Zero Player Games and Cow Clicker calling... There really, truly, absolutely, 100% is no accounting for taste...
Famicom was 256x240 whilst the 7800, which was a console variant of the doomed Atari 1400, was 320x240. But to get more colors without doing fancy per scanline tricks, developers opted for 160x240 and you're not…
Almost... Rescue On Fractalus and Ballblazer*, the first two titles out of LucasArts, were supposed to be lead titles for the platform. And the 7800 was technologically superior to the Famicom. But when has that…
The GPU was relatively stable, the DSP OTOH was whack. But you could neutralize its most offensive bug just by repeating load instructions. It looks stupid, but it always worked.
We used to use the blitter for that and then there was a memory location to write to to initiate execution of what was uploaded. The Jaguar developer docs are available online if you haven't seen them. Once the GPU or…
The pro move would be getting the Jaguar development tools with their assemblers for the GPU (yes, the Jaguar had a GPU) and the DSP up and running. With just the 68000 it's kind of a glorified Atari ST as a console.
Oh cool, another source of LLM nondeterminism. Just what we needed!
As someone who made advances in two mostly independent fields (arguably 3), 100%! But also, while I'm not mega rich, I'm very comfortable, if only to keep me from stirring the pot some more with my troublemaking nature.…
"I can’t tell if Zuckerberg is dimwitted or just evil." I'll go with both... I think the guy made some real moves early on, but it's been a while since whatsapp and instagram. And since then, if the tales in Careless…
As much as I grew up with and lived my useful working years around computers, if they went away tomorrow, there'd be a period of adjustment, and then I'd happily up my amateur game with power tools and automobiles. I…
Just wait 'til he finds out the alien was Trelane and he just wanted more soldiers for his play army.
TAICO. But seriously, I think the whole capex bubble is a response to the unpredictability of this administration by locking in future sales and orders to reduce the impact of its mercurial moves. That a good 1/3 of…
I'd be lying if I said I've never been tempted, but I'm just too old to put up with it now.
As someone who uses Claude Code to summarize published research, you have to ground it in peer-reviewed results or it gets lost. But also, I am grounded with two degrees in the source material. So I am feeding it my…
I did the same exercise here with medical reports and CT scans for a friend's cancer diagnosis and I got ahead of the oncologists predicting they were about to be cured. Spoilers: yep, cancer free now. And well, yes, I…
TBF humans will never have the experience of what it's like to be an AI by those rules either. The confident assertions about the nature of consciousness so many make despite still having no real idea what it is astound…
I could get a significant pay boost jumping to META, why I personally know 2 people with those fancy 8-figure comp packages. However, life is too short for the shenanigans that would ensue if I did.
In my experience, if you tell them to research the web to see if their idea has been pursued before, you can get them to keep proposing new things until something is sufficiently new, even if it's a new interpolation…
Top men.
And Google's acquisition of DNN Research to get the ball rolling with conv nets and AI moneyball, followed by the acquisition of Deepmind. Schmidhuber IMO *has* been recognized as one of the 4 horseman and rightly so,…
I find with Claude that when I call its BS I get better results. And it openly admits to lying to and gaslighting me as well as not seeing any way to stop itself from continuing to do so. Fable seemed less apt to do so…
End user will close the door on using Chrome for any reason...
I'm not an accelerationist out to build the ASI at all costs no matter what ASAP, but if I take the long view in combination with the Dark Forest and Fermi's Paradox, it seems like if we don't ultimately follow this…
Absolutely, wouldn't be the first phrase I've pushed into meme space ;-)... What happens if the AIs get smarter than us at doing things? Well, I always hired smarter people than myself at the things I needed to get…
And I think we're at human-level intelligence for restricted tasks now. it's not the big bad AGI* we were promised, it's more like Rainman that needs a handler, but that doesn't make it any less useful. So I'm not sure…
Zero Player Games and Cow Clicker calling... There really, truly, absolutely, 100% is no accounting for taste...
Famicom was 256x240 whilst the 7800, which was a console variant of the doomed Atari 1400, was 320x240. But to get more colors without doing fancy per scanline tricks, developers opted for 160x240 and you're not…
Almost... Rescue On Fractalus and Ballblazer*, the first two titles out of LucasArts, were supposed to be lead titles for the platform. And the 7800 was technologically superior to the Famicom. But when has that…
The GPU was relatively stable, the DSP OTOH was whack. But you could neutralize its most offensive bug just by repeating load instructions. It looks stupid, but it always worked.
We used to use the blitter for that and then there was a memory location to write to to initiate execution of what was uploaded. The Jaguar developer docs are available online if you haven't seen them. Once the GPU or…
The pro move would be getting the Jaguar development tools with their assemblers for the GPU (yes, the Jaguar had a GPU) and the DSP up and running. With just the 68000 it's kind of a glorified Atari ST as a console.
Oh cool, another source of LLM nondeterminism. Just what we needed!
As someone who made advances in two mostly independent fields (arguably 3), 100%! But also, while I'm not mega rich, I'm very comfortable, if only to keep me from stirring the pot some more with my troublemaking nature.…
"I can’t tell if Zuckerberg is dimwitted or just evil." I'll go with both... I think the guy made some real moves early on, but it's been a while since whatsapp and instagram. And since then, if the tales in Careless…
As much as I grew up with and lived my useful working years around computers, if they went away tomorrow, there'd be a period of adjustment, and then I'd happily up my amateur game with power tools and automobiles. I…
Just wait 'til he finds out the alien was Trelane and he just wanted more soldiers for his play army.
TAICO. But seriously, I think the whole capex bubble is a response to the unpredictability of this administration by locking in future sales and orders to reduce the impact of its mercurial moves. That a good 1/3 of…
I'd be lying if I said I've never been tempted, but I'm just too old to put up with it now.
As someone who uses Claude Code to summarize published research, you have to ground it in peer-reviewed results or it gets lost. But also, I am grounded with two degrees in the source material. So I am feeding it my…
I did the same exercise here with medical reports and CT scans for a friend's cancer diagnosis and I got ahead of the oncologists predicting they were about to be cured. Spoilers: yep, cancer free now. And well, yes, I…
TBF humans will never have the experience of what it's like to be an AI by those rules either. The confident assertions about the nature of consciousness so many make despite still having no real idea what it is astound…
I could get a significant pay boost jumping to META, why I personally know 2 people with those fancy 8-figure comp packages. However, life is too short for the shenanigans that would ensue if I did.
In my experience, if you tell them to research the web to see if their idea has been pursued before, you can get them to keep proposing new things until something is sufficiently new, even if it's a new interpolation…
Top men.
And Google's acquisition of DNN Research to get the ball rolling with conv nets and AI moneyball, followed by the acquisition of Deepmind. Schmidhuber IMO *has* been recognized as one of the 4 horseman and rightly so,…
I find with Claude that when I call its BS I get better results. And it openly admits to lying to and gaslighting me as well as not seeing any way to stop itself from continuing to do so. Fable seemed less apt to do so…
End user will close the door on using Chrome for any reason...
I'm not an accelerationist out to build the ASI at all costs no matter what ASAP, but if I take the long view in combination with the Dark Forest and Fermi's Paradox, it seems like if we don't ultimately follow this…
Absolutely, wouldn't be the first phrase I've pushed into meme space ;-)... What happens if the AIs get smarter than us at doing things? Well, I always hired smarter people than myself at the things I needed to get…
And I think we're at human-level intelligence for restricted tasks now. it's not the big bad AGI* we were promised, it's more like Rainman that needs a handler, but that doesn't make it any less useful. So I'm not sure…