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by davidst 4mo ago
Never say never but I think it's unlikely. Our motivation was to restore pinball to Windows (with modern updates) so every Windows user could enjoy it. Any other form of distribution wouldn't have the same coverage or impact. It w
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by davidst 4mo ago
> I'd be bold to ask why would you even need their blessing to release an updated or new version My Cinematronics co-founders and I do not own the rights to any of the games we created. Cinematronics was acquired by Maxis, and Maxis
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by davidst 4mo ago
> Would you ever consider going back to the drawing board in an attempt to produce an official follow-up to Space Cadet Pinball? We reached out to Microsoft a few years ago and offered to create a new version at no charge if they would r
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by davidst 4mo ago
Someone with the user name "Hemiauchenia" edited the Wikipedia page shortly after I left my comment here. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Full_Tilt!_Pinbal...
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by davidst 4mo ago
I looked at it today and it is more fleshed out but still incorrect. For example: > In 1994, the company began development of a port of Doom. No, we were never porting Doom and we used none of Doom's code or resources. And I didn&#x
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by davidst 4mo ago
I was CEO of Cinematronics (to be clear, we were a tiny startup so a CEO title didn't mean much - everyone pitched in wherever they could help.) I negotiated the contract with Microsoft. My engineering contribution was not in the gamep
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by davidst 4mo ago
I am one of the original authors of Space Cadet Pinball and I just want to say it is absolutely wonderful there are people who love our old pinball game enough to keep it alive. You made my day. I am forwarding this post to my Cinematronics
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by davidst 6mo ago
"We've uploaded a fruit fly. We took the @FlyWireNews connectome of the fruit fly brain, applied a simple neuron model (@Philip_Shiu Nature 2024) and used it to control a MuJoCo physics-simulated body, closing the loop from neural
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Whole Brain Emulation of a Fruit Fly in a Simulated World(theinnermostloop.substack.com)
4 points by davidst 6mo ago|2 comments
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Amazon Tries Its Low-Cost Approach to Winning the AI Race(wsj.com)
3 points by davidst 7mo ago|0 comments
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AI is rewiring how the best Go players think(technologyreview.com)
5 points by davidst 7mo ago|0 comments
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Writing Crystalized Thinking at Amazon. Is AI Muddying It?(bigtechnology.com)
1 points by davidst 7mo ago|0 comments
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by davidst 8mo ago
I have been making this mistake for decades. I am upvoting your comment to show thanks!
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by davidst 8mo ago
Scaling from a small-format store with limited item selection (where the tech worked well) to a large grocery format would come with many challenges. A previous comment touches on a couple of them: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x
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by davidst 8mo ago
I don't know how the store clerk staffing changed over time but they were not directly involved with the underlying tech (that is, clerks did not annotate data.) Stores had to comply with state laws for certain kinds of items (e.g., a
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by davidst 8mo ago
It wasn't real-time. Recorded events were entered into a queue and latency would vary depending on the size of the queue and the number of annotators.
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by davidst 8mo ago
The first iteration of the tech reached the accuracy needed to support just-walk-out for a small-format store. It did achieve that goal. I left the project before it went further. I imagined, at the time, future goals would be to scale stor
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by davidst 8mo ago
I don't have insight into what ultimately transpired at Amazon Go so take the following as speculation on my part. It is unlikely the tech would be frozen when an acceptable accuracy threshold is reached: 1. There is a strong incentive
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by davidst 8mo ago
I left the following comment some months ago, duplicating it here: [Disclaimer: Former Amazon employee and not involved with Go since 2016.] I worked on the first iteration of Amazon Go in 2015/16 and can provide some context on the hu
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Sakana AI Agent Wins AtCoder Heuristic Contest (First AI to Place First)(sakana.ai)
1 points by davidst 8mo ago|0 comments
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Starlink to lower satellite orbits to avoid space debris(reuters.com)
7 points by davidst 9mo ago|2 comments
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Geoffrey Hinton warns AI has 'progressed even faster than I thought' [video](youtube.com)
1 points by davidst 9mo ago|0 comments
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by davidst 1y ago
It's a wonderful problem for optimizing code. Michael Abrash hosted a performance contest for word counting back in... 1991? (If my memory serves.) The article and code can be found here: There Ain’t No Such Thing as the Fastest Code:
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Intel's CEO: 'We are not in the top 10' of leading chip companies(oregonlive.com)
1 points by davidst 1y ago|1 comments
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by davidst 1y ago
[Disclaimer: Former Amazon employee and not involved with Go since 2016.] I worked on the first iteration of Amazon Go in 2015/16 and can provide some context on the human oversight aspects. The system incorporated human review in two
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Security Researchers Warn Open Source Tool Poses a 'Persistent' Risk to the US(wired.com)
6 points by davidst 1y ago|1 comments
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From GnuGo to AlphaGo Zero – A Roadmap for Solving Difficult Problems(moderndescartes.com)
4 points by davidst 1y ago|0 comments
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by davidst 2y ago
I wrote Qlife, a game of life "compiler" that generated X86 asm code, for one of Michael Abrash's optimization challenges in the early 90s. Description: https://www.phatcode.net/res/224/files/ht
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How software systems get big [video](youtube.com)
2 points by davidst 2y ago|0 comments
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This is already your second chance(malmesbury.substack.com)
3 points by davidst 2y ago|0 comments

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