🌾 ivan 🌱 @ivan@coolkids.house
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A few years ago we organized a small conference on renderer architecture and then brought it as a course at SIGGRAPH 2021. This year we will make it an open virtual conference, available to all to attend. I'm happy to announce the Rendering Engine Architecture Conference 2023 is happening virtually June 5th and 6th! Please go to our site to register and even submit a talk:
https://enginearchitecture.realtimerendering.com/
(Co-organised with: @kenpex, @stevemcauley and Mike Vance.) Join us!
repeatedly googling different variations of "bomb software"
does anyone remember a trippy generative visual software from the late 90s called "BOMB"? i can't find a video of it anywhere.
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people are selling pngs on etsy
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Using a drone camera in New Brunswick #Canada, Derek Burgoyne captured this incredible and rare footage of a moose shedding both its antlers.
#MeanwhileinCanada
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?
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4 years of development.
12,000 merged pull requests.
7,000 fixed issues.
1,500 individual contributors across engine and docs.
Godot 4.0 sets sail NOW! ⛵️
A complete overhaul. A solid foundation to build upon. #GodotEngine
https://godotengine.org/article/godot-4-0-sets-sail/
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
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
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This is by far the most astounding tech demo I’ve seen in a long time. Provides a totally different, amazing POV on how we should think about language/compiler/debugger/runtime/editor as an integrated whole.
stages of getting old by suddenly acquired deep interest in:
- aircraft
- ww2 aircraft
- ww2
- ww1
- third punic war
- archaeology
- rocks
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Some things never change.
Left, from 2006: Breathless New York Times article about the Second Life real estate boom.
Right: from 2023: Breathless New York Times article about the Metaverse real estate boom.
h/t @twitskeptic
the good news is my card game AI is much smarter now. the bad news is it takes 3 minutes to take a turn.
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random #ChatGPT #AI thoughts / links:
- "On Bullshit" argues bullshit is not lying; bs-ers don't "care" about the truth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit
- like Huizinga's "spoil-sport"(cheaters "care" about keeping the game going) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_Ludens
- Dreyfus-Heidegger crit of 20th century AI: "caring" is intelligence to feel what is relevant, but AI will never "care"... (if you're interested, Being In The World is a great approachable documentary primer to his philosophy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcCRmf_tHW8 )
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
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