https://github.com/aloshdenny/reverse-SynthID

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48041023

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  MacBook Air: 1.08 kg (2.38 lbs)
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[0]https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10541088/

The other option is to have an AI play another AI which is working as an antagonist, trying to make the player fail. More global plagues! More scheming underlings! More questionable choices for relaxation! Bit of an arms race there.

Honestly I prefer Crusader Kings II if for no other reason that the UI is just so brilliantly insanely obtuse while also being very good looking.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46502922

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46451047

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It has so many great pieces of advice that apply to any programming task, everything from naming variables, to testing, error handling, code organization, documentation, etc, etc. Ultimately, for timeless advice on programming as a profession the language is immaterial.

In this case they got unlucky with an incident before they finished work on planned changes from the last incident.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46109142

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Jaxley: Differentiable simulation enables large-scale training of detailed biophysical models of neural dynamics [1]

They basically created sofware to simulate real neurons and ran some realistic models to replicate typical AI learning tasks:

"The model had nine different channels in the apical and basal dendrite, the soma, and the axon [39], with a total of 19 free parameters, including maximal channel conductances and dynamics of the calcium pumps."

So yeah, real neurons are a bit more complex then ReLU or Sigmoid.

[1] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.21.608979v2....

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Invokes shades of Iain M. Banks' "Surface Detail" Culture novel, where virtual Hells are a major plot point.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/problem-with-updates-error-fa...

But wait, there's more! You can't install new instances of Ubuntu 24.04.2 because the installer connects to security.ubuntu.com by default (probably for good reasons) and will bail out while formatting and writing the disk when it gets 500 Internal Server Error from security.ubuntu.com for a specific deb file. There's no option around it that I'm aware of if you're doing an install connected to the network. I'm told that things should work if you try to install without networking connected. But that's not working for me, possibly due to some drivers it needs to pull for my hardware that are not in the default installer.

Ran into this while trying to install a fresh instance on an old mac hardware.

All in all, not a good look for Canonical, especially given how long this is taking to resolve and the lack of any status indication that this is still a problem. Lots of people are being bitten by this in the last 24 hours.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45150649

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Game engine design is a rabbit hole :)

Game design is the ultimate lockbox - you're unlocking an entire imaginary world which has some platonic existance in your mind.

And since you mentioned Luanti, it deserves to be much better known as a credible open alternative to Minecraft. You could do a lot worse then designing/prototyping your game with Luanti as the game engine.

https://www.luanti.org/