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by joakleaf 10y ago
Jill of the Jungle was one of those shareware games where the technology (and graphics) was not great, but the gameplay was! It came after id software had developed smooth scrolling games (albeit only in EGA) and the scrolling in Jill just
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by joakleaf 10y ago
But he changed his mind because he had to please the people to get elected, right? He doesn't have to change his mind for the people again unless he wants be reelected. If politicians change their mind all the time, we do not know what
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by joakleaf 10y ago
... I wonder what the human brain and body does in one second.
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by joakleaf 10y ago
Is it though? If you start tampering with the hardware of the car to splice in this box, will your insurance cover even in normal situations?
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by joakleaf 10y ago
Actually, this was sort of a thing already back in the 90s... There is an alpha of Duke Nukem 3D (LameDuke) which had some screen space reflections. As I recall, the game crashed when you look up or down on the reflections, likely because o
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by joakleaf 10y ago
Super slick AR glasses... If they ever arrive.
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by joakleaf 10y ago
Does the survey account for the number of phones that are sold with audio jack headphones? It could be that the only reason bluetooths outsells jacks, is because people get jacks anyway for free.
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by joakleaf 10y ago
Random Decision Forests provide sort of a middle ground. For training, a large set of decision trees are built randomly based on the input features. When classifying input for one tree, each node considers feature value of the input, and de
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by joakleaf 10y ago
I implemented drawing of polygons orthographically quite some time ago. The output was for PDF, so I couldn't raster + zbuffer. Instead I drew all polygons back to front. I ended up creating a BSP tree (1) for the polygons and drawing
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by joakleaf 10y ago
Sorry. Didn't notice. Yes, the videos are not as impressive as the stills.
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by joakleaf 10y ago
Would be fun to see an entire B/W movie processed...
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by joakleaf 10y ago
More likely most programmers hear about the previous generation... I remember reading Abrash's articles in Dr. Dobb's back in 1995 and 1996. They were written as Quake was being finished, and it was brilliant to follow the progres
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by joakleaf 10y ago
There seems to be some missing triangles after a while (10-20 sec.) on Chrome on OSX Are these caused by some z-buffer issues caused by increasingly large coordinates?
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by joakleaf 10y ago
Yes. http://www.popsci.com/watch-umbrella-drones-float-through-ai...
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by joakleaf 10y ago
They don't need to take the Euro. They could create their own currency. Not all EU countries use Euro. I don't see why will end up like Greece. Not all countries using the Euro end up like Greece.
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by joakleaf 10y ago
Congrats with the new trade deal Britain will make with China! How about the trade deal Britain will make with the EU which is currently its main trade partner (both imports and exports)?
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by joakleaf 10y ago
Yes, sorry... You are absolutely right! I've always mixed up "Array" and "Adapter" for VGA, as EGA stood for Enhanced Graphics Adapter, and CGA was Color Graphics Adapter.
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by joakleaf 10y ago
256 color VGA mode 13h was certainly 320x200. I agree it is wrong to call it "VGA", as the VGA (Video Graphics Adapter) was able to display graphics in a variety of resolutions. The standard resolution used for games was the 256 c
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by joakleaf 10y ago
Quake was build for 320x200 (VGA) as primary resolution target. I think, they initially wanted to release it for high powered 486s (66 Mhz or higher), where VGA was really the only option. The perspective correct texture mapping used a divi
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by joakleaf 10y ago
> I suspect why we haven't see as much from him since Quake 3 Not quite accurate. Since Quake 3 he made Unified lighting and shadowing (for Doom 3) and Megatextures (for Quake 5 and Rage). I can't really think of any other majo
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by joakleaf 10y ago
Related is this one-man drone by a Chinese company which should being test flights in Nevada: http://www.ehang.com/news/146.html "Drone" because the on board computer handles all the flying (just pick a
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by joakleaf 10y ago
OK, it wasn't clear to me that we were talking about RC with cycle detection.
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by joakleaf 10y ago
> Imagine a degenerate scenario: using up all of your memory to allocate a single linked list, and then dropping it all at once. Sorry, I am not sure I follow this example. I assume you create a list O(n) in size where n is the maximum a
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by joakleaf 11y ago
"Smartphone" is the wrong name? What about "Feature phone"? Edit: Actually, I meant that the term "Feature phone" is really even a worse name for feature phones, than "Smartphone" is for smartphones.
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by joakleaf 11y ago
I think it illustrates the "hardness" of Random Decisions Forests and "smoothness" of neural networks quite well.
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by joakleaf 11y ago
According to http://sos.noaa.gov/Datasets/dataset.php?id=44 there are 29000 commercial flights per day in the US. If the 7 guns per day corresponds to 4% found, that would mean that there are 7.0/0.04 - 7 = 168 g
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by joakleaf 11y ago
I thought this was about how the entire world is getting to a point where they are able to speak and understand basic English. There are certainly countries and population groups that do not speak English well, but it has changed significan
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by joakleaf 11y ago
Perhaps because they think lack of growth is a precursor to implosion. Investors also always think about the immediate obvious future. Twitter may have many monetization opportunities, but without implementing or demonstrating any, you have
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by joakleaf 11y ago
Can you define AI? Machine Learning, means that there is some sort of training/learning involved, but artificial intelligence could be anything, right?
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by joakleaf 11y ago
Economically not all good. Oil companies depending on higher prices (most of them), will start having to reduce number on employees, or, worst case, go bankrupt and take financial institutions with them (because of debt).

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