Res severa est verum gaudium | Knowledge graph: oh4.co | Software & Games: etscrivner.itch.io
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Apr 22
Devlog #7 for Candlewyth. All about asset pipelines and particle systems.
etscrivner.itch.io/candlewytโฆ
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Jun 14
Back of the Blood Meridian cover says the kid is 14. But if you just read the first 3 pages of the book you find he was born in 1833 and the events of the book begin in 1849 making him 16 years old for the bulk of the book.
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Jun 12
Old Trails Building (1928)
Indianapolis, IN
Designed by the firm Pierre & Wright for the Old Trails Auto Insurance Company, featuring Art Deco Native American ornament.
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Jun 13
Reminiscent of Bachโs response (via Johann Abraham Birnbaum) to the criticisms of Johann Adolph Scheibe where he describes the basis of musical art as the imitation and refinement of nature.
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Jun 13
It may be my own addition, but I hear all sorts of imitations of human speech when I play Bach - an argument between a married couple, the consolations of friends to a sad man, etc.
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Jun 13
RT @panoptisean: Best part of disclosure day is when the guy watching ufo footage and he goes โhow do we know itโs not AI?!โ and some ladyโฆ
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Jun 11
Deleuze and Spengler actually have a very similar notion of the virtual Idea and its actualization in extension. Both even use the term Idea for this concept. The prime difference is over whether fatalism is active or not in this actualization.
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Jun 11
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Programmers in game studios use AI coding tools. Not all of them yet, but it's getting popular lately. Gen-AI in concept art is very common. Artists paint modifications on top of AI generated image. Photoshop has various AI tools nowadays (context aware fill being one of the first). Translating text and dialogue to different languages is often done with AI. In rendering side, big studios have been talking at SIGGRAPH about their AI based light probe placement and probe/texture/material compression algorithms. AI based terrain generation and prop placement exists in big engines. DLSS from Nvidia is well known AI upscaler. DLSS5 adds gen-AI to the mix, etc, etc. There aren't many games left with no AI used in their production.
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We're building a relaxed narrative investigation game set along the highways, swamps, and marshlands of coastal Louisiana. It's taken a few shapes over the years, but the spirit's the same. We don't share much here, but there's more linked below if you'd like to help us along.
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Jun 7
Division of labor is supposed to drive down unit costs while boosting productivity. But this doesnโt really work in experimental/creative endeavors because the massively increased coordination costs eliminate the ability to throw work away and iterate.
The factory is the wrong model.
Jun 7
This is an accurate view of AAA game development.
youtube.com/watch?v=1bJUSTTUโฆ
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Jun 5
I have been meaning to write something on the (IMO mistaken) theory that there is "unlimited demand for software".
I speculate this is mainly investor/founder-class bias, because so much of the *growth* in the US has been "software" for ~30 years.
But few people want more apps.
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Jun 4
Scraping the bottom of the barrel for liquidity
BREAKING: The SEC has officially eliminated the $25,000 minimum equity requirement for day trading.
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Jun 2
It is fundamentally reactionary (liberal humanism) to exempt creativity from being PRODUCTION, as Macherey noted in A Theory of Literary Production. Production has capital inputs: Joyce literally crossing out the resources he had collected in his Wake notebooks as they were used.
There are a lot of supposed Marxists and dialectical materialists who seem to believe that because labor is โcreativeโ, you are somehow injecting demons into the process by automating any aspect of it. The rote aspects of filmmaking are โhigherโ labor than working at a cannery.
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Jun 2
In normal markets, manufacturing or exploiting moral panics to fundraise would be punished. In deep-tech/defense/AI, which is imbricated with the state & enjoys v. artificial conditions, the millenarian frame is the product. The threat has to feel real for the TAM to be maxxed.
Jun 2
underrated to the degree to which every company that is great at fundraising in the last 20 years adopted explicitly millenarian frames:
ant/openai: death by unaligned ai
palantir: death by terror
anduril: china/taiwan
spacex: death by climate -> death by woke
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Itโs a reliable eng pattern that when something that starts as a monolithic unity hits limitations the next idea is to fission it into coordinating specialized partsโฆthen when that design hits limitations a new unity is proposed and so on.
Fusion โ Fission โ Fusion โ โฆ
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Jun 2
These days I tend to think of this as a โcode smellโ that is symptomatic of tweaking the architecture because that is an easy surrogate problem compared to addressing the root cause.
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May 31
The idea of โpathological abstractionโ comes up in so many fields it seems worthy of deeper thought.
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May 31
Feel like I can easily see how this could happen now. The military is hollowed out and becomes a corrupt patronage/welfare system to stave off civil conflict. Still some appetite for fighting but no ability to coordinate large scale, high intensity, or sustained conflict.
May 30
One bizarre question that arises from reading about the fall of the Roman Empire is: "Where the hell are all the soldiers?"
On paper, from documents such as the Notitia Dignitatum, the late Roman army was supposed to have had around half a million troops. Larger than ever before.
Yet time and time again we see barbarian invasions overwhelm Roman defenses, with an unclear military response. And when engagements do happen, the size of the Roman army reported is often smaller than during previous periods in which the total number of troops and manpower available to the empire was supposedly smaller.
So where was this vast Roman army when the Goths spent decades moving throughout the empire, or when the Rhine frontier fell in 406? Or when Rome was sacked and Britain was abandoned in 410? Or when North Africa was overwhelmed and lost? Did it just evaporate?
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