Ian Holmes
@ianholmes
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I build tools to build genomes
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Interesting obituary of Ghanaian software entrepreneur Herman Chinery-Hesse, 1963-2024 https://on.ft.com/483di6q
Oh nice - another Galactic Dan playthrough on YouTube. This is the 3D shooter I made in 1992 (before Doom!). I often think it was a basic indie game but these lines in the summary are pretty cool:
..."elevation in 3D space before Doom made it popular"...
..."pre-rendered CGI sprites (before Donkey Kong Country made it popular) and a really long draw-distance to add to the sense of scale the environment has"
Galactic Dan (1992) - Acorn Archimedes (ARM3 35Mhz) - Cache enabled vs. disabled performance test
This is the most relevant page from David’s book https://www.withouthotair.com/c19/page_114.shtml
And yes, some estimates of streaming video energy usage come in lower, and that is in large part because the popularity of streaming video has driven gains in efficiency.
Environmental impacts are real but selective quoting is information pollution. For a great discussion of this topic see David MacKay's book https://www.withouthotair.com/
Hey folks did you know that streaming a movie requires roughly 400 liters of water https://earth.org/water-needed-to-power-the-internet/
Half my feed is cheering the Nobel committees for recognizing that computers can be quite useful for analyzing data. The other half is revving up a neo-Luddite Butlerian Jihad with the slogan “Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human sentence”
And, Demis John & David. Fantastic
Geoff Hinton - well deserved. I have been reading his work on neural nets since the 90s.