winterismute

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Intel Cuts Fab Buildout by $4B to Pay Billions in Dividends(semianalysis.substack.com)
81 points by winterismute 4y ago|47 comments
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Mitsuba Renderer 3(youtube.com)
2 points by winterismute 4y ago|0 comments
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by winterismute 4y ago
I still feel bad that the M1 brand name has relegated M1 the rapper (even more) to oblivion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-1_(rapper)
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by winterismute 5y ago
It's so incredible to see this today as only yesterday I have played this with some friends: https://thornygames.com/pages/sign It is board game based on a stripped down rendition of the story of NSL, I really rec
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by winterismute 5y ago
Nice! I think you have a type in "heaver", it should be "heavier" maybe?
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by winterismute 5y ago
It's a tough question, it's not even back-propagation but even just sometimes the "parameters" of the models, for example [1] shows that models such as ResNeXt already perform better on a very different architecture such
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by winterismute 5y ago
First, you should be proud of yourself for striving to do "the right thing". In the field I follow the most (Computer Graphics/Rendering) I think there is a big problem with reproducibility as well, and to be honest, I think
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by winterismute 5y ago
Title probably meant "AI Pioneer".
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Anti-Racist Graphics Research (Siggraph 2021)(youtube.com)
1 points by winterismute 5y ago|0 comments
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by winterismute 5y ago
I did not read this proposal, but if it is meant to pass as an EU directive, it will then require the member states to ratify it as an actual law, following the general principles contained in the directive. So for example, if the EU direct
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Apple hires ex-Google AI expert Samy Bengio(appleinsider.com)
2 points by winterismute 5y ago|0 comments
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by winterismute 6y ago
I live in London as well and what you are depicting is more or less correct but a bit distorted in the general view imho: for example, you can live near the West Hampstead area and be in the city (city thameslink or farringdon thameslink st
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by winterismute 6y ago
But what I don't understand is: they claim their approch side-steps the "unfeasible" configs, which is and would be a major achievement, however I don't see how the unfeasibility is captured in their evaluation function,
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by winterismute 6y ago
I've got an old one, not really however focused on programming. <<A physicist, a computer scientist and a mathematician find themselves in prison. They all brag to each other that thanks to their superior knowledge, they will man
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Apple building search engine to take on Google, report claims(forbes.com)
165 points by winterismute 6y ago|186 comments
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by winterismute 6y ago
The pipeline is essentially the same since what the article describes is the architectural abstraction modern GPUs implement. WebGL is essentially only a layer over the system GPU APIs (DirectX, OpenGL, Vulkan, btw the fact you are using We
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by winterismute 6y ago
However, hasn't this happened just because they themselves wanted to be mobile first - mostly due to the fact that it was (and partially still is) a "virgin territory" in which abusing users privacy is easer? Sounds like they
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by winterismute 6y ago
> winterismute questioned qualifications to have a position on writing C++ for game dev. That is gatekeeping and No True Scotsman Well, not really. Some of the people on twitter (and the author himself) basically pointed out that "o
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by winterismute 6y ago
> or are you asserting that large team game dev is unique compared to other industries? Well, that would be a good question to ask to the author, since he titled the article "modern C++ gamedev" and not simply "modern C++&
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by winterismute 6y ago
While I do agree with various points in the article, it is kind of funny that the author works in the financial sector and has, apparently, no experience in working on big games devloped in long stretches by hundreds of people at the same t
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by winterismute 6y ago
I started publishing a tragicomic, episodic novel about a group of youngsters that decide to move from playing CoD all the day to develop their own game. It is unfortunately in Italian, but if you happen to understand it, here is the first
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Unity has acquired visual scripting solution Bolt(gamasutra.com)
3 points by winterismute 6y ago|0 comments
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by winterismute 6y ago
I strongly disagree. For example, in this algorithm, there is "knowledge": the knowledge of the programmer that realizes that following a person moving can mean also follow one of the previous positions of that person (especially
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by winterismute 7y ago
Isn't the global atomic op a bad idea?
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Godot Engine Was Approved for an Epic MegaGrant(gamingonlinux.com)
31 points by winterismute 7y ago|5 comments
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Cosmoteer: A starship design, simulation, and battle game(cosmoteer.net)
414 points by winterismute 7y ago|125 comments
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by winterismute 7y ago
Did they ever release sourcecode at DeepMind? I mean, not the frameworks or such but the code used for the experiments...
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The Only Way to Rein in Big Tech Is to Treat Them as a Public Service(theguardian.com)
1 points by winterismute 7y ago|0 comments
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by winterismute 7y ago
But how was that very small gap created? Maybe such kind of policies played a role?
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by winterismute 8y ago
For the interested Italian speakers out there, we have a recurrent podcast happening at www.gameloop.it and we had an episode right after the Blizzard layoffs to which both a Technical Director at Activision (Canada) and a researcher in the

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