Dr. Guillermo Power 
@gpowerf@qoto.org
This is my fun social media account, I will post a lot of video game stuff (mostly old or cloud gaming) and some work stuff.
If I post an image with no Alt text it is because the image is just there for decoration and doesn't provide any extra meaning to the toot.
Mi aventura: http://gpowerf.itch.io/8-bit-island
Joined Nov 2022
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This #RetroWeekend I will have a look at the #Lambda8300. It is a #ZX81 clone from 1983 that was made in Hong Kong. It was sold worldwide under different names, like PC 8300, DEF 3000, Tonel PC, Futura 8300, Power 3000.
Although it's a clone, there are a few, but major differences. It has 2KB of internal RAM (ZX81 had only 1KB), a slightly different character set, it could make sound, and BASIC keywords could be typed out (ZX81 had the keywords assigned to individual keys).
I’m attempting to watch the #WorldCupFinal for free standing outside a bar at night.
Abandoned hotel in #Boracay #Philippines
I’m told this fell foul of new regulations that meant the hotel had to be further from the beach and due to lack of funds because of the pandemic it was simply abandoned. There were no funds to rebuild.
I got a National Emergency Alert in the early hours of the morning for an earthquake. I was in the road and didn’t feel a thing…
Today involved 2 flights, 2 bus rides, 1 boat ride, and 2 rides in minivans. Tired…
@whimsical_productions@mastodon.world I love your artwork! 👍
#Boracay looks great in photos. But it’s rather touristy and way way way busy!
@JJFlash I’ve wondered and I think that perhaps he doesn’t care if he loses billions of dollars, he’s super rich and spoilt enough that he does it for kicks to annoy people and have a laugh. He’s certainly a peculiar man.
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@FranckLeroy to be fair, he was just dicking around with math.
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This is neat, I feel like Masto turned a corner recently on "being a place to find news and stuff"
Seems like we're getting that thing where news ripples across the network, thing, which was part of why Twitter was useful. Probably crossed some active user threshold necessary for that network effect to kick in or something. Yay!
(though thankfully the effect is less uh, "screaming into the void"-ish here, just folks talking about a thing)
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65.3 million of Elon’s followers have zero people that follow them. 62.3 million of them have never tweeted. Dude is the Pied Piper of Hamelin for bots
@LunaRogue some people think that clothes wash, dry, and fold themselves 😄 throw them on the floor and it all happens magically.
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learning some interesting things about my home automation tonight, such as apparently the lights don't actually automatically turn off when I fall asleep, my wife's just been doing that for months
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"However, I am generally skeptical of arguments that Large Language Models such the GPT series...are on the pathway to AGI...I will also try to convey a sense for why it is easy to talk about the so-called “recipe for AGI” in the abstract but why physics itself will prevent any sudden and unexpected leap from where we are now to AGI or super-AGI."
Read this story from Mark Riedl on Medium: https://mark-riedl.medium.com/toward-agi-what-is-missing-c2f0d878471a
Dr. Guillermo Power has moved to @gpowerf@mastodon.social:
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This is my fun social media account, I will post a lot of video game stuff (mostly old or cloud gaming) and some work stuff.
If I post an image with no Alt text it is because the image is just there for decoration and doesn't provide any extra meaning to the toot.
Mi aventura: http://gpowerf.itch.io/8-bit-island
Joined Nov 2022
