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Dave T?ht died yesterday. He was one of the unsung heroes of the Internet, and a close friend of mine who I will miss very badly. Dave, known on X as @mtaht because his birth name was Michael, was a true hacker of the old school who touched the lives of everybody using X. His

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It is now time to scale the great steps to Mount Olympus! High above the Aegean Sea, discover the legendary realm of the gods and goddesses. Here, the Olympians are converging to determine the fate of you mortals—through an epic miniature golf odyssey. https://t.co/6i4Aa9XZ0I https://t.co/69VqHp8ACU

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The second Nvidia book to come out this year, complementing The Nvidia Way with more of a focus on Jensen personally. I enjoyed it, but I am slightly miffed about having a quote from me fabricated: “We wanted a faster responding Quake so our customers could reach out and frag https://t.co/gseKTCxXur

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I thought I had good reason to code up a vectorized binary search, which was kind of fun to do, but then I checked, and the standard torch.searchsorted() works well enough. For all the emphasis given in computer science curriculums and job interviews, actually implementing

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Have any of the big AI labs written publicly about how they schedule usage of their GPU clusters between research, frontier training, and production?

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Why are people vibe coding games with @threejs instead of using game engines like Unity or Unreal? I got a ton of questions and messages about this and wanted to write some of my thoughts in more detail.

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I wonder if a universal trial period for all paid apps would be good for VR (or any platform). Steam has the two-hour refund period, which gets sort of abused this way, but making it explicit and encouraging it seems like a good idea — Try everything! This would be a market

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I first read this book about Seymour Cray and the supercomputer space a couple decades ago. Rereading it now, with some big-company experience and after the extended-and-disappointing Rage development at Id makes me feel even more kinship with Seymour. The ability to start each https://t.co/W867eXSD0X

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RT @sdamico: My sources inside SpaceX tell me that you just need lots of Formula SAE [a college formula one style competition] new grads…

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3D printing can do amazing things, but if you have to make more than one or two of something, metal fabrication can very often be literally better, faster, and cheaper. Designing parts to process is very similar to software system optimization — knowing what the available tools

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EA just released source code for a bunch of old Command and Conquer games, and added Steam Workshop support to bangers like C&C 3: Tiberium Wars. https://t.co/CMMAfnd2qL

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@tlbtlbtlb This seemed rather high, so I read the paper. I don't believe it. The plastic they get the high numbers for was polyethylene, and the method that gave them that number was Py-GC/MS. That's pyrolysis fed into gas chromatography/mass spectrometry.

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For ages, the sophisticated nihilistic view has been that shrinking the federal budget is hopeless because it is dominated by politically untouchable entitlements. The possibility those entitlements are substantially composed of politically tractable fraud and waste is exciting!

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The standard SpaceX / @elonmusk strategy is to simply identify the next obstacle on the critical path and efficiently crush it from first principles, largely letting the problems of tomorrow be solved tomorrow. This works far better than most people expect; it doesn’t have to be

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Whenever I post something critical of Meta’s handling of VR, there are always some old timers that pile on with “Yeah! More AAA PC VR Games is the way to win!”. To be clear — standalone VR was the biggest win that VR ever had, by a huge margin, and Beat Saber was far more

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In a leaked memo, Meta's CTO told staff that 2025 will determine whether its hardware & metaverse division is the work of visionaries or a legendary misadventure: https://t.co/M2M1270Qt3

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Offline reinforcement learning, where an agent tries to improve a behavior policy by observing another agent without actually playing, is a harder problem than it appears. The challenge isn’t to mimic the provided play, but to learn something better than what you have seen. The

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Was there ever a computer display back in the dark ages that used a full matrix of segmented LEDs for a page of text display?

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If anyone knows of small US libraries that might be interested in some free science fiction books, pass this along: https://t.co/MoeWxy6trr I have no idea if I am going to send out ten sets or a thousand.

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Apple could sell more iPhones if it didn't take all day to transfer data to a new phone. Today's transfer took 14 hours. And then I have to re-login to most apps. If it was just the $1000, I'd upgrade every generation.

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