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FWIW I was aiming for this to be a "connections" level of difficulty. My sample size is small but the past week win rate is about 65%, which is actually very close to connections. But I also don't want to cause frustration, since a game is supposed to be fun. So I want to think through this hint idea, maybe it can help lessen the load and also give a fun dynamic of deciding when to use your hint, so I'm thinking you just get one and have to decide when to use it?

Really great idea. And not going to ding it for kicking off with an LLM. But it might be worth thinking about how you could build a community of human contributors in a future stage. I personally don't feel comfortable with handing AI-generated stuff over to the kids in my life, and I imagine that would be a big barrier for your project as many others share this sentiment. That's a shame because encouraging kids to think deeply from a young age is something I would deeply support.

There are tons of knowledgeable teachers out there, and they are very often motivated to help the next generations thrive and grow beyond their day job. I'm sure you could find people to help with editorial work on this version to give it a human stamp of approval, and involve the many talented and inspiring educators and communicators that are out there to help grow this into a true value for the next generation.

Either way. Good luck!

Thank you! Glad you liked it.

My family plays a lot of word games, some are board-game style and of course we all love the NY-Times catalog of puzzles. The idea for this game came to me when I played bananagrams, and lost, after having binged way too much sudoku earlier in the day.

I became obsessed with the idea of making this work, and it was way harder than I expected. The journey took me into the depths of confusability graphs and zero error capacity in information theory. I might write a post about it some day.

The idea was fresh in my mind because I watched this yesterday. Great video, the illustrations and intuition-building of the compressability of information was so good! I'm so grateful for 3Blue1Brown.

Reminds me of when I tried to use the library of babel as a data compression tool. It led me down a fun rabbit hole and was my first introduction to information theory.

The conclusion being that you basically need the same amount of data to represent the address of your data as the data itself, so it's not really effective at compression, just a fun thought experiment.

The cool part of this in modern times is that LLMs are basically a form of lossy compression that actually achieves the gist of what these tools fail at. Although it is lossy, and requires a massive substrate. This is related to the idea of AI/LLMs being a form of language compression.

> Speculative proposal

I guess at least they're honest about it? lol

This is wild. How did anyone approve this architecture. You should never give your LLM privileged access the current user doesn't have access to. Even if you're not logged in the LLM's tool calls should only be able to access the same flow you would, as in: be able to send a password reset email to your own email! This is like if you had a password reset page for your profile and had a email field you could fill in to have it sent to any email LOL.

I don't know if I'll ever use this but that "Infinite View" is a lot of fun, I just lost 20 minutes before snapping myself out of a trance. Some really cool pictures in there.

There wouldn't be any cloud. Splats are still local, but all the lighting and texture are pre-rendered. The problem is they're not interactive, so they'd be good for a lot of the environment but your main character and other things that need to be interactive would need to use a different approach.

I think it's inevitable it goes there. Right now the level of detail and quality of games is limited by the console/PC hardware you're playing on. But with the splats they can render the whole game's world in a massive server farm at Hollywood Movie quality. I imagine there might be some balance of splat and traditional rendering technology since not all objects will lend themselves well, but this might be truly transformative.

I only interact with them through their word and logic games. They finally coerced me into subscribing, but to their credit it was a pretty good deal. Now I'm worried.

Evan has done really great work. I haven't used Vue extensively (not my company's stack) but am a huge fan of Vite and it has helped our React pipeline a lot. I've also recently started playing around with CloudFlare pages and workers and it's already such a pain-free process to get basic apps up and running, I imagine this collab will make my life easier.

"Small enough to run locally with just 16GB of VRAM or unified memory"

With many laptops dropping back down to 8GB because of the memory shortage there's some interesting pressures building in the industry.

It's frightening how often this happens. And these days with the boatloads of cheap computer and phone peripherals being bought every minute there's just no realistic way for an authority to monitor and regulate all of it.

I bet it's not an insignificant amount of devices out there that had their firmwares written by a "random small developer" who is in fact some kind of supply chain hacker.

I've experienced this, but it's mostly because languages like Python and TypeScript give you way too many escape hatches. I get the intent: allow devs to convert their code base slowly. But in practice it just lets developers opt out of the benefits of typing to "save time" in the short run.

If the prices remain relatively similar this is going to be incredible value! I might have to procrastinate on my current side projects to go back to another side project I'm procrastinating on because of optimization issues on an older ESP32.

Been using LibreOffice for years. Everyone should. If we don't vote with our choices companies like Microsoft will keep pushing the envelope until you have to pay a monthly fee to turn on your own computer.

https://www.libreoffice.org/

First time seeing it and this is already my favourite hand-written font. Great work!

I appreciate the attention to efficiency and avoiding bloat. As a frequent audacity user I'm thinking I might end up using this for a lot of simpler tasks.

That said the web offers such great techniques to maintain this. Passive loading of plugins for example could keep things snappy and light and load things when you need them.

If you want the perspective of a prospective long term user: I'd be very comfortable using your app even at tens of megabytes. You could probably keep your initial load pretty light but pull in larger modules as needed. There are certain effects and audio layering I often use in Audacity that would keep me there, but your modern interface and browser access are huge selling points. If your vision includes moving to a bigger editor I guarantee you you'll find a huge base who wouldn't even notice megabytes of code.

That'll depend on which way public sentiment goes

My favourite is Allbirds that pivoted from eco friendly shoes to AI infrastructure. How do you even make that decision?

Yeah, human minds need an security patch for firehosing

But the repo has had fairly consistent commits since then. Not huge activity, but not sure I'd call it dead.

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I've had some really gnarly SVGs from Claude. Here's what I got after many iterations trying to draw a hand: https://imgur.com/a/X4Jqius