🌾 ivan 🌱 @ivan@coolkids.house

there are many reasons to be critical of current AI tools, but the "it doesn't quite work so it never will" takes seem so disconnected from the reality of the pace of research that they just seem like bad faith arguments

is there a resource somewhere where one can find texture read benchmarks on various GPUs?

pleased to report that Affinity Designer has successfully replaced both Photoshop and Illustrator for me. such a relief to finally say goodbye to being a subscription hostage to Adobe for so many years. i hope it rots in hell along with its shitty overpriced software.

Elden Ring type shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JItkRLVlf-c

because of alpha beta pruning and the way i'm evaluating possible moves, the time my card game AI takes to take a turn can vary quite a bit depending on the situation and it's really funny to watch it struggle for a long time with a very open possibility space and then do something really dumb

liberals on the bird site doing some incredible mental gymnastics around the energy department announcement that the pandemic was likely caused by a lab leak

my unpopular opinion is that places like Art Station were always flooded with uninteresting derivative work that valued technical execution over anything else and the AI automation of both the derivation and the technical execution, while disastrous from a labor point of view, will push artists to take a lot more interesting risks in their work

stages of getting old by suddenly acquired deep interest in:

- aircraft
- ww2 aircraft
- ww2
- ww1
- third punic war
- archaeology
- rocks

the good news is my card game AI is much smarter now. the bad news is it takes 3 minutes to take a turn.

say what you will about the Win32 API, but it takes a single function call to open an audio stream and start writing to it and that's really nice

templates are one of the very few really great features or c++. the single header graphics engine ive been noodling on for the past year is c++, but it only really uses c++ for templating. im always itching it to rewrite it in pure c so it would be useful for more people, but the handful of places where it relies on templates are so elegant that it’s hard to let go.

please, leave me alone until after the experiment

every time the US govt. wants to hide some flying military bullshit they’re like “its a UFO” and it works every goddamn time

sok-worlds is such a great game. a brilliant concept executed flawlessly and my favorite thing that sokpop has done.

its like 90s VRML worlds combined with all the modern conveniences that let you make an entire little scene in a matter of minutes.

https://sokpop.itch.io/sok-worlds