c0de517e/AngeloPesce

he/him 🌞: Senior Director, Simulation. 🌚: Photography & Creative coding. Blog: c0de517e. My opinions are not my own. I DON'T tweet about ROBLOX.

[c0de517e/AngeloPesce @kenpex]

Why nothing great is ever good https://t.co/S6lk6coFqf - Over-engineering is the root of all evil https://t.co/rjKsML394H

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@NOTimothyLottes @SebAaltonen I think that has more to do with your talents than the value of automated exploration vs manual

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@NOTimothyLottes @SebAaltonen an LLM in a loop to codegen and minimize error from a testbed, and that is a reasonable implementation of auto-optimization. But I digress.

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@NOTimothyLottes @SebAaltonen ...so I've always been bullish on working together with numerical/combinatorial optimization, symbolic regression and so on and so forth. I wish we really explored that route, but the ship has sailed and now it's all matrix multiplications... Even if in fairness, now we can put

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@NOTimothyLottes @SebAaltonen All fair. And yet it's hard to imagine that there are no rendering problems where a learned black-box can outperform hand-coding...

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@NOTimothyLottes @SebAaltonen The jury is definitely still out on learned vs hand-coded, I agree. It would surprise me if there is no application of ML in RTR that brings better quality/watts than hand coding, but we don't have solid proof one way or the other.

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@Duoae @SebAaltonen No I just don't care to speculate this stuff in public for a variety of reasons I don't want to detail :)

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@Duoae @Snowmobile2004 @SebAaltonen Oh you meant that the leak does not make sense, not the spec. Sorry, didn't get that. I have no idea how reliable this leak is.

[c0de517e/AngeloPesce @kenpex]

@Duoae @Snowmobile2004 @SebAaltonen You're not taking my suggestions, but that's ofc your prerogative. I wanted to offer that perspective because I think it's generally the right stance and leads to more insight / learning, but you do you!

[c0de517e/AngeloPesce @kenpex]

@Duoae @SebAaltonen And because you are "a moderately informed technical person" I think that if U adopt that POV, you will easily find two or three likely ideas of what they might have been thinking that made X the right call. I know I can, but I am very confident that U'll be able to do that too.

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@Duoae @SebAaltonen Because chances are that X is right, and I need to use my investigative powers to find the most plausible hypothesis of why X is right, not assume that X is wrong and explain why it's wrong. Not that Sony (or others) is infallible ofc - they might be wrong. But it's less LIKELY.

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@Duoae @SebAaltonen (btw - with that POV the "why" should be rather obvious to forecast - but I'll leave that as an exercise for the readers)

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@Duoae @SebAaltonen When things don't make sense to us, but they come from ppl with orders of magnitude more insight (in this case, both technical, few ppl can teach Sony how to do HW, and of ofc of their own strategy) - the DEFAULT stance should be "what can I learn", not "this is obviously dumb"

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It's done! My beautiful and optimized wasm/webgpu quake port is live! https://t.co/IjVV3x1BGN

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@pikuma @ID_AA_Carmack LOGO was never designed to teach programming, it's a language designed to teach logic. Which makes sense as it's basically LISP

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@ID_AA_Carmack Scratch et al are well studied by now. Including what modifications, if any, are needed to facilitate the transition from purely visual languages to text-based. But I guess now with AI it's all out of the window.

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@GabrielSassone Even more? Don't wanna get into NSFW territory!

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Anyone going / in LA for Siggraph this year?

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My take on Quake 30th anniversary celebrations... Still "beta" quality... but already quite pretty https://t.co/QQ7xsV0DxQ