25 December 2024

17 links · Wednesday

The 12 Days of Devlog Christmas

Devlog video about "Homegrown", a casual farming game I'm creating using my own engine. An extra long devlog video this week as I filmed every day for the first 12 days of December. Support the channel on Patreon and get access to the game & code for Homegro…

This open problem taught me what topology is

A beautiful solution to the inscribed rectangle problem. Playlist with more neat proofs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPSKntUcMArGheySM4gL7wS Instead of sponsored ad reads, these lessons are funded directly by viewers: https://3b1b.co/suppo…

RAG + Semantic Markup

Build documentation-powered features using retrieval-augmented generation and semantic markup

Ways to use torch.export : ezyang’s blog

Previously, I discussed the value proposition of torch.compile. While doing so, I observed a number of downsides (long compile time, complicated operational model, lack of packaging) that were intrinsic to torch.compile's API contract, which emphasized being …

Symbolic Execution by Overloading __bool__

A few months ago I saw a talk on buildit, https://buildit.so/ a really neat project that achieves staged metaprogramming as a C++ library. I love the central tenets of being in a mainstream language and not requiring a modified compiler. Right on, brother. One…

a society-level forever clinical trial – Kyunghyun Cho

when i got tenure earlier, i thought that would change how i work and live. it was true, but it wasn’t because of tenure but because of my thyroid cancer (see https://kyunghyuncho.me/sharing-some-good-news-and-some-bad-news/ if you’re curious.) when i was prom…

Charity Calculator

Introduction With holiday season in full swing, people may be more enticed to give to charity. However, there is a question of how to optimize your charitable donations. Specifically, I would like to optimize charitable donations for maximum impact. It seems t…