genjipress

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by genjipress 7mo ago
As a general rule, if an announcement about a movie project is over a year old and nothing else has been mentioned since, you can safely assume it's no longer a thing.
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by genjipress 7mo ago
The better question would be: Even if we did have such tools, what stories would be worth telling with them? I don't doubt that we will eventually have something like this, in the same way we now have CGI with forensic fidelity. The pr
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by genjipress 7mo ago
This looks like it could become an excellent alternative in time to not just NumPy and Numba, but also Cython. I know that may be more ambitious than your original intentions, but that's absolutely what sprung to mind.
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by genjipress 4y ago
Well, if they don't have a will, as is sadly too often the case with people who are suddenly famous, there's typically a big squabble over their estate that can go on for years...
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by genjipress 4y ago
On a vaguely related note, I created a video game that is essentially a shoot-em-up version of Conway's Game Of Life: https://xtaloid.itch.io/xtaloid
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by genjipress 4y ago
In the golden years of Disney's animation industry, the animators kept a bulletin board out in the hallway between the studios where each animator worked. This board was dubbed "the goodie board". If you came up with a concep
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by genjipress 4y ago
Andrei Codrescu had a monologue once, about how the world is in truth peopled by two-thousand year old men who "arrived at their great age with the aid of daily doses of yogurt, cigarettes, vodka, and dubious birth records. ... With th
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by genjipress 4y ago
Your wish is my command.
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by genjipress 4y ago
If I sold a car that blew up one out of every ten times I drove it ...
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by genjipress 4y ago
Gödel, Escher, Bach
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by genjipress 4y ago
Reddit.
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by genjipress 4y ago
At the first SIGGRAPH, Ken Knowlton was the entertainment (on piano).
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by genjipress 4y ago
You've heard of Film Crit Hulk? Here's Software Dev Hulk.
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by genjipress 4y ago
I point people at this essay constantly. It's one of the best things I've ever read about the problem of power.
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by genjipress 4y ago
So the Black Death began with Ars Technica?
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by genjipress 4y ago
Site also includes articles named "The War Against White People". Hard pass.
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by genjipress 4y ago
They're among my favorite movies. Hilary Harris's short films, in particular "Organism", were an inspiration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dx3Tf5CJRs
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by genjipress 4y ago
Oh no. I own all of his albums, including many bootleg issues. He was productive right up to the end, though; his last album came out in July of last year.
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by genjipress 4y ago
A fellow I knew casually and whose blog I followed for many years (he was fond of trains, roleplaying games, and progressive rock) lost his domain name after he died. It ended up being spamsquatted, but weirdly, the metadata for the site re
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by genjipress 4y ago
You get experience.
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by genjipress 4y ago
(2005) (Malcolm Gladwell)
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by genjipress 4y ago
I have a game I'm working on, on and off, but I have had to put it aside for the time being as life is a little too busy for me right now. https://xtaloid.itch.io/xtaloid
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by genjipress 4y ago
Ya-who, that's who!
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by genjipress 4y ago
First three words are entirely correct.
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by genjipress 4y ago
I'm a big fan of the original project, so I'm curious what the changes amount to. (It claims there are performance improvements, but nothing detailed.)
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by genjipress 5y ago
Why would a naked scam need a users manual in the first place?
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by genjipress 5y ago
The idea that we "made" Einstein to begin with is risible anyway.
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by genjipress 5y ago
"I have not actually read Hegel. I never will." You're not missing a thing, I assure you.
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by genjipress 5y ago
One other addition I'd put on this list is Milton Glaser's talk "What I have learned", delivered on November 11, 2001, in London. Copies of it are floating around.
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by genjipress 5y ago
The new translation of "Letters To A Young Poet", which restores the half of the conversation that had previously never seen print in English before, is a must-read. (ISBN 978-1-63149-767-4)

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