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David Foster

@DavidFoster

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I make hopefully interesting interactive playthings. One time one of those won a BAFTA. Co-founder and CTO at @GreatApeGames.

Brighton, UK
Joined October 2007
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@DavidFoster
David Foster
3 years
What we've been working on. A while in the making! The @GreatApeGames team absolutely smashed it with this trailer! šŸ™Œ
@GreatApeGames
Great Ape Games
3 years
We're delighted to finally share this huge announcementā€¦ Annapurna Interactive (@A_i) is publishing #TheLostWild! šŸ„³ Wishlist now on Steam! Full quality here:
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@benln Sundays are sacred ā€“ I get my head down and build uninterrupted. Iā€™ve had a brilliant Sunday and now I reach for human contact after the work is done, so hi! šŸ‘‹ How do build days differ for you such that you want to create a group like this? Genuine question from a place of love.
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@DavidFoster
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@noampomsky The reason we donā€™t have a word for it is because itā€™s not a separate concept; itā€™s still suicide. Everything about who you are needs to die in order to be reborn in an act of courageous self-becoming.
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4 days
@BLUECOW009 @robertmaurerfan You, uniquely as you are, have the potential for action vectors of out-of-distribution magnitude. Live fast (move along those vectors at great speed), but make sure they're pointed in the right direction first.
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@DavidFoster
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5 days
@burkov @X Genuine questions from a place of good will/desire to understand: what is it about his posts do you consider spam? Too high volume and too low signal to noise? Or do you regard his output to be negative signal?
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@DavidFoster
David Foster
20 days
@mevinter Congrats! I just crossed this modest threshold myself. Feels good man. And 2^10 XP too. Lovely number to cap it all off.
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@DavidFoster
David Foster
22 days
@initvoidself @justinskycak MA is already world-class at understanding your current knowledge base on a topic, so just take the diagnostic assessment, test in at ~90%, and polish up the rest.
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@DavidFoster
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28 days
@Watchman_motto Right on. Only thing I'd add is: do you actually enjoy doing this? If so, the expected utility of time spent becomes positive rather than negative. This applies to a small subset of folks, though; many toil for negligible savings and don't calculate the trade-offs.
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@DavidFoster
David Foster
1 month
@n0w00j Big fan of isosceles rhombuses. Check ā€˜em out.
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@DavidFoster
David Foster
1 month
Iā€™d go so far as to say even writing them, ask ChatGPT/Claude. I say this as someone who spent months mastering regex and now regard my knowledge as largely useless. Most criticisms of LLMsā€™ ability to spit out regex take the form of ā€œthey donā€™t take into account the edge casesā€. Well if you canā€™t clearly reason about and communicate the edge cases then you canā€™t write regex either.
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@DavidFoster
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1 month
@darkblooooood @BLUECOW009 I recommend anyone legitimately interested in the validity of these ideas read The Beginning of Infinity.
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@DavidFoster
David Foster
2 months
@Jonathan_Blow @Oilfield_Rando I suspect many might posit William and the Man in Black reveal, but I'm guessing based on your work you're referring to Dolores and the _actual_ bicameral mind realisation. Specifically the perspective shift it induces, as explored in The Witness.
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@DavidFoster
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2 months
Interested to see how this decision might influence talent acquisition. My company runs flat; we try to keep titles simple and precise. That said, itā€™s important to many folks that they acquire certain titles that speak to their career progression. I guess youā€™re selecting against whatever motivation this is, but I havenā€™t noticed a strong correlation between being brilliant contributors and being any less interested in titles. Curious to hear your thoughts on this point in particular.
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@DavidFoster
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3 months
@clongmire42 Brilliant works as always Caleb, Jose, and team. Excited to dive in!
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@DavidFoster
David Foster
4 months
@JSpoiler4 @clongmire42 Brilliant. Thanks a bunch for the update!
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@DavidFoster
David Foster
5 months
@skatestorygame @CHANEL Huge accomplishment and well deserved. Loving where you're leaning in terms of art direction as of late.
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@DavidFoster
David Foster
6 months
@MakotoIchinose6 @phyronnaz What backend did you use for rendering? Or did you roll your own?
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@DavidFoster
David Foster
6 months
@JSpoiler4 @clongmire42 Thanks a lot. I really appreciate your time looking into this!
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@DavidFoster
David Foster
6 months
@JSpoiler4 @clongmire42 That's right Jose, I am, but they're heavily modelled on your own in GASP. I'm using the "normalization with common schema" option in my PSSs. I've recorded a super quick vid showing what's going on in the Rewind Debugger, incl. my PSDbs, PSSs, PSN, etc.
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@DavidFoster
David Foster
6 months
@JSpoiler4 @clongmire42 Thanks for the prompt reply, Jose! In each DB, I'm linking to the same PSN_All. Inside this PSN_All normalization set, it's referencing all of my DBs. Unless I'm missing something else pertaining to normalization?
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