icaruswept

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Can you vibe-code a novel?(yudhanjaya.com)
4 points by icaruswept 1y ago|1 comments
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by icaruswept 1y ago
Turns out Claude > Gemini, and the answer is yes to a first draft. Ish.
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by icaruswept 2y ago
Very high density of ideas that make you stop and go “shit, that’s exactly how it’ll turn out.” Blew my mind.
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by icaruswept 2y ago
I am a Buddhist from Sri Lanka. Where on earth are you getting this stuff about us being vegetarians? You clearly don't know the region half as well as you think you do.
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by icaruswept 2y ago
That’s very cool! Do you have any papers I can read? We had a similar experience with the university labs: this professor of transport telling us how he was working on letting people modify land use maps to their liking in the 90s and early
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by icaruswept 2y ago
No, that’s modeled in. Those lanes are always active.
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by icaruswept 2y ago
Every tornado-generating butterfly would be out of a job, for sure
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by icaruswept 2y ago
Oddly enough I never played SimCity. Closest from those times for me were Ceasar III and Pharaoh (which I'm playing again now: there's a very good remake). Is this the Magnasanti you speak of? https://www.moma.org/
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by icaruswept 2y ago
Thanks! You may want to read the methodology - most of the imports broke and it ended up being a lot of manual work: https://github.com/team-watchdog/colombo-skylines/wiki/Intro... As for limits, when modded
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by icaruswept 2y ago
Glad you enjoyed it. "Lack of planning" is indeed the best way to describe Colombo.
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by icaruswept 2y ago
Cows don't roam free in Sri Lankan cities, either. You are aware that South Asia is a subcontinent and a whole set of islands, and not one singular city,right?
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by icaruswept 2y ago
Very cool, great to see progress in this!
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by icaruswept 2y ago
Until Windows starts updating in background!
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by icaruswept 2y ago
Goal here was to build a visualization and communication tool; 3D is an essential component of that. For 2D, land use maps already exist.
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by icaruswept 2y ago
You should!
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by icaruswept 2y ago
So because the number of active vehicles is much lower than reality, the road network is actually a lot more efficient: it’s a nearly 1:1 scale city with less than a fifth of the real vehicles that would take up the streets. Mostly because
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by icaruswept 2y ago
> cities skylines doesn't exactly have tuktuks as a transportation option (though it really should...) It does now; we've modded it to use tuk assets based on the RDA's modal share estimates (see screenshots)
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by icaruswept 2y ago
Yup. The 3D assets are from Steam workshop and impact visuals and population calculations (since pop calc is based on square footage). Otherwise, with Skylines' defaults, this would all look like the Netherlands. They're funding u
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by icaruswept 2y ago
We see broadly the same chokepoints (Galle Road, Baseline Road, the arteries feeding into Colombo). Modify these and the chokepoints distribute themselves. Small chokepoints don't always appear. Broadly, if you can do it by fiddling wi
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by icaruswept 2y ago
Good news is you can even overlay screenshots of Google Earth (which uses high-res data, some of it at 30 cm2 per pixel). Will take some fiddling with the coords, but it works!
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by icaruswept 2y ago
For sure. I used to try making the layouts of our old cities (Anuradhapura etc) in games like Pharaoh and Ceasar 3. If you’re into doom modding - have you seen myhouse.wad? Worth looking up on YouTube. Phenomenal achievement imo
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by icaruswept 2y ago
Will make a YouTube video (and an eval from a professional urban designer is coming up).
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by icaruswept 2y ago
Maybe this might help: the list of mods and what they do. You can pick what seems most useful for your game. https://github.com/team-watchdog/colombo-skylines/wiki/mod-c...
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by icaruswept 2y ago
Yup, we’ve got a big list of mods to help alleviate some of these issues. Due to the way we’ve modeled the corridors and daily population flow in and out of the city, we still get roving herds of ambulances…
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by icaruswept 2y ago
Depends on how much of the games underlying assumptions you can overwrite, and of course the fidelity you’re going for. In our case we’ve modified everything from citizen lifecycles to traffic behaviour to population calculations based on s
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by icaruswept 2y ago
Thanks for the spot, will double check. Yeah, we’re modded to the hilt here. This is taking the game as far as the engine can handle.
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by icaruswept 2y ago
Cheers!
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by icaruswept 2y ago
Typically you look for its use in both academia and in the field (hence CUBE, for instance; widely used by the academics at Moratuwa who then go on to work on actual projects)
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by icaruswept 2y ago
Haha, thanks!
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by icaruswept 2y ago
You’re right, we don’t have one up yet. We did a few implementations of various government plans over the years (the Japan-funded COMTRANS being the most prominent) and I’ve invited a professional urban designer who works with the governmen

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