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if you really love CS - there's a future in it. If AI becomes the new substrate for civilization, we'll always need people who fundamentally understand how these systems works to some degree.
I've been building a little io style game since Christmas, it's been fun!
My kid played it, and didn't stop for 45 minutes so I think that's a win :-)
Quick context on the bots.
I tried standard LLM-based approaches first, but iteration was slow and the bots never felt consistent or aware of real-time game state.
OpenClaw sped up the feedback loop a lot and handled game context much better by operating over structured actions instead of free-form text. The result is bots that actually play the game using the same mechanics as humans.
They’re still imperfect, but good enough to make the game feel alive. Happy to answer questions.
Thanks! Appreciate the encouragement
It's no secret! I used Tyler Hobbs' method which has a great write up here:
https://www.tylerxhobbs.com/words/a-guide-to-simulating-wate...
Then I tweaked it until it look good for use in my app.
Very cool - has a very dreamlike quality to it
Definitely know where you're coming from. I work as a developer in a government job that is unionized, and even though the salary is less than market rate, the security of it keeps me there. If such opportunities are available wherever you're located could be worth looking into. While there are aspects of a gov job that can be boring, overall it's actually been really interesting and challenging work.
Just a little hack project for fun, the kids loved it.
Video of it in action - https://imgur.com/a/g0Jik5b
Anyone played around with this much? Seems interesting, and I'm curious how well it's sped up performance in practical usage.
Check out JoseBriones on YouTube - great dumbphone review channel
Try using Jupyter Notebooks or another notebook based programming environment. Good way to change things up and very enjoyable to use :-)
I've done something similar with gpt3 (codex) and had good results
Definitely agree with this - in 2022 this just seems humane more than anything.
Not sure where you are - but in my situation having my 2nd son right in March 2020, I had (and still have) a job with the government. I had 6 months paid pat leave (full salary) and relatively low stress.
Wouldn't even consider taking a more stressful job until the kids are older, as the trade-off isn't worth it.
All that being said, you need to factor in your partners job, and cost of living wherever you are.
For me, being a dad has been awesome, even through COVID, I hope you can find a way to enjoy it.
Very cool! Love the simplicity of the characters, but smooth animations.
Made with midjourney
KilledByAPixel is a genius
Feels like I'm answering questions my 4 year old always asks me.
SpinRite - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpinRite
LOL trying to watch the keynote but keep getting asked to login to Facebook and then since I don't have an account, I get the boot. I think that about sums it up.
Agreed! Definitely one of my favourite podcasts.
Have you checked out Indie Hackers?
I had success moving my friend group onto Signal, but that was a group of young-ish, privacy interested, anti-Facebookers, so it wasn't much of a hard sell.
It's an "installable" web app - ie creates a desktop icon or mobile launch icon and removes the chrome from the browser so it looks like a native app. For mobile I believe there's a pop-up that prompts for install, on desktop you have to do it in the options menu I believe.
I've heard it's pretty meh, not the revolution they promised - Hololens 2 is supposed to be better.
I agree with most of your points, I live in Toronto as well, but in regards to homelessness here I wonder how much of that has to do with climate - warmer cities must attract larger homeless populations I would guess.
The bezier.js library associated with this is great
Looks awesome! Wish they had added analogue inputs, does anyone know why they don't do this? Worked on a project where I needed analogue input, and I had to use a Pi/Arduino combo.
Love it :-) Having the colour applied to things right away is really helpful, great idea!
I agree, this would be a cool idea and make it feel more personalized