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I prefer using my own model for privacy reasons. A crude summary is fine, I don't need GPT4 level quality. My PC has the capacity to run llama 2; I need a model to summarize my per…

Another recommendation concerning installation - be sure to check the Mastodon forum for this project: https://fosstodon.org/@esports_for_engineers/followers

For more information about the games in the package: https://alternativeto.net/software/esports-for-engineers/abo... Grand Prix Legends demo (free but not open source) is one of th…

My sentiments exactly! It is a tribute to the wine developers that these 20 year old games run as well (or better) on linux and modern hardware than on the ancient PC's and MS-Wind…

The racing sims include dozens of cars and tracks, Combat flight sims, which simulate entire wars, include terrain and hundreds of vehicles and munitions. There are dozens of games…

The car and flight sims are engineering simulations - differential equation solvers employing multiple degrees of freedom, flight models and tire models validated vs. data, etc. Ga…

There's a python script that makes the organization more clear. Once you've installed the games package, run "./launcher.py" at the ubuntu command line to see a text menu "Top Leve…

Source code links: Rowan's Battle of Britain (flight sim): https://github.com/gondur/BOB_Src Rowan's Mig Alley (flight sim): https://github.com/gondur/mig_src Free Falcon (flight s…

A good book on this topic is "Code Reading", by Diomidis Spinellis (2003)

The open source clones of Alpha Go are my favorite AI sparring partners. There are several to choose from, and also several Go board applications. My favorite open source Alpha Go …

What's new in the 3.0 release of esports for engineers?

It's noteworthy that two people who worked on Dam Busters also worked on Star Wars 20 years later, as described in link [0] above.

So the original Star Wars, which has spawned so many copycat movies, is itself a copycat movie? Let's see. The formula seems to be: take two successful old movies, such as Battle o…

And those Star Destroyers sure look like aircraft carriers.

Perhaps you remember the final scene from the 1977 blockbuster "Star Wars: A New Hope", expertly crafted by director George Lucas and his film editor wife Marcia Lou Griffin. Three…

The source code for Mig Alley is here: https://github.com/gondur/mig_src The source code for Free Falcon is here: https://github.com/FreeFalcon The link to the tar file containing …

For the entrepreneurs among us, the business story here is that these fantastically detailed sims were expensive to make. The three 20-year-old sims at the github link, Grand Prix …

Debates about which sim is more accurate bring up a philosophical question about sim design. My take is that designing a realistic simulation is like solving a physics problem, in …