RT @radamar: Check out a new ControlNet face model on the hub by @JCatrambone & @DarthMarkov, trained on the LAION-Face dataset it works wi….

Not saying I hope Twitter burns, but everyone deserves better:. My website will have updated social links: Co-host: josephc.Mastodon: josephc@mastodon.social.

I'd like to see an open-source 2D printing movement kick off. We have collectively decided the big players in the industry suck but there aren't any good solutions yet.

The Good Place, except it's Valhalla and everyone is trying to be helpful and figure out why Eleanor is there. "Perhaps you were fighting a battle and didn't know it. Some people struggle their whole lives."."No. My life was tough but not a battle."."Did you fight a cold war?".

A 'thank you' to @andrewpprice for a fortuitously timed Blender hologram tutorial. Was just the effect I was looking for.

A diagram from the quoted paper. Alternative caption: "When someone asks you a question immediately after you wake up."

There's not nearly enough space on Twitter to go into the nuances of state-sponsored conservatorship and the fallacy of absolute liberty, but I do hope that the bill functions as intended. Proponents and opponents alike: please stay sharp + monitor for disfunction.

I'm a little relieved to see SB1338 get signed in to law last week. It's not amazing, but it seems like a necessary step to help people. Despite (still) being an ACLU member and supporter, I disagree with their take on the matter. Cautious props to @GavinNewsom et al. for it.

I don't mean to reinforce anyone's bad habits, but you know when you don't throw away a box because, "it's a really good box?" Guess who just had a neighbor that needed boxes. That's right. Living the dream.

Update on move selection: the AI discovered during self play a pseudo-race-condition where it could pick moves from previous games. (Photosensitivity warning. Marked sensitive.)

Early alpha footage for Totally Accurate Battle Simulator.

Today's misadventures in #Chess #gamedev: the search system has found a way to teleport the knight to the opposite side of the board by abusing unsigned integer arithmetic.

Fixed the bug in scoring. I was marking counting pieces captured as beneficial for the opposite team. (I.e., white capturing a piece is bad for white.) One character flip later and now the engine is capable of completely kicking my ass. Feels good + bad.

Just found a lidocaine patch in a technical reference. Silicon Valley relationships in a nutshell? Or mid-30's software developer vibes?

Added move visualizations and made some better sprites. See if you can spot what's wrong with move generation.

I started throwing together a crappy tileset for a mashup game called Mhess (Mess + Chess) and aside from the contrast issues I'm almost tempted to not fix it.

I watched the @LinusTech video on how all car dash cams suck and I wonder if there's a cheaper and superior solution that can be made with the raspberry pi + camera module. Maybe better than the GoPro solution. Thoughts, @jeffgeerling ?.

Semi-philosophical #gamedev question: Lanna's Inception fixed the main story beats while procedurally generating the connecting bits. I like that idea but have to wonder if splitting the difference undermines the enjoyable aspects of story w/out adding "real" replayability. 🤔.

Formatting got eaten, but the idea is pretty simple. Stole the sigmoid function from #machinelearning and use that to squeeze the player's Z offset based on their relative position in the Y layer. Guaranteed not to be below 0 or above 1.