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by ccvannorman 1y ago
Game dev here, building a game using the "engine-only" version of PlayCanvas (a 3d engine). Asset loading, rendering, physics, object management, update loops, raycasting is all handled by the engine (js). My code is everything el
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by ccvannorman 1y ago
I was interested to read this but .... Can't make the text bigger because it doesn't wrap properly, and the image doesn't scroll with the text.
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by ccvannorman 2y ago
Try to build relationships and friendships with those around you, without asking for anything in return. Relationships are the best asset we have. Find, build, foster, and nourish and treasure them. It will help with mental health, emotiona
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by ccvannorman 2y ago
This. Heuristic or not, AI is still ultimately an algorithm (as another comment pointed out, heuristics are a subset of algorithms). AI cannot, to expand on your PRNG example, generate true random numbers; an example that, in my view, betra
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by ccvannorman 2y ago
While it's true that LLMs are not strictly a formal system, they do operate on Turing-complete hardware and software, and thus they are still subject to the broader limitations of computability theory, meaning they cannot escape fundam
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by ccvannorman 2y ago
corollary: Numberphile (with Matt Parker of Stand Up Maths) - "All the Numbers". Most are incomputable, of course :) [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TkIe60y2GI&t=1s
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by ccvannorman 2y ago
What a wonderful text. Easy to read, concise, clear, interesting -- and above all, important. I would add context for 2025 about the fundamental limits this places on what (modern) AI is in principal capable of. Perhaps some "non-compu
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by ccvannorman 2y ago
Alternatively if The Romero Hypothesis is proven to map the distribution of Mancubus numbers ... >_<
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by ccvannorman 2y ago
Any chance we could migrate its diet to Mercury and other heavy metals?
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by ccvannorman 2y ago
Articles on his blog about Unity are on point! e.g. https://garry.net/posts/unity-can-get-fucked and several others leading up to it
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by ccvannorman 2y ago
1. Awesome and well done! 2. But it doesn't have the classic "win" sound that I remember so fondly :( 3. Prepare to be destroyed by Nintendo
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by ccvannorman 2y ago
A very naive and hopeful part of me would wish for Facebook, Twitter, and other vapidness-enhancing platforms be regulated too. But the untrusting, freedom loving red-blooded American in me is also wary of government controls and power cons
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by ccvannorman 2y ago
If I had children aged 7-17 and felt China was intentionally nudging them via algorithmic suggestions away from STEM and toward vapidness, and if I was unable to control their access to it, I guess I might appreciate that my government had
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by ccvannorman 2y ago
Speed-ran the game using this (well, I injected jquery first to select the element using $() because I'm an absolute Baboon) in about 45 seconds, spam clicking all the upgrades, and clicks stopped going up after hitting "342,044,1
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by ccvannorman 2y ago
1. There must be a limit; there are only around 10^80 atoms in our universe, so even a universe-sized supercomputer could not calculate an arbitrarily deep zoom that required 10^81 bits of precision. Right? 2. Renormalization just "mov
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by ccvannorman 2y ago
Wonderful article on fractals and fractal zooming/rendering! I had never considered the inherent limitations and complications of maintaining accuracy when doing deep zooms. Some questions that came up for me while reading the article:
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by ccvannorman 2y ago
This is right up my alley :-) I'll message you
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by ccvannorman 2y ago
"goal" in this case meaning not "good for the economy, most businesses, and everyday people" - I think the implicit goal being "give asymmetrical power to larger and more entrenched organizations, at the detriment o
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by ccvannorman 2y ago
Generally speaking, complexity grows exponentially with input size. A program of length 100 lines has the potential to be 1000x as complex as a program with length 10 lines. Consider the amount of information that could be stored in 4 bits
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by ccvannorman 2y ago
Just because this article isn't well formed or sourced doesnt make its claim incorrect. I program daily and I use AI for it daily. For short and simple programs AI can do it 100x faster, but it is fundamentally limited by its context s
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by ccvannorman 2y ago
This is incorrect. Links to EULA are not enough, it must be separate and distinct from any other terms. Words like "BUY" are also expressly forbidden. Quoted from the link in parent comment ( https://legiscan.com/C
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by ccvannorman 2y ago
This struck me from two angles: First, it's beautiful, well produced, clear, and concise representation of the federal budget including key areas like the deficit and spending breakdowns. However, it also struck me as "useless&quo
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by ccvannorman 2y ago
"The path forward seems to go back, the direct path seems long" -- Lao Tzu
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by ccvannorman 2y ago
It would be interesting to analyze data of "time/complexity spent on game engines" vs "complexity/interest" of produced games. As a game developer, I expect to see a log curve of diminishing returns of novel ga
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by ccvannorman 2y ago
is the vimrc exposed? For maximum vimness you could let players mod an empty vinrc from start
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by ccvannorman 2y ago
Same! I guess I can see the appeal; it's not for me though, I'm swimming in the local minimum of absolute line number dependence :)
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by ccvannorman 2y ago
:4 does not go to line 4. Or at least, the line numbers are not correct. No thanks, I'll pass.
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by ccvannorman 2y ago
My intuitive assumption, then, is that on Mars they would have come up with a different meter such that π² ≈ 10 "mars meters" / s². Or alternatively stated, that the Mars meter would be much shorter than Earth's meter
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by ccvannorman 2y ago
Addendum: It's not about the money, it's about the complexity . It isn't worth my mental overhead if I can't see a transparent value of the thing I'm buying. (Then I have to cancel, etc.. )
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by ccvannorman 2y ago
Would 100% try and buy a tool like this as I am the target market, but no way I'm going to go out of my way to sign up and pay for something I can't see value in behind a paywall.. "you and everybody else." Try a freemiu

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