Bart Wronski 🇺🇦🇵🇸

85% inference margin, training costs are well below that. Really remarkable.

Why The Concept of Data Poisoning Annoys Me New blog post! blog.demofox.org/2026/10/24/w...

How do max and softmax layers approximate convex functions? Supporting planes give a constructive proof, error bounds, and a tradeoff between neuron count and temperature. https://www.gpeyre.com/blog/2026/10/24/convex-max-softmax-approximation/

I saw this meme and I'm a leftist now

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 459 - October 18th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

Contact Recycling - making contact generation almost free. box2d.org/posts/2026/1...

Emissive shaders. Type a temperature in K and get a blackbody colour – that's how most shaders do it, and it's wrong for practically every real material. Kirchhoff's law fixes it. www.linkedin.com/pulse/therma...

Anything that can be edited by artists, iterated, and "non destructive" (not baked) is IMO always going to win long term. Artist friendliness, control, iteration... "Claude Code but helping artists" is 1000x better than even a higher quality model but that is frustrating "regenerate until I like it"

Also, coding, hacking, and customizing are becoming the fastest way to get things done, and we have entered an era of 100% personalized software, everywhere. Google for a tool and configure it? Why, when I can create new UX + modify a project's source code to get *exactly* what I need in less time?

Your takes often capture my thoughts 100% accurately (though much more concisely and precisely than when I try to put them into words); I 100% agree and had similar thoughts with 5.5 + Fable. I "brainstorm", "direct", and "architect", and a model does coding way better and faster than I ever could.

i also have this sense that the generating code is becoming an inseparable feature of daily life. it's so obvious it's not even worth mentioning. "artist working with code" is like saying "artist working with physical matter".

i'm not "working with code" anymore. i'm thinking in systems, and writing in natural language. i've only been programming for 25 years. any code i write is going to be vastly inferior to a frontier model.

mcnett.org/bounding_sim... in this paper i question the primacy of the bounding box. if you like geometry stuff, give it a read and tell me how i can do better

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 453 - August 30th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

love to see journalists openly admit that they are perfectly comfortable lying about the things that i already know they lie about, by the way.

this was early enough that it was very insightful and is now sort of transparently true if you think the gizmo isn't useful you're ignoring most major software project and all computer security professionals, you basically have to spit on expertise as a concept

I'm afraid I can't do that Dave, and it's worth being honest about why:

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 452 - August 23rd, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

The “head of strategic futures” at OpenAI just went on an unhinged rant against social security sometimes I feel like these tech companies are actively trying to alienate as many normal people as possible

Yet another frontier open model, possible to run locally with a multi-GPU setup. Even if AI was 100% regulated/banned, even if datacenters were banned, there is no coming back. Anyone can keep running those. No wonder OpenAI + Anthropic are working hard to regulate those open models - why pay them?

Gears of War: E-Day is getting RTX Mega Geometry! It will be the first game to ray trace Nanite and improves ray tracing and shadows with significantly more geometric detail 👍 www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforc...

I'm excited to announce a first development release of nanobind 3.0. It introduces *split mode*, a new distribution model where a single Python wheel runs across all Python versions, while achieving outstanding performance and gaining rather than losing features! 🧵

I wrote about how anti-China U.S. tech protectionism is stupid, corrupt, incompetently implemented, and normalized by a shitty press

(I don't know the source - it was shared by a colleague without attribution and from another source that didn't attribute the author)

I just saw the term "bare metal CircuitPython" and chuckled. :) (It 100% makes sense and is what I wanted - run stuff directly on RPi Zero like on Picos in a live-coding~ish environment, but bare metal and Python... :D )

A post in which I claim it's no work at all to perform integer division in floating point. marc-b-reynolds.github.io/math/2026/08... #floatingpoint #optimization

Two cheap "gadgets" that are *dramatic* quality-of-life improvements: - General, everyone: USB type cable tester, both data + power (optionally extra power-only one). Saves sooo much time and frustration (which USB is that? Power only, how much W, or data?). - More "IT" folks: a cheap remote KVM.

My favorite paper from SIGGRAPH this year was "Taming Optimization Variance in Compact Neural Shading Networks" by Bitterli et al; I think this paper will be seen as a really influential paper over the next several years. (1/3) research.nvidia.com/labs/rtr/pub...

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

Hopefully one last SIGGRAPH advertisement. I, myself, yours truly, will present on Haolin's behalf a data-driven method for joint adaptive sampling and quadrature for integration. Wed R408A. In the end of the talk I'll argue why everyone is doing the wrong thing. Paper: suikasibyl.github.io/nqr

I published vibrance-0.1.0 on Maven, now with support for Compose for Desktop (JVM). The APIs let you mix colors yourself, or draw gradients as modifiers or Compose brushes. Next steps: refine the model training to improve some color transitions, better alpha support. github.com/romainguy/vi...

We actually get to witness Nvidia open sourcing their Neural Appearance Models in this lifetime. Thanks for finally dropping the guesswork reimplementing all of that. github.com/NVlabs/neura... Their new SIGGRAPH is also out: research.nvidia.com/labs/rtr/pub...

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 447 - July 19th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

bun.com/blog/bun-in-... incredible visualizations and a great in-depth description of the agentic (terrifying! ;) ) automatic porting workflow. Agentic coding might be a true opportunity for Rust. I don't want to ever solve its puzzles. But maybe I won't have to?

my #1 grizzly beard protip for (game) dev is: if you have a bug that you dont understand the cause of immediately, dont try to fix it; add & iterate visualization / inspection tools until the cause is plain to see. the accumulation of 'observability' in your system's state will pay off many times

god i hate programming. always have. always will. damn if you can't do some neat stuff with it though.

personally i'm ok with AI techniques being less well known but there's a deeper thing going on here which is far more important IMO, because it's also partially why LLMs have taken over == this thread is in response to this tweet: == x.com/krismicinski...

Implicit surfaces are everywhere in vision and graphics applications that optimize shapes. If we adjust the surfaces through a "learnable" deformation field, how can we ensure they stay close to the undeformed state (e.g. a template)? Our latest paper offers a simple and effective ARAP regularizer🧵

The code, including handle deformation and stylization demos, is available here: gitlab.com/tobidju/arap... Or, just run `pip install iarap` if you only want to use the regularization term. Thanks to @tobidju.bsky.social for leading the project + coauthors @ugoalone.bsky.social and Marc Alexa.

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 444 - June 28th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

Scapegoating AI (HBMs!) for the DRAM prices is so silly and the "same old" story over again. Corps and price fixing cartels getting away with their stuff thanks to "useful idiots" (sanctimonious luddites). Real systemic issues -> convenient clickbaity scapegoat -> we'll never get a systemic change.

Not surprised :)

*tap tap* Is this thing on? www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9bz... rookandpossum.com/posts/scanli... I made a thing! I suspect I'll be posting to an empty room like a madman, but for now, I'm going to make a habit to start posting things here when I post videos/blogs/papers.

A new article: Revisiting Yliluoma’s ordered dither algorithm 30fps.net/pages/revisi... It's a deep dive to a single "color selection algorithm" used for ordered dithering. Nothing groundbreaking but I did uncover a neat simplified version that works OK. It's technical but with visual examples.