“The future ain’t what it used to be.”
-Yogi Berra
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Appreciate you asking this question. I’ve been on the hunt for something like this. I was thinking back to how much fun warcraft three was, which while it was a base builder, it’s basically the same principle. But different levels, an actual story, etc…
A city builder or village builder following that track would be killer.
I mean it’s barely a platformer. it’s like, the illusion of being a platformer but it requires no real skill or precision like a platformer would. Also, it’s not even open enough for you to just platform to wherever. The “platforming” aspect of the game is completely locked down to contrived paths they need you to take.
So… no… not quite. Or at least I don’t know of one to recommend you.
HOWEVER, with a very small amount of code:
# pip install yt-dl
import yt_dlp
channel_url = "https://www.youtube.com/@hssharma100"
opts = {
"quiet": False,
"extract_flat": True, # only list videos, don't download
"skip_download": True,
}
with yt_dlp.YoutubeDL(opts) as ydl:
info = ydl.extract_info(channel_url, download=False)
if "entries" in info:
for entry in info["entries"]:
print(entry.get("title"), entry.get("url"))
You can see that this user has litterally thousands, maybe 10s of thousands of short videos.
Then you can use this:
import yt_dlp
channel_url = "https://www.youtube.com/@hssharma100"
opts = {
"outtmpl": "%(uploader)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s", # saves videos in a channel folder
"format": "bestvideo+bestaudio/best", # highest quality
"merge_output_format": "mp4", # merged into mp4
}
with yt_dlp.YoutubeDL(opts) as ydl:
ydl.download([channel_url])
To download all of what amounts to about… thousands… of videos of Mr. Hari Sharma… just kind-of going through their day? I mean who am I to criticize, he’s got 500k subscribers and 300 million views… mostly of him and his wife eating at best westerns.
There is also “Video DownloadHelper” for fire fox if you just want to grab a video for whatever site you are on.
Well if you’ve ever check out her yt channel and grad work: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EfGvPinTJU s, the suspicion might begin to reveal itself.
Her grad work involved inferometrics and corner cameras. Then there was a series of papers using lidar to image around corners that also drew on her work.
When I read about her work on the CHIRP algorithm, it occured to me there was quite a range of interesting practical applications around it (at the time I was very interested in full waveform lidar). Many lidar systems allow for multiple return counts. If you have multiple shots into a single physical space, you can think of the shot vector as being in frequency space. Build up enough shots into a single space and while it’s not traditional inferometry, you can think of the result as an interference mire typical from something like infsar
What are you on about with the switch having higher specs?
https://hothardware.com/news/switch-2-vs-steam-deck
“Not pushing any interesting boundary” is somewhere between extremely opinionated and outright incorrect, quite frankly.
I mean its not. Nintendo, in ancient history, did actually push boundaries around hardware. Most console makers did. The switch did not represent that. The completely transformed their approach to hardware, to shift to weaker, cheaper hardware so that they don’t push themselves out of reach for their target market: children.
The steam deck was a real advance in that regard. The handhelds that have followed have also pushed further. That’s not at all what the Switch2 is. Its behind the starting point for things that were available a few years ago.
The hostility is that Nintendo products have developed from actually capable, latest capabilities things, to a ticket you need to have punched to play a brand of games. The franchised is being carried by fan-boy-ism, not anything that they are doing that are objectively good, or that advance the industry. Its annoying also, that they are constantly being white knighted.
It seems like you are mostly concerned about grinding your axe against steam.
I mean the hardware is at least decent. And they aren’t shitting out another one because they aren’t seeing the generation improvement in performance they wanted (its coming). If I buy a Steam Deck, I at least get capable hardware.
Nintendo last several generations of hardware are born anemic. They start behind where even close to the cutting edge is. Nintendo has long since gave up pushing any kind of interesting boundary with its hardware.
I can’t just download “SwitchOS” and throw it on some non-anemic hardware to get a decent experience.
As much as people want to project onto Steam the idea that its a walled garden, its not. It is a cultivated garden, but its not walled off. You can enter and leave freely.
Okay, so optical computing is cool and interesting, but I fail to see how it relates to AI.