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Silicon Jungle
@JungleSilicon
🤖🍃🐵 navigating space & time
finding shapeshifting machines
shapeshift.ink
staff engineer at @latitudegamesai
ex @githubnext, @replit, @tldraw
- as someone who’s spent a lifetime programming - a lack of math knowledge has been the biggest blocker of my career. every time i learn more math, it opens the doors to new kinds of algorithms & software i wouldn’t have had access to previously.If you’ve ever asked “do I need to know math to be a programmer?” I present you: me, 15 years of experience, 4 years as an SRE at Google, relearning what the fuck a polynomial is.
- someone *please* make a magic folder that uses local AI to sort / name anything dropped into it. i want this for like... taxes, personal information, qualifications, documentation, etc. i'm too unstructured for the kinds of structure bureaucracy forces on me.
- magic and technology are the same thing, getting started kit
- an embedding space for character archetypes in storytelling. search by character name or description. explore semantically similar archetypes by scrubbing through the map. express their vibe through color soon? merge archetypes together or deconstruct them.
00:00 - i think there’s a real risk that someone will create a generative game engine that at its core is a tik-tok like recommendation engine.
- procedural animation pairs *really well* with generative sprites. all you need is a single image and you can make some really dynamic attacks.
00:00 - semantic logic gates on a node graph. filter data sets through fuzzy classifiers to create dynamic pipelines to explore information.
00:00 - this is what i want exploring latent space to feel like. pointing at positions in beautiful visualisations and going - what would the generative data point there look like?
- prompt -> rpg character i think this is going to be fun... midjourney pixel art backgrounds -> hitherdither character sprites & portraits in retro diffusion (then fed through hitherdither).
00:00 - i like the idea of using in-painting and style transfer to generate variations of feature rooms in a rogue-lite.
- prompt -> rpg character generate re-usable pieces for rooms and mix them with custom feature rooms - proc gen levels here we come. walls are on separate layers so you can walk behind them (it renders an outline where your character is).
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