JoeDaDude

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by JoeDaDude 16d ago
Even the most casual anime watcher is bound to notice the frequent appearances of power lines. Some folk at Tumblr have been collected them at a dedicated Powerlines in Anime page. Contributions welcome! https://powerlinesinani
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by JoeDaDude 17d ago
IIRC (read the book ages ago when much younger) , the theory was that by using the 56 Aubrey holes to count, say, by moving a pole from one hole to another once a year, an eclipse could be predicted to occur every 18th or 19th year. I al
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by JoeDaDude 23d ago
The Racter book, "The policeman's beard is half constructed" is also available on the net as a pdf: https://www.ubu.com/media/text/racter/racter_policemansbeard...
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by JoeDaDude 23d ago
What about his contributions to human civilization? ;) He got a world record score on the Tempest arcade game [1], then developed an AI which beat his own record[2]. His biggest failure was, that after rebuilding TEMPEST from arcade machin
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by JoeDaDude 1mo ago
Nifty little project! It doesn't seem to be much of a leap to have this on one's web page so it runs when the page is loaded. It does require knowledge of the viewers' position though.
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by JoeDaDude 1mo ago
I remember hacking GORILLA.BAS code, which was on our office computers, to randomize gravity for my opponent, the result being they could not accurately predict where their bananas would go. I was an unbeatable legend for a while.
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by JoeDaDude 1mo ago
For a while I worked at what was then the Sperry Rand Corporation (now Unisys) which had some pride in their heritage as the descendant of the Univac Corporation founded by ENIAC inventors Eckert and Mauchly. In a glass case there was a vac
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by JoeDaDude 1mo ago
FWIW, a glimpse of the sole surviving Paige machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWW8rjuikXE
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by JoeDaDude 1mo ago
I have an LLM running locally on my machine complete with STT and TTS. While I don't expect much, it will be fun to get my LLM to play the game.
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by JoeDaDude 1mo ago
In the video it claims the date is December 31, 2026 at the 4:02 mark. I wonder why the animation changed the date from the short story. We'll see this post again on that date!
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by JoeDaDude 2mo ago
The "human connection to the artist" is believed to be important by some, but I disagree. People tend to create an image of a musician and are too often disappointed because, for example, they disapprove of the musician's li
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by JoeDaDude 2mo ago
LED segments may be nice, but why not go full out Nixie tube? There are several kits out there, but for the DIY ethic, you can add WWV sync - and even watch the synchronization process - with this fellow's project: https:/&#x2F
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by JoeDaDude 2mo ago
When they said cardboard VR, I thought they meant... https://imgur.com/gallery/what-people-really-really-really-r...
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by JoeDaDude 2mo ago
The almost universal opinion is that AI chatbots are damaging, misleading, dangerous, etc. etc. but I suspect there are under reported stories about how AI chatbots helped people deal with depression, grief, addiction, loneliness or some m
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by JoeDaDude 2mo ago
I always like to hear about ancient board game reconstructions. Like music and religion, games are something every culture creates. Another recent example is the case of Liubu, a game from ancient China for which the rules were lost. St
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by JoeDaDude 2mo ago
I had a notion to make a 24 hour clock with just one hand. There is actually a watch company selling such a device and their tagline is that the watch "will change your conception of time". I'd like to see if that is true.
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by JoeDaDude 2mo ago
Was just thinking of making exactly that. I have made Kokoro the voice of my local LLM (qwen 3.6). What do you use for a Japanese tutor app?
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by JoeDaDude 3mo ago
For those interested in the subject, animation has quite a history before Disney came onto the scene. I suggest this book: Before Mickey: The Animated Film 1898-1928 by Donald Crafton Personally, I remain impressed to this day with the pi
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by JoeDaDude 3mo ago
* Must be willing to perform human sacrifices during select astronomical events?
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Space race: Why Portugal is reaching for the stars(dw.com)
6 points by JoeDaDude 4mo ago|1 comments
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by JoeDaDude 4mo ago
The article states that "Lamarck, on the other hand, used French terms" to describe the clouds unlike Luke Howard whose Latin names such as cumulus, nimbus, cirrus, etc., which stuck and are still with us. What were Lamarck'
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by JoeDaDude 4mo ago
Cool! How would navigation actually work? Dead reckoning? Inertial? Stellar reference? Pulsar navigation? Also, the dashed red line is --- SPOILER ALERT! ---- only part of the trajectory in the film, as there is another leg of the
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by JoeDaDude 5mo ago
Coincidentally, I just started on Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch), a repo/book/course by Sebastian Raschka [0][1][2]. Maybe it is a good problem to have to have to decide which learning resource to use. [0] https:
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by JoeDaDude 5mo ago
This "human connection" is over rated IMHO. We create an image of a human musician and too often become disappointed fans because, for example, we disapprove of the musician's lifestyle (the expression sex, drugs, and rock&#x
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by JoeDaDude 5mo ago
I realize this museum is more about hardware but software that implements the game also deserves its place in history. To that effect, here is a writeup on Microchess made for the Kim-1 microcomputer: https://www.benlo.com/
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by JoeDaDude 5mo ago
Very cool! Wouldn't it be even cooler if the museum could score a couple of the very oldest machines? I'm talking about the El Ajedrecista machine (1912)[1] and Caissa [2][3] (named after the goddess of Chess[4]) built by Cla
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by JoeDaDude 5mo ago
One more meme: Missed the chance to call it Multi-Pass
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by JoeDaDude 5mo ago
This "human connection" is over rated IMHO. We tend to create an image of what a human musician is like and we forget that they are, well, human. Too often human musicians have disappointed fans because of their lifestyle (the e
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by JoeDaDude 6mo ago
I've seen a huge amount of videos of sports fans having melt downs when their team/player loses, to the point of destroying their own TVs and attacking their guests. I have to believe gambling is a factor in this behavior.
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by JoeDaDude 6mo ago
For a while I worked at what was then the Sperry Rand Corporation (now Unisys) which had some pride in their heritage as the descendant of the Univac Corporation founded by ENIAC inventors Eckert and Mauchly. In a glass case there was a va

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