genjipress

As a general rule, if an announcement about a movie project is over a year old and nothing else has been mentioned since, you can safely assume it's no longer a thing.

The better question would be: Even if we did have such tools, what stories would be worth telling with them?

I don't doubt that we will eventually have something like this, in the same way we now have CGI with forensic fidelity. The problem will no longer be "How do we realize this?" but "What's worth realizing?" The new limit is no longer technology; it's our taste and our discernment, which are not being developed anywhere nearly as aggressively as our tech.

This looks like it could become an excellent alternative in time to not just NumPy and Numba, but also Cython. I know that may be more ambitious than your original intentions, but that's absolutely what sprung to mind.

Well, if they don't have a will, as is sadly too often the case with people who are suddenly famous, there's typically a big squabble over their estate that can go on for years...

On a vaguely related note, I created a video game that is essentially a shoot-em-up version of Conway's Game Of Life: https://xtaloid.itch.io/xtaloid

In the golden years of Disney's animation industry, the animators kept a bulletin board out in the hallway between the studios where each animator worked. This board was dubbed "the goodie board". If you came up with a concept, a sketch, a shot, that didn't work for whatever you were doing but which you liked anyway, you could pin it to the goodie board, where others were welcome to take it wholesale or crib from it.

I kept this idea for my own use. If I have an idea in a story I'm working on and it doesn't quite fit, but I like it anyway, I save it to my own goodie board. On rainy days I poke through it, and oftentimes I find something worth reusing in another context.

Andrei Codrescu had a monologue once, about how the world is in truth peopled by two-thousand year old men who "arrived at their great age with the aid of daily doses of yogurt, cigarettes, vodka, and dubious birth records. ... With the exception of their eyelashes, which reach to the ground, they are in very good shape."

Your wish is my command.

If I sold a car that blew up one out of every ten times I drove it ...

Gödel, Escher, Bach

Reddit.

At the first SIGGRAPH, Ken Knowlton was the entertainment (on piano).

You've heard of Film Crit Hulk? Here's Software Dev Hulk.

I point people at this essay constantly. It's one of the best things I've ever read about the problem of power.

So the Black Death began with Ars Technica?

Site also includes articles named "The War Against White People". Hard pass.

They're among my favorite movies. Hilary Harris's short films, in particular "Organism", were an inspiration.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dx3Tf5CJRs

Oh no. I own all of his albums, including many bootleg issues. He was productive right up to the end, though; his last album came out in July of last year.

A fellow I knew casually and whose blog I followed for many years (he was fond of trains, roleplaying games, and progressive rock) lost his domain name after he died. It ended up being spamsquatted, but weirdly, the metadata for the site remained intact (I guess as a lure?)

You get experience.

(2005)

(Malcolm Gladwell)

I have a game I'm working on, on and off, but I have had to put it aside for the time being as life is a little too busy for me right now.

https://xtaloid.itch.io/xtaloid

Ya-who, that's who!

First three words are entirely correct.

I'm a big fan of the original project, so I'm curious what the changes amount to. (It claims there are performance improvements, but nothing detailed.)

Why would a naked scam need a users manual in the first place?

The idea that we "made" Einstein to begin with is risible anyway.

"I have not actually read Hegel. I never will."

You're not missing a thing, I assure you.

One other addition I'd put on this list is Milton Glaser's talk "What I have learned", delivered on November 11, 2001, in London. Copies of it are floating around.

The new translation of "Letters To A Young Poet", which restores the half of the conversation that had previously never seen print in English before, is a must-read. (ISBN 978-1-63149-767-4)