Romero was a prolific programmer himself back in the day. He's become more known as a designer because Carmack took over as the main engine programmer at id, but Romero was still writing tooling and editors, in addition to doing the level design.
For those like me, who have stopped following WMF governance for a long while and wondered "huh, I remember a Brion Vibber, is she related to him?", yes indeed she is as related as a person could possibly ever be: it's the same person.
How cool it will be to pick up some interesting book from this, and give me to llm and direct it to make it a modern multiplayer game. Has anyone tried this?
If you and I can understand this paper, or use the process to achieve something similar for the ends we care about, wouldn't that be enough? Why do you care who it is coming from and what their motivations are?
How likely will an LLM agent actually donates either using credit card or using Monero tokens ? I think, it is very clever, and I give a non-zero chance of a donation happening with this text.
If the prediction markets are between people, why do people bet against the mostly likely outcome at all ?
Real anecdote. For e.g, during Superbowl 2026. The markets were allowed bets to be placed until 6 minutes to close, when Seahawks were way ahead of New England Patriots.
The probablity of Seahawks winning was almost 99% and any person who places a 1000 dollar bet will make 1100 in 6 minutes. Where is the 100 dollar going to come from? Who loses that?
$1000 would return $1010. The money comes from people who want to close their trades early rather than wait for the market to settle. Often times no one actually takes these offers and then it just sits in the order book.
Since you built it, I am curious about the scientific accuracy of the movie, book and while taking the information GAIA DR3. I wanted to assume at least the stars part is science, but I think, there is a lot of fiction in that setting. Is this map the reality of what we know as science, since it came from GAIA DR3 dataset?
And, thank you very much. This is super cool and exciting. I wish such a one exists for Asimov's foundation universe (fiction).
The book does a significantly better job explaining the science behind the mission than the movie (which I found insulting, but I'm clearly in the minority of holding that opinion).
The book was certainly better than the movie, but I'll take every damned example of 'humans working collectively to solve an existential crisis' I can get.
As 'on the nose' as 'Don't look up' was, we clearly need more content that inspires action than pits us to despair.
This was exactly one of the reasons why I hated the movie.
Andy did a fantastic job describing how nation-states might put aside their differences and work together to solve an existential crisis. Some of the events he imagined were just as awesome as they were unlikely in today's political climate.
ALL of that was distilled away in the movie. Like, LITERALLY ALL of it.
Lord Miller reduced the book to "Hot Homer in space and telepathic rock alien thing work together to save their planets." It was a beautifully crafted movie, but SO much dumber than it had to be.
The stars featured in the movie and in this chart (and in the book) are real, and reflect their real-world locations.
The planets around the stars, aside from our own solar system (obviously), are fictional-- both Tau Ceti and 40 Eridani are stars where we're looking for exoplanets, but we don't have strong evidence for either yet.
Not about the stars part or the map, but xenonite struck me as rather odd from a scientific standpoint. Apparently it's some organic chemical bonded--somehow--to xenon. But the mystery depended on the mass spectrometer Grace uses to analyze xenonite not being able to detect nuclei of atoms smaller than some atomic number (something like 20?). So he couldn't tell what it was made of, except for xenon. My initial assumption was that it had to do with one of the few xenon-based compounds we know about, XeF4 (xenon tetrafloride), but there must be more to it than that.
The movie makes it clear that it is both an unknown, and unexpected, xenon-based material. Plus, the scientist analyzing it has (presumably) no real background in materials science.
This is correct. I have switched back to Cursor, with sota models, after I discovered that I lost control when I gave in to industry drumbeat of using cli based agents and which presented _something_ to review and then went back again in full swing.
In the other Project Gutenberg discussion, I started checking out science fiction stories, and came across this one.
Robert Sheckley wrote this in 1953, but the story has so much parallels to the modern day LLMs and their capabilities and limitations to humans.
> It's well established now that the way you put a question often determines not only the answer you'll get, but the type of answer possible. So ... a mechanical answerer, geared to produce the ultimate revelations in reference to anything you want to know, might have unsuspected limitations.
I do. He is responsible for one of the major breakthroughs in the world. He is as trustworthy as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, or Bill Gates is. Remember, they are playing the game of Business. The rules of the game are different than say rules of scientific breakthroughs.
Didn't Melinda Gates ultimately divorce him because he tried to sneak antibiotics into her food to cure the Chlamydia he gave her after he contracted it from a Russian hooker on Epstein's Island?
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