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Mike Bell

@mdb036

CTO at Mercuna Developments, the AI Navigation solution for Unreal Engine and Unity. Mastodon: @mike@rebel-lion.uk and @mikebell@mastodon.gamedev.place

mercuna.com
Joined August 2010
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31b-PrimeDetector is the #TinyTapeout design of the week! It takes in a 31-bit number and attempts to divide the value by all numbers less than it; if it finds one that divides evenly, the logic stops and declares the number not prime. tinytapeout.com/runs/tt03/02…
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Image from Matthew Venn (@matthewvenn)
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Excellent @Blackbeards_TP gig tonight! Small village hall but lots of people up and dancing by the end!
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Mercuna now supports cutting out stationary obstacles, so paths are found around them.
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@MercunaDev14 Mar 2023
⅛ Navmesh cutting of stationary obstacles is one of those features that sounds simple, but there are complexities when you get into the detail. A two day long thread on our approach and some of the challenges:
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This was one of my features for the new v2.6 release, there were quite a few edge cases to handle and it revealed some tricky issues with vertical generation box boundaries. It's good to see them working well now - I'm pretty pleased with the results!
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Parcel with @dhlexpressuk due to be delivered today but not shown as having left the local delivery facility. Really could do with it before I go away tomorrow. Anything I can do?
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Well I guess it's nice that you can at least speak to someone at DHL when stuff goes wrong. But an early morning trip to the DHL depot tomorrow morning wasn't really what I wanted!
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Replying to @nothings
@nothings I’m considering putting my Hovalaag cpu implementation on #TinyTapeout. Just checking you are ok for me to do that? As the processor is your design, I thought I should check! And if that’s ok, would you be willing to share the source for the assembler?
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I don’t necessarily want the source for the whole exe if that’s difficult to disentangle from the game - just the parser would be fine! I’m thinking I might implement a superset of the instructions available in game, so being able to tweak it would be handy.
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Today I asked ChatGPT about the topic I wrote my PhD about. It produced reasonably sounding explanations and reasonably looking citations. So far so good – until I fact-checked the citations. And things got spooky when I asked about a physical phenomenon that doesn’t exist.
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I’m now pretty much exclusively using Mastodon - miss seeing a few people from here that haven’t moved, but overall it’s a good place to be. There are some technical problems with it (mostly just clients need improving) but the federated structure seems to work well.
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Logged back into Twitter specifically to tell @andrewhunterm about the Mosstodon hashtag over in The Good Place. But it seems he already knows.
Wow. Earth setting behind the limb of the Moon. Screen captured the last ~3.5 minutes of imagery before loss of signal and turned it into a (sped up) GIF animation.👇 Credit: NASA TV/ESA
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Esteemed non-techie regulars, if you're wondering what makes so many techies on here go "welp time to get our affairs in order": let me try to get through this in a handful of tweets.
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Mike Bell retweeted
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John Bull@garius18 Nov 2022
MUSK: I think this is bad. It's hard for me to admit this but I might have fucked up and... Well... I need your help. Will you take over as CEO? LIZ TRUSS: Yes.
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Master's thesis is nearing completion: Open world 3D game on a microcontroller #PicoSystem #RP2040 #raspberrypi @pimoroni @Raspberry_Pi
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New @LadyMaisery album, Tender, out today 🎶 I’ve listened to it a few times already (thanks for sharing it with backers early) and love it!
Pretty sure that makes me the QUEEN OF REVERSE CLICKBAIT. 👑 Allow me to demonstrate with a short video on what happens when you put a bank card inside a glass of nail varnish remover. 💅 bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dcy7n…
What’s inside a bank card?, Bank Card, Series 1, The Secret Genius of...

What’s inside a bank card?, Bank Card, Series 1, The Secret Genius of...

Hannah Fry dissolves a bank card to reveal the hidden technology inside.

bbc.co.uk
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Is there a maker/hacker specific Mastodon server? I'm on a gamedev instance, but most of what I tweet about here is really mucking around with @Raspberry_Pi or @pimoroni stuff, so looking for a different server where that would fit better in the local feed.
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Also the local feed on mastodon.gamedev.place is really great to browse for #gamedev stuff so would love to find a similar feed for maker things!
Awesome gig tonight - thank you again @Blackbeards_TP! Think we did a decent job at buying all the cider we could, hope your cut is reasonable 🍻
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