Adrian Sanchez

Creative programming, games and stuff.
Senior Technical Engineer @SquanchGames.
Sole proprietor of @SunsetLearn.

[Adrian Sanchez @pervasivesense]

Please, nobody ever follow me again.

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@twodelab What in the eff?? So is this only the auto LOD graph work that we're seeing here? Does this also implement the optimized mesh disk streaming/compression that Nanite does?

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I'm guessing at one point we'll have to reinvent memory access from the ground up if we want to see forward progress, which will potentially involve some qubit based memory that exploits entanglement and can get you near instantaneous memory access from any part of the PCB.

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The more into computer science I got over the years the more I realized that the whole cache-on-CPU-die concept was never going to be very scalable. The physical size of the die and the caches themselves can only get so large before you hit latency concerns...

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You CAN pack a lot more transistors into the caches but then you probably get a more complex manufacturing pipeline and indirectly increase the cost of making the die, and even then there might still be some physical limit that we're very close to.

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This is as concerning as it is exciting 😬

[Smoke-away @SmokeAwayyy]

Sam Altman: "We hope that you'll come back next year. What we launch today is going to look very quaint relative to what we're busy creating for you now."

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Starting up a sort of side hussle soon. Sign up and get it in the cheap!
https://t.co/5YW62aqker
@SunsetLearn

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I never 100% enjoyed the process but I've slowly come to realize that it may be one of those things that is just beneficial against the grain, like brushing your teeth or doing dishes, or waiting a goddamn hour and a half at the DMV.

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Learning to start and run a business should be as important a learned skill as any other hard skills that can get you job placements. The potential for return is much higher, and it gives you a larger window to earn from the things you love.

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@falco_girgis I often see large parts of C++ renderers use runtime polymorphic types for rendering abstractions, seems odd to me. Most times you'll know the rendering API to use upfront and can use a policy-based templates to represent the abstractions well enough without virtual dispatch.

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I have a fresh existential crisis every time I hop on https://t.co/1zTi8soi4t. There's like full-on animated SDF + ray-marched scenes and all my brain can muster is slowing things down with exponential decay. Some crazy talented people in the world.

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If you had the version control system equivalent of server-side program that tracked every action made within a custom operating system, and was able to track back through the entire action history, how crazy would that be?

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Obviously there's a lot of newer tech in between, like stochastic sampling and upscaling, but most modern quality real-time GI approaches seem to have a low, constant ray budget.

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Funny how we initially realized the rendering equation was too infeasible since tracing rays is too expensive, so many [genius] approximations were made for real-time lighting, then decades later we just said "screw it, we'll just trace less rays", and now GI looks amazing.

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@karpathy Nanotech startup that seeks to feed millions with novel molecular processes but incites public fears of turning everyone into random Scandinavian dishes is still on my bingo card 😅

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This shit's gonna live rent free in my head for a minute
https://t.co/ZeIPpeHUXk

[Adrian Sanchez @pervasivesense]

Maybe I'm secretly working on a multi-course platform catered around how to build your own game engine with an accompanying MIT licensed engine that you can do whatever you want with. Maybe I'm not 🤷🏻‍♂️ Time will tell.

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65% sure this is just an ancient bidet

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

Who is this?
Wrong answer only.

[Adrian Sanchez @pervasivesense]

Really no better business model than a FOSS business model. You can make very profitable products centered around your own in-house software solutions and still make the software freely available. I get how it can be difficult, but anti-FOSS just globally nixes forward progress.