Notices by Ethan Black (golemwire@social.librem.one)

Well -- well-placed enough for a joy-con as a mouse.
Also, note what appears to be an optical sensor in the Switch 2 joycons in that picture.

@killyourfm Very briefly, you can see what appears to be some sort of optical sensor in the Switch 2 joycons. I think yes! https://social.librem.one/@golemwire/113839209217650727

I think the #Switch2 joycons are going to have the ability to work as mice, maybe as a replacement for the touchscreen when the switch is docked.
Have it control an OS-level mouse cursor to emulate the touchscreen and adoption of this feature could be a breeze, and maybe even backwards-compatible with Switch 1 games!

#Nintendo

Design note: since the right joycon has its joystick lower than the left joycon's joystick, its buttons (ABXY) are well-placed for a mouse.

@arraybolt3 Wow, that sounds pretty powerful.

The #OpenAI #Sora video-generating AI is being really annoying. I'm literally uploading screenshots of Smash Bros. and it is telling me ThIs conTEnt Can'T bE SHoWn fOr NoW. wE'rE STill devELOping hOW wE EVAluATE WhiCH ConTent ConFLictS wiTh ouR PoLICies

@CM30 Pretty good.

@dmgedgoods Is that by Shel Silverstein?

Looks like Notch is going to start work on a "Minecraft 2" https://www.ign.com/articles/notch-says-he-basically-announced-minecraft-2

#Minecraft #Minecraft2

@w84death Looks interesting!
The rightmost railroad looks pretty interesting ;)

@christopher Ah, my man, you've seen nothing.

Don't worry, the worlds are OK.

Note: the data I got was from 2022. I had said 2025. (Can't edit posts.)

Screenshot from the PDF.

It appears that #E4M3 (the one without multiple NaNs etc.) has less range, and less precision near 0, but smaller steps between numbers on average.
E4M3 also has NaN, just one type of NaN (nice).
I'm not thinking about #deepLearning here in particular, but I think I prefer E4M3 personally (for what it's worth).

Interesting development. Never thought float8's could have any use, and here we are in 2025 with the potential use of them.

#computing #programming

Mastodon word count for this post: 499. (1 off, man 😁)

For #programmers:
You are familiar with 64-bit floating point and 32-bit floating point, and may have heard about 16-bit floating point (present in some GPUs), but there is actually work on 8-BIT floating-point!

https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.05433
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-arm-and-intel-publish-fp8-specification-for-standardization-as-an-interchange-format-for-ai/

There is the "E5M2" variant, a "truncated IEEE FP16 format" (nice if lacking FP8). Although, at the miniscule 8-bit level, you don't necessarily need multiple NaNs or need infinities, so there is the "E4M3" variant as well.

#IEEE754 #AI

Finished going through [almost all of] my #Minecraft worlds with my younger brother (also an adult). It was a nice and interesting trip down memory lane.

@mike @kev Classy! (If I have a right to make that judgement call at my age ;D)

@thedubster @briankrebs Not a place you wanted to make a typo 😅

@venya Because most people can't write, and have extremely low levels of literacy?

@N.Morgan Note, this is Gandalf from the movies, not "actual" Gandalf from the books (Tolkien).
Profound quote though.