Well, in some ways the human brain is a sophisticated system with some input translated into state such as weights and synapses. How could mere matter "comprehend" anything? It just sends some chemicals and electrical signals here and there in glorified pipes.
Perhaps comprehension is not something special, but an illusion that emerges after some level of mass storing information, adjusting weights, and running the "circuit" in a feedback loop. While GPT-4 is much simpler (and not just in scale but also in mechanism, being a "mere" statistical model) than a human brain, it can still exhibit an emergent property analogous to comprehension.
At some level even a switch might be said to have a unit of comprehension, encoded in the open or closed state.
There's a mention in the book from the sibling post that he thought that single text slide is enough for the story background in shooters. Not necessarily truth looking at modern games.
Still, even then he was far from "let's use new library, just because it's fun to play with".
If you have even a passing interest in this, you will enjoy the book Masters of Doom, which is about the early days of id software. I think that's what the GP is referring to.
The rules are quite clear and linked on the page but if you can't be bothered:
> GSoC Contributors.
> Eligibility.
> Requirements. To participate in the Program, a GSoC Contributor must:
be eighteen (18) years of age or older upon registration for the Program;
for the duration of the Program, be eligible to work in the country in which they reside;
not be an Organization Administrator or Mentor in the Program; and
be a student or a beginner to open source software development.
