Adam Smith

@rndmcnlly
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Assistant Professor of Computational Media at UC Santa Cruz, directing the Design Reasoning Lab. AI in the game design process, generative stuff, you know.
Websitehttps://adamsmith.as
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/rndmcnlly
three and a half years later, my soy sauce is ready to go (https://xcancel.com/rndmcnlly/status/1992676962733891677)
Using GenAI to work through some of my feelings about GenAI: https://gist.github.com/rndmcnlly/ef15fd6d664a1207b59086cef21a01a2
chat-🎵 Marxist Song Analysis Notes.md

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I invented a new interactive fiction format this evening: conversational escape rooms where speech mediates a generative interpretation of a tightly bounded puzzle scenario sketch.

Transcript from prototype: https://gist.github.com/rndmcnlly/d7cb8a9aae33949c70cd5426cf1db5af

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Stuck at home with covid, wondering about impending brain fog, looking into note-taking apps, currently getting good feelings from Logseq (https://logseq.com/) after having lived in it for a few hours.
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⚡ radare2-mcp 1.0.0 is out!⚡ After 6 month of testing we are pleased to announce the very first release of the MCP server for radare2! It was available via r2pm all the time, pushing a tag marks an important milestone for distros to package and test!
🤖 Looking forward to hear from all the amazing things you do with it!

https://github.com/radareorg/radare2-mcp/releases/tag/1.0.0

Release 1.0.0 · radareorg/radare2-mcp

What's r2mcp? This is the very first release of r2mcp, it's been stable and usable since the beginning, we just forgot to tag! Initially implemented and heavily tested by Daniel Nakov (@dnakov) but...

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I've been (disjointedly) chatting with randos on my local Meshtastic network. There's something magical about this whole thing that reminds me of the 1990s Internet.
Shhh don’t tell my husband I keep rotary cutting the dining table because I don’t realize my cutting mat isn’t where I think it is. He doesn’t check mastodon enough anyway.
Yay, my husband @rndmcnlly got tenure at UCSC!

when helping a student pick a first research problem, a common approach is the following recipe:

1. find a well-regarded paper in the literature that contributes a simple development widely viewed as canonical

2. see if you can extend it with a new feature.

i'd like to highlight a less common alternative recipe:

1'. find a recent paper that virtuosically incorporates Every Possible Feature via complex generalizations

2'. extract the (or one) core new idea and simplify it down to its essence