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by cottenio 4y ago
This is one of the first articles I’ve read with a decent attack on reverse engineering the black boxes of neural networks. I particularly appreciate the use of corrupted prompts for isolating behaviors.
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by cottenio 4y ago
Now I know how I’m building my [insert animal here]Chat clone :)
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by cottenio 4y ago
People try to sell Bitcoin on the idea that’s it’s deflationary when it’s not.
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by cottenio 4y ago
Which would be hella cool, especially if you abstract up a level and store and execute platform data (an MMO game vs. VR meeting place) in a distributed way.
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by cottenio 4y ago
Hi, fellow MUD/MMO person here with an additional background in blockchain. Can you walk us through where you think a language like Verse really shines with transactionality versus the current server authoritative models we see impleme
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by cottenio 4y ago
Heh, that's pretty fair. When I saw my son running around as Naruto I also was no longer sure what Fortnite was =)
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by cottenio 4y ago
You know, your comment made me rethink a few things. I don't know if they have the wrong end of the stick. I'm afraid they might, because based on their presentations so far the Metaverse bit seems more tacked on than intrinsic. H
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by cottenio 4y ago
There comes a point in any massively scaling networking project, and here I speak with some experience, when you realize that your goal, while admirable, has no bearing on the lessons learned over the last few decades of MMO development. I
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by cottenio 4y ago
I think mathematicians are going to love Verse. I'm concerned about hoping "millions" of Metaverse devs will use Verse when, right now, the biggest problems with Metaverse are more about frameworks/netcode than the under
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by cottenio 4y ago
Apparently it was a valuable enough idea to Amazon that they spun it up as a service in AWS: QLDB.
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by cottenio 4y ago
But shards! lol
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by cottenio 4y ago
I just want to mention that the C++ code running UO was incredibly fast at what it did, and it even wrapped a custom scripting language called Wombat that ran all the gameplay logic. Pretty sure Jason Spangler, genius, made a JIT compiler i
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by cottenio 4y ago
Not really “changed hands.” Stages: 1. EA with original Origin devs 2. EA post-Origin 3. EA, integrated into Online group (with Westwood) 4. EA Mythic (UO & DAOC) 5. Broadsword (owned by the former GM of EA Mythic under a licensing deal
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by cottenio 4y ago
No, stacks are stacks. They’re an object id with a quantity counter. Each stack, however, was capable of holding its own separate script and objvars; there were event triggers to handle special cases like “onStackAdd” and such.
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by cottenio 4y ago
I just want to note that I only started paying attention to cryptography after I left UO and got into Bitcoin, which sounds like an NFT-grifting MMO supervillain origin story - I know - but I sure did learn a lot about merkle trees and so
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by cottenio 4y ago
As a huge fan and experienced implementer of merkle trees in my modern work I really wish I had known what they were at the time :) Merkle trees don’t solve the forgeability issue, just the unbroken chain of what you currently have. So, if
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by cottenio 4y ago
EVE is my favorite example. There were four games I played at EA Redwood Shores: UO, Battlefield 2, EVE Online, and Microsoft Excel (because EVE).
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by cottenio 4y ago
Oh, and a good aside: thanks to player exploits the nodes themselves weren’t necessarily trustworthy (such as duping exploits across shards, not just areaservs). Like I said, not saying we “needed blockchain”, but when AWS released QLDB I w
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by cottenio 4y ago
Consider the sheer scale: people sell 200 million UO gold for $10. Can you imagine every gold piece having a unique UUID? Even if you didn’t use 256 bit hashes, even at 64 bits you’d be talking about 1.6gb per $10 worth of UO gold. UXTO w
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by cottenio 4y ago
I hope anyone who enjoyed the article will find time to listen to the original team discuss UO’s early development and the crazy design and social problems they were trying to solve. They succeeded at some, spectacularly failed at others, b
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by cottenio 4y ago
Yeah, my point was that an internal PoW ledger (not decentralized but still technically a blockchain) would’ve been useful because: A) stack tracking per stackable type is trivial with UXTO, and B) adding a few seconds of PoW makes the resu
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by cottenio 4y ago
Ironically I gave an interview to VICE News about exactly this during the Mueller investigation and they had to cut my Monero comments out for time.
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Scrypted Named as Integration Partner for Cryptoart's Forthcoming NFT Project(finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by cottenio 4y ago|0 comments
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Tracing the Twitter Hacked Bitcoins(blog.cotten.io)
1 points by cottenio 6y ago|0 comments
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Fixing SEM Campaigns with Python(blog.cotten.io)
2 points by cottenio 6y ago|0 comments
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Apple News Shows “Brown *****” on Front Page – Thanks BuzzFeed(blog.cotten.io)
1 points by cottenio 6y ago|0 comments
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Bitcoin energy cost is $4,313 while market value drops to $5,900 in panic sale(trinsicoin.com)
1 points by cottenio 7y ago|0 comments
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How to Eat Gas in Ethereum – Consuming 99.9% of the Gas Limit(blog.cotten.io)
2 points by cottenio 7y ago|0 comments
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Greedy ‘Connect 4’ for Fun and Profit – Kaggle's New Simulations Contest(blog.cotten.io)
2 points by cottenio 7y ago|0 comments
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“Here's my private key, try stealing my Ether!” – blockd's marketing stunt(blog.cotten.io)
1 points by cottenio 7y ago|1 comments

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