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Reeses Puffs boat, AI pickup lines, AR map gamification, Doom on SLR & cross stitch, a water-cooled MacBook, clustering Raspberry Pis, classic games on Apple Arcade, advanced math and sneaky games.

Michael, Michael and Andy join forces to take on two weeks’ worth of stories after a much needed break.  Starting things off on a nautical note, the team contemplates the appearance of the Ever Given cargo ship that was blocking the Suez Canal appearing in Microsoft Flight Simulator.  Would make for a great Oculus experience!  Turning to starboard, the Reeses Puffs boat with the self-proclaimed first ever milkcuzzi is sold out.

Having enough of the water, the team moves to dry land.  There they evaluate the latest innovations in AR way finding, and how the process of keeping maps up to date could easily be gamified.  Then, the co-hosts discuss artificial intelligence with an article on how AI is being used to write pick up lines and even write songs.  This spurs a memory of the Music Genome Project, the underlying engine that powers Pandora.  

Next, the team has a couple of fun examples of Doom, both on a camera, and on cross stitch.  Brings new meaning to a photo shoot. 

Then, the team has a more detailed computing hardware discussion, first with a person who water-cooled their MacBook Pro.  Then, Andy shares his latest Raspberry Pi effort, a ClusterHAT setup with PiZeros. Check out the links below, and watch for his tweets on this cool project.

The team then muses on the latest games being added to Apple Arcade.  Winding things up for this episode, Michael, Michael and Andy conclude with the math behind crumpling paper, googly eye dice on Kickstarter, and the upcoming Gollum game.

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Selected Links

Gamesradar article: Someone has added the trapped Suez Canal cargo ship to Microsoft Flight Simulator — https://www.gamesradar.com/someone-has-added-the-trapped-suez-cargo-ship-to-microsoft-flight-simulator/ 

Reeses Puffs boat — https://reesespuffs.boats 

TechCruch article: Google Promises better 3D maps — https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/30/google-promises-better-3d-maps 

Vice article: A Scientist Taught AI to Generate Pickup Lines.  The Results are Chaotic. — https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3vjey/artificial-intelligence-ai-pickup-lines

Amazing check it out @GamesAtWork_Biz Artificial Intelligence Creates New Nirvana Song ‘Drowned in the Sun’ https://t.co/ldNPXeVzer @Loudwire— Ian Hughes/epredator (@epredator) April 9, 2021

Music Genome Project —