Wow, the idea of Carmack as BDFL for BSD [0] is pretty cool.
Or would that be BSDBDFL ? (BSD Benevolent Dictator For Life )
:)
John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code
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Re: John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
> [know that AGI] is centuries or even further away (basically some indeterminate time frame because we don't even know if we're on the right path). How can you, in the same sentence, say the time frame is indeterminate and that it is 100+ years away? We just don't know, period.
Well what we do know is that current AI methods are very task specific and there is nothing that generalizes well to many tasks. If it was happening in the next century we would at least have some idea how to start generalizing to many tasks with a single model or something comparable to that. We had the analytical engine in 1830s and we didn't see a turing machine or lambda calculus until the 1930s
It is extremely hard (read impossible) to predict what is going to evolve exponentially or asymptomatically in the future. Look at computing and aerospace for example. Take the state of those 2 domains and ask someone in 1900 where they think we would be in 2000, I am pretty sure they would have been quite far off.
Working at an AI lab myself, while I agree with your statement about the state of AI today, I don't know any of my colleague that would be confident to say it's 100+ years away.
Re: John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
This thread reminded me that Carmack has been a free software advocate in the past, and my citation is, quite amusingly, that book: > It was February 8, 1998, and Carmack was about to put his brain to the test: counting cards in blackjack. This had become something of a new fascination of his. “Having a reasonable grounding in statistics and probability and no belief in luck, fate, karma, or god(s), the only casino g…
Didn't he also end up getting banned for life from that casino for counting cards?
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Re: John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code
#124Here is your daily reminder to read "Masters of Doom", a book about the early days at ID Software. It's an amazing look into a really cool time in gaming and software as a whole. It's a great book, mostly about John Carmack and the guys at ID! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Doom
Counterpoint (just to manage expectations - you should read it for sure!): I was hyped to read the book, but ended up finding it a bit tedious. The technical parts were not technical enough (sometimes flat-out wrong, or maybe, naive sounding?) and the rock star parts got repetitive (even a lot of the same phrases used over and over). Still great fun, but not as good as I'd hoped. I'd recommend Fabien Sanglards's Wolf…
>I'd recommend Fabien Sanglards's Wolfenstein and Doom books (https://fabiensanglard.net/gebbwolf3d/). These go into WAY TOO MUCH technical info (in a great way!), but don't cover any of the hilarious rock-star antics.
The Doom book does mention Romero getting locked into his office one day and Carmack cutting down the door with a battleaxe, but I didn't mind knowing that detail. (There's a picture too)
Re: John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good card counters are always a team, you can't go far solo as it's pretty easy to tell when you're betting 20 dollars one hand, and 500 another. You usually have a few smaller players just playing fixed bets who call over some higher roller that will do the big betting when the count is high, and then just leave when the count gets low. Rumor has it that the security cameras now have software that will tally the cou…
Can confirm that the facial recognition cameras and correlating faces to blackjack play is not rumor. To abuse a joke, "There are more cameras in a casino than in a East Village camera close out store." :-) Back in 2005 I was approached by one of the casino groups that was looking for a director of technology to manage the team that did "camera analytics". Seemed like a pretty neat job technically.
So just go to Europe? Pretty sure the GDPR prevents these kind of recognitions.
So I looked up the privacy policy of Holland Casinos and there is no mention of facial recognition, only mention of CCTV for security purposes (under which I wouldn't expect prevention of adverse losses to fall) and a seven day storage period of camera footage. They are not explicit but suggest they do not use camera data for profiling purposes.
Re: John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code
#126As someone who is not following closely, did he ever mention why he is looking into alternative OS? And why OpenBSD instead of say NetBSD or FreeBSD? I assume he has many experience with linux already.
Is OpenBSD considered to be an alternative OS?
It's certainly not mainstream if that is what you mean.
Re: John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code
#127Here is your daily reminder to read "Masters of Doom", a book about the early days at ID Software. It's an amazing look into a really cool time in gaming and software as a whole. It's a great book, mostly about John Carmack and the guys at ID! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Doom
Counterpoint (just to manage expectations - you should read it for sure!): I was hyped to read the book, but ended up finding it a bit tedious. The technical parts were not technical enough (sometimes flat-out wrong, or maybe, naive sounding?) and the rock star parts got repetitive (even a lot of the same phrases used over and over). Still great fun, but not as good as I'd hoped. I'd recommend Fabien Sanglards's Wolf…
Thanks, ordered it immediately. Technical "history" books are fantastic, and knowing it's by Fabien Sanglard...
Re: John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code
#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can confirm that the facial recognition cameras and correlating faces to blackjack play is not rumor. To abuse a joke, "There are more cameras in a casino than in a East Village camera close out store." :-) Back in 2005 I was approached by one of the casino groups that was looking for a director of technology to manage the team that did "camera analytics". Seemed like a pretty neat job technically.
So just go to Europe? Pretty sure the GDPR prevents these kind of recognitions. So I looked up the privacy policy of Holland Casinos and there is no mention of facial recognition, only mention of CCTV for security purposes (under which I wouldn't expect prevention of adverse losses to fall) and a seven day storage period of camera footage. They are not explicit but suggest they do not use camera data for profiling pu…
It would be an interesting test case
Re: John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
BSDs are mundane and also stable, not like some rolling linux distros
The bsds are actually less stable than Linux. Stable meaning changes, in this context, right? freeBSD changes ABI compatibility with every version. If you mean that they have old software (and old==stable if you think Debian) then that’s because of BSD licensing vs GPL. GPL can take from BSD but the other way around is not possible. Stability of uptime? Yeah, they’re rock solid.
For me, stability means uptime and infrequency of application crashes. Unfortunately, OpenBSD didn't meet that requirement on my (standard desktop) machine--it would frequently kernel panic on resume.
On the other hand, I found that OpenBSD has absolutely outstanding reliability and stability on hardware like my ThinkPad X220.
Re: John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code
#130OpenBSD 6.7 is going to be released tomorrow https://www.openbsd.org/67.html
Their release engineering is awesome!