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Readit Newstamat commented on Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server github.com/9001/copyparty... · Posted by u/saint11
tamat commented on OpenFront: Realtime Risk-like multiplayer game in the browser openfront.io/... · Posted by u/thombles
You must plant your nation during the generation fase, otherwise you wont exist in the game!!! (took me 10 minutes to figure out)
This is the wrong way to look at the issue.
The super-rich don't stay rich by just sitting on their money, they invest it.
These countries should focus on encouraging investment there - by getting rid of bureaucracy and red tape, make it possible to hire across the whole EU a lot easier, without needing separate tax registration in every country, etc.
Lower the barriers to entry wherever possible - no long application processes for developments with endless consultations, no arbitrary minority language or qualification requirements, etc.
Income inequality is a good thing, but there needs to be equal access to education and opportunities and the lowest barriers to entry possible.
so you want to help the rich so they can be richer...
If you're interested in how to implement SDF and MSDF in WebGL / WebGPU, take a look at this tutorial I wrote: https://infinitecanvas.cc/guide/lesson-015#msdf.
wow, I love the format of the site.
Can you tell me more about it? I love making tutorials about GPU stuff and I would love to structure them like yours.
Is it an existing template? Is it part of some sort of course?
tamat commented on How can AI researchers save energy? By going backward quantamagazine.org/how-ca... · Posted by u/pseudolus
Theoretically, a computer that never forgets anything can run without consuming any power (and thus never heating). That kind of computer would be called reversible (or adiabatic) as it would require its gates to be reversible (i.e. any computation can be undone). You would still need to expend energy to set the initial state (input) and copy the result (output).
Obviously, in real life, most power consumed by computers is lost by wire resistance, not through "forgetting" memory in logic gates. You would need superconducting wires and gates to build an actually reversible CPU.
Also, you would need to "uncompute" the result of a computation to bring back your reversible computer from its result back to its initial state, which may be problematic. Or you can expend energy to erase the state.
Quantum computers are reversible computers, if you seek a real life example. Quantum logic gates are reversible and can all be inverted.
Thanks for your explanation
tamat commented on How can AI researchers save energy? By going backward quantamagazine.org/how-ca... · Posted by u/pseudolus
It's a thermodynamics thing. Reversible processes are the most efficient (something to do with entropy). Deleting information means it's no longer reversible. This is an entirely theoretical thing. There are theoretical limits to energy usage of computation based on this, but actual computers are nowhere near these theoretical limits, at all.
Edit: and yes, most of the logical operations in a regular chip like AND, OR, NAND etc are irreversible (in isolation, anyway)
thanks for your reply
tamat commented on How can AI researchers save energy? By going backward quantamagazine.org/how-ca... · Posted by u/pseudolus
As a Software Engineer I found it hard to grasp the concepts explained here.
First it says we lose electrons by deleting information. But AFAIK we are losing electrons everywhere, most gates will operate on negation of a current, which I understand is what they refeer to losing electrons. So, are all gates bad now?
Also, why keeping a history of all memory changes will prevent losing heat? You will have to keep all that memory running so...
And finally, why would this be useful? Who needs to go back in time in their computations??
tamat commented on Show HN: DaedalOS – Desktop Environment in the Browser github.com/DustinBrett/da... · Posted by u/DustinBrett
On one side Im amazed by the amount of good work you have done, but on the other, I feel it lacks true useful scenarios.
For instance, I would love to install it in my server to handle my own server files, but it doesnt support mounting a folder to access from the OS.
Or I would love to have an SSH client, or a terminal that is executed in the server, to run my own nodejs apps.
Also some form of login/pass would be helpfull in case somebody got access to the URL.
But none of them are available.
I understand than the goal was to see whats possible in a browser, but to make it more appealing to people I would love to see some real usecases covered.
Cheers
tamat commented on WorldGen: Open-source 3D scene generator for Game/VR/XR worldgen.github.io/... · Posted by u/ziyangxie
Neat! But not quite what I was expecting. It doesn't really make a 3D "scene". It makes a 3D panorama (building a mesh based off the depth of the panorama). Move off the center and all the things that were occluded are missing.
I guess, because we're in the time of generative content, that I was expecting it would recognize what's in the scene and fill in the missing parts. Maybe in version 2
which for me doesnt make any sense as why to generate a 3D mesh that can only be seen from one point of view? why not map the panorama to an sphere?
Poker is a great way to learn a lot of life lessons about human psychology, money management, strategy vs tactics, game theory, and so much more.
There is this weird protestant puritanism around so many aspects of life that confuse me. Every child is going to become an adult, but there is this attitude that they must be shielded from all adult knowledge until they're 21 as if that's helpful.
Your kid can - through game play - learn so much that will make them a more balanced, rounded, capable human than their peers. And done the right way, they're not going to end up degenerate gamblers, but quite the opposite.
I dont want to romanticize the game in his mind, so when he grows up people ask him to play poker and he sees it as "that nice game we played at home!".
It is a game with very strong connections with gambling. There are thousands of other games without that association which are as rewarding as poker.