Tracker? No, this is a copy of MATLAB '96 + Signal Processing Toolbox. It’s a bit of a waste to use the N64’sGPU for a CLI though. The PS3 version that came out a few years later was better: you could connect a 1080p monitor and the GPU was tailor-made for scientific calculations, processing 200 MiB (most of its VRAM) of samples in seconds.

You can stick wires with mains voltage into any two pins of any motherboard connector but there’s a reason they’re not shaped like an AC receptacle 💥. Unless it’s a ZX Spectrum, that cheap thing used the most basic connector (3.5mm jack) for everything: cassette I/O, video output and, unregulated 9V DC power input from the transformer brick, and people would often fry it.

Technically, a CPU fan is also optional but you need to provide some other cooling (water pump?) or accept massive throttling.

Windows is not even source-available. Windows XP is source-unintentionally-available thanks to a leak but there’s no AI loophole in that.

I tried it, most functionality is there but the look and feel would take some getting used to…

Notepad++ would have been so amazing on Linux. With direct filesystem access, not via Wine.

Yeah, that’s definitely part of it. I think it reduces the weights of earlier questions as the game progresses.

Also, it seems to have memory between games: if you answered “yes” to a very specific question, it is way more likely to ask it in the next game. This is because it’s hard to think of completely original characters each time: if one’s first character was a British politician, the next one is very likely to be British and/or a politician.

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No, it’s not a language model. It does not process any language, the question strings are static descriptions of the weighted values.

If Akinator had a language model, it would never ask “is your character a sea animal” after you said No to “is your character an animal” because you’ve ruled out the bigger set. But it does ask such questions, which means it can’t even notice the basic linguistic operation where adding a qualifier creates a subset. It just doesn’t know the answer to the broader question for some of the currently most probable characters, just the answer to the narrower, at which point it will ask the latter to rule some out even if it’s clear to a human that one implies the other.

It is a kind of fuzzy logic and machine learning system, basically 1970s tech but with lots of user-submitted data. Definitely would be called AI up until like 2010 but the constant evolution of the term because of tech improvement and hype keeps turning once cutting-edge AI into “well yeah, computers can do that”.

It hasn’t been hooked up to a fandom wiki, it just feels like it. The authors just grinded to create a decent matrix of questions and characters until the product became good enough to be fun, at which point users happily answered irrelevant questions here and there to add to the knowledge. They also had users add new characters and submit questions, snowballing it into a giant “machine-learned” yes/no-question-based knowledge base.

That’s user-submitted content. Whenever Akinator fails to guess, it asks you to identify the character so it can improve itself, and will have you type its name if it’s new. The subtitle is to differentiate characters who have the same name. Example: Monika / President of Doki Doki Literature Club. But some people write jokes there. This one is a real slogan of a movement, but isn’t funny and should be removed. The moderators are busy removing overt racism, homophobia and approving characters’ avatars though. Still, you can suggest a change of the name/subtitle if you finish the game.

Idk what their stance on genAI is, for example whether they allow generated avatars or if they allow bots to improve the question bank, but they worked well before 2020.

40 years ago, Akinator would be called AI. Basically a fuzzy logic system that classifies 5-level inputs among millions of characters/animals/objects, with both overt and less-obvious machine learning plus moderation.

When received signal strength maxes out, it might be indeed too much to transmit at full power because the devices are apparently close enough for lower power (that uses less energy from the battery and reduces interference, even with itself through reflection) to suffice. But that’s the other way around. Also, the desktop Linux device is usually not the more battery-constrained one in the pair.

Could have used the 3:1 upscaled (by a human!) desert temple, then upscaled it again, then applied realistic textures and see if it’s still recognizable

He doesn’t need a motorbike for that.

c/loadingscreens

With a single image and a little CSS, it could be just a few kB

Looks like wojakified GNU, which says it’s an OS on their website.

https://www.gnu.org/

But as I understand it, it’s a SW collection that gets shipped with OSs but needs a kernel (usually Linux) to work as an OS.

You’ve been successfully using pliers to pull the drawer open by the missing knob’s screw.

Uh-oh! You left the drawer ajar in a pinch, forgot about it, and then caught your favorite sweatpants on the screw, making an ugly hole! And you don’t have gray thread to match!

No, they fucking shouldn’t

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_equations#Vacuum_equations,_electromagnetic_waves_and_speed_of_light

Edit: neither of us are right, EM waves in vacuum do travel in phase but in conductors, there is a phase difference between 0° (very high resistance) and 45° (superconductor). So yeah, EM waves can “tell” they’re in a dummy load.