Modern cynicism. Specifically the form you see on social media, where road-raging cult-like bubbles imagine post-truth to be the great explainer of their misery. I used one well-known phrase, ‘Very Online’. Germans also…
Train your model on Very Online corpuses, ask Very Online questions, get Very Online answers
Ergonomics for hand composition are less relevant now. The most important trait is how does a long-lived project perform when written by a coding agent. I’m curious if anyone has any takes on the different approaches to…
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I had a lot of fun. I think the progression curve gets boring around Boss Level 11. Introducing a prestige system could extend the runway. I thought both Factor and Divide were interesting twists to the battle system,…
It’s going to be a long road, but I think as LLMs and their offspring create more and more convincing arguments for silicon consciousness we will conclude that consciousness is about as real as humours, and we’ve all…
Snakebird is my vote for best puzzle game of all time
Listed in the article are the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and the Internet Watch Foundation, which monitors and removes child sexual abuse material from the internet. The recent Meta…
I liked the results of vectorizer.ai and recraft.ai Input image is important too. When working with the generalist LLM on the raster art, give it context that you are making a logo, direct it to use strokes and fills…
If you search for ‘vectorization AI’ there are a handful of specialized tools and apis that can do it. It worked well for a handful of logos I wanted to convert. Nano banana generated the raster logos, and these other…
I wouldn’t say A Theory of Fun is “the book.” It’s more a coffee table read. “The book” is Jesse Schell’s The Art of Game Design
Most people don’t stay. They burn out and find work/life balance in other fields. Once they realize how depressed their wages were in the games industry there’s no hope of getting them back.
I don’t think volume of engagement is the main issue with social media. Rather, it’s the scope of access. Social media exposes us to too many people and we forget their humanity. Instead of information spreading across…
It’s a start. I’m bummed at how narrowly scoped this is. When the RFC period was open I wrote in to highlight how apartments charge surprise pet rent fees that don’t appear until the application process.
What happens now? We unbundle search results? Sounds cool!
Self-identifying as an introvert or an extrovert is a limiting belief. Free yourself from this pseudo-science garbage.
I replaced breakfast with a bottle of Huel six years ago, and I don't see a reason to stop. I still cook for lunch and dinner and I skip the Huel on occasion to brunch with friends. No need to be a zealot about these…
I played a party game where you had to describe surviving a deadly scenario ("your car went off a bridge") and a LLM would decide if your answer would work or not. A few rounds in we found the best strategies where…
Everyone was afraid that VR/AR might become the next big platform, and they'd be a half decade behind on development and patents. Every other company's investment in headsets was a hedge during ZIRP. The downside was…
If you wanna get really lost, consider how the 'aha' feeling could itself be illusory and indicative of nothing at all. Similar to how everything in a dream is convincingly real. Or how ideas sound better when you're…
I don't get the point you're trying to make, nor do I understand your framing. Historically using the first-party app stores for distribution & payment processing has been more profitable than doing those things on your…
The social casino space on mobile is interesting, because everyone basically accepts that their apps are a commodity. Therefore the winners are the ones with the best operations. SciPlay in particular comes to mind…
The marketing whiff on ray tracing happened long ago. DLSS is the killer app on RTX cards, another 'AI'-enabled workload.
I mouse left-handed and wrote software for Windows to flip the mouse cursors, because it felt more natural
I remember when I was working on Facebook games, every product manager wanted their new feature to have one-click access from the main game screen. So each new feature created a new wart on the UI. This is that, but for…
Modern cynicism. Specifically the form you see on social media, where road-raging cult-like bubbles imagine post-truth to be the great explainer of their misery. I used one well-known phrase, ‘Very Online’. Germans also…
Train your model on Very Online corpuses, ask Very Online questions, get Very Online answers
Ergonomics for hand composition are less relevant now. The most important trait is how does a long-lived project perform when written by a coding agent. I’m curious if anyone has any takes on the different approaches to…
[dead]
I had a lot of fun. I think the progression curve gets boring around Boss Level 11. Introducing a prestige system could extend the runway. I thought both Factor and Divide were interesting twists to the battle system,…
It’s going to be a long road, but I think as LLMs and their offspring create more and more convincing arguments for silicon consciousness we will conclude that consciousness is about as real as humours, and we’ve all…
Snakebird is my vote for best puzzle game of all time
Listed in the article are the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and the Internet Watch Foundation, which monitors and removes child sexual abuse material from the internet. The recent Meta…
I liked the results of vectorizer.ai and recraft.ai Input image is important too. When working with the generalist LLM on the raster art, give it context that you are making a logo, direct it to use strokes and fills…
If you search for ‘vectorization AI’ there are a handful of specialized tools and apis that can do it. It worked well for a handful of logos I wanted to convert. Nano banana generated the raster logos, and these other…
I wouldn’t say A Theory of Fun is “the book.” It’s more a coffee table read. “The book” is Jesse Schell’s The Art of Game Design
Most people don’t stay. They burn out and find work/life balance in other fields. Once they realize how depressed their wages were in the games industry there’s no hope of getting them back.
I don’t think volume of engagement is the main issue with social media. Rather, it’s the scope of access. Social media exposes us to too many people and we forget their humanity. Instead of information spreading across…
It’s a start. I’m bummed at how narrowly scoped this is. When the RFC period was open I wrote in to highlight how apartments charge surprise pet rent fees that don’t appear until the application process.
What happens now? We unbundle search results? Sounds cool!
Self-identifying as an introvert or an extrovert is a limiting belief. Free yourself from this pseudo-science garbage.
I replaced breakfast with a bottle of Huel six years ago, and I don't see a reason to stop. I still cook for lunch and dinner and I skip the Huel on occasion to brunch with friends. No need to be a zealot about these…
I played a party game where you had to describe surviving a deadly scenario ("your car went off a bridge") and a LLM would decide if your answer would work or not. A few rounds in we found the best strategies where…
Everyone was afraid that VR/AR might become the next big platform, and they'd be a half decade behind on development and patents. Every other company's investment in headsets was a hedge during ZIRP. The downside was…
If you wanna get really lost, consider how the 'aha' feeling could itself be illusory and indicative of nothing at all. Similar to how everything in a dream is convincingly real. Or how ideas sound better when you're…
I don't get the point you're trying to make, nor do I understand your framing. Historically using the first-party app stores for distribution & payment processing has been more profitable than doing those things on your…
The social casino space on mobile is interesting, because everyone basically accepts that their apps are a commodity. Therefore the winners are the ones with the best operations. SciPlay in particular comes to mind…
The marketing whiff on ray tracing happened long ago. DLSS is the killer app on RTX cards, another 'AI'-enabled workload.
I mouse left-handed and wrote software for Windows to flip the mouse cursors, because it felt more natural
I remember when I was working on Facebook games, every product manager wanted their new feature to have one-click access from the main game screen. So each new feature created a new wart on the UI. This is that, but for…