Nod. AQ2 was so damn fun!!

I've only played Quake I (and a modified version of it at that which had accessibility features). I did purchase quake II and III from Steam a few years ago, but it's much harder to play them because they have no accessibility to speak of (and I'm not entirely certain where to begin to try to replicate what was done with my version of Quake I). Quake in general has always been an insanely fun game for me, and I started playing it in like 2010. I still love playing it even now because it's got something to it that most other games I have just lack. Don't ask me to explain what it is because I can't really put it into words but...

qpong, generations mod, catch the chicken, red rover, weapons of mass destruction, 4 way ctf, freeze tag....so many good mods

Outstanding!

I cannot wait for a quake engine book. I'm sure a few hundred of us would be happy to pre-pay so you can take some time off work and write it all up :)

Yep, ShinkaEvolve described here: https://sakana.ai/shinka-evolve/ and available here: https://github.com/SakanaAI/ShinkaEvolve

Great post.

My gut reaction is something like: "don't wait around to be picked, get out there and do great stuff"

Want to help the world get the most out of claude? Go out there and do it at an ability and velocity beyond what others think is possible. Go so hard friends think you're mad. That devs consuming your stuff think you're mad.

Create so much amazingly useful/helpful content and help so many people in so many ways that looking back in 1-2 years at the idea of working for anthropic would seem insane to you.

> ...why should anyone else care or waste their time on it?

Sometimes we (I) might follow ideas over authority/authorship. e.g.: I'll happily read ai generated stuff all day long on topics I'm super into.

Do I have to be the instigator? Can someone else prompt/filter/etc. for me? I think so. They'll do it differently and perhaps better than me.

Great times. Slackware then redhat in the late 90s was how/when I got started with linux and built solid cmdline skills.

I played the hell out of this midi file when I got my soundblaster 16 in the early/mid 90s!

Hmm, it's more that LLMs can be used for population -> candidate solution generation, e.g. operators in a GA.

The innovation is novelty search, e.g. divergent rather than convergent optimization, paired with the capability that LLM genetic operators and representations unlock.

At least, that's my high-level take. google's alphaevolve is the same kind of thing but focused on convergent ga's (i think).

I have it.

Chewing is the worst. Any mouth noises. Throat clearing. Tounge clicking. And on.

Mother had it. Sister has it. Father told off my mother for being so hard on us for our "noises" telling her she was going to give us "a complex". I guess she did. Behavioral + genetic most likely.

It sucks. I'm too hard on my own kids, even after having clear-headed/rational conversations about it. It's not rational. Pure emotion boiling over.

I secretly wish to be deaf. I use headphones all the time. For decades. Too loud.