EncomLab

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by EncomLab 1y ago
Wonder if this winter will see another blizzard of 1888 event?
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by EncomLab 1y ago
Remember when 3d printing was going to replace all manufacturing? Anybody? AI is closer to this sentiment than it is to the singularity.
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by EncomLab 1y ago
It's not the technology that is bad - it's the extreme anthropomorphizing language that's used to describe it.
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by EncomLab 1y ago
My photoresistor nightlight can "see" that it is dark and it "knows" to turn on the light - not only does it not have training, it does not have any code! And if you think that is amazing, my bi-metallic strip thermostat
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by EncomLab 1y ago
I thought everyone knew that Atlantis is just another name for the Richat Structure.
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by EncomLab 1y ago
I spent hours playing with mine in the mid 80's! The key takeaway - then and now - is that you can generate an incredible variety of motion with a single motor and a well designed gear-box; no software required!
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by EncomLab 1y ago
As a kid growing up in the 80's and 90's in St. Louis - nitrous "whippets" were sold in every grocery and convenience store. I never considered myself a drug user when I was a teen - because every drug I enjoyed (nitrou
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by EncomLab 1y ago
I agree - it's not an indicator at all of shady business by Valve. If anything, Valve is the least shady and most transparent player in the game industry.
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by EncomLab 1y ago
Hence the demise of the Greenlight program...
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by EncomLab 1y ago
This is true - but the scale is beyond what most people imagine. STEAM revenue last year was nearly $11B - while the median revenue for a game that makes it into the top 8% is estimated at $799. So 17.5k releases earned less than $800, wit
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by EncomLab 1y ago
It would be pretty hard to review 52 games every day of 2024 to determine if any great games are being lost among the trash. The scale is just too large for most people to really understand - imagine the size of a physical store it would t
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by EncomLab 1y ago
The coda to this fascinating saga is that today - in a post publisher, open distribution marketplace - STEAM, the predominate game distribution gateway, allows anyone to publish just about anything for a $100 deposit and a 30% commission pe
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by EncomLab 1y ago
Even during the video game/satanic panic of the 80's, it was acknowledged that video games - even at that early stage - allowed children who are introverted or less physically adept to experience "winning" and the satisf
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by EncomLab 1y ago
Kids (and humans) are wired to follow individuals who express themselves with authority and confidence - hence the long history of "confidence-men" and politicians throughout history. If you place that ability to communicate with
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by EncomLab 1y ago
We live in an ex-urban area of SW Ohio and after years of nearly zero outages, in the last two years we have had several 12+ hour outage events following pretty standard spring storms. We are experiencing a boom in new construction around
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by EncomLab 1y ago
"Complexity" is a hugely problematic term when used in this way - remember that entropy and complexity are related, but they are not interchangeable. A complex system can have lower entropy than a simpler system, and conversely, a
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by EncomLab 1y ago
Fascinating! I love when people see and appreciate a simple skill, then take it to the most extreme level of refinement possible.
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by EncomLab 1y ago
The generations in my family are full of people who had dementia/Alzheimer's/auto-immune disorders. They all had anxiety, and they all had sleep disorders - I'm certain there is a connection among it all. I joined a Sta
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by EncomLab 1y ago
More impressed that it's a Westinghouse escalator - which means it's not been updated since at least 1989.
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by EncomLab 1y ago
Not sure what you mean by this - it's not as if steam engines are an extensive technology today, and certainly no university is teaching "steam science", while nearly every school is teaching "computer science". Per
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by EncomLab 1y ago
Alan Kay has promulgated many famous truths about computer science - one of them being that among all fields of study, it has the least regard for the people and discoveries that brought it to where it is today. Maybe it's just my own
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by EncomLab 1y ago
I - like ~20% of the humans of planet earth - have a bridged LAD coronary artery. The vast majority of those who have this congenital deformity will never know it and remain asymptomatic; a small cohort of those will, like me, have a minor
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by EncomLab 1y ago
This is like claiming a photorestor controlled night light "understands when it is dark" or that a bimetallic strip thermostat "understands temperature". You can say those words, and it's syntactically correct but
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by EncomLab 1y ago
The use of highly anthropomorphic language is always problematic- Does a photo resistor controlled nightlight have a chain of thought? Does it reason about its threshold value? Does it have an internal model of what is light, what is dark,
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by EncomLab 1y ago
As someone who lives with this reality moment to moment (thanks to a deeply bridged LAD coronary artery) it is interesting to see a visual representation of these effects.
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by EncomLab 1y ago
It's incredible the lengths humanity is willing to go to avoid adopting nuclear energy - despite the US navy driving mobile reactors millions of miles over the last 70 years.
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by EncomLab 1y ago
Your assertion that sodium channel logic and silicon trace logic are 100% identical is the primary problem. It's like claiming that a hydraulic cylinder and a bicep are 100% equivalent because they both lift things - they are not the
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by EncomLab 1y ago
DNA is the instruction set for protein composition- not thinking.
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by EncomLab 1y ago
No one says that a thermostat is "thinking" of turning on the furnace, or that a nightlight is "thinking it is dark enough to turn the light on". You are just being obtuse.
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by EncomLab 1y ago
The entire paper is riddled with anthropomorphic terms - it's part of AI culture unfortunately. When they start talking about "planning", "choosing", "reasoning" it biases the perception of their analysis.

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