Tim Sweeney

@TimSweeneyEpic

Epic Games founder and CEO / Twitter for iPhone user

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  1. Jan 30

    Disclaimers! 1) The state of the art is far from the 60Hz transactional medium needed for 100M’s of concurrent users in a real-time 3D simulation 2) Don’t read this as an endorsement of cryptocurrency investment; that’s a wild, speculative mess But the tech is going places.

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  2. Jan 30

    A great Piers Kicks article on blockchain based underpinnings for an open Metaverse. This is the most plausible path towards an ultimate long term open framework where everyone’s in control of their own presence, free of gatekeeping.

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    Jan 30

    “Into The Void: Where Crypto Meets The Metaverse” by is one of the most interesting things I’ve read in a long time. It puts crypto, NFTs, DeFi, and even AR/VR in a broad social and economic context, and explains how they’ll shape our future.

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  4. Jan 30

    Not only are they monopolies blocking customer rights, developer rights, and fair competition; they are forcing all apps to adopt their own monopoly curator approach, crushing emergent open systems.

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  5. Jan 30

    If the Web had been invented today, Google and Apple policies would ban it from their ecosystems, because it’s not a walled garden under the control of a single proprietor as their policy demands.

    Google have suspended Element in the Play Store without notifying us; we're reaching out to find out what's going on. Apologies for the inconvenience; in the interim there's but it's a few versions behind. We'll post updates here.
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    Jan 29

    A big happy birthday to our very own , who has been hard at work behind the scenes on Senua's Saga: Hellblade II, and Project: MARA! 🥳

    A photo of Ninja Theory actress Melina Juergens in motion capture equipment, alongside a still of Senua from Hellblade: Senua's Saga.
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    Jan 26

    Acapella group doing Windows noises

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    Jan 27

    Fans of His Dark Materials () can now conjure up magical companions from the hit series using a new augmented reality app. Discover how is using AR to assist with mental wellbeing by putting personalized daemons in your pocket:

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    Jan 26

    Eye rolling at Google's response to antitrust lawsuits. "Google’s core arguments on the privacy & power front are actually really similar in one specific way: They only ring true if you don’t actually question Google’s claims." Well said !

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    Jan 20

    I did it. It is done. My best attempt at playing 359 games in the 2020 MegaJam. This was done to the best of my ability. I'll have a more succinct recap soon. 117 stream hours. Check out the spreadsheet for my ratings and details.

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    Jan 17

    Introducing Fevenir's Kingdom: Assault Map ✨ (2 - 16 Players) Attackers (Team 1) have to capture points A & B, while Defenders (Team 2) have to defend these points from the Attackers. 📝: 📹:

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    Jan 16

    This is fascinating. a) dire wolves existed b) they were actually dogs, not wolves c) DNA analysis in archaeology is rewriting our previous understanding of ancient history

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  13. Jan 15

    Pitch: A Netflix sitcom, “Alice and Bob”, following the plot lines of major cryptography research papers.

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    Jan 15

    Today I bring you exciting historical documents from 1991/1992 courtesy of Beth Daggert who held on to them for the past 30 years.

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  15. Jan 13

    The new CEO of Intel joined the company at age 18. While most of Intel was working on an entirely new 32-bit CPU architecture, he and John Crawford were on a side project to retrofit 32-bit into x86. The result:

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  16. Jan 12

    There's a new generation of heroes leading space exploration now. The Right Stuff covers the first generation, and is one of the few 1980's moves that holds up perfectly in 2020, the first year without Chuck Yeager:

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    Jan 9

    Facebook is probably more comfortable selling ads than buying them, but they'll do what they have to do in order to be the top result when some people search for 'Signal' in the App Store. P.S. There will never be ads in Signal, because your data belongs in your hands not ours.

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  18. Jan 10

    “But we can’t unify (solve for the equality of) functions” is a leading argument against this model. But with some extensions to McAllester’s work, we can move that problem from unification to composing functions and checking the properties of the function.

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  19. Jan 10

    “But you can do full delimited functional logic evaluation in a Monad”, the Haskell programmers will say. Yes, but you can’t reason about its behavior that way.

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  20. Jan 10

    I think this will be the hot topic for programming language research and implementation in the 2020’s by way of the 1980’s. The other fields have pushed to near the limits of their non-backtracking, non-orthogonal failure, separate-types-and-failures paradigms.

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