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Nope. AlphaZero taught itself to play games like chess, shogi, and Go through self-play, starting from random moves. It was not given any strategies or human gameplay data but was provided with the basic rules of each game to guide its learning process.

Google as a first class partner is a massive liability. Example: Stadia was amazing and they snuffed it in the cradle.

Samsung should license Google App store, but retain full control for executing a product launch.


> Example: Stadia was amazing and they snuffed it in the cradle.

You can be amazing and not make money.

Google is in the business of building good products AND making money.

Stadia was a good product.

It didn't look like it would ever make money.


I wonder how much consternation there was around reading tea leaves for the next administration and not wanting to end up on the wrong end of DOGE politics.


Elon runs DOGE right? Seems like they're screwed in that regard no matter what they do. Elon doesn't like Sam.


Palmer is a huge Trump donor so probably not an issue


Any evidence to back up "With Unreal becoming the Chrome of the game engine world"?


Bummer. I switched to Affinity (Photo, Designer) this year and am very happy. You can buy a lifetime license across all platforms (iPad, Mac, Windows) for a fixed price. It is great to have high quality software that is not a subscription.


I am not a fan of subscriptions but old versions of Photoshop were also lifetime licenses and a 10y old professional software still works exactly the same now as 10 years ago. Yet I don't see much professional gfx artists and workers claiming they are still using the old licensed software instead of whining about the sub. Is this trolling or are people just slave of the lure of the newest and latest?

I like new useful functionnalities as anyone but if the licensing model change and I don't like it, I am also content with not having them. The key us to not taste/knowing about them. Ignorance is bliss sometimes.


> 10y old professional software still works exactly the same now as 10 years ago

Great point for Windows. iOS, Mac, and Linux evolve too much to reliably run 10 year old binaries.


you can usually get away with it by chrooting an old release of a distro that has contemporary libs. And this is rarely needed as you usually have the sourcees available under a free license which allows you to recompike and/or port it.

We are talking photoshop anyway so it isn't relevant in that case.


Why do you say Affinity sold out?


They sold to Canva, which is strictly subscription based. As far as I know there haven’t been negative changes yet, but we’re still in the period before we’d see them.


Did you see the statement from Canva and Serif after those kinds of rumors started circling? They made a strong statement that they aren't making Affinity apps subscription or dissolving the teams on those apps. It's not the usual silence on post-acquisition plans.


This space grew into a bunch of different sub-cutures:

- static website generators (Hugo, etc)

- WYSIWYG editors (Wix, Squarespace)

- Frontends (NextJs, etc) backed by Headless CMS (Strapi, firebase, etc)

There really isn't a good spiritual successor currently. Someone should clone the UX of WP Admin panel, plugins, etc and drop the worst tech debt. Base it on React and make it really easy to deploy.

(edit: formatting)


There's is Ghost as well. Which I think was started by some ex Wordpress people from what I remember back in the day.


There are also the so called "universal CMS", which are headless but with a frontend SDK to achieve the same WYSIWYG, but with a modern frontend framework and deciding exactly what content editors can do. See for example React Bricks.


Pixels per degree would be diluted or concentraded based on the filed of view. So you could have that resolution be a super crisp, but small region.


From the F.A.Q

Q: Is there some way I can force Elon Musk to pay $47 to Cards Against Humanity PAC?

A: Funny you should ask! If you’re a registered voter in PA, GA, NV, AZ, NC, WI, or MI, just type your name into this dumb website for his PAC, put “MuskIsDumb@cah.lol” as your referrer, and they'll be legally obligated to pay us $47. The more people who do this, the more Musk money we’ll get to un-fuck America.

If he doesn’t pay up, we’ll sue him again.


Before LLMs, one would think that about web pages. Now we have The Pile with everything that could be scrapped, regardless of importance or quality.


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