One EU AI startup even named itself after these bottle caps:) https://www.bottlecapai.com/

With Tomas Mikolov in it? Holy cow! :)

There's an insightful critique of the paper on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/1g1su... ...agree that it's weird the paper doesn't mention constraint logic programming, but it's perhaps pointing at it implicitly by saying "Replacing backtracking by complete search strategies"

That's a good critique.

You might enjoy an entire talk on using a limited color palette for graphics in early games and how it stimulated creativity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcJ1Jvtef0

"In this GDC 2016 talk, Terrible Toybox's Mark Ferrari discusses and demonstrate some of his techniques for drawing 8 bit game graphics, including his celebrated methods for use of color cycling and pallet shifting to create complex and realistic background animation effects without frame-animation

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And a direct link to the canvas cycling demo mentioned in the talk, as well as the blog describing it and a Q&A with Mark Ferrari:

http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/

http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article-Old_School_Color_C...

http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article-Q_A_with_Mark_J_Fe...

Sadly, Joe Huckaby (who implemented the web-based demo) never got around to finish the promised drawing tool. I wonder if any other pixel art programs since then have added interface support for color cycling.

Thank you for sharing this incredible talk! Mark captures one of the main topics in art making perfectly: the power of limitations.

Also: “The environment was small enough that you could actually think about it”

A slightly different but related topic - Chomsky on why (humanitarian) intent doesn't matter: https://youtu.be/syikF6gNJDk

That's called Toolformer (Facebook AI Research): https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04761 Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools

Related post: https://www.quantamagazine.org/sleep-evolved-before-brains-h...

And an interesting comment of someone on FB:

Hydra

Hydra have a diffuse neural system

But no brain to speak of

A simple creature echoing older, more primitive forms

They doze off, so we've found

Using familiar chemistry

To slumber every four hours

When I sleep I descend like a bathysphere Down through layers of earlier incarnations

Dipping below the surface

Leaving the airy light of consciousness behind

To enter the involuntary dream world of Freud and Jung

Deeper still then dreams themselves disperse

Slipping away like darting fish

Leaving me reptilian, autonomic, just breath and pulse

But there's further to go - into the abyssal dark

To reach my fundamental hardware

Where I am the hydra

https://www.facebook.com/QuantaNews/posts/1789738887890362

It could be more than that. Vodafone broadband Internet (used to be UPC) is down in all of Czech Republic since about an hour. Their website is down (vodafone.cz), their mobile Internet seems slow. Coincidence?

If you change your DNS servers, it works! Their DNS servers probably crashed due to FB's DNS not resolving! (https://twitter.com/BlazejKrajnak)

I tried changing DNS server, including 8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1, nothing doing.

I looked up Facebook IP address and tried to go there directly, bypassing the DNS. No response.

(I don't care about Facebook much, it was a test. WhatsApp though I have to use to communicate with relatives.)

The Lesson to Unlearn http://www.paulgraham.com/lesson.html (I think)

I'm pretty sure that's the one! Takes a bit to get to the punchline but the idea that you want to look for tests that are unhackable is the big idea (and making a good product to get lots of users is the exemplar for an unhackable test).

Thanks for finding that!

same like all Apple pricing, no? Seems just above reasonable, rubs you the wrong way, yet you still go for it. Sort of perfect from their perspective

I used to use this site: https://www.colourlovers.com/palettes but I see it's become a bit bloated. It used to look more like colorhunt