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Reminds me of the 3D file browser user interface in Jurassic Park, which was an actual application. Looks cool but its not good to use (I mean the 3d file browser, not this software galaxies, which i found quite good).

3D interfaces rarely plan out, wonder if something like a vision pro or quest could make a 3D user interface work better than a 2D counterpart.

wouldn't targeting webassembly provide something similiar? how would this compare to targeting WASM and running a runtime like wasmer?

Me too. I think the main reason is that the lead render developer left, and switched to google to work on Stadia.

It seems they are finally enable the 16bit float extension in their OpenCL implementation.

It's interesting that according to wikipedia its budget was $60M.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Village_(2004_film)#Produc...

This breakdown is about $71M, and it doesn't even account for reshoots in 2004 ~april. Which one is the more accurate? Are all publicly reported budgets this different?

Or is there something in this report that is not counted there?

Very great! Is there a way to increase the resolution though?

Half life (1998) also had an OEM version called "Day one" containing the first half of the game along with some slightly last minute changes missing from it, compared to the released version (different handgun ammo count etc).

Wondering why oem versions were dumbed down pre-releases

It uses the rasterization HW for large triangles and uses a software rasterizer in compute for small triangles.

The HW rasterizer is not that efficient if the triangles are tiny, which is the case for nanite.

Thats true, but facebook is a free product (in a monetary sense), however these cameras are sold at a price.

Hi!

There is this remote camera app for baby cameras and home survelliance cameras, that all of a sudden started displaying ads in the application that lets you access the camera remotely.

Also these ads are full screen, unskippable 5-10 second ads that occasionally have sound as well.

Upon asking about this, the only reaction from them is a canned response telling about some discount, but there was no ad in the product before, they changed the deal afterwards.

Is this the new trend for companies to extract revenue from already sold products?

How is it legal to add ads into an already sold product afterwards?

Agreed but if talking about default file managers, its even worse on ubuntu. Nautilus is imo very bad compared to win file manager (hitting a key starts a global search in that folder, it crashes very often etc.). Does anyone know if they plan anything with it?

My own gpu accelerated neural network trainer using backpropagation: https://github.com/zbendefy/machine.academy

The learning speed also shows why evolution based learning is not so great compared to backpropagation.

Already deleted

After my app got some traction due to a reddit post i made, admob instantly disabled earning for 2 weeks due to "suspicious activity" or something like that.

I tried to reach someone to at least get a clarification...am I not allowed to have a surge of ~100 real users? but there really was no way to present my issue to anyone. It really is bad, there was nothing I could do. If this wasnt a hobby project I would have been really frustrated instead of being just disillusioned.

Its a remake of an old 90s game that is also offline so there is not much risk in it.

I suspect there are a lot of these stories never shared.

We can start using less pcie lanes for gpus and ssds at the minimum

Nice! I made a gpu accelerated backpropagation lib a while ago to learn about NNs, if you are interested check it out here: https://github.com/zbendefy/machine.academy

Where is this sudden surge of talking about the metaverse coming from?

This is also nicely illustrated in CGP Grey's rules for rulers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs

OpenCL has a category called CL_ DEVICE_ TYPE_ ACCELERATOR for that, so something like 'Accelerator' seems to fit

And the best thing is that when you are releasing, you turn this validation layer off, which is good for 2 reasons:

-No performance is wasted in release builds

-Validation checks can be expensive and exhaustive as it will not run in production code

Results can be better controlled this way

Not a physicist but I find the Science Asylum also pretty good:

https://youtu.be/Q2OlsMblugo

watch this, it explains it well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csInNn6pfT4

Awesome! Does it use wasm-simd? If it does do you know how much impact it has on the performance?

Do tell more! I would be curious of any details on the development of commandos2, I used to play that game a lot.

Another similar and good article: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a...

A gpu accelerated neural network backpropagation lib: https://github.com/zbendefy/machine.academy

Is this the same thing that this 2016 article is about? Or is it a new finding with a similiar conclusion?

https://www.nature.com/news/has-a-hungarian-physics-lab-foun...

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