Coolest thing is hard… I’m a bit of a nerd, but let’s go from a few angles.

As a kid I had made and recreated a number of games on my TI-83+ and did some fun optimization challenges to get as much in the pure BASIC code as possible. I was working in an ARG into it. But all that code is lost because I didn’t know how to back up that stuff back then. (And I was a bit lazy even when I knew I should.)

I’m proud of how fun my Football mod for Binding of Isaac is. It’s just an item that give Isaac randomly bouncing projectiles, like how a football kind of sporadically bounces in real life. I meant to release a challenge where you get ipecac and football to start, and all explosion immunities are removed from the pool. With a short goal since I think that’s enough chaos.

But probably from a different angle PySpeedup and DriveLink are libraries I designed to improve code as invisibly to the end user as possible because I got tired of taking PhD coders’ code and making it actually work because they don’t understand swap space or scheduling. (I’ve worked with brilliant algorithms at times, but had to correct critical misunderstandings of the computer at times.) I haven’t touched the libraries in years, but a lot of time and research went into it, and there was a full test suite and documentation. I don’t think the idea is fully without merit yet as the multiprocessing in Python is better but still has oddities, and I don’t think there’s an RAM aware abstraction in the base language yet? I forget what state I left things in. I know the CI I was using doesn’t exist (for free users) anymore though.

Not really. I physically don’t have the energy. Can’t speak for the person above, but most of the time, I just can’t interact here without having to take a break. Like. Lay down and close my eyes break. (I’m okay now, if you couldn’t tell.)

To others, I’m chronically ill, but not being able to interact here doesn’t make you less valid. Lurking is fine too. This post is a call to arms but if you can’t answer it don’t. Your health comes first.

Upvoting and downvoting is appreciated if you have the energy for that, but don’t feel pressured.

Mostly out of laziness. I keep forgetting the spoiler markdown… I used Discord and Telegram’s spoiler format first… Also, that ended up spoilered so it didn’t tell me how to do it. ^^;;

It took me twenty in game days to be offered

after

… I would agree with you, but I have really bad RNG. It needs a pity system of some sort… Even the later upgrades don’t cut it. ::: spoiler small spoiler I burned over twenty rerolls one day to finally get it to appear again. :::

I know you don’t need

but that’s just to illustrate my luck.

Clicking? I spend most of my time typing. Even in Labview there’s some typing to do. And godot requires a substantial amount of code to go with the gui side, it just has its own text editor.

But I mostly mod games these days, and I frequently need to understand the terminal api that’s being used to gather and use resources because the vscode gui fails to get things set up on its own a lot. I use the terminal directly less these days. But I still interact with it daily. Heck, I even use terminal args in steam game launching to improve performance occasionally.

I mostly use the terminal for automation though. And ffmpeg.

So. I’m on the side of more difficulty sliders please, but it’s not just to get more people in the door. I want to be able to make games more difficult when I can too. I generally play on the hardest difficulty first, then lower it until I’m having fun.

But there are games where making it easier cannot work, to my knowledge. A good example, I think, is Post Void, which is VERY inaccessible in a lot of ways (epilepsy warning, if you look up the game, even with the accessibility setting on, it’s still bad). The visuals need accessibility options to be improved, but the gameplay really can’t be made more accessible without severely harming the gameplay. At best you could add more starting time to the flask. I rolled hard off this game due to chronic illness, but I loved it. But I also hated it for similar reasons. Some games are just niche, and frankly, there’s enough games out there that you don’t have to play all of them.

Right you are Ken.

I know plenty of girls with full beards. And plenty of guys who can’t grow them. It’s not common, sure, but a female perp could just get a fake beard if we go by the gender presentation on a license.

I stand by my statement.

The license already has a picture. Neither sex nor gender provide any value in identification, and have lead to misidentification of cis people too.

It is amazing how human CEOs manage to surpass a 100% hallucination rate.

The book was better, and completely unrelated. The movie is fun, but kind of a dumb action flick. It ignores most of the nuance Asimov would have had to make a movie you don’t have to think about. There’s nothing wrong with that, I just don’t prefer that, unless it’s what I signed up for, like with John Wick or something else obviously just action.

It’s good. Thanks for correcting yourself. :3

The graphs struck me as weird when learning as I expected the input and output nodes to be neuron layers as well… Which they are, but not in the same way. So I frequently miscounted myself while learning, sleep deprived in the back of the classroom. ^^;;

There are ways to estimate a little more accurately, but the amount of fine tuning that is guesswork and brute force searching is too damn high…

Simplest multilayer perceptron*.

A neural network can be made with only one hidden layer (and still, mathematically proven, be able to output any possible function result, just not as easily trained, and with a much higher number of neurons).

… 1957

Perceptrons. The math dates back to the 40s, but '57 marks the first artificial neural network.

Also 35 years is infancy in science, or at least teenage, as we see from deep learning’s growing pains right now. Visualizations of neural network responses and reverse engineering neural networks to understand how they tick predate 2010 at least. Deep Dream was actually built off an idea of network inversion visualizations, and that’s ten years old now.

When you’re working at the algorithm level, you get funny looks… Even if it gets to state of the art results, who cares because you can throw more electricity and data at it instead.

I worked specifically on low data algorithms, so my work was particularly frowned upon by modern ai scientists.

I’m not doxxing myself, but unpublished work of mine got published in parallel as Prototypical Networks in 2017. And everyone laughed (<- exaggeration) at me researching RBFs which were considered defunct. (I still think they’re an untapped optimization.)

https://youtu.be/HGaJYG_R-j4 The Cursed Conlang Circus 3 had a few entries last year that were very relevant here.

So called because the toast in military kitchens were nicknamed shingles, as in roofing tiles. Evocative of bad cooking, which I’m betting was rampant.

Honestly, shit on a shingle (s.o.s. appropriately) is better than it sounds, even when not referred to under that name. But it’s definitely a comfort food. It’s not good for you, it’s just creamy, beefy, and starch. Inoffensive, cheap, and easy to make in bulk. (Kinda want some now.)

I love this analogy. May I steal it?

In the US, in most states, getting caught or recognized is enough to put you on the sex offender list. Even if you’re in private. (Again, in most states.) And that means you can no longer move into a new home without informing all your neighbors that you’re a sex offender for the rest of your life, among other penalties. There’s no difference to the US between this and people who actually do sexual crimes when it comes to this punishment.