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> I assume that AI assistance in creative writing is now mainstream, and an accepted tool for most writers.

It absolutely is not. In fact the Nebula awards just banned entries from having _any_ AI use involved with them whatsoever. You can't even use them for grammar correction.

An intersection without power is just a 4-way stop.

No, there appears to be archives of past journals on the site.

That's because it's a two-way street, a multi-modal model that is highly proficient at real-life image generation is also highly proficient at interpreting real-life image input, which is something sorely needed for robotics.

Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200 characters for AI video app Sora

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/disney-invests-1-billion-...

They were wrong. Canadian English has the very unique word colourize, for example.

Sega Channel cut my game rental costs in half (sorry Blockbuster) and I played so many games I would have never bothered renting. Good times.

Rather than pointlessly lament the destructive power of fire, we should be spending our time learning how to fire-proof our homes.

These are all natural forces, they may be human forces but they are still natural forces. We can't stop them, we can only mitigate them -- and we _can_ mitigate them, but not if we just stick our fingers in our ears and pretend it's not going to happen.

It absolutely is. Whatever you can imagine. All of it.

It was all inevitable, by definition, as we live in a deterministic universe (shock, I know!)

But further, the human condition has been developing for tens of thousands of years, and efforts to exploit the human condition for a couple of thousand (at least) and so we expect that a technology around for a fraction of that would escape all of the inevitable 'abuses' of it?

What we need to focus on is mitigation, not lament that people do what people do.

> Game theory makes a lot of simplifying assumptions.

It does because it's trying to get across the point that although the world seems impossibly complex it's not. Of course it is in fact _almost_ impossibly complex.

This doesn't mean that it's redundant for more complex situations, it only means that to increase its accuracy you have to deepen its depth.

Because the models aren't sophisticated enough (yet). There's no voodoo here.

I'm always surprised how many 'logical' tech people shy away from simple determinism, given how obvious a deterministic universe becomes the more time you spend in computer science, and seem to insist there's some sort of metaphysical influence out there somewhere we'll never understand. There's not.

Math is almost the definition of inevitability. Logic doubly so.

Once there's a sophisticated enough human model to decipher our myriad of idiosyncrasies, we will all be relentlessly manipulated, because it is human nature to manipulate others. That future is absolutely inevitable.

Might as well fall into the abyss with open arms and a smile.

It's too bad Commodore 64 BASIC is horrible, and you basically have to learn all about ROM routines and machine language to do anything useful.

Great stuff, kind of like the turtle graphics library for p5.js.

If you want to create much fancier graphics (and games!) in actual Logo, check out turtleSpaces:

https://turtlespaces.org

To be fair, turtle graphics is not itself Logo, Logo was originally designed for text manipulation (because all schools had at that time were teletype terminals). Then came the idea of a physical turtle robot, then the graphical turtle when schools got computers with CRT displays.

My partner and I do maintain a complete (and extended) Logo interpreter however, so yes it really does live. Somewhat :)

> Great project but missed the opportunity to develop your own LOGO interpreter from scratch in web assembly:)

There is one! We wrote it in Golang and compiled it to WebAssembly, it's a greatly extended version of Apple Logo ][:

https://turtlespaces.org

Without any documentation of actual caffeine consumption this study is completely worthless.

It gets even more complicated when you add things like Williams Syndrome into the mix -- WS causes you to feel safer with 'friendly' people and so you're typically more social not less, but is often comorbid with autism and so can make diagnosing autism more challenging (in my case it was mostly because I had an abnormally high IQ and sensory challenges). But I am highly empathetic, have some talent for music and writing and was basically a TA for most of my school years, while still having most of the autism-related issues such as RSD, demand avoidance, meltdowns and so forth.

You don't grow out of it as much as learn to manage it, this requires that you develop some form of executive function though. In my case I was forcefully required to be responsible for my younger brother (when I was 7) and so learned out of necessity -- but this led to a lifetime of resentment and so I don't recommend it as a solution.

Like life, this article is mostly pointless.

Yes, but can it play PacMan yet?

Honestly if it's using a swiss-army-knife framework it's already bloated.

I recently returned to the world of education and it's _everywhere_. I feel for those people who hate LLMs because they've already lost the war.

Like any tool, the longer you use it the better you learn where you can extract value from it and where you can't, where you can leverage it and where you shouldn't. Because your behaviour is linked to what you get out of the LLM, this can be quite individual in nature, and you have to learn to work with it through trial and error. But in the end engineers do appear to become more productive 'pairing' with an LLM, so it's no surprise companies are favouring LLM-savvy engineers.

Of course there was the 'holy trinity' of the TRS-80, PET and Apple II in 1977. But even with Sinclair, the ZX80 / ZX81 came before the Spectrum.

https://cybernews.com/editorial/the-1977-trinity-and-other-e...

This is the way. (Sadly)

Use Logo! Straight-forward parser. Turtles make game elements easy. Write it in Go for simple multi-threaded agents.

The novelty in pop music is not usually in the harmony. The novelty is usually in the presentation. The idea is that you hook the audience with familiarity (nostalgia) and then keep them with a novel expression of it. In recent years, this means really strange synth patches and vocal effects.

I will note "in the US" here.

I lived in Camberwell, Australia for a while and I would run across Geoffrey Rush in the local supermarket fairly routinely.

Nobody bothered him.

Propaganda at its finest...

My understanding is the cancer had already metastasized by the time it was discovered. Chemo was always a hail Mary sadly :(