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Trackmania is a popular arcade car racing game series, with its first game released 20 years ago. One of its collision detection bugs related to a vehicle model where landings are not as smooth as players would expect ("landing bug") will soon be fixed by the developer Nadeo, in the latest game of the series, Trackmania 2020, after a player modified the game, fixed the issue, and shared the results inside the community. This video is one of the popular streamers of the game (Wirtual) commenting on this.
Re:Artificial General Intelligence – A gentle introduction on Saturday August 12, 2023 @10:13AM (#37100398)
Are you sure level 5 autonomous driving is specific? What would be the exact goal behind decisions in such a system? Not even talking about the trolley problem, would the software optimize for speed or not harming people, for example? Obviously we would want a combination of both, otherwise people can either get harmed or not get anywhere in time. But then, how fast should it take a corner? How much chance of human harm should it allow to get somewhere fast? Furthermore, what do we mean by human harm? The system would obviously need to know what human harm is, to be able to avoid it. Which requires defining human and defining harm, both of which are incredibly difficult to do specifically - more on this by Rob Miles here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PKx3kS7f4A I don't think level 5 autonomous driving is specifically defined. We just don't have systems intelligent enough for this to be a problem yet.
A YouTuber called "30 Hertz" has been making several fake Eminem songs (+other artists) for 2 years now, in very good quality. An example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMunOszEQHE
Re:Ask HN: Favourite open source game? on Thursday June 02, 2022 @08:16AM (#31593893)
Exactly the same for me. I've developed a similar style game in Delphi with multiple weapons, rocket jumps and everything. I've never been more excited to learn about trigonometric functions to get the arm movement right to follow the mouse cursor. I had no idea about the source code being public either!
> [...] swerving into an unmanned fruit stand without being able to brake is much better than swerving into an unmanned gas pump.

That's a great example.

Not to mention triggering any Rube Goldberg-machine-like chain reaction (even with just a few steps) where a series of events would need to be predicted.

Re:The Quest for the Next Billion-Dollar Color on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @05:28PM (#16871365)
Is there a museum for these extreme colors? (Like the blue in the article or the pink in this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NzVmtbPOrM)
Re:Ask HN: Weirdest hack that you ever saw in production? on Sunday March 25, 2018 @03:59PM (#16674217)
I think an optical mouse placed on the reflective side of a CD achieves the same "jumping around" - effect.
Re:UnrealCV on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @05:03AM (#12495104)
AdasWorks is doing this, check the videos 'Data Generation Tool - Annotation' and 'Real-time Data Simulator' towards the bottom of this article (text is in Hungarian): http://index.hu/tech/2016/09/13/obudan_epul_az_autoipar_noki...
Re:Zenzizenzizenzic on Friday July 22, 2016 @08:33AM (#12143136)
This reminds me of the song Zungguzungguguzungguzeng by Yellowman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV46OGU7ksE
By the way, Dasung Paperlike, the monochrome e-ink display is now on Indiegogo. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/paperlike-world-s-first-e...