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EwanG

1,587 karma · joined November 21, 2010

Writer, Photographer, Programmer - Not necessarily in that order
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EwanG··on Route 66 App to Let You Scroll the Whole Route and the Surviving Features
Not my app, but it was shared as part of the upcoming centennial of the route (~November 1926 was the date).
EwanG··on How to Navigate the Singularity
Interesting watch, and based on the description some of what is shown is based on actual work.
EwanG··on What If America Went Dark?
The question is if your neighbors are ready for that.

I think a lot of survivalist planning seems to forget that few of us live somewhere so far out that we don't need to account for our neighbors actions.

EwanG··on CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s
https://archive.is/JfB5V
EwanG··on Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds
I have a child who has to use a speech board to communicate. Will Ello adjust itself to work with a non-verbal child? If not, is that in the plans?
EwanG··on How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?
As usual, the hard problem is how you define "Elementary" which is why the posters always show 17, and then you get numbers that go as high as 995.5 (and the .5 is an interesting result as well).
EwanG··on The Cult of LK99
I suspect there's a seed of an HN documentary here as well.
EwanG··on Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave
I suspect it got more traffic than expected. See the same results on Win 11 with Chrome this morning.
EwanG··on Tesla Has Its First Semi-Truck and It's a Hit with Truckers
Archive link - https://archive.is/20260320002635/https://www.wsj.com/busine...
EwanG··on Show HN: A real-time strategy game that AI agents can play
At least until one of the competitors is overheard saying "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play"
EwanG··on Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport
According to postings on a couple Reddit discussions, this surprised the El Paso city council among others:

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1r1r7tu/what_does...

and

https://www.reddit.com/r/ADSB/comments/1r1pqnp/10_day_tfr_is...

EwanG··on America Surrenders in the Global Information Wars
Ironic (at least to me) that trying to go to the URL results in a message that I am blocked because it thinks I'm a bot. I assume for the same reason I get that from the NYT (because I tend to use a VPN... horrors).

At least they are both consistent in that trying to sign up for a subscription leads to the same message.

EwanG··on Show HN: I AI-coded a tower defense game and documented the whole process
Curious if anyone here has tried rosebud.ai for something similar. I looked into it, and it did appear to break it down into steps, but can't really produce anything that runs without upgrading to a paid tier.
EwanG··on Cesium for Unreal – Bring the Real World to Unreal Engine
Have a handicapped daughter who I can't share a hike with since wheelchairs and rugged mountain trails don't go together well. Something like this would make sharing the experience quite a bit better - particularly with AR to allow us both to experience together (VR being a bit restrictive to just the person viewing and not the others there).
EwanG··on Studies suggest a drug-free nasal spray could ward off respiratory infections
In mice, and also using a printed replica of a nasal cavity. It will be a while before we even see human tests, and I'm sort of curious how humans will respond to feeling their noses filled with a gel...
EwanG··on Human brain organoid bioprocessors now available to rent for $500 per month
I'm not sure "The Matrix" was meant to be a How-To Manual... because this sure feels like the first step to humans in a tube.
EwanG··on Multiple nations enact mysterious export controls on quantum computers
Sounds very much like someone did some theoretical work that said at 34 qubits you can do something interesting, and then other nations started copying the restriction while trying to figure out the why...
EwanG··on AI Love Island – multi agent text based dating simulation
I have to wonder how you could incorporate this into Sad Panda's CrushCrush or similar games. I imagine it would make their job of keeping content fresh easier.
EwanG··on [dead]
Non-paywall link?
EwanG··on What would happen if a nuclear bomb went off in your backyard
Related and possibly more helpful if you want to asses your risk - https://www.mirasafety.com/blogs/news/nuclear-attack-map
EwanG··on The Washington Post Tells Staff It's Pivoting to AI
AI Editor of course... (/s... I think?)
EwanG··on Building an AI game studio: what we've learned so far
Having done a couple indie games myself over the years, I think you're addressing many of the pain points of building such a game. However the REAL problem as an indie gamer is getting a marketing/get-the-word-out campaign such that said game produces enough income to cover the cost of making it.

Will you be adding a "marketing" add-on to this to help developers actually get their games noticed and played?

EwanG··on Tell HN: Bypass Paywalls repository is gone
The last couple of versions I tried to download gave TROJAN warnings from MS Defender. I had created an issue on the project notifying the developer, and I understood he was changing things to not give a "false positive". Perhaps GitLab didn't think they were false positives?
EwanG··on Ask HN: What happened to bypass-paywalls-Chrome-clean?
The last couple of versions I tried to download gave TROJAN warnings from MS Defender. I had created an issue on the project notifying the developer, and I understood he was changing things to not give a "false positive". Perhaps GitLab didn't think they were false positives?
EwanG··on AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License
Amusing, as well as a decent ad for the latest version of Suno.ai
EwanG··on Launch HN: Eggnog (YC W24) – AI videos with consistent characters
OK, but if I want to put it on YT will I be able to? Or is the model that you are trying to drive traffic to your site rather than provide video generation?

If so, then what is the plan (if any) to monetize for creators?

EwanG··on Launch HN: Eggnog (YC W24) – AI videos with consistent characters
Pricing? I'd like to use something like this to do an animated version of one of my books, but I'd want to be able to add music and obviously voices. I don't need lip sync since I'm looking for more of a video of a scene, perhaps with a character or two in that scene but not actually trying to fully animate them.

To do that I figure I would need about 5-6 minutes of video per chapter (perhaps less with some looping), and the ability to DL the video or otherwise export it (assuming I can upload my other media into your Composite tool) to put on YT or the like. And would probably want to lose the watermark in that case as well.

EwanG··on Shakespeare expert overturns fly-tipper myth about playwright's father
One of the key insights presented is that "fine" in that time would more closely translate to "fee" in our current world. Basically a decent examination showing that folks were more "aware" of the impact of things than we've given them credit for.
EwanG··on I Spent a Week with Gemini Pro 1.5–It's Fantastic
Article seems to suggest just that as the author states that he's doubtful the model will perform as well when it's scaled to general Google usage
EwanG··on I Spent a Week with Gemini Pro 1.5–It's Fantastic
Which feeds into Saint Motel's song "You're Nobody Til Somebody Wants You Dead" which has a bit about how the list just grows and grows until it's everyone you've ever known...
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