Comment But Still (Score 1) 72
To be clear, I'm glad this new thing exists.
Comment Grr! My Scientology Brain Implant, Which Is Evil, (Score -1, Redundant) 72
grr
forced me to take plasticized Dextromethorphan cough syrup ("Delsym") for fourteen days until I had a left frontal lobe hemorrhage!! THEY USED IT TO BLOW UP MY BRAIN. AND... now my working memory is devastated! This Memory Enhancing Implant is an even better development than the noise-cancelling implant I thought I'd need to make the first one go away. It could undo some of the damage! Ohhh
No-one listened to me! I complained about my scientology head chip for eight months before that happened! Now my brain hemorrhage is eight months old and allll of you let this happen! Oh, oh, ohhhhh....
Not fake, OK? Thanks >I >/ >3
Comment Good! My Scientology Brain Implant, Which Is Evil, (Score 1) 72
forced me to take plasticized Dextromethorphan cough syrup ("Delsym") for fourteen days until I had a left frontal lobe hemorrhage!! AND... now my working memory is devastated! This is an even better development than the noise-cancelling implant I thought I'd need to make the first one go away. It could undo some of the damage!
No-one listened to me! I complained about my scientology head chip for eight months before that happened! Now my brain hemorrhage is eight months old and allll of you let this happen! Oh, oh, ohhhhh....
Not fake, OK? Thanks
Submission + - Biological Brainfuck Machine (freshmeat.net)
brilanon writes: New to the soon-to-be-export-controlled field of optimizers and automated problem solvers is ca-ga, an evolving neurogenetic cell ecology for Linux and Windows.
A hundred megs of DNA wires a hundred megs of neurons as a population of candidate components vie for territory and aptitude at the secondary fitness function which provides an energy impetus.
The end result is a thinking system the size of Firefox. Fun
A hundred megs of DNA wires a hundred megs of neurons as a population of candidate components vie for territory and aptitude at the secondary fitness function which provides an energy impetus.
The end result is a thinking system the size of Firefox. Fun
Submission + - Neurogenetic Controller Evolver Even for Windows (arbornet.org)
brilanon writes: "ca-ga is a new a-life lab, hitherto unknown to this area. The pure genetic version runs very large grids of long genomes at startling speeds, and displays patterns characteristic of stepped gene expressions like spots, stripes, tissues, gametes, and low technology like basket weaves and ropes.
Then I added 254 neurons per cell. The default dimensions allow for 1625600 total neurons whose wiring plans are in flux as 100 megs of DNA is evaluated on a per-cell basis. Really, really exciting stuff.
Reading the esoteric bf language is the proof of concept real world fitness function but I think you could use it for captcha cracking or trading stocks or flying planes. At any rate, it solves the problem"
Then I added 254 neurons per cell. The default dimensions allow for 1625600 total neurons whose wiring plans are in flux as 100 megs of DNA is evaluated on a per-cell basis. Really, really exciting stuff.
Reading the esoteric bf language is the proof of concept real world fitness function but I think you could use it for captcha cracking or trading stocks or flying planes. At any rate, it solves the problem"
Comment Supply Demand (Score 1) 147
Why would they have plans on hand for orbital spacecraft, what would those do
If someone wants to mine the moon this is someone they can go to
Exciting junk
Bethesda Criticized Over Buggy Releases 397
SSDNINJA writes "This editorial discusses the habit of Bethesda Softworks to release broken and buggy games with plans to just fix the problems later. Following a trend of similar issues coming up in their games, the author begs gamers to stop supporting buggy games and to spread the idea that games should be finished and quality controlled before release – not weeks after."
Strong Contender Already For Adafruit's Kinect Challenge 86
sammyF70 writes "Adafruit's bounty on open source drivers for Microsoft's Kinect may have been already won. Someone called 'KinectMan2' has posted videos of Kinect's output as seen on Windows 7 to YouTube. That was fast. Hopefully Linux drivers are coming soon."
A few more details are available on a forum post the man made. Adafruit said the bounty could be his if he posts the source code, and they also upped the reward to $3,000 in response to another silly statement from Microsoft.
Comment Re:Sorry I'm late posting, but... (Score 1) 54
That is just randoms starving to death at roughly the same time or dying of old age. You can tamper mincritters in F6 to speed that part up, or slow it down, if you want. It's a search at the start: then when a species gets hold, it's optimization
Comment Here's a species that does use the eye (Score 2, Informative) 54
It's not too slow right now. Let me give you a species and a profile to use
http://ansistego.sf.net/6600-generation-foodotropes-for-critterdrug.tgz critters
http://ansistego.sf.net/foodotrope-drug.profile
Heck I'll just link em on the page
Comment Controls-Relevant Part of Changelog (Score 4, Interesting) 54
+ keys to drug the whole population: hjnm, and undrug, dfcvb. Fullscreen was moved to g, colourmode moved to x, and mouselook moved to / (careful!)
If you hit F1, a lot of those keys are misreported -- I'm so sorry
Also, do hit 's' as one of the first things and edit your new profile called 'default' in the working directory, then launch with --profile default to use the new settings. A lot of the options new with critterdrug aren't configurable in-game yet...
Also it uses ~/.critterding like critterding itself. This is not really a major collision, you can still use both apps if you separate the profile names and keep the load dir clean (can't exchange critters between ding and drug)
Those are the most important caveats... if you want to show them pictures, I'd make ~/.critterding/screenshots a ramdisk... then just squirt 64x48 PNM's to scrn.pnm there, and set show_scrn.pnm_every. Also, anim_screen_every can be set much higher than 1 in order to make sure each pixel sits long enough to convert to a firing rate (not just a potential change)... or they might only 'see' a blur
I reasoned eventually that what they experience as qualia is probably firing rates not potentials. But what exactly does that say, anyway?
I'm really happy it hit the frontpage
Wow
Comment Controls Part of Changelog (Score 1) 1
+ keys to drug the whole population: hjnm, and undrug, dfcvb. Fullscreen was moved to g, colourmode moved to x, and mouselook moved to / (careful!)
If you hit F1, a lot of those keys are misreported -- I'm so sorry
Also, do hit 's' as one of the first things and edit your new profile called 'default' in the working directory, then launch with --profile default to use the new settings. A lot of the options new with critterdrug aren't configurable in-game yet...
Also it uses ~/.critterding like critterding itself. This is not really a major collision, you can still use both apps if you separate the profile names and keep the load dir clean (can't exchange critters between ding and drug)
Those are the most important caveats... if you want to show them pictures, I'd make ~/.critterding/screenshots a ramdisk... then just squirt 64x48 PNM's to scrn.pnm there, and set show_scrn.pnm_every. Also, anim_screen_every can be set much higher than 1 in order to make sure each pixel sits long enough to convert to a firing rate (not just a potential change)... or they might only 'see' a blur
I reasoned eventually that what they experience as qualia is probably firing rates not potentials. But what exactly does that say, anyway?
I'm really happy it hit the frontpage
Submission + - Electronic Life Make Evolving Art 1
brilanon writes: Good news! On Sept 4, critterdrug, the a-life lab for the twenty-teens was updated to make generating a species almost trivial. A new video shows semi-random artificial animals gaining neurons and synapses as they compete to draw a gradient on an animated shared canvas which constitutes 1024 frames spread through time. The canvas is a 10-megabyte digital backstore to the lossy neural nets that populate the world. What you get is a cellular automata run by psychic neural nets that are bound by the rules of a survival contest with physics. Features implementations of telepathy, Rupert Sheldrake's morphic fields and five types of drugs. The key assignments have changed since critterding, check the changelog on the web page for the new ones. Happy hacking!
Comment U.S. Not Good At Cyber War, Would Lose (Score 1) 132
A story a couple of months back about US Cyber War said they were no good at it and would lose. I'm hoping my brain implant is from aliens instead of the States or that's probably not true. It's very sophisticated
Look for these things around 2015 or so if this is a field-test. If it's aliens, I think we're gonna have 2012
Comment Solar Sail (Score 1) 281
There was a benevolent entity with a million IQ piloting Earth-sized ships around the sun as recently as two days ago, see this paranoid forum for more
I came in there a bunch of times just to remind them we should try to trade, not beg, and that these things haven't given any indication of intending to do harm, since the trolls there said all kinds of dark and creepy shit. Maybe these are just amputated from current SOHO photos but I think they've gone away til the 2012 uplift because we're still warlike and crazy
Now Obama says Space is Good and SETI is excited about the sun, WTF I say
