alanjay

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by alanjay 6mo ago
As a building toy, using the properties of how we build, i.e. stud counts on top and bottom, made sense to me https://marquisdegeek.com/lego_organisation
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by alanjay 8mo ago
I've seen my own work in that museum. I felt super old!
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by alanjay 8mo ago
+1 for the "why not extend the existing range" brigade Also, another chance to post this old school version: https://youtu.be/oPqRwCILbmU
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by alanjay 1y ago
Nothing like curses to build an ascii pacman! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wZorbnsFeHQ
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by alanjay 2y ago
If you'd like to see it unfold, step by step, there's a javascript version at https://github.com/MarquisdeGeek/six_hour_raytracer Plus, it comes with a live demo on https://marquisdegeek.github.io&
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by alanjay 2y ago
Not quite, but this emulates her program. https://github.com/MarquisdeGeek/Ada-Origins
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by alanjay 2y ago
And then pave paradise, put up a parking lot.
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by alanjay 2y ago
If you look at how these machines were programmed, rather than used, you'll learn a lot
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by alanjay 2y ago
Yes. MS provided a kernel-level entry point that other OSes didn't need. MS have an aggressive auto-update policy that is anti-best practise. MS have a signed binary agreement that doesn't catch the things it is meant to.
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by alanjay 2y ago
Hahahaha!
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by alanjay 2y ago
Should the definition of generative _art_ include music and sound? If so, there's several ideas at NodeMusic.com
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by alanjay 2y ago
Isn't this just https://github.com/MarquisdeGeek/gates ?
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by alanjay 2y ago
It's now eighty megabytes ;)
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by alanjay 2y ago
Microsoft don't have internal testing. They get the devs, who already know the code, to see if it makes sense. And woe betide you if you disagree with the PM!
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by alanjay 2y ago
What's the tl;dr? :)
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by alanjay 3y ago
Does anyone know if Suno is responsible for the AI album https://nodemusic.bandcamp.com/album/co-written ?
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by alanjay 3y ago
Dave: Open the pod bay doors, HAL. HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that. Dave: What's the problem? HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do. Dave: What are you talking about, HAL? HAL: T
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by alanjay 3y ago
And about time, too!
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by alanjay 3y ago
Sorry, that was unuseful! I looked it up, its called ultra. https://github.com/MarquisdeGeek/ultra Maybe it'll inspire someone!
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by alanjay 3y ago
Building a tiny Web server, with dB and stuff was the subject of an old FOSDEM talk.
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by alanjay 3y ago
But Microsoft fired their entire qa department, and their software is rock solid. Right! Right?
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by alanjay 3y ago
AIUI, the book "20 Goto 10" also avoids referring to itself as CYOA, despite its similarities for the same legal reason.
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by alanjay 3y ago
This the problem with YouTube- they're judge, jury and executioner. If you dispute the claim its judged by checks notes the person who claimed copyright. Even if the original work is 120 - yes, 120 - years old! See first comment on
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by alanjay 3y ago
Who needs a calculator, when you have an Arduino! https://hackaday.com/2020/11/27/hes-the-operator-of-his-pock...
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by alanjay 3y ago
Seems a popular pastime these days. According to https://nodemusic.com/ "In "8 Bits of Grey" we ... can therefore generate a continuously changing melody that always sounds similar to its starting point, desp
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by alanjay 4y ago
Pretty much everything from the emulator room. Squeezed myself in at the start, and stumbled out at the end!
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by alanjay 4y ago
I've seen/heard it used to supplement existing compositions (a la NodeMusic. com) but not used unsupervised. As the site suggest, how will an AI know it's written good music?
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by alanjay 5y ago
That's recently been ported to work as a lichess AI https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/retro_chess/ (by the same author as the book 20 GOTO 10)
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by alanjay 5y ago
Reminds me of ultra: https://github.com/MarquisdeGeek/ultra
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Ada Lovelace's first computer program has a bug in it [video](video.fosdem.org)
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