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by omershapira 3y ago
Nice https://www.maxlaumeister.com/tonematrix/?v=1&d=QBAEhEAAAABA...
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by omershapira 4y ago
Funny story: In 1984, my mom, a Computational Geometry researcher, saw a proof [1] in some IEEE journal that she was annoyed with. It seemed way too general and was too easy to disprove, so she did [2], in a subsequent publication, with the
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by omershapira 4y ago
I really wish more people did Fluxus [1] - related art activities in the time of cheap digital media. Its so cheap to document and describe, while still retaining intentionality. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluxus
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by omershapira 4y ago
In 2018, when launching the first real-time raytracing GPU, NVIDIA made an exhibition [2] at SIGGRAPH honoring "Figure 7" from Turner Whitted's original Raytracing paper [1]. It consisted of a forced perspective floor and som
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by omershapira 4y ago
I guess that means they no longer need nuclear research for energy purposes?
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by omershapira 4y ago
"Integrated", imho, is exactly how large engines will win. Modularity is a huge challenge (ABI, Data Pipeline, where compute happens), but without modularity, only engines with teams of hundreds will be serious contestants.
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by omershapira 4y ago
Engines need to be high-performance across machines and networks, a challenge in itself, and their maintenance is more complicated than an operating system's. This is an observation based on the current engine and OS market. Why is it
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by omershapira 4y ago
Engines that reached escape velocity often did so by having usable artist tools and [...] no, that's pretty much the defining factor. Artists used them. Seeing people in the age of 2 commercial engines (and only one you can reliably sh
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by omershapira 4y ago
The interesting arbitrage here is: • Product BOM prices are more-or-less known by the public, product margin not as much • Cloud prices are low • Customers expect low product but high subscription prices I wonder if consumer protection can
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by omershapira 4y ago
Python does too, to a limited extent. A good example is type annotations. You don't _have_ to use type annotations, but you can enforce it in your project by writing a typechecker or a preprocessor; and there's a subset of python
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by omershapira 4y ago
Funny how emergence works with tools. Give a language too few tools but viral circumstances - the ecosystem diverges (Lisps, Javascript). Give it too long an iteration time but killer guarantees, you end up with committees. Python not falli
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by omershapira 4y ago
> What's the difference between a mathematician and a chicken? The chicken only has one function.
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by omershapira 4y ago
I love the internet dearly
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by omershapira 4y ago
Donald Sarason's "Complex Function Theory". There are bigger more complete books on complex analysis. There are even ones that are more appealing, like "Visual Complex Functions" by Elias Wegert. Sarason's book
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by omershapira 4y ago
Whenever someone shows a labor-of-love working demo of a wearable, SOC, OS, shell, circuit, power and all, I'm reminded that there are so many ways to make to make this happen nowadays, there's no shortage of ways to reproduce the
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by omershapira 4y ago
> Remember that movies are HIGHLY produced works True, but also John Hughes was notoriously fast at producing works. There are independent rumors [1] that he wrote first drafts for both Ferris Bueller's Day Off and The Breakfast Cl
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by omershapira 4y ago
Yes by "Max and Maya" I misspoke, and should have said their predecessors 3D Studio (ported into Max) and Alias PowerAnimator (ported into Maya, among others)
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by omershapira 4y ago
[Disclaimer: I did not work in the video games industry in the 90s, but I did work in VFX studios hired to do cutscenes in the mid-00s] Before engine-compatible assets were good enough to render in-engine, cinematics that involved character
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by omershapira 4y ago
• Instant pot with air fryer hat ($150) is now the primary use I have for my kitchen. I rarely buy processed food, and I rarely use a stove. Microcontrollers on pots, man. • Decent running shoes ($180). My entire wellbeing is better thanks
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by omershapira 4y ago
A professional-grade musical instrument caused me to want to get better at craft, and increased my reward curve in a way previous instruments had not. In my case it was a Fender Johnny Marr Jaguar ($1900 nowadays).
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by omershapira 4y ago
I'm old enough to remember the rumors about Saddam Hussein fusing clusters of 15 PS2s to make a UAV realtime controller [1]. To be fair, he could have been more upfront about it. Some marketing managers would have shown that at E3. [1]
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by omershapira 4y ago
Clay Shirky once casually said in a class, "Can criminals use your app? How? If criminals can't use your app, no one can." I think about this every time I see a thinkpiece about how a public forum's gone south after ince
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by omershapira 4y ago
Among my TV jobs, I was a science reporter in a highly rated news show in Israel. Younger, more educated audience, relatively long attention spans and all. Because the EP trusted my judgement, Science items on that show had 4 minutes max, w
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by omershapira 4y ago
Broadcast system economics are fascinating: • Selling to the pro field (50+ person studios) is a meager few billion dollar market, but highly demanding in terms of features. In Israel (where I worked in TV a decade ago), there are likely un
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by omershapira 5y ago
When I was at Tel Aviv University, at the time #7 in the world in cited Mathematics works, a TA once told me they were told the method for supporting students is nicknamed "foam": Foam rises to the top. In other words, if they can
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Omniverse Code (In-Editor Omniverse SDK) Released(medium.com)
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by omershapira 5y ago
VLC is GPLv2, saying yes would have been a short term annoyance for the community in exchange of him cashing in.
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by omershapira 5y ago
I feel like for every business there exists threshold where PMs get convinced that selling ads isn't just a free-tier business model, but rather that any other revenue generation method sits within the Pareto frontier that an ads tier
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by omershapira 5y ago
Daniel Temkin's work makes me laugh out loud every time. If you haven't already, look at his website. It brings so much joy. http://danieltemkin.com
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by omershapira 6y ago
Shake was so reliable and had such good math that I kept using it 5 years after it was discontinued. There's Gaffer[1], an open source lighting and compositing tool. Built at ImageEngine/Cinesite, but maintained under a BSD licens

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