gavanwoolery

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by gavanwoolery 8y ago
I wonder how many of these tests (if any) are limited by bad multithreading patterns (see: https://www.arangodb.com/2015/02/comparing-atomic-mutex-rwlo... ).
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by gavanwoolery 8y ago
Back in the day, I loved flipcode ( https://www.flipcode.com/ ), for pure, development-oriented content. r/gamedev was pretty good in the early days, but quickly turned into something I no longer read (reasoning here: h
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Revolve(voxelquest.com)
2 points by gavanwoolery 8y ago|0 comments
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by gavanwoolery 8y ago
I've been following it for a while, and the game turned out really well (even ignoring the fact that it is still in beta). Images and movies don't do it full justice, but the game is quite beautiful.
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by gavanwoolery 8y ago
I used to joke that Voxel Quest was just a fancy 3d graphing calculator. I think the entryway for a lot of students to become interested in math is to make rendering more accessible. Shadertoy is one step towards this, but SDF equations are
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by gavanwoolery 8y ago
From the slides, these bullets struck me as things I have wanted for a while (to the extent that I have my own toy language that addresses some of them): - compiles faster than C - Produces faster machine code than C - Seamless interaction
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by gavanwoolery 8y ago
I agree with you on the poor documentation - that stemmed from me almost never working with others professionally and either doing a lot of solo contract work or work where my code was mostly isolated from other systems. I've gotten a
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by gavanwoolery 8y ago
I was lucky enough to play some of their demos in person recently. I was really surprised by the performance (even in VR). I feel like there are at least a few real-world applications that could benefit with regards to visualization. Par
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by gavanwoolery 8y ago
I think "being nice on the internet" is typically a learned skill, unfortunately. That said, sometimes comments that appear scathing are actually warranted criticism - perpetuating "bad" knowledge can be very harmful to
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by gavanwoolery 9y ago
The video in this article shows an animated face and body, unless you mean something else. Jon Olick did some work with deformation/animation of voxels, IIRC. But agreed, it is still a challenging and not very well solved problem.
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by gavanwoolery 9y ago
I have known two of the guys involved for a while now (Dan and Bran). Both of them strike me as honest people who are legitimately passionate about graphics tech, so I don't think they are running a scam (only mentioning this because o
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by gavanwoolery 9y ago
> But we are not going to recruit someone just because they are a woman At least here in the US, it is actually illegal to either prefer females or discriminate against males in the hiring process (or vice versa), unless the sex is part
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by gavanwoolery 9y ago
Privateer was my personal favorite because of the exploration / trading / upgrade system. There are similar experiences today, but most of them fail to replicate what was special about this game (maybe I am just wearing nostalgia
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by gavanwoolery 9y ago
Aside from all the other stuff, my interactions here have led to some great "real life" friendships.
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by gavanwoolery 9y ago
thanks, good points :)
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by gavanwoolery 9y ago
My only form of contact is Twitter for many people (they do not have my email). I posted my email publicly though when I tried to leave Twitter. Twitter is (to its benefit) an extremely low-friction form of communication that is not quite
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by gavanwoolery 9y ago
I tried this, but then my friends convinced me to keep it on. :/ May at some point turn it off regardless...
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by gavanwoolery 9y ago
I feel like there is a legitimate market for "the old ways" (TM). Social media is "great", in the same way that the invention of alcohol was "great" - the bad part of it is that it is literally designed to driv
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by gavanwoolery 9y ago
Also worth checking out, not sure if its a recent algorithm or just now in vogue, but wave function collapse. See https://twitter.com/ExUtumno?lang=en for some good examples.
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InstaSaber transforms a piece of paper using AI(youtube.com)
1 points by gavanwoolery 9y ago|0 comments
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by gavanwoolery 9y ago
At my company we use simple analysis on previous estimates and adjust future estimates based on past errors. We are usually about 70 to 100 percent accurate using this method. However, projects are usually not more than 7 days of work in my
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Design Systems Handbook(designbetter.co)
6 points by gavanwoolery 9y ago|1 comments
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by gavanwoolery 9y ago
I've been using a 55 inch 4k TV [1] for the past year. Its a matter of preference, but I prefer more usable space over DPI. I have found at this resolution pixels are small enough that they do not bother me. It takes some tweaking, b
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by gavanwoolery 9y ago
I could easily be wrong, but suspect the solve for AGI will not involve much in the way of complex math (I have been of the opinion for a long time that NNs are not the solution, see my recent Twitter thread here for elaboration: https:&#x
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by gavanwoolery 9y ago
I agree there is probably a better term, but the differentiation would be that you are abstracted one level up from a native shell, and thus could probably more easily write a cross-platform "virtual OS" that could run on top of W
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by gavanwoolery 9y ago
It could technically fit any of those cases depending on the implementation, but the simplest path is probably building an application that disguises itself as an operating system. It could even be sandboxed to some degree and still probabl
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by gavanwoolery 9y ago
One can debate whether or not this is a "true" operating system, but I'd like to coin a (new?) term: "virtual operating system"...not to be confused with emulation or virtual machines, but rather an OS that runs on
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by gavanwoolery 9y ago
That's true, although I guess there is some sort of value for people using "authentic" stuff instead of emulators, etc (even though the SNES classic likely runs on an emulator, it still feels more like the old device). Primar
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by gavanwoolery 9y ago
I once tried to create a legitimate ROM for the Gameboy Advance but it was obviously pretty involved. For those interested, plenty of resources such as: http://www.loirak.com/gameboy/gbatutor.php
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by gavanwoolery 9y ago
The (S)NES classic editions have demonstrated the clear appeal of these older platforms. I think Nintendo/Sega/etc could rake in a lot of cash if they designed new games for these old systems. I would love to see a new Super Ma

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