Giles Goddard

Programmer on Starfox, 1080 Snowboarding and Super Mario 64. Believer of western values, rigorous scientifc questioning and dog rights. 🐕 🇬🇧🇯🇵

[Giles Goddard @giles]

I left school when I was 16 and got a job in North London doing my hobby of “making 3D” because Jez gave me a chance @ArgonautGames_

Whatever you love doing, keep at it because the rest falls into place ❤️

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[Giles Goddard @giles]

@hthieblot https://t.co/YFQuPJW46m

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@atmoio We’re a 4 billion year non markovian process

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Frank is right

[Giles Goddard @giles]

Where is the funding for companies looking at the end not the means of AI? That’s where the value is.

[Giles Goddard @giles]

@RupertLowe10 Harsh yet needed.

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New BoC is best BoC https://t.co/bGg6ttfuhZ

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It kind of makes sense that you cannot design cars (or games) on 5 year windows and expect them to be relevant when they’re finally released.

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The race for more efficient AI training and inference is like the race we had for more realistic graphics in games. Ironically also driven by Nvidia 🤔

[Giles Goddard @giles]

Hilbert space was a "hack" to make Quantum Mechanics work

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

~10 years ago, back in 2014, Sony announced Project Morpheus (later Playstation VR). There was a spirit of intense competition, but also collaboration - Oculus and Sony always swapped demos.

Sony actually paid for all the indie game dev booths at the Tokyo Game Show for many years, even ones that had nothing to do with Playstation. Even the ones who were only on competing platforms like Oculus! That is just the kind of guy @yosp was.

[Giles Goddard @giles]

@PalmerLuckey Back when everyone involved with VR knew that it was raising all boats.

[3DxDEV @3DxDEV7]

I can't stop staring at this 😭🔥

@Cartesian_C broke down the mimic effect — procedural curves that move, twist, and displace in real time. No simulation. Just nodes.

The fact that this comes with a full tutorial breakdown makes it even better 🙌

Save this Geometry Nodes workflows 👇

#Blender3D #B3D #GeometryNodes #ProceduralArt #BlenderTutorial #CurveAnimation #BlenderTips

[Giles Goddard @giles]

Devs need to recognize that we’ve lost it to skill but not to originality and experience.

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Rick Rubin on the power of creating something truly for yourself

Elon Musk has said that Rick Rubin’s philosophy of creating something truly for yourself is how Tesla creates products.

Rick elaborates on this philosophy in the clip below:

“My only goal is to make something that I like, and I know that I can keep working on it until I like it. So in some ways there’s no pressure.”

Rick doesn’t consider the audience at all:

“The audience comes last… I’m not making it for them. I’m making it for me. And it turns out that when you make something truly for yourself, you’re doing the best thing you possibly can for the audience.”

He argues that this is why there are so many bad movies today:

“So many big movies are just not good. It’s because they’re are not being made by a person who cares about it. They’re being made by people who are trying to make something they think someone else will like. And that’s not how art works.”

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt argues a similar point:

"If you think about the greatest products, they've almost always been designed for the benefit of the people who are actually building them.”

Uber started out as a private timeshare limousine service for Garrett Camp and his friends. Microsoft started when Bill Gates and Paul Allen wrote a Basic interpreter for the Altair so they didn’t have to write machine language to program it. Drew Houston built Dropbox to make his files live online after forgetting his USB stick. Larry Page and Sergey Brin built Google for Stanford—and particularly for themselves—with the first server in Larry’s dorm room.

Source: @LewisHowes (Nov 2023)

[Giles Goddard @giles]

Be a prime revealing coherence

[Indie Game Joe @IndieGameJoe]

Game devs, please use real artists for your game’s Steam store capsule art.

Thank you.

[Giles Goddard @giles]

Money can’t buy good taste

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Over the years I’ve found that under promising and over delivering works better.

[Tatum Turn Up @tatumturnup]

This is the greatest video I’ve ever seen. No notes. The lifeless clanker carcass just laying there. No crowd reaction, anything. Just Billie Jean. Until its lifeless shell is shamefully dragged off. Purely amazing.

[Giles Goddard @giles]

Scary