Can someone explain what the technical challenges are? On first glance this seems like something one could implement on a weekend, I am sure that's not the case.
I'm not sure that there are many technical challenges. It's 10k lines of Javascript, and a ton of that are curly braces or blank whitespace lines.
I certainly don't want to knock the author here. This IS a neat and satisfying little project. But I have to agree with a comment elsewhere in this sub-thread, pointing out that teenagers were making advanced 60fps video games with Flash back in the 1990's.
Between Flash dying, and VB 6 dying, it feels like the ability for community members to simply MAKE SHIT has eroded tremendously. To be fair, a lot of this has to do with Windows declining as a monopoly desktop platform, and the rise of mobile as an alternate platform. Cross-platform is hard, especially across wildly different form factors and user interface types.
But even so, I miss the days of people showing off cool shit all the time. Stuff you could touch, play with, use. Today the showcase is mostly libraries "written in Rust!", that you can use to build other libraries written in Rust. Along with half-baked tools like Flutter and React Native, that are eternally "one year away" from being suitable for desktop apps, and kinda suck compared to the tools we had decades ago.
I'm the author of Deck.of.Cards, actually did the first version with Flash back in 2008. I started with Flash back in 1999, working in major ad agencies, and nowadays work as fullstack JS developer / entrepreneur.
This project is just a small experiment of mine, wanted to fiddle around with nicer shuffle animation than what's usually seen, and inspire others as well by sharing the source code.
The type where you identify with a so-called nation and then the idea that a member of a different nation is very different from what you are becomes so real to to you the point where you support escalation of a conflict with them that potentially ends in the extermination of mankind.
on the other hand, gpt-3 was trained on a data set that contains all of the internet already. A big Limitation seems to be that it can only work with problems that it has already seen
> on the other hand, gpt-3 was trained on a data set that contains all of the internet already
This fact has made me cease to put new things on the internet entirely. I want no part of this, and while my "contribution" is infinitesimally small, it's more than I want to contribute.
I mean a huge amount of code I see is stuff like "get something from API, do this, and pass to API/SQL" so I'm assuming a lot of that could be automated.
You go to different places and different people, every single day. That's 100% less repetitive compared to sitting at home or going to the office to see the same people.
As for the tasks themselves, it was merely an example, but even for this example I disagree. My brother-in-law basically does all of these things, both for private citizens and industry and comes across a wide array of different situations.
I'm not saying it's absolute perfection, no job is. But I stand by my point that it has a series of very meaningful advantages: far healthier, more social, direct impact of your work, no cognitive overload, no politics.
Could be, yes. Although I do wonder if the average octopus suffers more when being killed than the average cow. If so, then I wonder if that relates to intelligence or to other factors. Structure of nerves etc.
If an octopus wasn't able to feel anything, it would again be okay to eat it? Or if it was sedated before killing it, would that change anything?
Lots of open questions I guess, but I'm just brainstorming a bit :)
I don't have data but first hand experience and for me it is truer to say: it enhances your level of consciousness and it allows you to experience reality from beyond your mental-emotional conditioning. Which are two things that may sound very cryptic to many people reading this, as it cannot really be described in words. It is a explaining an orgasms to a person who has never had it kind of thing.
