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by a_e_k 6mo ago
Cave Johnson here. I'll be honest, we're throwing science at the wall here to see what sticks. No idea what it'll do. Probably nothing. Best-case scenario, you might get some superpowers.
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by a_e_k 7mo ago
I've been using the 1M window at work through our enterprise plan as I'm beginning to adopt AI in my development workflow (via Cline). It seems to have been holding up pretty well until about 700k+. Sometimes it would continue t
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by a_e_k 7mo ago
My take as a graphics programmer is that angles are perfectly fine as inputs . Bring 'em! And we'll use the trig to turn those into matrices/quaternions/whatever to do the linear algebra. Not a problem. I'm a tr
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by a_e_k 8mo ago
Author here. I have a JavaScript port of my automated test suite ( https://github.com/a-e-k/canvas_ity/blob/main/test/test.html ) that I used to compare my library against browser <canvas> impl
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by a_e_k 8mo ago
Author here. There's no AI-generated code in this. But yes, security hardening this has not been a priority of mine (though I do have some ideas about fuzz testing it), so for now - like with many small libraries of this nature - it&
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by a_e_k 8mo ago
Author here. No vibe-coding, all human-written. Are you thinking of my use of GitHub emoji on the section headings in the README? I just found they helped my eye pick out the headings a little more easily and I'd seen some other nic
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by a_e_k 8mo ago
Author here. What a pleasant surprise to see this trending on the front page! (I did post a Show HN at the time of the original release, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33148540 , but it never gained traction.) Just to
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by a_e_k 8mo ago
Not to mention if that if somebody needs to come over, the proper thing to do is signal first . Then I'm happy to politely ease off a bit and open more space for them to come over safely. It's the people who aggressively slide r
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by a_e_k 8mo ago
I spent over a decade developing rendering software used in VFX, and ran CentOS Linux as my development platform at work. We tried to follow the VFX reference platform once that became a thing back in 2014. https://vfxplatform.co
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by a_e_k 9mo ago
When the Unsloth quant of the flash model does appear, it should show up as unsloth/... on this page: https://huggingface.co/models?other=base_model:quantized:zai... Probably as: https://huggingface.co&#x2
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by a_e_k 9mo ago
In the words of Mr. Plinkett, regarding certain movie details: "Some so subtle you might not have noticed. But your brain did." ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqYx0cqy0WA&t=1266s ) I'd also argue that i
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by a_e_k 9mo ago
I've never been to EGSR. Possibly SIGGRAPH?
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by a_e_k 9mo ago
Wow! That came out really mangled. Take two: > I was on the RenderMan team at the time and remember thinking it really neat that our system could stand up to that. > I remember finding it mind blowing when I learned that in Brav
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by a_e_k 9mo ago
I was on the RenderMan team at the top and remember thinking it really neat that our system could stand up to that. I remember find it mind blowing when I learned that in Brave, the artists weren't just using a texture/displacemen
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by a_e_k 9mo ago
A nice example of this is shown in Figure 2 of the paper "Illustrative Rendering in Team Fortress 2 " [1] from Valve. It shows how they tried to make the silhouettes of each character class distinct and readable. (And the paper
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by a_e_k 9mo ago
No. It's from Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS).
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by a_e_k 9mo ago
And once you get beyond the books the sibling comments here have mentioned (I'd suggest starting with the Ray Tracing In One Weekend minibook series first before Physically Based Rendering ), there's the Ray Tracing Gems seri
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by a_e_k 10mo ago
Doom was inspired by arcade games. Armor helped, but your speed was your real defense.
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by a_e_k 10mo ago
I liked getting to the other side of that map by telepunting - drop the translocator disk at your feet, smack it with the impact hammer just right, and you could send it flying ridiculous distances. You could easily send it the opposite to
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by a_e_k 11mo ago
You can also set: layout = neato; in a dot file, call dot, and it will use the neato layout engine. (See https://graphviz.org/docs/attrs/layout/ ) And if I look in my /usr/bin, I see that ne
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by a_e_k 1y ago
The subreddit also had a policy of not unlocking the megathread until the leaderboard was filled up. So any hints there will also be too late for the making the global leaderboard. And the old About noted what you just said about there bei
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by a_e_k 1y ago
I like the NATO one. It occurred to me that it would be more useful to me in Emacs, and that might make a fun little exercise. And that's how I discovered `M-x nato-region` was already a thing.
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by a_e_k 1y ago
For my fellow visual thinkers who might be looking for a linear algebra book that focuses more on developing the geometric intuition for stuff like this, rather than just pure numeric linear system solving, let me recommend: "Practical
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by a_e_k 1y ago
This is one of those things that's perennially annoying in computer graphics. Depending on the API you can have different conventions for: - data layout (row-major vs. column major) - pre-multiplication vs. post-multiplication of matr
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by a_e_k 1y ago
I remember that being the Newegg philosophy w.r.t. patent trolls.
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by a_e_k 1y ago
I really don't get this move. It's one thing to try to steer basic, non-technical users toward an MS account by default. Fine; I may not like that, but I get it. But at this point, anyone left who's still using these meth
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by a_e_k 1y ago
Sounds like a perfect recipe for the Abilene paradox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene_paradox
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by a_e_k 1y ago
That's at BF16, so it should fit fairly well on 24GB GPUs after quantization to Q4, I'd think. (Much like the other 30B-A3B models in the family.) I'm pretty happy about that - I was worried it'd be another 200B+.
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by a_e_k 1y ago
A good first exercise for new hires! (And I say that as having been both a new hire who's updated the documentation after trying to execute it, and as someone who's guided a new hire when the documentation proved inadequate.)
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by a_e_k 1y ago
Best Buy has been a big one for me when I need things like USB sticks or SD cards. (Bad enough with the occasional duds from the reputable sources without mixing in counterfeits on top of that.)

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