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eliocamp

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I study the ocean of air we live in. I aspire to live a life inspired by love and guided by knowledge. I use #Rstats a bunch.

I post images created with #StableDiffusion on https://pixelfed.social/@eliocamp

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OVO energy provides free power between 11:00 and 14:00, I guess to shave peak usage in the morning and afternoons. What is stopping me from buying a big-ass battery, charge it during those hours and then running my home from the free electricity?

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I've been thinking about that Sabine Hossenfelder video* that is doing the rounds and I have to say that I mostly don't like it. It raises real issues with how the incentives are laid out in science, yes, but the whole framing is (sometimes explicitly) that that is all academia is and there's nothing of value. Besides, these are not new issues and a lot of people have been talking about these points in a much more productive way.

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@eliocamp @academicchatter I think she is spot on. I think your implication that making YouTube videos is somehow inherently dodgy is unfair. She's doing something that is accessible to people who can't access a university and she's not perpetuating the wasteful bullshit that takes up so much of an academics life in an institution.

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@eliocamp @academicchatter kudos to her for being brave enough to step up and tell us all about the ups and downs of her career.
As you say, she raises good points, but isn't the first and won't be the last until we find some way to fix academia. I also agree with you that I wouldn't cast things the way she cast them, but it has me thinking, not for the first time.

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I've just learned that Doom on the SNES used precomputed lookup tables to compute trigonometry functions because the processor was to weak to compute them in real time. I wonder if modern games couldn't use that trick to eek out a bit more performance.

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@eliocamp Honestly, today's processors are so powerful, I doubt there's issues like this that would make enough of a difference today.

Though, I'm not a game dev, so I could, very obviously, be proven wrong.🤷‍♂️

eliocamp OP ,
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@BeAware Yeah, I would think that. On the other hand, modern videogames also perform a lot more trigonometry computations so even a small speed-up might get you a couple of extra FPS. Or maybe there are more complex computations that could be cached!

eliocamp , to random
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Pretty unenforceable and abusive-prone rules. A lot of work is hard to attribute or doesn't require attribution (will I get banned if I post the Gioconda without attributing it to the artist?) and a blanket ban on (pure) "AI" content irregarless of harm and intent is silly, hard to enforce and, honestly, pretty exclusionary.

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eliocamp OP ,
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I remember my drawing teacher, who makes incredible acrylic paintings. Acrylic is much easier to use than oil and was shunned by her teachers, who said it wasn't proper art.
I can't shake my sense that the backlash against is just the latest manifestation of these gatekeepy attitudes. I know it's not about artists getting payed, because they also lash against artists getting payed if they use or are accused of using .

eliocamp OP ,
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This exactly. Probably every single new technology applied to art has been rejected at first. Also probably photography (I'm not an art historian, although I dated one). And different art styles, like street art, graffiti. Or non-hegemonic music forms; I remember people complaining about cumbia villera (myself included, mea culpa).
The history of is so full of gatekeeping and it's sad to see the same attitude even today from people who should know better.

https://social.beaware.live/@BeAware/112119706280706218

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