Google blew it. They could have stood back and said: "Ha! Microsoft is so desperate for hype, it is irresponsibly linking LLMs to Bing. Google instead stands for reliable search and won't do that." But instead, Google did. They knew better. They all knew better. LLMs have no sense of meaning. They should be nowhere near the expectation of credibility.
Does anyone know of any code laying around the net that distributes points on a mesh in a blue noise distribution?
A student intern i work with is looking for this. It's tempting to write it, but im also kinda swamped :X
@breakin it specifically mentions being able to make a voronoi diagram and using Lloyd relaxation to optimize the point sets, which is an algorithm for making blue noise point sets.
I think this is the winner.
Thanks a lot! https://github.com/BrunoLevy/geogram/wiki/Delaunay2D
@mmby@breakin eesh, i wish this problem was simpler hehe.
finding the distance between 2 points on a mesh doesn't SOUND that hard. but then you think of the details and urgh...
@breakin@mmby the hardest problem i can see with the "shortest path between points on mesh" is: what is the straight line as you move between triangles that go concave, convex etc. am i overthinking that? it sounds hard.
The "which triangles should i take to go the shortest path" maze solving seems easier at least.
When AI hype has settled some, I'd like to see neural primitives be considered to be part of standard CS education along with other ADTs.
Hype makes ML look like too good to be true magical algorithms, and then fails because it was a grift all along. But, there is legit value.
When you watch educational videos on auto encoders, U nets, etc etc, they talk about specific things they are good at to fit in a larger solution.
For some reason people are talking about homomorphic encryption.
In game dev, for deterministic simulations like you see in RTSs, you can prevent write cheats by ensuring that the hash of the deterministic sim state matches across players.
You can't easily prevent read cheats though - being able to see the entire map when you shouldn't eyc.
Homomorphic encryption is a way to prevent read cheats.
Fyi!
Last I checked, fully homomorphic encryption was much too slow to use in game dev. There are partially homomorphic encryption schemes though, where you have a subset of operations you can do, vs FHE which can do any operation.
@dougmerritt I saw it and put it on the todo list and it scrolled away before I got to it! I just had a look, and it seems like "bootstrapping" has been replaced?! If so that's great news. But yeah there are a lot of new things since I last looked. That's pretty cool.