BBSes were hugely transformative - on one hand, local and community oriented, and on the other, capable of being connected into an international network called FidoNet, which was considerably competitive with the early Internet. End of an era. +++ ATH
Hello again! And hopefully this place works out better than That Other Place (but so far, so good :) )
People are now also making starter packs, which are super useful. Search for "<topic of interest> starter pack", for example "game starter pack" brings up lots of interesting lists: bsky.app/profile/geir...bsky.app/profile/geir...bsky.app/profile/vese...bsky.app/profile/thet... and more!
If you live in Chicago membership of the Art Institute is low-key the best money you can spend in the city. Just, any time you're downtown pop in and look at a bunch of impressionist masterpieces
Hilariously this is still the top result when you google "Atari Missile Command" And by "hilariously" I mean "thanks I hate it"
We're getting turned into a museum exhibit! If you're in the Chicagoland area, we'd love to see you on opening night! Otherwise come visit during it's run from October to February www.paperlesspost.com/go/KrKX9anhr...
Great teaser of things to come :)
And also (and maybe a bit of a sidebar, but) that quoted paragraph is still correct: "As we discuss in §5, LMs are not performing natural language understanding (NLU), and only have success in tasks that can be approached by manipulating linguistic form" &c Doesn't matter to VCs, but does to DARPA.
Enemy autoscaling really destroys the world feel for me. It takes an interesting lived-in world and turns it into a designer puzzle.