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gray17

@gray17@mastodon.social

another wolf in the crowd (he/him)
systems, design, infosec, toolchains, furry, bdsm
searchable, CC-BY-4.0
Portland, Oregon, USA

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Ki3_Games, to art
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WEEEEEEEE 🐺💫

#wishlistwednesday #indiegame #indiedev #solodev #art #gameart #gameplay #gamedesign #videogames #gaming #games #retrogaming #zelda #zeldalike #metroidvania #adventure #gamecube #ps2 #nintendo #madewithunity #unity #3d #wolf #bird #cute #puzzle #exploration #action #actionadventure

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Ki3_Games, to art
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Seed of Life is an indie 3D Zelda-like, where you play as a wolf cub 🐺 and his bird friend! 🐦

#wishlistwednesday #trailertuesday #indiegame #indiedev #solodev #art #gameart #gameplay #gamedesign #videogames #gaming #games #retrogaming #zelda #zeldalike #metroidvania #adventure #gamecube #ps2 #nintendo #madewithunity #unity #3d #wolf #bird #cute #puzzle #exploration #action #actionadventure

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Vibracobra23, to random
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So, some of you may remember that on May 14th I posted that I had found a postcard sent by H.G. Wells to his wife and that I'd sent scans to the H.G. Wells Society to see if it could be evaluated. I heard back last night. The expert wishes to remain anonymous, but has given permission for the details of the evaluation to be shared. Below are the scans that I sent of the front and back of the card. The card shows a train at the top of the Brünig Pass in Switzerland... 1/11

The back of the postcard sent by H.G. Wells, showing the address of Mrs Wells where the card was sent.

Vibracobra23,
@Vibracobra23@mastodon.social avatar

Then it all clicked into place. I found another contemporary H.G. Wells, an artist, who lived in Woking at the same time that H.G. Wells was also in Woking, where he was writing The War of the Worlds. In fact, they both lived on Maybury Road, Woking, at the same time. And, they were both called Herbert George Wells. The author was born in Bromley in September 1866; the artist was born in Camberwell with the birth registered in September 1867. It seems that they were both also... 9/11

zarfeblong, to random
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This year, the Werewolf web page is exactly as old as I was the summer I learned Mafia and wrote the Werewolf web page.

https://eblong.com/zarf/werewolf.html

(Mafia is about a decade older than Werewolf; I am about a decade and a half older than Mafia.)

Also, one of us lies, one of us tells the truth, and one of us is a… well, you know.

Dodges, to Dog
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CSLee, to seresearchers
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NEW RESEARCH PAPER OUT! In this paper, @grimalkina and I explore how #code review anxiety is maintained and exacerbated to develop a model of code review anxiety. We also go a step further to develop and test the effectiveness of a cognitive-behavioral intervention for code review anxiety, so that we can reduce code review anxiety in an evidence-based and empirically-supported way (because science > vibes): https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/8k5a4

@seresearchers #SoftwareEngineeering #developers

CSLee,
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@Adora We taught people 1. exercises that help you pay attention to what you're feeling in your body & relax your body; 2. a method to identify & challenge overly negative & biased thoughts you have about yourself and the situation to create a more realistic and kind way of thinking about it/yourself; 3. create a plan for communicating how you feel and asking for/giving specific feedback during the code review

joningold, to random
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Heaven's Vault turns 5 today. It's the biggest, most complex, and most personally satisfying thing I've ever worked on, and we wrote up a page about it's history on Steam.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/774201/view/7816635004476691354

Lylamehta, to climate
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This is huge

European court rules human rights violated by climate inaction

"The court said Switzerland's efforts to meet its emission reduction targets had been woefully inadequate.

It is the first time the powerful court has ruled on global warming."

#ClimateChange #ClimateDiary

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68768598

Neotheta, to random
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Approaching Ecliplse [2020] 🌑☀️ Watch out for the shapes in the shadows of trees.

simon_brooke, to random
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"In the past, climate change deniers accused scientists of exaggerating the threat of global warming. However, the evidence that is now emerging from Antarctica and other parts of the world makes it very clear that scientists did not exaggerate. Indeed, they very probably underrated by a considerable degree the threat that now faces humanity"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/06/simply-mind-boggling-world-record-temperature-jump-in-antarctic-raises-fears-of-catastrophe

ricardoharvin, to Canada
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Wow! 200,000 to 300,000 years ago now living and hunting in and relatively near the of the and southwest coast diverged into different , analysis now reveals.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/orca-groups-with-radically-different-cultures-are-actually-separate-species/

spacerog, to scifi
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Author of “True Names”, arguably the first cyberspace story, Vernor Vinge, has passed.

https://file770.com/vernor-vinge-1944-2024/

“True Names” is on my short list of must read hacker fiction. If you haven’t read it you should.

#scifi #cyberpunk #cyberspace

D_J_Nathanson, to random
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🧵 So I try to do semi-regular posts reminding people to exercise their right to remain silent and to have a lawyer present for custodial questioning.

Every once in a while, I get comments to the effect of, “that doesn’t work for people of color.”

Whether people of color can safely invoke their Miranda rights is a sensitive and case-specific discussion probably not suited for a social media discussion. But I’ll try. /1

eniko, to random
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you look at NES games and you're like "that doesn't look too hard, that scope looks achievable to a small modern indie team with modern gamedev tools"

and then you try to execute on it and it takes literal years because making games is actually literally impossible

glitchypixel,
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@eniko I have a small game dev programming course, and the "midterm" projects to deliver is to create an "exact clone" of a NES game, as close to the original as possible. They can choose the game and engine

It never goes "well", because of the really bad calculated scope by them. That's the point though, so I grade them on other criteria, not the final game. It makes then really get their capacity as a dev and scope

Their final projects then are more realistic in scope and fare better for it.

taylor, to random
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Shameless plug: My husband is a CPA and has a furry-specific landing page: https://thomasnazworth.com/furries
(made boostable with his permission)

noiobscura, to random
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Last winter sketch of season of the kind & chaotic Crayden! 🦊

alex, to random
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[crying] we did it kids

Mehndi_tgr, to music
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This song is so good. https://skyhill.bandcamp.com/track/live-another-day #skyhill #music #musicinspired #tiger #sketch #tonedpaper #furry #furryart #happy #earworm #mastoart #fediart #traditionalart #traditionalmediaart #realmediart #gelpen #colorful

jonny, (edited ) to random
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So long before LLMs were cool, I spent literally thousands of hours training and generating with language models going back to vanilla recursive ANNs. What I was obsessed with was the uncanny valley where they would produce text that was grammatically and syntactically correct but no human would EVER produce words like that. The vastness of linguistic latent space that is terrifying and hilarious.

LLMs still have these moments too, and my eyes are finally adjusting to them to where they are plain as day. A lot of whats cool about uncanny valley text is the sense of "I dont know whats wrong about that, I just know its wrong," so its hard to articulate rules, but heres one: eager presumption of an impossible theory of mind for the reader.

Natural writing is a dialogue with a presumed reader, and that requires gaming out how they are reacting to what youre writing. The signifiers of appealing to your reader are extremely common - hedging, prefacing, literally saying "you might be thinking," etc., so are common in the training set, but LLMs eagerly signify appeal to reader when it makes no sense.

Here are two examples from an obvious LLM scamblog article about styles of cowboy boots. On the first, I certainly wasnt worrying about the continued existence of brown boots given the macro-scale norm of brown boots, but it makes perfect syntactic sense when constructing a list of colors to say {there are colors, but dont worry there are non colors too}. In the second, I may have been wondering what defined the style of boot, but I certainly wasnt wondering what the term buckaroo meant.

These are local prediction errors: the text is extremely logical - if you had no idea what culture was outside of the prior few hundred words.

grumpygamer, to random
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"Just be very careful of the game-design equivalent of having produced Schindler’s list, and then someone pipes up and says ‘couldn’t it be a bit more upbeat’? All entertainment should be driven by the emotional force of a single creator. Anything else risks becoming mediocre."

https://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2024/02/21/emotional-game-design/

annaleen, to random
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My novel is on sale as an ebook across all platforms for $1.99 in the U.S. this week!!! Check it out here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250228062/theterraformers

Znackish, to animation
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Awooooooo ~
Commission for wulfie_zenny on Twitter!

#animation #furryArt #mastoArt #furry #furryCommissions #Wolf #furryWolf

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luckytran, to random
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Unfortunately, there are signs that there is an uptick in COVID-19 wastewater levels again after a couple of weeks of decline.

This underscores the importance of not relaxing too quickly after we reach any COVID peak, as it takes time for levels to drop. Keep taking precautions.

sam, to random
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One of the best talks I've seen fucking around with image models: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0ZJxOIinr4

AsherVo, to random
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Whew, Threes for Steam is DONE!

It's got:

  • Full Controller/Keyboard Support
  • Full Steam Deck Compatibility
  • Cloud Saving
  • Achievements
  • New Night Mode Music

Please wishlist it if you haven't already. It comes out Tuesday!

I'm gonna go lay down 😴

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1818570/Threes/

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