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AntonioCaoon How does Shazam work? (2022)

tbh for tools like Shazam there's no fundamental difference between a database + hashing algorithm and a self-supervised model; both are great indexing & compression solutions, just for different scales of data.

AntonioCaoon ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha

Wow. Can't wait for the lean theorem prover integration.

AntonioCaoon 1Hz CPU made in Minecraft running Minecraft at 0.1fps [video]

My first thought exactly. This essay by Hans Moravec is also a great exposition for similar idea: https://frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/general.articles...

AntonioCaoon Infinite Stable Diffusion Videos

This post https://twitter.com/madebyollin/status/1566838643771457536 is a step in such direction. I quite like the author's vision about neural nets eating through the graphics pipeline, given there are work like Gancraft (https://nvlabs.github.io/GANcraft/) and GTA photorealistic GAN (https://isl-org.github.io/PhotorealismEnhancement/) have produced stunning results.

AntonioCaoon Carmack: The code for AGI will be simple

Make sense. A fun argument for why brain's underlying "algorithm" should be simple is that evolution didn't take that long to go from creatures with primitive cognitive functions to thinking-talking humans. The sensible solution, just like the way evolution solved many other problems, is to replicate what's working in a massive scale, similar to how we build artificial neural networks. This argument was popularized by jeff hawkins in his thousand brains theory, I believe.

AntonioCaoon Ask HN: Are you leaving Heroku?

Honestly you should checkout open source + self-host alternatives like porter (https://github.com/porter-dev/porter). I tried it in a project before and the developer experience was surprisingly good.

AntonioCaoon Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

Computer Graphics:

Justin Solomon (MIT): https://www.youtube.com/c/justinmsolomon Keenan Krane (CMU): https://www.youtube.com/c/keenancrane Cem Yuksel (Utah): https://www.youtube.com/c/cmyuksel Inigo Quilez (ShaderToy): https://www.youtube.com/c/InigoQuilez The Art of Code: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheArtofCodeIsCool

Physics (Besides what others have listed):

ScienceClic: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScienceClicEN Simons Foundation: https://www.youtube.com/user/SimonsFoundation Quanta Magazine: https://www.youtube.com/c/QuantaScienceChannel

Robotics:

Cyrill Stachniss: https://www.youtube.com/c/CyrillStachniss Russ Tedrake's Underactuated Robots: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChfUOAhz7ynELF-s_1LPpWg

Art:

Entagma: https://www.youtube.com/c/Entagma Creators: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheCreatorsProject

AntonioCaoon The Wisdom in Kung Fu Panda

Eric Weinstein also wrote an excellent analysis of Kung Fu Panda on Quora.

https://www.quora.com/In-Kung-Fu-Panda-how-does-Po-end-up-de...

AntonioCaoon Ask HN: How to quickly animate system sketches and 2D diagrams?

This is super impressive, would definitely pay for it if more polished. Maybe integrate with tldraw? Anyways, amazing job.