Chris Zempel

Hot dog researcher

Senior Software Engineer @ Aha!

[Chris Zempel @zemptime]

Knowledge workers: how do you imbibe your creatine?

[Chris Zempel @zemptime]

The local game art studio is growing. What started as a bun cli has grown a UI (although it is still api-first). This is such a joy to use. Generated atlas goes straight into the bevy game engine. Next up: vfx, and game tiles. Some quick shares from before bed last night:

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@Anton_Kuzmen Windows. I haven't been able to move it onto linux (yet)

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I’ve built a game asset generation pipeline on top of a model that allows full free commercial use. This is all running locally, on my computer at home, with the only input cost being electricity.

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I had no idea how much 'token anxiety' I was feeling. Didn't expect to feel this level of excitement upon getting it all wired up!!

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This can produce character atlases - an image + coordinate manifest. The atlas is one image that’s loaded in, then different portions of it are shown depending on character state (idle, walking, attack, dead, etc).

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@8teAPi @sama At some point in the distant past, he had mentioned he did. Something like “if people knew who my alt was…”

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idea. lets get a warehouse. get on craigslist. buy up all the old appliances which still work
call it the ‘lindy mart’

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@schwad_rb The moths ate that page

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@cjav_dev @excid3 oh yeah?

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When naming things, don't think about what to call them. Think about what you'd call the opposite, then the opposite of that. I don't know why this works, but it does.

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@emollick When far away from the goal, best to focus on progress achieved. When close, best to focus on what remains. This is why!

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Have you ever pair programmed with a plant? It's nice because they start with root access

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The best code is always written while pair programming with my dog

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@ID_AA_Carmack Do you eat string cheese in strings, or just pop it in your mouth and take a bite?

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What is a good response to this situation if you are the artist?

[Roberto Nickson @rpnickson]

Listen to this AI generated song featuring Drake & The Weeknd.

It goes so damn hard.

It's by "Ghostwriter977" on TikTok and it's blowing up on socials + streaming platforms.

UMG, which controls around 1/3 of the global music market, has already asked streaming platforms to ban AI.

A modern Napster moment.

Will be fascinating to watch this all unfold in real-time.

[Chris Zempel @zemptime]

I’ve often wondered if the problems of our age are emergent, directed, or a mixture of both. This is +1 for emergent

[David Rozado @DavidRozado]

Great Awokening is a global phenomenon. No evidence it started in US media. Analysis of 98 million news articles across 36 countries quantifies. Exception: state-controlled media from China/Russia/Iran using wokeness terminology to criticize/mock the West
https://t.co/yHwPMSR4D0

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https://t.co/CAb93FBXZL

[Freaky Galt @freakygalt]

"Simply write laws with exploitable logic in them. Slap ethically-pleasant-sounding names on bills to fool the masses with morally camouflaged sleights-of-hand. These strategies work because they're subversive and passive aggressive." @JasonPLowery Softwar.

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@steveruizok I think is this called “adaptive reuse” and the paired concept is the “reach” of any given tool.

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@emollick There’s an intuitive argument we will see gains as far as our quality training data goes. Improvement will continue in disciplines where the production of new high quality training data is most possible and affordable