Nikhil
@LostPixel17
IITR grad I love writing and learning about graphical renderers for fun. DX11 | OpenGL | Vulkan guy
introducing Papertoy: Run a Shadertoy-compatible shader as an animated wallpaper on Wayland currently supports wlroots-compatible compositors (Hyprland etc.) see below for repo and another showcase
I've been dreaming of this C++ profiler for my game for over a year. It's now here. It shows me the slowest code logic that runs over my game components in real time. Each one is a lambda that I can find at the file name and line number. An hour after I made this, I already…
Strange that AI can win IMO gold but fail to solve a simple matrix mul issue in my camera class. Guess (actual)programming is harder than an IMO gold?
Huge congrats to OpenAI for their IMO gold. I don’t find it too surprising that an AI tool was able to achieve this (see below, though I’d sort of lost hope the last few days) but I’m pretty surprised it was an LRM with no tool use etc.
highly, highly recommend for everyone to read "Why Philosophers Should Care about Computational Complexity" from Scott Aaronson you can skip the mathier sections around PAC learnability etc in section 7 (or go thru it if you're smarter than me or can put in the time) you get a…
Modern computer hardware with substantially more sane software would feel straight out of science fiction.
Civilizations used to dream. Even communists wanted to go to the stars. At some point, the future died; we all silently decided that the purpose of a civilization is not to dream, but to just scrape by, to cut corners, to be as close to bare minimum functionality as possible
If you haven't already, strongly recommend reading this book. I'm sure the film will be good, but hard to imagine competing with the experience of reading this book for the first time.
Your first look at #ProjectHailMary. Trailer launches Monday.
Every abstraction has physical costs, some are just much more significant than others. If you’re curious about this world of super-low-level cpu latencies, I have a lot of interesting resources here to get you started: Instruction table latency (lots of CPU architectures,…
Didn't expect this at all ngl. But again, indirect costs may occur due to the cache invalidation that can occur with aggressive oops
So what *is* cheap? Virtual function calls in C++ are surprisingly quick. Well, technically 50% slower than a direct call, but it’s very branch-predictor friendly. About ~7 nanoseconds on a modern CPU.
first ever movie to have frame drops
First look at Duncan Jones’ adaptation of ‘ROGUE TROOPER’ • The film will be fully animated made in Unreal Engine 5 • Starring Hayley Atwell, Aneurin Barnard, Jack Lowden, Jemaine Clement, Matt Berry & Sean Bean (Source: empireonline.com/movies/news/ro…)
Today I learned that electronic devices work on magic smoke. Once the smoke leaves the device, it stops working.