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74 points vicioussquid | 1 comments | 22 Apr 25 20:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source
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vicioussquid ◴[22 Apr 25 20:06 UTC] No.43765749[source]▶
What if a Tamagotchi had a neural network and could learn stuff?

A digital pet squid that also teaches how neural networks and hebbian learning work. Behaviours are driven by the neural network according to his needs:

https://github.com/ViciousSquid/Dosidicus

I spent AGES on this and would love feedback. I think it's just the right balance of educational and fun. I did all the graphics myself and am currently working on multiplayer - squids will be able top enter other tanks and steal things, bring them home

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1. goldfeld ◴[22 Apr 25 21:11 UTC] No.43766350[source]▶
What if our todo list/commits/issue tracker could affect the blob and bloat could kill him? no?

This might also see a long shelf life, say, as familiars of fantasy rpgs, as pets from a fictionalized world-building narrative online; I guess it could be so for any LLM in principle, but the basic Sims-like gamification behind a tamagotchi seems like a solid foundation for those usecases.