I can easily make Claude freak out and run into limits. Claude is amazing but it only works at the abstraction level you ask of it, so if you ask it to write code to solve a problem it'll only solve that immediate problem, it doesn't have awareness of any larger refactorings or design improvements that could be made to improve what solution is even possible.
I'm building a simulated fantasy town backed by an LLM. Visitors to the website can vote on what the hero does next, and everyone in the town will react naturally to all of the heroes actions.
Unlike previous efforts in this space, the technique I am using consumes very little context, and I'm hoping to get it running on consumer GPUs.
UTF-8 wasn't a thing when the decision to go with UTF-16 was made.
UTF-8 became a thing shortly thereafter and everyone started laughing at MS for having followed the best industry standard that was available to them when they had to make a choice.
That is how user switching in XP works, and how RDP works. You can have an arbitrary number of sessions of logged in users at once, only limited by the license for what version of Windows you have installed.
There have also been versions of Windows that allow multiple users to interact with each other at once, but I believe these have all been cancelled and I do not know to what extent these simultaneous users had their own accounts.
Where none of the people running these schools ever kids? Did they just magically appear from some portal from another, sad, apathetic, dimension? Or where they spawned out of eggs laid by depressed lizard people?
My school had 2 recesses, one 15 minute morning and one 30 minutes at lunch. They were absolutely crucial to social emotional development, and to just being outside.
6 hours of focused learning for 5 year olds? What type of massive idiocy is that. Ask the brightest college students how many hours of classes they sign up for, and unless you are talking to a crazy person, the answer is 4, with 3 being preferred by most (and considered a full course load!).
There is oodles of literature on how many hours a day a person can sit down and learn. 6 hours inside for a kid is wildly outside of recommendations.
I am going build less for a recent project. The main difference for me is jsdoc vs typescript. There was a large initial learning curve, and the syntax is ugly, and having to duplicate all my TS types from the backend as JS doc types on the front end sucks, but at the end of the day it does work.
I was surprised how well module imports work in modern browsers.
I've never used css preprocessors before, so that wasn't an issue for me. I also have never nested CSS files, so that also wasn't an issue for me.
Another pain point is not having type safety on my front end calls to my backend. With TS I could use Zod on the front end as well and have type checks in place before I make those API calls. While obviously js doc tries to ensure at compile time that things are the correct shape, that isn't the same level of assurance.
The other major difference is that table top gaming is a constrained environment where one is allowed to act socially different than normal, and mistakes at the table are left at the table.
Players are allowed to play someone with a completely different personality, and spend extended amounts of time stepping into someone else's head and thinking how someone different would act.
There aren't any other situations in life where you can take someone socially awkward and say "ok now act really charismatic" and then, w/o judgement, that person spends 2 or 3 hours a week for months on end trying to figure out what a charismatic person would say and do.
IMHO the problem is the majority of new multifamily construction is rentals only. Rentals ran by international firms suck the life out of communities, as people cannot be part of a local community when rent hikes can force them to move every couple of years.
> I don’t get how one imagines being an animal and… it just exists as an automaton? And for some reason exactly humans are all conscious/intelligent,
So far evidence points to the simpler solution that all living creatures are automatons and that there is no mechanism by which self determinism can exist.
Wide acceptance of such a belief would pretty much ruin society so it is best if we all just go on pretending we are masters of our own destiny.
Last time this topic came up on HN an engineer whose job it is to do these calculations and then re-engineer products not last as long popped into the thread
I'm working on something similar but instead of basing my efforts on the generator agents paper I'm basing it on a technique I call narrative generation. It requires far less context and fewer prompts, and focuses on generating narrative aspects and letting the traditional game engine things simulate the remainder of the world.
As an example, with the system I am building you only need to input what action the player has taken, and all the NPC's actions and dialogues will be generated.
> Genuinely curious if people think this is a product, solving a real problem?
For people with memory issues, products like this can be life changing.
On a second note, imagine a world where everyone has perfect memory recall. The concept of "recording" someone is useless, as everyone around a conversation (e.g. sitting at the next table at a cafe) would be a 100% reliable witness to the conversation.
Obviously we would not fault someone for taking steps to train their memory to be better, so why fault them for using electronics to improve the limits of biology?