Doug Merritt 💙💛

programmer and philomath 👨‍💻⚡⏚𝜑
( @[email protected] since May 10, 2022)

Computer programmer; compilers, OS, AI; math, physics, cogsci, linguistics

[Xor @XorDev]

I've published 50+ shader tutorials so far.
Topics vary widely, including specific effects, math, abstract concepts, shader theory and algorithms
https://t.co/njE75P6g0v

I hope you find these helpful! I'll give someone who shares this a free subscription for full access

[Doug Merritt 💙💛 @DougMerritt]

@brandon_xyzw @ZFellows_ A lot of people are getting hung up on this. But really, it's simple. Yosanta had already worked on this, yes, but he was the kind of guy who had already worked on a thousand things, and Bezos and others had not.

It was a further indication of what sort of person was needed.

[Doug Merritt 💙💛 @DougMerritt]

@Oscar_CEDS I read Winograd's book on SHRDLU, that was brilliant and very interesting.

I recall it was written in a nonstandard dialect of Lisp, and that later efforts to port it had problems, but I don't recall whether there was final success or not.

[Doug Merritt 💙💛 @DougMerritt]

@DynamicWebPaige I once had a similar problem; my formal job title on my business card was "architect" (doing CPU architecture), but of course all my relatives thought I designed houses (and had no idea what a CPU was, so explanations didn't help much).

[Doug Merritt 💙💛 @DougMerritt]

@DynamicWebPaige Wha...!? I thought "AI" had been part of the common lexicon for decades already.

[Omar 🍋 @ocornut]

dear imgui 1.90 released!
https://t.co/dOZZ0bj0IX
resizable child windows, angled table headers, hundreds other fixes & improvements for separators, tooltips, drag and drop, tables, docking, menus, inputtext, fonts, backends, multiselect (wip branch), etc. (RT appreciated 🙏)

[Dripped Out Trade Unionists @UnionDrip]

Now we're talking

[Sherjil Ozair @sherjilozair]

it is only called reasoning if a meat brain does it, otherwise it’s just retrieval of approximate algorithms present in the pre-training data mixture

[Doug Merritt 💙💛 @DougMerritt]

@sidereal111 @docmilanfar Well said. But the graphic is funny even so.

[Peyman Milanfar @docmilanfar]

Perfect

[Will Kinney @WKCosmo]

I am once again asking philosophers to quit trying to do physics.

[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

Some commentators (surprise!) didn’t get the key point: that climatologists distinguish between ‘thermodynamic’ and ‘dynamic’ effects of climate change. So far we’ve mostly seen thermodynamic effects on extremes, but we argue there’s more: we can now also see changes in dynamics.

[Robert C. Seacord (@[email protected]) @RCS]

@__phantomderp There is always time for another language but never time to fix the languages we already have.

[Doug Merritt 💙💛 @DougMerritt]

@SonatUzun No no, there's really only 3000 - 5000 that are really worth playing, and picking a core of 1000 or so isn't too unreasonable.

[Doug Merritt 💙💛 @DougMerritt]

@FUZxxl It was criticized for the same things 40 years ago, and people shrugged and said it was an idealized model to make it possibile to analyze things. Some bought into that, others remained dubious.

At any rate I don't see that the adjective "modern" really even figures into this.

[Josh Morgerman @iCyclone]

#Hurricane #OTIS. Stunning specimen. So much to say—where to begin? Literally came out of the blue—computer models didn't even hint at this. & now we're looking at direct, Cat-5 hit on #Acapulco, a city of 1 million people. Global models, in particular, failed spectacularly. 1/2

[Some Kind of David @YonderDavid]

It's not just you, strawberries have less flavor and aroma than they used to.

One surprising reason was published this year. No one wants anthracnose and botrytis eating their strawberries, so growers apply a fungicide like Pristine 38WG or Abound 2.08F or Quadris Top 1.67SC.

[Doug Merritt 💙💛 @DougMerritt]

@rsnous The original Unix *did* support all of that (virtual memory was added as soon as the PDP 11 hardware supported it).

As did other operating systems long before MSDOS such as Multics.

Footnote: VM was invented by Burroughs in the 60s and popularized by IBM in the 60s on IBM S/360

[Doug Merritt 💙💛 @DougMerritt]

@lorenschmidt The ordering of bytes within a word is CPU architecture dependent and therefore potentially surprising or nonportable or both.

In C/C++ I sometimes union { uint8 bytes[4]; uint32 word }, there's also the highly controlled but messy #ifdef solution.

[torcado @torcado]

After the news with Bandcamp and other platforms, I realized musicians could totally put their albums on @itchio. The only thing missing is a media player...
So I built one!

Scritch is a simple, fully customizable media player designed for music artists 🎵