doomlaser

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by doomlaser 9mo ago
Posting this in light of Sergey Brin’s Stanford comments last week about Google under-investing after publishing the Transformer paper. Not just in scaling compute, but in actually turning that invention into first-class LLM products. I rev
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2015 radio interview: AI as "high-level algebra" before Transformers and LLMs(doomlaser.com)
2 points by doomlaser 9mo ago|1 comments
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Show HN: Play the prototype of our RPG Game, where you can ASCEND to the ASTRAL(doomlaser.itch.io)
2 points by doomlaser 2y ago|1 comments
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Made a music video. The footage is all drawn from our creative software projects(youtube.com)
1 points by doomlaser 2y ago|0 comments
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by doomlaser 2y ago
Cool.
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by doomlaser 2y ago
My suggestion, as a game developer for nearly 30 years: pico-8. If you have any questions. Ping me on Twitter. It's the weekend after all ;)
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I got ChatGPT to write poetry about what it is to talk to an LLM(imgur.com)
1 points by doomlaser 2y ago|0 comments
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Detailed view of my game's Gigantic Floating Head Boss (with a cockpit inside) [video](youtube.com)
1 points by doomlaser 2y ago|0 comments
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I made a Gigantic Floating Head, with a cockpit inside [video](youtube.com)
2 points by doomlaser 2y ago|0 comments
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Made some cute (?)) little critters [video](youtube.com)
1 points by doomlaser 2y ago|0 comments
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by doomlaser 2y ago
It's not leaked. It was posted publicly to YouTube, which is where I watched it. It was the first or second video in my recommended feed. I even left a comment, "Thank you, Stanford, for uploading this talk for us." which Sta
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The making of Tap Tap Dance, part of the popular iPhone Tap Tap Revenge series [video](youtube.com)
1 points by doomlaser 2y ago|0 comments
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by doomlaser 2y ago
There is other discussion in the thread with the broken link here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41157136 The main thing is the funny anecdote about Lua that I shared over there. I'll post it here too. We used L
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by doomlaser 2y ago
Unfortunately a reality if you care for vintage iPhone games. Piracy is sometimes the last line of defense for game preservation. In our case, a group of hackers have released a fangame that is in many ways equal to a modern Tap Tap Revenge
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The making of Tap Tap Dance, part of the popular iPhone Tap Tap Revenge series [video](youtube.com)
2 points by doomlaser 2y ago|3 comments
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by doomlaser 2y ago
The Making of Tap Tap Dance video, it apparently didn't attach. Here it is! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XmWPATbkeM I guess I should probably resubmit.
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by doomlaser 2y ago
This should be the main video, maybe there's an error! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XmWPATbkeM
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by doomlaser 2y ago
Loved working on those music games. And that we have a nice document of some of its creation in the video above. I have great memories of working on the series, spread out across Champaign, IL (home of UIUC), the NYU Tisch Center, even a re
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by doomlaser 2y ago
One interesting fact about the game. We designed all the levels around Lua, which was officially banned from the App Store when we were making it. I remember deciding with the other main developer, that we should rename all our .lua files,
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The making of Tap Tap Dance, part of the popular iPhone Tap Tap Revenge series
4 points by doomlaser 2y ago|10 comments
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by doomlaser 2y ago
absolutely essential to add a line for .DS_Store in every .gitignore, unfortunately.
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Unity announces another new CEO: ex-Zynga exec Matthew Bromberg(venturebeat.com)
3 points by doomlaser 2y ago|1 comments
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by doomlaser 2y ago
Lots of design patterns have their uses, but can suffer when applied too overzealously.
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United Airlines inspections find loose bolts on several 737 Max 9 aircraft(cnbc.com)
146 points by doomlaser 3y ago|5 comments
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by doomlaser 3y ago
> Our long-term goal is to produce a highly documented and complete C++ codebase for every version of Twilight Princess . Having clear and readable source code will aid speedrunners, glitch hunters, and modders curious about how particu
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Standard Bits: an abstract pixel art universe to explore [video](youtube.com)
2 points by doomlaser 3y ago|0 comments
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by doomlaser 3y ago
Love the original catalog index of homes. http://www.searsarchives.com/homes/1908-1914.htm You can click on the pictures to see the original home ads in the Sears catalog, with prices (e.g. http://www.searsa
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by doomlaser 3y ago
The mosaics look really nice!
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by doomlaser 3y ago
> However, the production and distribution of commodities is entirely unorganized so that everybody must live in fear of being eliminated from the economic cycle, in this way suffering for the want of everything. Haven't fixed tha
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by doomlaser 3y ago
You could still find PLATO terminals at the UIUC student union when I was a kid. Very cool systems. Ahead of their time in many ways, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system)

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