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by zhynn 3y ago
It should support the work of lee cronin and sarah walker (Assembly Theory), a novel way to identify compounds that are indicators of life by virtue of their complexity (so we don't need to make any dogmatic assumptions about what life
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by zhynn 3y ago
Totally agree! And my advice is to find something in the 30hp zone. The yard tractors are not as generally useful from a mechanical advantage standpoint. Tractors aren't just "tillers and mowers". Along with levers and pul
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by zhynn 3y ago
I'll just leave this here, it's a fascinating bit of citizen science: http://achemicalhunger.com/
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by zhynn 3y ago
That "smarmy psycho liar" was an introverted developer-turned-ceo who was in over his head. He is now beloved by the community. Sean Murray is a legend. They have been over-delivering on NMS for the better part of a decade now
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by zhynn 3y ago
They just released one of the largest updates ever adding a whole new NPC faction and a bunch of features. And it runs better on PSVR (foveated rendering) and switch (AMD FidelityX). It's an incredible achievement, and I keep dreading
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by zhynn 3y ago
I have been thinking a lot about the tragedy of the commons (totc) within the context of usufructian socialist services and expanding them beyond their fairly narrow use case currently (public libraries are the biggest example). I was theo
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by zhynn 3y ago
Some background on the drama (and the rush to publish): https://www.reddit.com/r/redscarepod/comments/15egs7i/avg_ru... and https://twitter.com/8teAPi/status/168529462344987443
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by zhynn 3y ago
The steam controller customizability is an incredible feature that I doubt any other manufacturer will be able to compete on. It is bananas how fully-featured it is. The flexibility of being able to pop open a radial/grid menu with a
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by zhynn 3y ago
I have yet to not be able to run a game. I have had a couple that didn't launch, but when I configured them to use Proton Experimenal, they started right up. This includes demos for new games that are not at all intended to be run on
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by zhynn 3y ago
I LOVE the steam controller, and the deck is essentially a steam controller with a computer+screen embedded into it. But the software for customizing the inputs are extremely sophisticated and deeply integrated into Steam. I don't thi
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by zhynn 3y ago
The dock is not too bad an experience either. I have played RTS/strategy games on the deck using the dock/mouse/keyboard/monitor. It's a bit fiddly getting the resolution to work well on the monitor, the deck has e
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by zhynn 3y ago
leverage.
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by zhynn 3y ago
kratom.
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by zhynn 4y ago
out of curiosity, have you tried doing this with bingchat?
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by zhynn 4y ago
I had a teacher who was a ranger in yellowstone park. He would illustrate the danger of straying off the trail with this anecdote: Rangers are not allowed to wear polyester socks (or any socks made with synthetic fibers) because the geoth
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by zhynn 4y ago
You have to include our evolutionary history too. A considerable amount of our sophisticated behavior doesn't require specific training, as it is encoded in our genetic and epigenetic systems. We aren't starting from zero.
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by zhynn 4y ago
I think this is totally what happens. It is trained to produce the next most statistically likely word based on the expectations of the audience. If the audience assumes it is an evil AI, it will use that persona for generating next words.
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by zhynn 4y ago
Is creativity an exercise in invention or discovery? If it is the latter, attribution is all that is warranted, but even that will be a bit silly. Does it really matter which particular human gets credit for "finding" a landscape
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by zhynn 4y ago
We share the same worldview. That's fun! I think it's a relatively unusual point of view because it requires a de-anthropomorphizing consciousness and intelligence. I agree that it is not as far away as people think. The models
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by zhynn 4y ago
This is so lovely, and my gut says it's spot on (, but that's far from proof. :) The biological machine simulation theory of consciousness has some rigor behind it. I am reminded of the Making Sense podcast episode #178 with Donal
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by zhynn 4y ago
DF is a procedurally-generated colony sim (build a colony in the wilderness and survive/thrive/die in an entertaining way). But that's not _why_ it is vast. The vastness comes from three main things, I think: 1. the number o
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by zhynn 4y ago
Also, they could focus entirely on their own vision for the project instead of being totally reliant on delivering for the marketplace. They had "slack" (in the slack/moloch sense) to try out weird ideas that may not have bee
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by zhynn 4y ago
I play it on the steam deck, it works. The input is fiddly (though there are some impressive community input configs that use radial/grid menu popups from the touchpads to issue commands), but it does work.
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by zhynn 4y ago
They hired another developer for the first time ever, I am thinking this will be a huge boost to development speed. Granted, I bet the source is.... labyrinthine and will take quite a while to get up to speed. Now that they have more than o
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by zhynn 4y ago
You are correct about logistics, but that is such a small part of DF to nitpick on that I have to push back. The logistics aren't the Fun part, and no other game has come close to DF on the Fun stuff. DF things that come to mind that
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by zhynn 4y ago
I love the service, I hate the name. It's got too much cute/whimsy for my taste, and it just makes me feel like the "hello fellow teenagers" guy. If they had the same everything but it was a "short and easy to spe
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by zhynn 4y ago
It is well over 100 pages now.
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by zhynn 4y ago
You can often buy milk at a coop in a glass bottle which can then be reused. Most of our beverage consumption is out of re-used milk bottles. :)
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by zhynn 4y ago
If it has thin skins, it is not macintosh. The thick skin is one of the hallmarks of the cultivar. Macoun are my favorite, though they don't store for long. My favorite storage apple is Empire.
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by zhynn 4y ago
In-season macoun remains my favorite and is relatively easy to find out here in east-central vt. Cox's orange pippin however.... that's my favorite and it is so hard to find.

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