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by whatyesaid 3y ago
I guess they are building other products and trying to diversify, like a game store that flopped within Discord. To make the progress/maintain what they currently have, yeah, you wouldn't even need 200 people if they were halfway
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by whatyesaid 3y ago
It was reported quite a few times in the BBC, HN, and probably others, in the past couple of years. I think it had plenty of coverage but nobody really cared - it really affected business owners. The software is dogshit as well as the comp
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by whatyesaid 3y ago
How do you know Twitch is "buying" AWS servers so cheaply though? Anyways, infrastructure costs is not as important as market share in the long run, bandwidth and transcoding costs will go down with time. If you build a platform w
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by whatyesaid 3y ago
You're overestimating things like Twitter and Twitch. The reason these layoffs can occur is that these products are solidified, you can't really improve them much, there's not much real work there. And Twitter apparently had
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by whatyesaid 3y ago
Hollywood accounting. First off, remember they're paying themselves (AWS). Large streams are more expensive but those get the subs. Ad revenues they are also splitting but they play 3 minutes of ads that interrupts the entire content e
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by whatyesaid 3y ago
We are talking about 'conventional AI' in terms of games though. I don't think there was any explosion apart from the fact you can use generative AI to make art. That book has the latest edition in 2020. But yeah, A* is searc
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by whatyesaid 3y ago
I'm not aware of any DL based game AIs. I'm not sure you can really design a well put together experience around a DL agent, but if you can, it might as well just be handcrafted with some of these abstractions anyway. Because in t
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by whatyesaid 3y ago
What do you mean by non-conventional game AI?
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by whatyesaid 3y ago
The loading times were atrocious even at launch though for Xbox 360. It wasn't a case of content piling up, they added a lot but probably a lot of their item catalogue was there from launch. There was also server instability near launc
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by whatyesaid 3y ago
I mean GTA Online is a microtranscation/grindfest experience, mostly to milk kids of their money. It's not really worth the time due to how grindy it is. Most PC gamers play multiplayer mods like RageMP that allow connecting to se
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by whatyesaid 3y ago
That's the correct way... big adjustments on left-hand side until you're ready for small-adjustments on right-hand side. This game takes less than 2 minutes. You could expand this game with much more advanced operations and tricks
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by whatyesaid 3y ago
This is orthogonal to the reproducibility crisis, but not really part of it. When you claim a breakthrough even just within a sub-field, if you simply invented an elaborate lie, it's always gonna be caught it's just a waste of eve
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by whatyesaid 3y ago
The paper is redacted and John would've been first author. Pretty obvious, especially within his field. Her department would have known the full story, it's just she didn't deliver a post-mortem presentation with learnings A
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by whatyesaid 3y ago
That's not false authorship. You can get authorship just for getting funding to allow the paper to exist (researchers, reagants and equipment aren't free). You should still read and verify. False authorship definitely happens a lo
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by whatyesaid 3y ago
A lot of these companies have people doing no real work, even afterwards of layoffs, they're bloated. You can't layoff essential people otherwise you die. You can look at companies like Spotify and Twitter, they ship like one feat
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by whatyesaid 3y ago
GPT?
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by whatyesaid 3y ago
I don't know much about her but just the fact she does OnlyFans is enough to cut you out of most families. The type of person who actually goes through with that would either be in big financial need or a general life philosophy most p
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by whatyesaid 3y ago
Altman has been known in this community for years due to him being YC president previously. Only ML researchers know Ilya really. But I agree. Karma seems to have caught up to Sam who stole money from original funders to turn a non-profit i
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by whatyesaid 3y ago
Ilya is one of the most cited ML researchers in the world and was part of papers that pioneered basic techniques that we still use today like Dropout. Ilya was recruited by Elon under the original OpenAI. But basically Elon and the original
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by whatyesaid 3y ago
We don't know what wasn't proposed or investigated to lessen issues if the initiatives were all shut down. If cursory work admits there's a problem and your profit is in the billions, where you pay engineers to mostly sit on
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by whatyesaid 3y ago
Midjourey's ungodly amount of images would still be kept on the Discord servers. Just not directly fetchable though. The way to slow that would be some pricing on commercial bots doing things like file uploads. They got a community sho
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by whatyesaid 3y ago
If you don't care what I state about a particular study within the sphere of the replication crisis, I suggest you to fast forward instead of appealing to authority. Notice that I never asserted a position on either side of this "
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by whatyesaid 3y ago
You're telling me to read a paper you haven't read yourself? COVID was not controlled for. A three month study says nothing about mental health which is intrinsically long-term: this decides to observe short-term effects. I am not
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by whatyesaid 3y ago
For ethical reasons, no participant was given a negative event to imagine, but only positive or neutral ones. 120 people and three months and during COVID. Just because it's from Cambridge don't assume credibility.
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by whatyesaid 3y ago
Didn't etherum cut power consumption by 99.95% by switching to Proof of Stake? So what are you securing exactly with all those hashes? Kinda crazy how people stick to Bitcoin but preach decentralisation. You can't be half way nobl
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by whatyesaid 3y ago
See the following: https://www.computerenhance.com/p/game-development-post-unit... I would suggest just using Godot for 2D. With time it should be fine. For 3D, even AAA have been going to Unreal so that may be best. I
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by whatyesaid 3y ago
Agreed, because nowadays big open-source projects are backed by sponsors (users, other companies) or have revenue streams (e.g. like Obsidian although that's closed). Then it really feels like working for free as opposed to helping som
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by whatyesaid 3y ago
Maybe Godot is similar enough where you'd be able to consider this. Otherwise this move is more harmful in the long term of Unity and it's about future games and not current ones. Long term matters more, always. It may also make A
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by whatyesaid 3y ago
Epic Games only had about 2,000 in 2020 and they also develop games, store front (although really slowly), so it's at least a 4x more than they need. But also their previous monetization seems to try charge per professional developer w
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by whatyesaid 3y ago
They would probably qualify under enterprise pricing of $0.01 or $0.02 on Pro. To release a game without Unity branding you also need at least 1 year of Pro subscription. They also would count more than 21M maybe e.g. multiple devices. They

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