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If I may: let's ignore the timeline entirely.

If you want to sample the Zelda series, I'd propose:

- Link's Awakening for the 2d experience

- Ocarina of Time for the 3d experience

- Breath of the Wild for the open world experience

as a starting point. The remakes are all new, so you get some QoL.

Re:Decisions API is in public beta on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @10:06AM (#49993081)
yeah it is, I'm wondering why not just incorporate in one single number

maybe to say something like "under 0.6 confidence, reject the answer anyway"

Re:Decisions API is in public beta on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @08:37AM (#49991914)
How would that work? "pick which button to press"?

but the decisions are stateless... or you plan on passing the last N frames?

Re:Decisions API is in public beta on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @08:19AM (#49991730)
also curious on the practical use of the confidence score.

e.g. why return

      "probabilities": [
        { "value": "billing", "probability": 0.95 },
        { "value": "technical", "probability": 0.02 },
        { "value": "shipping", "probability": 0.01 },
        { "value": "other", "probability": 0.02 }
      ],
      "confidence": 0.93

 
and not

      "probabilities": [
        { "value": "billing", "probability": 0.90 },
        { "value": "technical", "probability": 0.04 },
        { "value": "shipping", "probability": 0.03 },
        { "value": "other", "probability": 0.04 }
      ],

(p' = 0.93 * p + 0.07 * 1/4)

?

Re:Decisions API is in public beta on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @05:03AM (#49990119)
Let's see if Google also releases something similar

I'm mostly waiting for EU endpoints

Re:Ask HN: What're You Reading? on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @01:59AM (#49904934)
20 years ago I read a The Guardian article about the "top geek novels". I immediately read a bunch of those.

Recently I managed to find the list again, and it's been endless pleasure:

- American Gods -- Neil Gaiman

- Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley

- The Colour of Magic -- Terry Pratchett

- Consider Phlebas -- Iain M Banks

- Cryptonomicon -- Neal Stephenson

- Cloud Atlas -- David Mitchell

- The Diamond Age -- Neal Stephenson

- The Dispossessed -- Ursula K Le Guin

- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip Dick

- Dune -- Frank Herbert

- Foundation -- Isaac Asimov

- Giles Goat-Boy -- John Barth

- Gravity's Rainbow -- Thomas Pynchon

- The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams

- I, Robot -- Isaac Asimov

- The Illuminatus! Trilogy -- Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson

- The Left Hand of Darkness -- Ursula K Le Guin

- The Man in the High Castle -- Philip K Dick

- Microserfs -- Douglas Coupland

- Neuromancer -- William Gibson

- Nineteen Eighty-Four -- George Orwell

- Orlando -- Virgina Woolf

- The Shockwave Rider -- John Brunner

- Snow Crash -- Neal Stephenson

- Stand on Zanzibar -- John Brunner

- Stranger in a Strange Land -- Robert Heinlein

- Trouble with lichen - John Wyndham

- UBIK -- Philip Dick

- Watchmen -- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons

- Woman on the Edge of Time -- Marge Piercy

(I am creatively interpreting "The Colour of Magic" as "all Discworld", "Dune" as "the six Dune books", etc.)

Re:Why 'What's Opera, Doc?' Looks Like That on Friday September 25, 2026 @02:01AM (#49840665)
There's a reason why this is #1 in "The 50 Greatest Cartoons" (1994)

https://looneytunes.fandom.com/wiki/The_50_Greatest_Cartoons

(I don't link THE wiki because it doesn't have the full lists)

Re:The Millennium Problems for Biology on Monday September 21, 2026 @02:44AM (#49783813)
I was gonna write "Implement the three laws of robotics", but then I remembered that the point of the short stories is that there are a number of loopholes...
> Aren't you just calling any want, suffering

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Noble_Truths

Re:OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3 on Friday September 04, 2026 @04:32AM (#49562047)
repeating myself, but:

once 3 is solved, we would come up with 4. then 5, 6...

it will be AGI when we cannot come up with a task easy for human but hard for machines. thet's the whole point.

> may be able to do some tasks that an average human can't

we are past that point for a while now (chess, go)!

the important part is the G in AGI: General.

> Once ARC-AGI-3 is solved (including on the private set), would we be convinced that we have achieved AGI?

no? once 3 is solved, we would come up with 4. then 5, 6...

it will be AGI when we cannot come up with a task easy for human but hard for machines. thet's the whole point.

I'm going through this collection right now, and loving it: https://www.loa.org/books/311-the-philip-k-dick-collection-3...
Re:Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels on Monday July 13, 2026 @06:13AM (#48890390)
good adaptations of GitS:

- the first Oshii movie

- the two seasons of SAC + SSS

- this new one*

*so far

Re:Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels on Monday July 13, 2026 @05:59AM (#48890280)
if for some reason you, random reader of this comment, decide to start watching Patlabor, be aware that there are two continuities:

1. Patlabor The Early Days (88-89, 7 OVA) -> Patlabor (89, Movie) -> Patlabor 2 (93, movie)

2. Patlabor The TV Series (89-90, 47 eps) -> Patlabor The New Files (90-92, 16 eps) -> Patlabor EZY (26-27, 3 movies)

Re:Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels on Monday July 13, 2026 @05:51AM (#48890196)
as someone who loves Astro Boy (and everything else Tezuka made): Atom The Beginning was a disappointment. But I also believe that Pluto sucks too (some smaller stories, like the pianist, were great).

The Ghost In The Shell: Global Neural Network features one story by LRNZ. His work Geist Maschine (in italian only) is amazing.

Among the Cyberpunk 2077 comics, Big City Dreams is also very good.

Re:How to Read More Books on Monday July 13, 2026 @02:30AM (#48888677)
- get books you want to read

- choose a time (in the evening)

1. after that time, screens become forbidden

2. read until you're sleepy

3. sleep

Out of curiosity, I checked my FB profile

my last post is from 2018, the last post I was tagged in is from 2020

6 years of nothing

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