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> You are doing a hobby project, why do you fixate about results?

You're assuming his goals are the same or should be the same as yours.

IMO, it looks really cool, I'm sure it took lots of effort despite the AI coding help, and I thoroughly enjoyed looking at it and taking the tours.

Just because it's possible to create things like this doesn't devalue the work of true pixel artists.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And an interesting comment of someone on FB:

Hydra

Hydra have a diffuse neural system

But no brain to speak of

A simple creature echoing older, more primitive forms

They doze off, so we've found

Using familiar chemistry

To slumber every four hours

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

Dipping below the surface

Leaving the airy light of consciousness behind

To enter the involuntary dream world of Freud and Jung

Deeper still then dreams themselves disperse

Slipping away like darting fish

Leaving me reptilian, autonomic, just breath and pulse

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

To reach my fundamental hardware

Where I am the hydra

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

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

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

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

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

The related trend is called the Eroom's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eroom%27s_law

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CUGxcfOUEAAuseO.png:large (graph, "Overall trend in R&D efficiency" from https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd3681 )

or https://www.google.com/search?q=eroom%27s+law&source=lnms&tb...

My mom used to read these to me and my brothers when we were little, we all really enjoyed it and had a lot of fun.

If you like Jerome K. Jerome, you should also check out Saturnin: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1724928.Saturnin It has a great poetic and funny style of classical Czech works. There's a movie too. Just in case someone is interested, a movie with a similar funny and poetic style https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_It_Short (Postřižiny) and I'd also recommend checking out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_and_Her_Week_of_Wonder... - a surrealistic horror film...I love the soundtrack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPyPEraG74c ...and to make it relevant to the original request, there's a book of the same name by Vitezslav Nezval (I haven't read it though)

"An IBM plant in Windsor, Ontario, is said to have ordered a shipment of components from a Japanese firm, specifying an acceptable quality level(AQL) of three defective components per 10,000 shipped. In a covering letter accompanying the shipment, the Japanese company apologized and said it had met with great difficulty producing these defective parts, and had been unable to understand why they were required. They wrote: “We Japanese have hard time understanding North American business practices, but the three defective parts per 10,000 have been included and are wrapped separately. Hope this pleases.”

This seems to be the oldest reference: Chris Taylor, (1995) "The case for customer satisfaction", Managing Service Quality: An International Journal, Vol. 5 Iss: 1, pp.11 - 14 http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/09604529510081... but behind a paywall

...it is referred to for example by http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-287-429-0_3... "The Effectiveness of Service Quality by Jabatan Agama Islam Wilayah Persekutuan (JAWI) Towards Customer Satisfaction"

Isn't this already happening? http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/desktop/