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FelixDeCat

FelixDeCat

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purbeast0 said:
I will say though, this kind of thinking has helped with moving rendering in gaming forward quite a bit.

Rendering stuff that is not visible is a waste of resources.

The new PSVR2 coming out next year is also doing eye tracking and is rendering stuff outside of where you are looking with less quality than what you are focusing on, to save cycles.

(I'm guessing there are current VR tech on PC already doing this)
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This only goes to show how magnificent our biological mind /eye mechanisms are. We can render in our minds all objects and surrounding effects and be able to process them to be able to make judgements as we proceed through life.

The outcomes of those judgements might not always be the ones desired but the processing power and memory needed to do it with biological structures is amazing.
 
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Brainonska511

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[DHT]Osiris said:
Ackshewelly... you might be wrong. High probability that events don't actually occur in a fixed state until observed. I have thoughts as to why, but I'd rather not taint the pool first.
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Generally speaking, quantum effects only matter at very small scales (ie, atomic and sub-atomic particles) or extremely high energies. From my recollection of physical chemistry, the probability of some quantum effect happening on a tangibly sized object, such as a tree branch spontaneously tunneling through an adjacent wall without puncturing it, is functionally zero.
 
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Captante

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Most of us here are PC gamers to some degree so we've known this was coming.... we're literally about to reach the point where the only way to be sure something actually happened is seeing it directly with your eyeballs. (or having it seen/reported by someone trustworthy)

Being able to edit/modify (deepfake) video has been around for awhile and can be extremely difficult to identify NOW to the untrained eye but we're approaching the ability to pump it out in real-time.
 
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igor_kavinski

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FelixDeCat said:
This only goes to show how magnificent our biological mind /eye mechanisms are. We can render in our minds all objects and surrounding effects and be able to process them to be able to make judgements as we proceed through life.

The outcomes of those judgements might not always be the ones desired but the processing power and memory needed to do it with biological structures is amazing.
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Hot girl DETECTED.
Set brain to MINIMUM POWER.
Heart rate set to MAXIMUM.
Operation BOING! is a GO!
 
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igor_kavinski

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Brainonska511 said:
Generally speaking, quantum effects only matter at very small scales (ie, atomic and sub-atomic particles) or extremely high energies. From my recollection of physical chemistry, the probability of some quantum effect happening on a tangibly sized object, such as a tree branch spontaneously tunneling through an adjacent wall without puncturing it, is functionally zero.
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That's the key! Teleportation is possible. We just need really, really high energy to tear open a vortex through the fog we call reality.
 
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igor_kavinski

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Captante said:
we're literally about to reach the point where the only way to be sure something actually happened is seeing it directly with your eyeballs.
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Not if you are an android without knowing it and your visual processing unit's been hacked.
 
Captante

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igor_kavinski said:
Not if you are an android without knowing it and your visual processing unit's been hacked.
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"That makes you wonder about a lot of things. You take chicken, for example: maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything"

(Mouse/The Matrix)

;)
 
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VirtualLarry

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Man who sold $2.04B Powerball ticket reveals what he'll do with $1M bonus (msn.com)

Did you know that the store that sold the winning ticket gets $1 Mil?

"My son is expecting a baby in two months, so we are excited!" said Chahayed said, according to CBS Los Angeles. "We can have a nice celebration for another baby. I have 10 grandchildren."

In the meantime, Chahayed is relishing the moment after emigrating to Los Angeles from Syria in the 1980s, the station reported. He came with his wife, two kids and around $14,000 to his name.

"I never collect welfare, I never collect Medicare, I never collect any money from the government. All what I do, I work hard, seven days a week. I raised my kids, graduated from the college and bought a house and I bought a business all because I work hard and become an honest man," Chahayed said.
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JEDI

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zinfamous

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no one's curious about the "security glitch" in CA delaying the draw until "things are fixed" and then for the largest jackpot in world history, only a single winning ticket is sold...in CA?


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I wonder if there's some dude named Melon Shnrusk that has the winning ticket, and needs the money to keep himself from being poor after a recent, ill-advised huge purchase of a famous company.
 
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manly

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zinfamous said:
no one's curious about the "security glitch" in CA delaying the draw until "things are fixed" and then for the largest jackpot in world history, only a single winning ticket is sold...in CA?


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I wonder if there's some dude named Melon Shnrusk that has the winning ticket, and needs the money to keep himself from being poor after a recent, ill-advised huge purchase of a famous company.
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CA Lottery announced the glitch, but it wasn't in its systems. It was some other unnamed state.

I forget if Mai72 is the guy in P&N who claimed the federal govt could give every U.S. citizen $1M, and it would only cost us $330M total. Or something like that. ;)

Edit:
Took me forever to find it because there's no good way to search AT forums but it was the sportage economic stimulus plan:

Bad news for Build Back Better legislation from Manchin:

No longer interested in a deal: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/08/joe-manchin-build-back-better-biden This gets harder and harder for me to take. Maybe he is pissed that Chuck Schumer is going to put him on the spot. I really don't know and have trouble believing this guy is real.
forums.anandtech.com forums.anandtech.com
 
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Captante

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Mai72 said:
I was just repeating what a cashier told me yesterday. My fault. :(
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Now I'm not saying that it's impossible that a lowly cashier might in fact utter something truly profound in the midst of weighing up your red grapes and tomatoes, HOWEVER there's something to be said for considering the source!

;)
 
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