John Cotterell

Currently working on and WebGPU shader development in the browser

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Audio responsive fractal, this really does seem to give unique output based on the audio in a way I'm very pleased with.
https://t.co/8GiGlaz3Ms

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@JGisSatoshi @AlexanderKalian Not if understanding it is intractable.

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@NemoKat2 @Animalizum Yeah, my dad worked in the industry most of his life, can confirm. Flame, laser and water cutting.
Water with abrasive if you need to keep the temp down, iirc.

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@alightinastorm When we have RT, bindless and mesh shaders in WebGPU we'll be closer, but they will still be limited or slower because of security constraints, esp bindless which requires extra checks to avoid OOB access.

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@S_Conradi Closest I could get..
https://t.co/4YtvQ4nYlb

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@S_Conradi Trying to recreate this in a frag shader.😭

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@VraserX Also read some Iain M Banks. Plenty of ideas there.

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@VraserX 1. RL. Essential for continued development of models.
2. Delegating and working at a higher level than was ever possible before.
(Both happening already.)
3. Working for 1/100th the cost of AI and with less energy consumption? 🤷‍♂️

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@JGisSatoshi @AlexanderKalian DNA is analogous to code, but consider this example:
// Line 1: config flag
// ...
// Line 1,000,000: function whose behavior depends on Line 1 only if the code printout happens to fold a certain way in 3D space.

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@briangerami @mmjukic @pmarca Literally the only comment to point this out...
Yes, the average IQ is *always* going to be 100, regardless of how clever or stupid we get 😀

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@AlexanderKalian There's also the runtime.
A computer is discrete, simple, well defined. We even have a mathematical model to describe it.
For a genome the runtime is the entire cellular machinery of the human body and it's environment.

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@AlexanderKalian What does tickle me, and you alluded to this, is that AI in various forms and medicine go back decades, as if nobody thought it would be a good idea to use it until now.

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@XorDev @notch @jockowillink @muse Muse FTW!
My favourite remix of a Muse track, if you haven't heard it, it's sublime.
https://t.co/GQr2EPw5BG

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@davepl1968 This hits hard, I gave up drinking at 37 after my dad (also a programmer) died in a similar way.

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@justgrm @mrdoob Many Flash game devs moved to Unity.
A few of us moved to Three.js, Pixi, Phaser etc and embraced the whole HTML5 and accompanying tech.
AS3 to modern JS was an easy transition.

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@mrdoob There was some awful abuse of Flash though, some of the hate was justified.
This is why I preferred working on content like games, building entire sites with it was a usability issue.
Youtube did it right using it only for the video component.

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@williawa Very confident, even without going down the 'what is consciousness' rabbit hole.

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@Scrygl @QiaochuYuan This is more of a problem with the thought experiment's analogy for copying the brain, not the experiment itself.
Cloning people in teleport devices runs into the same issue...

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@Scrygl @QiaochuYuan Logic gates yes, but a network of them would run into difficulties very quickly.
See the utilities problem, you can't connect 3 houses to 3 utilities in 2D
https://t.co/QiOcYTNDHI

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@Scrygl @QiaochuYuan A 2D computer would have to be constructed with a planar graph structure. You can't have more than 4 mutually connected nodes - it's very limiting.
In 3D any number of nodes/neurons can be connected to all the others.
Even circuit boards have to be non planar.