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AI is here

Posted on September 29, 2018July 24, 2022 Author cysix Comment(0)

My 5-year old grand niece has been siting here conversing with Alexa/Echo for the last half hour. It won’t be too many generations in the future where conversations with AI will be just as common place as with biologicals.

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Marketing genius

Posted on December 9, 2017July 11, 2022 Author cysix

Gotta love the marketing genius… brand new home automation product that states: “Works with incandescent lighting and resistive loads (do NOT use with tube lights, motors, fans, or loads under 20 Watts).” Hate to tell you folks, but incandescent lights are all but GONE and most LED lights operate at under 20w). Doh!

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Next gen game engine and editor

Posted on March 3, 2015July 12, 2022 Author cysix

For those of us who have coded away for decades using rudimentary text editors, take a look at this video series that demonstrates creation of a 2D side scrolling game using the latest/greatest Unreal engine. This stuff is only a VR helmet and gloves away from the William Gibson/Minority Report type of computing. Enjoy… https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Videos/Player?series=PLZlv_N0_O1gauJh60307mE_67jqK42twB