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by Agentlien 1y ago
> it's usually more "cost efficient" to write normal fast-to-write code that isn't maximally effective, let the compiler do its magic, and call it good enough. For the last six years my full time job has largely been
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by Agentlien 1y ago
This is exactly what I've been doing when optimizing games for the switch.
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by Agentlien 1y ago
It should definitely be possible already using CUDA or computer shaders. From a theoretical view computer graphics is signal processing but with a signal consisting of up to four color channels across two dimensions. This is the view taken
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by Agentlien 1y ago
Yes, this sounds great and very Ikea.
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by Agentlien 1y ago
I understand where you're coming from. From the perspective of someone with no knowledge of Swedish that's a clear distinction. From my perspective as a Swede, however, making it sound Swedish is the same as making it sound Ikea-i
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by Agentlien 1y ago
I think sort would be even better because it's less Swenglish. It's the base for sorting in Swedish (sortera) after all. Sört does really bother me since it sounds so wrong (almost like the u in blur). Sårt use closer to how Swede
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by Agentlien 1y ago
This was actually a really neat refresher. The name feels like such a near miss though... Kvick (beyond being my surname) does mean quick and I see they changed to it from kwick to make the title "more Swedish". Great! But sört? T
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by Agentlien 1y ago
I at least know that there's a Norwegian chocolate bar called Kvikk and a Danish kitchen design company called Kvik. In Dutch (which I happen to be fluent in) Kwiek is sometimes used in writing but I've never heard it spoken.
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by Agentlien 1y ago
My last name is Kvick (Swedish for quick) and I was delighted to see a variation on it used for something so cool as those diagrams. Please make it a thing.
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by Agentlien 1y ago
I do agree that some of the defaults are quite bad. A great example of this is how even Unity themselves recommend an object workflow very different from what their engine naturally seems to suggest: You really shouldn't use tons of ob
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by Agentlien 1y ago
I have worked full time for five years with a combination of Unreal and Unity. I've also worked for five years with Frostbite and another five in various custom engines. I absolutely love both Unreal and Unity. Unreal is amazing from a
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by Agentlien 1y ago
That's a great idea and I might steal it. I even know which song to play. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_I%27m_Sixty-Four
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by Agentlien 1y ago
I use Msty all the time and I love it. It just works and it's got all features I want now, including generating alternate responses, swapping models mid-chat, editing both sent messages and responses, ... I also tried LM Studio a few m
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by Agentlien 1y ago
Reminds me of when Amazon came to Sweden and had machine translated product names - including for movies and games. A friend showed me that the latest game I had worked on was hilariously mistranslated. It's originally "Need For S
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by Agentlien 1y ago
I wasn't expecting the strong CUDA/ML focus. My own work is primarily in graphics and performance in video games; while this is all familiar and useful it feels like a very different view of the hardware than mine.
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by Agentlien 1y ago
This feels backwards to me when GPUs were created largely because graphics needed lots of parallel floating point operations, a big chunk of which are matrix multiplications. When I think of matrix multiplication in graphics I primarily thi
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by Agentlien 1y ago
Try again, with some patience. You might find this bug more interesting than expected.
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by Agentlien 1y ago
Interesting! Now, that sounds like a more unintuitive result to me. Can you give examples of symmetries for which it doesn't work?
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by Agentlien 1y ago
Of all the things I read at uni UML is the thing I've felt the least use for - even when designing new systems. I've had more use for things I never thought I'd need like Rayleigh scattering and processor design.
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by Agentlien 1y ago
That actually sounds really intuitive to me. If you start with a uniform mass and then redistribute mass symmetrically it makes sense that the change in the two sides would cancel out.
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by Agentlien 1y ago
I was never a big Star Trek fan, but here in Sweden growing up I watched episodes of The Next Generation, Voyager, and Deep Space Nine when they happened to be on. There definitely always seemed to be some Star Trek series running in a dece
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by Agentlien 1y ago
At first I couldn't understand this sentiment; pc speaker always sounded so abrasive to me. Then I followed the link below and a wave of nostalgia washed over me.
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by Agentlien 1y ago
While I found it surprising at first I don't think it should be. Star Trek really doesn't seem to be as big as it used to be.
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by Agentlien 1y ago
I meant that the parent comment to mine was a good summary of the article. However, the comment was worded as if it meant to highlight some difference between how the article summarized the paper and what the paper is actually saying. Since
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by Agentlien 1y ago
> What the paper actually proposes [...] (Emphasis mine) I haven't read the paper yet, but this sounds like a (good) summary of exactly what the article is saying. It makes me wonder what, if anything, you feel is different from t
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by Agentlien 1y ago
Sweden is a big country so I could definitely be wrong about how things look across it. However, in the greater Gothenburg area every Ica I've visited has it - that includes everything from big ones in the city and shopping malls to sm
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by Agentlien 1y ago
That's just self checkout. Some places, like Ica, have self scanning which works so much better. You just scan the bar code as you pick things up - which is just in one motion as you put things in your bag. No need to unpack as you pay
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by Agentlien 1y ago
On a tangent: what about self scanning? Here in Sweden that is the norm. For the last ten years I've brought my own bags, packed everything like I want it as I grab it - with a quick blip from the scanner - and then checkout is no line
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by Agentlien 1y ago
A few years ago I did something similar in a group chat with some friends. No rhyme, but video game titles reworded using rough synonyms. Here are some examples with answers in rot13: Strange, this reunion = Zntvp gur Tngurevat Boat pork re
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by Agentlien 1y ago
This was a wonderful article! I love this kind of exploration.

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