To the dude crying out in pain while hitting himself in the face with a hammer, repeatedly...
You know, you could maybe... stop hitting yourself in the face with a hammer? Maybe? Please?
The video would be considered "doxing". It is, unfortunately, family "dirty laundry." Any video we can manage to record, screen shots of posts, audio recorded, witness testimony, and so on, is more useful in the divorce settlement/ child custody proceedings.
https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/narcissism-and-violence is directly relevant, and it's scary both up front and personal as well as from a country away involving loved ones.
So perhaps it could be, "Go ahead and hit yourself in the face all you want, just NOT IN FRONT OF THE DAMNED CHILDREN!"
@peterweyand I'm sure it is drama you wouldn't care about. But someone hitting themselves in the face with a hammer and then crying about it *would* be pretty dramatic, would it not?
We have graphics cards for doing graphics. I picture some kind of AI card able to do what you describe based "useful seed" factory installed, but able to store data over time based on games played (or pulled in from game seed) so specially tuned processors would develop NPC AI. It would be a card for having NPCs "learn and remember" taking that weight off the CPU.
I'm not clear if such an idea is actually useful or practical, but in a sandbox game NPCs that would learn, hold grudges, or develop friendship behavior from machine learning would be an interesting development in game design if it could be retained efficiently and *NOT* tie up the CPU.
I think of the hardware CPU as an unoptimized bottleneck. It's the issue that drove graphics to being on specially tuned cards that ALSO make them more suited to the math that makes them useful for crypto mining as seen in the following video by Viva La Dirt League:
AI is "expensive," and a "General CPU" isn't necessarily tuned to AI connections from data-sets cached in relevant memory handily accessible. I *really* don't know the particulars, but I would hazard a guess that these are issues similar to the push for a Graphics "CPU card." I just don't know if the cost would produce the obvious benefits that would push people into buying something like that. Graphics are pretty obvious. AI in a game would be far too subtle. :(
I recall learning to write a program in 6502 ASSM, recoding it to Hex then to Dec values, poking it in using Basic to invoke. It was magic. It was also some 35 years ago.
I do have hope in things like https://youtu.be/IxXaizglscw keep interest going in kids. We still need this skill for micro-controllers and other such hardware.
@Romaq @peterweyand I also learned assembly on the 6502, and recall being very excited when my parents got an IBM-clone with its Intel 8088 and its (relatively) huge 16-bit registers.
I understand why CS focuses on higher-level concepts now, but at the same time I think machine code/assembly programming gives people a lot of valuable insight into the way software and machines work. Not to mention an appreciation for the historical value of the concept of a #Turing machine.
I do still have to use digital and analog logic circuits to build out of redstone in #Minecraft. While I no longer have the patience or interest to build working CPUs, GPUs, disk storage and such out of *blocks* in Minecraft, I have an appreciation for those who did. It's the kind of stuff that really puts the hair on your palms.
That's why Mould's "water computer" is so critical to get children interested in the "magic." https://upperstory.com/turingtumble/ is ... oh god if I had this as a kid turning LDA into opcode.
That's the one I've known and loved over the last 45+ years I've known of it. It *does* provide the foundational theory for making a water computer, and it's water instead of ball-bearings, but it works.
