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Battery removal

The battery in my beloved Nuphy keyboard was swelling up. I had to remove it. It was not that difficult and the keyboard still works wired, but frustrating nonetheless.

Where are all the AI games?

From Why No AI Games?:

I think what’s really going on here is that these new models just aren’t the natural source of fun I thought they would be when I first encountered them. Some forms of computation end up being a deep well of fun. 3D rendering is fun. Physics engines are fun. But these new AI models, despite being powerful and useful and fascinating, don’t seem to be intrinsically fun. Which I think is kind of surprising!

Frank Lantz wonders why we don’t see more “AI native” games. I’m wondering this myself: Games are often the first way we learn to deal with new technologies. So by now we should have seen some that incorporate the technology in interesting ways (Frank has some examples, but there are really not that many).

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Frozen over

It’s so cold in northern Germany that the Baltic Sea is partly frozen. What a rare – but exciting – sight!

Ice cold

Winter is here. This year we even got real ice and snow - a rare sight here in Berlin, where it’s mostly just grey and cold (but not cold enough) most years.