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by madrox 3y ago
Last of Us and God of War tend to get a lot of recognition, but it depends on what you’re looking for. Like film, you have to be open to the experience.
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by madrox 3y ago
I agree. If you're doing general-purpose things, using a company like the one you mentioned is just cloud but with extra steps
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by madrox 3y ago
Amazon didn't create it. I was there for the mass cloud migrates of the last 15 years. It isn't that AWS requires no specialist expertise, it's that it's a certain kind of expertise that's easier to plan for and man
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by madrox 3y ago
The article linked to a youtube video that was a "reconstruction of the incident" and I was immensely disappointed to see that it did not, in fact, dramatically reenact the chaos of a horse loose on an airplane.
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by madrox 3y ago
This article feels like the art equivalent of engineers saying the code they write in their jobs will never be open sourced. I mean, yeah, that's somewhat unfortunate, but not all businesses can survive operating that way, and you kind
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by madrox 3y ago
This has had the follow-on effect of watering down of video game difficulty over time. It's more important to see the user steadily progressing throughout a game's content than see them getting stuck too long (even if there's
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by madrox 3y ago
This came from an era when online purchases did not have sales tax
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by madrox 3y ago
We’ve done experiments with generative UI code, but we keep coming back to the LLM making crappy looking UI, and if the engineer still needs to tweak the code afterward this is just a glorified copilot. Without more specialized models, I be
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by madrox 3y ago
Makes me think of this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/989/
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by madrox 3y ago
I can only imagine Mazda's stake in this is that the OSS project is doing something that Mazda would like to monetize. Otherwise why limit a project that's making people fell better about their car purchase? The worst thing to hap
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by madrox 3y ago
I'm the owner of a 7 year old anxious dog since she was a puppy. We got her in San Francisco while living in apartments. We then moved to a rural home in Oregon and then to a house in LA. Her anxiety manifested differently in each area
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by madrox 3y ago
Everything we're building today is the next generation's pneumatic tubes
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by madrox 3y ago
Technologists also got really into Stephenson's metaverse for a moment, too
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by madrox 3y ago
This is the AI Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect It was coined by John McCarthy, one of the founders of the term AI.
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by madrox 3y ago
I was part of the pipeline at Disney that looked into operationalizing some of the ideas coming out of Research. I agree that I can't think of any place quite like it. It should also be worth noting that Disney Research is not the same
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by madrox 3y ago
I'll admit that I never thought of it, but will now be doing so often
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by madrox 3y ago
Believe me, I'm all for living in a more considerate and empathetic society. However, I think calling it "a mandatory requirement of all human interaction" is not true and is the seed of the paradox of tolerance. As the autho
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by madrox 3y ago
Andy Weir once gave a great bit of writing advice: never tell people what you're working on before it's done. His reasoning was that it prevents you from seeking the dopamine hit of telling someone your idea and having them like t
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by madrox 3y ago
In my 20s, I knew people like this. These were the people that abandoned their craft before they hit 30. I don't know if I agree that brutal honesty is the most humane, but it will certainly save you time on a hopeless endeavor because
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by madrox 3y ago
As the author said, "If someone can talk you out of being a writer, you’re not a writer." By corollary, I'd say if you need or expect consideration from someone you're asking for feedback from, you're not really ask
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by madrox 3y ago
An agent is a style of prompt that lets LLMs act as reasoning engines. It's also known as the ReAct pattern (which engineers are avoiding using for namespace collision reasions). You can read a good intro example here: https:/&#x
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by madrox 3y ago
My current work is using LLMs in fintech, but my background is in entertainment and has been where most of side projects have gone. LLMs are great generative tools, but Agents are reasoning tools. They implicitly execute an algorithm and in
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by madrox 3y ago
You can string tools together in code as well, and have an LLM reinterpret the final results in text if you want. There’s the middle bit when you ask the Agent to reason that works better if you just ask it to write code and give it functio
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by madrox 3y ago
Having spent the last three months with Agents I’m starting to develop a saying: “Any sufficiently advanced agent is indistinguishable from a DSL” I’m becoming convinced Agents are mostly novelty. They aren’t Turing complete. They’re fun to
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by madrox 3y ago
The caption underneath this setting when you turn it on makes clear that scanning is on-device
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by madrox 3y ago
I believe this is about protecting the ecosystem. YT has basically stopped ads from playing on his content…no advertiser wants to be associated with him right now. If YT didn’t take this action, it’s likely advertisers would pull back on sp
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by madrox 3y ago
I'm often skeptical of claims like the one I read here...not this time. This is is pretty egregious, and thanks to Professor Levin for providing lots of supporting material, making the offense even more obvious.
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by madrox 3y ago
Are indies still Unity's raison d'etre? They may have started there, and they're hardly a AAA engine, but I'm pretty sure they've moved upstream.
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by madrox 3y ago
I forget where I read it, but there was a similar assessment of the time needed for computer vision. Overall, quite an optimistic time.
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by madrox 3y ago
As someone who was writing Visual Basic.NET back when it came out, there was no upside to it over writing in C#. VB's original sweet spot was for writing small scripts and apps in Windows, and it was the only language available. When t

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