Working on Scalable Optimal Transport with R. Mohayaee, C. Dapogny and E. Oudet: more than 1 billion particles ! ➡️ use algebraic multigrid preconditioner (AMGCL) ➡️ rewrite GPU backend: no limit on matrix size, supports multi-GPU ! ➡️ Available in OpenNL: github.com/BrunoLevy/Op...

Funny things still happen over at the bad place This guy put a prompt in his LinkedIn and now AI recruiters are writing him in Old English and calling him "my lord"

This is SUCH an excellent account of this moment in both informational and emotional terms.

BTW if you're interested in seeing how rendering in Tiny Glade works, @h3r2tic.bsky.social gave a tech talk at GPC 2024 that is one of my favorite rendering tech talks of the past few years: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jusW...

In a sample of around 140 LC patients and pre-pandemic controls, 83% of Long Covid patients revealed tissue-specific autoantibody signatures and immune alterations, which are not detected by routine serology in long COVID #LongCovid link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Plouf ! Our @eurographicsc.bsky.social course notes on Optimal Transport for Fluids, New and Old, with @pltc.bsky.social are out, here: diglib.eg.org/items/68a801...

A recent graduated PhD student Ryusuke Sugimoto (co-supervised by Prof. Toshiya Hachisuka) won a Eurographics PhD award for his research on using Monte Carlo techniques to solve various PDEs in computer graphics. https://www.eg.org/wp/eurographics-awards-programme/phd-award/ https://rsugimoto.net/

For anyone who doesn’t have a subscription to the Bookseller, the article is based on this report which launched today: ukcomicscreators.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Gaussian splats are really cool tech, but I don’t understand why people classify it as AI. It’s point clouds with a ML optimizer; all “classical” stuff. Sure, genAI can generate Gaussian splat clouds now, but that’d be like saying JPG and TXT files are AI because genAI can make JPGs and text too.

Leaning on the quirky comedy doesn't mean that you can't make things cool as hell with this style. This scene uses the same cadence & manga-like aspects, with just enough oomph to the animation, for truly amazing cliffhanger

Struggled to describe Nippon Sangoku earlier, even as someone who has read multiple volumes of the manga. Landed on "LoGH meets Golden Kamuy", which implies a high bar I don't think it's ready to clear... but it sure is getting a stylish anime adaptation, so worth giving it a try!

This Lippmann-Dewey debate still frames democratic thinking today. Do we fix democracy by improving the expert infrastructure that informs the public? Or by improving the public's own capacity to participate? The answer, I'd argue, is both.

Walter Lippmann wrote Public Opinion in 1922. His core insight: the world is too complex for any of us to experience directly. We can't personally verify what's happening in government, the economy, or foreign affairs. So how do we form opinions about them?

Okay. An important moment for us, if you’ll indulge me with a repost. It’s time to start the very first whisper of noise about our next game. It’s a mailing list! But it’s a mailing list that I’m hoping will be a bit different than what you’re used to. mailchi.mp/bithellgames...

My erosion filter is out! Video, blog post, and shader source. It emulates erosion without simulation, so it's fast, GPU friendly, and trivial to generate in chunks. Explainer video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4V2... Companion blog post: blog.runevision.com/2026/03/fast... #ProcGen #vfx #GameDev

The Cathedral! Generated fully in geometry nodes in Blender. Only procedural modeling, no booleans, 40k nodes. 🤡 Nodes available on my github, consider sharing because it will get the free asset to the hands of those who need it: github.com/IRCSS/Blende...

From the trailer for "Tower Dungeon" Volume 6 (Tsutomu Nihei's manga). 2D animation : Studio Keel >> natalie.mu/comic/news/6...

The truly sad part is that half those tokens are used to say things like: “You’re right to call me out.” “I was wrong and I own that” “You’re right, I provided incorrect information” “Because of my failure you wasted 2 hours, that’s on me” “You trusted my results, and I let you down”

Well well

Today in AI: Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials. Everyone involved should be fired. archive.is/ELrCI#select...

Ranma 1/2 Season 3 is announced for Netflix in October, beginning with the Bakusai Tenketsu arc!

Our Micropolygon pipeline (MPH) rendering the NVIDIA Zorah demo assets in #Anvil. Zorah is composed of nearly 500 million triangles — but that doesn’t scare us 🙂

If asked to draw a person's portrait, many people would say “I cannot draw.” Why is observational drawing so hard? In a new paper, @judithfan.bsky.social and I answer: it's the limitations of human vision. Learning to draw is learning skills to overcome them. aaronhertzmann.com/2026/03/23/d... 1/

Yoko Kanno & Seatbelts - Cowboy Bebop "TANK!" Extended (Official Music Video) ♫ Full MV >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=d75o...

Preparing with @pltc.bsky.social our course on Optimal Transport for @eurographicsc.bsky.social He created a hands-on experience in Python, from Laguerre diagrams to semi-discrete OT, from simple bouncing balls to incompressible Euler fluid simulator. Looking forward to see you in Aachen !

I appreciate the viewpoint of a lot of people saying that fidelity doesn't really matter, people don't care about this stuff, art direction trumps poly count, etc. Sure. But you risk implicitly conceding to NVidia that DLSS5 makes lighting "more detailed" or "more accurate", and it *doesn't*.

DLSS 5 OFF // DLSS 5 ON

Its the environmental art equivalent of yassification, ibizafication.

the thing about tweaking lighting is you can almost always get people to say "yeah that's better" by making it brighter and higher contrast, and the thing about DLSS5 is it can't come in to work the next day, look back at the screen and go "ah no we've really fucked that"

Before DLSS --- After

They left this in the video, just imagine what they're leaving out lmao

The funniest part of the DLSS 5 demo is they had it running on two GPUs but say it'll work on one eventually. The point of DLSS is that it makes it so if you're broke you can run your game at 4k. They had an entire GPU just for the yassification lighting.

New Nvidia DLSS Tech Gives Characters AI Slop Faces https://kotaku.com/new-nvidia-dlss-tech-gives-characters-ai-slop-faces-2000679199

NVIDIA presents DLSS 5

it’s literally wasting all that pathtracing work by inventing light sources that aren’t even in the scene 😭

It's the GamerGater "fan" edits on Aloy but make it procedural.

the dialogue in this photo is literally beyond parody

Saw on the train today, Fukushima prefecture is doing a tourism campaign in partnership with Square-Enix, promoting Final Fantasy-like landscapes & touristic spots. Cute stuff, I only found the 1st one in good quality.

To be clear: Signal’s encryption and infrastructure have not been compromised and remain robust. These attacks were executed via sophisticated phishing campaigns, designed to trick users into sharing information – SMS codes and/or Signal PIN – to gain access to users’ accounts. 2/7

The first week of our Open Letter to Keep Android Open has been a resounding success! Our signatories list has grown to nearly 50 organizations from 20 countries around the world, including the @eff.org, @openmedia.org, @vivaldi.com, and many more! keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/...

im kinda shocked indies dont use prerendered backgrounds aesthetic more. you can get like 90% of the benefits of high fidelity for a tiny fraction of the actual work, since you only need to make it look good from the one angle

Honestly, AI slop PRs are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for #Godot maintainers. If you want to help, more funding so we can pay more maintainers to deal with the slop (on top of everything we do already) is the only viable solution I can think of: fund.godotengine.org

The recording of my Vulkanised 2026 talk is now live 🎥 In this talk, I walk through the journey of bringing a Vulkan RT pipeline into Godot. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HddS... Thanks to LunarG for the opportunity and to the @godotengine.org community for the reviews and feedback.

You should probably read this: theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-... LLM demands code changes to a project, and when refused, starts writing blog posts attacking the human coders. Extortion through reputation attacks is going to be a big, fraudulent business that will go after every author.

Book club scams are now threatening authors who don't fall for their BS. In December, I received an email from Herry Sharp, so-called CEO of "Super Book Lover Curator" praising my novella We Who Hunt Alexanders. Totally AI-generated and a scam so I didn't respond. Now Herry is threatening me. 1/

Recently launched the next online shindig. More info & bookings, here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reinterpre...