Nathan Rowe

Prev: Creator of SculptrVR. I work on something else now.
I like voxels, graphics, AR/VR, and code.
I unfollow politics and selfies.

[Nathan Rowe @SculptrVR]

@AdamDraper @BraytonKey @BoostVC @colossal @dognosis @loyalfordogs @treat_therapy Sign me up for Fund 5 now plz

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@benhylak Interesting point that better and better AR actually makes it harder and harder to make AR apps..

Recursive developer alienation.

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@RAVerBruggen I just tried with the new Siri and it used a random number generator. Claude did not. And gave me 7.

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@iveytron Yeah my conversion was in January. About the same time.

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@BraytonKey @BoostVC I worked M-F for 12 hrs and Sat/Sun for 6 hours each for the first couple years of SculptrVR. When you love what you do and you get to choose what you work on, the hours can flow.

But when I had to ship on PSVR, I lost the ability to choose what was important and then I burnt.

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@Azadux It's a post-process skin shader! Turning robots into humans

Now we just need the same for animations..

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@fewerwrong Hell yeah! Way to go!

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Bumping this comment. OpenVDB is not an octree (although it might support octrees now?) Each node splits into like 10x10x10 subnodes? Something like that. And then in just 3 levels you get 1000 wide volume. So the root can be much much closer to the leaves. And you often have your neighbors present and ready to sample.

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@pvncher @Object_Zero_ @openvdb SculptrVR's octree->mesh algorithm is unique and cool though. It doesn't rely on factor-of-two differences like most octrees and it makes watertight meshes from any crazy tree structure.

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@pvncher @Object_Zero_ Or @openvdb. There's is not actually an octree. It splits more than 8 ways so that the root is closer to the leaves and the blocks fit into GPU cache lines better. Excellent voxel engine. The standard for visual effects (although not any games I'm aware of?)

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This is actually a pretty cool idea. Having it as an option on each subreddit could be cool. Phones have a pretty reliable "Are you human" check that preserves privacy but verifies a human face was present to press send.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Reddit CEO says the company is considering requiring Face ID to ensure humanity in order to crack down on AI bots.

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Thomas Henderson in 1832 measured the parallax of a star (Alpha Centari) for the first time against its background stars. He measured 20 trillion miles (real number is 25 trillion!). 5 orders of magnitude greater than the largest distance ever recorded. And he sat on that discovery for 6 years. For six years he was the only man on earth who knew the universe was 10,000 times bigger than any previous measurement implied.

And then in 1838 and 1839 a bunch of publications came out and everyone on earth accepted that the universe is massive. About a century later the first distant galaxy was measured to be ANOTHER 6 orders of magnitude further away.

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@NimaZeighami a great game

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@benhylak The reason I mention it is because Tyler Cowen mentions that one of his metrics he uses as a proxy for "stamina" is how young were you when you had your first publication. Younger implies hardcore endless energy. And side projects of substance are similar for coding.

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@benhylak I'm about 2/3 done with this book on hiring:
https://t.co/GTEavn4t3r

Really good. Much of it is obvious, but nice to see studies backing up intuition.

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My friend has been working on this game for literally 10 years. Possibly only 9 and a half. It's finally happening!

[Fruit Golf @FruitGolf]

Fruit Golf is OUT NOW in early access on Meta Quest & mobile!

🍉 Tee off solo in VR or with friends in any mix of VR & mobile devices

🍋 Pick from a variety of fruit balls & zesty courses

🍍 Act as saboteurs by placing obstacles to mess up golfers

https://t.co/GTvew6L4h1

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@Jonathan_Blow In this graph the growth rate is about 8% per year. Inflation adjusted it's like 4.5%. That's still ~2.5% over growth rate. so it will take about 50 years for the debt servicing to grow to the size of the entire federal receipts.

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@DFinsterwalder @RnaudBertrand Yeah I haven't been to europe since pre-uber, so I had no idea what it was actually like.

I buy the argument that market regulations tend to entrench existing tech and large players, and make it impossible for smaller players to get off the ground. But Uber may be a bad example.

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@DFinsterwalder @RnaudBertrand Maybe companies can grow big in the US without facing those regulations, and then use their big size to overcome regulations in EU? To some extent that's what both Uber and AirBnB had to do even in the US. Grow big enough that local jurisdictions demanded reform for Uber/AirBnB

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To celebrate fortnite freedom day, I played a battle royale game on my iphone.

Now time to retire.