I do MSDF as well and since I'm not doing a huge-ass text editor (and even then) it works and it's great. One thing to consider is that with any solution that does things directly from vector outlines means you also then have to distribute proper font outlines and you might not have a license to do that. With MSDF and similar atlas-like solutions, you pre-render a font and distribute that rendered image instead of an actual font.
not to be _that_ guy, but S3 was the dominant force in 3D. ATI was nowhere to be seen with their Mach/Rage crap. It was an S3 era, and then seemingly out of nowhere 3dfx swept in with Voodoo (not seemingly though - 3dfx came out from imploding SGI). Only a bit later Nvidia, after it recovered from NV1 fiasco, brute forced relentlessly from Riva 128 to TNT to TNT2 to Geforce 256 which broke 3dfx (along with their lack of business sense) and had Nvidia bought them. ATI did their 2D schtick only during that timeline while S3 stumbled with Virge and ATI didn't come as a threat until Radeon; After they bought ArtX (which did Gamecube graphics) which turned into Radeon. S3 died off in that race with Savage3D and the only other major players were Matrox and 3dlabs. Matrox kind of found temp refuge in video segment, and 3dlabs infamously pushed for OpenGL 2 and survived for a bit on 3d workstations. The most surprising (IMO) was the downfall of E&S which kickstarted most of the things mentioned. E&S and Real3D are both a great story in themselves how first movers can become absolutely forgotten and obscure real quick (with Intel740 ended up in ATI).
there's some nugget of usefulness to it as an idea, but overall jev itself for some reason smells like a scam. scam in a sense of an engineered marketing push towards some bs that will turn into a saas. technical merit is next to none.
Even when I'm interested and invested into the topic, somehow I just zone out and can't force myself to read it or read it with comprehension. Be it a website or a PR, there's just something to it that if it's more than a few sentences of it I just can't.
There must be a name to this phenomenon and I surely can't be the only one?
Anecdata, but I've been using gemini personally instead of what I used regular google searches for the better part. Even in car chat/search and some lighter and not so light research (if it's not heavy on technicals). It's good enough that I use it nonstop like that. I wouldn't trust it for coding at all - switching between fable and now astra.
Google in a sense won (me over) like that. I also expected them to brute force their way into everything and dominate. This is how it played out though. Image generation is great as well, but ChatGPT one is more lenient on copyright and nannying - for example when my kid asks me to "take a photo of him and Sonic". Gemini cops out either because of the kid or Sonic, disappointing us both, but ChatGPT can be.. persuaded.
I could care less about running shoes, or shoes in general, but late 80's and into the 90's it was like Nike vs Reebok and Adidas on the side, with a dash of Puma. Haven't heard about Reebok ever since. It was as big as Nike, so it doesn't seem unprecedented for these brands to die by stupid mistakes?
yeah yeah, "when" an often keyword with AI it seems. As Mr. E. Nigma put it - what always comes but never arrives? Meanwhile the moat deepens and it's build on inertia and laziness and Nvidia knows this really REALLY well.
I get that, I truly do since I see it all and every day. We're talking engineering hands here though. Presumably programmers and infrastructure and SRE.
I agree with what you're saying that it's not exactly what we're seeing which makes it not as simple.
However, I've seen this play out in many a big companies where there's a big mess going on. Answer is always similar pointing to -> "clearly it's not simple" and that's kind of the whole point. They made it not simple. 3k ENGINEERS, my sweet dude. THREE THOUSAND. By any and all account that's half as much as current chrome team or in total if you account for open source contributors as well. If robot is to believed that's also a headcount of windows and macos core teams. What is even going on, I don't even..
$42k and a toy CPU at that. Threadripper or EPIC if it must be AMD camp, although I'd rather it weren't (_always_ some random issues on linux). TBH, if I were buying workstation at such prices, I'd probably first take a look at what HP has (since their cooling and immunity to dust is unprecedented), and then probably BOXX and Puget. For DIY there's always supermicro at such levels.
I kind of thought the same and then I invested a bit of money into seeing(!) an ophthalmologist. If it's correctable, do it. Better investment than a damn phone. Now I can go back to asking for a smaller phone.
curious question where you work, the AI craze is not happening?
of course it is. There's no escape IMO unless, as you've said, go solo or with a small team. I just don't know of any company of a notable size that's not into it full force. It's both disgusting and amazing to look at really. Give it a few years and if it fizzles out I'm curious what will happen. If it turns great, I'm even more curious what will happen. Weird times.
Just "yesterday" we were all careful what and how we do stuff, you have now people who barely understand things slopping together OS and people use it blindly (Omarchy), and then shocked pikachu faces when giant gaping holes are noticed in it.. and people still do not care. Amazing trainwreck of a timeline, hah.
I'm seriously considering pivoting myself to security.
If all this is true, I'd also like to see some serious jail time for those guys that thought this was a good idea. Losing market share should be least of their worries.
Dark take, but I really hope not. If anything it would be a good opportunity to buy some goodwill by washing themselves from all the alleged shadiness so far.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Issue at hand is if you're working in an environment that enables such people and even encourages that behaviour. Suddenly, their voice is the same where it was never even a whisper before, and you can't do anything about it. It is extremely demotivating and I would actually propose a more radical approach to it - either embrace the shit in full and commit to it as well or really do engage into another company where there's a better filter for hiring. The latter are usually smaller companies because they can't afford no to.
IF ANYTHING, OpenAI ought to investigate and officially react to this particular communique since this dude was communicating on their behalf. If there are supporting evidence, I would expect nothing less than a firing and an apology. The issue itself is separate from the whole thing.
It's both measurable 'headless' and visually. When I said no direction I mean that I didn't want to give it direction _how_ to do it but more what I want to do and how what I use to measure. Usually I found better results with LLMs by giving them the tools and describe the objective and let it figure it out rather than box it in completely. It did well on it, it's just.. well, it's taking its sweet-ass time :)
Yeah absolutely. I've been working on my rendering engine on and off for the past 20 odd years. It has been used in commercially in my gigs. However, it's what's considered an offline renderer (like 30+ minutes to render a frame). Last few years, on and off again, I've been slowly working towards a limited in scope realtime version of it. One of the components I've managed to kind of bring almost to the finish line is for it to work with a limited VRAM budget and streaming geometry, where camera has a (I'm simplifying here) bubble around you (around, not a frustum in-front because I need semi global visibility since I'm doing realtime raytracing). This bubble as it moves dictates what geometry and resources are loaded, sometimes even ahead of time because I also do a form of motion prediction. Far out things, outside of the bubble, and things on the border of the bubble go through a coarse to fine representation. That way I can render distant stuff which I don't need much detail for it. This part is a bit buggy, to say the least, but also viably measurable so it's a prime candidate for an LLM to loop/goal over it. Or at least I though so. With max I can see now the progress, but with max I'm now 21+ hours into it and not a clear solution ahead yet. I think I'm running out of weekly quota on ChatGPT Pro 20x for this. I actually bought subscription exactly to drive this home since I don't use LLMs much anymore except gemini in lieu of googling.
I haven't told it how to do stuff, but what I want to do and it picked up my tests to see if it's making progress and I can see it's tuning the movement prediction and caching logic and it fixed few minor bugs. So, it seems to be doing the right approach.. it just takes an awful lot of time. Question is if it's a viable approach even though, but it didn't flag it as wrong. It actually agreed with me and unlike Claude I haven't gotten the impression it's much of a yesman.
26% weekly limit left, 21+ hours strong and still going. I can see the progress though, but I am not confident it will finish before weekly limit is done for (ChatGPT Pro 20x subscription). Since I don't really use LLMs for anything else, except pestering gemini for stupid questions instead of straight up googling it, that's ok. I just wish it would either finish or let me hand it over to it once again whence limit resets.
On and off for a month, not straight month and not dedicated time. I am quite confident I will be able to solve it within a week or two of dedicated time. Here, on the other hand, we have this supposedly powerful thing that can do magic, unlike myself. We'll see. I'm not even confident, by looking at what it does, that it will even be able to solve it. Only thing I saw that I like is it's better in communication style compared to Fable and Opus.
I asked Astra to try and fix an issue in my codebase I've been battling for a month. Day and half later on high and it's still circling the drain. Seems like with each new model we praise it based on toys, but then reality hits the ground soon and we wait for the next model. In the meantime, good ol' brain.