"In the absence of an actual 256-byte compo, it was submitted to the Oldskool 4K Intro compo at Revision 2017, where it ended up on 1st place."
:-)
(I hope the other contestants were suitably ashamed of themselves.)
A Mind is Born
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#22This triggers multiple levels of wonder. That the tune alone is compose-able from 256 bytes is uncanny. What would this have been like to witness in the 1980s ? -being as it could have been published as a relatively easy to type magazine listing. The name "A Mind is Born" has special resonance at this time as there has never been more popular anticipation that artificial minds will soon be able to coalesce from the s…
This has a beginning that you may find interesting.
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#23"In the absence of an actual 256-byte compo, it was submitted to the Oldskool 4K Intro compo at Revision 2017, where it ended up on 1st place." :-) (I hope the other contestants were suitably ashamed of themselves.)
I hope they had fun and enjoyed themselves.
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#24lol even the google cache is being hugged to death https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:h_l9j_...
The Google Cache only stores text. It still has live links to all the images on the page. It's more reliable to link to the text-only version. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:h_l9j_N...
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#25"In the absence of an actual 256-byte compo, it was submitted to the Oldskool 4K Intro compo at Revision 2017, where it ended up on 1st place." :-) (I hope the other contestants were suitably ashamed of themselves.)
I hope they had fun and enjoyed themselves.
Ok, back to non-smiley world:
Yes. I hope so. Too.
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#26This was so impressive that it compelled me to finally make a Hacker News account instead of lurking. In less than a typical paragraph of space you have created a masterpiece of efficiency. The music is catchy too. Bravo!
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#27The LFSR-generated music reminds me of the old Atari 2600 game "Pitfall". The game had to fit in a 4K cartridge, so a lookup table of the attributes of the 255 "rooms" wouldn't fit. Instead, an LFSR (that fits in 31 bytes) generates the bitstream that describes the entire map. (Background: http://www.samiam.org/blog/20130606.html )
The BBC Micro game `Exile' used a mostly-randomly-generated map, with some manually-created areas here and there: https://www.stairwaytohell.com/gamehelp/MAP-Exile-BC.png (very large PNG)
The patterns are quite apparent when zoomed out, but on the actual BBC Micro the display area was 128x128 low-res pixels (a 256x128 area on the map image), making it more difficult to spot.
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#28This triggers multiple levels of wonder. That the tune alone is compose-able from 256 bytes is uncanny. What would this have been like to witness in the 1980s ? -being as it could have been published as a relatively easy to type magazine listing. The name "A Mind is Born" has special resonance at this time as there has never been more popular anticipation that artificial minds will soon be able to coalesce from the s…
This has a beginning that you may find interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(novel)
yes! I loved the description of how that AI is created and becomes self conscious!!!
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#29Wow, that's somehow disturbing. I think the stronger than usual visual link with the music sucks you in.
I was surprised to see this guy wrote a tty blog article I had enjoyed before. This one is very different.
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#30This triggers multiple levels of wonder. That the tune alone is compose-able from 256 bytes is uncanny. What would this have been like to witness in the 1980s ? -being as it could have been published as a relatively easy to type magazine listing. The name "A Mind is Born" has special resonance at this time as there has never been more popular anticipation that artificial minds will soon be able to coalesce from the s…
This has a beginning that you may find interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(novel)
Its a powerful fantastic idea, but Im personally concerned that our human and animal conciousness should probably not be equated with virtual representations, no matter how accurate or convincing certain renderings might get. Mostly because I would never be fearful of switching a simulation off - for its "own sake". Im concerned that people can feel the same way about each other, if they believe in the equality of computed feelings.