watercooler_guy

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Steampunk Computer Works as Long as I Have Fire [video](youtube.com)
2 points by watercooler_guy 23d ago|0 comments
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It finds the derivative: The Ott Derivimeter (1930s) [video](youtube.com)
1 points by watercooler_guy 2y ago|0 comments
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If English was written like Chinese (1999)(zompist.com)
325 points by watercooler_guy 2y ago|300 comments
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Enshittification(en.wikipedia.org)
18 points by watercooler_guy 3y ago|1 comments
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by watercooler_guy 4y ago
I strongly second this. The JetBrains model is the best of both worlds and everybody wins. Being able to own a certain version of the software at my option makes me feel respected by the company, and it's also motivation for the compan
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by watercooler_guy 4y ago
I think the novel and interesting tech is still happening, its just that without the colorful ads for it on TV, and without the software being packaged up and sold with pretty box art that you can physically hold, it doesn't feel as mu
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Reverse Engineering the Weather Star 4000(hackaday.io)
1 points by watercooler_guy 4y ago|0 comments
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by watercooler_guy 4y ago
This was an interesting application of neural nets and a good write up! I’m curious how a game might be made from scratch using a neural net, i.e. what would it train on? I think this would be a cool technique to have at our disposal becaus
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by watercooler_guy 4y ago
From the author's twitter, here are links to a download of the network and to a site that lets you view the network architecture as a flow chart: https://twitter.com/madebyollin/status/1566886407117107200?s...
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by watercooler_guy 4y ago
Very, very cool project! I think I actually prefer this streetview approach to the floating noclip approach, because a map + streetview that works like google maps cements the feeling that the game world is as real as my city -- here's
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by watercooler_guy 4y ago
The website specifies that these are “simulations” (re-creations of the games’ apparent behavior that attempt to stay faithful to the original) and not “emulations” (reproductions of the actual hardware behavior of the circuitry): http:&#x
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LCD handheld games re-created as Windows apps(madrigaldesign.it)
2 points by watercooler_guy 4y ago|1 comments
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by watercooler_guy 4y ago
This is, I think, the killer technology that would allow VR to be seriously used for meetings with other people, especially in business. If these avatars can be animated continuously as someone is speaking, so that lip movements are matched
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by watercooler_guy 4y ago
The article states that it was the CFO, not the CEO, of Bed, Bath, and Beyond
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by watercooler_guy 4y ago
I think that’s an interesting connection and way to look at this. I first encountered that sort of artistic inspiration on a Twitter account that randomly generated sheet music snippets. Sure the generation could be garbage, but that gives
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by watercooler_guy 4y ago
I‘ve always been a big fan of creepypastas —- they can be really well done and scary in novel ways. To some extent, I believed some of them to be real when I was a kid. If creepypastas were “invented” today, would they have made as big of a
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by watercooler_guy 4y ago
It was my understanding that the observer effect (the act of observing a system can affect that system) is not due to the system "knowing" that a conscious mind is observing it, but rather that the instruments used to observe the
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by watercooler_guy 4y ago
This is about using AI to solve problems in ways humans couldn't even think of (e.g. wacky but optimal 3-D printed designs for building materials).
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The AI and the Tree(booktwo.org)
1 points by watercooler_guy 4y ago|2 comments
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by watercooler_guy 4y ago
Wow, imagine curling up in your cozy, carved-out dwelling deep underground to read manuscripts by candlelight... or more realistically, to hide from violent sieges on the city
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by watercooler_guy 4y ago
That’s a really neat idea, what better way to intuitively understand what a program is doing than a familiar physical environment in front of you. Reminds me of the esolang Taxi, where you perform computation by giving directions to a taxi
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by watercooler_guy 4y ago
Off topic, but I think that stripe.com page you've linked to is the most beautifully designed modern webpage I've ever had the pleasure of scrolling. It's the 3d objects that move ever-so-slightly along with my cursor passing
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by watercooler_guy 4y ago
The author of the linked article seems to contradict himself. He writes: >Gato’s ability to perform multiple tasks is more like a video game console that can store 600 different games, than it’s like a game you can play 600 different way
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by watercooler_guy 4y ago
Could you expand on what you mean by this? What kind of new social structures are enabling progress in this way?
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by watercooler_guy 4y ago
The part about being able to focus at your girlfriend’s place is interesting, because I experience the same thing. When someone is sitting near me and working at the same time as me, I don’t go on all my usual distraction tangents, I actual
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by watercooler_guy 4y ago
Based on conversations I've had with people about uploading conciousness, my experience has not been that people think of it as a monument to their ego. For those with interest in this tech, the understanding seems to be that they will
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by watercooler_guy 5y ago
> Grudge like Japanese girls under my bed etc. That’s a hell of an experience to mention casually! Did you wish for these terrifying encounters and they happened? Or the control over your dreams isn’t that fine grained?
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by watercooler_guy 5y ago
Do you have any links on this? Not that I doubt it, I’d just love to read more or see a demo
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by watercooler_guy 5y ago
Maybe I’m overlooking something from the article, but shouldn’t it be possible to just run TropeTrainer in a Win95/XP VM on a modern OS?
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by watercooler_guy 5y ago
Opinions such as the author’s are often mocked or attributed to an older, less tech-savy generation (see the “not a cell phone in sight, just people living in the moment” copypasta[0]). But I really think there’s something to this, as the a

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