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Your 2024 In Review
(31 Dec 2024 at 19:06) |
Good day and good year! At least in some ways!
The "mathematically complicated secret santa" video is up now. I'm in it. Some would say: Too much! I haven't played with my new camera enough, so I sent Matt a bunch of footage (including 90 seconds of completely blank silent 4k video, like a professional would!!) and only an appropriately appropriate fraction of the gags made the cut, so I'm all stocked up for next time I need video scene with some random number generation or where I receive a package in the mail. The santa protocol has some serious problems with it (especially the last minute revision; see my comment on the video) but it also has some good ideas. I have another iteration on it that we may try next year—if we survive! While I had the gear out I also recorded an unremarkable entry for the related say the prime project, which you can do too!
I have been doing relaxing programming over the winter break, both on the red and green grid, and on the deceptively hard old math problem where at this point my ability to optimize computer search with clever tricks and systems engineering is mostly resulting in me failing to solve the problem at truly unprecedented pace. This is not the first time this has happened! Hopefully I can salvage something from these for a SIGBOVIK paper or video soon, but I'm not letting myself get distracted by deadlines yet.
Like a Counter Strike Idiot, I kept playing COD Of Duty VI: Las Operaciones Negras for some reason. After the cheating cleared up, it became a regular Call of Duty game, and is fine and unremarkable, but I can't help but make the numbers go up. I also have been finally treating myself to UFO 50, which is a great collection of games for an apocryphal 1980s video game console, made by some of my favorite game designers (Spelunky, etc.). It's an impressive achievement in a number of ways, although some of the games are a bit too frustratingly authentic in their difficulty or speed. It's a lot like playing through Ludum Dare entries (if they were all made by Dream Teams), which I do enjoy.
Happy New Year and good luck! |  |
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| Matthew |
| Some would say: too little! I like Matt's video's on the whole but whomever does his editing often makes some strange choices in what makes the cut, as they are often too long, though in this case it was at least 90 seconds too short. |
| I didn't know Tom from Tom7 ran a blog. Color me surprised! You're a big inspiration for me and I love everything you have produced. Thank you for being you - and making it public for me and others to enjoy! |
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