count_dongulus

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[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Food Network sales execs looking at this

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 52 points 1 week ago (19 children)

People talk about filter bubbles, but there's a nuance here: on Lemmy, you're not being served up whatever the platform owners think you should see from an opaque algorithm. You're going to, by default, see cesspool content. You have to choose to block it.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I would agree if my area got much snow, but it's exclusively icy cold rain.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah my first gaming pc was like...a crappy HP desktop with an Nvidia 6600 that I plugged in. Worked great for Age of Mythology lol

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Oh yeah, I read about that! Not really ML, but pretty much what I'd like more games to have.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

No no no, they have it all wrong. We should be ordering clones by the thousand from Kamino to fight the separarists.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I'm glad that many kids are into PC gaming, at least. That's still a decent vector into computer proficiency and a little hardware knowledge.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh that's really interesting; I hadn't considered racing games as a genre to benefit from this type of machine learning. I guess I figured there's not so much to AI there that it's necessary, at least when we already know the "ideal lap line" for cars to follow, but yeah it gets a lot harder when considering other drivers on the track and a huge array of unique car models with their own handling and performance characteristics.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I wouldn't mind an AI using unorthodox strategies, but yeah that's a good point that fine tuning it to be fun is a big challenge. Speaking of "non-player-like behavior", I wonder if AI could be used to find multiplayer exploits sooner, though the problem there is you don't really have much training data besides QA and playtesters before a full release.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I'm not into fighting games, but that's pretty neat! I hope the industry follows suit if people like how it works in Street Fighter 6.

 

Playing complex strategy games for many years, one of the things that irks me the most is that hard AI levels often just give the dumb AI cheats to simulate it being smarter. To me, it's not very satisfying to go against cheating AI. Are any games today leveraging neural networks to supplant or augment hand-written decision tree based AI? Are any under development? I know AI can be resource intensive, but it seems that at least turn based games could employ it.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think the new strategy of injecting ads directly into the video stream can be defeated in realtime though. It's like how you cannot defeat tv ads...you can blank the screen, or record and restitch without the ads, but the content itself has the ad. YouTube is a bit different where you can theoretically skip ahead, but your device has to tell Youtube that it wants to skip ahead in order to actually even get the video content, and youtube can look at request timestamps to know you didn't see the whole injected ad and just re-inject it in the video stream.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The free market currently says that a new home is worth X dollars because of what people are willing to pay vs. the labor going into it. Materials are cheap compared to the work. The rates laborers get paid stem from the free market equilibrium on that. Labor rates go up, house prices go up, home ownership goes down. Builders in the US get about 15% margin on building and selling new homes. You have maybe 10% of wiggle room before the profit in building homes is not worth the effort. So laborers could get paid...10% more at best before home prices go up. That's not going to attract many more people to offset immigrant labor demand.

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