e395 — Breaking Reality | Games At Work dot Biz

engravings of quantum discoveries with their respective dates and scientists — Photo by Christian Chomiak on Unsplash

Andy and Michael R build off of last week’s episode of creating reality to breaking reality. They start with an article about the cute Neko cat, and how Evert Pot created a javascript port of it. If you want even more fun playing with cute cats, give Nekoatsume a try (see links below).

Next, a series of science articles, beginning with the commercial (COTS) cameras used on the Orion module of Artemis I. Then, the Alexa integration in Callisto. Just don’t ask about the pod bay doors. Coming up quickly is an experiment that could break Einstein’s theory of special relativity, where researchers at CERN measured neutrinos arriving 60 nanoseconds faster than light would have done.

If that’s not quite enough, a couple of articles about how using duality, a team led by Maria Spiropulu of the California Institute of Technology used a quantum computer to model how an Einstein Rosen bridge between two black holes is related to entanglement. For the quantum curious, please check out the embedded below video. It is an easy to understand treatment for how a wormhole was created in the lab using a quantum computer.

Then we’re on to the prose version of stable diffusion that’s been lighting up the airwaves in the past week or so. Friend of the show Ian Hughes uses GPT3 AI to write an office (The Office) scene where Blackadder and Baldrick hatch a cunning plan to get past the monotony of the mounds of paperwork to be done.

Amazon builds a realistic SimCity, Unreal launches RealityScan, and Apple reportedly renames the mixed reality software to power the as-yet-unannounced headset ‘xrOS’. So much reality in one small entangled episode.

What part of Einstein’s theory of general relativity do you think will be the next to unravel or be reinforced with more spooky action at a distance? Drop us a line at @gamesatwork_biz and let us know!

Selected Article Links

evertpot.com blog post – Neko – A brief history and porting to Javascript

nekoatsume.com NekoAtsume Kitty Collector (English)

Hey, did you know that the Orion module on ARTEMIS I is using (modified) commercial, off-the-shelf cameras? And that those gorgeous exterior shots are being made with GoPros?
Here's an engineering presentation (PDF) from 2017 by Steve Bailey of Deep Space Systems, going into the cameras and what was needed to adapt them.
https://www.asnt.org/~/media/Files/Events-Meetings/Conferences/ISIW/2017/3c_3_Bailey_Deep-Space-Systems_Engineering-Camera-System-for-Orion
#nasa #artemis @orion #imaging #cameras #space #cots #gopro

— Dan Hon (@danhon) 2022-11-29T17:32:31.456Z