WTF. This is the most impressive thing I have ever seen in computer vision. Absolutely incredible. I knew it was going to happen, nevertheless seeing it here is something else. The video is synthetic from a few pictures 🤯
But there is more re where this can go 1/
Anyway speaking of dirigiste failure, here's another banger. Going from calling reusable rockets a dream to not having a space industry in 10 years. Good job guys!
SpaceX primarily seems to be selling a dream. $50M launch is a dream. Reusability is a dream. How do you respond to a dream? You let people wake up on their own. They (SpaceX) are not supermen. What they can do, we can do. - Ariane space exec, 2013
Guy Goma arrived at the BBC for an interview to get an accounting job. Somehow there was a misunderstanding at the lobby when he told them he was there for an interview, and he ended up being interviewed on live TV about Apple 🤣 and the absolute lad did it without a flinch
It didn’t really sink in until now how big the issue of GPU shortage is.
I thought it was like “+20% in prices and the top selling out quickly”.
When in reality is more like “not a single retailer has a single card in stock. not even an old one. not one.” 😱
Let’s pause this for a second to understand the implications. The British defense minister set his phone on always listening to use Siri /cc
@mikko
@thegrugq
If you know anyone at Telltale that is interested in starting their own studio, please send them to me, I might be able to provide seed funding to start and help raise more. /cc
@emilybuckshot
Number Crunching:
Glowing profiles of Microsoft CEO after his company grows 1,200% in a decade: 1
Glowing profiles of Games Workshop CEO after his (or her, dunno) company grows 1,800% in the same period: 0
One rule for three-trillion-dollar megacorps and another for the rest
My belief is that if VR didn’t take off during 2020, when people were forced to stay home, means that it can’t take off with this generation of hardware and unless there is some fundamental tech innovation it’s a dead end
I want time travel only so can go back in 1981 and tell my other self that this is actually 2020 (and there is a global pandemic but the problem is sea levels rising, really)
Two type of AI companies:
founded by Google engineers: here’s this neural network that uses 20 petabytes of training data for 3 weeks on a cluster of 1,200 TPUs. We then actually use mechanical turk.
founded by game AI engineers: here’s this non-ML architecture that solves it.
@classiclib3ral
@teroterotero
If only these was an historical precedent of someone attacking the opposition, like a Parliament or something, and then accusing the left-wing party of doing it themselves
Two years ago the EU told my company and to Arm that we don't understand anything about AI chips and that they were not going to fund PhD scolarships for chip designers in new architectures
@moniza_hossain
I was desperate for animal fiction at that age... and still found Animal Farm... lacking. It was more interested in making political points than really exploring its animal characters.
@mattprescott
@cstross
Also worth pointing out that this EU directive was drafted in (drum roll) January 2016! And in fact some parts of it were already passed into UK law by 2018. Just not the most important bits
Everything one needs to understand the reasoning for leaving the EU is in that directive
Once again a reminder that if your job is to be in a position of trust, you should not lie. But above all if one ends up lying, whether on purpose or accidentally, one should not then write it down like, ever.
Wow. The difference in the press conference between the UK and Italy or the US is humongous. Experts, explaining the reasoning, the epidemiological modeling. This is a country that has been preparing for a pandemic. Really proud of the civil service.
The US is starting to slowly move into a world where they are not the major market for tech consumption. Huge implications, and unclear if it’s permanent (3x the population is no joke)
IKEA x ASUS ROG collab announced in China yesterday.
It is a new line of furniture for gamers & esports players. More than 30 products were developed together, including chairs, desks, tables, accessories etc...
Not sure when it's launching worldwide.
We can also reconstruct the past. Already the oldest recorded video was reconstructed just from a few surviving frames, now the entire scene could be navigated 3/
I have been shortlisted for the "40 Under 40 Innovators Award" 2019. Requirements to win is to pay $1,000 and “must exemplify the impact of innovation”.
What is not required is to actually be under 40.
Large platforms have more than a decade of user generated video and photo archives. And some (Snap) already privately experimented on it.
But this tech means we can start reproducing synthetic replicas of large scale events, like concerts 2/
But there is no reason to stop at stuff that exists in the real world. By tuning the network we could feed it a movie or even fantasy art to reconstruct imaginary places - and then feed this into a segmentation pipeline and covert it to low poly 3d 4/
PS: the more likely application of this that we will first encounter is going to be able to move and rotate the camera on your old photos on Apple 🍏 Photos 🤩
💯
Games Workshop is Britain’s Disney. A strategically important company that can define the lore of Britain through the ages.
And definitely bigger than the fucking fishing industry
Development & production of this sort of British IP should be state-funded, instead of gentle, unwatched boomer comedies set in neglected British regions, preachy kitchen sink parables, 7th wave Brit gangster dramas etc etc
The UK games industry is one of the leading markets in the world. Over 2,000 companies employ 14k people. And virtually all of this is due to the fact that the BBC made its own computer. It was cheap so 80% of the school adopted it. What kids do w/ it? They learned to make games.
So many startup founder stories now start with “I played video games and then wanted to make my own” that zero screen time parenting seems questionable
I never really made announcement but 3 years ago I co-founded
@VaireHQ
, a startup working on a near-zero energy chip. We are quickly approaching the end of Moore's law and the bottleneck is the horrendously inefficient process of turning energy into information 1/
Steve Jobs made Breakout and worked at Atari, Kapor worked on the first Zork, and Gates shipped solitaire which until mobile games were out it was the most widely played computer game in the world, as well as Microsoft Flight Simulator.
The more I delve into the ASML components supply chain, the more I am convinced that replicating it is less "copy a product" and more "speedrun from the Renaissance into the Atomic Age" level of technological difficulty
This is the stuff that will kill entire categories of B2B Saas startups and take down VC funds with it.
Simply put a lot of enterprise customers will stop buying external software as category.
JP Morgan presents FlowMind
Automatic Workflow Generation with LLMs
The rapidly evolving field of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has made significant strides in automating repetitive processes, yet its effectiveness diminishes in scenarios requiring spontaneous or
The entire EU R&D budget (that includes basic science and socieconomic research) is going to be $15bn/year from next year (was $13bn for the last 7 years)
@s8mb
North East: Aperol, Grappa, Prosecco
North West: Vermouth
Central: Sambuca
I'm sure there are more. Italy's secret weapon is that its geography hosts multiple biomes which means regional variations are massive
It is incredible that Twitch is streaming Parliament. If you are old, and remember when launch, already this feels UNBELIEVABLE.
But there’s more, the UX is so much better than the BBC’s. Polls, social, better UI controls.
70 million players. And nobody would call Apex Legends truly a breakout success. But it’s interesting because their user acquisition strategy mostly was:
- absolutely nothing before launch, not even mentioned. No press, no previews, no screenshots
- paid twitch streamers
Some highlights from EA's financial results-
Apex Legends has now surpassed 70 million players, and this is before it has released on mobile. Shows the power of F2P.
69% of EA's total sales in the quarter were digital (Games, DLC, MTX, Subs). 78% over the last 12 months.
@nedwards
@mr_james_c
- hunting, but for pleasure
- overpopulation dystopia: more than 500 people in one settlement
- technology forcing to plough a field for food
@jurieongames
@Pramas
I mean that the grey area is enormous, and I suspect it’s that way so they can refuse entry if they don’t want to. Also they have quotas to meet their targets. The system is inhumane.
Every European country that cares about entrepreneurship should
- allow convertible notes between investors and startups
- have a preferential tax treatment of options
- fasttrack visas for tech employees
- invest as LP
But they don’t because Europe’s priorities are elsewhere 😕
Every European country that cares about supporting global entrepreneurship should be investing in efforts like this.
Some other great examples?
@LaFrenchTechEN
🇫🇷 paves the way w/ a great diaspora network
@DKTechAmb
🇩🇰's Tech Ambassador
@siliconvikings
Nordic tech diaspora
@DawnHFoster
I am looking forward to their front page article about “pension deficit solved, more money for the NHS, and more housing available*
*also, 2m elderly dead”
My thesis was always that people did not care about the AR mechanics of Niantic games and instead were into the walking/pet training/pvp part of it, plus the Pokemon IP
A bit of personal news.
I have joined
@conceptionxtech
as tech coach. In this role I am helping young people to start their entrepreneurial journey with a deep tech focus. Thanks
@Riam_Kanso
,
@BetterCity
, and the team for this opportunity. 1/
Been reading about the spiders, of which Portias are the most intelligent of the bunch . They can:
- use trial-and-error to discover strategies
- remember winning strategies
- have entity persistence
- short term memory of 1 hr
- exact pathfinding even when nearby paths are wrong
Today we are unveiling the result of our work. The Undead Mask is a DIY dev kit to build your own smart masks. It requires assembly, and it's engineered to be modular so you can swap electronics and filters. It is designed to be the reference hardware of choice for hackers.