#video of John #Carmack saying video games, even Atari, are nowhere close to being solved by #neural-networks yet, which is why he’s doing Keen Technologies. They’re going to open-source their RL agent! Which they’re demoing playing an Atari 2600 (emulated on a Raspberry Pi) with an Atari 2600 joystick and servos (“Robotroller”), running on just a gamer laptop with a 4090. (No video of the demo, though, just talking head and slides.) He says now he’s using PyTorch just like anyone else instead of implementing his own matrix multiplies. Mentions that the Atari screen is 160×210, which I’d forgotten. They’re using April-tag fiducials so their camera can find the screen, but patch them into the video feed instead of trying to get the lighting right for stickers. He says the motion-to-photons #latency at Oculus had to be below 20ms for avoiding nausea (26'58"). Finding the Atari scores on the screen was surprisingly hard. #retrocomputing #AI
#video of AMD EPYC 9005 Turin Zen 5c #hardware with 384 cores per socket, 2 sockets, 24 DIMM slots
the #etymology of calling a subroutine or function. #history
IBM 360 #retrocomputing #architecture.
#video of Asmongold calling for censorship and preemptive detention in response to killings of ICE agents. “You just find the people that are expressing violent rhetoric and then you put them in jail.” #USA #politics
Roman Starovoit was found dead of a gunshot wound in his car a few hours after being dismissed by Putin as Minister of Transport, supposedly by suicide. #politics #Russia
#video #news #humor on #Trump’s “one big beautiful bill” which cut US$930 billion from Medicaid, US$488 billion from clean energy, US$285 billion from something called SNAP, raised the debt ceiling by US$5000B, and added US$157B to the military. It’s anticipated to increase the deficit by US$3400B—by 02034, so US$340B per year, because it also had US$4500B (per year?!) in tax cuts.