Amazing demonstratings of GPT-4o with realtime voices that sound very human and playful - and they can sing and laugh. They can also understand what is going on with a phone's camera Here two AIs are finding things funny and laughing a lot: (a female AI looking at a hat, then a male AI being told a ...

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Sat Apr 13, 2024 4:01 am

Infinite blood is a bold claim. ℵ₀ is a lot of blood to render.

Basically the blood makes the textures of the ground, walls, bodies, etc, change. It can be changed an infinite number of times. Usually games would use "decals" where each blood splat is a separate quad.

I'm still a happily married mouth-breather. I'm making quite a lot of progress on my blood-filled Bible game. Gotta add those microtransactions. Where does the game stand on the question of transubstantiation? Well the plan is to put it on Steam early access for US$0.99. It's in the Old Testament b...

I had an ant issue once, where they entered through a crack on the balcony, crossed the dinette, kitchen, and living room, and made a trail down the public hallway towards a neighbor who was on the Board of Directors. I put ant poison in the hole, caulked it up, and placed ant traps along the route...

I'm a fan of this (A$2.80) flyspray.JPG It's for "flies, mosquitoes, spiders, ants, cockroaches, fleas and silverfish". Lately there would sometimes be about 100 ants just swarming around in the kitchen (e.g. honey or near a bin). Sprayed some of this - they're all dead. It can kill things even if t...

About "you know". When I started university I eventually was seeing a campus psychologist for depression. I said "you know" at some point and he said "no I don't know". Around that time he also said he wanted to put a rocket under me. A book called "Talk Language" also discouraged the use of "you kn...

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Fri Feb 23, 2024 5:46 am

JohnClay wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 23, 2024 12:15 am

Hi good to hear from you again

Good to see you John! How has life been treating you?

I'm still a happily married mouth-breather. I'm making quite a lot of progress on my blood-filled Bible game.

Hi good to hear from you again

OK. But I was thinking more along the 'child labor versus' point. Child labor would be a worse option for a child who could be effectively educated. But yes, if you interpret as a child for whom education is almost certain to fail, I see what you are getting at. I thought kids that aren't good at s...

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Neil-Postman#ref1198654 In The Disappearance of Childhood (1982), Postman claimed that childhood is essentially a social artifact. Its origin was closely linked to the printing press and the growth of literacy, which made possible the segregation of groups into c...