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New comment by didntreadarticl in "Cobble_stone – The texture of your childhood (2021)"

didntreadarticl — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 11:38:05 +0000

me too

New comment by didntreadarticl in "The False Promise of ChatGPT"

didntreadarticl — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 00:11:32 +0000

He's 94, lets just be impressed he can have an opinion at all

New comment by didntreadarticl in "The False Promise of ChatGPT"

didntreadarticl — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 00:07:00 +0000

To be fair, Noam Chomsky is 94 years old now

New comment by didntreadarticl in "Amstrad Emailer, the UK’s first smartphone"

didntreadarticl — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 17:36:47 +0000

Thats kindof why I asked. I tried to think of UK equivalent to FAANG and couldn't come up with much. But there's lots of interesting responses to my comment, and an idea that kept coming through is that the UK is good at creating new companies but can't grow them beyond a certain point so they get acquired

New comment by didntreadarticl in "Amstrad Emailer, the UK’s first smartphone"

didntreadarticl — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 16:21:20 +0000

Thats interesting. So like engineering basically

New comment by didntreadarticl in "Amstrad Emailer, the UK’s first smartphone"

didntreadarticl — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 15:52:25 +0000

The UK hasn’t got any memorable tech company that is on the world stage that the public knows.

Yes thats a good way of putting it

New comment by didntreadarticl in "Amstrad Emailer, the UK’s first smartphone"

didntreadarticl — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 15:03:41 +0000

tell me about the big fintech and games ones

New comment by didntreadarticl in "Amstrad Emailer, the UK’s first smartphone"

didntreadarticl — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 14:58:22 +0000

Still in Cambridge but owned by Japans SoftBank Group. Does that count? When I look up 'UKs biggest tech companies' ARM doesnt get a mention.

New comment by didntreadarticl in "Amstrad Emailer, the UK’s first smartphone"

didntreadarticl — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 14:52:45 +0000

The UK had Amstrad, Sinclair, Acorn (which sortof became Arm)

What have we got now? When I look up the UKs biggest tech companies now its people like Aveva and Sage who make dull enterprisey software. Is there anyone else?

edit: I guess we might still have some big game studios?

edit: I'll also take websites, has the UK got any big website companies? Seems like our biggest are Rightmove and Autotrader

We are close to making Celery Man a reality

didntreadarticl — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 13:36:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maAFcEU6atk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35068789

Points: 1

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New comment by didntreadarticl in "Microsoft Designer"

didntreadarticl — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 13:31:45 +0000

Its Canva, but instead of stock art its AI generated stuff

New comment by didntreadarticl in "Microsoft Designer"

didntreadarticl — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 13:29:08 +0000

Dall-E, could you add a hat wobble to that?

.... And a Flarhgunnstow?

New comment by didntreadarticl in "Boulder Dash"

didntreadarticl — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 16:47:49 +0000

ooo they have PC version too https://superiorinteractive.com/

Original publisher in the 80s was 'Superior Software', I'd be interested to know if this is the same people 40 years later

edit: yes its the same people!

New comment by didntreadarticl in "Boulder Dash"

didntreadarticl — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 16:21:28 +0000

Where I'm from this was called Repton

edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxzv1o1ngRw

full screen scroll on a 6502-powered BBC Model B

New comment by didntreadarticl in "Retail, search and Amazon’s $40B ‘advertising’ business"

didntreadarticl — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 11:35:22 +0000

What Shopping On Amazon Feels Like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQpxAvjD_30

New comment by didntreadarticl in "Personality variation eroded by simple social behaviors in collective foragers"

didntreadarticl — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 14:17:06 +0000

From the title it sounds like research on humans but the paper is actually all about a simple software model of a group of entities going 'foraging'

The model is using a program called NetLogo

https://github.com/NetLogo/NetLogo

https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/index.shtml

Source code for the model used in this paper

https://figshare.com/articles/software/Netlogo_code_supporti...

Seems like a fun program, you set up 'turtles' and give them attributes and rules and then watch them roam around

I thought this was interesting:

    ;adding individual noise into the speeds of individuals, to avoid computational problems caused by all individuals being on top of each other in a cell
    ask turtles [                               
        set individual-speed 0.95 + random-float 0.05
    ]

Like, seems like a good idea to add the random speed but why does having all the turtles in one cell cause such a problem?

New comment by didntreadarticl in "“Here's the number I used to win the lottery“ –Entrepreneurs giving advice"

didntreadarticl — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 21:57:26 +0000

Darius Kazemi - "How I Won the Lottery" - a talk at XOXO Festival (2014)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_F9jxsfGCw

brutally hilarious

New comment by didntreadarticl in "A philosopher who believes in living things"

didntreadarticl — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 19:19:41 +0000

Cmon guys, rocks arent processors, whatever Putnam may say

Unless you're into panpsychism - which I can't discount because although its a ridiculous explanation of consciousness, all the other possible explanations are equally ridiculous

New comment by didntreadarticl in "The extensible vi layer for Emacs"

didntreadarticl — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 14:30:28 +0000

Notepad++

New comment by didntreadarticl in "A philosopher who believes in living things"

didntreadarticl — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 10:50:33 +0000

If its doing something with the result of the photon detectors, then yes I guess its processing the input and taking some action as a result. Bonus points if the incoming beam or light actually means something (e.g. perhaps it varies when something gets in the way). Congratulations you imagined a processor