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In this study, we investigate how interactions with large language models (LLMs) can lead to emergent behaviors, allowing players to shape game narratives. Using a text-adventure game and GPT-4, we observed 28 gamers discovering new narrative nodes through interactions with non-player characters. Surprisingly, these emergent nodes were not part of the original narrative but enhanced […]
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Medieval Icelanders were hunting blue whales long before industrial whaling technology, utilizing their massive size as a caloric windfall, according to recent research. A 17th-century tale details a man named Ólafur who encountered a blue whale while fishing, attempting to take it down with a spear marked with his emblem. Through DNA and spectroscopy analysis […]
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The author reminisces on the improvements in distributed systems since the 1980s, highlighting the importance of enabling TCP_NODELAY to solve latency issues. The Nagle algorithm proposed in RFC896 aimed to improve TCP header efficiency, but its interaction with delayed ACK caused significant issues for pipelined applications. The author suggests that Nagle’s algorithm is no longer […]
TAI, or Temps Atomique International, measures real time with a constant duration defined by cesium radiation since 1955. UTC, Coordinated Universal Time, based on TAI, has leap seconds every year or two to match Earth’s rotation. UNIX time counts seconds since 1970 GMT, making it convenient for time intervals. The UNIX localtime() routine had issues […]
Knit is a web app designed to help you knit simple wavy scarfs by specifying parameters for length and shape to generate a pattern using Bézier curves. It operates entirely in the browser with no server-side component. You can see a scarf example on Github pages. Instructions for using the app include loading it, saving […]
Security Explorations has discovered two attack scenarios that allow for the extraction of private ECC keys used by a PlayReady client for communication with a license server and identity purposes. This includes extracting private signing and encryption keys, which can lead to mimicking a PlayReady client outside of a Protected Media Path environment. This ultimate […]
In 1912, Oskar von Miller had the idea of projecting an artificial starry sky onto a dome to demonstrate astronomical principles to the public. Despite initial skepticism from the Carl Zeiss company, engineer Walther Bauersfeld created a groundbreaking planetarium projector. The projector displayed the stars, planets, and constellations in realistic movements. The Zeiss Model I […]
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Google Research introduces VideoPrism, a versatile video encoder that provides state-of-the-art results on various video understanding tasks using a single frozen model. VideoPrism is designed to handle diverse video data, pre-trained on a massive dataset of 36 million high-quality video-text pairs and 582 million video clips with noisy parallel text. The model leverages contrastive learning […]