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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 distributi…

> 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 cre…

> 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 off…

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...

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 …

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 Micr…

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. Yo…

"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 ph…

I have been making this mistake for decades. I am upvoting your comment to show thanks!

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 …

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 comp…

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.

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 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 accura…

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 Amaz…

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 foun…