You have a Minecraft server. You generate money from it (selling VIP packages, et cetera). You could generate more money if you had more players. You can have more players if you consistently DDoS other more popular servers; the experience for these players will be horrible and they might give your server a chance.
> Bézier curves are great, but there are certain things they just can’t do. For example:
It would be nice if we had a better explanation of what is wrong with the Bézier curves in the example. I've put the spring Bézier example side by side with the javascript simulated one, had them both trigger at the same time on a keyboard press and I can barely notice a difference; one doesn't look better than the other to my eyes.
Where do you see a Bezier-based spring example? I think the one in the section you quoted is just to show what a spring animation looks like, so you know what you're missing by sticking to Bezier curves.
I'm on my phone right now, so I can't actually verify how the one in that section is implemented.
As an unpaid volunteer to a multimillion dollar corporation that has just erased a huge collective volunteer effort, listing in writing the reasons I'm unhappy is already way too much effort.
Asking that same volunteer to hop on a video call is just insensitive. They're the one providing free work; if you care about solving the problem and not losing the volunteer force, you should go where they are (the forums) instead of asking them to come to you (video call). They probably don't want to take time out of their schedule to waste their time talking with a community rep. And they probably don't even want to do a voice/video call.
I've been playing with Suno lately (I'm an amateur/hobby musician, for context) and I've been making some tracks for my own enjoyment. I've shown it to friends and got mixed reactions.
Personally, I think it's still uncanny similar to these AI image gens with multiple hands and nonsense details in the background. You can one-shot a lot of passable stuff but the moment you want to put more effort into it (e.g. correct a word or two, slightly change the style of a section) the track gets really messy very fast.
Directory Opus, replacement for File Explorer. It's got a whole bag of tricks but I just appreciate the built in "convert to x" and FTP, oh and the bulk file renaming. Oh and built in support for various archive formats (no more winrar). Oh and (etc etc)
Even if you could generate real-time 4K 120hz gameplay that reacts to a player's input and the hardware doesn't cost a fortune, you would still need to deal with all the shortcomings of LLMs: hallucinations, limited context/history, prompt injection, no real grasp of logic / space / whatever the game is about.
Maybe if there's a fundamental leap in AI. It's still undecided if larger datasets and larger models will make these problems go away.
I actually think many of these are non-issues if devs take the most likely approach which is simply doing a hybrid approach.
You only need to apply generative AI to game assets that do not do well with the traditional triangle rasterization approach. Static objects are already at practically photorealistic level in Unreal Engine 5. You just need to apply enhancement techniques to things like faces. Using the traditionally rendered face as a prior for the generation would prevent hallucinations.
People seem to use VPNs to avoid IP based issues, like Netflix or ip bans/associations, not sure anyone would use it for actual privacy -- at best its obsfucation.
It was after watching a documentary called "WOW Signal". The receiver they built was along the edge of a field, and it's designed to pick up extremely weak variations in electrical signals/radio waves. They go into great detail about how sensitive it is. The signal itself looks like a parabola when graphed, gaining in intensity and then falling off at the same rate. Exactly what you'd expect from someone walking across the field in front of it. And if I remember correctly, the signal was more about how much it differed from what was expected, not necessarily how intense it was. My thinking is that if it can pick up on the variations in signal from a star system light-years away, it would also indicate on a Timex watch (or flashlight) a dozen meters away.
I'd like to watch this documentary. Do you know the year and/or channel where you saw it? The antenna is focused with a tremendous amount of gain towards a spot in the sky, and provides a very significant amount of rejection to signals in all other directions. I can't see how you would get a signal at 1.42 GHz from a watch or flashlight. Harmonics from something like a walkie talkie only occur when the radio is transmitting, and they would spread in bandwidth at each successive harmonic. It would have to be an extremely narrow fundamental frequency, with no audio signal on it, to get a signal with less than 10 kHz at 1.42 GHz.
> The signal itself looks like a parabola when graphed, gaining in intensity and then falling off at the same rate. Exactly what you'd expect from someone walking across the field in front of it.
Also exactly what you'd expect if aliens were beaming a search signal into their sky, no?
Well, yeah, but I wasn't addressing that. My point is that any signal from an intelligent species is going to look exactly like the signal from someone walking past with an emitter.
Statistically speaking, everything points to human interference.
My theory is that the government was planning to cut funding, and to stop that from happening someone deliberately created the interference. That's more likely than aliens going extinct after sending one single message.
As another reader who has no idea what any of this is about, I've coerced my favorite LLM to digest it into ooga-booga format in the style of this essay[1]:
# grug see big sky boom
- sky make ooga FLASH but not light, just invisible whoosh (radio).
- whoosh so strong, like sun work many day, but all squish into blink of eye.
- smart sky-people have big ear rock (CHIME). ear rock say:
"boom come from there, galaxy far, but not too far (only 130 million fire-circles (light years) away)."
- ear rock also have many little ear-brother rock across land, help point finger very good.
- finger point so good, sky-people know spot of boom smaller than tree forest (13 parsec).
- then, magic glass eye (James Webb) look at spot. see old fat star (red giant) glowing soft.
- but fat star not make ooga boom. hmm. maybe fat star have sneaky tiny angry friend (neutron star).
- tiny angry friend go "KRAK!" → make fast radio boom.
# lesson for tree-brain
- boom in sky still big mystery.
- now smart sky-people can say where boom come from.
- if know where, can watch with other eyes, maybe find secret of why.
- grug think: many sky boom = maybe angry tiny stars yelling far away.
# Ooga booga translation:
"Tree no know why sky yell. But now tree know where sky yell. Soon, tree maybe know why sky yell."
