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I think plenty of companies would like to spend time training but aren't able to because the budget is too small. Still makes Sony reasonable for the shortage as you say.

It's not just that, it's also that training opportunities have become rare.

There really is an animator shortage in anime. There's a popular blog with multiple articles on it: https://blog.sakugabooru.com/2022/08/05/the-layout-crisis-th...

Though simply paying more sounds like it would fix the issue.

Fun and well written read. It's ironic though how terrible the 15% cut was considered given that Steam takes 30%.

Personally, I think it would've been better to keep Serenity OS support but drop the no 3rd party code rule. While I realise it would've gone against Serenity OS's write everything philosophy, it would've kept the browser as a rallying focus for the OS. Thinking about what actually happened, if the Serenity OS now treats Ladybird as a port, then I think the result will be the same minus the social effect.

Would you have any recommendations for someone looking at learning vdom frameworks today?

I think because Servo was orginally focused at researching new techniques for designing a modern browser, not creating something for users to user. Parts of Servo made it into Firefox.

If you're looking for something to do in Lua, I suggest making a game with the Love2D framework [love2d.org]!

Without knowing anything about CAD, it's surprising to me that the author didn't try any of these matrix solvers. Particularly since the case of non square matrices with iterative methods is common to many fields.

I think it's worth remembering that all of these AI's work by having an unbelievably large number of weights. So many weights that it's all an uncontrollable black box. On the other hand, your work is all about having control, and I don't personally expect your work to lose value for this reason.

Another thing to think about is what the AI is designed to do. Without knowing the details, I would expect it to be trained to produce the 'most likely' output given the prompt. Consequently, I would think being inventive is against its design, and 'most likely' is effectively that same as 'average'.

But it is solved theoretically, by quantum error correction. I'm not denying there are plenty of problems but can you justify that decoherence is the limiting problem for architectures other than superconducting qubits?

The application of linear algebra to rendering I can understand. Character animation less so, apart from the physics aspect.

Sounds like a nice field to work in! I didn't realise it used maths to that extent.

Would you have any recommendations for someone of a linear algebra / programming background if they were interested in this field?

As someone who's keen on linear algebra but knows little about animation, how did linear algebra help her?

On the other hand, if I wanted some scientific NumPy code to run on the GPU, I think rewriting it in JAX would probably be a better choice than PyTorch.

Quantinuum's genuine but I have no idea what lambeq is.

I don't necessarily disagree with what you're saying but multiple research teams do already have error rates below the threshold. It's still early days for the most promising QC platforms, so it's too early to tell if making a QC is possible or not.

That sounds cool! I think I'd be interested in reading your thesis.

Some qubits are Doppler cooled, causing it to fluoresce. In these case you can observe the emitted light using a special camera. Check this out: https://petapixel.com/2018/02/12/picture-single-atom-wins-sc...

I know about the conventional 2-qubit Molmer-Sorensen but not the 5-qubit version. Could I ask what it is?

His modern take, advocating prototypes, has been around since 2006 (https://crockford.com/javascript/prototypal.html).

Part of the issue for me is that I don't think her research on quantum foundations is viewed very highly. Some would probably consider it completely pointless. In her videos, she claims that the majority of physicists do not understand quantum mechanics and that AI might find patterns in the randomness of quantum mechanics. This doesn't put her tendancy to tell lay people how everyone else's research is a waste of time in a good light. She's just arguing that her research is more deserving of funding.

Plenty of her points aren't without merit but she's frequently disengenious and doesn't give the full argument for what she criticises.

An example is her criticism on "decoherence solves the measurement issue" where she explains the average of multiple particles doesn't tell you what happens to just one of the particles involved. She's not wrong in the example she gives but decoherence actually can be applied to a single particle. Compare with PBS space time, they present both sides and offer an opinion as their opinion not fact.

I recently watched a lecture on issues in particle physics. Naturalness was mentioned due to a need to ensure the theory gave sensible answers, to ensure it was renormalizable, that's far more reasonable to how Sabine presents it.

I think it's because what constitutes core physics is more standardised and less variables across universities. In addition, the core syllabus of physics tends to have concepts that build on the previous very nicely and ultimately combine. In constrast, I think other subjects tend to specialise more quickly than physics.

Differential forms looks really cool and I really want to learn more about them at some point!

That said, isn't calculus, mainly the chain rule, enough to tell you what operations are allowed?

A few years ago I met up with someone who just graduated and who's only experience with programming was MATLAB during his degree. To my surprise he'd been hired to use Rust and was telling me how great the recently released async was.

"Then why are they getting pregnant and having children?"

Because human being often desire to reproduce.

"At least for the time they are pregnant and giving I will consider them to be women."

Regardless of what you consider, trans men consider themselves men. Their circumstances and medical needs aren't the same since they typically take testosterone and look like average men.

Another reason I don't think your wording works is that the majority consider the concepts of "man" and "woman" to be permanent things.

Even if the functionality is in binary blobs, can open source drivers still take advantage of this?

In all seriousness, I think people not reading the full article is a recurring theme on hn.

For controversial topics, it's a major problem: people don't establish what's actually being debated, instead attacking/defended what they think I'd being debated, so the conversation develops slowly as a result.

However, I also think it's a strength of hn, because hn has a strong culture of going off topic: allowing for people with related experience to share and to suggest new avenues to explore. Often, instead of bookmarking the referenced article, I bookmark the hn thread instead for this reason.

Regardless of whether one agrees with it or not, the point is to include trans men, because they think that they're better described as men. If trans women were to get pregnant by some not yet existing medical procedure, why would they complain about being called women?

We're talking about trans men getting pregnant, not trans women. While trans men are a minority, those percentages are multiple orders of magnitude too small.

It's kind of sad that in response to an article which initially talks about women's feelings, the actual feelings of women aren't talked about at all.

An extremely good point made by another commentator is that the article turns into an attack on trans women with little discussion on trans men.