Agentlien

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by Agentlien 10d ago
The easiest answer is that most tools and hardware in use predates those type of embeddings. The advantage with block compression is that it is purpose built to minimize bits used, it's local to small blocks, decoding and encoding can
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by Agentlien 10d ago
That's a great suggestion. I'll probably add that tomorrow.
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by Agentlien 10d ago
Thank you. I put a lot of care and effort into explaining my own insights the way I felt they needed to be expressed in my own voice. Letting a machine replace those words would have ruined that premise.
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Anatomy of a Texture(agentlien.github.io)
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by Agentlien 10d ago
I just uploaded a new article describing how a modern video game texture is stored in graphics memory, why it's done this way, and how it may differ between platforms. It is called Anatomy of a Texture.
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by Agentlien 11d ago
I love my Weber and I was amused to see the instruction manual specifically saying that when it's time to take your outdoor furniture inside for the winter, leave the Weber, it's built to handle it.
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by Agentlien 11d ago
Could you please list a few? Sounds like interesting history lessons.
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by Agentlien 12d ago
I was happy surprised to see the Swedish term "skräckblandad förtjusning" in the article. I've always loved that expression and I think it's a wonderful explanation to this seemingly crazy behavior. "Wow, that'
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by Agentlien 16d ago
I think this move by OpenAI is crazy. At best, if all unconfirmed accusations are unfounded, they still heard a rumour that someone had solved a huge million dollar problem and was about to make a name for themselves. Then, they decided thi
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by Agentlien 17d ago
I definitely see what he is saying. In my work as a graphics programmer I often find that I look at a problem and will immediately see how to solve it, more or less. But the devil is in the details and often nothing works unless you get eve
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by Agentlien 19d ago
Everything is an apple, it seems. You also have earth apples (pomme de terre in French, aardappel in Dutch) for potatoes, grenade apples (pomegranate in English, granatäpple in Swedish, ...), pineapple, ...
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by Agentlien 23d ago
On a related note, how would one go about interpreting a video file using some long lost custom codec?
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by Agentlien 26d ago
It took me some time to remap the muscle memory but it felt so worth it. The Steam version is not just a new AI, it introduced a lot of gameplay changes which really improved the underlying systems a lot.
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by Agentlien 26d ago
Is that insane? Every game[0][1] I ever helped ship has had fully localized UI. In game development that seems to be the standard way of doing things. And it requires a lot of testing and sometimes comes with workflows to automatically test
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by Agentlien 28d ago
I had a friend who was really into EVE online and showed me about 20 years ago. It felt too much like waiting and spreadsheets for me. I got into Dwarf Fortress around 2015 and I was hooked. These days it's something I often play toget
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by Agentlien 29d ago
I assume it's because the title contains "hilariously" and the author felt it necessary to state the content wasn't meant as humorous.
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by Agentlien 1mo ago
It's an indie open world game originally released for Stadia and in its original form simply loaded the whole world into memory at boot. We had to implement a streaming system and figure out a good way of chunking the world. This was a
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by Agentlien 1mo ago
One of my proudest professional moments was when me and three others managed to reduce memory load of the game Wavetale from 20+GiB to under 3GiB so we could port it to Nintendo Switch. The 100 TiB number almost gives me vertigo. Though in
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by Agentlien 1mo ago
I think using AI often feels faster than it is because you put less thought and effort into the problem yourself. Another possibility is that the people who experience these 100x productivity increases are honest, correct, and simply had ab
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by Agentlien 1mo ago
I am actually often a bit annoyed at discussions of depth in discussions of art - especially from art snobs talking about whether or not something is "true art". I think what depth does do is help something stand not the test of t
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by Agentlien 1mo ago
I have had similar thoughts about "x of the week/month/year". But every now and then there's a dirge or deluge of good things and years aren't even comparable because the fourth best thing one year might have b
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by Agentlien 1mo ago
As a Swede, I always enjoy Ikea product names. Many of them are based on their actual function or category. Some are wordplay related to this. For example: Rinnig - a kitchen towel called "runny" Skaftet - a series of standing lam
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by Agentlien 1mo ago
As a Swede, my first reaction was "what's wrong with calling it 'ship'?" Took me several seconds to get it.
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by Agentlien 1mo ago
Before listing resources, let me state that the single most important thing is to learn by doing. Write a lot of rendering code, experiment a lot with your own ideas and variations on each exercise. Once you move past the basics don't
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by Agentlien 1mo ago
> the number of people who get to work on shipping code where ring-0 knowledge is useful has to be minuscule as a percentage I wonder if it it is more that the percentage of people who choose to dedicate themselves to that type of work i
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by Agentlien 1mo ago
I like it. It's not complicated, it's tied to a git repo, it won't struggle if I ever get a popular post. I even have my own domain and I still ended up choosing to have my blog on GitHub because it was so smooth an experienc
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by Agentlien 1mo ago
I largely agree, with one huge caveat. One of my favorite blogs[0] is interesting because the author, Julia Evans, often writes about her learning experiences and is very transparent about mistakes made and where she still doesn't unde
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by Agentlien 1mo ago
I expected to disagree with this post but actually found it really worthwhile. For my own blog [0] I usually start writing because I feel I just learned and did something cool which gets me excited to share it. I also write only about topic
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by Agentlien 2mo ago
I think what I am saying is more that "easy" is too broad a vector to optimize along because it combines too much - both good and bad. I don't want a job without challenges of any kind. But I definitely want a job without str
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by Agentlien 2mo ago
On a tangent, I was a bit confused by the everyday examples given in this article. "We're often faced with similar trade-offs. You want a meal that's both cheap and delicious? A job that's both well-paid, easy, and fulfi

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