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Back in the mid-1990s I was using Windows 95/98 and running up against bugs, problems, driver issues, unexpected things happening. I would often end up on th...

whether or not there’s a black screen between scenes in a game size of padding or border around the edge of a dialog box radius of a rounded rectangle spacing or kerning between specific letters of a font aliasing or anti-aliasing around the edge of a circle speed at which an object moves across the screen what happens when you press a button or do an action wording on a menu item or dialog box order of two competing buttons that mean cancel or proceed the number of digits used to represent a high score Similarly, the wavedash technique in Super Smash Bros. Melee was an unintended consequence of the game’s physics engine, but it became a crucial part of high-level play after creator Masahiro Sakurai opted to leave it in. Even in systems that utilize artificial intelligence, humans are designing the algorithms, curating and creating the training data, and making decisions about how to implement and apply these tools.

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