fordacious

45 karma · joined June 8, 2013

fordacious··on OpenAI builds first chip with Broadcom and TSMC, scales back foundry ambition

This is true and I'm sad to see the hacker news crowd blindly repeating falsehoods.

fordacious··on Buy, Borrow, Die – Explained

>Let's assume the asset appreciates at an annual rate of 8 percent

Quite a lot of value creation going on. Good on them!

fordacious··on Cradle: Empowering Foundation Agents Towards General Computer Control

Many games do happen to be set up this way wrt their input systems if they happen to leverage Steam input. Player actions in game are defined as abstract verbs with concrete input device binding being left to the player / underlying system. Valve is trying to nudge games towards being platonic objects isolated from specific systems (so they'll be readily compatible steam deck, vr, pc etc...). Translating these verbs in an automated way with an agent is an interesting side effect.

fordacious··on The Garden of Computational Delights

I officially protest hacker news cynicism and choose to love this ideal

fordacious··on Dolphin Progress May and June 2022

The ones I know have day jobs but many are students and contribute out of a combination of passion and a desire to learn. Often the emulator work is put to pasture when they leverage it to get hired unfortunately.

fordacious··on Johnson and Johnson hid findings of asbestos in Baby Powder for decades

Crafty. Would have never thought to look in baby powder for a company report of findings.

fordacious··on Write your own Virtual CPU in C++

I got this idea from a friend, but whenever I wanted to learn a new language, I would quickly hack out a 4001 emulator in that language. Its an interesting but quick challenge.

http://pastebin.com/YkhRsuih - C

http://pastebin.com/L79CeeGB - Haskell

http://pastebin.com/LybWwGzm - JS

http://pastebin.com/ZVDiRmP6 - MHS this language cant take input (its an educational toy language for a course)