Agentlien

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Anatomy of a Texture(agentlien.github.io)
11 points by Agentlien 2h ago|2 comments
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by Agentlien 6d ago
I think this move by OpenAI is crazy. At best, if all unconfirmed accusations are unfounded, they still heard a rumour that someone had solved a huge million dollar problem and was about to make a name for themselves. Then, they decided thi
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by Agentlien 7d ago
I definitely see what he is saying. In my work as a graphics programmer I often find that I look at a problem and will immediately see how to solve it, more or less. But the devil is in the details and often nothing works unless you get eve
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by Agentlien 9d ago
Everything is an apple, it seems. You also have earth apples (pomme de terre in French, aardappel in Dutch) for potatoes, grenade apples (pomegranate in English, granatäpple in Swedish, ...), pineapple, ...
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by Agentlien 13d ago
On a related note, how would one go about interpreting a video file using some long lost custom codec?
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by Agentlien 16d ago
It took me some time to remap the muscle memory but it felt so worth it. The Steam version is not just a new AI, it introduced a lot of gameplay changes which really improved the underlying systems a lot.
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by Agentlien 16d ago
Is that insane? Every game[0][1] I ever helped ship has had fully localized UI. In game development that seems to be the standard way of doing things. And it requires a lot of testing and sometimes comes with workflows to automatically test
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by Agentlien 18d ago
I had a friend who was really into EVE online and showed me about 20 years ago. It felt too much like waiting and spreadsheets for me. I got into Dwarf Fortress around 2015 and I was hooked. These days it's something I often play toget
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by Agentlien 19d ago
I assume it's because the title contains "hilariously" and the author felt it necessary to state the content wasn't meant as humorous.
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by Agentlien 19d ago
It's an indie open world game originally released for Stadia and in its original form simply loaded the whole world into memory at boot. We had to implement a streaming system and figure out a good way of chunking the world. This was a
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by Agentlien 20d ago
One of my proudest professional moments was when me and three others managed to reduce memory load of the game Wavetale from 20+GiB to under 3GiB so we could port it to Nintendo Switch. The 100 TiB number almost gives me vertigo. Though in
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by Agentlien 26d ago
I think using AI often feels faster than it is because you put less thought and effort into the problem yourself. Another possibility is that the people who experience these 100x productivity increases are honest, correct, and simply had ab
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by Agentlien 26d ago
I am actually often a bit annoyed at discussions of depth in discussions of art - especially from art snobs talking about whether or not something is "true art". I think what depth does do is help something stand not the test of t
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by Agentlien 26d ago
I have had similar thoughts about "x of the week/month/year". But every now and then there's a dirge or deluge of good things and years aren't even comparable because the fourth best thing one year might have b
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by Agentlien 28d ago
As a Swede, I always enjoy Ikea product names. Many of them are based on their actual function or category. Some are wordplay related to this. For example: Rinnig - a kitchen towel called "runny" Skaftet - a series of standing lam
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by Agentlien 29d ago
As a Swede, my first reaction was "what's wrong with calling it 'ship'?" Took me several seconds to get it.
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by Agentlien 29d ago
Before listing resources, let me state that the single most important thing is to learn by doing. Write a lot of rendering code, experiment a lot with your own ideas and variations on each exercise. Once you move past the basics don't
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by Agentlien 1mo ago
> the number of people who get to work on shipping code where ring-0 knowledge is useful has to be minuscule as a percentage I wonder if it it is more that the percentage of people who choose to dedicate themselves to that type of work i
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by Agentlien 1mo ago
I like it. It's not complicated, it's tied to a git repo, it won't struggle if I ever get a popular post. I even have my own domain and I still ended up choosing to have my blog on GitHub because it was so smooth an experienc
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by Agentlien 1mo ago
I largely agree, with one huge caveat. One of my favorite blogs[0] is interesting because the author, Julia Evans, often writes about her learning experiences and is very transparent about mistakes made and where she still doesn't unde
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by Agentlien 1mo ago
I expected to disagree with this post but actually found it really worthwhile. For my own blog [0] I usually start writing because I feel I just learned and did something cool which gets me excited to share it. I also write only about topic
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by Agentlien 1mo ago
I think what I am saying is more that "easy" is too broad a vector to optimize along because it combines too much - both good and bad. I don't want a job without challenges of any kind. But I definitely want a job without str
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by Agentlien 1mo ago
On a tangent, I was a bit confused by the everyday examples given in this article. "We're often faced with similar trade-offs. You want a meal that's both cheap and delicious? A job that's both well-paid, easy, and fulfi
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by Agentlien 2mo ago
This reminds me of when I worked on surgical training simulations back in 2011-2015. In some exercises most of the scene was made up of soft body objects containing millions of triangles which could be deformed and even destroyed - cutting
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by Agentlien 2mo ago
Another possibility is of course that Hugging Face legitimately were attacked and wrote a completely honest response - but OpenAI instructed their AI to attack their servers and the breaking of containment is fiction. I'm not convinced
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by Agentlien 2mo ago
I would rather say that many details of the supposed attack were published by Hugging face before it was publicly announced that OpenAI were involved. Both are big actors in the AI space who arguably benefit from increasing the perceived ca
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by Agentlien 2mo ago
This is amazing. Now I'm even more upset he scored so low on Eurovision.
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by Agentlien 3mo ago
I agree with this. I've identified as a graphics programmer for a long time because it's a passion of mine and the fact that it's my profession seems almost like a happy accident.
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by Agentlien 3mo ago
Unlike the rules for Quidditch I had to reread parts of this to understand it.
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by Agentlien 3mo ago
This, coupled with fear of making mistakes in public, was the thinking which for years kept me from writing about my work. Until a comment here on HN encouraged me to just do it. I am so happy that I listened because it seems the few people

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