Ned Twigg

@dmarcos 99% of *good* UI design is broad stroke application of existing patterns. People ship random awful innovations all the time, myself included!

Designing a novel pleasant UI is way harder than most think. Gotta reason at an excruciating teeny-tiny level of detail. 99% of UI design that people do is just broad stroke application of existing patterns, trends and conventions.

@pava0ne What a great booth!!

We made it to Sacramento. There is a table. We are on it. 🐸 #CCS2026 #indiegame #GodotEngine

@ThinkingUSD Unfortunately we’re at this part of the cycle

Oh, damn

@sandeepvbelure @fchollet @gwern Pareto front *at a given effort level*, which still leaves "brute force" as an open variable that we can keep cranking up. There might be a good word for "intelligence per unit work", but I don't think "intelligence" is it.

@NedTwigg @fchollet @gwern Still got to choose efficiency more or novelity more ( A single point on the pareto front ). The output benchmark measurement of intelligence is these 2 unique and distinct dimentions

There are only two honest metrics when it comes to benchmarking intelligence: novelty and efficiency. You don't need intelligence to solve a known problem (only memory). And you don't need intelligence to solve a problem via brute force. But to solve a novel problem efficiently, intelligence is the only way.

You can build Turing machine (lots of them!) in the weights of a transformer, and the LLM training process for sure finds lots of them. That would be an interesting benchmark to chart over time - make some obfuscated turing machine which is calculating pi, see how many digits it gets before failing...

@NedTwigg @fchollet @gwern The simplest algorithm is a lookup table with n rows and 2 columns: Input unique X values mapped to not so unique Output Y values. Brute force would be looking up this table sequentially. Use a universal function 'approximator' ( NN ) in place of a deterministic Turing machine

also what *is* brute force? seems like doing *more* gradient descent, or being more adventurous about avoiding local minima can be categorized as brute force. Seems like maybe Einstein could have done gradient descent but just brute force more searching, more adventurous about avoiding local minima

@fchollet @gwern NN's do gradient descent and discover that arranging numbers in a helix allows them to do addition. Seems like they searched over different machines for encoding and processing the symbols until they found a useful one... arxiv.org/html/2502.0087…

TikTok creators have no agency over what they make. Their content was determined a hundred thousand years ago.

@nosilverv open.substack.com/pub/contraptio…

Ok but why are vgr and michael levin debuting at the venice biennale

@ibuildthecloud @Windows "git bash" gets me most of the way there

Why can't @Windows just have Bash? I know they offer bash through WSL but that seems to just cause problems. I really think Windows should just have a native Unix user space. They can do it. They control the kernel. They can fix whatever they want. Mac did it. They give you Darwin with its crappy user space and people tolerate that. I seriously just don't get why Windows doesn't make the command line more Unix friendly. It seems completely doable. I feel like with the success of WSL they should at this point realize how important it is for developers to have a Unix command line. I think this is a legitimately good idea and that Microsoft should listen to me. 😄 And it's doable now only because they do have WSL which will give you full linux capability.

@rcabanier @felix_trz does this mean iWSDK might support WebGPU soon too?

Quest Browser 146.o now ships with experimental support for WebGPU in #WebXR. Turn on "webXR experimental features" in "chrome://flags" and the API will be available. Feedback welcome!

@parakeetnebula @botanisant pearl harbored*

@botanisant Dopamine system absolutely blitzkrieged

Imagine being a caveman sitting by a fire covered in fleas suffering from the brutality of existence and then someone tells a SICK story but stories as a concept were like just invented like five minutes ago so you're just sitting there with your entire dopamine system absolutely bricked like woah what is this insane technology

@pava0ne does every run have at least 45 orange froglins available? Or sometimes will there not be enough and I have to go down the upgrade tree for one of the other types?

🟠 Orange Froglins Mechanic 🟠 The orange froglins orbit around Koko. Rescue more and they'll spin faster and wider. Upgrades at 10, 25, and 45 rescued. 🐸🧡 #indiegame #GodotEngine

@pava0ne Oh cool! What a neat kind of progression!

Collect 10 blue baby froglins and they unlock the Baby Freeze: they'll momentarily freeze any enemy they touch. 🥶 #indiegame #godotengine #pixelart

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@NedTwigg @outsource_ how exactly are u applying claude cowork, if u don't mind me asking.

If you're on the fence about setting up OpenClaw // HermesAgent Or are running it and have questions Comment + DM ME for help ⭐️

I'm trying to market a videogame, so Steam has a couple dashboards, Posthog analytics, TikTok analytics, YouTube shorts analytics. With Claude Cowork I just copy-pasted all the URLs in, and it goes to all those dashboards and pulls the numbers I care about. Spent ~4 hours on it with camofox, agent-browser, whatever the default Hermes browser is, and never got close. I'm experimenting now with using Hermes as more of a Claude and Codex orchestrator.

@NedTwigg what browser automation things do you need?

I have spent ~12 hours messing around with OpenClaw and Hermes, and I mostly don’t get the hype. But I think having Claude Cowork always available is underhyped… ctxwindow.link/you-need-a-win…