This is a blog form of a toot thread I wrote as part of a discussion of LLMs–“Large Language Models”, the type of technology behind the current AI hype.
Let me start by saying this: criticism of LLMs tends to be in three different flavors. First, LLMs are bad …
Qt is a pretty powerful toolkit for building desktop apps. I’m not a desktop app builder, generally, so it seemed reasonably to start by using something that includes a great deal of functionality packed in, and has a long history of commentary and examples1. Related, you can use …
In my quest to create plugins for the open source game, Endless Sky, I’ve run into the very understandable barrier of graphics. See my earlier post on the topic if you want some background on how I ended up here.
Now, the Blender python API is probably really good …
I’ve been playing an open source game a fair bit, lately. It’s quite extensible, well-documented, and already boasts a library of plugins.
Of course, it was, perhaps, inevitable that I would want to make my own plugin. And so I’ve been working on one for a little …
Modern computer RPGs have complicated, detailed, three-dimensional maps, but it was not always thus. Back in the 80s, as they were first crawling from table to monitor, the capabilities of the PCs of the era were better suited to the more spare graph paper maps of old AD&D modules …