I can set a reminder in my phone to take medication, but does that qualify as the phone making health advice? ChatGPT is not marketed as a health product, so is it subject to laws about health claims? Does any restriction on speech apply in any way at all, if I ask it for legal, engineering, therapy, can it really be held to account for anything?
I remember Mario Paint on Super Nintendo visibly flood-filling an area, but a computer that paints in modern image formats is probably not going to mind temporary allocation of a few hundred K. There are some fun opportunities to optimize, though, like checking a cache line of pixels at a time, or maybe tiling the image in 16-pixel squares using the same algorithm, and then cleaning up the edges.
The algorithm uses about half a byte per pixel and saves the path it follows. That kind of implies that the stack is still there and present, it’s just bounded to the number of pixels, and could actually be modified to just use a bounded area of the heap. But conceptually it’s easier to follow the way the paper was written. Neat.
I was imagining more like some kind of primitive CPU mode that sends every single RAM request to a software exception. Something you would normally have turned off but available for truly heavy duty debugging.
It works fine. The processes get a fenced off piece of memory and are allowed to portion it out to themselves any way they prefer. Syscalls are designed to be mostly neutral about how the app wants to proceed.
I don’t know much about CPU and memory back then, but did they not have some kind of memory access debugging mode where it would match every access against the alloc map, understanding that it could be very slow, but would find some of this kind of bug? Come to think of it, do we even have that today?
What’s the word for trying to do cluster analysis on what is actually randomly distributed data? The games do have obvious similarities and sometimes refer to each other, but they’re independent events.
I’ve come to think that’s really more of a symptom than a cause. People more and more seem to have brains made of old dry wood. The lack of education, propaganda, ads, attention problems, electoral disaster and everything else in this metaphor is like the termites who crawl in and dig holes in it; they wouldn’t be there if the tree hadn’t fallen to decay.
While I wait for my mail in ballot to be delivered, which is taking a suspiciously long time, while the President, who has already ben impeached for one visible and overt coup attempt, has specifically ordered the USPS not to deliver them on either side, this is a good place to note to you, that he has also declared anyone who doesn’t call it super intelligence to be THE ENEMY, in all caps.
If it really is formalized, it seems like the exact ideas would be able to be translated to and from any other sufficiently capable language without gaining or losing anything.
What I think this was intended to say was that a lot of nonsense work can be done by AI, so let’s eliminate the nonsense work. Valid, but consider that you may be protected too by the amount of paperwork it takes to hurt someone.
You know, if an old city with a natural boundary doesn’t think you should build a bunch of profitable crap in it, maybe you could take the hint and stop acting like you’re bringing Jesus to them. San Francisco’s seen the conquistadors. In fact, many of the streets in the Sunset are named after them.
Are you sure? A UI based on instant gratification? Seeing everything simply blink into place instantly might not be as fun as you think after the newness wears out.
Anyway, if you really want to, you can emulate old OSs with a very fast modern computer. Some emulators even bridge the network and file system to support enough that you can really live in it.