A 2D slippy map that shows sun and shadow around the world. Today’s sunset around Puget Sound: https://shademap.app/#47.89056,-122.66785,7z,1635813675213t
Awesome site! I love moving around the sun like some kind of god.
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#72I started taking steroids two weeks ago. 500mg/week testosterone. They haven't even really kicked in yet (takes about 3 weeks to get really testosterone levels up) but I'm feeling real good and I'm really excited with all the weight gain I've had so far this year. I started at around 155 in June and today I'm up to 180. A lot of it is water weight I'm sure but I'm excited to hit over 200 in the next 5 months of my fi…
Water weight and glycogen retention. Hopefully you're taking an aromatase inhibitor as well with those T levels.
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#73I'm making a browser game. It's an idea I've had for a long time and had several false starts on it. I've had a lot of trouble in the past seeing personal projects through, but I just passed a major milestone and I couldn't be happier about it. I'm trying to be better about balancing the fun parts (implementing a map system in canvas) against the tedious parts (getting rails+typescript+docker+react up and running and…
I am doing something superficially similar :)
I’ve done prototype launches of this before, years ago, but this time around I’m going to wait until there’s some gameplay before going public. Some of the old players still follow. Maybe when there’s enough gameplay that they want company, that would be the right time.
Good point about the tedious stuff. This time I’m skipping a lot of it by worrying less about scale; eg using rsync and git for deploys rather than containers.
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#74I would love to know how to reach out to a development community with long-term discussions where I can discuss ideas I'm working on for various open source projects. I feel like I can work on something in a vacuum for months, make a post somewhere about it, and get people to look at it for a few minutes and that is about it. It would be much nicer to just casually discuss architecture ideas before I commit to someth…
I think IRC channels can fit that bill.
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#75Building a puzzle board video game (inspired by a physical wooden board puzzle) using bits to represent the board (Bitboard game design [1]). Here is a screenshot for one of the levels: https://imgur.com/a/cLIsYII
The goal is to slide the red tile where the yellow ones are. I am trying to develop an algorithm that would be able solve these type of puzzles automatically so I can provide user with hints. Can anyone provide any ideas or resources on how this could be achieved? If you look at the screenshot you'll notice that the board always has two empty cells that you can slide the tiles into. You can also pre-order the game here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-setting-sun-zen-puzzle/id1... I am planning on releasing it by Thanksgiving.
[1]: http://eprints.qut.edu.au/85005/1/__staffhome.qut.edu.au_sta...
Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)
#76I started taking steroids two weeks ago. 500mg/week testosterone. They haven't even really kicked in yet (takes about 3 weeks to get really testosterone levels up) but I'm feeling real good and I'm really excited with all the weight gain I've had so far this year. I started at around 155 in June and today I'm up to 180. A lot of it is water weight I'm sure but I'm excited to hit over 200 in the next 5 months of my fi…
Water weight and glycogen retention. Hopefully you're taking an aromatase inhibitor as well with those T levels.
The common advice is to take AI as needed when high E2 symptoms show up. Too many people take it preemptively and crash their E2 for no reason and feel like shit as a result. But I do have some on hand along with a huge array of other drugs "just in case" including stuff for PCT.
Pre, during, and post blood work is also happening to help monitor things like E2 level.
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#77Continuing to add Ableton Live "clip launching" features to Ardour, and along the way fix bugs with our new time representation implementation (which features such things as an int62_t). But also, over the weekend, helped construct a new 2m diameter horno (outdoor oven) from adobe bricks and mud mortar for the Santa Fe Botanical Garden as part of Santa Fe Community College's ADOB-112 (Wall Construction) course.
Thank you Paul for your excellent work on Ardour!
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#78Since this summer, I've been doing audio-visual work and playing in an improvisational jam band, doing over-night parties in UT, CO, and AZ.
It's really fun to play in; usually we do a couple sets for various sub-formations of the band who write songs, and then we improvise a set for a couple of hours. Everyone in the band plays multiple instruments (keys, synths, guitar, violins, flutes, trumpets, drumset, etc).
We've been having a lot of fun out in the desert. We bought a generator, put a bunch of lights and sound out in an arroyo, and stay up late playing music.
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#79I’ve been making some art for an experimental art show called “Convivial Machines” at Museum of Boulder that just opened this past week.
The main project is an interactive painting called the “Musical Dot Orchestra” that lets you scan a hand painted QR code and “play” a musical dot that appears in the painting.
Some photos + videos: https://www.instagram.com/p/CVokUYBMaXF/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CVbTpAaAHRY/
The “painting”:
https://dots.pindarlabs.com/viewer
The UI for participants:
https://dots.pindarlabs.com/dots/blue https://dots.pindarlabs.com/dots/purple https://dots.pindarlabs.com/dots/magenta https://dots.pindarlabs.com/dots/yellow
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#80I'm playing around with Bomberland, which was on HN a while ago.
My goal is to have the AI discover new multi-unit strategies using self-play and reinforcement learning. But so far, every day, I'm failing in new ways because this environment is really tough. Typical action sequences span 50 time steps, so the chance of discovering anything useful through random exploration is effectively 0. Hierarchical models don't work because multiple long-term actions overlap. And the state space is too large for MCTS unless you're willing to burn millions in compute.
But precisely because it's so difficult, every tiny bit of progress feels rewarding. Plus I'm positively surprised that there's still so much unexplored territory in DL RL land.