Creative Prompt Engineering for GPT-3 I’ve been playing and talking with GPT-3, and learning the fine art of Prompt Engineering. It’s not too expensive unless you’re using it in bulk, and it’s a lot cheaper per minute of fun than stuffing quarters into video games. Here’s one experiment that went quite well: I found something…

Sung to the tune of “I Wanna Be Sedated”, with apologies to The Ramones. Twenty-twenty-twenty four escapes to go, I wanna be <![CDATA[ Nothin’ to markup and no where to quo-o-ote, I wanna be <![CDATA[ Just get me through the parser, put me in a node Hurry hurry hurry before I go inline I…

Back in 1997, I wrote a few web pages about Stanislaw Lem, with some reviews of his books, including his delightful collection of short stories “The Cyberiad”. Inspired by his fictitious criticism of non-existent books, I wrote some fictitious home pages in the first person of his brilliant but braggadocios…

by Don Hopkins, Kaleida Labs, 1995 Note: This all seems pretty obvious now, but I wrote it in 1995, before the appearance of Java and JavaScript. Of course the links don’t work any more (except to the arpanet map), and unfortunately kaleida.com didn’t get snapshot by archive.org, but this is…

Head Phaking, Phase 1 Demo of The Sims character animation, and early design description of “head phaking” feature (November 17, 1998). The Sims Character Animation Demo starts at 17:40: From: Don Hopkins To: Chris Trottier Date: Tuesday, November 17, 1998 7:57 AM Subject: Head Phaking, phase 1 I’ve implemented a preliminary cut at head…

Demo and early design description (August 20, 1998) of The Sims object placement tool. The Sims Object Placement Tool Demo starts at 4:45: From: Don Hopkins To: MAXIS_CTG Date: Thursday, August 20, 1998 5:45 PM Subject: New simple object placement and rotation implemented for arch mode! I’ve implemented a new simple object placement mode, and turned it on…

From: John Wainwright at Lyric Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 1998 1:31 PM To: Don Hopkins at Maxis Subject: CGDC talk Hi, Don. Kinetix has roped me into giving a talk about MAXScript at the Game Developer’s Conference in Long Beach on Friday. I wanted to see if its OK to…

This is a transcript of a video taped demonstration of SimCity on HyperLook in NeWS. — HyperLook SimCity Demo Video This video was badly compressed a long time ago, and was recorded in the Exploratorium so there are kids screaming maniacally and people laughing uproariously in the background! It was a pretty insane demo and the camerawoman almost dropped the camera, but I’m glad I got it all on tape…

Timeline of pie menu development by Don Hopkins. ** 1968–12–09: The Mother of All Demos PEOPLE HAVE GOT TO BECOME MORE EFFECTIVE AT HANDLING COMPLEX PROBLEMS--AT THEIR DAILY STRUGGLE WITH COMPLEX AND URGENT ISSUES. THE SURVIVAL OF MAN SEEMS DEPENDENT UPON IT. ANY REASONABLE POSSIBILITY SEEN BY SOCIETY FOR INCREASING THAT EFFECTIVENESS SHOULD WARRANT SERIOUS INVESTIGATION — Doug Engelbart (1968) The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)