Nicolas Roger

Maker of Video Games - Somewhat obsessive Runner - Wannabe Space Explorer - Wanderer with a pinch of nerdiness

[Nicolas Roger @Martian_GameDev]

I mean.... Come on Nintendo.
You just gave us this...

[Nicolas Roger @Martian_GameDev]

So....
Yeah....
A new STARFOX game....
How about that character design?

[Mike Constantine @Moonpans]

Apollo 15 Lunar Rover Footage Upscaled and Interpolated to 60 FPS

Incredible upscaled footage from onboard the Apollo 15 Lunar Rover captured by Jim Irwin using the 16mm DAC camera. This footage has been upscaled and Interpolated to 60 FPS and synchronised to the mission audio by Moonpans

Original footage source: Apollo Flight Journal

Full video in comments

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The math on this project should mass-humble every AI lab on the planet.

1 cubic millimeter. One-millionth of a human brain. Harvard and Google spent 10 years mapping it. The imaging alone took 326 days. They sliced the tissue into 5,000 wafers each 30 nanometers thick, ran them through a $6 million electron microscope, then needed Google’s ML models to stitch the 3D reconstruction because no human team could process the output.

The result: 57,000 cells, 150 million synapses, 230 millimeters of blood vessels, compressed into 1.4 petabytes of raw data. For context, 1.4 petabytes is roughly 1.4 million gigabytes. From a speck smaller than a grain of rice.

Now scale that. The full human brain is one million times larger. Mapping the whole thing at this resolution would produce approximately 1.4 zettabytes of data. That’s roughly equal to all the data generated on Earth in a single year. The storage alone would cost an estimated $50 billion and require a 140-acre data center, which would make it the largest on the planet.

And they found things textbooks don’t contain. One neuron had over 5,000 connection points. Some axons had coiled themselves into tight whorls for completely unknown reasons. Pairs of cell clusters grew in mirror images of each other. Jeff Lichtman, the Harvard lead, said there’s “a chasm between what we already know and what we need to know.”

This is why the next step isn’t a human brain. It’s a mouse hippocampus, 10 cubic millimeters, over the next five years. Because even a mouse brain is 1,000x larger than what they just mapped, and the full mouse connectome is the proof of concept before anyone attempts the human one.

We’re building AI systems that loosely mimic neural networks while still unable to fully read the wiring diagram of a single cubic millimeter of the thing we’re trying to imitate. The original is 1.4 petabytes per millionth of its volume. Every AI model on Earth fits in a fraction of that.

The brain runs on 20 watts and fits in your skull. The data center required to merely describe one-millionth of it would span 140 acres.

[Josef Aschbacher @AschbacherJosef]

SUCCESS✅
With the powerful roar of four boosters at liftoff, comes more than double the payload mass to orbit, setting Europe back on stage for launching all satellites to all orbits. With today’s successful launch, our rocket fleet is now complete. But we will not rest: upgrades are already in progress for future launches.
#Ariane6 #VA267

[Nicolas Roger @Martian_GameDev]

For those who don't own a Nintendo Switch 2...
Revenge of the Savage Planet
✅ Metroidvania
✅ Play campaign in Single / COOP
✅ PvP Bingo Brawl
✅ Remix mode for all sort of mayhem

[Nicolas Roger @Martian_GameDev]

Bullseye
Congrats team blue

[Devolver Digital @devolverdigital]

Everything about making video games is harder than you think.

[Nicolas Roger @Martian_GameDev]

L'armee des 12 singes?

[Brut FR @brutofficiel]

Une intrusion dans un centre de recherche abritant plus de 800 singes a conduit à la disparition de 12 ouistitis. https://t.co/kCbfwttZiO

[Nicolas Roger @Martian_GameDev]

Afterburners will always be cool

[Planesanity @planesanity]

Concorde twilight takeoff with afterburners!

📹: Craig Smith

[Nicolas Roger @Martian_GameDev]

The competition is on with @RocketLab LC-1 for the most beautiful launch site

[NordSpace 🇨🇦 @Nord_Space]

ASX SLC-02 this morning. Let’s light this candle. NET Aug 25 0800 NDT.

🚀🇨🇦

[Nicolas Roger @Martian_GameDev]

CANADA ❤️ SPACE

[Varda Space Industries @VardaSpace]

We cooked. (Again.)

[Nicolas Roger @Martian_GameDev]

PAX East
Of course that's the panel a level designer wants to attend

[Nicolas Roger @Martian_GameDev]

Welcome to Canada where it's summer on Tuesday and winter on Wednesday

[Nicolas Roger @Martian_GameDev]

Starfox.
Please?

[Nintendo of America @NintendoAmerica]

Tune in now and get ready for the #NintendoDirect: Nintendo Switch 2 – 4.2.2025 livestream, featuring a closer look at #NintendoSwitch2!

Watch it here: https://t.co/wkh8Ai128K

[Firefly Aerospace @FireflySpace]

#BlueGhost got her first diamond ring! Captured at our landing site in the Moon’s Mare Crisium around 3:30 am CDT, the photo shows the sun about to emerge from totality behind Earth. Hope to have more shots to share soon! #BGM1

[Nicolas Roger @Martian_GameDev]

IF.... (yes, big if), Canada joined the E.U.

[Nicolas Roger @Martian_GameDev]

7 a.m. is the moment the sun rises in your city.
😈🤭

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

How time zones and daylight time should work, wrong answers only. Go!