friendlyOctopus

I make indie PC games with my 5 best legs.

[friendlyOctopus @FoctopusGames]

Cloudrift gets a great review from @GAMERamble :) https://t.co/N9SHGSdMxE #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #onions

[tmuxvim @tmuxvim]

I just got fired from Microsoft. I was the guy responsible for making sure that when you start typing your password in on the Windows lock screen, it ignores your first keystroke for no fucking reason

[Chris Combs (iterative design enjoyer) @DrChrisCombs]

ARTEMIS II AS SEEN BY THE OFFICIAL NASA CESSNA

THIS IS THE BEST LAUNCH VIDEO AND IT ISN'T CLOSE

[Brian Butterfield @MrBButterfield]

I’d like to take this time to celebrate one of the unsung heroes of Xmas, the toilet. Thank you for every thing you do (especially today!)
wishing you all a Merry Xmas!
🚽🎄

[friendlyOctopus @FoctopusGames]

Had a jolly good evening with @Home_Counties_ last night. Cheers!

[Justin Elze @HackingLZ]

For those going home to visit family this weekend:

• Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus
• LG calls it TruMotion
• Sony calls it Motionflow
• Roku calls it Action Smoothing
• Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement
• Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.

[Scott Manley @DJSnM]

Quantum computing edging towards relevancy:

[Bryan Jones @bdkjones]

If you shoot a feature film on iPhone, is Apple entitled to some percentage of the revenue? They had to spend money on R&D to make good cameras, after all.

That’s Apple’s argument for stealing 30% of third-party developers’ revenue: “We had to spend money making all the APIs, so you owe us.”

The way I see it, those expenses are just like the expenses to keep improving the camera: Apple either spends that money to improve the platform or customers switch to the platforms that do.

Why is it only app developers who have to fund Apple’s R&D? Why not filmmakers or musicians? Or anyone who uses Apple’s platforms to make money?

It’s an incongruous stance. Apple should charge 5% to cover the costs of hosting the App Store and then make the rest of its billions by releasing great products, not taking rent from small developers.

[Radical Graffiti @GraffitiRadical]

Anti-fascists around the UK have been altering the English flags painted on roundabouts across the country in recent weeks

[friendlyOctopus @FoctopusGames]

@elonmusk Auto subtitles for videos on X?

[Jackson Atkins @JacksonAtkinsX]

NVIDIA research just made LLMs 53x faster. 🤯

Imagine slashing your AI inference budget by 98%.

This breakthrough doesn't require training a new model from scratch; it upgrades your existing ones for hyper-speed while matching or beating SOTA accuracy.

Here's how it works:

The technique is called Post Neural Architecture Search (PostNAS). It's a revolutionary process for retrofitting pre-trained models.

Freeze the Knowledge: It starts with a powerful model (like Qwen2.5) and locks down its core MLP layers, preserving its intelligence.

Surgical Replacement: It then uses a hardware-aware search to replace most of the slow, O(n²) full-attention layers with a new, hyper-efficient linear attention design called JetBlock.

Optimize for Throughput: The search keeps a few key full-attention layers in the exact positions needed for complex reasoning, creating a hybrid model optimized for speed on H100 GPUs.

The result is Jet-Nemotron: an AI delivering 2,885 tokens per second with top-tier model performance and a 47x smaller KV cache.

Why this matters to your AI strategy:

- Business Leaders: A 53x speedup translates to a ~98% cost reduction for inference at scale. This fundamentally changes the ROI calculation for deploying high-performance AI.

- Practitioners: This isn't just for data centers. The massive efficiency gains and tiny memory footprint (154MB cache) make it possible to deploy SOTA-level models on memory-constrained and edge hardware.

- Researchers: PostNAS offers a new, capital-efficient paradigm. Instead of spending millions on pre-training, you can now innovate on architecture by modifying existing models, dramatically lowering the barrier to entry for creating novel, efficient LMs.

[friendlyOctopus @FoctopusGames]

@a how many hedgehogs fit inside an ambulance?

[DINKED @dinkededition]

Make sure you catch @Home_Counties_ live this November!

Dinked Edition here - https://t.co/l9BqoSJ61z

[Home Counties @Home_Counties_]

Taking our new album Humdrum’s test pressings for a spin. Thank god we’re experts at handling vinyl the right way.

Out October 24th, head to our bio to preorder.

[Jim Moir @JamesMoir10]

Norway.

[friendlyOctopus @FoctopusGames]

@Home_Counties_ I bloody love Humdrum. Nice work, please enjoy yourselves and blossom even more :)

[Home Counties @Home_Counties_]

New music out tomorrow. Sign up to our mailing list to receive it this afternoon. #newmusic

[friendlyOctopus @FoctopusGames]

@NoContextBrits All the horses clogging up the canals.

[friendlyOctopus @FoctopusGames]

https://t.co/BKdMIejpu5

[friendlyOctopus @FoctopusGames]

FAO Japan.

@japan #WinterSpruce

https://t.co/8rC4jsQOTo