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by versteegen 11y ago
Yes, 5.3 is not a "minor version" increment, it's a major version increment on 5.2. That's how Lua version numbering works. Adding support for 5.3's integer subtype is probably going to be a very large project, I wo
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by versteegen 11y ago
AFAIK, he never moved beyond planning it, unless the GC64 work is also a prereq for it. E.g. almost no significant updates to the new GC wiki page or mention of GC in git commits since 2012. BTW, previous HN discussion of the new GC: http
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by versteegen 11y ago
Running Firefox 38 on Slackware Linux, I hear frequent painful sharp loud clicks, like an audio buffer full of garbage because a of callback not running in time. Seems to happen when firefox hits 100% cpu usage for a moment. I guess this si
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by versteegen 11y ago
That's not all! I know of two other non-Euclidean seven-day roguelikes (7DRLs) Jeff Lait has made. And a very large number of 7DRLs in general. I definitely recommend looking through his games, Jeff Lait has used many wonderful concept
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by versteegen 11y ago
OK, but what's the relevance to Schmidhuber?
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That's a lot of different research directions. But I didn't see P systems mentioned. Maybe because P systems are a model of computation studied by computer scientists that assumably isn't currently implementable? There are ma
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by versteegen 11y ago
The relevance (to Nash's death): "Books one and two were clearly systems for encoding messages and were the first books written on cryptography, Dr. Reeds said." Very interesting if true. The joke: Trithemius offered plen
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Using bigger supercomputers to get marginal improvements probably involves overcoming whatever problems exist in training ever larger neural networks, and big nets are inevitably needed for classification of more than just 1000 classes. But
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by versteegen 11y ago
Yes! There are lots of nice ASCII painting tools around. In particular, there's no difference between an ASCII art editor and a roguelike map editor, except for the name :) Thought there was a nice JS one somewhere, but can't find
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I think storing maps as images is quite common actually for simple games not made in a game engine that handles maps. You can also use the drawn map as a template, and add random details (random variants of each tile). Also, you'll qui
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by versteegen 11y ago
Not a build script per se, but I use elisp for some scripts which I manually invoke occasionally for source code transformations like generating tables and lists of enums from C source. I ought to make my build script invoke the elisp autom