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WTOP
"western tech" Discussed on WTOP
"Also available. The Sensibles. It's the sensible thing to do. This is WTOP news. Good Sunday morning to you. It is 9 15. I'm Liz Anderson. Thanks so much for being with us this morning. Chinese telecommunications company Huawei recently released a new cell phone and it's causing an international stir and posing questions about the effectiveness of US technology restrictions on China. Well here to discuss this is Karen O 'Leary, Director of Analysis at Emergent Risk International. Good morning Karen. Good morning Liz. How are you? I'm very well thank you. Good. So well first question what is it about Huawei's new phone that's attracting so much of this attention? So the Huawei Mate 60 Pro's performance is really good. It's almost as good as the latest iPhone and when Western tech companies have pulled it apart it uses they really found quite advanced chips at what's known as the seven nanometer level and one of the places the US still has a big lead over China has been advanced chip technology. So big goal has been to stop China developing these advanced chips and it looks like they might have achieved that anyway. Okay, tell so what does us this about how effective the US sanctions have been and what might the Biden administration do in response to that? The US goal has been to stop China building advanced chips at what's better than what's called the 14 nanometer level. like So it looks that hasn't worked, but the techniques China used to build these chips are right at their limits at seven the nanometer level. So the US seems to have stopped China acquiring the most sophisticated design and manufacturing tools, which means China's still five to seven years behind the US.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"western tech" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"China tensions over issues, including trade, TikTok, Taiwan, and the list goes on, are complicating life for American companies that rely on Chinese manufacturing. There is the sense of what's the right thing to do from a moral standpoint. And then there is the question of what's the right thing to do from a business standpoint? Bloomberg tech reporter Mark gurman talking about Goethe, the Chinese base maker of Apple AirPods, which is accelerating plans for factory space in Vietnam and exploring possible expansion into India. German says it's unclear whether Apple pushed for the pivot or Goethe is getting ahead of an anticipated request. Either way, you shouldn't expect any major partner of a western tech company to leave China completely. You're not going to see this wholesale shift that some believe out of China, what you're going to see is a duplication or replication of the process. Meaning existing manufacturing in China for now, at least, and new manufacturing in India. Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Ireland, you name it. Andrew O'Day, Bloomberg radio. And I'm Susanna Palmer in the Bloomberg newsroom. In an interview that airs today on CBS's face the nation, former Maryland Republican governor Larry Hogan ended speculation about a possible run for the presidency in 2024. I didn't want to have a pile up of a bunch of people fighting. Right now you have Trump and desantis at the top of the field, you soaking up all the oxygen, getting all the attention, and then a whole lot of the rest of us in single digits. And the more of them you have, the less chance you have for somebody rising up. Hogan speaking there on CBS's face the nation. Chinese markets may come under pressure again when trading opens from Monday on concerns that authorities will withhold stimulus. This is after unveiling a conservative economic growth target that is below many investors expectations. The growth goal for China of around 5% for 2023 outlined in a key address to open the national People's Congress today suggests strong monetary or fiscal help may be off the table in China for now. It's a big week ahead for economic data, monthly data on America's labor market is set for this coming Friday. Bloomberg's Vinnie del giudice reports. It appears recent job cuts and technology and finance have yet to make a big dent. Economists are forecasting the U.S. economy and it roughly 200,000 jobs in February while unemployment hovering at a half century low with 3.4%. That would be consistent with weekly data on jobless claims which have been running at historic lows. Any doubt giudice Bloomberg radio investors are waiting to hear what Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell has to say on Capitol Hill this week. But we are already getting some clues in his testimony. Bloomberg's Nathan Hager has more from Washington. The fed's semiannual report to Congress reiterates the message that the central banks committed to a 2% inflation target and that ongoing rate increases will be appropriate to reach a sufficiently restrictive monetary policy. The report also dives into why the jobs recovery has been so slow. It cites a higher than expected wave of retirements and slower population growth due to COVID and reduced immigration. In Washington, I'm Nathan Hager, Bloomberg radio. Wall Street Journal reports Republican senator Josh hawley is expected to introduce legislation tomorrow that would ban senior executive branch officials from owning or trading individual stocks. That's a push to tighten restrictions on conflicts of interest in the federal government. Holly's Bill is the latest fallout from a Wall Street Journal series that identified a sweeping pattern of financial conflicts across the executive branch, including finding that more than 2600 officials invested in companies overseen by their agencies. Global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. I'm Suzanne Palmer. This is Bloomberg. If you love them enough to listen to them practice the same song on tuba. Please be done. Over and
WTOP
"western tech" Discussed on WTOP
"Here's Bloomberg's Andrew O'Day. This is a Bloomberg money minute Pricing U.S. China tensions over issues, including trade, TikTok, Taiwan, and the list goes on, are complicating life for American companies that rely on Chinese manufacturing. There's the sense of what's the right thing to do from a moral standpoint. And then there is the question of what's the right thing to do from a business standpoint? Bloomberg tech reporter Mark gurman, talking about Goethe, the Chinese base maker of Apple AirPods, which is accelerating plans for factory space in Vietnam and exploring possible expansion into India. German says it's unclear whether Apple pushed for the pivot or Goethe is getting ahead of an anticipated request. Either way, you shouldn't expect any major partner of a western tech company to leave China completely. You're not going to see this wholesale shift that some believe out of China, what you're going to see is a duplication or replication of the process. Meaning existing manufacturing in China for now, at least, and new manufacturing in India. Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Ireland, you name it. From the Bloomberg newsroom, I'm Andrew rode on WTO. Coming up on WTO boxing is back on the big screen this weekend. Film critic Christian toto says make some time for creed three this weekend. He joins us next to tell us why. It is three 12. If you came across someone struggling with hunger, how would you recognize them? By their clothes, their age, the way they speak, would you notice a 16 year old boy who got his first job, not for extra spending money, but to help feed his little sisters? Or a mother whose in between jobs and sometimes goes to bed hungry, so her kids can have dinner. Or a 14 year old girl who signs up to every after school activity, not to make friends, but just to get something to eat. Or a retiree who fell ill and had to choose between getting medicine, or groceries. I am the one in 8 Americans who struggle with hunger. People you pass
WNYC 93.9 FM
"western tech" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"As so Western Tech was making the video game version of towering Inferno. The towering inferno. Satya Control. It's coming your way, and in that game, you play a firefighter who has to rescue people from different floors of this building. And each floor of the building was amazed. So Paul needed an algorithm that would generate those mazes. So are in. A friend went out one night having a beer and I explained the problem. And this is Duncan Duncan is Duncan Way ahead? Who is a graduate student in maths? U C l A. He goes. Oh, It's no problem. We can just generate an endless mates and you could take static pictures of it. And so he did the math and he didn't understand how to code. So I did the code and together we just dreamed it up over a couple beers and wrote it on bar napkins. So could you tell me a little bit about what happens now? You've got these bar napkins. You and Duncan leave the bar and I drove Duncan home. And I go back to my place and before I go to bed. Take all that all that stuff and just dump it into the machine. Very, very rough coding jobs, So I don't not gonna forget anything. Now, you know, in the retelling of the story that we've heard The scene that were given is that you is the author of This algorithm Could not remember how you how you did it. How you did the math. Is that part of the story True in any way, no way. No way. First off, partially written by Stoner. I don't smoke weed. Okay, very unlikely that I would have been able to gotten drunk and whacked out if around the bar is how would I have gotten home? I coded it up over the weekend. Very unlikely that I forgot nothing. Um, Now this is the point. When pulled, pulls out a big stack of papers. I have In my hand here, the entire thing documented the whole code paper printout. None of this electronic stuff that is going.
WNYC 93.9 FM
"western tech" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"The bar. There did seem to be an indication that there were some intoxication involved in the production of this code program I John talk to is a guy named Stephen Sidley comedian Stephen Harry. Good, Fine, Thank you. I just wanted to ask you, Stephen said Lee was a recent U. C. L. A grad when he got hired to work at Western Tech. The company was full off a bunch off, crazed, drunk and stoned misfit youth with bare feet and long here and tone, clothes and social awkwardness. And those were the sort of people at the beginning. You were interested in video games there. Shortly after he was hired. Western Tech dumped half finished game in his lap, and I was told to pick up and finish a game that they were writing, which was called Maze at the time and eventually was renamed as in tuned. No manuals, no understanding of how the machine worked. Nobody sitting around me total utter fear. So simply asks one of these hippies around the office, where this code that he's working on came from The following story rolls out. The person who had started the escape. Heads divine this well, drunken stoned in a Mexican bar drinking tequila one night. Sidley told Johnny Cook his story. It was also told to Sidley secondhand and we wanted a primary source here. Do you happen to remember the name of the guy who wrote the algorithm? God, I want to say mule, but I may be mixing up with somebody. So no, I don't. I wouldn't fall on my sword about that. You can sometimes get the feeling that the Internet puts like all of the information in the world right at your fingertips, But the Internet can also be like the world's largest haystack. And this guy Newell turned out to be a needle..
KQED Radio
"western tech" Discussed on KQED Radio
"Stuff that is going to die. The whole thing. The maze algorithm, a random number generator that by talking couple stone talked about the whole thing. So that's kind of more like what happened. Where is that? Where is that being for the last 40 years where he kept it? My garage just in a box in a box. To review the bidding. There's no smoking pot. There's no Mexican tequila. There's no blackout. There's there's not even into this point. Yeah, Paul says he wrote the code for a totally different game and Western tech repurposed it for in tuned. Okay, So the question remains then. Like, how did this legend get started? In the first place? Think what may have happened is Either Duncan Raimi of used the excuse of forgetting as a way to basically go. We can't provide you with the documentation. So this really is a story more about intellectual property than about irresponsible drinking. Paul Allen, you'll was an employee of Western Tech, so the company owned whatever he made while he was there. He and Duncan had written the algorithm on their own time. Now they wanted to put their code in the game, but they didn't just want to hand over the keys to their mathematical brilliance. Right. So remember how we were talking about how programmers would put comments in their code to explain what it did. And the entombed code didn't have those comments when it went to Steven Sidley. Well, Paul says that that's how he and Duncan protected their I P. They handed over the code, but not the documentation. That explains how the code worked. I think this is where the Whacked out of our school could remember it came in because I don't think we want.
KQED Radio
"western tech" Discussed on KQED Radio
"Time So Western Tech was making the video game version of Towering Inferno. Towering Inferno is out of control. It's coming your way. And in that game, you play a firefighter who has to rescue people from different floors of this building, and each floor of the building was amazed. So Paul needed an algorithm that would generate those maces. So are in. A friend went out one night having a beer, and I explained the problem. And this is Duncan Duncan is Duncan We head who was a graduate student in maths. U C. L A. He goes. Oh, that's no problem. We can just generate an endless mates and you could take static pictures of it. And so he did the math and he didn't understand how to code. So I did the code. And together we just dreamed it up over a couple beers and wrote it on bar napkins. So could you tell me a little bit about what happens now? You've got these bar napkins. You and Duncan leave the bar and I drove Duncan home and I go back to my place and before I go to bed Take all that all that stuff and just dumping it in the machine. Very, very rough coding jobs, So I don't not gonna forget anything. Now, you know, in the retelling of the story that we've heard The scene that were given is that you is the author of This algorithm Could not remember how you how you did it. How you did the math. Is that part of the story True in any way, no way. No way. First off partially written by Stoner. I don't smoke weed. Okay, very unlikely that I would have been able to have gotten drunk and whacked out for out the bar is how would I have gotten home? I coded it up over the weekend. Very unlikely that I forgot nothing. Um, Now this is the point. When pulled, pulls out a big stack of papers I have in my hand here. The entire thing documented the whole code paper printout. None of this electronic.
KQED Radio
"western tech" Discussed on KQED Radio
"Goes one night, one of these Western tech programmers, Thies, early techies goes out to a bar and get super drunk and also super stones and he blacks out. When he wakes up in the morning. He's at home. And he discovers that while he was blacked out, he wrote an algorithm to generate a maze. For entombed. And not only does he not remember how he wrote this algorithm, but he doesn't remember how the algorithm works, and he kicks. It looks it of realizes that this really is the solution to the problem they've been looking for. So in the case of entombed, we're taking a look at procedural generation and its evolution. You know, this is one of the earlier examples of Prock jen use and game code. This is Andrew Reinhardt. He's an archaeologist. But Andrew doesn't do his digging in ancient burial sites or marketplaces he does is digging in video games. First of all, Let me explain that I was a trained classical archaeologist. I was I was a pottery specialist. And, you know, I don't know if this will get me into trouble, but I don't see a difference. Um, between the archaeology, you know, the part that he's gotten out of the ground of a coin and the archaeology of digital artifacts. All of these analysis that we might do of games, you know, yields the same kinds of answers about what people were thinking about what they were doing to entertain themselves what they were doing to make a living legends like the Mysterious maze generation algorithm of in Tuned, You know, you hear them more and more. We're maybe 60 years into the digital age now, and the things that happened in the.
KCRW
"western tech" Discussed on KCRW
"Code paper printout. None of this electronic stuff that is going to die. I got the whole thing. The maze algorithm, the random number generator, thereby cocking cobblestone talk about the whole thing. So that's kind of more like what happened. Where is that? Where is that being for the last 40 years where he kept it? Garage just said the books in the box. To review the bidding. There's no smoking pot. There's no Mexican tequila. There's no blackout. There's there's not even into this point. Yeah, Paul says he wrote the code for a totally different game and Western tech repurposed it for in tuned. Okay, So the question remains then. Like, how did this legend get started in the first place? Think what may have happened is either Duncan Raimi of used the excuse of forgetting as a way to basically go. We can't provide you with the documentation. So this really is a story more about intellectual property than about irresponsible drinking. Paul Allen, you're was an employee of Western Tech. So the company owns whatever he made while he was there. He and Duncan had written the algorithm on their own time. Now they wanted to put their code in the game, but they didn't just want to hand over the keys to their mathematical brilliance. Right. So remember how we were talking about how programmers would put comments in their code to explain what it did. And the entombed code didn't have those comments when it went to Steven Sidley. Well, Paul says that that's how he and Duncan protected their I P. They handed over the code, but not the documentation that explained how the code worked. I think this is where the Whacked out of our school and could remember it came in.
KCRW
"western tech" Discussed on KCRW
"And Paul the way race against time as so Western Tech was making the video game version of towering Inferno. The towering inferno. It's out of control. He's coming your way. And in that game, you play a firefighter who has to rescue people from different floors of this building. And each floor of the building was amazed. So Paul needed an algorithm that would generate those mazes. So are in. A friend went out one night having a beer and I explained the problem. And this is Duncan Duncan is Duncan Way ahead? Who is a graduate student in maths? U C l A. He goes. Oh, It's no problem. We can just generate an endless mates and you could take static pictures of it. And so he did the math and he didn't understand how to code. So I did the code. And together we just dreamed it up over a couple beers and wrote it on bar napkins. So could you tell me a little bit about what happens now? You've got these bar napkins. You and Duncan leave the bar and I drove Duncan home. And I go back to my place and before I go to bed. Take all that all that stuff and just dump it into the machine. Very, very rough coding jobs, So I don't not gonna forget anything. Now, you know, in the retelling of the story that we've heard The scene that were given is that you is the author of This algorithm Could not remember how you how you did it. How you did the math. Is that part of the story True in any way, no way. No way. First off partially written by Stoner. I don't smoke weed. Okay, very unlikely that I would have been able to have gotten drunk and whacked out if around the bar is how would I have gotten home? I coded it up over the weekend. Very unlikely that I forgot nothing. Um, Now this is the point. When pulled, pulls out a big stack of papers. I have In my hand here, the entire thing documented the whole.
KCRW
"western tech" Discussed on KCRW
"The saga of the drunken Koda's in the bar, there did seem to be An indication that there was some intoxication in involved in the production of this code program I John talk to is a guy named Stephen Sidley. Stephen Harry. Good, Fine, Thank you. I just wanted to ask you, Stephen said Lee was a recent U. C. L. A grad when he got hired to work at Western Tech. The company was full off a bunch off, crazed, drunk and stoned misfit youth with bare feet and long here and tone, clothes and social awkwardness. And those were the sort of people at the beginning. You were interested in video games there. Shortly after he was hired. Western Tech dumped half finished game in his lap, and I was told to pick up and finish a game that they were writing, which was called Maze at the time and eventually was renamed as in tuned. No manuals, no understanding of how the machine worked. Nobody sitting around me total utter fear. So simply asks one of these hippies around the office, where this code that he's working on came from The following story rolls out. The person who had started the escape. Heads divine this well, drunken stoned in a Mexican bar, drinking tequila to one night. Sidley told Johnny Cook his story. It was also told to Sidley secondhand and we wanted a primary source here. Do you happen to remember the name of the guy who wrote the algorithm? God, I want to say mule, but I may be mixing up with somebody. So no, I don't. I wouldn't fall on my sword about that. You can sometimes get the feeling that the Internet puts like all of the information in the world right at your fingertips, But the Internet can also be like the world's largest haystack. And this.
KCRW
"western tech" Discussed on KCRW
"So the legend goes one night, one of these Western tech programmers, Thies, early techies goes out to a bar and get super drunk and also super stoned. And he blacks out. When he wakes up in the morning. He's at home. He discovers that while he was blacked out, he wrote an algorithm to generate a maze for entombed. And not only does he not remember how he wrote this algorithm. He doesn't remember how the algorithm works. He checks it looks it over, realizes that this really is the solution to the problem they've been looking for. So in the case of entombed, we're taking a look at procedural generation and its evolution. You know, this is one of the earlier examples of Prock jen use and game code. This is Andrew Reinhardt. He's an archaeologist. But Andrew doesn't do his digging in ancient burial sites or marketplaces he does is digging in video games. First of all, Let me explain that I was a trained classical archaeologist. I was a spy was a pottery specialist. And, you know, I don't know if this will get me into trouble, but I don't see a difference. Um, between the archaeology, you know the part that he's gotten out of the ground of a coin and the archaeology of digital artifacts. All of these analysis that we might do of games, you know, yields the same kinds of answers about what people were thinking about what they were doing to entertain themselves what they were doing to make a living. Legends like the mysterious maze generation algorithm of entombed, You know, you hear them more and more or maybe 60 years into the digital age now, and the things that happened in the very early days of the digital world.
WNYC 93.9 FM
"western tech" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Whole code paper printout. None of this electronic stuff that is going to die. I got the whole thing. The maze algorithm, the random number generator, thereby cocking compass. Don't talk about the whole thing. So that's kind of more like what happened. Where is that? Where is that being for the last 40 years where he kept it. Garage just sent a box in a box. To review the bidding. There's no smoking pot. There's no Mexican tequila. There's no blackout. There's there's not even into this point. Yeah, Paul says he wrote the code for a totally different game and Western tech repurposed it for in tuned. Okay, So the question remains then. Like, how did this legend get started in the first place? I think what may have happened is Either Duncan Raimi of used the excuse of forgetting as a way to basically go. We can't provide you with the documentation. So this really is a story more about intellectual property than about irresponsible drinking. Paul Allen, you're was an employee of Western Tech. So the company owned whatever he made while he was there. He and Duncan had written the algorithm on their own time. Now they wanted to put their code in the game, but they didn't just want to hand over the keys to their mathematical brilliance. Right. So remember how we were talking about how programmers would put comments in their code to explain what it did. And the entombed code didn't have those comments when it went to Steven Sidley. Well, Paul says that that's how he and Duncan protected their I P. They handed over the code, but not the documentation that explained how the code worked. I think this is where the Whacked out of our school and could remember it came.
WNYC 93.9 FM
"western tech" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"McQueen and Paul Newman race against Time as so Western Tech was making the video game version of towering Inferno that towering inferno Satya Control. It's coming your Way way, and in that game, you play a firefighter who has to rescue people from different floors of this building. And each floor of the building was amazed. So Paul needed an algorithm that would generate those maces. So are in. A friend went out one night having a beer and I explained the problem. And this is Duncan Duncan is Duncan Way ahead? Who is a graduate student in maths? U C l A. He goes. Oh, That's no problem. We can just generate an endless mates and you could take static pictures of it. And so he did the math and he didn't understand how to code. So I did the code. And together. We just dreamed it up over a couple of years and wrote it on bar napkins. So could you tell me a little bit about what happens now? You've got these bar napkins. You and Duncan leave the bar and I drove Duncan home. And I go back to my place and before I go to bed. Take all that all that stuff and just dump it into the machine. Very, very rough coding jobs, So I don't not gonna forget anything. Now, you know, in the retelling of the story that we've heard The scene that were given is that you is the author of This algorithm Could not remember how you how you did it. How you did the math. Is that part of the story True in any way, no way. No way. First off, partially written by Stoner. I don't smoke weed. Okay, very unlikely that I would have been able to gotten drunk and whacked out if around the bar is how would I have gotten home? I coded it up over the weekend. Very unlikely that I forgot nothing. Um, this is the point. When pulled, pulls out a big stack of papers. I have In my hand here, the entire thing documented the.
WNYC 93.9 FM
"western tech" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Told you soccer of the drunken Koda's in the bar, there did seem to be But an indication that there are some intoxication in involved in the production of this code program I John talk to is a guy named Stephen Sidley comedian Stephen Harry. Good, Fine, Thank you. I just wanted to ask you, Stephen said Lee was a recent U. C. L. A grad when he got hired to work at Western Tech. The company was full off a bunch off, crazed, drunk and stoned misfit youth with bare feet and long hair and told clothes and social awkwardness. And those were the sort of people at the beginning. You were interested in video games there. Shortly after he was hired. Western Tech dumped half finished game in his lap, and I was told to pick up and finish a game that they were writing, which was called Maze at the time and eventually was renamed as in tuned. No manuals, no understanding of how the machine worked. Nobody sitting around me total utter fear. So simply asks one of these hippies around the office, where this code that he's working on came from The following story rolls art. The person who had started the escape. Heads divine this well, drunken stoned in a Mexican bar drinking tequila one night. Sidley told Johnny Cook his story. It was also told to Sidley secondhand and we wanted a primary source here. Do you happen to remember the name of the guy who wrote the algorithm? God, I want to say mule, but I may be mixing up with somebody. So no, I don't. I wouldn't fall on my sword about that. You can sometimes get the feeling that the Internet puts like all of the information in the world right at your fingertips, But the Internet can also be like the world's largest haystack. And this guy Newell turned out to be a needle. We find an interview on an Atari fan site from 2008 with a guy called Paul Alan Newell. He does say that he worked on the entombed May's generation algorithm. So I have to now join an Atari message board and send a message to the guy who did the interview..
WNYC 93.9 FM
"western tech" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Algorithm. And so the legend goes one night, one of these Western tech programmers, Thies, early techies goes out to a bar and get super drunk and also super stoned and he blacks out. When he wakes up in the morning. He's at home. And he discovers that while he was blacked out He wrote an algorithm to generate a maze. For entombed. And not only does he not remember how he wrote this algorithm, but he doesn't remember how the algorithm works. He checks it looks it over, realizes that this really is the solution to the problem they've been looking for. So in the case of entombed, we're taking a look at procedural generation and its evolution. You know, this is one of the earlier examples of Prock jen use and game code. This is Andrew Reinhardt. He's an archaeologist. But Andrew doesn't do his digging in ancient burial sites or marketplaces he does is digging in video games. First of all, Let me explain that I was a trained classical archaeologist. I was I was a pottery specialist. And, you know, I don't know if this will get me into trouble, but I don't see a difference. Um, between the archaeology, you know the part that he's gotten out of the ground of a coin and the archaeology of digital artifacts. All of these analysis that we might do of games, you know, yields the same kinds of answers about what people were thinking about what they were doing to entertain themselves what they were doing to make a living. Legends like the mysterious maze generation algorithm of entombed, You know, you hear them more and more where maybe 60 years into the digital age now, and the things that happened in the very early days of the digital world are growing kind of mysterious to us even when we're talking about early versions of technologies that we still use like procedural generation. How those technologies.
WNYC 93.9 FM
"western tech" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Place called Western Tech. And one of the projects they were working on was a game for the Atari 2600 called in tuned. In tombs. 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 in tuned 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 maze 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. Is 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. You just can't settle on the right.