pandateam

Lekta is a language puzzle game. English teacher in my proper job

[pandateam @ASMRstar]

https://t.co/t8Jg0EzlaN

[Mikhail Samin @Mihonarium]

Can humans learn a new sense?

Some Australian tribes use cardinal directions in their speech: they talk about east and south instead of relative left or righ. They constantly track the directions.

There have been projects that gave people elsewhere the sense of cardinal directions: belts and ankle bracelets that vibrated from the direction of north. That worked well. As a side effect, that made it easier to know where places are relative to each other and improved the ability to navigate. But you had to constantly wear them; the moment you took them off, you lost the sense. You didn’t really acquire it, you just had it temporarily.

I decided to fix this.

Last year, I made an app that uses headphones to make the user hear a sound that comes from the direction of north. That alone did what wearable devices can do. You specify [1..300] seconds and become continuously aware of cardinal directions.

But then I did something better, that made the sense persist even when the app is off.

Instead of hearing a sound that appears to come from the direction of north, you hear a non-directional cue sound every [2.300] seconds; and then, one second later, a directional sound that comes from north.

So rather then constantly feeding the brain with answers — which create the feeling of north, but don’t persist — the app feeds it a question and then the answer immediately afterwards.

You quickly learn to anticipate the direction the sound will come from. As the feeling of the direction in which north is gets stronger, you can decrease the frequency of the sounds. And you acquire a sense of the direction of north that persists even when the app is off! You continue to track north even as there is no more sound, because tracking north is what allowed the brain to predict where the sound will come from immediately after the cue.

I originally made it for iOS, now it’s also available for Android.

https://t.co/4k4QJTQcNJ

(And it’s open-source, feel free to contribute!)

[Khao Mortadios @KhaoMortadios]

Everyone hates it when their opponent just leaves the game before it's over, so I've been trying to find ways to soften the blow a little bit. #fightinggame #gamemaker #indiedev

[pandateam @ASMRstar]

@MjTheHunter @CharlesHorwood It's lovely, trust yourselves

[pandateam @ASMRstar]

This is also good evidence that Chomsky's weird idea that language evolved primarily for thought & not communication is wrong

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

Oof. See, this is why I’m not worried about “pure” LLMs in the long run.

There’s new evidence that the human brain doesn’t use natural language centers for logical reasoning at all.

Study just came out where stroke patients with complete aphasia (near-chance on written comprehension) performed….great on pure logic tasks! Even in healthy adults, fMRI showed language area activation didn’t scale with logical difficulty.

tl;dr words are too ambiguous for formal thought and our brain doesn’t use language symbols for logic

[pandateam @ASMRstar]

@arielsan @squeakywheelph Lovely sound design 👍

[pandateam @ASMRstar]

@Oakleaff_ Ah, cool - I imagine very tricky to get right. Good luck with it, looks good already

[pandateam @ASMRstar]

@Oakleaff_ (Looks good already!)

[pandateam @ASMRstar]

@Oakleaff_ Presumably you've played Waverace - those weird but good physics/controls (where turning sort of 'bit'/gripped more in a trough at the bottom of a wave) were so distinctive, are you aiming at that?

[pandateam @ASMRstar]

#gamedev

[pandateam @ASMRstar]

New build is UP: https://t.co/t8Jg0EyNlf

[pandateam @ASMRstar]

#linguistics #indiedev #gamemaker #englishlanguage

[pandateam @ASMRstar]

New build is UP: https://t.co/t8Jg0EyNlf

[pandateam @ASMRstar]

Fixed incredibly annoying audio bug so sound is back, added an absolutely bananas endgame thing for keenos, sorted general other bugs and tidied things up a lot 😬🤓 Quite happy with the state of it now altogether

[pandateam @ASMRstar]

New build is UP: https://t.co/t8Jg0EyNlf

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

Mephisto, by Joaquín Espalter y Rull, 1872, 📸 by Dan Mullan

[AA @measure_plan]

wanted to learn inverse kinematics so i made a bunch of characters that live on a resizable grid

[Ben Lang @benz145]

Could optical illusions eventually function like zero-day exploits for AI systems?

Detecting one known illusion when you have an example in front of you seems relatively straightforward. The harder problem is that different illusions exploit different quirks of perception, so building a generalized solution for cases you don’t already have examples of is a huge challenge.

Novel illusions could potentially pass information through an AI system undetected, while being easily recognized by a human on the other side. It could be an effective way around various AI safeguards.

[Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv]

@eshear Alex Colville’s paintings in the 50s-70s look like they were inspired by 90s computer graphics

[Geronimo Morgans @GeronimoMorgans]

Ben Wilkinson on Nico O'Reilly and the four years he coached him.

Says he once sat in a restaurant and genuinely couldn't believe Pep had deployed him at left-back.

[pandateam @ASMRstar]

This is a cool idea:

[Yolwoocle · Léo Bernard 曹宇 @yolwoocle_]

I had this idea for a 4-player dynamic splitscreen setup.

Not sure if it's better than a traditional splitscreen setup, but I like the fact that you can see the relative locations of other players visually.

Might write a blog post about this!
#godot #gamedev

[Christina Tasty @ChristinaTasty]

Explaining why I, personally, hate Mixtape in just under 3 minutes of totally uninterrupted "gameplay" (Spoilers):

[pandateam @ASMRstar]

@htomufc Given German football culture I can understand him seeing Wharton as a bit lightweight & athletically limited, but then Mainoo (as one of the slowest players in the league) makes no sense to me