jacksilver
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- Comment on I want to feel like a bad-ass wizard 5 days ago:
I’m surprised this wasn’t mentioned more. Unlike a lot of the other games, the world feels a bit more centered around magic. Also if you’re a fan of Harry potter it does a good job of capturing that setting (in my opinion).
- Comment on Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy 1 week ago:
This is the same type of criticism the paper made. The real intent behind the saying is given random output (where all outputs have nonzero probability) eventually you will create anything/everything.
Its a thought experiment around infinity, probability, and art.
- Comment on Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Team Disbanded After Critically Lauded Platformer Fails to Meet Expectations - Report 3 weeks ago:
That’s a shame to hear, I recently played this game and it’s one of the best Metroidvanias I’ve ever played.
- Comment on My ship threw my bags out the window and left me 5 weeks ago:
I mean those kinds of things arent atypical in elder scrolls and fallout. It gives the world a little flare to it if done right.
- Comment on Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic 1 month ago:
Fair point then about the arguement around safety. For me the bigger issue is control. Cars with kill switches and conditions to use is a slippery slope. Just look at what’s happened with software and media. Don’t want to have to pirate my car or load custom firmware so I can use it as I want.
- Comment on Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic 1 month ago:
I don’t think there is a car where the seat belt is tied to anything besides a little notification beep. Seems like a different situation if the “safety” feature dictates how the car is used.
- Comment on I love diablo-likes, but they're also really annoying. 1 month ago:
If you played and liked any game like dead cells or rouge legacy, then Hades should be worth it.
Its basically an action rpg rougelite with a lot of unlock ables, story directly tied to the die/repeat cycle, and lots of interesting challenges.
- Comment on I love diablo-likes, but they're also really annoying. 1 month ago:
If you like rougelikes then you’ll get your money out of it. Honestly it’s worth more than that, but it does go on sale occasionally and they’ve already released (in early access) a sequel Hades 2.
- Comment on [Tom Warren] The PS5 Pro still hasn’t sold out in the US or UK. Looks like the $700 price point will mean this console will be readily available this holiday 1 month ago:
It’s been a really sad console generation. It could be because I got a steam deck, but only Nintendo seems to be putting out 1st party games that are any good (and even then it’s been hit or miss).
- Comment on The Mozilla Graveyard 1 month ago:
Do you still use WASM? I’ve been exploring the space and wasn’t sure what the best tools are for developing in that space.
- Comment on Dell sales team told to return to office 5 days a week, starting Monday 1 month ago:
Yeah, not excited with the notion of being back in the office five days a week. Makes looking for jobs a pain.
- Comment on When you inhale helium from a balloon, do you weigh less? 1 month ago:
Isn’t that just the difference between weight and mass?
- Comment on What else is there 1 month ago:
I assume because it all does tie back to math terms. There is a lot of computer science in which arrays/lists are used for vector arithmetic (graphics, ML, generic math). I suspect only later in the field did arrays mutate into generic lists that you see in R and Python.
- Comment on What GPU is inside Mall Cop Robots? 1 month ago:
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. Just need to throw some foil on it and you’ve got a very expensive new buddy.
- Comment on Stardew Valley 1.6 is Coming November 4th. 1 month ago:
Anyone have a high level breakdown of what this update contains?
- Comment on The Extreme Cost of Training AI Models. 1 month ago:
This is just the estimates to train the model, so it’s not accounting for the cost to develop the system for training, collecting the data, etc. This is just pure processing cost, which is staggeringly large numbers.
- Comment on Secret calculator hack brings ChatGPT to the TI-84, enabling easy cheating 1 month ago:
LLMs do suck at math, if you look into it, the o1 models actually escape the LLM output and write a python function to calculate the output, I’ve been able to break their math functions by asking for functions that use math not in the standard Python library.
I know someone also wrote a wolfram integration to help solve LLMs math problems.
- Comment on “Model collapse” threatens to kill progress on generative AIs 1 month ago:
All the evolution in AI right now is just trying different model designs and/or data. It’s not one model that is being continuous refined or modified. Each iteration is just a new set of static weights/numbers that defines it’s calculations.
If the models were changing/updating through experience maybe what you’re writing would make sense, but that’s not the state of AI/ML development.
- Comment on Sony announces the PS5 Pro with a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and AI upscaling 2 months ago:
That’s actually why I went with the Xbox this cycle. I got a series x for the large TV and a $200 (on sale) series S for the smaller one (although we usually just use a computer monitor and play side by side on the couch).
- Comment on Sony Increases PS5 Controller Prices in US, Europe, and More 2 months ago:
I mean the counter arguement to that is the joy cons joysticks break all the time by just using them.
- Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills 2 months ago:
Microsoft actually ported their keyboard to android, called “Microsoft SwiftKey” or similar. It’s a great keyboard, but apparently now has copilot ಠ_ಠ
- Comment on Kotaku being Kotaku 2 months ago:
Hahaha fair point
- Comment on Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots 2 months ago:
Yeah I read another article on this and it’s very unclear what was illegal. If I had to guess they’re getting him on the technicalities of the process rather than on the actual streaming.
- Comment on Man Arrested for Sharing Copyright Infringing Nude Scenes Through Reddit. 2 months ago:
One solution that’s been proposed is to cryptographic ally sign content. This way someone can prove they “made” the content. It doesn’t prove the content is real, but means you can verify the originator.
However, at the end of the day, you’re still stuck with needing to decide who you trust.
- Comment on Kotaku being Kotaku 2 months ago:
Oh yeah, I don’t disagree it has had a large following since it released. I was just highlighting that even if a majority of the player base was 5-15 on release, they’d be 20-30 now. So why target just kids.
- Comment on Man Arrested for Sharing Copyright Infringing Nude Scenes Through Reddit. 2 months ago:
I was responding to an above comment. The guy who was arrested in op’s article was posting clips from movies (so not deep fakes).
That being said, for deepfakes, you’d need the original video to prove it was deepfaked. Additionally, you’d then probably need to prove they used a real person to make the deep fake. Nowadays it’s easy to make “fake” people using AI. Not sure where the law sits on creating deepfakes of fake people who resemble other people.
- Comment on Man Arrested for Sharing Copyright Infringing Nude Scenes Through Reddit. 2 months ago:
Why do you not know how to feel about it?
To me it’s just clip collection, you could have a collection of all death scenes or car cashes. They’re all just clips from videos people agreed to make for public consumption.
- Comment on Man Arrested for Sharing Copyright Infringing Nude Scenes Through Reddit. 2 months ago:
It’s messy legislation all around. When does it become porn vs art vs just erotic or satirical? How do you prove it was a deep fake and not a lookalike? If I use a porn actress to make a deep fake is that also illegal or is it about how the original source content was intended to be used/consumed?
I’m not saying that we should just ignore these issues, but I don’t think any of this will be handled well by any government.
- Comment on Kotaku being Kotaku 2 months ago:
What’s also weird is Minecraft is 15 years old at this point. That means you’ve basically got a huge age range (kids to adults) within the target audience. Why isn’t it targeted at the entire fanbase?
- Comment on Any good games that break the mold 2 months ago:
Forgotten City is another interesting game, that like Outer Wilds, has you piecing together a mystery. Hadn’t seen it mentioned yet.
For an older classic in the mystery/no coddling space there is the Myst series. I’ve only played the first, but they’re challenging puzzles/mystery point-and-click games.