One of my favorite Cabo Verde facts is that it has a genre of music that arose after an abandoned ship washed up in 1968, carrying hundreds of keyboards and synths

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This is the mistake both AI's biggest boosters and detractors are making right now: They treat AI as a replacement for humans, rather than a tool humans can use to accomplish tasks.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.

Wowwwwww this is a cool one

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The Minimal Retroreflective Microfacet Model jcgt.org/published/00...

most of the time when people say things like "technofeudalism" or "serfdom" to talk about modern conditions, I would urge you to consider instead the "company town."

This is both true and without question one of the greatest things about the United States.

NVIDIA researchers published "MotionBricks", real-time 3D character animation for games and robots: Project: nvlabs.github.io/motionbricks/ Check out that demo video... very impressive!

The prior limiting factor on decompilation was that you needed a very smart human (~$20-$200/hour), working for weeks or months, the human fatigues at this task very quickly, and it's not easily parallelized. Now that labor is available for $1-5/hr and can work 24/7. Adjust your expectations.

No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.

print the next square of Turing tape 🤝 predict the next high vector token “there’s no fucking way it generalizes like that”

We do very much need to move beyond being "pro" or "con" this stuff. It's going to be as silly as being pro or con steam. Useful policy is not shaped at that level.

INTRODUCTION TO SPHERICAL HARMONICS FOR GRAPHICS PROGRAMMERS finally done. gpfault.net/posts/sph.html

Interactive: superspl.at/scene/8ad9874b

Gaussian splatting has absolutely no right to work as amazingly as it does.

the thing about nuclear weapons is that it takes substantial effort to make one. LLMs are like nuclear weapons you can make out of tap water.

We have created the DataKrash from Mike Pondsmith's recent ttrpg "Do Not Create The DataKrash"

Even in a world where LLM never existed this is solid mentoring

meshoptimizer 1.1 is out! github.com/zeux/meshopt... Featuring two new major features, meshlet topology compression and opacity micromaps, as well as a few smaller features and improvements! More information in the infographic and release above :) Boosts and repository stars are welcome!

The vast majority of Americans are birthright citizens. Unless you naturalized or were born abroad to an American parent, you are a citizen because of the 14th Amendment. There is nothing constitutionally distinct about Americans born here to non-Americans. We are all literally equal citizens.

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youtu.be/6pFNyscvz_w Some more details on the recently shown forest path tracing can be found in this presentation, as well as other useful tips on path tracing integration. In general a lot of NVIDIA GDC 2026 presentations are now public

Lots of tech dudes think the "idea" is the important part of creating, not the creative journey you take through work to give that idea actual meaning. Ideas are the easiest, cheapest and least fulfilling part of it. Giving ideas life through work, and sharing that work with others, is the stuff.

DirectX 12 News from GDC 2026 - My Comments asawicki.info/news_1801_di...

This is another benefit to unionization. In the proper parts of Entertainment, credits are regulated by CBAs and that has led to the custom that those who don’t have CBAs also get proper inclusion. The IGDA did good work here on this, but there’s still a ways to go.

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 🙂

Ok got to a better spot We have both sundogs, a full halo, and an inverted halo! Incredibly rare - don't think I've ever seen the inverted before @capitalweather.bsky.social

Happy to work with a very cool team and contribute to the forest ray tracing project. youtu.be/RgpAc7U29BA Great collaboration with CD Projekt Red. We will open source the Vulkan sample later this year.

Thorough post by Nicholas Carlini with lots of insightful bits on how to choose research ideas to pursue, when to give them up or go on and how to write good papers nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2026...

Great to see renewed interest in #AssassinsCreedUnity following the new 60fps patch. If you’re curious about some of the tech behind it— global illumination and early GPU-driven pipeline —I shared a few details in my GDC talk. youtu.be/yj5pYktC3X8?... #AssassinsCreed

i've been fiddling with an old-school Steam skin for Dear ImGui: seidt.quest/s/dampf/. i open it several times a day to click and drag stuff around therapeutically because it's… grounding? :D imgui gallery thread post with source and references coming.

oh that is awesome, well deserved! congrats @ocornut.bsky.social

Very excited to see Opacity Micromaps getting full support in Direct3D 12 today! They are basically a "must have" for performant ray-intersection of dense foliage scenes. devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/d3d1...

Thinking about this again

Random thing I learned this morning: The word "caustic" comes from the Latin "causticus", which means "burning".

BEE TAXI (2016) Acrylic on Gessobord - 12" x 16" The last painting I used this palette for, HARBINGER, had a lot of yellows in it. When I finished, I covered the palette with a yellow ochre gesso so I could use it again. 1/4

I'd like to share @daqilin.bsky.social and I co-authored a chapter in the latest GPU Zen 4 book. We cover the engineering details of implementing ReSTIR GI & PT in UE5's NvRTX branch, adopted in NVIDIA's Zorah project showcased at CES and GDC last year. The book is now available on Amazon.

I am happy to announce publication of my chapter titled "Real-Time Neural Network Implementation for GPUs" in GPU Zen 4 book, available now. Chapter comes with full MIT-licensed source code, available on Github here: github.com/boksajak/MLP... The book is available on Amazon.

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

A beautiful sun halo appeared on my morning walk here in Glastonbury. Photo taken about 45 minutes after sunrise.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

gpu programmers be like: "give me direct access to the hardware. im not a baby. i need precise control" and then run away screaming when the horrors that lie beneath are revealed.

programmer: just let me allocate memory vulkan: *wish granted* programmer: wait, not like that

People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...

While working on spark.js, I realized that common normal map compression formats weren’t supported in popular frameworks like three.js. I added the necessary support to three.js and wrote an article to shed some light on the topic: ludicon.com/castano/blog... #webgpu #webgl #threejs #sparkjs

This feels like the texturing version of spinning around my model. Playing with carve groups in @marmoset3d.bsky.social to get grey metalness values through intermediate oxidation.

Just got everything lined up to release `ed3d-plugins`, the Claude Code harness I use in my day-to-day. While they're yelling about gas towns, I present an e-bike, just don't drive it on the sidewalk. I'm biased, but I think it's good. I've tried a few similar, and I keep going back.