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Part of the charm of the graphics for games of this time was that they were pre-rendered from 3d models. A simple upscale doesn't really do it justice. I'd try re-generating the actual models, then pre-rendering them again in higher res. That might look better.

Also the character portraits are pure nightmare fuel. You went from anime style illustrations to this weird semi-illustrated but with skin textures look. Gross. Those could probably be fixed with better prompting. But yeah, maybe work on the art direction part.

Edit: I guess the graphics are from 3d models? Maybe the textures just need updating then, or like, less upscaling since the original models were basically just flat colors for the most part.


Careful with Cloudflare's "free" AI tier if you use paid workers. I was never able to get an answer on why I was billed for their confusing neuron usage for stuff that should have been covered under their usage limits. Their customer support just ignored my ticket. Apparently it's a known issue that they don't give a shit based on discussions in their support Discord.


I got my bill reversed after having an AI agent pester them long enough


was the ai agent running on their free tier


Not disagreeing because I don’t know anything about this particular situation, but I think if you look at any company’s support discord, you will find that they don’t give a shit because of the sample bias. People whose problems they solved. Don’t end up there.


Only if the support discord isn't actually for support and just for venting, which seems to be the case for Cloudflare's.


Discord is a much better app for venting than support.


Another non-obvious Cloudflare default, not billing but just as silent: if the "Browser Integrity Check" is enabled by default, your API behind Cloudflare will return a 403 error for requests with the `Python-urllib` User-Agent. However, you won't see this in your server logs (these events appear only under Cloudflare > Security > Events). From your perspective, it will look as though these clients simply aren't accessing the API. You can fix this by turning off "Browser Integrity Check" (under Security > Settings) or by creating a rule to exclude API paths from the check.


You should put anything like this on a privacy.com card with a monthly limit.


yeah their billing system truly sucks. One month I was charged exorbitantly for Workers Container usage. There was absolutely zero way to monitor or track your usage until the invoice arrived.


You can prevent it by spend limit rule or unified billing.


Shouldn't it be running at every tick of the game rather than just the junctions? Pac-Man should be able to change direction at any point.


Ideally yes but that would not work with the model latency. But it is already partly covered when a ghost enters its corridor it is asked again. Here's how the decisions work in detail, also below a copy https://github.com/opper-ai/jevman-benchmark/blob/main/READM...

How decisions work

When a character commits to a corridor its next junction is known, so the game asks jev about it straight away (one System One request per frame, one choice question per character, options = legal directions described with computed facts: distances to pellets, power pellets, fruit and ghosts, whether the nearest ghost is coming closer, and whether a ghost can reach the end of the corridor before Pac-Man). Up to three requests are in flight at once. If the character reaches the junction before the answer, it waits there (its panel card says "thinking…"). After 2 s, or on an error, it uses a greedy rule.

Pac-Man can also get a second question mid-corridor: when a dangerous ghost is in the corridor ahead, or can reach the junction at its end before he does, jev is asked whether to keep going or turn back right now (pacman_escape). Pac-Man keeps moving while it is open, and each situation is asked once.


Ideally yes but that would not work with the model latency. But it is already partly covered when a ghost enters pacmans corridor he is asked again. Here's how the decisions work in detail https://github.com/opper-ai/jevman-benchmark/blob/main/READM...


It may not matter if the ghosts' next move is predictable over that maximum distance.


That requires much more thinking (because of calculation) though doesn't it? Which decision models are not optimized for.


Speculating, but it seems like needing to be able to change direction at any moment would be more calculating, not less.


Reminds me of when I used the Amazon.com AI Chatbot (was called Rufus and they renamed it to Alexa for shopping) to do things like write fizbuzz etc. Looks like they patched it to refuse though.


Came here to say the same. I haven't tried in months but Rufus definitely spat out Python code from within the Amazon shopping app. I just had to use English instead of the local language.


Super weird that they went to the trouble of finding all the samples and the output audio has noticeable lag in it. Compare to the original and you can hear it lagging in the 3rd measure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLrsUOA4Vb4


lol are you me? There was also a loophole with the coupons where it only used the total before discounts to validate the limit was met, so you could buy something that was $10 or 2 for $15, but the 2 would count as $20 towards your $40 limit.

I moved away from Seattle a while back so I'm not sure if they ever closed that one. I really miss getting all those cheap groceries!


It really reads like a LinkedIn engagement post.


Seems reasonable for (open) self-promotion in an industry forum.


Ah no, not linkedin!


> We offer features for you to ensure no one is recorded without their consent.

Source: trust me bro


I hadn't heard of Jot before. Looks really interesting and useful for a bunch of applications.


Maybe because when a product "seems" too light, people actually complain about it. Beats is all about perceived value vs actual quality anyway.

Remember when the iPhone 5 was deemed too light?

http://gizmodo.com/5945662/the-weirdest-thing-people-hate-ab...


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