❌1961 - Cuba ❌1964 - Laos ❌1965 - Vietnam ❌1973 - Cambodia ❌1979 - Nicaragua 🤷🏻‍♂️1983 - Grenada ❌1986 - Libya 🤷🏻‍♂️1991 - Iraq ❌1995 - Bosnia ❌1998 - Sudan 🤷🏻‍♂️1999 - Kosovo ❌2001 - Afghanistan ❌2003 - Iraq II ❌2011 - Libya II ❌2014 - Syria Don't worry it'll work this time.

Thinking about this again

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.

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 recorded a whistlestop tour thru designing a small ... thing... with kicad on the @gameengineering.bsky.social podcast youtu.be/85aBFYMy6O4?...

Recently I've been taking another look at fitting movement model parameters from data and managed to derive some formulations that work in terms of starting and stopping times and distances - something that is potentially a lot more intuitive for designers to use. theorangeduck.com/page/fitting...

🤯 Similarly there was a discussion on HN that this is essentially reverse engineering and zero API/ABI guarantees, cam break wity any update, and the response "once the language becomes popular enough, Microsoft will have to honor and keep it anyway"

amazing stuff

Is this a normal behavior in Zig community? Are all people in the language leadership such pieces of ....? Are language users merely ok with such behavior or also share it?

I have procrastinated on writing so much that I wrote an entire document on writing tips: cseweb.ucsd.edu/~tzli/writin... Probably not much is new but I find I still need to repeat the same things to my students regularly. Will update this document over time hopefully.

I'm finally writing up how Nanite Tessellation works. The first few blogs posts are up. More will be coming. graphicrants.blogspot.com/2026/02/nani...

Gaming stocks are dropping today after Google's rollout of Project Genie, an AI tool that lets users create and explore virtual worlds for 60 seconds. This is the result of a market that does not understand how video games are made. Allow me to suggest that the Street read Blood, Sweat, and Pixels

I praise the experienced joy of high level programming? I get attacked and blocked by low-level gurus (who later turn out to be scumbags) despite having never engaged with them. Not to mention aggressive Rust cultists. Posting brings me mostly emotional cost and negativity, so why bother? 2/2

I almost completely stopped posting because I don't feel it is valued or enriches my worldview anymore. I try to go nuanced and engage in a discourse and I get more attacks. I praise responsible use of AI while having a strong pro-artist stance? I end up on blocklists by close-minded zealots. 1/2

Transformers are an incredible neural network architecture. So many strong, beneficial characteristics. But one stands out to explain their success: no matter what problem or domain you work on - audio, image, video, text, time series, point clouds, voxels... The architecture stays *identical*. 1/2

Hey I made a new thing - it's called Gradientspace Graph, and it's a C#-based NodeGraph Programming system that also supports inline C# and Python "Code Nodes". The NodeGraph Engine is MIT Open-Source and the Editor is Free. More details here: www.gradientspace.com/tutorials/20...

Bandcamp bans AI music

Fantastic material! Every student should see it, not only in computer science. Science is an inherently social and subjective process - if everyone understood it, there would be fewer disappointments, and, paradoxically, more trust in science.("Failures" of science are our imperfect human failures).

cseweb.ucsd.edu/~tzli/novelt... I gave an internal talk at UCSD last year regarding "novelty" in computer science research. In it I "debunked" some of the myth people seem to have about what is good research in computer science these days. People seemed to like it, so I thought I should share.

New blog post is finally up: (Ab)using Shader Execution Reordering. A bit of outside the box usage of SER (for better or worse). debaetsd.github.io/posts/ser/

This might annoy some of my colleagues (game developers and low-level tinkerers that get furious about Electron et al. memory, latency, and CPU usage): I agree and started to realize it even before vibe coding. It's not just "fashion" to wrap everything in web frameworks. 1/N

I wrote a blog post describing state of GPU market and what does it mean for support of new GPU features asawicki.info/articles/sta... Thanks to @asawicki.info for letting me publish on his blog

I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.

I got the first post about direct lighting material occlusion up on my blog. On this one I go over the commonly used micro-occlusion approach and its limitations, and I start digging into micro-shadowing as an improvement. irradiance.ca/posts/micros...

Legit super excited about this work coming out. My amazing doctoral student @ben.graphics has been working on an idea to use physically based differentiable rendering (PBDR) to probe visual understanding. Here, we generate physically-grounded metamers for vision models. 1/4 arxiv.org/abs/2512.12307

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".

Super happy and honored to share that our paper "BSP-OT: Sparse transport plans between discrete measures in log-linear time" won a *Best paper award* at SIGGRAPH Asia 2025! If you are here, come see my presentation about this work Wednesday afternoon! Many thanks to the award committee!

Our #SIGGRAPHAsia 2025 paper "Sample Space Partitioning and Spatiotemporal Resampling for Specular Manifold Sampling" improves #realtime #caustics rendering. Project Page: graphics.cs.utah.edu/research/pro... @daqilin.bsky.social @tizian.bsky.social

I will release the first official #ImAnim 1.0.0 github.com/soufianek... github.com/soufianek...#ImAnim 1/10

Blog post on motion blur rendering (which is impressively thorough) by Alex Gauggel gaukler.github.io/2025/12/09/n...

My wife is very technical (software engineer) but has zero experience in computer graphics or AI, and yet she immediately, within a second, recognizes the "GenAI look" and says it looks like crap. I hope it's a widespread reaction. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Some random Morton Code tricks: If you've worked with Morton codes you've probably seen something like the this GLSL code to decode a Morton code, which end up at roughly 27 integer operations to generate the equivalent 2D position. Code transcribed from fgiesen.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/d...

Hi this is Beatrix ^^ dunno what I’m doing here… or anywhere really. My stuff: - Artemis the cat and Lizzy the leopard gecko - crocheting and other handcraft - gaming, horror, horror games - photography - future graphics programmer burnout - yeah #introductions

What a cool paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.02371 Augmenting Halide language to support scheduling that allows for the use of GPU Tensor Cores (and similar) for non-ML, general image/audio processing applications. IMO, shading languages badly need "scheduling" and heterogeneity of devices/passes.

🌶️ Hot take: ML-based graphics makes some graphics researchers unhappy for the same reason diffusion models make artists unhappy. Both automate the interesting and beautiful parts of the work and both deskill the worker. Both result in questionable quality and both are being adopted regardless.

🧠🔬 Excited to share our #NeurIPS2025 paper: "Convolution Goes Higher-Order"! We asked: Can shallow networks be as expressive as deep ones? Inspired by biological vision, we introduce higher-order convolutions that capture complex image patterns standard CNNs miss. 🧵👇

For me, vibe-coding marked a new era of personal "tooling" and UX. Instead of searching for existing tools that are either too powerful/complex, or not an exact fit, I quickly hack together simple UX apps and background services for my use - using tech I wouldn't have time to learn otherwise.

This is hilarious and a testament to Elon's manipulation and megalomania, but shows why no private and "closed" AI models should be used for any public systems and decision making. We need: Open source, open weights, open datasets, and reproducible training. And this is why they are fighting them.

Them: this is more of a comment than a question, but... Me:

Here is an alpha release of Fabric, my open source node based creative coding & prototyping env. github.com/Fabric-Proje... Enjoyed Quartz Composer, or want a more intuitive node based tool? Check it out, & help build w me! #swift, #swiftui #metal, #realtime, #gpu #graphics

Hostages. People held without any charge and released in exchanges etc. are called hostages. (And they are held in underground "tunnels".)

Two weeks ago I read some hate on Hasan Piker related to Zohran and how their association will sink his election results (lol). So I listened to 20-50min clips from his YT channel. That dude is legit good: charismatic, nuanced, pragmatic, emphatic, and policing his audience against hate.

TIL that Norbert Wiener, creator of cybernetics and one of the biggest names in early computer science, statistics, robotics, and control systems - was a workers' rights supporter, argued for labor involvement in tech, and became an anti-war activist after WW2, refusing any military-related funding.

i had a chat with lukasz and @antovsky about gamedev and stuff, if youre into that sort of thing! the middle hour is the juiciest but its all fantastic, ofc ;) youtu.be/mFBmoCv5EcQ?...

I gave a talk at Pacific Graphics 2025 on the topic of "Classical Computer Graphics in the Age of Generative AI". I've uploaded the recording to Youtube today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyci...

Mamdani's big secret: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/mamdanis-b...

TIL about Python 3.13's cute copy.replace() for creating modified copies of immutable (not only, but for them it's super convenient) types. Point = namedtuple('Point', ['x', 'y', 'z']) p0 = Point(x=0, y=50, z=10) p1 = copy.replace(p0, x=5) You can override __replace__ in your custom class too!

Here's a recording of my talk on the role of computers in making art, including so-called "AI", which was presented as the opening keynote of SIGGRAPH 2025, incorporating lessons from the history of computer graphics, photography, modern art, and philosophy of art. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2YR... 1/

Wow I didn't know Python has cute chained comparisons: "e.g., x < y <= z is equivalent to x < y and y <= z, except that y is evaluated only once (but in both cases z is not evaluated at all when x < y is found to be false)." docs.python.org/3/reference/...

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! 🎉