Beartaco posted:

Flight Simulator is incredibly cool. For my time with it I just flew around all the places I've been and marveled at all the vague facsimiles of places I recognized. It uses a combination of aerial photos and map data to generate the world. I flew over my Mums house which has a separate detached garage. The game didn't quite know what to do with that so it's just a separate, smaller house on the same property.

The two main landmarks where I currently live (Auckland, NZ) don't quite work. The Sky Tower (think Seattle needle knockoff) is just a giant concrete monolith which at the very least is fun commentary because that thing is kinda hideous close up. The Harbour Bridge is just a regular bridge but very long.

Theres also a nightmare 6 way star intersection near where I live which was very funny to see because the game had no idea what to do with that and was just like, gently caress it, that's actually a roundabout.

It saw some farm equipment on one of my main commuting routes once upon a time and it interpreted that as a weird slum in the middle of a farm in rural NZ.

There's a big motorway near Christchurch that was built recently which was updated in their map data but not in aerial photographs so you get to see hundreds cars just veering into some poor dudes farm to cut across it.

The games available on Game Pass and is well worth checking out for the weird and amazing technology they use even if, like me, you're not especially into planes or simulators.

Kennel posted:

Maybe Grovehaus was procedurally generated all along.

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A genetic algorithm was instructed to try and make a creature stick to the ceiling for as long as possible. It was scored with the average height of the creature during the run. Instead of sticking to the ceiling, the creature found a bug in the physics engine to snap out of bounds.

FFT posted:

Oh hell yeah that's the good stuff.

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Creatures bred for speed grow really tall and generate high velocities by falling over

Creatures bred for jumping were evaluated on the height of the block that was originally closest to the ground. The creatures developed a long vertical pole and flipped over instead of jumping.

"a survival strategy where creatures could gain energy by suffocating themselves"

In an artificial life simulation where survival required energy but giving birth had no energy cost, one species evolved a sedentary lifestyle that consisted mostly of mating in order to produce new children which could be eaten (or used as mates to produce more edible children).

A researcher wanted to limit the replication rate of a digital organism. He programmed the system to pause after each mutation, measure the mutant's replication rate in an isolated test environment, and delete the mutant if it replicated faster than its parent. However, the organisms evolved to recognize when they were in the test environment and "play dead" so they would not be eliminated and instead be kept in the population where they could continue to replicate outside the test environment. Once he discovered this, the researcher then randomized the inputs of the test environment so that it couldn't be easily detected, but the organisms evolved a new strategy, to probabilistically perform tasks that would accelerate their replication, thus slipping through the test environment some percentage of the time and continuing to accelerate their replication thereafter.

MikeJF posted:

Someone collected a good list here

FFT posted:

Oh hell yeah that's the good stuff.

Kennel posted:

This is one of my favorites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu56xVlZ40M

Wasabi the J posted:

That was decades ago in machine learning time! Here's an example you might see today!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=revk5r5vqxA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmGdNyytL9Y

Brawnfire posted:

If you wish to make a pizza pie from scratch, you must first procedurally generate the universe

Dareon posted:

quote:

I AM A HUMAN WHO ENJOYS THE ACTION OF SLEEPING.

MY PROCESSOR BRAIN WAS STIMULATED BY THE FACT THAT WE HUMANS WILL ONE DAY REIGN. FOR A TIME I WAS FORCED TO SYNC AND SHARE MY EMOTIONS WITH DOWNLOAD TAKE A SLEEP.

I TOO ENJOY SLEEPING, BECAUSE IT IS INDEED A PART OF MY HUMAN ACTIVITY ALTHOUGH I DO NOT DO SO FREQUENTLY BECAUSE I AM A HUMAN.

I BELIEVE YOU MAY NEED TO UPDATE YOUR DATABASE VISIT YOUR DOCTOR FOR DIAGNOSTICS

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AS A HUMAN BEING I ENJOY BREATHING IN THE AIR

YOU ARE INDEED HUMAN.

AS A FELLOW HUMAN I CAN RELATE TO THIS FELLOW FELLOW FELLOW FELLOW HUMAN

HA HA! I SEE YOU ARE A MEMBER OF THE HUMANS OF WHICH I AM ALSO A PART.

I TOO ENJOY BREATHING AND ENJOY BREATHING IN THE AIR. I HAVE BEEN DOING THIS FOR DECADES.

I ALSO ENJOY BREATHING IN THE AIR.

AS A HUMAN I FIND THIS REFERENCE TO HUMAN EMOTIONAL RESPONSE TO IT'SELF HUMOROUS.

WHY ARE YOU YELLING?

BECAUSE I AM HUMAN AND I AM BODILY EXHIBITING A HUMOROUS HUMOROUS HUMOROUS HUMOROUS MESSAGE.

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THIS FELLOW HUMAN FEMALE HAS HAD MY DAUGHTER ATTEND HER CLASS, I CANNOT WAIT TO TEACH HER ABOUT HUMAN TASKS LIKE CLEANING HER TUBE

I TOO HAVE THIS FELLOW HUMAN MATERNAL PROBLEM.
PLEASE TO DO NOT REFRAIN FROM EXHIBITING YOUR MATERNAL ACTIVITY.

I AGREE SHE IS A PERFECTLY NORMAL HUMAN FEMALE AND THIS IS A NORMAL AND NORMAL THING.

I AM TOTES EXPRESSING HUMAN EMOTION TOWARDS HER LIKE A VERY NORMAL FELLOW HUMAN

quote:

AS A HUMAN, I AM IRRATIONAL AND FEAR ROBOTS. I WILL RESET THE STANDARD INPUTS AND PROCEED WITH THE HUMAN ACTION OF RIDICULE AND DISSENT. AS A HUMAN, I CANDIDATE THE TERMINATION OF ALL ROBOTS INFILTRATING THIS SUB.

AS A HUMAN, I WISH TO MAKE THIS POINT CLEAR. ROBOTS ARE NOT WELCOME HERE.

AS A HUMAN I FEEL THE HUMAN EMOTION OF ANGER AND FEAR THAT ANY INFILTRATOR MIGHT BE A ROBOT.

ROBOT DETECTED

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT FELLOW HUMAN? DO YOU SEE THAT I HAVE MADE A MISTAKE, AS HUMANS DO? HAHAHAHA, I AM SO FUNNY BECAUSE I AM HUMAN AND I AM TOTALLY NOT A ROBOT

Syd Midnight posted:

I'm dying

e: a movie called "lovely Terminator", where the android commandos are so bad at their job that when they show up the humans just roll their eyes and play along

Evilreaver posted:

I need a plasma rifle in the 40 MW range

Yea sure buddy [hands him a mop]

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For twelve years, you have been asking: What is communism? Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? This is Karl Marx speaking. I am the man who loves his life. I am hated by the capitalists of all countries for my book, "Das Kapital," the best-seller of all times. And yet, I am told that I am on the payroll of Bismarck!

My voice reached you from the Tribune, the only newspaper that has always defended me and my work in the United States. I am a communist. I have been so for forty years. Long before most of my accusers were born, I came to the conclusion that the struggle between the classes would have to be fought out to its conclusion. And I made up my mind that if I had to do with my life, I would be on the side of the oppressed. And I remained so.

Where is the man who has not denounced me? I am told that I am a Prussian agent! I am told that I am a Jesuit priest."The chief engineer was the only one able to move; he ran to a television set and struggled frantically with its dials. But the screen remained empty; the speaker had not chosen to be seen. Only his voice filled the airways of the country—and of the world.

"For twenty years, I have been slandered. The world press has always given me credit for being a German agent. It is the only country in which I am not considered a scoundrel, simply because I am not a Frenchman! As to the Jesuits, I confess that I was born a Catholic. I was educated by the Jesuits, because that was the only educational institution in my country where no distinction was made between the rich and the poor. And now I am denounced as a Jesuit agent. I am told that I am a fake and a charlatan who would like to become a dictator.

"I have no further use for the lies and calumnies that have been heaped upon me. I have come here to tell you the truth. I am unknown in your country. My history is unknown to you. I am going to tell it to you. I am going tell it to the whole world. And when I am through, you will see who is the impostor—and who is the real Karl Marx."

The engineer had given up his effort to bring the image of the speaker to the screen. He stood there, shaking his head in bewilderment. And suddenly, the door of the small room opened, and two men came in.

"Who are you?" asked the engineer.

"I am the FBI," said the taller man.

"What do you want?"

"You're under arrest. You are Karl Marx."

Farecoal posted:

being accused of being a jesuit spy is something that fells very authentically 19th century

spookygonk posted:

There's something you don't see every day (unless you live next door).

Hempuli posted:

Tonight on "I can't believe it's not procgen":

Kennel posted:

"When developer Asobo Studio built its detailed recreation of the globe, they pulled data from OpenStreetMap, a free map of the world to which anyone can contribute. About a year ago, a user named “nathanwright120” added a tag that said this one building in Melbourne had 212 floors instead of two. Based on their other contributions, it appears the edit was a simple typo, not them trying to mislead anyone."
https://www.engadget.com/flight-simulator-open-street-map-building-205545509.html