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I think there's a market for a home AI server that can run an LLM or video gen model behind a web frontend. Not literally a raspberry pi strapped to an H100, but something with lop…

There's a really noticeable difference in time frame covered in your examples (80s and 90s) and the one in the comment you're replying to (2010s and 2020s). Is that just two people…

Gosh that Polish language scores graph is good. Clean bell curve, slight skew, classic little bump at 100 because the measure is truncated, and then this giant mess at 30 that look…

There's a whole scene around making bots for Starcraft: Broodwar, using an API (BWAPI) that doesn't allow cheating. They're quite good now, better than most humans. But the top bot…

It looks like some of these terms aren't indexed (or the site is just too hug of deathed right now), but I'd like to see the graph of like, social media, iot, cryptocurrency, ai. T…

26 emojis? You could do the entire bestiary from the original Rogue with that!

There was a similar wave of IPOs with Uber and AirB&B, not tied to a bubble popping. (I mean, I think this looks incredibly like a bubble too, but for completeness sake, that's the…

Yeah, Love2d is a great option for gamedev. It doesn't have the same built-in tools as Godot so you'll need something else for putting together maps (use Tiled [1]), and you'll nee…

I watch things from unknown-to-me creators in a private window, then copy the URL over to logged in window if it's any good. Same idea, might be an easier workflow. Absurd that we …

When I was a kid, we'd host the pics we want to post on forums on geocities and rename the file extensions to .txt to get past its "no hotlinking images" policy. So it's not like m…

Modern AAA games take tons of people because of ballooning scope and graphical fidelity expectations. Games like Super Mario World have went from highly technical team efforts to s…

Lovely page. Reminds me of the venerable Think Labyrinth ( https://www.astrolog.org/labyrnth/algrithm.htm ) page, but the live demos add a lot. My favorite maze algorithm is a vari…

Dang, it's been cool watching gaussian splats go from tech demo to real workflow.

Is it possible to replicate the digital->film transition with tone mapping? (I assume the answer is yes, but what is the actual mapping?)

People are working on recovering PBR properties, rigging, and editing. I think those are all solveable over time. I wouldn't start a big project with it today, but maybe in a coupl…

If you want that 2000s feel for your own sites: Gradient background, drop shadows, and side bar nav.

From the article: > The kernel is still adding support for some 32-bit boards, he said, but at least ten new 64-bit boards gain support for each 32-bit one. And > To summarize, he …

Punctuation characters tend to be pretty consistent; there's a few lineages of roguelikes that copy them from each other, and only a handful of things a given mark can mean. ! mean…

Caves Of Qud uses Markov chain generated text to great effect in some places. I think something light that's still more competent than Markov chains has a lot of potential.

I don't think either reach the real wtfs of their language. id() does some weird things with string interring, javascript coerces cross-type arithmetic into weird nonsense instead …

The stories I've heard have been mostly about scraper bots finding APIs like "get all posts in date range" and then hammering that with every combo of start/end date.

Gaussian splatting models the scene as a bunch of normal distributions (fuzzy squished spheres) instead of triangles, then renders those with billboarded triangles. It has advantag…

I prefer "ess queue ell" these days, but the first DBA I ever worked with pronounced it "squirrel".

I don't really think this is true. Gaussian splats certainly came from a context where an opaque representation is expected and normal, but they ended up being an entirely comprehe…