Use Cases for Field Sizing
A quick look at field-sizing and where it can be used.
NITRO GEN OMEGA brings a “spaghetti anime” art style to life with UE5
Hear from the CEO and Creative Director of DESTINYbit on how UE5 helped to deliver an innovative tactical RPG that blends turn-based gameplay with the feeling of directing an anime episode.
ReGIR - An advanced implementation for many-lights offline rendering
Tom Clabault's website
Ghost of Yōtei – tech deep dive
Sucker Punch delves into the tech that helped them bring Atsu’s engrossing journey to live.
Generating Stereo Anaglyphs with ImageMagick
How to generate stereo anaglyphs with ImageMagick
More accurate Doom colormap
In 1993, Doom famously used a palette trick for its “light diminishing” effect. Walls, floors, and sprites became progressively darker farther away from the camera. It’s nothing special nowadays, but at the time, it must have appeared really atmospheric.
Why we tend to avoid public conversations
We all believe in transparency and public conversations until it’s time to press Send.
Why We’re Never Using Wise Again – A Cautionary Tale from a Business Burned – Shaun’s Data Diaries
For years, one of my businesses has been a regular user of Wise (formerly TransferWise). Wise is a financial service that lets you send and receive money across currencies, often at a better rate and lower fee than traditional banks. Sounds great, right?
Workflow for Volatile Cloud Resources – Miloš Švaňa
Stitcher.io
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Stopping kill signals against your eBPF programs
Death has never been fun, let's avoid it (with eBPF)
Unsloth your DGX Spark · Roman Bartusiak
The NVIDIA DGX Spark is a powerful little devbox for local model development, boasting 128GB of unified memory despite its compact size. To truly unleash its potential with tools like Unsloth, you need to navigate a few key challenges:
A Silver Tsunami?
Some thoughts on the future of American small business.
Nix derivation madness
I’ve written a bit about Nix and I still face moments where foundational aspects of the package system confounds and surprises me.
You Don’t Need Types in Ruby
A critical look at the trend of adding types to Ruby — Sorbet, RBS, and others — and why forcing static typing into a dynamic language misses the point.
The Irony of the LLM treadmill
A strange new burden has crept into software teams: the LLM treadmill. Many models retire within months, so developers now continuously migrate features they only just shipped.
Reliable Django Signals
Using background tasks to reliability execute signal receivers
Are Migrations Good for Your Career?
What is the hardest problem in computer science? Phil Karlton famously quipped, “There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.” Martin Fowler has a number of variations of this quote on his blog. My favorite is, “The…
How Well Does RL Scale? — Toby Ord
The current era of improving AI capabilities using Reinforcement Learning (from verifiable rewards) involves two key types of scaling: Scaling the amount of compute used for RL during training Scaling the amount of compute used for inference during deplo…
The AGI race is an all‑pay auction. That’s why “over‑investment” is rational.
This unprecedented race has an AI bubble built in by design
Abuse of Notation - writings on math, logic, philosophy and art
In my last post about generality, I tried to show how our ambition to discover ideas that are all-encompassing and eternal makes our worldview crumble, leaving us unable to think clearly even about simple issues with obvious solutions. Today, I want to discuss…
Announcing Casual Ediff
Truth be told, I find default Ediff to be weird and intimidating compared to other tools that do the same thing, which is to find differences between two files. Like other modes, Ediff is...
Curating and filtering RSS feeds
RSS feeds are one of my favorite features of the Internet of Yore. Simply put, they allow you to subscribe to sites you like, into an aggregator. Instead of visiting all these sites in search for something new, you simply subscribe to these sites in your aggre…
Hardware to Prove Humanity
Over the past couple months, I’ve been working on a hardware+ML approach to prove that a human being is physically present at the moment of an online interac...
An underqualified reading list about the transformer architecture
When I see a list of learning resources, I assume that whoever curated it knows much more about the topic than what I’ll learn. So you wouldn’t be blamed for thinking that I have read 100x the amount of things about the transformer architecture than what I’m s…
I Analyzed 1,000 Top Podcasts: Here's How Often They Actually Publish
Publishing frequency analysis of the top 1,000 podcasts shows nearly 1 in 5 publish daily, while weekly still dominates.
Context engineering | Chris Loy
As our use of LLMs has changed from conversational chatbots and into integral decision-making components of complex systems, our inference approach must also evolve.
Mental Health
I have been fairly transparent about my mental health struggles over the years. I have been diagnosed with a number of things, primarily Bipolar I and...
Grokipedia: a first look
To begin with my credentials for those who arrive here not knowing who I am: I've started, or helped start, five encyclopedias and meta-encyclopedia projects, including Wikipedia.((I founded Nupedia and Wikipedia, advised the design and launch of Encyclopedia …