S. Thompson

Listening to Destiny of the Republic and how James A. Garfield, one of the US Presidents no one hears about, was actually the coolest fucking guy to ever be President or just about any politician ever Knowing he was assassinated by the absolute weirdest freak stroke of luck just sucks in retrospect

Like, people in the US hear how nice Carter was. Garfield personally hid an escaped slave, fought for abolition, and then for equal rights after the civil war. People know Roosevelt fought briefly in the dumb Spanish American War, Garfield personally lead a spectacular victory for the Union

I'd buy a Dragon Age Inquisition remaster. I'd buy that Mass Effect game we got a leaked trailer of. I'm sure someone could have made these things work, instead the studio gets shut down to no benefit for anyone. The games industry is suffering from a wave of incompetence not seen since the 80s

That means pushing Apple to make it easier to put games on all those Macs that get sold That means trying to support alternative app stores for Android and IOS as frankly the default ones are nightmares for friendliness and how much you can charge for your game and etc.

I'd buy a Dragon Age Inquisition remaster. I'd buy that Mass Effect game we got a leaked trailer of. I'm sure someone could have made these things work, instead the studio gets shut down to no benefit for anyone. The games industry is suffering from a wave of incompetence not seen since the 80s

The wave of money going into gaming after high COVID lockdown sales is drying up and taking tens of thousands of jobs with it But a good lesson to learn is, all this was incredibly stupid money from people that don't work or know things for a living to begin with

The Witcher 3 was an amazing experience on release, and all the jank like silent and vfx less whales leaping out of the water, contentless and half finished feeling map areas, and poor difficulty scaling weren't nearly enough to detract from that.

But if I wanted to re-experience the game I'd happily pay to fill in the jank. As much as feeling vaguely let down by a free update feels absurd, a lighting and material update to the original does more to remind me of what I'd happily pay for rather than motivate me to replay the game.

Camera and AI equipped garbage trucks to spy on you, report municipal code violations. www.msn.com/en-us/techno...

I find the AI "debate" on all sides tiring, as it's hard to overstate how overvalued AI companies are right now. If the AI companies are over valued, that means the AI hype, and fear, and "moderate thinking person's" blah blah blah are overblown. Pointing at a paper tiger and screaming.

Making LLMs linearly bigger does not make them exponentially "more right", a hypothesis disproven years ago. There's no singularity, no Skynet, no monster under the bed. It's all haphazard BS from people that benefit financially from serving such.

I find the AI "debate" on all sides tiring, as it's hard to overstate how overvalued AI companies are right now. If the AI companies are over valued, that means the AI hype, and fear, and "moderate thinking person's" blah blah blah are overblown. Pointing at a paper tiger and screaming.

95% of "AI" usage will end up the same. Run Siri on your iPhone, run your AI debugger on your company issued 192GB laptop, cheat on your English essay by running an open source model on your school issued laptop. The 20% better a GPU with it's own nuc plant will do won't be worth the cost.

I find the AI "debate" on all sides tiring, as it's hard to overstate how overvalued AI companies are right now. If the AI companies are over valued, that means the AI hype, and fear, and "moderate thinking person's" blah blah blah are overblown. Pointing at a paper tiger and screaming.

"But surely there's power users?" Let me tell you what they're doing. They're buying Mac Minis and AMD AI Pros and RTX Sparks and running everything themselves. They're not paying usage fees, it's cheaper to pay for the electricity themselves.

I find the AI "debate" on all sides tiring, as it's hard to overstate how overvalued AI companies are right now. If the AI companies are over valued, that means the AI hype, and fear, and "moderate thinking person's" blah blah blah are overblown. Pointing at a paper tiger and screaming.

Who has so much demand they can't meet it? Google bought some from Space X. And Google will give you free "tokens" across all their products, and a lot of it So Google is giving money to, you. They pay Space X for capacity they give you for free, and this is the "insatiable demand" for data centers

I find the AI "debate" on all sides tiring, as it's hard to overstate how overvalued AI companies are right now. If the AI companies are over valued, that means the AI hype, and fear, and "moderate thinking person's" blah blah blah are overblown. Pointing at a paper tiger and screaming.

Where's the unmet demand that hundreds of billion$ in data centers are meeting? I vibe coded a weather app a few weeks ago to just to see, and was handed enough free AI to find neither Gemini, Claude, nor both together could create a functional one.

For the real-time ray tracers: the more papers I see explaining how to overcome Restirs inherent problems the more I realize the weaknesses of screenspace as a fundamental model for ray reuse Forget tracing in pixel space, maybe just splat probes in world space and store locality in hashgrids?

Detail could be a unified screenspace directional occlusion pass. Then gather from valid world space probe paths for valid angles. Temporal "tracking" becomes easy. Spatial tracking is just world space, yaaay. Shift the probes a tiny bit "away" from the mesh and lod is solved.