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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
This nostalgia trio reminded me of the article claiming a long, previous-to-MAD history of Alfred E. Neuman. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/03/03/a-boy-with-no...
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
The Spomenik Database for those inclined to learn a bit more: https://www.spomenikdatabase.org/ Casual trivia: The film Last and First Men consists primarily of slow pans of Spomeniks. https://www.imdb.com/
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
"...an ordinary 19th century family’s one book beyond the Bible (thousands of years old) might be Pilgrim’s Progress (about two hundred years old)." I think that is part of the reason speech has changed. I am reminded of this sni
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
What about commercial use rights? Could I use a song I created in a for-profit manner, say a soundtrack to an indie film or a youtube channel?
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
But isn't it the case that there is typically no personnel at the silo (or Launch Facility LF) itself? Instead, the Missile wing Commanders at the Launch Control Centers (LCC) some distance away. The LCC commands some number of LFs r
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
Correction. The actual Kaguya-sama link is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqjFmsZGBSc
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
Something very similar was done a while ago by Petar Gyurov: https://petargyurov.com/bookshelf/
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
Rotoscopeing in anime examples. Flowers of Evil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Toc9x19Cmkg Kaguya-sama Love is War scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Toc9x19Cmkg
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
There is the case of Blondie24, an evolutionary neural net, or genetic algorithm, which was able to develop a very strong checkers-playing capability by self-play with no human instruction. It was later extended to paly other games. https
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
I was intrigued not so much by the TFA but about the painting used to illustrate it. That figure behind the two chess players is not a devil as typically depicted, it is instead an angel, a symbol of heaven and almost the exact opposite of
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
Another example was put out by the DIY synthesizer kit company PAIA [1]. They had a patch notation system in which control voltages and connections were represented vertically and sound signal flow and processing was represented horizontal
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
I think it is a safe bet that they are mostly computer games by now, though there is a long history of using board games for training. That said, there was Freedom of Information Act request to uncover some of the games Mr. Rhunke develope
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
The military has a long history of using war games for training, going all the way back to Kriegspiel [1]. At least one history book [2], has been written about the topic. However it is rare that these military training games make it out
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
I still have a couple of Invisiclues hint books. I wonder if the special markers are still available and if they would still work on these old books.
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I Will Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again(ludic.mataroa.blog)
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United Nations Announces Global Initiative on Virtual Worlds(itu.int)
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
I am reminded of a short scene in the film Goya's Ghosts, where the artists claims to charge more if the portrait he is painting includes one or two hands.
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
An omitted use case for the Affordable and Massively Used category of multi-rotor drones: Drone light shows. These are starting to replace fireworks shows as the latter bring up safety and fire hazard concerns.
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
The film Fair Game is about CIA analyst Valerie Plame and how she was shut out when decisions about WMD presence were made.
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
I find it (a tiny bit) helpful to create a mind map of all my various interests. In doing do I realized that many are closely related, for example, AI coding is adjacent to shortwave radio as both are on a technology branch. Other branch
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
I'm surprised online gambling sites haven't started a poo; for people to pick the actual date of the blast.
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
Agreed, One niche interest of mine is his treatment of board games and the machines he built to play them. https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/143233/claude-shannon-the...
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
An Introduction to Information Theory Symbols, Signals & Noise By John Robinson Pierce https://www.google.com/books/edition/An_Introduction_to_Info...
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
A silly question and a PSA: 1. There was a two-player game called The Immigration Game [1] using GoL rules. Has anyone actually played this? Even better, has anyone developed an AI to play it? Is there really much of a game there? 2. T
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by JoeDaDude 2y ago
Decades ago, I read an article in Byte magazine discussing various implementations of GoL. The article ended with an implementation in one line of APL. What are the chances you (or anyone) still has that article, and that one line progra
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by JoeDaDude 3y ago
An excellent film about his life and work has been made: In the Realms of the Unreal [1]. Oddly not mentioned in the article (or did I miss it?) [1]. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390123/
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by JoeDaDude 3y ago
Not to be nitpicky (well, maybe a little)... El Ajedrecista [1], a chess machine designed by Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo in in 1912 and later improved in 1915, defeated chess Grandmaster Savielly Tartakower in 1951 [2], a few
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by JoeDaDude 3y ago
"....[6502 and 8080] simulators were written in APL". Now THAT would be software to behold. No mention by the author as to whether the code of these emulators still exist.
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by JoeDaDude 3y ago
For folk interested in learning more about what historians and similar think of the novel, a compilation of essays on the subject titled "Learning from SHOGUN: Japanese History and Western Fantasy" has been made available courtesy
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by JoeDaDude 3y ago
I am not the Lazy programmer nor the owner of this website, but titular Lazy Programmer has developed several roadmaps of the courses they offer for those who wish to learn AI/ML. You don't necessarily have to take their courses,

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