Side note, whatever happened with the great Unity pricing debacle? Did developers end up moving en masse to Unreal and Godot? Or were Unity’s walkbacks and contrition sufficient to keep it a going concern?
The number of variations produced by evolution is truly astonishing. Dizzying to think of every species of the past 500 million years that we will never know.
People think that art from the past must have all been done by masters, but just as with any pursuit at any time, most practitioners are mediocre to bad.
I’m going to go out on a limb and assume that a comparison between the Trump and Biden administrations in efforts to police the telecom industry would show a marked difference in both effort and effectiveness.
I recently read Michael Lewis's "The New New Thing," which posits that Netscape was a get-rich-quick scheme by Jim Clark to fund a computer-navigated sailboat. He knew that Microsoft would render the company obsolete in six months, and bet that investors wouldn't glom on to that fact quickly enough. And boy was he right!
Does Uber regret shutting down its autonomous efforts? The problem has emerged as a tractable one. Or were they just too far behind and the capital expenditures too high to even remotely consider continuing? Does Uber exist in ten years?
Is there a standard, user-friendly way of generating consistent AI images yet? Or is it just starting to emerge in patches like the tool here? Because DALL-E for example is a complete crapshoot; it has no ability for fine-tuning or persistence across images/iterations.
No one ever remembers/points out that in the show, Scully was ALWAYS WRONG. Like, every single time. It was aliens or a monster that did it, guaranteed.