Programmer on Starfox, 1080 Snowboarding and Super Mario 64. Believer of western values, rigorous scientifc questioning and dog rights. šŸ• šŸ‡¬šŸ‡§šŸ‡ÆšŸ‡µ

Joined November 2006
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I left school when I was 16 and got a job in North London doing my hobby of ā€œmaking 3Dā€ because Jez gave me a chance @ArgonautGames_ Whatever you love doing, keep at it because the rest falls into place ā¤ļø youtu.be/BcsfftwLUf0
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A dev got so frustrated watching his AI agent write 500 lines for a 5-line problem that he built a fix. He called it Ponytail. Named after the guy every team has - long ponytail, oval glasses, been there longer than the version control. You show him fifty lines; he looks at them, says nothing, and replaces them with one. Now your agent does the same. Before writing anything, it looks for a reason not to. 80-94% less code. 47-77% cheaper. 3-6x faster. The best code is the code you never wrote. GitHub Repo: github.com/DietrichGebert/po…
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You can be anti AI / left / right / whatever but I think you’d be hard pressed to argue against what Dario is trying to do. The cat is already out of the bag.. youtu.be/v1wZwxY3CMg
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Maybe physics has a right-wing slant.
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Stands to reason that all compute will end up in space. There’s no compelling reason to keep it on the ground.
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Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06…

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That’s the job of parents, not an incompetent government.
This government will not stand by while children are put at risk online. Today I am calling on the tech companies to introduce device-level controls to prevent children from taking, sharing or viewing nude images. And if they don’t act, we will.
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Jess Phillips resigned from gvnt May 12 citing Starmer's failure to act on this specific measure. lbc.co.uk/article/keir-s… Technology like this requires blanket ID vertification to take vetted photos. Kids easily verify as adults rendering measures useless while curbing liberty for everyone else. eff.org/pages/uk-onlin… thedailyeconomy.org/article/califo…
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Sky's @TrevorPTweets, a former head of the Commission for Racial Equality, says he feel "rage" because the Henry Nowak case is one of many examples of "misjudgements about people based on their race leading to a young life being cut short." He shares three other examples ā¬‡ļø
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Frank is right
Replying to @TheHerefordian
I have done my homework and Rupert is Our Man. This is the moment.
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Where is the funding for companies looking at the end not the means of AI? That’s where the value is.
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It kind of makes sense that you cannot design cars (or games) on 5 year windows and expect them to be relevant when they’re finally released.
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The race for more efficient AI training and inference is like the race we had for more realistic graphics in games. Ironically also driven by Nvidia šŸ¤”
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Hilbert space was a "hack" to make Quantum Mechanics work
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~10 years ago, back in 2014, Sony announced Project Morpheus (later Playstation VR). There was a spirit of intense competition, but also collaboration - Oculus and Sony always swapped demos. Sony actually paid for all the indie game dev booths at the Tokyo Game Show for many years, even ones that had nothing to do with Playstation. Even the ones who were only on competing platforms like Oculus! That is just the kind of guy @yosp was.
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I can't stop staring at this šŸ˜­šŸ”„ @Cartesian_C broke down the mimic effect — procedural curves that move, twist, and displace in real time. No simulation. Just nodes. The fact that this comes with a full tutorial breakdown makes it even better šŸ™Œ Save this Geometry Nodes workflows šŸ‘‡ #Blender3D #B3D #GeometryNodes #ProceduralArt #BlenderTutorial #CurveAnimation #BlenderTips
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Devs need to recognize that we’ve lost it to skill but not to originality and experience.
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Rick Rubin on the power of creating something truly for yourself Elon Musk has said that Rick Rubin’s philosophy of creating something truly for yourself is how Tesla creates products. Rick elaborates on this philosophy in the clip below: ā€œMy only goal is to make something that I like, and I know that I can keep working on it until I like it. So in some ways there’s no pressure.ā€ Rick doesn’t consider the audience at all: ā€œThe audience comes last… I’m not making it for them. I’m making it for me. And it turns out that when you make something truly for yourself, you’re doing the best thing you possibly can for the audience.ā€ He argues that this is why there are so many bad movies today: ā€œSo many big movies are just not good. It’s because they’re are not being made by a person who cares about it. They’re being made by people who are trying to make something they think someone else will like. And that’s not how art works.ā€ Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt argues a similar point: "If you think about the greatest products, they've almost always been designed for the benefit of the people who are actually building them.ā€ Uber started out as a private timeshare limousine service for Garrett Camp and his friends. Microsoft started when Bill Gates and Paul Allen wrote a Basic interpreter for the Altair so they didn’t have to write machine language to program it. Drew Houston built Dropbox to make his files live online after forgetting his USB stick. Larry Page and Sergey Brin built Google for Stanford—and particularly for themselves—with the first server in Larry’s dorm room. Source: @LewisHowes (Nov 2023)
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Game devs, please use real artists for your game’s Steam store capsule art. Thank you.
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