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Comment · 3 months ago
It reads to me like "We did all the work you'd do to figure out how to fix the benchmark, then we decided to throw out the benchmark". Is there some reason the underlying data is so golden that it can't be patched? At the end they argue for a slightly more curated approach to benchmark generation, but my gut is that using messy ill-specified tests taken from real world data and patching them into fairness would be a pretty solid path to take.
Comment · 1 year ago
There's a book covering this and more from 1993 called "Strange Attractors: Creating Patterns in Chaos" by Julian C. Sprott that's freely available here: https://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/SA.HTM

It's fun (errr... for me at least) to translate the ancient basic code into a modern implementation and play around.

The article mentions that it's interesting how the 2d functions can look 3d. That's definitely true. But, there's also no reason why you can't just add on however many dimensions you want and get real many-dimensioned structures with which you can noodle around with visualizations and animations.

Comment · 1 year ago
Sibling comments are giving good answers about Silksong in particular. But, a more general point to keep in mind is that gaming by revenue is an order of magnitude larger than movies. In that light it's a little strange that gaming news/events don't hit the general attention sphere more than they do.
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Comment · 2 years ago
Also, China's battery production is described as a "battery complex" while US battery production is described as a "battery industry" or "battery industrial base".
Comment · 3 years ago
The video meanders for a bit at the start, but about a third of the way through turns into a pretty interesting breakdown of how deferred rendering works in general, and then specifically Breath of the Wild's deferred rendering passes.
Comment · 3 years ago
Waypoint was lost. Good gaming media is like a big water droplet that keeps on getting smushed by a the big dumb thumb of capitalism. It still shifts to a new spot, but ever diminishing. One of the rare ones that even made money. Still, gone.
Comment · 3 years ago
Looking forward to the competitive video game Zendesk VS.
Comment · 3 years ago
Should thinkers read? As a thinker, I thought I'd venture here to the reading room to see if I could glean any data-driven insights. What I found was a new form of Readable Thinking Words (aka "writing") called a blog. After a moments perusal I realized this was a kind of web log, something I'd come across in my last reading room excursion 20 years ago. Despite my ignorance, I knew I'd be able to leverage my thinkability into something positive for the readers, so I decided to leave this enriching comment. What a huge improvement for you all! Thinkers really should read every now and then.
Comment · 3 years ago
> Less than 1% is radioactive for 10,000 years. This portion can be easily isolated and shielded

How would this work? My assumption was that the pellets are fairly homogeneous. Does the decay happen faster in exterior of the pellet? Or is there some process to concentrate the radiation?

Comment · 4 years ago
Why does ntpd lose the smear on a restart? I would have thought that the current smear could be calculated purely based off current non-smear time, plus the config to say when to smear, which is presumably available upon restart.

Also, why were non-linear smears thought to be desirable? Googling just turns up hand-wavy phrases like "easier on clients".

Comment · 4 years ago

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