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Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 9h

Having built tech around skinning and soft bodies, I'd much rather work with a bespoke procedural than an AI in this case.

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Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 9h

"Average person has a shelf of miniatures" factoid is actually a statistical error. Average person has no miniatures. Delaney, who has too many miniatures, is an outlier and should not have been counted.

Delaney (Pum)King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 9h

I have too many miniatures.

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BUT I NEED MORE!!!+

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Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 9h

I think it's less than 25 now (because e.g. Poland's spending way more now), but certainly a number of them. And the rule's generally that if it's more than next two together, it's too much.

Oh, another fun statistic. USAF is obviously world's largest air force. Second largest? US Navy.

Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 10h

Underspending on military is risky, but we're overspending by such an amount that we can do cuts, still develop top-of-the-line jets, and be able to afford to fund education, medical, and some social safety nets. Our current military spending is obscene.

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Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 10h

I feel like lately, there are two types of games I play.

1) Five hours in, I am done with the game.

2) Five hours in, I am done with character creation.

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Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 11h

But in both cases, both the reason it works well and the reason I have no issue with it is that it's used to fill in the gaps. To interpolate on artists' work, not extrapolate. This is like difference between an upscaler/denoiser and image generator. Similar AI, very different results and utility.

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Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 11h

In a similar vein, you can use it to fill gaps in motion matching database. This is something you can achieve with even more dance cards, but there's a practical limit there, including how many hours of back to back capture your performers can even take.

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Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 11h

The only sensible use case I've seen that *remotely* resembles genAI is in motion capture, where AI can be very good at filling missing frames caused by various marker occlusion and crossing issues, and where doing it by hand is somethjng nobody enjoys doing.

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Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 12h

I always, *always* end up with some sign flipped somewhere which I end up having to fix by trial and error. Regular transforms are fine and all, but once you start having to project to screen space, there are just too many coordinate systems and conventions to keep track. 😿

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Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 12h

The alternative is people start having expectations.

As much as I enjoy attention on myself, I'll take the ordinary.

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 13h

CS gas ("teargas") is toxic and can kill. I had the unfortunate luck to directly witness a heavy application of CS asphyxiate a small baby in Colorado Springs in 2003. The baby survived, but suffered permanent brain damage. The million dollar settlement didn't fix the damage.

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🦇🩸Hexavier🩸🦇 @xavierck.com · 13h

If you've never played Thief 2, you're missing out on something special.

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Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 13h

Also, as much as I love retrostyles in games, the "New Era of Gaming," and 8bit chip tunes don't exactly mesh thematically. Somebody clearly didn't think these promotional materials through at all.

Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 13h

If a cop in Russia is giving you a, "Present your documents, please," they are about to make your day a lot harder than it was up until that moment, and the long formal phrasing is meant to inform you of that in a, "Know your place," sort of way.

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Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 13h

But for example, there are many ways in which a similar phrase in Russian sounds a lot more sinister with the right combination of polite words and tone than a bored, "documents" from somebody just doing their job would.

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Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 13h

Oh, I meant whether they themselves opted for more pretend politeness or brevity. (And I'm sure it also varied greatly based on perceived nationality of the person being interrogated, of course.) I'm just not familiar with language nuances here.

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frayed @frayed-symphony.bsky.social · 17h

I have a gamedev friend looking to commission an artist for some short-term contract work on a Tower Defense prototype.

Someone who can draw vehicles, character portraits and.. (you guessed it) towers!!

If your commissions are open, mind leaving your art and rates below? 🎨

#jobalert #artjobs

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 15h

There is no conceivable argument that these ships, even if we assume they were carrying narcotics, could not be dealt with in some other way. I think we can just drop the caveats and say: This is mass murder.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 20h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 14h

Are the differences in apparent visible structure primarily due to different wavelengths, or are we still seeing some artifacts of the optics there?

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Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 14h

*This was meant to read "Exponentially decays or grows." Not really sure how I typed the wrong thing there. The sign of k is arbitrary in theory as established up to this point. And in principle, k = 0 is not excluded, but I suspect it to be unstable.

Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 14h

And if I have enough steam, maybe we'll get back to that question of what happens if we introduce a gauge field for that scaling factor, and give this a complete Quantum Chrimato-Dynamics treatment.

I suspect, end result will be rudimentary micro econ, but might be fun. 😸

Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 14h

In the next lecture, we can take a look at possible interaction potentials, and how systems with different quantities of wealth interact in this Quantum reinterpretation of money, and hopefully set up a framework for something not unlike statistical mechanics.

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Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 14h

Now, this isn't quite the "Rich get richer, poor get poorer," because we're really only looking at a closed system's total wealth right now, but this does go neatly with the concept of steady inflation. There isn't a problem with it, so long as it's graduate and uniform.

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Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 14h

From ELE we have q'' = 0, meaning p = ∂L/∂q' ~ q' is the conserved conjugate momentum. And we can now take q' = k and substitute and solve to get w' = kw. Because baring any interaction k is constant, we have w(t) = wₒexp(kt).

Barring external action, wealth exponentially decays and shrinks.

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Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 14h

First, this means we can easily answer the question about uncertainty. The conjugate momentum r is ∂L/∂w' ~ w'/w². So that's the quantity to measure to make wealth w estimate uncertain. But it's not the conserved quantity here. The conservation is trivial from Euler-Lagrange Equation.

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