diabllicseagull

I remember the stock taking a beating after Kimi K3 created all that buzz about the open model designing chips that could run itself (even though the chip in question seemed small in today's standard of massive AI chips). It was only a matter of time before Synopsys released an offering like this. I can almost see the meeting where the C suite demanded working with an external partner over anything in-house they could build.

Why the overall market cap is smaller than both Synopsys and Ansys combined before the merger still beats me tho.

"The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a simple, closed, triangulated 3D mesh."

- we are presented something

"I would be (pleasantly) surprised if the algorithm is novel. Further research after posting reveals the paper Efficient Feature Extraction for 2D/3D Objects in Mesh Representation by Cha Zheng and Tsuhan Chen, which appears to describe the same algorithm, although the derivation is different. It was fun while it lasted!"

- there was an initial expectation, though slim, that it may be novel. then on the discovery that it wasn't, related fun time was insinuated to be over.

are we reading the same text?

see, when I say something reminds me of something else I don't mean a one-to-one equivalence at every aspect one can think of.

anyhoo, it's always a great skill to review the state-of-the-art BEFORE investing in a work/write-up/article - one of the very first things that a post-graduate program would teach you.

reminds me of that 1994 paper that reinvented the trapezoidal rule

have you heard of PhysX, Hairworks, or the CUDA moat?

as gamers, we got burnt by nvidia way too many times. I'm still holding grudge over shutting down 3dfx.

M6 and M5 Ultra both have comparable memory bandwidth per GPU core. I think they will perform well.

no free lunch for a given process node I guess. It's using TSMC’s 3nm N3P.

arguing that the application of the law was as expected to people who point out how unjust the expected application of the law is is pointless.

ideally, we would see a stronger legal reaction to the biggest IP heist in history but clearly it's not what's happening. it's only natural for people to criticize the current system until a change for the better materializes, while doing so draw attention to extreme cases such as Aaron's.

I'm mostly taken aback all the solutions devised to go around the issue, especially the container-based ones. I really disliked it when I grabbed the flatpak version of Blender only to find out that it can't have HIP support. (they might have fixed it by now but you get the point)

according to appimage recommendations as long as you build against glibc with an earlier version than the system it's run on it should be fine.

https://docs.appimage.org/reference/best-practices.html

I hear you about WINE though.

One big aspect that made Bezier popular was local support, i.e. moving control points resulted in expected changes in the same direction. It's interesting that this is the result of a search for 'a curve family better suited for interactive design than cubic Beziers.' I think it's better for achieving curve quality in the sense of curvature changes, but not so much in interactivity.

It's a useful figure in that it shows how fast an industry, which shouldn't exist, grows:

"Swindle said that CoreCivic's total revenue went up by just over 27% this spring compared to the same quarter last year, for a total of $684.9 million."

Looks like the theoretical heavy-lifting was done by Lin et al. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cgf.14377

so an on-premise and open-weight model was more useful than a commercial frontier model?

I get the consumers' ick when I see an AI-generated menu, logo, or sign as much as the next person. Beyond that, there is an argument to be made about the discrepancy between the pictorial depictions of a food item and what you are actually served in real life. I wish something akin to Japan's strict food packaging laws existed for restaurants.

we have already gone through multiple cycles of remote and edge compute (mainframe to pc, pc to cloud, cloud to phone). as the software/hardware landscape changes, the economics of what can be run on what device will change accordingly. I very much doubt that it will permanently go one way.

if you look at how GPU memory grew in the last 15 years, it's about 10x. Sadly, 10x from today doesn't get us to a typical frontier model size of today which is a quickly moving target. some other advancement needs to happen to get us another 10x both in memory/compute requirements, and also power requirements.

I'd like to pick on the word 'invisible': if the user can get into a flow state with a tool where work becomes the major focus. I can argue that you can get into that state with any tool with enough practice. And sometimes that's only possible if the tool is actually visible to you as in all graphical UI bits you need are exactly where you remember them to be, exactly where your motor reflexes immediately seek and find.

So regarding proficiency. I bet you weren't as proficient with multiple cursors and all the things you can do with it when you first used it. (15 years is a long time to remember how it all started.) I could argue that all the key shortcuts and other bits you need to make multiple cursors work effectively doesn't come to everyone instantly. But with time you could and would hit that level.

Overall tho, vim is an interesting comparison to make also because sublime text also has a 'vintage mode'. I personally use it with vim shortcuts enabled. it lets me use vim motions on top of everything sublime offers. Does sublime + vim make it more 'invisible' to me than it is to you?

I generally have issues with arguments like this. It starts with a sexy phrase that projects some earned wisdom but then the rest of the supporting arguments are forced into the narrative most of the time by selectively ignoring important information. You could have just said I love sublime and I prefer it over vim because of this and that. or it could have been a direct critique of linux desktop. they would all stand on their own, even better I would argue, without being shoehorned into an overarching, simple, catchy phrase.

politics being the inflammatory topic for you or not, you seem to seek a particular type of comment section that only includes the information you are personally interested in and nothing else (garbage as you put it). imho, it's an unrealistic expectation on your part.

From the June 4th article: "These patches are a result of a collaboration between a couple of Qualcomm engineers taking part in an internal sprint and were created over 3 days."

it's not giving me any warm and fuzzy.

so they buy and operate the machine, the customer brings the splat. is this just a print lab?

I'm just guessing here but similar to a CAT scan, having actuators/probes at all angles could mean you can get an image around such obstacles. skull is probably an exception and it's the reason why we don't see any head scans in any one of the videos.

this is the take.

Space key

I've been keeping an eye on the state of Linux on the first gen of X Elite and it's sad that the potential is not fully materialized outside WoA. Take a look at what peeps are going through:

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-concept-snapdragon-x-e...

We'll get there, bit by bit.

Massive fumble imho. I'm still sad about the SGU cancellation. It had so much potential for the third season. If Amazon won't commit to a new Stargate show it should at least release it for others to do so. Currently, it's keeping the franchise hostage.

Same. The third season was great and left me wanting for more. Alas.