"We cough up a chunk of our soul": 32 game devs, from Doom's John Romero to Helldivers 2 and Palworld leads, explain what people get wrong about games Sam Barlow, Metaphor: ReFantazio leads, ConcernedApe's business head, indie legends, and many more weigh in

It's here! A story I've wanted to do for years and have been working on for months. I asked over 40 game devs one question: what is something that people get wrong about how games are made? Most of those devs are in here, some will be in a... future story. www.gamesradar.com/games/game-d...

Lost in Translation: Large Language Models in Non-English Content Analysis Western technology companies have long struggled with offering their services in languages other than English. A combination of political and technical challenges have impeded companies from building ...

When I was a kid, a babelfish was wild SciFi. Now with machine translation and multilingual LLMs, it's reality.

This older but brilliant piece explains why LLMs seem so good at multilingual activity, where limitations arise, and how LLMs may contribute to the hegemony of the English language.

showing my kids 1 dril post a day written on an index card to build up memetic tolerance like microdosing peanuts

this polish church in milwaukee was so extravagant it bankrupted the congregation for a half century and the vatican had to get involved

but now through the internet, the definition and taxonomy of these institutions has been re-arranged

from alternative press "idols" to seemingly autonomous machines... we're inadvertently reshaping the semiotics of who gets to define our social consciousness

Surely it is nothing new and plenty of people pointed to all the issues this new ai revolution would bring. Many of them might be even tracked down to over a century ago when mass media was still being shaped; this newspaper (an institution) shapes our view from exerting authority in their messages

I've been reading a little about cognitive authority and this example hits an interesting spot. "Technology" is by inference an extension of societal cognitive authority and now on top of navigating extractivist adtech dynamics we also have several distinct layers of hallucinations...

en mi casa el clásico siempre fue tortilla francesa en pan

IMO, when asking why something is the way it is, we shouldn't just fall back on easy answers like "culture" or the "character of the people." Such answers are often just the first go-to when someone doesn't know very much about a subject. Culture variables also don't explain change.

Dwarf Fortress Bug: new exercise mechanics unintentionally allow river trout to get super buff when swimming against the tide, to the point that they can now walk on land and beat anything they see up.

I need to pick this game back up

System Jitter and Where to Find It: A Whack-a-Mole Experience YouTube video by Jane Street

My favorite tech talk is finally online!

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