Wow, this is great. I can't wait for the video lecture, transformers are an aspect of modern machine learning that I'm not completely clear on. Andrej's lectures are brilliant - super detailed, and really answer the detailed questions I always have. Great stuff!
I've played guitar and piano for 35 years, primarily improvisational styles (blues / jazz). I had a year of classical training, but gave it up - and only returned to music several years later.
In my view, music is whatever you want it to be - you play what you want, and if it appeals to people, they will listen. Of course there's knowledge to be passed on (harmony, scales, patterns of rhythm) - but that's all it is - knowledge, which might help a player to better express what they want. A lot of music education treats these concepts as holy writ, which they are most definitely not.
I think the definition of "art" is rather vague. It encompasses both the creative impulse to produce a work, and the technical skill to bring it into existence. But if one of these components is diminished in a certain work, does it still qualify as art? For example, a commercial artist producing an illustration for a client, using their drawing and painting skills would be considered art - even if it is as technical and linear a process as writing some boilerplate code.
The switch I was trying to describe was from an appreciation of the content as a consumer of it - to appreciating its existence as an external observer of the process that created it. There is an implicit dismissal of the content itself in the second one, that I found funny. I was trying to be lighthearted, anyway... :-)
That was a bit of a switcheroo. Starting off exhorting us to not dismiss creative works just because they might seem lowbrow, and then revealing that the "entertainment value" you got from a soap opera was to try to imagine how anyone could profitably produce such rubbish! :-D
I suspect that the majority of ImGui users use one of the included, ready-to-use backends. For example, I use the OpenGL one. I work around the lack of images, handling the textures myself, but it's always struck me as an odd omission.
I would venture that 99% of people who use ImGui do not create their own graphics backend, but rather use one of the standard ones included (I use the OpenGL backend, for example). Creating a new backend would be more work, for sure - although I think that ImGui is already using textures for its font rendering - so perhaps some of that work could be reused.
I can see what you mean - but I would think that an array of int32s representing RGBA would be fairly standard these days. ImGui already draws fonts using textures, if I recall.
That's true - but it's not like the potential for such a natural disaster wasn't well known. The word we use for such devastating tidal waves kind of gives that game away.
When a hypothetical "injury" occurs entirely within the confines of your own thoughts, it's a recipe for disaster to treat it like you would a crime in the external world. There is no evidence other than the word of the complainant. The whole thing is way, way too easy to game.
They are super useful for compositing a 3D object into a scene where there are things close by that will interact with the object for sure. It's like a 5D ray oracle - I think it will transform film CGI pipelines (probably already is). As for scene relighting - that's extra neural witchcraft piled on top! :-)
The neural representations that I think the parent poster was referring to, are things like NERF - (Neural Radiance Field). These operate on finished images of a scene, and are more akin to a lightfield encoding method than anything to do with ray tracing.
This is where I reference Mike McCulloch's theory Quantized Inertia, which predicts Galactic Rotation curves far more accurately than Relativity / Newton, without any fudge factors. (This is also where someone jumps in to inform me that he is "a crackpot", and should be ignored. FWIW QI seems like a promising theory to me, and I think it should be tested experimentally. )
I agree 100%. If one were to apply Hanlon's razor in those circumstances, one would have to explain how such entities always seem to come out on top from their "stupid" actions.