I’ve never given TGL a proper listen, though I have the game for NES. Thanks for the recommendation!

plausible, but my experience from dissecting these kinds of games is that they tend not to be as space efficient as you’d think they could be if they were the kaze emanuar type. The fact that they opted to have 257 distinct values for the laurels suggests to me that they weren’t prioritizing space efficiency.

My best (wildly speculative) guess is that a designer, knowing 256 is a common limit, wasn’t thinking carefully and said the maximum value should be 256 (instead of 255), and then an overly pedantic coder implemented this to the letter while rolling their eyes.

Shout out to Castlevania II, where you can hold anywhere from 0 to 256 laurels. Yes, you read that right – 256, not 255. I inspected RAM to double check. It’s a 16-bit word on an 8-bit system with a maximum value of 0x100. They could have used 8 bits instead of 16. But no, they really did choose this arbitrary number.

This or something similar has happened to everyone I know 🇨🇦

Since what happens on Lemmy stays on Lemmy, I guess it must be fine.

yeah but he’s a daddy tho 😘

How about let’s all not talk or make angry memes about the guy. Ross requested that he not be harassed. Something about not wanting negative energy.

some day I hope to be brave enough to post pictures of my house on the internet

He’s a science guy.

It’s not simply notation, since you can prove the identity from base principles. An alien species would be able to discover this independently.

Why would you assume I don’t have the context? I have a degree in math. I could be wrong about this, I’m open-minded. By all means, please explain how infinitesimals don’t have a consistent algebra.

Not very good mathematicians if they tell you they aren’t fractions.

e^𝘪θ is not just notation. You can graph the entire function e^x+𝘪θ across the whole complex domain and find that it matches up smoothly with both the version restricted to the real axis (e^x) and the imaginary axis (e^𝘪θ). The complete version is:

e^x+𝘪θ := e^x(cos(θ) + 𝘪sin(θ))

Various proofs of this can be found on wikipeda. Since these proofs just use basic calculus, this means we didn’t need to invent any new notation along the way.

try this on – Yes 👎

It’s a fraction of two infinitesimals. Infinitesimals aren’t numbers, however, they have their own algebra and can be manipulated algebraically. It so happens that a fraction of two infinitesimals behaves as a derivative.

oh huh, neat. Always though of those as “operations.”

In Comp-Sci, operators mean stuff like >>, *, /, + and so on. But in math, an operator is a (possibly symbollic) function, such as a derivative or matrix.

it’s legit a fraction, just the numerator and denominator aren’t numbers.

fair enough, my habit is to go for relatively neutral words such as “dislike” to encapsulate a broader spectrum of people.

It’s not brute-force to a better algorithm per se. It’s the same algorithm, exactly as “stupid,” just with more force (more numerous and powerful GPUs) running it.

Three are benchmarks to check if the model is “good” – for instance, how well the model does on standardized tests similar to SATs (researchers are very careful to ensure that the questions do not appear on the internet anywhere, so that the model can’t just memorize the answers.)

I think a different way to look at what you’ve brought up in the second paragraph is that people are angry and talking about the power usage because the dislike AI, not the other way around. It doesn’t really make sense for people to be angry about the power usage of AI if the power usage had no environmental impact.