35 Burst results for "Atari"
Lex Fridman Podcast
"atari" Discussed on Lex Fridman Podcast
"Language models are featured learners. That's the title of the paper. So very good title. Sometimes titles are really good. So this one is really, really good. Because that's the point of GPT-3 that showed that, look, sure, we can focus on object classification and what meta learning means within the space of learning object categories. This goes beyond or before, rather, to also Omni glad before ImageNet and so on. So there's a few benchmarks. To now all of a sudden, we will be unlocked from benchmarks. And through language, we can define tasks. So we literally telling the model some logical task or little thing that we wanted to do. We prompted much like we did before, but now we prompted through natural language. And then not perfectly, I mean, these models have failure modes, and that's fine. But these models then are now doing a new task. So they met to learn these new capabilities. Now, that's where we are now. Flamingo expanded these two visual and language, but it basically has the same abilities. You can teach it, for instance. An emergent property was that you can take pictures of numbers and then do arithmetic with the numbers just by teaching it, oh, that's when I show you three plus 6. I want you to output 9 and show it a few examples. And now it does that. So it went way beyond the ImageNet sort of category categorization of images that we were a bit stacked maybe before these revelation moment that happened in 2000, I believe it was 19. But it was after we challenged that way, it has solved meta learning as was previously defined. Yes, it expanded what it meant, so that's what you say. What does it mean? So it's an evolving term. But here is maybe now looking forward, looking at what's happening obviously in the community with more modalities, what we can expect. And I would certainly hope to see the following. And this is a pretty drastic hope, but in 5 years, maybe WeChat again. And we have a system a set of weights that we can teach it to play StarCraft. Maybe not at the level of office star, but play StarCraft complex game. We teach it through interactions to prompting. You can certainly prompt a system that's what got the shows to play some simple Atari games. So imagine if you start talking to a system teaching it a new game, showing it examples of in this particular game, these user did something good. Maybe the system can even play and ask you questions, say, hey, I played this game. I just played this game. Did I do well? Can you teach me more? So 5, maybe two, ten years. These capabilities, or what matter learning means will be much more interactive, much more rich and through domains that we were specializing, right? So you see the difference. We built AlphaStar specialized to play StarCraft. The algorithms were general, but the ways were specialized. And what we're hoping is that we can teach a network to play games to play any game that's using games as an example through interacting with it, teaching it, uploading the Wikipedia page of StarCraft. This is in the horizon and obviously there are details that need to be to be filled and research need to be done. But that's how I see meta learning above. Which is going to be beyond prompting. It's going to be a bit more interactive.
Focus On the Family Daily Broadcast
Rhonda Stoppe: Wives Assign Wrong Motives to Their Husbands Actions
"Okay, so how long did the glow last? Well, we got married and then we moved, I was working full time. And he was working full time. He was in construction. So the honeymoon's over. So I'm going to work all day, and it's the rainy season during construction. So he would stay home and play Atari with his brother while it was raining, and I would come home and they would have peanut butter toast, and it would be all over the counter. And I would just be like, and I had to clean it up. Don't you care what I do all day? And I felt myself starting to just not enjoy him because he wasn't measuring up to my expectations. And so as that occurred, it scared me. I knew the wife I meant to be. And I think that's the wife we all long to be. Is this amazing woman that they're cheerleader? We laugh out loud with them. We have fun with them. So why do we husbands irritate you so much? Well, I think it's because our expectations are so like if you love me, you would. Clean up your peanut butter toast. Right. And we assign wrong motives to their actions. And I think that, to me, is where we have to step back, I want to be in love with my husband till the day one of us dies. I want to be in love with him long past that. And I want him to be in love with me.
The Tech Guy
"atari" Discussed on The Tech Guy
"Code academy has coding classes in all the main languages. They just added a swift course, which is great. If you want to learn how to code for iOS or Macintosh, really, they're saying these days the Mac, the new M1 processor is essentially a swift machine. No better way to learn. One of the things I love about code academy, I mean, really is the best way to learn to code online. Because your coding from day one, you're sitting down when you the very first lesson you take in any language, you'll be writing code. And that code will be great if it works or not and I'll give you a hint. I mean, it's just immediately you're coding and I think that's great. Code academy teaches you not only job ready coding skills, but you'll actually build unique projects for your portfolio really helps a lot to get a job. You can also earn certificates which prove you have the skills, and they even have courses to prep for technical interviews. So if you're looking to get a job encoding in a job in tech, this is a great way to prepare. I did their python, of course, loved it. And it's fun because you're immediately writing code. So you really, I think one of the things that when I first started coding way back when it was in basic on an Atari computer. And you write something like, you know, say hi Leo, go to ten in your loop. And it does it. The first time your computer does something you told it to do, it's like a bulb goes off. It's like, more than that, it's an epiphany..
What The Flip Podcast
"atari" Discussed on What The Flip Podcast
"Dick air body cetera and i still got the money and you can fuck you talk about up in a showdown bucket. Contract sent me percents. Ads contract talking about a million shares. This week she folk atari neither are rich ourselves away. Game hold of booker. Let me show you this country. They sent me. He contract that he actually got from target to ride on acts. Just knows that in a as an official contract from atari about what the contract she says they got a book and deal right down. One million one million at sorry artists fucking. It's seat matter of fact book this contract book. Atari don't call me nomo. Don't put my own attached my name your name bits and legal. Ns you got. The money. yosemite to contracts yasser wanted me to bring out company back. Because i was proud. What i did was soza aware game here. Go to contract right here. So i'm gonna play of it you can again. You can see on youtube typing soldier. Royal atari voice. Angry is no. Yeah he yeah. He's very angry will and he should he showing a contract from atari. This is an official contract from atari trying to trying to you. Know is is an official. And he's gonna highlight what the contract says and how it says that he owns a hundred million shares of atari and he owns atari whatever. But he's aiming on the contract on the video and lots of people were doing. What's actually being offered isn't atari shares. Bought is actually atari tokens right. Bitcoin they just offered him like digital yes. He's basically their attempt at like some type of cryptocurrency business and basically worthless assumed he assuming that sheds and if you look again on the on the contracting on the video imboden letters a reads. I'm cooperation and sorry cooperation and marketing services. So i seem to be payments in atari tokens for him for soldier. Boy to mock it atari so basically atari getting soldier boy market atari. I'm anne maternity will give soldier boy pretty much useless currency. That doesn't really doing and from that soldier. By thought that he owned atari in the beginning they were gonna give him a hundred and forty million away from the and atari coins which equates to point no no not no patents. Yes so he has kinda shows how oblivious years about about this kind of stuff in the strengthening most intelligent of chops anyway to be honest. Look at him. I thought he was a articulate intelligent person but also tattoo if you ensure being very sarcastic but yet like he agenda how he came to the conclusion that he was going to sell this company for one hundred and forty million but yeah he's clearly your staff just but cliff is good. I in your mobile. It doesn't stop it doesn't end here. There's a little bit more so as you know like. He's actually been trying to release his own game console for awhile you know would way back in two thousand eighteen. And he still again this year and he tweeted out On the twenty third of august so as of this recording. This is a few weeks ago. East easy about souljah boy game out now. Thankful the orders and support.
What The Flip Podcast
"atari" Discussed on What The Flip Podcast
"Instagram livestream will where he made the announcement. And i've got the audio here and listen to all of bob's wanna listen to the first. You know the first minute or so just to hear his voice and what he's actually saying about this deal of him now. Earning atari so here we go so way game. They signed me to adieu to atari beach. Tirade host app on by the revamp. The company. we're gonna take atari to the next level. Everybody go follow at atari. I am now the owner over tiring. I own devito game company atari.
What The Flip Podcast
"atari" Discussed on What The Flip Podcast
"It was cooled. It was up is possible in that as called so debris electronics which any has no electronics on this on the website by gin. This didn't really last long. Remember that for period of time with these products that he was kind of putting out there that really exist. Were with offer preorder and people actually were ordering the new spending money on these consoles and wishes we. She's not like large numbers but they were actual orders that we're going through an again a month later in march two thousand nineteen is reported that those who did order these consoles they They had no you know didn't receive any updates on when new actually going to be receiving them an issues like in up to four months later the fans of soldier who were trying to support him. That was the waiting for their products and and nothing on refunds or anything was happening until they call it. Yeah now after this thousand nineteen. We actually didn't hear anything from him or his kind of game console endeavors for for a while but then is kind of comeback. This year will so in february of two thousand twenty one. He tweeted this building a new console from scratch own. You design own. New games only deals. Let's make history or so. He's obviously pumped he's oversee palm. He's he's he's ready to go. He's got this this new thing coming out and he wants to kind of promote the world but days later our after doing this. This is what he is basically. Sorry to he did this in. This was in february for this. Yeah this was days after. His kind of you know stuff that was going on between people not gain refunds and stuff he he said this tweet about boo good new console and then again he he kind of showed pictures of it and this console again. Looks like a knockoff. is basically kind of liked. The same design just looked really ugly like xbox one and console Kind of control. That was like playstation Shock and again this endeavor. It didn't last long The instagram post where he announced this and was soon deleted. I was taken down And now this kind of brings us to to the main focus of this story. This is kind of like the main reason why i wanted to celebrate storage case we. It gets absurd okay. So this wasn't bad enough. And that sort of was basically trying to sell knock of consoles of knockoff consoles and illegally at basically scams in implementing like emulation without any licenses of whatsoever that would actually allow him to so the games sociably is now claiming that he owns the company atari.
Kinda Funny Games Daily
Major Changes Are Coming to Amazon's Luna Cloud Gaming Service
"We have some luna news. I'm going to run through if you like if you like. There's new news First off you. I'm paraphrasing eddie. Gamespot i have the bullet points from my emails. While they're basically luna's over on fire the fire tablet you can start using the luna over there They're gonna do channels one of the new channels launched. Today's the family channel which offers a carefully curate. A group of thirty five plus games that are appropriate for younger players. The channel cost read hours. A month includes titles like spongebob squarepants battle for a bikini. Bottom rehydrated garfield cart furious. Racing and transformers battlegrounds skate. Bird will come to the channel later. This month amazon also announced that far. Cry six on october. Seventh and writer republic october. Twenty eighth will. October two hundred eighty. S what is this will launch. I with that. And everything else from ubisoft. Janelle looking ahead. There amazon is going to be doing a retro gaming. A channel soon with games from atari. Sf k among others Oh the other big announcement. This is a new co up feature for amazon luna The new couch option. Lets you play games like santi racing overcooked to among others cooperative. Even if you're not in the same room perhaps the most exciting part of this is that only. The host needs to be a luna subscriber. The guests can play for free.
WixYaelTest-1 - Your Weekly Tech Update with Ray McNeal (audio podcast)
Alphabet's DeepMind AI Will Outperform You at These Video Games
"Having AI agents learn how to play simple video games is an ideal way to test their effectiveness. Thanks to the ability to measure success via a score. Alphabet's DeepMind designed 57 particular Atari games to serve as a litmus test for its artificial intelligence and established a benchmark for the skills of an average human player. The company's latest system, agent 57, made a huge leap over previous systems and is the first version of the AI that outperforms the human baseline in particular agent 57 has proven its superhuman skills and pitfall montezuma's revenge solaris and skiing. All those games that have been major challenges for other AIs. Now according to MIT's technology review, pitfall in montezuma's revenge require the AI to experiment more than usual in order to figure out how to get a better score. Meanwhile, solaris and skiing are difficult for AI because there aren't as many indications of success. The AI doesn't know if it's making its right moves for long stretches of time. DeepMind built upon its older AI agents so that agent 57 could make better decisions regarding exploration and score exploration as well as to optimize the tradeoff between short term and long-term performance in games like skiing. Technology review notes that while these results are impressive, AI still has a long way to go. These systems can only figure out one game at a time right now, which it says is at odds with the skills of a human. True versatility, which comes so easily to a human infant is still far beyond AI's reach.
Your Weekly Tech Update with Ray McNeal (audio podcast)
Alphabet's DeepMind AI Will Outperform You at These Video Games
"Having AI agents learn how to play simple video games is an ideal way to test their effectiveness. Thanks to the ability to measure success via a score. Alphabet's DeepMind designed 57 particular Atari games to serve as a litmus test for its artificial intelligence and established a benchmark for the skills of an average human player. The company's latest system, agent 57, made a huge leap over previous systems and is the first version of the AI that outperforms the human baseline in particular agent 57 has proven its superhuman skills and pitfall montezuma's revenge solaris and skiing. All those games that have been major challenges for other AIs. Now according to MIT's technology review, pitfall in montezuma's revenge require the AI to experiment more than usual in order to figure out how to get a better score. Meanwhile, solaris and skiing are difficult for AI because there aren't as many indications of success. The AI doesn't know if it's making its right moves for long stretches of time. DeepMind built upon its older AI agents so that agent 57 could make better decisions regarding exploration and score exploration as well as to optimize the tradeoff between short term and long-term performance in games like skiing. Technology review notes that while these results are impressive, AI still has a long way to go. These systems can only figure out one game at a time right now, which it says is at odds with the skills of a human. True versatility, which comes so easily to a human infant is still far beyond AI's reach.
THE RAYHART RUNDOWN
"atari" Discussed on THE RAYHART RUNDOWN
"I don't remember. The movie was at by any stretch them. I wish i did because it would bring more substance to this story. I'm telling but i don't remember what it was. Because i saw so many and i just members little kid to myself like wow. You could make an entire movie out of drawings. That's that's like that's amazing to me. I want to do that. And then i saw like they had this thing back. When i was a kid called the wonderful world disney on sunday nights and the whole family would sit around and watch it and it was like either a movie or an episode or like a movie like mary poppins or ben knobs and broomsticks but in some cases they would have like the art of you know art of imagineering or whatever and they would show disney artist drawing like you know doing their drawings and doing pinocchio i think it was or i think pinocchio movie and i remember seeing that i was like. Oh i wanna be a disney artist. That's what i wanna do. I just wanna be disney artist. I'm gonna do the disney art thing. I'm just going to grow up and be disney artist. So i started taking all ourika. Do all the art classes. I started trying to. I got books how to draw. I try to you know emulate. Those look like how to do shading how to do painting. Whatever i was i learned all because i'm sure disney is gonna make me do everything like in my head. I was gonna have to create my own disney movie by myself somehow as locate. I was like i figure it out. So i just kind of dove headfirst into it and we went as a family. This was Probably right probably right before we went to spain. Maybe so i was like ten or eleven. Maybe i think it was and we went to disneyworld. We went to Disney's at the time disney's hollywood studios or disney mgm studios. I think it was called at the time we went there and they had a tour at the time they don't have it dow unfortunately but at the time they had a tour where you would go and walk this tour and it will take you behind the scenes of like movies and stuff like actual like the backlot tour type thing. Where would show you. And i was like all. Wow they will take you through a prop house where they had actual props hanging behind cages. And you could see him house and again. This is what sparked the movie thing like nine or ten years old. This started happening. And the the final tore in they would take you through the disney animators like cubicles and you would see them. Sitting there. Doing stuff depends on what time of day you went clearly right. And this and that it ended with everyone. In a in a small room with a disney animator sitting there and he withdrawal like winnie the pooh or he would mickey mouse or he would draw and you would see it on the monitor and he would just draw right there in front secret watch him do it and then he would turn and say you have any questions like and so immediately i was like front row you know. I'm like looking kind of penalties. Using i'm looking at like oh kind of papers that i got questioned. I'm like hey He's like go ahead which question. I'm like i like i when i grow up. I wanna be a disney animator. What do i need to learn. Or what do. I need to do to become a disney animator. So i can sit in there with those guys in to that and the whole place kinda like it was. It was kind of a great question because at that point a lot of the adults in the room were like. Oh yeah like how. How does someone. You can't just apply like you know assuming college everything at the time and the disney animator guy at his name but the disney animator guy. He he stops. He thinks about it for a minute and he looks me. And i don't and i know this is so not disney and i don't know what he was going for here but he goes you can't i went wait. What how you doing it like like immediately. I'm question like wait a minute. No all those people. We just walked by doing it like clearly you can. He's like he's like i don't. There's no way there's no path to this. There's no way to get here. He's like disney just picks you. It's easier he told me this. I'll never forget it. It's easier to get selected for major league baseball team to come animate for disney hachette crushed nine years old crushed of so angry because i take so many years to learn shit. I was so pissed at animation. I was so pissed at drawing. I don't wanna do anyone draw shit ever again see like me. I wanted to be everything at one point in time like i wanted to go to space. I wanted to be an astronaut k. One point in time. I wanted to be a cop one point in time when i was real little. I thought i was cowboy. Like you know what i mean. There's there's so many things that i wanted to be. I wanted to be a stage actor at one point. I wanted to be the movie actor. I want to be moved director. I wanted to be in the military. I wanted to be a of jumper for tactical search and rescue for the air force. I wanted you know like there was a lot of things that i wanted to do..
THE RAYHART RUNDOWN
"atari" Discussed on THE RAYHART RUNDOWN
"That's so southern. Florida florida thing. They're not gonna get away. Yeah you've been down here way too long. It's time to move. Yeah far very far far away so Let's just talk about it right now. Because i know a lot of people don't know that we do this and it was pretty funny We just did. We do Segment for our patriotic called mike. Check trivia. yeah where we do. Exclusive at exclusive trivia question for our during our mic check situation before every show and if you are the patriots here I think it. What is it a five and up. I believe no. I think it's ten ten. Yeah yes so if you are actually if you are a associate producer level or higher you can You can get the the mike actually all of my trivia and that type of things and a lot of exclusive stuff so the associate producer level is the level to be at. Yeah i get you all of the Bonus stuff that we do all that things like. And that's That's the better merge to right Yeah that's the start of the t shirt merch. Yeah i think it is or know the coffee mug march but you got a t shirt after the coffee mug they possibly will. I'm not gonna say your name. I know there is. We're doing a lot of merchant now and we're trying to give away much free march as possible through patriotic which is the whole reason why we set patriots up right people think. Oh you're going to be making. You must make bank off. We don't make bank off base. Now we return the money back around yeah into the march and to do the ship for the merge into designing for the merge and everything like that. So that's what you're what you're getting you're getting not only and you're getting extended free episodes who are patriot and you're getting bonus audio content at this point and soon to be bonus video content You get to see all stuff we talk about because we post all the photos of the pictures and videos of things that we talk about on there and you get free march so it's really good deal. We're probably the only podcast that utilizes almost every angle of patriot. Yeah So there's are pitch for that if you haven't joined the patriots dot com slash ray heart rundown and get signed up it's It helps support the show. And it'll get you free stuff and who doesn't want free stuff all right ler okay. Let's busy busy week. Let's this advocation vacation and you don't care no hell no but why do you not feel like you're on vacation is because we've been jump through hoops for our projects outside of here Yes absolutely i mean you know is just. I'm still waking up. And like eleven o'clock i'll be texan you at like nine or nine. I'm trying to. I'm giving kind of giving you a pass here. Because i'm like totally get the sleeping in. It just becomes part of your routine. Yeah when i was working late in the late night shifts that will be it. It would be. And that's here's what sucks is that for and people know this that work either retail or the bar life or whatever. Is that when you work the night shift. Your day is ruined. You can't do shit true. During the day you absolute. You can't do anything you literally will because if you get home at like midnight if you work at a night the night shift type job and you get home at midnight or eleven even and you shower and change after work. It friday about you but for me i. There's at least like an hour where i'm not. I'm just not jumping into bed right. I've gotta like disconnect from the day the up and i've got to spend at least an hour if not two hours to try to like not be in the mindset of work know exactly so like when i get out of work at three. Am and then. I get home ten minutes later. Yeah it's you know. It's i take a shower. Or whatever. And i set down by the time i sit down. It's like what three thirty three forty five. And then i have to wind down your so. Why lease and our are probably not going to bed till five. Am five thirty in the morning. And then in order. And then i get six hours to sleep and i was about eleven eleven thirty which isn't very much sleep for or or you sleep to one because you're so forgetting exhausted from working right and then but here's the things i was saying. Is that people that have that. That same type of schedule understand like when you wake up at one thirty to try to get a full eight hours or whatever from sleep of sleep day shot. what are you gonna do. Yeah like there's launch plan. There's a there's a nine hundred ten chance at. You've got to be working three hours. There's not much you can go do in three hours right. So it's so it's it does suck at i think and i i don't care i'll say it out there. Whatever i think You should you should have three days off a week. Not too right. I think the standard. I think the regular standard should be three days off a week. the agree. I think i think the weekend should consists of friday saturday sunday right and i or i know they do at work monday because then remember looks like somebody's got a case of the mondays. Yeah like that doesn't exist anymore. I i know they do it in europe and i know there is. I know we have european listeners. Out in like sweden ireland and all these other countries. Yeah so if you hear this and you're in a european country and you have a four day workweek. Do us a favor. Hit us up on either. Instagram or on twitter or anything like that and let us know what your workday is. Let us know how glorious your life how amazing and Here's what i'm here's the scheduling. Yeah because like if in here in the us everybody's like oh you get paid by the hour. So why wouldn't you wanna work extra day. His you're losing money wilson. But here's the rub. If they were she live. I don't live to work if they raise. If they raise the money they know close out the was out or if they if they do and in a again. This is one of those touchy topics are. I'm not gonna dive in politically because it's not a political show If they were to do even half even fifty percent social medicine or the option to have socialized medicine like every other country in the world except for the. Us where you didn't have to pay for your hospital thing like it's just taking care of like the sidewalks and the roads and the lights and all the other bullshit that were already paying for right. Hey why not lump that into so we can. I dunno live longer and fix my broken hand. Gross but but but then you know people. I think people would. I don't know people would have more free time. I have again the whole the whole conversation that we're having right now is burned out. Yes because we're burning. The candles both ends. Not only we. Of course we have this podcast which is a fun time for us to hang out in bullshit and talk and laugh but then we have got regular forty hour week jobs and then we've got other side projects which take up all the rest of the days in the all the rest of the hours in the day. Does that make sense. Oh yeah dude who's just like Like i finally have watched that movie cocktail and that old as eighties movie cocktail. Yeah because like. I talked about this before. Did i say quote. No you only have. You did quotes from it put dino you were talking about They do flair. And the you do now So like well number one. Tom cruise ain't got shit on me but number two. I'm pretty sure it was faked. It was If you'd noticed every single time the camera cuts he drops bottle. But bring up tom cruise later. That's not tell you something about him. Okay this quote like i felt it bro. Like when this when this line was spoken in the movie like felt that shipped i felt. That shit's my core. Who'd you felt a a line like like when he was spoke like yeah so i was like that is the most truest. Okay so yeah so this something that hit home with you..
Giant Bombcast
"atari" Discussed on Giant Bombcast
"Second like there's no there's no consideration for like. Hey we know that. This game only runs at ten eighty. So we're going to make some adjustments here or or whatever it is you know there was nothing in place to Do say like it just it. Defaulted to ten eighty. And i was like okay. Well let's You know. I have a four k tv so let's set it to that. I mean the box says like s- play games and stream and four k. okay. I mean said it four. I've ever. I've got a four k tv. I should set it to four k. It made that gun tech game load for i want to say close to a minute before finally launched and then once it got there it was just like dude and fitting back stating fix that problem. Dad owned all of the atari games. So they are selling for five dollars. Atari s vault volume two. So i've gosh they can't even be bothered to give you the full Collection and got a squeezed out style unmanned squeeze that squeeze the last blood. What's what's in volume to some hot bangers and their let's see texas. You know these are all going to be okay game. So this is a tempest asteroids. Lunar lander That's what does that space duel Black widow. I'm we're you. You need to at some point stream. Something where it's like. This is believable. Imagine you you booth this up and you're like oh you know five bucks for the second. Yeah feel like that really round out the food.
Pop Culture Cosmos
"atari" Discussed on Pop Culture Cosmos
"Attempt to switch already but for those that are looking for one it might be the only one that's available and it's fifty dollars more expensive against not like a junkie model. It is now nice looking thing. It's just now at the media wanted and i think that's what the fans want it either. Yeah exactly ness kodak. Next got like three more here burn. Burn-through atari announced that they are going to be moving away from mobile games and the freeware so they had recently announced that they're gonna be splitting their company in two one half. It's going to be handling. Nf which really cared about in the first place this. Nf t like blockchain businesses. Such a sad to me like sega's doing it. Like i know these things supposed a whole value and all that but it takes such manpower to create you know makes it sad for like these gaming companies are like. We're going to start working on nf tease. And that's going to diminish the power or going into other parts of game development and also the environmental water supply. But who cares about that right. Yeah i mean it's says yeah clearly so atari as they announced they're going to be moving back in premium content. So there they had. The atari visas come out to lackluster reviews but they have announced that they're going to be making new games. They're going to be developing games again. Basically what they're saying tar is gonna start trying to go ahead attempt to put some games on the newer consoles outside of their own atari. He has consul. They're looking to put games back onto the xbox one xbox series x playstation four and playstation five once again so they are going to go ahead and get into modern systems so josh they are taking a aaa approach to things interesting maneuver. I wholeheartedly support it. But does that mean. We're just gonna get an uprise version of missile command. So that's what everyone's talking about you know. Like i know a while back. They started working on new asteroids. Game where it was like. You weren't just like shooting. Asteroids you're also mining them..
The Business of Esports
"atari" Discussed on The Business of Esports
"It just matters that they are the are authentic the door dashing their you know their coffee to them If they're just doing their thing right and like people that this audience embraces that you don't need in your really quickly is. I love sports. I love our competitive teams. I think my favorite part of my job. While i do is getting to work with my team in the players on our competitor kinda build. Those teams compete oregon basis in a lot of different titles. But as much as i love. Sports eastward stills only a very small percentage of gaming as a whole right gaming as a culture and gaming as an industry is a much bigger pie so rely talked to brands ninety times. They think they want sports wants game like they want a bigger reach. They want they want you to touch everything from minecraft junior union Not just all sport you really have to be able to touch of it If you're gonna do this. I think the right way and kind of reached the audience that you need to reach really kind of breakthrough that mainstream mentality To kind of build your brain up to try to build a brand is no doubt like you'll be out you. Can you can get some level in gaming which gets all eat of due to the the average consumer the average partner Before you really gonna kinda bill. I mean nobody known angeles Outside of dating really until like what is nothing show and then everybody knew who it was right so And he was. He was successful for a long time. Before that very successful per game are content creators streamer. But when you cross the mainstream is when i think a lot of times it kind of it was very valuable for gaming. I think as a whole so That was really helpful. An just shameless plug for listeners. Who didn't listen to our episode where we had ninjas manager on i. I think that was probably ten episodes ago now. It's great if you're interested in this and the drilling in sort of this blending line like i think there's a lot of great insight in that episode as well so check out the back catalogue Guys let's let's move on. Let's talk about atari atari neighborhood him. You know huge name gaming. Obviously historically This headline here. I thought was fascinating. Atari gaming moving away from free to play mobile games publisher will also exit atari casino and write down tv production efforts as it refocuses on premium. Pc and console titles..
Solvable
Social Isolation Is a Solvable Problem for People With Disabilities
"My mom found an atari really really poor My mom money. She had bought me a used. Atari hurry from one of those used electronic stores and we ended up playing like burger master. Something you like. Put a burger together. When you're talking about burger type. I remember it now but it was. It wasn't adorable piece of machinery at the time. Nintendo was already out. We couldn't afford one of those She was just really thrilled. That i was able to operate the controller at all the earliest. When i played with super mario one and duck of course and then i had super mario three. But i never got super mario to. It's always bothered me. I played all of those although we have to touch on the fact that we shot ducks snowing. Dog often up in the middle your screen. And he's like my dad. We get angry. It'd be like why is that talk like right next to the tv. Tried to shoot the so to be clear. No dogs were harmed in the making of duck video game. not that i know of a outlet. You were diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy. Can you tell me a little bit about how it impacted you in gaming so spinal. Muscular atrophy is a sister disease to a less. So if you saw stephen hawkins' have you know anybody who is afflicted with a less than you kind of have an idea what i'm going through in my life. So essentially my muscles are getting weaker and weaker as time goes on where ellis is much quicker in its development. Sf can last for your entire lifetime. So you could live an entire seventy eighty ninety years And it might never take your life or you might only live for a couple of months past when i was born. I wasn't able to crawl like a child is supposed to x. amount of milestones. My mom's thirty noticing that was using my arms to pull myself around. My lower legs weren't pushing. They should've been
Talking Tech
Remembering a Video Game Pioneer
"Hey listeners mike schneider here in molina and welcome back to talking tech so mike. I remember a while back. You were writing the story about jerry lawson who is a black pioneer the video game industry. The folks might know about and his name has come back in the news again. That's right Jerry lawson who passed away in two thousand eleven was an engineer and designer at fairchild camera and instrument company in silicon valley there. He led a team that created a game system called the fair fairchild video entertainment system now a lot of you may not have heard of that and the reason you may not have heard of this because a year later the atari twenty six hundred came out in nineteen seventy seven but the reason the fairchild consoles important is because that was the first one that could play an unlimited number of games because it was the first us games on cartridges. Obviously that led to eventually an entire video game industry. You know where you could buy whatever game she wanted and put him in play them and take them out and changed another game. A lot of the early game systems had all the games. Hardwired in or they used other more rudimentary types of data. Anyway so now. The usc games program at the university of southern california in los angeles has announced the gerald lawson endowment fund for black and indigenous students at it's an initiative to increase the minority representation in games in tech and the grand will be known as lawson scholars and a familiar name take two
Talking Tech
Atari Is Back With a New Console
"Move over playstation xbox and then to switch it's twenty twenty one and there's a new video game console coming from familiar industry name. So does everyone listening remember atari. I'm sure a lot of you do be atari. Vce s is here. It is a brand new video game console from atari. It's available to preorder now. It costs three ninety nine. It includes the console a wireless modern controller so the just like the controllers. You'd see on a playstation or xbox and it has the classic joystick that everybody probably remembers from backing the atari twenty. Six hundred days only wireless I got a chance to check it out for a bit It's really fun. It's a really interesting idea It looks a lot like the of old but it just has a lot of different wrinkles and changes to it first off. You don't have the you know the knobs and toggles to do things like tell the atari that it's a color tv or black and white tv instead. You have usb ports in the front and the back you have hd to get high def and then you also have support for ethernet and there's also the power button on the back the controller itself. The joystick Has a lot of new wrinkles to it. There's now a second button. It actually sits on the back of the controller. So you have the standard red button that you would hit on the top the circular one and there's another one on the back side Along with that the stick itself rotates which reminded me a lot of those old atari paddle controllers where it had like a dial me twist the dial to move stuff like it worked great for games like pong and breakout There's also led lights on the controller and they rumble two. So if you're playing like asteroids. I was noticing like if i was trying to rock it away from an asteroid or do something else it would rumble a little bit. So there's those touches as
Inspirado Projecto
"atari" Discussed on Inspirado Projecto
"Wow so amazing when we think about the kinds of care consideration Respect that we give to certain organizations to certain things because they you know what they either have a name for himself or looks like other people are following it or other people are quoting it a lot. It's it's really interesting how that works pretty interesting. Oh gosh yeah. If you got to talk. I would love to see on there. Also if you want to send me a message. I would love to hear your message. You could send a ten project. Gmail.com that is the official gmail.com senate. There i put your audio on here. In fact you'll hear you'll hear some audio from some folks on here to anchor dot. Fm stations brought up project. Though you can leave me a voice message you could call the hotline. Here we go. This is the hotline five. Six one two zero three nine one seven nine called the hotline five six one two zero three nine one seven nine us voicemail. Leave a message on there. And i'll put it up. Put it onto the podcast by the way yacht. Cruise plane april twenty third already week at the end of the march here is is crazy april twenty third and Palacasino then may third. We're playing at the at the concerts in your car. That'd be fun. that'd be a lotta fun. I love the theatre row aspect. That's always blast. Those things you need to drink lots of water lots and lots of water anyway without further ado and definitely without further a jones. I'm going to present to you a message here. And i believe it's what spring one in from man behind the machine. Let's see what he has to say. Spread of what was your first video game console in what year i remember the first time i video game. My aunt gloria had gotten the system. Would that had pong on it and it had two controllers that were just dials spin it left or right and then that would enable you to move your little. Ooh poo you'll take up for down bringing it over and i was having a blast. It was so fun so amazing that simplicity mine was atari. Twenty six hundred. I don't know we talked to my dad into that. How where he got that idea. We're always like years behind in technology. Usually wait until everybody else got technology than we and then we'd usually get last year's versions of stuff It was less expensive and all the bugs were worked out. Still just as good still just as good otherwise it would not have been made in the first place you know and i love that. It's hard twenty six hundred. I had friends who had intendo. So i'd go over there and play so my friends had different are a target users be i. It's i had a friend named monty. Docs cool name. Monte docs my little buddy in probably wanna say fourth grade maybe remember we would read old yeller. He was so funny. This little black kid. He would just burp really loud. And i remember how upset my teacher. Mrs ms dirk. That's right mr turk. I think that's i think that's where name was. I think it was that unless it was a different teacher. Anyway i think he was Was he says different anyway. Anyway anyway monte would read old yeller all the time all the time and she'd be like monty stop reading old yeller were were. You know were on this mission. We're on this assignment. Now was to such a smiley funny guy and on the weekends he would ride his bike over just completely unannounced. He would arrive at the house with his bag of of atari cartridges ego. Hey i thought maybe you'd wanna trade and like yeah. Let's let's do that. And then so then i'd i'd find some cartridges than he'd trade and trade and i get him back and i go over there and you know get my car. Shas bagpiper his back and bring him new ones to trade and we are always trading off. It's so much fun. With twenty six hundred. I remember berserk member berserk. That was such a funny. I tried to visualize the stuff that i'd see on the cartridge or the. Yeah the well. Art the art that was on these cartridges. I would envision those things as being those little pixels that were running around and shooting at me. Oh combat member with the tank in the in the airplanes and you could have like like with the tanks. That was fun because you could shoot these. Both these cannonballs Bump up about bounce all over the place on my god. There's a kid who grew up done a block. I think he had i wouldn't. let's see. did he have television. I wanna say he had television. There's a b. Fifty two bomber game is really big deal. Apparently it was the first game that would talk. That talked unless it was missile. Something missile i wanna say it was beef two bomber was raz-raza can ahead the speak and speak and spell head cannot like the speak and spell you are now dropping a missile target darkies. It exploded started exploded. Whatever it said. I just remember being fascinated by the fact that this thing was talking. I had another friend who had clico visu near was donkey kong junior. I love going there and play my other buddy. Tom lalli i would tell them into school with him. He would come over for short while. And i go over to his house and hang out and he had by. I loved that game. I don't think he's parents led him lend out any of the games. I think i wanted to borrow it. Don't these parents let.
Inspirado Projecto
"atari" Discussed on Inspirado Projecto
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Inspirado Projecto
"atari" Discussed on Inspirado Projecto
"Those. I think so you okay so you saw two. I've seen to myself I try to get a hit. Try it for one of them. I sit you not man. They had no engine noise. Had like this up. It looked like a episode. Five the of star wars where. It's like a triangle ship to no engine noise had looked like that as far as the figure. But it had this weird. Like electro red pulsing thing around it and it turned and moved without any engine noise and looked at me and my buddy nick nick was there. Tried to catch a fucking ride in the fucking morning and mike levin best birthday and the thing sauce spotlight on us and they went to. How far was it. Would you say as far as that is that. Is that like ridge up there no way and it look at us and then with fuck no one we know engine and there was the first time you saw the first time i saw the second one was just a bunch of lights in the camera. And that's not a fucking shit dude. It's above the horizon sailor out in alaska as well. Whoa i'm telling. I'm telling my buddy that's not ship rising. I could see if from here. And he's like no no. It's not as getting closer and closer to lift up more. And then i see drop like perceptibly. I'm watching this light. Come through the water. And i'm like oh my god row in your fucking go. I remember hearing about that. How you folks will travel underwater but you actually witnessed it. Yeah and they've actually tracked fish. They put trackers on fish and they see him nicholas island. There's there's tubes that go all through that fucking island you also crazy. You're bringing this up because there was that you i don't know it was like three months ago whose I think he was in a who was a blue. You have winter. You went into the water and the fact that you saw that same kind of thing happened. Oh look at check this out your movie. The movie a series of moves at the guy puts out there. This is a cargo company. Greeley craziest visit his fit. Like in the in the show. These these girls like fbi agents and this is the name of their fake company that they're they use and so i looked it up online. Is this a real place. But he was like one of those faith but someone made one on public. I'm like i gotta buy that so today. Decide to wear this. He's from hawaii and got my mask and she's got the dalai tattoo name is scruffy. You saw ufo sightings wasn't gonna be here today. I wasn't really. I was gonna. I was gonna travel from i get across the border from mexico and i was gonna fly out of san diego san francisco back to la and she said no you up and we can skip the entire day of traveling and you fly out at six fifty off from la we are. I am so happy. I'm so glad that you said yes and two on us at the secret said secret geometry. Oh love it dude. Got that from erica. Wedge in new orleans and twenty seven to make you these are great and you're a big dallas fan Surrealist painter drawer or any of that. That's awesome his. Yeah big time. I almost after i got his tattoos. I almost feel like in a way on have secret life dolly that he wrote. he's a psychopath. It's crazy because there's a whole other. I read about him. I almost want to say it was called. I think they named it after one of his paintings. I want to say it was called persistence of memory or something that was like like like yawns. It was interesting because they were talking about that secret. Life of dolly. Okay now. here's where things get crazy you know. Is he embellishing about crazy. Things happening is life or these real things and keep reading even says like the flurry for him. What's real and what's not. Because he lives in his head so much. It sounds like classic schizophrenia to me. But that's what makes him a genius to bastiat. And then this is the coolest thing i've seen that. Yeah yeah. I think some study done between schizophrenic people's brains and artists sprains and the creative centre data has like they have a similar creative center where dislike lesson emission is. I mean it's like the filter is can loose searches and do it. I think that's the seat schizophrenics have that similarity so wondered right. There's no wall in between one yet. They were as people think of think of something. And you're like yeah right. Non filtered reading about how dolly would would. Would you fall asleep. It like ring a bell or something so he would stay in this constant state of lake sue. Sleepy always sleep. Painting data see would just similar to meditative states. And so what he would do on his couch. He'd sit down and he had like a smooth in his hand bolander and every time he goes off of java can be like oh my god yeah cool space awake and asleep. That's where his love. I love it absolutely so you do you have. Do you have instagram as well. I do. But i'm not very active on or or an email. So i can contact you because jones with three s jones the ballot bowl scruff. Joe's god good man. Brilliant is it. is it like out again. People hear this music. It's not quite recorded songs. We do have play live but mostly just big island. I don't go very far with the guys yet because I like saying out. There i really. It boggles my mind to be in the city of this thing. I've never he's never been to italy. Oh wow yeah you bring it into a historic spot mahal and dry baby holy cow and drive by lynch david lynch. Oh well this is. That's street that. The movie was named after dr very mysterious winding road. He's like mountainous green day. You've what big island. Oh the big island. I got this dead gullies. Were going especially coast absolutely serene and beautiful and there's some kind of magic island that's like find a reason to stay or find a reason to go away for too long ways to go back. I keep come back. And you're like i don't think i would leave. Was there most of last year through like the whole quarantine and to make shit and Oh that's a good place. My god thirty people who have the corona no back home maybe has something to do with the nature. That's just nature just by being in nature all the time being swimming in the ocean. Being tried to they tried to close the oceans. Nobody listen to them. And i remember i remember seeing cops come out full mask. Full you for glaring it. Oh my god what are you gonna do. Now you're here right car right thought. Swimming sides oh really. Yeah they will absolutely fucking you start going around with no respect bill. Fuck it through your ass in a home boy. I was looking at folklore of.
Inspirado Projecto
"atari" Discussed on Inspirado Projecto
"A certain point. And so it's interesting. I'm i'm going to be viewing that experience very differently now. Very differently Yeah i'm going to be looking at it very differently now but anyway. What i was reading was love boat started being shot on an actual ship. And then those who would Ride like you actually book. You could actually book the cruise. You can actually book your cruise during the same time that the show is being filmed so if you were on that ship you'd be an extra so it's interesting because i read that and now that season two i'm starting to see a lot more shots of the cruiseliner out there any ocean now. It looks less like it's shot in a studio and more actually on the ship for sure. The camera angles. The lighting looks different in. You're you're seeing a lot more extra guest stars. So i don't know this means just means that they have more money or what bigger budget. But they're more people more like tiny one liner you know like one liner Folks that are coming in and You know having their two cents in these episodes so it's really quite really quite exciting. And i can't wait to see what other revelations come to me 'cause like i said. The last time i saw any of these episodes was when i was a little kid. And you know all these years have passed. This is the kind of cool stuff that just excites me. The kind of synchronised these epiphanies where you go whoa. I didn't realize that i knew what i knew. Because of that. Specific thing why you know in your mind just explodes your want heck. I know this thing because of that. Show.
KCRW
"atari" Discussed on KCRW
"Game for the Atari 2600 called in tuned. And it seems you plays an archaeologist who is trying to escape from an underground catacombs. But this is a video game from the early eighties. So your character is just a little stick figure that you navigate through this blocky maze that scrolls up from the bottom of the screen. If you get stuck in the maze pushes you to the very top of the screen and you die. Now, the programmers working on entombed had a big problem. They didn't want the player to just play the same maze over and over again, because that would be boring. But Atari cartridges had a tiny amount of memory on them, like two kilobytes. That's about 1000. Times smaller than a photograph you might take on your mobile phone today, not nearly enough room to store a bunch of different mace designs, so they came up with this idea. What if, instead of drawing a bunch of different mazes and trying to fit them all into that tiny bit of memory? What if instead of that He just wrote some code that could draw mazes. Then you wouldn't have to store all the maze is you just have to store the code, and it could generate a new maze every time the new game started. These days. There's a term for this kind of coding. It's called procedural generation, and it's a big deal in video games today. Like if you've ever played Minecraft. Every time you start a new game, it gives you a new map. That map is created with procedural generation. Here's the problem, though. In the early eighties, nobody really knew how to do this yet. So for weeks and weeks, the programmers on entombed of banging their heads against this problem. Just can't settle on the right algorithm. And.
The TWIML AI Podcast
Off Line, Off Policy RL for Real World Decision Making At Facebook
"Right. Everyone i am here with jason galaxy. Jason is a software engineering manager at facebook. Jason welcome to the komo podcast. Thank you thank you so traveling museum a super excited to jump into this conversation. Let us start the way we always do. You share a little bit of your background. What got you started down. The path of working in a shore has a great question. So so i am for me computers. Where were sort of just amazing. You'll mysterious thing. I grew up you going to a lot of like thrift stores at garage sales and all of that with my folks in kind of a first generation college student and so so we found a computer in an old atari four hundred eight hundred outta garage sale. Now i remember Had just one kind of game on it and the game was called basic night thought. Oh let's plug. This had happened. And it was just a screen with weird. Weird letters and just blinking cursor. I was like wow this kind of different than Than pong or whatever. My cousin had i think he had a nintendo or whatever it was. Did you get the special basic keyboard with those clicky buttons. Oh so well. This atari had the keyboard kind of built day was the four hundred eight hundred. The keyboard is all kind of in the unit. Interest is so is like these really hard buttons you. You'd press it. And i think over time. Some of the button stopped working. So that really changed on my variable names were called and everything right What i had which was basic for the twenty six hundred which had separate accessory keyboard with trying to remember where you see those keyboards nowadays. Like it's the same kind of thing that you find on like a cheap remote. It's like cliquey plastic. Oh is it the one with the nine the like Because i know the two thousand six hundred had that nine almost like a telephone pad. It's something like well. If i'm thinking of the right thing. It was like in two pieces and a slit together and there was like yeah try americ- thing and like the mathematical symbols and like the other programming symbols and thought about this in longtime also. Yeah yeah so you always this this kind of thing. I mean you really never knew what you were going to expect. And if it felt totally magical and naturally what got me into it. I i remember. I made a an arm wrestling game. We're basically you'd have to hit the space bar a bunch of times and if you hit it fast enough you want at arm wrestling and it just kind of went from there of just always had a huge passion for it and one of the things have always been interested in is kind of like the whole turing test idea and even going beyond that sort of superhuman a and what that really means. And so you if you think about. Let's say computer vision. You have human level. I that is already pretty awesome. I maybe you could have superhuman. You could have a really eagle-eye vision but it's kind of like that's maybe less getting the human levels already ninety percent of the way there's already of the value But when i saw things. I read about things like deep blue. And he's these things that could do amazing kind of the decision making and strategic thinking that was really just ignited something and so after. I finished my studies. I decided to go get a phd focused on game playing in these economic simulations and things like that and so after i got my phd. In that i went to his working with some contractors for a while. Then i went to google research where continue to work on a decision making and doing strategic planning and all of that with the help of machines and then i have kind of worked my way into a facebook which is where i'm at now working on starting up this region team where we're trying to produce a decision making system for ultimately for the whole world like the think of the For decision making that people can just grab and go
The Lowe Post
Houston Rockets reportedly pursuing Harden trade from Philadelphia 76ers centered on Ben Simmons
"I don't know what transpired between the sixers. And the rockets. And i would be suspicious of anybody telling you exactly what was offered when was offered if there was even a firm offer because i have learned mostly through the celtics. Frankly then reconstructing failed. Trade talks is a fool's errand and quite frustrating. But i i will. There were lots of reports that the sixers and the rockets were haggling over. What philadelphia would have to attach to. Ben simmons to get james harden so it was a tireless maxi plus x picks retirees maxi plus one pick was atari maxi plus matisse stibal plus no picks plus two. I don't know. I don't know here's what i know or i'm ninety percent certain that i know ben. Simmons made all nba last year. And he's twenty four years old and if the rockets wanted ben simmons day could have had been simmons. I don't know what was offered again. I don't know if there was ever a firm offer gm's often push back. Oh that was never offered will. Did you talk about he ever. did you offer it. no. I don't know what even like. When does it become an offer. I don't know. I am very confident. If the rockets wanted ben simmons day could have had ben simmons and they chose this package over ben simmons and not to be boring guy. I don't really have a huge problem with that. I wouldn't have had a huge problem with them. Getting ben simmons either. I think ben's really good. I've ordered them all nba. And i email defense last year. He's awesome. There is a chance that all these picks end up in the twenty s. I don't think it's a good chance but there is a chance and yeah. All these picks are awesome. They can get into trade talks now. Never be able to compete with oklahoma city in new orleans if a superstar becomes available but if they think this is more valuable than ben simmons. I don't have used problem with that. Because it is a whole lot of picks it is a whole lot of picks a whole lot of swaps. And it's gonna turn into something and as you said like you can build a really good team around ben simmons. It's just gonna take you time to build it
Joey's Totally Tech
"atari" Discussed on Joey's Totally Tech
"On here.
Joey's Totally Tech
"atari" Discussed on Joey's Totally Tech
"Gives you the amd risa Processor specifically the reisen are sixteen of six g eight years brady on graphics on that of course And at two point six gigahertz with a three point five gigahertz boost handles. hdr video streaming The difference between the eight hundred and four hundred eight hundred has eight gigabytes ram. the four hundred has four gigabytes of ram Both are upgradable. Just slight your pc. Okay i think i might crack the atari. Bcs team convention go So surrounding a custom Limit space operating system called atari world at squads have a tory store and it and You get atari fox which is like there's a whole bunch of tari games specifically stuff from atari Times with asked for free There's also atari vault to available in their store. That's more games of course game collection such. Yes exactly yes. I don't know if they have any licensed stuff like activision division or namco or anything and Second one i know. They didn't have any of that stuff with the first one. Because i've got a tar evolved for the let's see where was i So yeah it's got the atari world operate assisted like i said There's also a pc mode where you can install your own operating system windows on there. You can put some other lennox distribution on there but the be on their what hap- also heard that it was going to ship with answering stream is that true yes does with an streamed that's a subscription service. But he could like play a lot of arcade games on there as well as a lot of retro computer games not just tori stuff like commodore spectrum. A few others. I've got it in my notes here. So why can said. There was a lot of controversy surrounding the system on the development of this was plagued with this year's one thing. There's no prototype. When the indy gug are paid Launched say no. He board their money not knowing that the thing was even going to exist. And that's kind of the risk. You run when you when you contribute. India sites like indego all back. Yeah you're an investor an investor in a business or a product. This ever guarantee that you're going to get a return on investment. You know what. I'm saying. You're basically you're giving your money in good faith that logged faith. Turn your best but things happen. All the types is there any so kinds of crazy stuff going on was just the on sites. There's certain you know certain cautiously place to help the day. It may or may not product like if they don't do they get if they meet their goal but they still able to produce so well. Yeah that's true. I know kickstarter at least requires a prototype which i think is a good requirement. Indie gogo does not require prototype. I do that too. It's just two different companies. I guess they're trying to cater to relate to different demographics. But you know obviously kick starters for someone that maybe had a little more startup it also it also depends on what your product is in meeting a game system. That would take a lot more sort of capital say. You're making like a little plastic due to be. They know that attach is like your iphone or something and a tory deathly was not as the company that was then have capital that it would have had back in the day going into this at this point like came out very faithfully dislike. You know if you want all those old atari stuff is kinda were expecting pretty much living off the nostalgia of those previous licenses. Seventy i mean. I guess the last thing i can think of as rollercoaster tycoon. Maybe there's some stuff. After that i can't remember um force there was the. Tari flashback. sis abs. I've got one of them here but that's made by. At games and licensed by atari so um atari themselves to make those. They had some other project to some with a watch that then work out. You know everyone's trying to get in the world will tech game So yeah they had an indie gogo campaign with though prototype yet the fundraising was successful and some people took. It's a bigger risk. Would you don't when you're doing this on a site with the prototype. Yeah because A lot of people want to see the thing actually working at doesn't need to complete but they won't see at work it before they invest people were giving their money Blindly you know just They had to have complete faith that things would come out. You know. I mean you got a huge like atari behind it. I guess you would think like you know. Hey maybe this trust yeah. Little did they know i think. A lot of people didn't know atari. His company at once was search. We mentioned that already. Yeah so of course. They had made a video for their Atari us early on Showing some people playing games on the tv and they showed tempus. Four thousand one main Game that they had shown there and hope he bore gain. Oh yeah tempus four thousand is going to be on this system comes find out the developers of tempests four thousand had agreed to do atari us version for this new atari company. That's pretty wild. It's of like You ever seen wayne's world two before Wayne trump to. I've seen the original wayne's world well the plots pretty simple basically Wayne he has vision. I guess john morrison from the doors. He comes amid a dream he says you gotta frickin throw a huge music festival and warm and get the pay people to show up from a music festival is if you both them. They will come so the entire premise of the movie is. He starts his festival. Col wayne stock. And he's looking these bands but he never talks to them so it's like he's like advertising the band going to be there even though he doesn't really think they're going to be there. So but yes. The tempest is a game. People recognize can put it.
Voices of the Community
Nana Joes Granola
"This episode is part of our series exploring covid nineteen impact on nonprofits and small businesses in san francisco. We started the series back in april of twenty twenty during the height of the first phase of the covid nineteen pandemic and the shelter in place requirements over these past nine months the covid nineteen pandemic an economic meltdown has wiped out millions of jobs in both the nonprofit in small business sectors as well shuddered tens of thousands of small business operations the goal of the series to shine the spotlight on the nonprofits small businesses and their staff who are struggling to deal with the impact of the covid nineteen pandemic on their operations services and sustainability the series of interviews we conducted features voices from a cross section of organizations that make up the fabric of our community each of them brings a unique perspective on how they and we are dealing with the issues facing our community during the global pandemic an economic depression. Yes it's a pandemic and yes. We have to stay safe but we have to learn how to help each other. We have to learn how to support each other's businesses. We have to learn how to sweat each other's families and we have to learn again how to grow. Small businesses can. Because i think right now the government's focusing on the bottom down and the bottom down out small businesses where we should be focusing on the bottom up because that's where the economic recovery is gonna come from in this episode are featured voice. Is michelle pusa terry from nanna. Joe's granola nanna. Joe's coonoor is a wonderful example of a local manufacturing startup that has been incubated through. Sf made his owner brings her passion for both healthy natural foods. Importing the community before profits. Which is why at nanotubes. Granola every employee is making above minimum wage. I joined remotely via sim by michelle. Who atari from manages granola. Thanks for being here. Michelle and i think people would love to know why you started editorials granola and can you tell us a little bit about sophie. Gold award is so i started non-judgmental it back in two thousand and ten with the hopes of bringing back whole food ingredients into package food world on the grocery store shelves. I noticed that a lot bulls granola on. The shelves had a ton of sugar. Some additives preservatives. And really it started with me surfing and wanting to really go out and has a lot of energy and i'm hypoglycemic and i'm really sensitive to sugar so i thought you know what i'm gonna just create. I'm a trained pastry chef. And i didn't know. I didn't make it myself to begin with but i started making my own. Granola in as everybody's stories goes friends family loved it. They found that they were having energy. A lot of people told me that they didn't have to eat lunch. And that was mainly. What i was going for was using whole food ingredients and not having any additives or preservatives or a ton of cane sugar. And we don't use any sugars. We just one sophie award. It's our third sophie awards. We went to this year. We won the gold for one of our paleo orange which is my personal favorite and then we won the bronze for paleo so we did a collaboration with hugh chocolate based out of new york and it's delicious and then we also have a silver one from two thousand eighteen. So that's kind of why. I started on just granola and why i firmly believe that if you build a business inside the community like the dog patch doc in two thousand twelve. It was much different. If you build a community that way. I really feel like you have to support them. And that's where community before profit came in light to. Can you talk a little bit more about into the other. Big question is how has been impacted your operation in. He the staff of people that you have to help make the magic of jobs so before profit started that i can think it was two thousand fifteen two thousand sixteen. It's a website. I'm been working on it but just haven't had a lot of time. But i was noticing that a lot of people were feeling isolated in lost in the service industry. I grew up in the service industry. Since i was fifteen. I was front of the house for a very long time moved from you. Know being a barista back in nineteen eighty seven. Which wasn't cool to being. You know a waitress and then a bartender and just that party life you know. And i made a decision when i moved to san francisco to get sober and two thousand fifteen. Two thousand sixteen there was about four or five people who committed suicide during that time. And i think my mentality on my business on to treat people on how to look at people and how to really support other people in this industry. It's hard it's isolating. There's so many places to hide when you're in the service industry you hide behind a smile behind the bar. Nobody knows what's happening. And i think community before profit has kind of morphed into coming more towards not joe's to of being like during the pandemic when march seventh hit. I didn't lay off any employees at in furlough any employees at it. Lay off any employees. A lot of my employees family members weren't working either so i felt a huge responsibility to hold their jobs to make sure that they were still getting paid to do whatever i had to do to make sure that they were getting paid so basically i went from supporting families to supporting. You know all fifty people. I employ ten people in most people have at least five people on their family. So it may that community before prophet a little bit more real to me and a little bit more like i have a responsibility when i employ somebody. I don't just employ them just for them to get the job done. I employ them to give them the tools they need to succeed to give them the tools they need to never have to work another entry level job again
Joey's Totally Tech
Tauon PC-1 Review
"I've had this thing sitting here since the summer and I've been meaning to review it. However, I've been so busy that I've had to put it on the back burner for some time. Unfortunately. Well, we've got Christmas approaching and some of you may come across the towel on PC one on eBay. You may have been looking for a retro computer and this thing pops up or at least it did for me that they've changed the description now and when I got it it was $100 after shipping, but now it's like $88 after shipping on eBay. If I order it from the Talon electronics website, you're still looking at $100 after shipping the towel on PC one has a cortex A7 arm processor off. 1 gigahertz one gigabyte of RAM and 8 gigabytes of internal storage. You also get a mouse power adapter that has a switch on it and gave em a v cable to plug into composite televisions that includes many of those old CRT televisions. Tell on electronics helps their towel on PC one computer as a kids-friendly family computer the computers all inside of a keyboard wage much like the Retro microcomputers like the Commodore sixty-four and the Atari eight bit computers of the early 80s. It's black and color and has one USB off work for the mouse. At least that's what's available on the outside. Anyway, it has one additional USB port on the inside which we will get to off the keyboard itself has a Gamepad mode if you want to use it as a Gamepad for games though, really, you're not going to be picking the thing up and you'll see that as a Gamepad. It's more like pressing keys on the keyboard to play the game. That's all it is. That's runs Android 7.1.2 out of the box or at least mine was and it's actually a modified version called towel on os office. That's how I ordered it over the summer. It may be entirely possible. They've updated the version with the latest firmware, which I have not updated yet. But I will do as part of the review the keyboard feels pretty nice as I boot this up. It makes a horrible computer sound which I really don't like I guess it's supposed to be the sound of a computer connected to the internet was a dial-up modem. There's no need for this at all. And I hate the boot up process because of this the boot screen is a nice retro 8-bit. Let's box and they said this was marketed towards kids, but I think this is really more interesting for retro computer fans as well as tinkerers. We get into the actual software. This is where I already find it missing software. It claims to have figures are guide says it has acrylic paint and vice x64 wage ke pure Aptoide blue wallet CPU info dirt editor finit browser G Droid goes to meander Miracast receiver off mobile basic downloader notepad open map open to sshd townhome VLC media player and retroarch
The Business of Esports
Amazon reveals their new cloud gaming service
"Bliss. Let's jump into some news William to an like an article that was pretty big news this week it was part of a broader set of announcements that the company made. This is from which fifty dot com and the article is. Amazon Reveals Cloud Gaming Service Amazon according to the article is going to offer a Netflix's style cloud gaming subscription service named Luna with select titles in four K sixty fips It'll initially be available on PC MAC fire TV iphone. And ipad with an android version planned for after launch You know this sounds a lot like everything else were seeing. There are some differences they will like. Amazon is going to offer its own controller like stadia did but players can use a bluetooth when the keyboard or mouse or Third Party, Bluetooth? Controller. If they want and if they do by Amazon's controller, it's only fifty dollars and it connects directly to the cloud service in the same. Way Stadium. Had, promised to but didn't et release. and the introductory price for the for Luna in the US is going to be six dollars a month. The only major publisher I saw. Listed at least as part of this announcement and this article interestingly enough was Ubisoft. Who was the big launch partner for Stadia and then seems to have lost faith in stadium because they started doing work with some other like cloud gaming company? It seems they're like the cloud gaming sort of. you know the the the everything that's cloud gaming there there seems to be ubisoft their front and center in terms of the launch part. We should we should separate. Think Games publisher should be trying to get his much distribution for their games as possible and others involved. Yeah. But I presume you saw benefits financially from being the launch partner like I. I bet ub saw I bet I don't think this was a hard business decision to reach as my guests removing SOx perspective. My real question is what was the Industry Conference Paul and how did you and I? Both, miss at were they spike the water with livestream games as a surface like juice because it is like there was some conference three years ago that like Apple Amazon Microsoft you know like like everyone was like a everyone was at and they're all like they laughed like well, we have to do this right now I'll tell you what it is was no business of sports podcast three years ago. And and the day Google got on stage and said, this is the future of gaming and I called it hot garbage and I called it correctly hot garbage not enough people were listening now now hold on Amazon though brings I think something a little different to the table and hear me out here. Could you see potential integration with all of Amazon's like home stuff right? Everyone has an Alexa. Everyone has like a A. Zillions of already set Alexa was in the controller or was that a joke. That's possible I. I saw that and I like did not verify it was system a that people are making off or if that was really how they were going to differentiate the controller because it's both plausible a good idea and completely implausible and a terrible idea at the same time. I just it seems. It feels like cloud gaming now is just a check box that the big tech companies have to put a check mark next to, and there isn't a lot of thinking around how this is any different. Because if you read the Luna announcement, it reads pretty much verbatim like Google announcement except with less with less sort of fluff. So there's no promise of the future of gaming. There's no negative latency. There's no they took that stuff out but other than that. It's pretty much a copy paste well, no, it's not though and this is really important the price right because. This is six dollars a month now. Sucks that they couldn't get it to five I. Mean I'm GonNa, start there like a real psychological break point they miss their but I trust Amazon is run their math, what this cost rate, and probably there's a certain amount of server space that this takes up but like. I think the offering is different at this price right because I think it's and I. Think this gets a little bit more at what stadium could have been. Right it's much more affordable. My understanding is it's not this rent to own model. It's just a straight up flat subscription. You've got the game streamed. Great Booby soft is a good launch partner for this because they would have what I would call a lot of mass appeal games like the assassin's creed games, for example, which I think translate well to this sort of thing of show me where there's no copy paste the William. To cut you off. But like this, all the assassins creed was in the launch stuff for stadia to. Yeah I think it was a decent partner there to the difference as the argument for the stadium launch was. Pay Sixty dollars to buy a game. You probably already have right and it's a worse version because it's laggy livestream on a concert. This argument is, Hey, you already have Amazon services you maybe you're curious to checkout watchdogs pay six bucks a month to try it out, and there's some other stuff here till and I think at that pricing, it also goes much more mass marquette I think somebody who isn't going to shell out sixty. For is willing to shell out I guarantee there's going to be price promotions. I title fray and Amazon is very good at that stuff to drive adoption. This is starting to be something like I could see you know forty five year old Atari Gamers who dropped out looking at and being like, yeah, those do look pretty cool. Being an assassin in Greece I'd like I this is this is a really big thing I believe is like. Inaccessibility driven offerings. Price is everything. The appeal of stadium was accessability driven without an accessible price which totally gated off making great games available cheaply, and without a fixed cost could that work as a second model? Yes and could it work as a longer term lease of life on yes? So like I do I think this is the greatest thing ever to happen in livestream subscription gaming. No that is xbox's game pass right like one hundred percent but could this work and could this grow into something else overtime
Mac Power Users
Brett Terpstra's New Robe
"Everyone. This is David sparks. Joined by my fellow co-hosts, Mr Even Occa- Steven. How are you today I'm good David. How're you? Doing very well, we have a guest today. It's a guy you've never heard of we've never had him on the power users before. Kidding Bread Terpstra welcome to the MAC packagers. It's an honor to be here. As always you may be the most frequent guests I think we need to have a system we need like make a sweater or maybe a bathrobe for you. Logo on the five five timers club. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. What would you be Terry cloth guy or would you want like some other fabric Terry cloth all the way. I am not a Silk Road kind of guy. I could see. I. Think. You would look pretty good in a silk robe only when I'm boxing. Maybe in, you need a type. Guys. ARE USERS Read Terpstra is one of my favorite nerds and yours he has all sorts of cool ideas and it's always fun having him on the show and I realize it's been too long. So you're here today Brett before we get started just a couple announcements sign up for the MP newsletter game. We put the the link in the show notes and then you get the show notes and a little bit of extra stuff thrown at you every Sunday. When we release. you can go over to the forums at talked backpackers dot com. and. Announce -ment. I'm doing a free keyboard Maestro Wepener I've been thinking about doing this part of these field guides for a long time. I finally got the system set up to do it. it's going to be free to everybody. You don't have to be a field guide customer and It's going to be a lot of fun. I'M GONNA talk about context base control of Mac Keyboard Maestro. I've got this really cool thing I've been doing lately based on whether I'm working on legal or Mex- sparky or whatever, and the tools I need just pop up in it makes working really fast and I'm going to share all that magic through Keyboard Maestro I'm GonNa have a special guest or to Rosemary Orchard already in and it's open to everyone free on August twenty seventh at ten am Pacific. If you're interested go to Mex- BARCA DOT COM to sign up. That was a pretty compressed little bit there. Don't you think Stephen? Yeah it was great. That was the elevator pitch like now we're on Iran or and breath waiting for us here. Yeah, and Brett is sitting right here saying, Hey, guys what the heck am under show. I'm good. You know we haven't talked to you about long time is I don't even know what hardware using these days I mean a still using that. So rocking that Atari. Se. No. I was part of a startup that went sideways. But as a result I got myself a new well new ISH sixteen fifteen. Oh, what year. No mine's a fifteen inch. I got this like a month before the sixteenth in was announced. So I still have a butterfly keyboard. That's awesome. But I use it mostly with my my ultimate hacking keyboard anyways. So. I do hate the keyboard I will say when I have to use it as a laptop I do hate the keyboard, but I do and this is an unpopular opinion but I love the touch bar. Yeah. Why I have a lot of fun with the touch bar I have it programmed so that when I'm in the shell when I cd into a directory, it checks for one of 'em. I've I have a thing called. How's it? Which is basically Make files for task runners. And so when I see the into directory figures out what tasks I have that I can run and gives me buttons for them and the Toolbar. The touch bar. And I find it just really handy. I never have to try to remember do I have this setup with Gulp or grunt or maker Rake I just have buttons that pop up for me. It's awesome. Now are you customizing touch bar with better touch tool or did you do something else? So okay. So the the customization I just described was all done through. I. Term. Which has escape code you can send to modify the touch bar, but I do also use. Better touched tool and have you seen what's it called Golden? Do. You know what I'm talking about. There's some guy did a better touch tool preset that has like every possible option for the touch bar. It was too much for me like I wanted more control. And fewer things golden chaos I think is. It's amazing. I. Mean There's No way you can look at it. Not Think it's amazing and if you haven't already customize your touch bar I I would recommend giving that a shot if you have your own customers though. It will overwrite what you have. So sure. Yeah, and it's really not that hard. If you got better touch tool, which I believe is part of set up now. So if you've got to set out subscription, you can download that one or just by the APP the also if you have a setup subscription, make sure you're running the setup version so that developer gets his due for all the Times you use his at and then if you have setup, you should also download marked to and just leave it running in the background twenty, four seven. I was only get you in trouble but. You could do that. That's all insane. But but better touch tool is an APP that you know started out and we talked about on this show often, but it started out to re map things you can do with the the the track pad, but then it's like Magic Melissa Apple, TV remote they just went crazy and and he but giving you the ability to to remapping the touch bar I think is something that for all the people that are cranky about the touch bar, my question always them have you tried customizing it to your own needs what about you even have you done yet stuff with the touch bar on your laptop? No just because it's such a secondary system for me I mean I have better touch tool doing a couple of simple things but I haven't really gone. Full bore with it if I had a this is of course had for Brett is something that you would use more if he could use it again if you had A. Touch bar for a desktop machine or you could have you know somehow with your keyboard, you normally use like do you feel? Handcuffed a little bit. It's only available to you in these circumstances. Yes. Because like I said, I'm primarily my laptops on a stand and I'm using my. Ultimate. Hacking keyboard. So when I wanNA use those cool buttons I programmed after reach over. To the touch bar and I would absolutely love to have a a touch bar An external touch bar I guess that could be closer to my keyboard although it does keep my if I sit too long my shoulders get really tight. So this constant like reaching over actually keeps my arms limits probably good for my health but yeah, I I would love an external touch bar.
DJ Force X in Conversation
DJ Force X in Conversation - #167 Pitchshifter
"And. Then we found the festivals. We just get on with Atari teenage riot now is there anything that was abandoned? Every single festival with for a couple of years. And so we got to know those guys really well, it's great to play together and obviously. Heavy advantage of playing around us. So we still had also ruth infringes in the row and lost the heavy. Dictionary little those guys but he's kind of. Experimental time was fun for us and it kind of opened doors as well and weeks of cash the phrase that we use it as. We've we've done lots of time in the underground and now which is just GonNa go underground sewer happens. That was kind of the plum to dot com, and that's kind of is probably as far as heads,
BIG Esports Podcast
Atari Are Back Into Consoles - Where Are They Now?
"The timing for grams at votes you toy brand from Hasbro in renamed company Atari. So, we voted the first first time from Hasbro. Rename. The company Atari whilst world in we sold his company to Hedge Fund. Around Twenty two, thousand, six, two, thousand, seven game over graduate even begin to launch a shoulder. Alive, you'll left basically in story to do things on my own so I get investing in Games. Responsible, for Fitness Games, jeeter Michael or swing visiting Zombie Games. In Game Late Twenty twelve early twenty not to Hedge Fund which at both the company from US winter in into the nation in Vail. So the edge fund itself Wendy to. In be called me back in this love with finding for bankruptcy for jobs in the US. All you're interested. So. Twenty four hours to say a do it. Forty eight hours to. Find the money to buy back in US oil handed up. Becoming, the first of the major shoulder. Over Jari in twenty realty in two guests would say one year. To extricate ourselves with the bankruptcy process. At the time, the company was doing one meet in Euros of revenue and we. Around more than thirty million euros of. Debt so. was. Even the whole. And yes, one year to basically leave bankruptcy in the US and then three years to survive three years to reboot in DC where we are today. Now too long process, but you said like threat that whole time game so is that is that painting a passion like a personal passion for you? I've always liked you know new issue in games I'm the Not of not do producer I am more than the executive producer zero are. Tried to make things happen some set. To. have to rely on teams so It's The beauty of his business inc is you know you always want you create you don't know if he's is going to work. but if you wait in the most if It is just to realize acknowledged it'd be steak. So if you kill the game early enough, you will not lose money not not too much suit against it come back. It's like four right you wanna stay at the table so don't go in. for each project because you're going to end the bust I think it's just a question of you know amid a mistake. Let's get it. Let's stop here. Don't. Business Point during the game into the market because you're GONNA lose bovine. So join me because you have to be. Arab record in the analyses and your ignorance rich of any state as if you can follow me. Something I'd love to get your thoughts on to what I've seen in bit is, is they small indie studios may make say one mobile game it'll explode it'll go huge but then they really struggled to get that follow up game. Is there a lot of pressure from these studios? Maybe they've gained investment off the back of their previous success in the being pushed like you need more than a one hit wonder. I think the win seats in never run in the studio a who is being on the publisher side of the investor side or the executive produce aside so. It's a very difficult business Tell you want I you know it's like being tennis. You have one federer you have one the dog. Thousand Meetings of. Or? So people tend to look at one. Success Rightly, I would say, but visit outs look at these guys we have invested X. and they've met in one meeting thunder. In your yet but so it's great but don't forget. You have one fitter one dollar, your nuggets of Denny spares in the world. So you have. Millions of studios but drivenow studios. We didn't make it. So you have to be very mindful of act and then I would say the of issue. With the to studio that I've found is, is guys deb's in big gain of Utah everything inside the game in before you also did some marketing daughters, your some hours. So He's what received a lot of example than you know, sad stories for studios and great stories above issues where you know. That has invested more than. Adding to the game and the students Vancouver's do better but they don't have the mind to finish Beta on investing marketing issue with somebody was the money we physically speaking up though the project. So it's very, it's a, it's a very difficult situation in. What's going to do the Tories? reconized that than trying to out drank to basically. Bring product to some products to the market, but it's very difficult to. The point is once you have the game, usually the sequel is easy because you have a young money flowing obscene. Experience situation. So you don't have enough problems on after two years or three years at you like, okay. What do we wanted to?
Unconfirmed: Insights and Analysis From the Top Minds in Crypto
What is Patoshi?
"This week's episode relates to some events regarding some bitcoins that were mind very early on in bitcoins. Lifetime in fact it was so early that it was a time when there weren't that many miners besides the Toshi but before we get to the recent events let's talk about something else called Potosi which you discovered. Can you explain what Pluto she is? Yes to cry Potosi. I just would like to go back in time to to the time. I I did this search and this was two thousand and thirteen and I have been working like a year. A strengthening the security of the beacon core working with the the the quarterback trying to find vulnerabilities. And I didn't know anybody going in between those times so I I wanted to make sure that you know what happened on the first years of Bitcoin That were transparent and it was very very few information about that so I just thought that what would Sadashiv have done? I mean he would have used CAS computer to mind bitcoins. And he would HAP- kept his computer on for. You know the time it needs until the network was Maastricht and if you take a look at the very few first hours of the bitcoin network and and you say okay this might be Satochi Right. Because he just launch network. He wants everyone to join so he's running note to enable all the other people to connect but if if you take the hash rate in the very first hours of Bitcoin and you extrapolate that for the whole first year you realize that it's highly probable that Toshi collected twenty two thousand coins right and I said these. Bitcoin Talk Forum and I was heavily criticized because the and rarity of Bitcoin. A it's like kind of says at Cisco she was kind of a fully Trista Guy. He didn't want money for because money's rated with bags and bugs are related with power and we are trying to be completely new centralized system financial system so I was heavily criticised. And say say okay. Let's try to find proof of this. Let's try to find some evidence of this because for me it was something very you know what she would have done. And so I. I went to the first Version of their bitcoin. Core CISCO DID Dot Thuan and I found out there was the floor and to explain this flow. I have to explain a little bit. About the technical part of beacon combining so there is when you implement announced value. And when you run out of space when when these Knows wraps around you have to increments something else and is something else called the extra notes so the speed of this extra nuns and the speed of the nuns is related to the computer using for mining. If you are a fuss computer you get a foster increment. The extra and what I found was that the astronauts counter was not reset Atari block so it was running a counter to kept running so in a sense every block a minor produces it stamped with are kind of a real time clock that identifies the speed of his computer. So I plotted this on a very simple graph like having the x axis the block numbers and the access the extra NHS and a very very interesting pardon papa and despite perfectly separates the differ minors at a different times. Because each of these miners Casa Clear. Line a clear slope on this graph so. I said okay. This is all I mean this. This graph describes everything so I published decent my blog and I had like thirty thousand visits in a couple of days. And so I I those times The whole community was about thirty thousand people so I think that looked at graph and the other interesting discovery of this graph is that Satochi spent almost no none of discounts like spent like forty bitcoins in the whole first year Probably in time and the amount of money the the value of those because whereas of five dollars so clearly there was two discoveries. One was this pattern that I try to correlate with Sushi and the other was that this person or group of the mining Had A complete confidence in the system he had never sold. He never sold Discount after a few tries a few tries so this was kind of a shock for the market and and the price of bitcoin actually went top because of this like fifteen percent. So I think that's a very very good for the community and and showed some transparency that was missing and I call this Potosi because we don't know if xactly set Oshii we can argue we can have our guest that this was socially but really we don't really know for sure that if this minor was social and at one thing that I wanted to understand because I wasn't fully sure I understood it. From looking at the graph. It essentially looks almost like Saito or Potosi was mining faster but is that possible or simply just that those Potosi minor was renting the extra nonce more quickly between blocks or something is that what was going on. I wasn't sure exactly why the that's correct. A it turns out when I saw the graph of the same you. Did you realize that seems to be faster on any other computer and that is kind of suspicious so I try to dig deeper into this and I found that what was triggering was making these Dismounts extra knows England foster. It was that the nonce was being incremented in a shorter space. Like about one fifth of the space that any other mining minor was was using. So if you reduce the range that you Increment in the nonce. Then you will end up increment index foster so what we see in the graph East essentially a probably a normal computer and he just stand this up because other watermark in these blocks and the exist of this other watermark is in fact a confirmation that the first potter is actually something very very particular for for a very specific minor.
BBC World Service
Coronavirus: The human cost of virus misinformation
"We here at the BBC have been tracking the human cost of coronavirus misinformation this includes the souls awesome injuries and deaths as a result of room is false speculation bogus cures and fake posts online Mariana spring from BBC trending has some of the findings Brian lives in Florida in April he posted his thoughts on corona virus on Facebook he wasn't quite sure what current advice really was but because of things he read online he was convinced that the expats were lying I saw those may be is there you know are they still working on the five G. because I've heard rumors not from any news sources but people talking about old you know it could cause fax people getting sick over a five G. towers and being too close just one of the many conspiracy theories that have been circulating online during the pandemic Brian and his wife didn't keep away from other people or seek help when they fell with corona virus the couple ended up in hospital that's why he was when I speak to him by fighting he was getting better but still struggling to breathe his wife was in a much more serious condition one of until later in a nearby ward the battle that they've been having is with her longs there in flames and they've trying to get to the best medication that they can sign I was available to be able to help with that and her body just is just not responding Brian is no longer karenna vice conspiracy theorist and this case is just one of many examples of how dangerous misinformation can be the BBC's anti disinformation unit has investigated hundreds of misinformation cases and found dozens resulted in real human cost like the virus is spread all over the world misleading information about the drug hydroxy car Quinn has let the poisonings in the U. S. Vietnam and Nigeria online remiss led to multi tax in India those conspiracy theories that Brian mentioned about five G. mobile technology well fed masa possess a light in the UK and other countries perhaps the deadliest incident happened in Iran where health authorities say misleading messages about the preventive effects of drinking alcohol went viral on social media Cheyenne's Atari's all day is a disinformation expert with BBC monitoring we start seeing posts eighteen telegram which is one of the most popular messaging apps in Iran I'm also on Instagram that was means videos that was suggesting drinking alcohol can actually boost the immune system and disinfect the body and soul and someone from catching Corbett ninety the authorities say the room is because nearly eight hundred deaths is difficult to verify each case in a country where the media is heavily restricted experts say there's no reason for the Iranian authorities to downplay the deaths coronavirus present something of a nightmare situation for fact checkers like clam mailed from the British organization full facts we know that bad information can ruin lives and at the moment in the middle of such a huge part of that make such great potential for harm if people aren't getting the right information it's not just touchy Facebook group so what messages causing harm some of the most misleading information comes directly from world leaders and public figures and then I see the disinfectant we're not set up in a minute one and is there a way we can do something like that doctors and poison centers in the U. S. told us they've seen patients coming to die right Tom because of misinformation promoted by president trump and others Dr Duncan Marie treats crate of ours patients at Elmhurst hospital in New York City I do think that president trump's comments are a really tragic example where I think that the spread of misinformation actually influenced some of the messaging that comes from our public officials particularly if they have constituents who are vulnerable to that misinformation throughout the pandemic conspiracy groups have seen the number swelled on Facebook this is what some doctors respect T. fear the most Brian the current of ours patient in Florida has a message for the conspiracists we just can't be playing around anymore distancing Israel and yeah sure we'll listen from the beginning I agree I didn't do that and I'm sorry I don't know the people there won't forget me
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The Logic of People
"Everybody welcome back to the people process. Progress PODCASTS I'm your host Kevin Panel this episode twenty the logic of people in. We'll see why I'm calling that here in a little bit as we talk more with my Matt Schmitt. Ceo OF PEOPLE DOT AI. And thank you again for everyone. That's listen download subscribe. Please give us a rating out. There obviously more stars as good. Help US bump up to the top and share more great stories. Like we're GONNA get today talking with that and so today we'll learn about Matt where he grew up those kind of things Matt. Thank you again for being on the PODCAST. Really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you this evening. No Problem Kevin. Thanks so much for having me cool. So he mentioned. Let's you know the people process progress right so we're learning about you. Cover in the people component obviously a lot of process which is great. I'm excited to have that conversation and share that with other people all the processes you've been through in in in the industries that you've been part of and then of course share with folks As we make progress so kind of jumping into it. Where where are you from? And where did you grow up? Yeah so grew up in eastern North Carolina North Carolina's one of those interesting states. That has this island in the middle between the beaches and the mountains and everything in between is a farm country in in SPLAT and So I grew up in the farming country and was driven to build to get into technology and build a way to escape from the lack of of technology and progress in So came up to to the island here in Raleigh and went to College at NC State. That really kick me off in my My Journey Nice did you were you into technology. Maybe a lot. Were you excited about it or into it when you were younger like did you enjoy like Atari intendo or things like that? Did you have kind of a? You know an attraction to that and I'm GONNA be dated. I'm forty six. I may be older than ordering us. No totally totally had had all those things and you know we had. We had dial up internet. Remember getting my first computer and being intrigued by the potential of that and quickly taught myself how to program and That was really the first you know way to to begin. Escaping on started helping people build websites Back when I was a teenager and so that I've always had that sort of that entrepreneur. Draw ever since I was really young and That seems I've carried well for me did you. Did you get into any particular kind of code you know doing websites begging HMO or or just kind of a little bit everything a little bit of everything early on You know heavily into html and you know even before this was before there was really CSS and early into Java script and then quickly into building programs in basic and And then moving into languages like Java as I taught myself more and more about how to program it was really the I in the early days. It was really driven by You know funny enough as I had a an early computer and we had this. We had the dial up internet and I was really one of the things I was really driven by was. Hey you know. We don't have Microsoft word. I really think I could build something like that. That was foolish of me in the early days while ambitious vision ambition. Never Was Never Short on my in my youth man edge and that with Imagine right now what we're going through with dial up all. I don't understand the true pain that that is a you know when you had to have a separate phone line just so you get kicked off right Yeah that I I think I told some of the other day guys. We head this pandemic during the eighties or even the early nineties How much worse it would be and you didn't get your free Internet. Cd in the mail may trying to figure out how to get into AOL right. You're it'd be along in. Would you know what that's also included that bug of doing that making Got TO NC state and so did you major in computer science or similar a major there. Eso majored in computer engineering and computer and electrical engineering because Foolish me I thought I wanted to actually build the parts of the computer that I wanted to program them until I learned that I hated. Physics hunts so that that really kinda pointedly you know. I still went through with the computer engineering and the electrical engineering but was really focused on programming. And the more computer science aspect of it was doing that all throughout college and That was really where I found a guy connected with my partner. These on Long before it was called We started to build a business together. So were you you met at college. Yeah so he had a business that was had relocated from New York and was in Kerry and he was looking for some people to join his team. And this was in. You know I guess. Mid Dot Com crash Here And so you know. I joined in. You know everything plummeted as know. Our customers lost their customers. And so on and we had this great website called Java lobby and We figured out how to sell ads around and that was really the start of it as we built some interesting technology and learned how to publishers in turn that into a building one of the world's largest developer portals Diese wow I mean that's pioneering stuff right and then there weren't as many tools right to be able to that kind of wrote a lot of scripts for you or helped you along. So did you all have to do a lot of you know just a lot of hours in front of the keyboard. And you know mapping and work like that. Yeah this was you know long before you could really you know there were You had to build everything in those days send so there were know the early days of even things like Google ad sense in go blab words in those types of things. But you know we were. We had to build our own community software And so it was. This was even probably before the May have even been before blogs but certainly before blogs became the place that everybody Trying to put their communities. How did you find Many like minded in in school folks at school they are or were you able to against still pretty. I guess earliest days kind of reach out to other where their user communities than that you all could kind of bounce ideas off each other as well. you know. So that's what we provided primarily and so job lobby had been started by my partner as we scanned it. But in those days you know. The the developing world is much more fragmented job lobby really provided a place for developers have an independent voice in an independent community that was separate from the vendors who were really controlling the messaging Peru tools and development. The is in those days Which is is somewhat different than than what you get. These days and open source was what it was. You know what it is now. It was a big deal if he were open source back so everything is sorta come much further much more quickly than it was in those days.