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Chaim Gingold
@cgingold
Author of Building SimCity (https://t.co/bT4uSkp6eY); Made @EarthPrimer, designed Spore Creature Creator; PhD from @UCSC.
Oakland Entrou em Aralık 2010
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@michaelgarfield By "barnyard understanding" I think Vannevar Bush meant hands-on experience. The gritty hands-on know-how of a tinkerer and builder as opposed to theoretical knowledge. He prized and respected both.
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Maybe something like "for a large class of Markov decision processes q-function is exponentially difficult to compute even when the reward function is not" = "pragmatics has one up on causal theory building" or "we're not getting rid of the induction problem"
cc @cgingold
⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) 🦋 @patcon.bsky.social@patcon_
Oo I absolutely adore the term "barnyard understanding [of engineering]", explained by Chaim Gingold , creator of the game Spore & author of the Sim City book ❤️ What might a barnyard understanding of data science be? h/t @michaelgarfield's podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/09cKdz…
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@cgingold Hi Chaim. I am reading Building SimCity and enjoying it. Thank you for writing it. A friend expressed interest in an audiobook version. I presume it’s challenging because of your publishing contract, but could you see a path to releasing either a DRM free ebook so I could generate an audiobook with @elevenlabs, or perhaps you could generate one and sell it yourself? Thanks.
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A little less than a year ago, I began working on something I felt was truly unique.
Today it launches🧵
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Our world is defined by emergent properties that can only be explored through simulation, yet the modern era hasn't integrated the deep philosophical challenges this poses: we need multiple approaches; prediction is necessary but insufficient; no one story is enough...
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17 years later, Caves of Qud 1.0 is here
store.steampowered.com/app/333640/Cav…
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@ballingt @tophtucker @maryrosecook Thanks, Thomas! @tophtucker hosted a conversation at Observable with me around when the book came out. Had a blast.
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I'm 70 pages into @cgingold's Building SimCity and it is pure @tophtucker and @maryrosecook bait, by which I mean it's pedagogical and holistic and wonderful and makes you step back and think about your life
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for the @LAReviewofBooks, I wrote about @cgingold's Building SimCity (a remarkable work of software history!), videogames as an art form, and what happens when Silicon Valley tries to play IRL SimCity…aka the controversial Californian Forever project 🌁🛠️
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@cgingold A friend of mine lived next door to Will Wright, so I went to visit. On the left is Yoneda Takashi, a legend in the Japanese gaming world, next to him is digital artist Mimura Chie, and on the far right is me. The photographer of the three of us and our neighbor is Ikeda Tomoya, who drew the flying toaster, and they are all members of the Enzan-Hoshigumi team, which has been developing Macintosh apps in Japan since 1985.
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@haeckel Wow! What year is this photo from? I'm curious if it's Oakland or Piedmont or somewhere else?
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Live on the free feed: @ubersaurus and author @cgingold get into the nitty gritty of SimCity
retronauts.com/article/2304/r…
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Tomorrow: BUILDING SIMCITY chat with Will Wright!
Some cellular automata for you: Langton Loops.
ROMchip@ROMchip_Journal
📢 THIS FRIDAY: @cgingold and THE Will Wright (@StupidFunWill) will be chatting the new book BUILDING SIMCITY: How to Put the World in a Machine. LIVE on TWITCH July 19 @ 2PM ET. 🎟️RSVP Now! tickettailor.com/events/romchip…
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📢 TWO DAYS AWAY!! @cgingold and THE Will Wright (@StupidFunWill) will be chatting the new book BUILDING SIMCITY: How to Put the World in a Machine. LIVE on TWITCH July 19 @ 2PM ET.
🎟️RSVP Now! tickettailor.com/events/romchip…
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@mickeymcmanus @ABCNetwork @hirshberg @stewartbrand Gotta find it! @stewartbrand didn't remember it, but I did find convincing documentation corroborating the basics of Doreen Gehry Nelson's recollection of it.
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Oh my goodness. Gotta do a movie showing of the 1970 @ABCNetwork documentary. America:Alternate Futures @cgingold @hirshberg @stewartbrand
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"Building SimCity" author @cgingold joined the Riskgaming podcast to discuss his experience at Maxis, the uniqueness of SimCity, early 90s gaming, the rise and fall of Maxis, and much more. 🎧 Listen here👇🏻 bit.ly/4chPA7M
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Had fun talking with @arbesman about Maxis, SimCity, and the history of computing on this podcast!
Lux Capital@Lux_Capital
How did Cold War nuclear game theory developed at MIT in the 1950s and 1960s ultimately transform video games in the 1980s and 1990s? It’s the story of SimCity, inspired by 📖 “Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine” 🧵
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How did Cold War nuclear game theory developed at MIT in the 1950s and 1960s ultimately transform video games in the 1980s and 1990s? It’s the story of SimCity, inspired by 📖 “Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine” 🧵
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@xardox @blamstrain @MicropolisWeb You should try uploading a video clip directly into Twitter so people just see it playing. It's mesmerizing stuff. Like x.com/shr_id/status/…
saharan / さはら@shr_id
Life Universe oimo.io/works/life Explore the infinitely recursive universe of Game of Life! Works in real-time and is perfectly consistent, never fails to remember where you are and where you came from. 無限に再帰するライフゲームの宇宙を探索できる作品を作りました #indiedev
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Micropolis Web Space Inventory Cellular Automata Music 1:
This first video has music by Juho Hietala (@blamstrain), and the Space Inventory Cellular Automata is performed by Don Hopkins. @MicropolisWeb
youtu.be/BBVyCpmVQew
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