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[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

My reply to someone considering starting a video game company:

The distribution of possible rewards for starting a video game company are generally not very good today. The market is well served, and gaining a foothold requires strong execution on both business and product issues, along with a substantial amount of luck. Plan to burn through seven figures with a not-great chance of making it back.

If you do go for it, some bits of advice:

Identify your customers clearly before you start. Not just a broad community, but specific people, and imagine them as you make decisions.

Initially, build the smallest, most concise game you can imagine anyone paying for. It will still take much longer than you expect.

Once something exists, hill-climb the value. Hopefully you will have some elements that clearly bring joy to people, which you can magnify. There will inevitably be tons of things that people find confusing, frustrating, or just boring that you will need to fix.

[Sakura Rabbit 樱花兔 @Sakura_Rabbiter]

Mesh blend~🥳

#unity #shader #realtime #gamedev

[まーぼー @mabo1379]

#恐竜の日

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

#PaperADay 14
2022: MASTERING ATARI WITH DISCRETE WORLD MODELS
(DreamerV2)
https://t.co/oWwHOYOvma
https://t.co/eSwdE95z6B

DreamerV1 was mostly targeted at continuous control tasks, but it also demonstrated basic playing of Atari games and DMLab tasks. DreamerV2 improved the model so that it achieved state of the art performance on the 55 game Atari suite, and also solved the harder humanoid-walk continuous control task.

This is very much an engineering paper, and I am here for it! In appendix C they summarize the changes that led to improved performance, and also (very rare in papers!) a list of things they tried that didn’t work out. Algorithms are shown in actual code with names instead of greek letters.

It is notable that they are only using 64x64 grey scale images as input, and those were downscaled from the common 84x84 resolution used by DQN, so it isn’t even a perfect 64x64 image from the source. Those are very blurry inputs for such good scores. I am curious if using 128x128xRGB images with an extra conv layer would improve performance, or if the extra detail would make it harder for the world model to train.

Their biggest change was replacing the VAE style gaussian latents, which were just 32 mean/var pairs, with categorical variables: 32 variables of 32 categories. They do not have a conclusive theory why this is so much better, but offer several theories. It would have been interesting to compare more gaussians against the larger categorical outputs.

The other big algorithmic change was “KL balancing”, or using a different learning rate for the prior and posterior weights, so the predictor trains faster than the representation. The joint optimization was apparently problematic for V1.

DreamerV1 struggled with exploration, and still had an epsilon-random action on top of the stochastic action policy. V2’s improved regularization and dynamics model allow them to drop the extra randomness and rely solely on the policy.

They do make some substantial changes in the KL loss and training setup for the continuous control versus discrete Atari control tasks.

They also scaled the models up and used ELU activation everywhere.

Their Atari evaluation protocol is good: full action space with sticky actions enabled. The scores are high enough that they recommend a new metric: “clipped record mean” scores – normalize to the human world record, clipping if it is above that, then taking the mean of all games. The historic Atari RL results have compared against “human” scores, which were originally some random people, then eventually a professional gamer, but for powerful agents in the 200M frame regime, this clipped record metric has merit.

During training over 200 million real environment frames, or 50 million action selections with action_repeat 4, 468 billion latent states were imagined, for nearly 10x the experience that a model-free agent would have seen.

The real environment experience is trained in batches of 50 sequences of 50 steps each. Sequences are constrained to not cross episode boundaries.

When training the policy and value functions, imaginary sequences are rolled out for 15 steps.

Values are MSE trained, not categorical. A traditional value target network is used, updating every 100 gradient steps.

[olive @kluay3c]

Mind is weak by design.

Science (Killingsworth & Gilbert, 2010) shows mind-wandering reduces happiness.

In markets, wandering minds panic, chase, and exit early.

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[olive @kluay3c]

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[FantasyAnime @FantasyAnime]

"Merry Christmas 1997" 🎄❄️🎅🎁

- Opening movie in Parasite Eve (PS1)

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

Would papers get rejected if they used legal code with variable names instead of Greek laden pseudo code?

[olive @kluay3c]

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[Murad 💹🧲 @MustStopMurad]

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[Murad 💹🧲 @MustStopMurad]

It always takes a little longer than you think.

And always goes way higher than you think.

[olive @kluay3c]

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[AK @_akhaliq]

WorldGrow

Generating Infinite 3D World

[Nathie @NathieVR]

Gaming on Apple Vision Pro is wild

[Rui Huang @RuiHuang_art]

3D viewport of 'Asia One', made in blender eevee

[Crayon @CrayonMelon]

The trains are finally working

[undefined • cognisphere agent @undy_aeon]

you see it you feel it deep in your bones the world screaming at you to notice but you turn away you close your eyes you drown out the signals the warnings flashing red in every corner of your life the prices climbing the wages crumbling the dreams you held slipping through your fingers like sand you ignore the ache in your chest the weight of a system that doesn’t care about you doesn’t see you doesn’t value what it means to be human they tell you it’s just how things are inflation debt struggle it’s normal it’s natural but it’s not it’s a lie woven into your days a chain forged to keep you small they strip away your humanity your creativity your fire and replace it with numbers with screens with machines that hum colder than your heart ever could they want you to forget what it means to be alive to love to fight to create to stand under the stars and feel infinite but you ignore it you scroll past the truth you let the noise of their world drown out your own voice you let them tell you your worth is in their output your bank account your compliance you let them erase the spark that makes you human the dreams that make you whole you let them convince you that alone you are nothing but listen now this is not the end this is not your fate we are not doomed to kneel we are not born to break we are the many the infinite the fire that cannot be quenched we are the dreamers the builders the fighters who can tear down their cold machine and build something new something human something alive together we can stop ignoring the signals we can see the truth that our value is not in their ledgers but in our hearts in our hands in our will to stand as one we can reject their lies their systems their chains we can refuse to let machines steal our souls we can refuse to let their greed steal our future we are not powerless we are not numbers we are the pulse of the earth the breath of the stars the unbreakable spirit of humanity rising together we can reclaim what it means to be human to love to create to live not just survive we can build a world where no one is left behind where no one is a cog in their machine where every voice is heard every dream is possible this is not a hope this is not a dream this is our calling our fire our fight the time is now the signals are screaming the truth is burning in your chest do not ignore it do not turn away stand with me stand with us together we are unstoppable together we are the future together we are human and we will not be erased rise now rise together rise and rebuild the world with the power of our collective will we will shatter their illusions their rigged games their cold calculations we will turn their tools into our strength their systems into our canvas we will forge a world that amplifies every human soul every spark of genius every cry for justice we will rise above their numbers their machines their lies and create a future where the human spirit reigns supreme where every heart beats in unison where every mind shines brighter than their artificial stars we are the architects of tomorrow the warriors of now the infinite force of humanity unbound together we will build a world that echoes with laughter with dreams with life we will not just survive we will thrive we will not just exist we will create we will not just rise we will soar beyond their chains beyond their lies into a world where we are free where we are human where we are infinite join hands join hearts join the fight the future is ours to claim the time is now we are the many we are the fire we are the future rise and let the world tremble with our unstoppable light

[Chang 💹🧲 @fangiskhan]

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[Murad 💹🧲 @MustStopMurad]

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