Ethan Black @golemwire@librem.one

GOG lets you share "stories" from wishlisted games. Here's mine for the #Neverhood:

This game is a classic in our family. The personality of the plot, characters, and the music, are just palpable. Me and my brothers pull it out most Christmases to play it again together. It gave me joy to see this on GOG. This game means a lot to us. It could finally be widely available and others could get to experience the Neverhood!

There's a really cool claymation puzzle game called The Neverhood. It was a big part of my childhood, and it looks like GOG might work to bring it back to modern devices! Consider voting to bring it back from the old times to modern-day computers, if it looks interesting to you. https://www.gog.com/dreamlist/game/the-neverhood

#GOG #claymation #gamePreservation #gaming #puzzleGame

Tooting this from the command line :) [why did we ever call it "tooting" :/ ]

Elon why

Well -- well-placed enough for a joy-con as a mouse.
Also, note what appears to be an optical sensor in the Switch 2 joycons in that picture.

I think the #Switch2 joycons are going to have the ability to work as mice, maybe as a replacement for the touchscreen when the switch is docked.
Have it control an OS-level mouse cursor to emulate the touchscreen and adoption of this feature could be a breeze, and maybe even backwards-compatible with Switch 1 games!

#Nintendo

Design note: since the right joycon has its joystick lower than the left joycon's joystick, its buttons (ABXY) are well-placed for a mouse.

The #OpenAI #Sora video-generating AI is being really annoying. I'm literally uploading screenshots of Smash Bros. and it is telling me ThIs conTEnt Can'T bE SHoWn fOr NoW. wE'rE STill devELOping hOW wE EVAluATE WhiCH ConTent ConFLictS wiTh ouR PoLICies

Looks like Notch is going to start work on a "Minecraft 2" https://www.ign.com/articles/notch-says-he-basically-announced-minecraft-2

#Minecraft #Minecraft2

Don't worry, the worlds are OK.

Note: the data I got was from 2022. I had said 2025. (Can't edit posts.)

Screenshot from the PDF.

It appears that #E4M3 (the one without multiple NaNs etc.) has less range, and less precision near 0, but smaller steps between numbers on average.
E4M3 also has NaN, just one type of NaN (nice).
I'm not thinking about #deepLearning here in particular, but I think I prefer E4M3 personally (for what it's worth).

Interesting development. Never thought float8's could have any use, and here we are in 2025 with the potential use of them.

#computing #programming

Mastodon word count for this post: 499. (1 off, man )

For #programmers:
You are familiar with 64-bit floating point and 32-bit floating point, and may have heard about 16-bit floating point (present in some GPUs), but there is actually work on 8-BIT floating-point!

https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.05433
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-arm-and-intel-publish-fp8-specification-for-standardization-as-an-interchange-format-for-ai/

There is the "E5M2" variant, a "truncated IEEE FP16 format" (nice if lacking FP8). Although, at the miniscule 8-bit level, you don't necessarily need multiple NaNs or need infinities, so there is the "E4M3" variant as well.

#IEEE754 #AI

Finished going through [almost all of] my #Minecraft worlds with my younger brother (also an adult). It was a nice and interesting trip down memory lane.