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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • This will never happen. Smell-o-Vision and its successors have been in development for decades, and they all have the same issue: where to store the numerous scent liquids. You can’t just digitize scent and generate it on demand with some kind of solid state device. You can’t just combine three liquids to make 1000 scents—the article’s analogy of combining light to make colors is overly optimistic, bordering on delusional.

    The other two related problems are convenience and cost. This is 1000% a novelty, and novelties quickly lose their appeal after you experience it the first time. Who is seriously going to be going out to buy replacement cartridges for a thing that is essentially a toy?



  • It was ChatGPT from earlier this year. It wasn’t a huge deal for me that it made mistakes, because I had a very specific use case and just wanted to save some time; I knew I’d have to troubleshoot grafting it into my function, but even after I pointed out that it was using depreciated syntax (and how to correct it), it just spat out the code again with even more errors and still using depreciated syntax.

    All LLMs will fail like this in some way, because they don’t actually understand what they’re generating (i.e. they have no mechanism for self-evaluating the veracity of their statements).












  • I’m a PC gamer, and it looks like things are stagnating massively in our space.

    I would like to introduce you to the indie game scene. Where AAA is faltering, indie has never been in a better place.

    Overall, I don’t see things the way you see them. I recommend taking a break from social media, go for a walk, play games you like, and fuck the trajectory of tech companies.

    Live your life, and take a break from the doomsaying.