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Thanks for this. When was the document published? It’s nearly 500 pages!

Awesome investigation and breakdown.

I’d encourage interested readers to look at some of Leslie’s other papers. His work from decades past was very forward thinking and useful in today’s world.

His work has directly shaped how many distributed systems reach consensus. Including recent projects like Solana. Also check out VDF and proof of history.

Awesome to see the recent adoption of Pi modules in game consoles. I can’t wait to see where this goes

I love this but it needs more Rust :)

Sea pirates still exist and would love this… you’d need to provide protection and safety, that would probably negate the energy gains

I love that there is a star showing some drift

Anyone know whether we’ve crossed the boundary on “the next Einstein will be an AI”?

Specifically, do scientists believe the next breakthroughs will come from humanity or are we waiting for AI at this point?

With a title like that I’d expect a picture, I guess the definition of seeing is different :)

Any plans to take this to mobile?

It seems people are frustrated with GitHub’s CoPilot pricing model

If only we could ask the engineer designed the module “why did you design it this way”?

Perhaps something to think about when writing code. It’s not always enough to know what it’s doing. Leave a comment with the why :)

It’s also interesting because there seems to be a competitive angle too. Sony makes cameras as well that use Sony sensors.

Also, I really like being able to read a thread of comments on a specific tweet as part of a thread. You would need to skim all comments otherwise.

Thanks for clarifying. I wasn’t aware of it back then unfortunately.

It’s good to see more players in this space.

For anyone interested, I put together a golang version of the WFC algorithm used by townscaper: https://github.com/zfedoran/go-wfc

And a live WASM demo if you’re into that: https://zfedoran.github.io/go-wfc-algorithm/

Wouldn’t this generate a ton of heat?

I don’t know. I hear you and do agree but part of me wonders whether the science learned from Juno is boring and pretty pictures would have been more exciting. Potentially leading to more science missions from newly excited public opinions. I am not qualified to make such judgments so I am hoping the did the right thing.

It’s really a shame they didn’t put better imaging equipment on Juno. The argument being that little science would be gained from it. I’d argue secondary effects would have made it worth the weight.

With all the advances in AI, I’d expect to be able to walk up to an NPC and just talk to it. No pre scripted options, just traits, background story, and inventories… let the AI figure it out from there.

For example, mass effect without the 4 pre-canned options during each dialogue.

Is it just me or is the syntax on these worse than the issues it’s solving?

It’ll be back, just give it 10 years.

For me, the biggest issue with using vanilla JS is the lack of guardrails.

Before even considering something like this I’d want to see a style guide and clear definition of where code should live. Frameworks like React do that well. I can expect a random React dev to mostly do similar things.

Is unreal engine the modern day equivalent of this? Is there something else that is more approachable?

I agree; perhaps they are afraid of negative impacts of releasing their work to the public. Either way, I’m not sure I understand the name choice at this point.

Blockchain != Bitcoin

I also agree that not everything needs a blockchain or decentralized layers. And moreover agree that there is a giant amount of garbage on the chain.

However, can we take a moment to acknowledge how biased the crowd here is against blockchain? I know you’re tired of the buzzwords, but the other side is also tired of the hostility towards there maybe being something useful on the chain.

As the author has pointed out, things have evolved substantially over the last year and it deserves open and fair discussion.

Yeah seriously. If they are not able to put into words or diagrams what the algorithm is doing then the company itself has no idea how it works. And that to me would suggest it’s far from optimal.

Many complicated research papers have had no issues describing their models at a high level. This should be no different.

This is a serious amount of effort for what I imagine is little payout. I really enjoy work like this and hope that he is able to make a living off it.

Anyone have thoughts on how to make projects like this more sustainable?