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"Jupylet is an amazing library for 2d and 3d game programming, live music coding and sound synthesis in pure python, and a framework for rendering thousands of frames per second for Reinforcement Learning, all rolled into one" - the baker

Jupylet is a library that enables creating and running pyglet games inside Jupyter notebooks both for kids learning to program and for researchers of reinforcement learning. RL researchers and developers can use it to easily create new environments, and to programmatically control and render thousands of frames per second.

what is the deep difference between this mechanism and a simple spring / coil?

for proportion, studying that planet and its sun is like trying to observe a flea orbiting a ping pong ball floating in space as far away as the moon...

the apple II, the C64, the mac, the Amiga, and later the PC, the Internet, Windows, Linux and then the IPhone and Android, dozens of other amazing projects, products, technologies and movements (e.g. open source), all revolutionized and transformed our lives or at least had some impact on the history of computing,

but how does an API for handling image formats amount to that today?

isn't it fair to say that the Amiga had its day in the 80s and 90s, and that time is now past?

Or to put it in Mr. Praline famous words: 'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!

> And there are still massive amounts of functionality that isn't readily available in mainstream OS's today.

Can you specify?

> lots of developers ignore a lot of the lessons these systems have for us

what lessons are you talking about?

and I seem to remember "the 6 million dollar man" as the most awesome series ever, and yet once every couple of years when I get the urge to look up an episode for old times sake I need to confront reality, that it actually totally sucked.

take a look at this top 10 games video for the Amiga - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82kwS9fU7N4 , it may have rated as awesome in 1985-1990 but comparing it with anything today is totally ridiculous; and gaming is just an example, since this comparison extends to any other software genre, such as office, communication, engineering, scientific tools, programming tools, etc...

I was in love with my C64 and everything Commodore including the Amiga, as any Apple die hard is today; but isn't it time we moved on? it was a computer, and it is no more... chao, and thanks for all the fish...

interesting, FPGA was used to speed up bitcoin mining, outdating the use of GPU - now it is coming to neural networks.

Physics is most probably computable, since people created it; the real question is whether the world is (Turing) computable, and from my point of view it is clearly not. I find it remarkable that most people believe it is or that it might be.

The problem here is that the so called singularity does not necessarily depend on machines having the so called qualia.

I'm a dualist but for the sake of argument, one approach is to claim that however the brain functions, it should be explainable by physics, and if physics is computable, then it should in principle be simulable by a Turing Machine.

The Feynman lectures - http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/

For me it consistently produces one OMG or more per chapter.

while not mentioned in the article, it is remarkable that this phenomena is very strongly apparent in dreams, in particular in lucid dreams; an effective way to dramatically change a dream is to walk through a door or a mirror; for example, you are in a distressing situation in your remote village home, you walk out the door to find out you are suddenly in a bustling big city street, you turn around open the door again, and find out it is the door of a restaurant, the previous scene having completely disappeared.

Doesn't seem to work well on chrome on a modern tablet.

yes, this is gonna be huge for gaming

hallelujah!

the magazine is from 1983, so the C language was not news by then.

Flipping the pages of the magazine is awesome - the ads on every other page are just like time travel.

It has been so long since I have last seen the Charlie Chaplin ad for IBM: https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1983-08/1983_08_BYT...

I was a kid back then with a Commodore 64

We are totally fucked.

our brains evolved to make sense of our surroundings, and these surroundings are part of the universe; we are just struggling to expand the domain.

Last week a project called photon, and now a project called tachyon, I don't get it, what's the idea? can't you find a proper name to your project?

An offline version of the website is still floating around the Internet space.

at what index does the ascii encoding of the entire works of Shakespeare begin?

Thanks for this pointer!

Take a look at the awesome: http://theoreticalminimum.com/

We may never know what the universe really is.

Life and consciousness are not the properties of a complex state machine, but the properties of the universe.

The universe is not the mathematics or physics that we use to describe it.

Consciousness and life are two miracles of existence that neither the galaxies, nor the atoms seem to manifest. Probably most life forms on earth are not conscious either.

From that point of view we seem to be a miraculous needle in the haystack of the universe as we know it.

sky map with higher resolution: http://server7.sky-map.org/v2?ra=17.243&de=-38.586&zoom=2&im...

performance performance performance.

And it is not just about direct user experience either.

Even if a given app may be written in Python it will probably drain the battery faster, since for each bit of work that would have taken X cpu cycles with Java, you would spend 20X with Python, not to mention memory handling, etc...

A language is just a tool, use the right one for the Job.

a Pythonista

Now we need a human way to write Ruby in Python.