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Watching the graphics quality of the Zelda demo, I can't help but think: If only this weren't on Nintendo. The graphics look equivalent to Elder Scrolls: Morrowind (2002). As with so many Nintendo demos; I find myself wishing they were a cross-platform game studio rather than a lagging hardware company.
Here's a better attempt to explain it: we are using digital circuits to basically simulate analog circuits with analog properties. It should be intuitive that analog is more efficient for representing analog abstractions (neural networks, which inherently copy analog structures). Digital hardware adds an additional abstraction layer built out of components that do not behave like the desired structures (neurons) and are basically running simulations. It's no surprise that some of the most successful models have shifted away from the perceptron-style representation and use more mathematical models to better leverage digital hardware for the node simulations, but they still rely on the basic models of weights and feedback cycles which require clock cycles and controlled computation on digital circuits.

Digital is more efficient for some problems in the sense that it's the only way to achieve precise computational results, but even when it comes to mathematical arithmetic, the circuitry to add two analog signals is much faster and simpler (two wires and a resistor), as is the design of a multiplier (one transistor).

It's definitely a complex subject, but I don't see why you would find it so difficult to believe -- the most intelligent machines we know of are analog and decentralized (like human brains).
After watching the presentation of Zelda, I would say yes.
Right, that's the USB Power Delivery (PD) spec and to get more than 5V, both sides (charger & device) need to support it. I'm guessing (no real idea) that the switch is vanilla 5V like most phones and tablets. Wouldn't mind being wrong.
game machines often have dedicated hardware made specifically for running games on otherwise slow hardware. Also things like extremely thin OSes with almost-real-time guarantees about the speed at which things will run.

The screen is also much larger than a Phone screen, more like an iPad. So now you're selling an iPad accessory, locked to Apple's store and architectuaral decisions.

Not to mention that selling it themselves like this while controlling software distribution lets them subsidize the cost of the machine with software sales

It would be quite a challenge to get Skyrim working on a phone, I imagine.
The Dreamcast had second screen gaming and that was released three years before the GameCube. There may well have been other devices doing it before then as well. But Nintendo weren't the first.
No it's nice, the biggest issues are IMO two:

* it replaces significant part of the OS and creates a new APIs. It's not really problem of systemd itself, but once other applications start depend on the API you would need systemd to use it. This is especially bad for non-linux systems, like BSD for example, which need to write tools that will emulate such API. It doesn't help that Lennart openly is against any non-linux system so he won't make things easier

* it's buggy, this kind of reminds me of Pulse Audio (also created by Lennart) although eventually things will improve, but it sucks on early versions of RedHat/CentOS 7.
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You claimed that Judith Curry was "not allowed to speak", for example.

Here's something she allowed herself to speak:

"Once we get over this little bump of activism, if the Trump administration will put us on a slightly reassuring and saner footing, that will allow all this to die down," she said. "We can always hope." -Judith Curry

http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060047798

Good luck with that long term plan that depends on Trump putting us on a saner footing!

Are you really sure she isn't allowed to speak? She's on FOX News an awful lot.

And is it really true that people blink when they're lying? Starting at 3:00 I counted Judith Curry blinking 85 times in 60 seconds during this recent Tucker Carson interview on FOX News. At that rate, she must have blinked 387 times during that 4:33 minute interview! Forget about the Butterfly Effect: her eyelash fluttering itself could affect global climate patterns!

https://youtu.be/g5LpwL4NKbw?t=3m0s
I've seen work suggesting that some of the surviving Neaderthal characteristics are pale skin, freckles, straight hair, brown, blonde and ginger hair. That might not be a high proportion of the genome but it sure is noticeable.
I haven't worked in game console hacking since the Wii days, but I'm getting a Switch day one to do just that. I can't wait to be able to use this as a hackable game tablet and be able to throw it on the dock to play emulated games on the TV.

I really haven't seen anything like this before. I'm super excited to break it.

Edit: For those interested in working on this or following along, I created a Discord server for collaboration. Invite link: https://discord.gg/hSMpnuG
Yes, please.

My email is in my profile.
Honestly, I wish Firefox was more stagnant and less "let's clone Chrome's every misfeature, who needs the ability to modify the browser UI?".
Yeah exactly but I always feel like I'm short of time. Like just a few years more and I'll have to look for a job. Mandatory attendance at boring classes doesn't help much too.
Art direction makes up for it. By now, photorealism in games is becoming bland. Given a screenshot of most any random modern AAA game, without the HUD, I don't know if I could distinguish them. I won't argue that more graphical fidelity isn't better, but we've reached a saturation point where graphical fidelity alone won't sell your game.
Gamecube was all about the controller. Besides the PS4 controller, the Gamecube is still the most comfortable controller ever. Buttons all felt great as well.
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Haven't gained any insights from these subs, but love browsing them every once in a while.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/

https://www.reddit.com/r/dogpictures
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Ah yes sorry I isolated the point up to cup's comment.

But I'm still sure that there are/will be times when great discoveries are proven to be mistakes. Barring practical ones like penicillin, there has been numerous 'discoveries' proven wrong much later; Newton's colour theory comes to mind, and of course the rather famous its-a-particle-no-a-wave ping pong.
The Nintendo Wii was innovative and fun .. even the Wii U was a bit innovative and fun (ever play Mario Chase with friends .. worth buying Wii U for). Though... Switch does anyone see anything innovative besides a GameCube like system that is also portable?
I've never found accent to be a huge issue in general with first line technical support. It's more like 95% of the time (OK, I've done something dumb now and then) they're going to take me through scripts that are increasingly non-responsive and orthogonal to my problem before promising to call back--which they never do.

If I can get to someone in a US support center, I've just found that they tend to be better enabled to actually address my problem--even if they have a southern accent :-)
Haven't watched the presentation yet, but I believe the GCN might have been the first console to come standard with "analog" shoulder buttons (dutifully demonstrated by its use in Mario Sunshine to control the spraying power of the backpack).

EDIT: Oh also, the Wavebird controller was the first wireless first-party controller.
Yeah I was examining long-term puts on the company but decided it was a bad idea since my roommate reminded me Trump's pick for the FDA may scrap phase III altogether (which is a policy I'm not entirely opposed to; PIII tests efficacy not safety, and presumably the drugs could be tested for efficacy by independent NGOs, like what UL does for electronics)
Yeah, the runtime for GOAL was much closer to C/C++ than LISP. The pre-processor was pretty much a full Scheme implementation, and had all kinds of dynamic cons cell allocations and garbage collection, but not the generated code itself.

(In fact, C and GOAL code almost used the same ABI. IIRC, GOAL always had the GP(?) register pointing at the symbol table for fast access, but gcc MIPS code expected it to be something else. If you wanted to be able to call back and forth, you had to write tiny shim functions).
Wouldn't the biggest leap in power be the N64?
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Focus on learning and self improvement. Everything else will naturally fall into place.
Huh? I never heard that being a thing. If anything, investors tend to reward lowering head count.
> They're the only company who puts so much effort into maximizing their software with the uniqueness of their hardware.

You can hardly say that for the WiiU...
Nintendo Switch Product Pages:

JP: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/switch/presentation.html

USA: http://www.nintendo.com/switch/

Each of these pages has videos from the presentation.
Code that solves a real problem or runs a real (viable) business is more important than any degree certificate you will ever get. 93% top most successful corporations in America are managed by people who come from 2nd and 3rd tier grads. Steve Jobs was a college dropout.
> Non-gendered monsters or robots wouldn't have the same issue

What issue? Please come out and explicitly state what the issue here is.
At a fraction of the price though. The cost of a Model T at the end of production was like 1/6 that of a Civic. For the price it doesn't seem so bad.

With an extra 3 days of leisure every week I'd think I could handle not driving 80 mph on the highway. There are pictures of these 20s and 30s cars at the top of dirt roads in the rocky mountains so what ever power they had still let them go places.

Do I really need all the car that the civic is?
You seem like you are really on top of your game though. I'm impressed. It's sad to see so much weight on brand name schools.
What is it with that weird ransom note's writing style?

is being

it always being

was being

There being

You are being

Nobody is being

is still being

Is being final

Is that some kind of artifact of automatic translation?

Or is it a tendency of some non-english native language speakers?

Or is it just some sort of 1337 $p33k inflection to project an air of coolness and ambivalence?

Whether an attempt to mask identity through misdirection, and distinguishing one's manner with red herrings, what's the deal?

Who talks like that?
Poettering and crew have written an enormous number of excellent blog articles and a great amount of very good manual pages.

So, not sure what you have to do to not be 'opaque'
The page loads these two images:

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/switch/assets/img/event/top/exper...

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/switch/assets/img/event/top/exper...

and these two:

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/switch/assets/img/event/top/prese...

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/switch/assets/img/event/top/prese...

Any idea why?
Such paranoia is amply justified in our industry. However I expect that we will continue our iconoclastic approach to legalisms so long as the founders keep control. Our model for our cloud software follows the example pioneered by Greg Comeau; you can see his at http://www.comeaucomputing.com/tryitout/.
No one you want to work for is going to look down on you based on where you went to school.

I hesitate to give you advice since it sounds to me like you're pretty busy already.
The only other system to come with zelda at launch was the Wii, so I'd say yes, even though there were other factors involved.

Personally, I was waiting for zelda before picking up a wiiU, it's the first nintendo machine I haven't owned since the NES (which I was too young for).
Portable is huge. Those controllers are amazing. Portable motion-control party-games that don't need the screen? That sounds amazing for parties and icebreakers.
First, you need to think about what you want to do after graduation, such as becoming an Android game developer or a graduate student focusing on AI. Then figure out what you need to do to achieve your goals (such as work on projects or do research) and keep working on it. Everything will be fine and you can be at par with the best.
A cubic meter per resident. For just 3 months of the years. And each unit is diluted 50% already.

As for the water, you're going to basically dump a bunch of water into this thing to generate heat. And when you're done, your NaOH will be more dilute and need a bigger storage vessel. So you need enough room to store all the water you'll ever add.

When you recharge, you'll produce a bunch of water, too. You either dump it or you store it for the next use. If you store it, then you double the amount of storage that you need for water because you have room premix and postmix.
They were only cherry-picking specific innovations that influenced the design of the Switch.
I admire Nintendo's effort but I think they need to make a phone to really compete and they need something graphically powerful. That is to say, they need to raise prices at launch of a new device to ensure the hardware has enough of a shelf life. Spending $300 on a portable for gaming after spending twice that on a phone capable of gaming seems like a hard sell to the mass market/casual gamer.

Will this really be able to stand up against iPhones and Android devices in a year or two? I sadly don't think so... the maxwell X1 it's shipping with will be under power as soon as a device is released and woefully as soon as other device manufacturers start shipping X2 (I think that's the name) Pascal or whatever new PowerVR chipset debuts soon based devices.

I think a lot of the tech going into VR like motion controls and low latency displays will destroy some of Nintendo's technical advantage they're as no longer the only game in town with it.

Finally, while making the SDK better by using open standards I think most devs would prefer a larger market; which, both iOS and Android provide.

I've been a Nintendo fan in a big way for 25 years and want to be wrong but I worry if they don't go big in another decade they'll be in the same place as Sega. I bought a Wii U solely for Smash Bros and will buy a Switch when it's (Smash Bros) ported but I don't think most folks are quite so obsessed or willing to invest that much for one game.

Glad to eat my words in a few months, hopefully I do.

Edit: updated with reference to another GPU manufacturer. For my point it's not the exact SOC that matters it's the speed of iteration/capabilities on the near horizon.

Edit 2: Here's a year old benchmark showing how the maxwell X1 stacks up:

http://wccftech.com/snapdragon-820-benchmarks/

Edit 3: added "casual gamer" after mass market for clarity.
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I rarely see a bash script more than five lines long which doesn't have at least one bug.

If you disagree with me then post an example and I'll show you the bug in it.

Also, it's not the 90% that matters; it's the 9% that is difficult and the 1% that is crap.
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I found Paul Graham's essay on the credentials and pedigree quite reassuring. :)
http://www.paulgraham.com/credentials.html

"Admission to the right university can make or break an ambitious young South Korean."
I bet Newton pursued what he was interested in, rather than thinking "well, I better hedge my bets!"
As a single user with a number of personal/hobbyist machines, I actually find systemd annoying to work with for precisely this reason. If a daemon is misconfigured and fails to launch several times in a row, it inevitably triggers the systemd "too many retries" error, after which systemd will refuse to start the daemon until some timeout has expired or the counter is cleared. This makes troubleshooting more difficult and frustrating.
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Nobody actually uses Nvidia's mobile offerings as I understand it, do they?
Not really true...tenured professors pretty much have perfect job security for life.
Not really much of a counter point but you can actually scratch cassette tapes. This guy shows how cool it can be. Never seen anyone else do it though. I want to build my own at some point.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7nImXd0nxU4
They don't call them Zelda Boxes for nothing. I'll admit I'm biased, but I see nearly every Zelda game as easily in the top 3, if not the killer app of each Nintendo system.

Legend of Zelda - NES

Link to the Past - SNES

Links Awakening - Gameboy

Ocarina of Time - N64

Wind Waker - Gamecube

Twilight Princess - Wii

Skyward Sword - Wii

Heck, even the promise of how perfectly the WiiU's controller could have been for a Zelda game, was enough for me to buy the system.

I guess that makes me a fanboy. As long as Nintendo keeps making Zelda games, I'll keep buying the necessary hardware.
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That[1] was masterful marketing of an upcoming videogame console on all fronts. From the beginning it emphasises mobility with a (hopefully good!) smartphone app to manage online/local wifi matches, as well as multiple levels of play while on the go. It's reasonably priced (matches current generation in total at the register) and has an incredibly diverse range of titles to be excited about this calendar year. It managed to loop "The Americas" in with a Reggie appearance that worked well, and upsold Skyrim and Fifa, two gigantic American games with international appeal. They also talked up Dragon Quest X, which is an MMORPG, launching on Switch, as well as Dragon Quest XI, which until tonight was a PS4 exclusive.

Essentially, they placed value squarely in the face of everything your PC/enthusiast-level gaming rig won't ever replace. The ability to pick up and play elsewhere. Like the Wii, it's not even trying to compete with the current crop of consoles. It's value proposition will be placed somewhere a bit obtusely, between your mobile phone and everything else you leave at home. Yes, this obviously functions as a home console as well, but I can't help but suspect Nintendo absolutely meant to go for what makes handhelds great. If any company can do it, they can. So what if it cannibalises their current 3DS offerings? Pokemon seems to be going strong with its fanbase.

The whole presentation, from the demonstration of the hardware to especially the finishing trademark "One more thing!" with Zelda making a predictable but nonetheless amazing launch date. It's a strategy that worked wonders for the Wii, remember, so why not?

Nintendo absolutely killed it, and I'll be keeping a really close eye on this thing. But the marketing and presentation was honestly textbook.

[1] https://youtu.be/uuC4YLLkqME?t=33m20s
The Wii U gets deserved flak for its paucity of titles, but there were some unbelievable gems sprinkled in there. The Nintendo Land pack-in game is an utter blast as a party game. And Mario Maker is probably the first "players build the levels" game whose interface doesn't feel arcane and esoteric, it really is a triumph of friendly UX.
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I have been following his work (and social media discussions) since Black Swan, and it seems to me that the ideas are becoming stronger (to me) with time. The later ideas reinforcing and expanding on earlier themes. For example, Black Swan was about unpredictable and catastrophic risk, later Anti-fragility was about how to deal with risks including Black Swans, his work in progress (Skin in the game) is how to make systems more anti-fragile.

I encountered his ideas (10 years back!) at a time when my default way of thinking was very intuitive instead of systematic and analytical thinking (which many of my high-performing peers had developed over the course of engineering education). Perhaps because of this, I took to his ideas like duck (swan) takes to water. I never acquired a systematic(analytical) thinking approach despite being in academia till mid twenties though I could hack decent academic performances. It was in an engineering profession that I realized the advantage and importance of systematic thinking and tried to consciously develop it.

Strangely, the use of systematic thinking has also actually increased my appreciation of his ideas after a period of wavering doubt. The systematic (analytical) way of thinking is too seductive and it's successes too apparent that it appears far superior to my earlier intuitive way of thinking. However, I am gradually coming to realize that the intuitive way of thinking has a deep logic of it's own which is not visible or may not even be decipherable. It's logic can only be inferred by its effect which ofcourse a critic can also be ascribe to luck!
Spotify Radio is horrible. It always plays the same songs over and over, for months. It doesn't seem to learn or adapt at all.
It's puzzling that browser defaults are still so bad at this.
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If the classes are boring, it's either because you aren't close to the level of knowledge you should be, or else you're far ahead of the curve. Given what you wrote about your education so far, of course the latter is true.

I envy you actually; I never had a head for higher math and programming, my talents lie in hardware hacking and electronics repair. I'd love to learn some proper CS, but my life took a different track before college and now when I try to learn anything beyond bash scripting or simple microcontroller stuff in C, my mind turns to mush.
There are claims that an entire Neaderthal genome has been mapped, see doi: 10.1038/nature12886, from 2014.

There are also some low coverage genomes.

Not sure what has been done since 2014.

(Many of us are actually part Neanderthal so talking about this gets fairly odd. The "pre-admixture" populations had maybe 99.7% shared DNA anyway.)
You mean the little LCD in the controller?
Sega Dreamcast had analog triggers and came before gamecube.
> But that would make them just like Spotify, and several other services. I think it would be hard to compete that way.

Its even harder to compete if your product is crappy... which is essentially what the OP was suggesting.

> If you really want it, you can find a way to export it, or copy it by hand.

The thing is that most people don't really want it. Therefore it is significantly harder to move to Pandora than it is to leave Pandora.
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I don't think that going for power is a strategy that would likely work for Nintendo. Whatever is fast now will be slow in one or two years. However, the special control scheme they have is unique and might be great for casuals just like the original Wii was. If this is great at parties with non gamers it will be a success. I personally prefer some more serious games, but what I like doesn't matter.
Someone really really needs to fix browser plugin permission system so that control can be very very fine-grained, and it's easy to review what information has been passed back and forth.