Willem Janssen

@Wlm
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Game programmer at Guerrilla (Killzone 2, 3 & SF, Horizon Zero Dawn & Forbidden West).

Likes:
• Astronomy, physics, science & tech
• Metal
• Playing VR racing and flying games (poorly)
• Karate
Living in Leiden (NL).
Opinions are my own.

(He/him)
I might be unavailable for the next six months as Metroid, Last of Us, Horizon VR, Horizon extension and new Zelda are coming back to back.

Live++ 2.0.5 out now:
Lots of new additions and bug fixes, too many to list here!
https://liveplusplus.tech/releases.html

Thank you to the people at Sports Interactive, EA, Relic, Guerrilla Games, Blizzard, Creative Assembly, and Valve for their feedback and bug reports.

Live++ | Releases

Hot-reload C and C++ applications.

"QUICK. WHAT ARE THE 128 MOST IMPORTANT INSTRUMENTS? WE NEED TO HAVE THE GENERAL MIDI SPEC IN TOMORROW!"

"UH FUCK, PIANO 1 PIANO 2 PIANO 3 FLUTE OBOE GUN"

"GUN???"

"HELICOPTER"

Google tweeted a GIF showing its Bard chatbot in action. The only problem is one of the answers given by Bard was inaccurate

Great spot by my colleague Martin Coulter and now Google's stock is down 8%

https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-ai-chatbot-bard-offers-inaccurate-information-company-ad-2023-02-08/

Alphabet shares dive after Google AI chatbot Bard flubs answer in ad

Alphabet Inc <a href="https://www.reuters.com/companies/GOOGL.O" target="_blank">(GOOGL.O)</a> lost $100 billion in market value on Wednesday after its new chatbot shared inaccurate information in a promotional video and a company event failed to dazzle, feeding worries that the Google parent is losing ground to rival Microsoft Corp <a href="https://www.reuters.com/companies/MSFT.O" target="_blank">(MSFT.O)</a>.

Reuters

I find it extremely comforting thatthese masks are really for super extra safety - since we have been using them in the 2000s no one has been in an emergency where they were necessary (there was one false alarm but better safe than sorry)

And good news! This morning I passed my exam and successfully and correctly put on my mask in well under 40 seconds. In the coming years I am allowed to work underground again (including tours!) See pic for proof. Safety is not flattering 🤪

One of the things I’m did at #cern today before travelling home is redoing my “self-rescue mask” training. Which involves these metal boxes

Okay people, I've got some NEW PUNCTUATION for you

The "commash", the "colash", and the "semi-colash"

Back in the 19th century, writers used these *everywhere*. It's hard to open a book to a random page and *not* see one

Yet in the 20th century, they vanished -- practically overnight

It's up to us to BRING THEM BACK

My essay is here, for Medium subscribers: https://clivethompson.medium.com/weird-19th-century-punctuation-marks-you-should-try-using-49d2e2516e5e

If you're not a Medium subscriber, here's a "friend" link: https://clivethompson.medium.com/weird-19th-century-punctuation-marks-you-should-try-using-49d2e2516e5e?sk=0b0b750a1dc3cf296efbf036ebbd2d34

Weird 19th-Century Punctuation Marks You Should Try Using

Ever heard of the “colash”? Or the “commash”?

Medium

White Collar Crime Risk Zones.

Predicting Financial Crime: Augmenting the Predictive Policing Arsenal: In this paper we have presented our state-of-the-art model for predicting financial crime. By incorporating public data sources with a random...
https://jwz.org/b/yj9t

Stellar Wind-Shaped Nebula RCW 58

Image Credit & Copyright: Mike Selby & Mark Hanson; Text: Natalia Lewandowska (SUNY Oswego)

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230208.html #APOD

APOD: 2023 February 8 – Stellar Wind Shaped Nebula RCW 58

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.

Well! I have accepted an offer to be the Tech Director of Decima Tools at Guerrilla Games! Guerrilla makes some great games and tech that they can really be proud of. I'm super excited to be joining them and working with the talented people there to make their Decima toolset even better!

Special thanks to @aras for giving the little nudge needed for me to reach out to them and say hi. :)