And that operations combine those error bars in unintuitive (until you develop that intuition… but then does that still count as intuition?) ways.

If you render columns instead of rows you can render near-to-far without a Y-buffer and with zero overdraw. :)

You just store the last highest Y value as you iterate near to far?

This is true.

I vaguely remember there was something about the VGA architecture of the day that made this approach much slower, but I might be misremembering. My recollection of it is fuzzy. I'm hoping someone will chime in to remind me what I might be thinking of.

It might also just have been that this approach didn't work well with my lookup table optimization (see my other post).

I imagine that far map squares are more than one pixel wide so that read is amortized. Not so if going vertically.

There needs to be a balance, not all-or-nothing in either direction.

Do you not effectively put a dollar value on things you do for entertainment / personal satisfaction / fulfillment? Pick any two activities, and you can probably identify a dollar amount (which might be infinite) that would induce you to do one rather than the other.

So let's say you're playing a video game, and someone asks you to mow their lawn. How much money would they have to offer you to induce you to do so? That's the marginal dollar value of that video game over mowing their lawn.

Or let's say you're playing a video game, and you need to mow your own lawn, but you don't want to. How much would you pay someone else to mow it so that you can keep playing your game?

Of course, those two amounts would be different because you probably feel differently about mowing your own lawn than about mowing someone else's. The difference between the two should (if you're being consistent, which humans seldom are) be how much would someone have to pay you to mow their lawn instead of your own.

> Do you not effectively put a dollar value on things you do for entertainment / personal satisfaction / fulfillment?

No, of course not. It would be really bizarre to attach a dollar value to something that will not make or cost me money. I value my free time, but I'm not going to pretend there is some concrete dollar value when there is none.

It depends, really.

Guess they'll have to use a smaller font.

> it's against the OpenAI ToU

Given that OpenAI doesn't care about training on copyrighted data, why is suddenly their ToU something anyone should care about?

That OpenAI was in the wrong when they ignored everyone copyright, does not make it right to ignore their ToU. If a one wants IP and rule of law (incl contracts) to be respected, one should not violate others rights when it is convenient.

On a more risk-strategy level there is the size of their legal team, general endowment, and supplier and political connections to consider.

Everyone is free to ignore their ToU, but I can understand why a company would avoid it...

> If a one wants IP and rule of law (incl contracts) to be respected, one should not violate others rights when it is convenient.

Yes that's what should be said to OpenAI. Now they should not cry about their T&Cs not being respected when they never cared about others' copyrights.

Feels like this should be some kind of anti-competitive violation even if it's not actually. Probably moot under this admin but still.

It's like saying you can't use windows to develop an OS, or drive a Ford on the way to your job at Hyundai.

Automation is a boon when it automates away tedium, but also a curse for the people that subsist by enduring that tedium.

“There was that time that a robot failed, therefore robots cannot succeed” isn’t the slam dunk that you seem to think it is.

Wanna explain to me why a robot never took this photo? https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/fd02_for-pao/

Then when the inevitable war for independence takes place, you have the option to throw rocks at Earth. ;)