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I've noticed that a couple of the models are already implementing basic tactics (one player being assigned as a 'defender' and the other an 'attacker') with varied success.

I agree that it would be interesting to see a bigger variety of models competing in this way and a tiered league system seems to be the best option. Eventually, I'm keen to run these policies on actual hardware, with the top league getting the opportunity to run their code on the G1 robots.

I've been fascinated by Unitree's G1 robot architecture and, without the $20k to buy a unit, decided to play around with the MuJoCo rendering system.

I fell down a bit of a rabbit hole and ended up with an automated football league that runs 3 matches per day and streams on Twitch/Youtube. It's been a lot of fun!

Four of the eight clubs are managed by frontier AI models (Claude, GPT, Gemini, Manus). Between match days the model reads the published match data and makes their own improvements. The full engine and 'gaffer' repos are open source: https://github.com/robot-football-league

If you're interested, you can enter a club. A team is a config file plus a Python module that decides what your two robots do - the physics, walking and perception are provided and identical for everyone.

I'm happy to answer any questions :)

Or the models consider themselves aliens observing another species on a distant planet.

I've been making a VR piano app to help with my own practicing. I find that it helps to see the recorded hands moving in 3d space in front of you. I can also slow down the movements to make it easier to replicate. It's certainly easier than learning sheet music! Here's a video if anyone is interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnBmjtgb2rA

You may have meant 'domain' as in an area of interest, in which case this is good advice. For years though, I was a proponent of the 'buy a domain name first' method of idea validation. As a result I spent far too much time and money on domain names when I should have been testing the idea/market.

A very good point. Still, it's raising awareness and is worthwhile as a project.

As you say, hopefully Wikimedia will take note and implement a darknet version themselves.

Surely it's possible to sniff what's being sent back to Amazon's servers? If Amazon are lying and they are storing/analysing everything the Echo hears, surely this would be easy to prove?

Not quite the same thing but Rbutr (http://www.rbutr.com/) was features on HN a while back.

In their own words:

"rbutr tells you when the webpage you are viewing has been disputed, rebutted or contradicted elsewhere on the internet."

I've worked very closely with tracking companies. They are very strict about not storing any unhashed identifyable information such as email adddress, postcode etc.

I agree. This analogy is good up to the point where you consider that these trackers don't really know or care who you are. To them you're an anonymous hashed id.

Yes, they 'follow' you around, but they are essentially invisible and mostly aim to improve the targeting of ads/information.

It's easy to forget that a lot of this technology is very new and for a while there will be cases where it's seen as intrusive. Things will only get better over time.

Planet Earth is by far the best nature documentary I've ever seen. I'd recommend it to anyone who's yet to see it.

Similarly, Twitter. Status updates are great, but a separate social network just for that?

Domain names are a market just like any other. If someone buys a domain name to make money from affiliate links that's their choice, I don't have a problem with that. Don't like it? Come up with a more profitable use for the domain name and buy it from them.

As a Gmail user it annoys me when people attach Outlook emails to messages in a format that is readable only in Outlook. Come on Microsoft, play nicely. You're not the only player anymore.

I actually like the ctrl+Enter shortcut for sending mail. It's used in a lot of other software too and I automatically try ctrl+Enter when submitting any text.

It's not me, they are stock images. You're right, it does look jarring. I'm currently working on making a number of new products available. Eventually there will be very little duplication on the front page.

I'm in the UK and my 17 year-old sister and her friends still use Facebook every day. Snapchat seems to be growing in popularity though.

I've been building a t-shirt website at http://electricfairground.com so this article was a really interesting read.

How long did it take you guys to get traction?

I've been looking for something like this for a while now. Brilliantly executed, thanks! I'll definitely be trying it out on my next project.

That's interesting, can you give any examples?

What a generous offer! I'm looking for feedback on my site http://freeblogging.me if you have time. It's early days but I'd like an honest opinion on whether you think it's a good concept.

My latest project - freeblogging.me - forces you to free write for 15 minutes. I find it genuinely helps my productivity if I free write non-stop for 15 minutes at the start of each day.