This is a project I’ve been working on that combines ball tracking with #VirtualReality I was familiar with both technologies from previous work - ball tracking from NBA Baller Beats and VR from Oculus - but it has still been a challenge to combine them well.

@MungoManic I agree, there was certainly contact and trade, but no evidence of significant Austronesian migration into Australia as far as I can tell. So then what do you think is being ignored here? What arrows would you add?

@TMFScottP @contrary_owen @simonahac Yes, very analogous to gerrymandering. Major parties entrenching their own power at the expense of the voice of the voters. Should not go unnoticed.

@paulg Code, just like the horse and cart, has always been a means to an end.

@paulg The concentration of power in the few such that the choices available to the many become increasingly limited. It’s a feature of human nature and networks. It will happen under any system where checks and balances and not respected.

@IonaItalia @not_that_CK We don’t store high-level nuclear waste in Australia currently

@ID_AA_Carmack If an agent can distill out the essential rules of a game by observation, could it not create a simulated version of the game that captures those rules and run tests faster within the simulated environment?

@bigd0gz @TMFScottP IMO the value of AI is not so much in AI and AI adjacent companies, but in how cognitive automation can exponentially increase productivity in the broader economy. Bitcoin’s narrative is predicated on continued inflation, but AI is a massive force for deflation.

@clairlemon People were using fire as a tool for large scale land management, modifying their environment and improving the land to make food production easier. The difference between forager and agricultural society is one of degree rather than kind.

@TMFScottP @jfwfreo Technology has increased our living standards for much longer than a few decades. Our distant ancestors figured out campfires over a million years ago. Increasing productivity through technology is in the self-interest of Australians as whole, not just workers or businesses.

@PaulDennett_ Maybe just me but I love having Test cricket from far flung corners of the world on in the background. The slow pace of play means that the broadcasters often focus on the most random things, and the atmosphere is so different in the various countries. It's a beautiful game.

The underlying issue is that we need population growth to maintain our living standards. Without more working age people to service an aging population, services get more expensive. To the extent that our standard of living requires that other people do work on our behalf, we need an ever bigger Australia. An ever bigger Australia is not a sustainable Australia.

@cmonkey Both have the same underlying cause: a failure to consider sustainability in the long term. A kind of cultural myopia.

@k_eagar @TMFScottP Do we have to keep growing the population in absolute terms, either through fertility or migration, to keep the age structure in balance? Is it possible to have a steady state total population, where those passing are replaced, without the demographics becoming unsustainable?

@jeremyphoward Product-market fit

@johnhawks The first paleontologists

@robertskmiles The word “just” can be removed from any statement about AI

@JacobJaber @amasad @paulg Not all sources are equally likely to be correct though. An anonymous source, or any source that is not held accountable in some way, bears no consequences for sharing wrong information. It doesn’t mean that they’re necessarily wrong, but they are more likely to be wrong.

@Vaxolotl1729 @shaunmicallef Can I lie under oath as well, or is it only members of parliament who can do that? At some level it undermines the entire system, doesn’t it?

@shaunmicallef Are those who pledge allegiance to the Queen’s heirs while arguing for a Republic making a false statement under oath? Isn’t that technically a criminal offence?