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by westoncb 8y ago
Huh. Well, it has been a couple years since I last looked, but nothing turned up for me before. > My suggestion is to try to find a general role on a team supporting a rendering product. And then to slowly move into that type of work. No
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by westoncb 8y ago
Anyone else have info. on this? I started by writing games and game engines as a teenager (now ~14 years ago), reading "Real-time Rendering" and the "OpenGL Superbible". I've done a lot more with computer graphics s
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by westoncb 8y ago
I'm curious about the question here if anyone wants to chime in (this is just an area in CS that I'm interested in but don't have exhaustive knowledge of or anything). > what are the strengths and weaknesses of classifying
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by westoncb 8y ago
> Even OO languages can be message passing. IIRC, Kay said message passing was the essential feature of his conception of OOP in the first place, which was subsequently ignored by most—so 'even OO languages' may be slightly
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by westoncb 8y ago
I am actually underwhelmed by this demo... Not because it doesn't look great—it does—but because this is about par for the course for a next-gen GPU demo. They always look fantastic for definite reasons, not strictly hardware improveme
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by westoncb 8y ago
Clink the link to their Github page in the upper left corner.
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by westoncb 8y ago
Your tool looks very cool :) > The benefit of using tags (jsx) is that objects become fully managed I'm not sure I follow here. I assume that by 'become fully managed' you mean that React will reconstruct as necessary base
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by westoncb 8y ago
This looks really nice. I did a three.js CAD tool [1] for a client during this last year and really wanted to use something like this, but ended up building something custom. The main thing I knew I wanted was a declarative specification of
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by westoncb 8y ago
Two questions on theoretical CS: 1) Anyone know of a good roadmap, breaking down what the major sections are and offering summaries? (Or if they cared to post their own here, that'd be great :) doesn't have to be super comprehensi
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by westoncb 8y ago
I couldn't find anything in the article on which CGM he's using. Anyone know? I recently switched to the FreeStyle Libre which you use by pulling readings from over NFC to a cellphone. I'm not clear on what the nice 'rea
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by westoncb 8y ago
Completely agree. Pin-pricks and injections aren't even on my radar; they're nothing at all next to the problems of needing to maintain at least some level of vigilance at near all times. Additionally, needing to constantly have p
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Cascadeur: physics-based character animation tool(80.lv)
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> Rejiggering an algorithm so as not to have special cases just puts cognitive load on whoever reads the code to suss out what the original algorithm was. Sometimes that's how it goes, but other times the special cases were a result
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This is an especially interesting comparison because while it does clearly exhibit the sort of elegance only achievable through the elimination of special cases, it's also a good demonstration of the tradeoffs one sometimes has to make
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by westoncb 8y ago
Every example project suggested by the GP can be easily externally verified, so it has built-in protection against crackpotism. Secondly, it may be very difficult, but not impossible. I think maybe the most likely outcome, if they were real
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by westoncb 8y ago
My bad, I actually haven’t checked it in a couple years because every time I went in my doctors assured me I had very good scores - one said better than they’d ever seen. So I haven’t changed my patterns and visit doctors as infrequently as
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by westoncb 8y ago
Always general practitioners. I tend to just visit them when I need a prescription now. I haven’t visited an endo since I never understood the purpose: I suppose they are more expensive and I can just use the internet. My A1c is generally h
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by westoncb 8y ago
Unfortunately this means less than you'd think. See other comments on this thread on the subject of accuracy. Also, from my understanding, the current (still wanting) state of accuracy is the result of large improvements during just th
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by westoncb 8y ago
What do you mean by 'second model'? Like a new version of the FreeStyle Libre? I just got my first CGM, FreeStyle Libre 14 day, 2 days ago :) The relief I've already experienced from not having anxiety about where my blood su
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by westoncb 8y ago
I'd be curious if anyone could make some clarifications on the Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) article. I skimmed it, but it didn't seem like it ever got to something concrete (I could be wrong); then I looked up his book recommend
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by westoncb 8y ago
I did a little open source game recently where all the rendering is based on SDFs, rendered in GLSL but without raymarching—all 2D: https://github.com/westoncb/under-game If anyone wants to see the SDF/rendering b
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by westoncb 8y ago
Would you mind expanding on the idea that an angle measure is a logarithmic quantity and that sin/cos/tan are exponentials (or providing a phrase I could google)? I've never come across a formulation/characterization lik
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by westoncb 8y ago
This may be unfair, but I tend to not trust the quality of "Choose Your Own Adventure"-style books to be particularly high just because it's hard enough to write a great novel to begin with; throw in a maze of branching possi
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by westoncb 8y ago
The article talks about one of the primary motivations for using Lisp being that it's 'fun,' which is a comment I've heard about Lisp elsewhere, and which makes sense to me since I've noted a difference in funness b
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by westoncb 8y ago
As a counter point: I've used a bunch of 3d modeling applications, starting with the Max Payne and Unreal level editors back in ~2002, and have since used SolidWorks, 3D studio max, modo, zbrush and various iterations of Blender throug
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by westoncb 8y ago
At some level of abstraction all jobs can be made to look similar. It's just not particularly useful to abstract to that degree. I think if you look in the communities formed by any groups of people sharing professions, you'll fin
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by westoncb 8y ago
I remember my dad telling me about how when he was in grad school in the mid-late eighties—for cognitive psychology with plans to go into Human Computer Interaction—they needed to give mouse training and proficiency tests to folks before th
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by westoncb 8y ago
That comment is likely a nod to his later experience pre-hyping his game Daikatana, which he got lots of backlash for.
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by westoncb 8y ago
Mind if I ask which browser you're using? Or to copy/paste any console errors? Could be that I'm using something in webgl not supported by your graphics card/driver...
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by westoncb 8y ago
Thanks! I set it up to just show a video on mobile since it wasn't performing well on my phone. It may actually work alright on newer phones, though... —not sure.

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