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.

This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.

Terence Tao gets it: "AI is teaching us...our idea of what intelligence is is not really accurate" "we were looking for some elusive intelligent way of of thinking and we don't see it in the tools that actually solve our goals...maybe it's actually because intelligence is not what we think it is"

‘It’s the underground Met Gala of concrete murderzone design’: welcome to the Quake Brutalist Game Jam

really digging this for a light config UI

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Marvelling the red brick reflections in the leather glove material from the sun hitting the red brick house next to me.

Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.

Whether you like it or not, a Gaussian splat of wasp! It's menacing.. but also gorgeous! #3dgs

I am willing to accept "this is one of the greatest marvels I have ever seen and we must destroy it for XYZ reason" as a valid argument but if you can't say the first part, I don't know what do with you

My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :) www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap... I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

You don't need to understand the problem or the proofs to get at the interesting part: mathematicians working in communities and using LLMs mostly to generate "workhorse" proofs of key elements of the problem (augmentation), rather than just dumping the problem in and letting the LLM do everything

After nine years of development, meshoptimizer has reached its first major version, 1.0! This release focuses on improvements in clusterization and simplification as well as stabilization. Here's a release announcement with more details on past, present and future; please RT! meshoptimizer.org/v1

ImPlot 0.17 + ImPlot3D 0.30 released: - github.com/epezent/impl... - github.com/brenocq/impl... brenocq (Breno Cunha Queiroz) main author of ImPlot3D took over maintenance of ImPlot, you can sponsor him at: github.com/sponsors/bre...

Ah, nice, yet another "wrote a huge chunk of the bloody engine" credit gets marked up as "additional programming." As a contractor/consultant you have much better financial control over your future but don't ever expect to be part of the team. If you want legitimate credit: put it in your contract.

the economic success of the U.S. is significantly built on the land grant universities and in particular their excellent agricultural science tradition.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

other people's intuitions about the composition of thought are very different than my own. this paragraph treats as absolutely ridiculous something i would say is self-evidently true.

thanks to a colleague I just learned about isaac rosenberg's haunting "break of day in the trenches" and I think you should learn about it, too, on this remembrance day www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

It's kind of fascinating to me that two of the prime obsessions of the 21st century science are "meat without mind" and "mind without meat"

Impressive as that sounds, thermal engineering has lagged behind transistor density improvements. Thermal envelopes significantly cap current chip performance. Any "breakthrough" in cooling technology (think microfluidics) will have disproportionally large effects on human progress.

From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.

Couldn't be prouder of my intern @bingxxu.bsky.social for leading this work! 🚀 It took immense persistence to turn the initial hunch, that an attention mechanism could model long-range interactions in light transport, into a robust, working system. Huge congrats to the entire team! 🎉

This feels very true. With copilot I kinda want a sub-PR mode (that it doesn't have). I want it to create a tiny change, show it to me as a difference, chat with me about it, iterate. Then at some point I'd accept it, and commit. This granularity doesn't exist, sadly. Either tab-complete, or a PR

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

Relatedly I found this graph on some tech progress for computers, just to show how things don't always just go up forever necessarily.

"Inside NVIDIA GPUs: Anatomy of high performance matmul kernels", includes a great intro to GPU architecture and PTX/SASS: www.aleksagordic.com/blog/matmul

My absolutely favorite paper in this space I recommend to anyone working on reconstruction or inverse tasks (or even any machine learning): arxiv.org/abs/1711.06077 "Perception-Distortion Tradeoff". Goes beyond quantifying the error/distortion of the reconstruction statistically, 2/

Overview on the BLAS sharing techniques (2nd attempt). github.com/nvpro-sample...

I got tired of mashing together tools to write long threads with 𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 and ℳα†ℏ—so I wrote La𝑇𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡! It converts Markdown and LaTeX to Unicode that can be used in “tweets”, and automatically splits long threads. Try it out! keenancrane.github.io/LaTweet/