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by soup10 12y ago
Intelligence is relative, not absolute. Passing the turing test is a water marker.
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by soup10 12y ago
In my experience with open source projects, STABLE should be first on the download list. RELEASE should really be labeled release-candidate, with stable being considered the release.
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by soup10 12y ago
Tech corporations aren't dictators and developers are not powerless. There is various ways we(developers and users), can put pressure on them. Damaging their brand by raising awareness is certainly one of them.
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by soup10 12y ago
Javascript has become the defacto browser programming language, even though it's objectively awful for complex software. The only reason it's achieved it's high status is because browser developers refused to cooperate and d
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by soup10 12y ago
Prisons are a dark and sad place. the guards inevitably turn into monsters that treat the inmates as subhuman, and the inmates develop all kinds of mental issues from being locked in a cage 24/7. Putting a person in a cage is a horrif
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by soup10 12y ago
Self-driving cars is one of many research projects for google, and it's far from their core competency. If they have money to spend and are very focused on this. I wouldn't count Uber out.
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by soup10 12y ago
The difference between a ball of uranium and a nuclear bomb is... a slightly bigger ball. Dangerous autonomous software is very easy to imagine. What if someone hid code in flight control software that activated at a given time and sent
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by soup10 12y ago
Octodad is a delightfully original and high quality game. The fact that it hasn't won any significant awards and has mediocre ratings is pretty damn funny. Good thing the market actually decides which games are successful and not idio
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by soup10 12y ago
most people are idiots, right or left, we're all stupid together!
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by soup10 12y ago
There are just as many who intentionally make the game as addictive as possible. It was bad enough before F2P, now it's getting out of hand.
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by soup10 12y ago
Ironically the horrible path finding gave the game much of it's charm and interesting micro mechanics. The default attack move would cause the units to converge into a single file march... which is suicide against a grouped enemy or d
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by soup10 12y ago
Also young people don't vote ;)
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by soup10 12y ago
tl;dr Human intelligence is special. Computer accomplishments like being good at chess is not real intelligence. In fact anything computers ever do is not real intelligence, because they aren't like us and possibly never will be becau
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by soup10 12y ago
Basically because because people(especially programmers) take jobs in the game industry because they want to, not because they have to. Usually because either they are really into gaming/graphics or some related field, or there is a p
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by soup10 12y ago
Well he's not Michelangelo obviously, but low res pixel art is still art. Compare it to some of the clones or infinimer and it's clear that care went into the aesthetic.
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by soup10 12y ago
This really isn't worth discussing since nobody seriously considers LISP an easily optimizable language. Did you know a minor change to improve cache-hits on an inner loop can double the speed of an algorithm? That's just the ti
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by soup10 12y ago
Yea, I guess it's inflammatory to call any language that people use seriously(even if only for research), a toy. Sorry about that. One disagreement I have is Lisp is definitely not designed for high performance. Any competent C progr
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by soup10 12y ago
Common Lisp, just seemed like any other programming language except that I was restricted to a functional style, and library support was super spotty. Admittedly though I didn't use it for very long.
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by soup10 12y ago
Optimizing voxel data read times is a small part of the puzzle. The primary challenge of voxel engines is adapting the rendering engine to accommodate for dynamic modifications. Light maps, shadow maps, bump maps, occlusion maps, texturing
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by soup10 12y ago
I tried out Lisp sometime around 2009 or so and immediately realized it was a toy language. Interesting for it's unique approach to structuring code, but ultimately designed for a certain kind of mathematical elegance over practical f
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by soup10 12y ago
First of all. The word click-bait needs to die. It implies wrongdoing by the author, but all you are really saying is the headline grabbed your attention and you didn't like the content. Second, the aggregate chart shows the total amou
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by soup10 12y ago
Relative to what lol. What other applied field has more advanced math?
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by soup10 12y ago
Ai's can now easily beat the smartest chess players on earth which have dedicated their lives to mastering the game. They can drive cars. They can automatically translate foreign languages. They have vision processing capabilities th
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by soup10 12y ago
I think you could accurately say machine learning is a subfield of ai. I think of it as the mathematical toolbag with which many ai applications are built. (Before he edited his post OP had a comment about the confusion between the terms &
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by soup10 12y ago
Great stuff and write up. What's the performance bottleneck? I feel like with all the LOD stuff you implemented this should be butter smooth
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by soup10 12y ago
Might not be as long as you think, Android smartphones are making steady in-grounds on market share and the open-ness of the ecosystem makes it much more business and school friendly. The apple stamp of approval process that requires ever
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by soup10 12y ago
Of course they didn't. Everything they called out has been in place since the first iPhone. I'm all for customer experience, but iOS devices are absurdly locked down, and crippled in many ways because of poor Apple policy and the
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by soup10 12y ago
I think you make a good point. I wasn't saying yes or no, just posing the question, since it seems like a fairly obvious invention, that one doesn't need to work particularly hard at to invent, and probably has been thought of and
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by soup10 12y ago
You invented neither peanut or jelly or bread, should the pbj sandwich be patentable? The chances of you being the only source pitching RFID tech to Disney is zero. Sorry you didn't get their business. Did you pitch to any other com
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by soup10 12y ago
As a one man army indie game developer I basically can no longer maintain my code-base without going crazy because it's grown to the point where it's no longer a one man job. I knew this would be a problem, so keeping code comple

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