> be Forza Horizon
> starts as a spin-off nobody asked for
> new country every 2-3 years
> FH3, FH4, FH5 - 91, 92, 92 Metacritic in a row
> FH5 - 10 million players week one
> biggest Xbox launch ever. a racing game.
> Japan requested since 2012. 14 years of silence
> Microsoft accidentally leaks the full game on Steam
> modder streams it without blurring his name
> banned until December 31, 9999
> launch day - 273,000 Steam players
> record for any racing game in history
> 6 million players in 72 hours
Forza went from unwanted spin-off to the most consistent franchise in gaming and nobody talks about it.
More on H1-B:
I've addressed this 18 y ago in The Black Swan: America's edge is in risk taking, not education. Any idiot can have education; you need to learn to fail.
The American system has been based on trial and error. Which is why foreigners succeed here not at home.
I've been telling physicists in the foundations for more than 10 years they need to get their act together or their future looks bleak.
There have been too many unobserved particles, too many idiotic headlines about multiverses, too many expensive experiments that didn't find anything interesting, too many "predictions" that never came to pass -- turning the word "prediction" into a joke -- too much silly talk about beautiful and elegant ideas and theories of everything that remained wishful thinking. And never once did they offer an explanation for what went wrong or how they are going to improve.
Simply put, they have spent too much of taxpayers' money without producing anything of value.
Can you not see the writing on the wall?
Americans are going to crack down hard on academia because of all the nonsense studies that have befallen their universities. They're not going to stop there.
And Europeans are sick and tired of paying ridiculously high amounts of taxes. In the next years you will see a dramatic political shift to deregulation over here too.
In Europe it's hard to fire people but if they get no further funding, many research areas are simply going to die off.
It's not that I wanted this to happen. But this is what I think will happen. And at this point it's too late to do anything about it.
The scale of our Solar System vs a section of the Carina Nebula NGC 3324 from one of the first image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.
Space is big.
My TED talk is finally live!! I proposed the recipe for the "Foundation Agent": a single model that learns how to act in different worlds. LLM scales across lots and lots of texts. Foundation Agent scales across lots and lots of realities. If it is able to master 10,000 diverse simulated realities, it may well generalize to our physical world, which is simply the 10,001st reality.
TED talks do not have teleprompters!! All I have is a "confidence monitor" at my foot, showing only the current slide and timer. That means I need to memorize the whole speech. It sounds intimidating at first, but turns out to be the best way to connect with the audience and deliver the ideas right to heart.
The video is only 10 min. I promise it's well worth your time!
https://t.co/sJJdUg2QNQ
Also sharing my slides with all of you! https://t.co/XFvi25fldK
In addition to SIGIL II (https://t.co/Etat3Xllsg), I've got some other great news to celebrate DOOM's 30th Anniversary. Join me and John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack to discuss DOOM live, moderated by David L. Craddock @davidlcraddock. Dec 10 8pm GMT on https://t.co/r4PKfgG4af. Thanks for playing our games!
I care about what future historians will say about the current social movements of our time, and I stand with Thomas Sowell on the matter of Equity. https://t.co/fMvVbjC8Oy