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by opyate 4y ago
My daughters are 10 and 7 this year. The 10-year-old loves making treasure hunts (and has for a while). She scatters clues on little pieces of paper all over the house and garden. Some clues are ambiguous, so the wrong locations will also c
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by opyate 4y ago
I've been thinking about this a lot recently: how the "business mind" works. The notions of: - "maximising shareholder value" - wanting forever-growth - laying off 10K of your staff because you got a slightly smalle
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by opyate 4y ago
Perhaps folks aren't putting their hands up, because they're not all full time, and don't necessarily want to join a community on Discord.
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by opyate 4y ago
I'm an indie game dev, and exploring/finding all sorts of ways where AI/ML/DL can assist. There's a non-exhaustive list on my blog [0]. For coding, I use Github Copilot too (which I think is just GPT3?) - massive pr
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by opyate 4y ago
Which of the 3 (reinforcement/supervised/unsupervised) is more amenable to building "expert systems" that can play Go or fold proteins? I saw a thread just earlier [0] where GPT said it invented a game which doesn't
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Ask HN: State of the art in document data extraction
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by opyate 4y ago
Maybe fix the mobile site? I managed to generate a handful of random brown colours, but it was tricky to tap on the right things. The marketing site also don't render well on mobile.
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by opyate 4y ago
Thanks, With all the layoffs going on, your fellow countrymen will appreciate the job opportunities :)
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by opyate 4y ago
I vaguely remember the late David Graeber covering this in either his Bullshit Jobs book or blog.
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by opyate 4y ago
Using the cheapest/free ways possible: - HIIT videos on YouTube in the morning after I wake up - walk whenever possible - lunch-time runs (I work from home, so this is convenient) - I haver some resistance bands under my desk for when
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by opyate 4y ago
It's ridiculous, isn't it? What possible genetic diversity can be had from just 3 families [0]... (Shem, Ham, Japheth) I identify most with Inyalowda [1], haha. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah#Family_tre
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by opyate 4y ago
Thanks, I'll listen to that one next :)
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by opyate 4y ago
https://www.falmouth.ac.uk/study/online/postgraduate/indie-g... Link in my profile to my blog, where I talk a bit more about it.
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by opyate 4y ago
I've been a web dev since 2002, and started contracting in 2013. I've been making games as a hobby in earnest from about 2016 onwards. Tried a bunch of tech to see what stuck: phaserjs, haXe (fun!), Lua stuff like löve2d, unity (a
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by opyate 4y ago
The below are not necessarily indie/solo focused, but interesting nonetheless. - Sausage Factory by Cane & Rinse: https://caneandrinse.com/category/sausage-factory/ - Industry & analysis: https:&#x2F
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by opyate 4y ago
> Unfortunately the unfiltered internet is not a fit place for a 7 year old. I wholeheartedly agree. 6 and 9-y-old here. Apps and websites are approve-only, and no YouTube/YTkids. Something bad happened a few years ago which gave us
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by opyate 4y ago
Heh, it's been a tumultuous ride for my family. Paternal grandad was a civil servant, and they were comfortable, but grandad died when dad was 6. Granny married a drunk and lost everything. Step-grandad beat them. My dad grew up a rebe
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by opyate 4y ago
Succeeding in the startup world reminds me of the funfair analogy: The rich kid will have a go at throwing the dart at the balloon, and miss. But, because they're a rich kid, they just take out their wallet (or parents' wallet), g
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by opyate 4y ago
I read the article, then immediately Ctrl-F'ed this forum for 1984. Here's a hug.
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by opyate 4y ago
Platformers play really nicely on the deck, so check out Hollow Knight, Dead Cells, and its ilk.
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by opyate 4y ago
> How complex is the gameplay in a game like a Celeste? Here you go: https://twitter.com/MaddyThorson/status/1238338574220546049
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by opyate 4y ago
> my experiences (and accounts of friends as well) suggests that attachment to a child is less biological and more developed than you'd expect We found this too, and my wife felt validated by this article she found recently: https:
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by opyate 4y ago
Does the USA still have chip fabrication capability locally, or in another partner country? If so, can they maintain capacity, or ramp up quickly enough?
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by opyate 4y ago
Please provide a source. My internet sleuthing is failing me at the moment.
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by opyate 4y ago
Creating a marketplace is a big challenge. (Not building it, but getting people to care about it and use it.) Who are the existing marketplaces that you can start with? (e.g. I don't know, but does Amazon have a "marketplace"
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by opyate 4y ago
Sounds like gacha, where folks feverishly "collect" pointless pieces of little plastic. All these things (hoarding, compulsive buying, gambling) go hand-in-hand [0], and ends up emptying pockets and possibly devastating lives. 0:
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by opyate 4y ago
Howdy, I've done web dev for 20 years and wanted to learn more about game design to help me get better at my game development hobby. I did a bunch of Coursera courses, but found that everyone rushed through it and didn't stick aro
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by opyate 4y ago
Tynan's book is one of my favourites for gamedev. I'll have to re-read some of it through the lens of Rimworld to see if it might be useful to someone who wants to develop a simulation game (e.g. the Balance chapter), as I'm
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by opyate 4y ago
Nothing is more "proper" to me than working on an AGI :) https://uk.news.yahoo.com/john-carmacks-agi-startup-raises-2...
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by opyate 4y ago
UE's source code is "available", but I wouldn't call it open source.

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