be able to mimic with a stronger return signal.
Isn’t that ignoring dividend payouts? This says it’s like -0.2% over the last 12 months including payouts vs -1.6%. No idea how accurate this is but it’s an important correction to just the price returns if you’re talking about holding the shares.

https://www.etfreplay.com/chart_totalreturn.aspx
Do you want to know pain?
Try to use OpenCL with a GCN1 GPU (AMD 7970) with TF.

You can more or less do it with SYCL / ComputeCPP, which is great, but it is not trivial either. It does require you to compile TF and may fail to operate some operations.

Full disclosure I have not retried it recently, last time was 6 month aago, and a great amount of work is done on the SYCL / ComputeCPP front.
LyX is a wonderful program and I do love it, but one thing I will caution against is tables. If you need to use tables, consider not using LyX. LyX looks like it can do tables, the UI in LyX is great for editing tables, however...

Tables do not split across pages (at least not by default). Word and Google Docs etc. can do this out of the box. Maybe there is a way to get this to work. For e.g. the description of a database table, as a table in the document with columns like "column name", "type", "description", not being able to use multiple pages is a real limitation.
Are there any artists who work in kind of the intersection between data visualisation and generative art? I'm thinking of works where the main point is not necessarily to show the data as clearly as possible (i.e not a graph), but rather where the data is somehow interleaved and helps tell the story. Somewhat similar to the map of the US in the article based on the roads.
What holding does is lock your returns and sets a floor. When you buy a bond and hold it you will be guaranteed to receive the return. Sure if rates rise afterwards you have opportunity cost because you can't invest that money at a higher rate, but that's what ladders help you do. You get the current rate when you add new bonds to the end. What alternatives exist? You can buy a bond fund which might decline in value if rates rise or just sit on cash but those don't seem optimal.
I think people have an assumption that sweltering heat may be uncomfortable, but is "less likely" to kill you compared to 20 degree weather.

I don't know if that's even remotely true. Also keep in mind the vast majority of people heating their New England apartments are NOT wealthy, by the simple fact that the majority of New Englanders are not wealthy
>Cloud scaling rails can be expensive, as apparent from horror stories [0] but a few manually managed instances with a load balancer and good web servers can go a long way.

I think they are doing something about it. Ruby 3x3 and Rails 6.0. One of the problem is resources, there isn't a massive company like Google / Facebook / Amazon backing Ruby and Rails with Man power and funding. It is all open source.

I am wondering if any is using helix. There were previously another idea Rubex [1] from SciRuby, making Ruby / C Code collaboration easier.

[1]https://github.com/SciRuby/rubex
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The people who use large amounts of energy to farm bitcoin make up <1% of humankind. Basically everyone eats meat.
Right? It's like the article doesn't address the question at all.
CLOS can dispatch by value with eql specifier...
higher education just costs much more here in the US
I'm 90% sure he's being sarcastic.
Norway: Senior software engineers make ~100k in the cities, or maybe a bit more if money is the priority. Starting salaries for software people ~60k. You can make maybe double the senior rate if you're an independent consultant, but then you'll have no job security and be the first out during downsizing. The job market is considered very hot at the moment. We are considered a high-cost market for software talent by European standards, to my understanding.

4-5 weeks holiday, mostly 7.5 hour workday. Free healthcare and social safety net, but total tax burden is 50%-75% of pre-tax income depending on personal consumption patterns. Cost of living is comparable to some medium-size US cities. Average 1-bedroom apartment costs ~300k, very generally speaking. All consumer products are as expensive or more expensive than in US cities, due to 25% VAT.
Cue the descent into static vs. dynamic typing.
Cheers! curious what people will build with it
This seems overly complicated. The market for bonds reflects the current inflation and interest conditions so selling bonds at any moment in time should on average be as profitable as holding them to maturity (except for broker fees which are usually quite small). I would just buy bonds and sell them if and when required.
>Or is there some finance black magic that causes treasury bond ladders and treasury bond funds with the same effective maturity to have the same return (ignoring expense ratio for now) after a long period of time?

Yes they converge in the long-term. A treasury bond fund is just a ladder (albeit maybe weighted a little differently) that reinvests in a convenient wrapper. The case being made here is that if you may need to pull money from the bond strategy then the ladder is good because there is always a bond that is very close to maturity.
> The times when Watson agrees with doctors is effectively irrelevant

If your question is "can Watson improve treatment over an oncologist?" (ignoring issues of expense and availability), then it doesn't matter.

When you're talking about how close it is to "parity", it matters a lot.

If Watson exactly matched the oncologist in all but one out of a million cases, and in that millionth case caused the patient to explode, that would be extremely impressive, and Watson would be extremely useful. It would be nonsense to exclude all the matching cases.
Lorentz Transformations with a Mechanical Time-Globe [video]
Agreed. If one wants to change the business's behavior there has to be financial penalty to incentive them to get their act together. Currently, there's zero regulatory compliance required with little to no impact to the company other than momentary bad PR that is not withstanding.
… Which is somewhat sad, given AMD's open drivers are terrific and a pleasure to use on my machine, even for Steam games.
Interesting...there a few comments putting forward the case for energy expenditure to provide heating and cooling. Can't really argue with any of them. However, I wonder how much of the need is driven by the modern lifestyles we have now. I appreciate that the planet is getting warmer (and that perhaps we're seeing more severe winters) but how did people get by 100 years ago? Or a 1000 years ago? How did people survive the heat? How did they survive the cold? We can't turn back the clock but perhaps there's something to gain by looking at the past...
Thanks, I just tried this, it didn't work at first. Then I closed the private window and clicked refresh in the original window and it appeared. Not sure why that worked.
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Woah, this is cool.

The "Linux" download is x86-64 only; I know 32-bit x86 is dying, so maybe that's not worth your time (I'd tried to download it on an old 32-bit ThinkPad x60 tablet), but an ARM build might get some use.

As long as the download is free, may I ask why you chose to not also publish the source code?

PS: "JetNote" and "JetDraw" links in "JetNote and JetDraw are no longer under active development." on the support page both 404.
I'm seeing a bunch of scientists and inventors.
Trump accuses Google of rigging search results in favor of ‘bad’ coverage
Additionally to changing password, if you don't already start leveraging a password manager: lastpass, 1password, etc.
> Hexagons are all equidistant from their neighbors and all share the same size edge with all neighbors.

Technically, in spherical geometry this isn't true. It's actually not possible to tile the sphere with regular hexagons (even after including those 12 pentagons). Unlike a planar tiling, some hexagons end up bigger or smaller than others, the internal angles aren't all equal to each other, and the internal angles sum to more than 360 degrees.

This page has some good diagrams where this effect is readily visible:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldberg_polyhedron
I get your conclusion but that doesn't excuse T-Mobile from notifying customers that their data has potentially been breached. I would much rather be aware that there is a distinct possibility my cell carrier's data on me because I can take some small actions to mitigate any potential damage (change password, update pin, etc). Being aware is half the battle with online security.

I'm not sure that the lack of repercussions is a reasonable excuse. I know companies will use it. I know we might throw our hands in the air and just say its a fact of life. But it doesn't have to be.
My wife is Swedish and her family live in Sweden, but we live in the US. Every year we ask them what they want us to bring them when we make our annual pilgrimage to the homeland. My brother in law wanted bbq sauce, so my wife bought six bottles of sweet baby rays sauce. She took a photo of the bottles and sent it to him. He laughed because sweet baby rays is available in Sweden at a lot of the grocery stores. So she went back to the store and bought six bottles of Stubbs. On our last day in Stockholm I was at the grocery store and saw a new display for Stubbs. Can't win.
We probably don't need to do much of anything about air conditioning specifically, we just need to price in the externalities of energy use generally.

But it might make sense to incentivize (whether through positive incentives or negative incentives on traditional AC, or both) use of geothermal heat pumps instead of air-source heat pumps, since the latter is, pretty much by definition, least efficient when most needed—long-term, they are already a net win for the consumer as well as the environment, but the payoff time is long enough and traditional AC culturally-established enough that it doesn't even tend to be considered as an option enough.
You are correct in rising interest rate environments where you believe the rates will continue to rise.

With bond funds you can get the same yield as the ladder (interest payments) if you hold forever and never sell, but if you sell you may take a hit because the price has gone down. That doesn't happen with ladders since you always get paid out the face value.
I was directly replying to a comment that linked the Symas post and recommended it over OP's article.

I don't think I could've been more clear.
Hey, thanks for taking the time to clarify!

> I guess what I'm saying is that being an experimental/emerging artist sometimes runs orthogonal to creating a market for our art.

Yes, I agree completely. I see your point more clearly that aside from value & narrative, there needs to be an environment that already supports generative art, both for its value and its narrative. This is what you meant about community, I misunderstood. You are right.

I think we're getting there, I'm fairly optimistic here. It seems like generative art is considered fine art by enough people that there's no longer a debate about whether it's art. Now we just need to wait and watch the best stuff bubble up.
The Secret Skill Behind Pixar’s Creative Genius
I'm not understanding. Is this lady mad because she wants to get out of bug hunting, so she found a major MSFT bug and tried to sell it, and they patched it and thwarted her attempt at that?
@bkezy0 has some interesting work on Instagram. It's more of a mix between generative and non-generative than anything pure. Still worth checking out.

Profile: https://www.instagram.com/bkezy0/
If you like the concepts of Processing but want more out of the language, you might be interested in Quil[0], which is a Clojure (or ClojureScript) wrapper API.

It allows live-coding sketches from Emacs to work really nicely.

[0] https://github.com/quil/quil
It is frankly terrifying to me that so many voices in this thread are defending this blatantly unconstitutional and thoroughly authoritarian idea. If this ridiculous proposition is not beyond the pale, perhaps nothing is--a chilling thought, imo.
Correct, the GP poster made a statement stating the model of employee representatives as members of the board to cause more bad than good without any supporting facts, so I'm asking for prove. More than "she said it was bad [because she couldn't execute her bad ideas?]" Would be nice. The GP made a bold statement.
by "overrepresentation of black scientists", in my case it means 100%.
There is the same sauce at Coop in Switzerland.
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No need to split focus until that beast is tamed.

What do you mean by that? Are we as a society not able to do more than one thing at a time?
Prague is the largest city in Czechia, a cultural and international hot spot, with a large student and foreign population. I'd guess this grocery store was in Zizkov.
It's Candor...

Most important part of the article IMO:

"I’ve seen many professionals (mis)interpret this in the way that Steve Jobs was candid. In other words, they tell peers that their work “sucked” and leave it at that. That’s not how to be candid, that’s how to be a jerk."
I don't have numbers at hand, but I'm willing to bet the energy spent on air conditioning dwarfs crypto by at least an order of magnitude. Focusing on the biggest areas first is usually the most efficient.
wow, is this the first tool that can do this?
We are cooking our planet to refrigerate the diminishing part that's still habitable.
Yes that is ignoring dividend payouts, which for a bond (edit: bond fund) is a substantial part of the return.
> How did people survive the heat? How did they survive the cold?

Well they often didn’t. People still die from cold winters and hot summers, especially old people. Air conditioning and heating is not a luxury for some of these people.
> (except for broker fees which are usually quite small)

Not quite. Commissions are charged on equities. Markups are charged on bonds. Markups are the difference between what the broker paid and how much a retail investor has to pay the broker and are much more opaque. They can be quite hefty. One just doesn't notice.
I spent a long time trying to set this up as well. Ultimately, I was successful using nvidia-docker. Here’s how I did it http://briancaffey.github.io/2017/11/19/tensorflow-gpu-setup...