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moultano

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I work at Google trying to make your search results not suck. rmoulton@google.com

I write articles here: http://moultano.wordpress.com/

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moultano··on Cross Views
Magic eye pictures are viewed by diverging your eyes, so the "parallel view" versions at the bottom work correctly with that method.

"Cross view" pictures require converging your eyes, so the images have to be in the opposite position from what your eye would see.

moultano··on Cross Views
Great! I wrote this in the hopes that more people would start making them, because I love them.
moultano··on Cross Views
Yes, the ones at the bottom, in the "Parallel View" section are designed to be viewed the other way.
moultano··on Cross Views
Yes, making them smaller certainly helps.
moultano··on Cross Views
As long as you don't regret the click, I don't regret baiting the click. :)
moultano··on Cross Views
If they look inverted you are probably diverging your eyes instead of crossing them. In that case the images in this section should look correct. https://moultano.wordpress.com/2025/02/24/you-should-make-cr...
moultano··on Your camera can take 3D photos. Your screen can display 3D photos.
I just went back and doubled checked, and they're all correct. If they look inverted, you are probably diverging your eyes ("parallel view") instead of crossing them. If that's more comfortable for you there is a section of images arranged with that orientation at the end of the article.
moultano··on Wired has removed "How Google alters search queries" story
This email was not addressed to the search team.
moultano··on Reduction of sulfur emissions from ships may be causing rising sea temperatures
This article suggests it probably isn't the main cause: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-low-sulphur-shippin...

There was also an underwater volcano that put a lot of water vapor in the upper atmosphere that could be a culprit. (On top of the ongoing trend of warming of course.) https://www.carbonbrief.org/tonga-volcano-eruption-raises-im...

moultano··on LK-99 is an online sensation but replication efforts fall short
Why does the tone of this sound just like the January 2020 articles saying "weird nerds on twitter freaked out about viruses in china when they should be worried about the flu?"
moultano··on The many ways that digital minds can know – A better way to think about LLMs
I really like that post, but I view it as a description of the limit case of how an arbitrarily powerful LLM would behave. It doesn't give you a way to compare models or predict their limitations or relative advantages.
moultano··on Google search's death by a thousand cuts
Can you give an example query and the page it should return?
moultano··on Archaeologists find 3000-year-old sword, exceptionally well preserved
All the official EU websites have them too.
moultano··on Cormac McCarthy has died
That's how titles of news articles are typically capitalized. The only lowercase words are those that are grammatical connectors.
moultano··on Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer
No tether. Worse tracking than an index. Lame.
moultano··on Ask HN: Can someone ELI5 transformers and the “Attention is all we need” paper?
differentiable relative to the model parameters. The attention mechanism does store(key(x), value(x)), followed by lookup(query(y)), where key(), value(), lookup(), query() are all designed to be differentiable.
moultano··on Petrucci Music Library
Also check out https://www.mutopiaproject.org/ which is working on producing latex versions of music using lilypond.
moultano··on Google to reduce workforce by 12k
Send me your queries to debug if you remember them.
moultano··on Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now
You were just suspended though, so at least in the short term it's out of your hands.
moultano··on The AI Unbundling
Some art, technical and scientific illustration in particular, requires a great deal of precision, and ability to interpret information. That work isn't going away any time soon, and is similar to what is required of professional translation. A lot of art does not require that.
moultano··on John Carmack's new AGI company, Keen Technologies, has raised a $20M round
Transformers have gradually taken over in every other ML domain.
moultano··on We're improving search results when you use quotes
The article describes UX changes to make it clearer that quotes are working as designed.
moultano··on We're improving search results when you use quotes
This is more typing, but if you append -site:pinterest.com to your search, it will hide them.
moultano··on We're improving search results when you use quotes
Honestly I think using quotes for that is probably better, even though + was a bit less typing. You wouldn't believe how many people search for [tar -xvf] and are confused as to why none of their search results contain the string xvf. It's hard to come up with operators that are easy to type and will never collide with their normal meaning in language, and I think quotation marks work much better for that than + did.
moultano··on We're improving search results when you use quotes
I work on Google search, and have been posting in threads about it for quite some time here taking feedback, asking for examples to debug, and passing them on when I get them.
moultano··on Using grape harvest dates to estimate summer temperature over 650 years
Very similar chart to this one recording the date of Japan's cherry blossoms blooming since 600 AD. https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/03/29/japan-kyot...
moultano··on Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?
Old school arena shooter with a focus on different movement styles. I want to see quake rocket jumpers facing off against tribes jetpackers against realCTF tractor beamers against unreal teleporters against any other thing you can imagine. I want to see the whole world of FPS movement mixed together in the the most insane ways. A small set of elegant weapons with no spam, and the rest of the focus on movement.
moultano··on Ask HN: Is anyone else glad the crypto market is crashing?
If the value of it went to 0, I would happily buy Amazon, and take it private, which would entitle me to all of the profit that it generates.
moultano··on Ask HN: Is anyone else glad the crypto market is crashing?
What makes it not a pyramid scheme is that by owning the stock you own part of Amazon, and Amazon makes money by providing a service to users. The inflow of money comes from the users of its product, not future suckers.
moultano··on Ask HN: Is anyone else glad the crypto market is crashing?
Once Amazon decides that the prospects for continuing to invest in growing their business are lower, they will start paying dividends. In the meantime Microsoft and Apple already do.
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