mdswanson

Some of this: https://vi.microsoft.com/en-us

At the end of the article: "Image inputs are still a research preview and not publicly available."

I'll mark the "better tell Tim" about the HN article off my list. :)

CRUMB Circuit Simulator too: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2198800/CRUMB_Circuit_Sim...

First, protect legitimate customers. Second, deal with cheaters.

Some falsely banned players have requested their GDPR data, but it expressly doesn't include any of their anti-cheat data. I'm still waiting for them to respond to my GDPR request.

Thank you!

Didn't disappear. Thanks for sharing!

Trying to spread the word on Activision's faulty anti-cheat software and how they're permanently banning players with no explanation or recourse.

Reminds me of a funny story. I grew up with the web, and I only know writing HTML, CSS, and plain JavaScript. I don't do web development professionally, as I've spent more time with native client and backend development through the years. A couple of years ago, though, I needed to show how to call some APIs, so I wrote a simple page as a demonstration. Immediately after sharing the page, the web developers asked if I could point them to the GitHub repo. I think I might have laughed out loud as I replied, "right-click, View Source." It's amazing that that's how we used to always do it and that it's almost never done that way anymore.

My first thought was: wait a minute...you can make money on GitHub!?

It says "We're entering today through a Robber's Tunnel, a tunnel that some believe was created in 820 AD by Caliph al-Ma'mun, when he was trying to break into the pyramid."

I enjoyed the single player campaign. Yes, it's more of an interactive movie at times, but there are some fun scenarios...and the graphics are insane. Took perhaps 6 hours to play through.

I definitely agree that we should find out. I've used Copilot almost since its inception, and I've seen nothing like a large copied/pasted function. If anything, it's mostly a single/double line autocomplete based on what I would have written anyway.

Just did a quick github.com search on that function (with comments) and found around 131 matches. Many without a license. So yes, I believe that it would produce those comments...because it's seen humans repurpose and reuse that code without attribution or license many times.

Definitely an issue...but not as simple as copy and paste.

I also use Copilot a lot, and while it does suggest large function bodies, I'm not sure that it's "regurgitating" them (though it could be...I don't know). I suspect that it's seen so many function bodies that are similar that it generates another similar output. Like autocomplete in a word processor has seen so many similar chunks of text that it reproduces them based on past experience. I don't know this as a fact, of course. I'm just reacting to the word "regurgitating."

I don't deny that there are examples that appear to be wholesale copying, and that is definitely an issue to be addressed. No doubt.

What I don't understand is why the rest of the service (where it doesn't appear to be pasting existing code) is being maligned when it behaves like a more powerful version of autocomplete.

I've been trained on open source code, and there are likely many algorithms that I've internalized that are very similar to the "standard" way of performing an operation.

Is there a reason why an AI being trained on the same open source code isn't a similar situation? I agree that wholesale pasting of code chunks is an issue, but that hasn't been my experience with Copilot.

I'm not arguing for Copilot here...I'm genuinely curious why this would be considered any different.

Me too...though in the arcade and on the 2600.

virtualenv isn't required. You can just use python -m venv venv and get the same results with one fewer dependency.

Me too. An amazing resource.

Never expect efficiency when their inventory is time.

Nice to see these updates! I maintain a free/open-source Adobe Illustrator plug-in for generating Canvas drawings: https://blog.mikeswanson.com/ai2canvas

Can't help but to highly recommend the recent book by Philipp Dettmer, Immune: A Journey Into The Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive. It's fantastic and very readable: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08XTNHRR5/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_FX...

SWF is more of a painters/immediate-mode model and SVG/PDF/etc. is a retained mode that defines a set of objects. Different use cases for sure. I've written SWF->vector conversion tools, and the formats are quite different.

A better experiment, IMO: https://www.reddit.com/r/Aphantasia/comments/cpwimq/ball_on_...

Same with me. Full aphantasia and SDAM.

This reads like someone using functional arguments to disparage OO. It also sounds like someone who hasn't written enough OO to understand its benefits.

It would have required some significant upgrades to remain compatible with iOS advances, and it wasn't selling as well anymore (after Instagram released their own "Layout" app).

I'm the author of an app called Halftone 2 (and previously, Halftone) for iOS: https://juicybitssoftware.com/halftone2/. It used to allow for custom page layouts that were designed within another of my--now discontinued--apps called Layout. In fact, the layouts that ship within Halftone 2 were created this way. I like what you've done here!