🌸 Tue, May 7, 2024 🌸
AwesomeBump allows you to author textures. Yesterday, I played around with it a bit to create a normal map for the granola bar static mesh.
https://github.com/kmkolasinski/AwesomeBump
🌸 Mon, May 6, 2024 🌸
I think studying physics would be a lot more fun if physicists referred to particles as balls. Everything is a ball, and everything is made of balls. “Physics of Elementary Balls.”
🌸 Mon, May 6, 2024 🌸
A well-informed populace, being necessary to the security of a free society, the right of the people to develop, use, and control artificial intelligence technologies, shall not be infringed. 😛
🌸 Mon, May 6, 2024 🌸
Just updated the firmware on my laptop, hopefully it will start charging my battery to the level I set, not to some random numbers like 69%. Just checked, nope; it’s stuck on 64%. 🙃
🌸 Mon, May 6, 2024 🌸
Quite often I see the following pattern in C++:
int64_t getSomeValue()
{
static int64_t cache = 0;
if (cache)
return cache;
// expensive calculation with assigning the calculated value to the cache
return cache;
}
While t…
🌸 Mon, May 6, 2024 🌸
My sense of taste changed after wisdom tooth extraction; noticeable change: water has got some hint of metallic taste. I hope I’ll get used to it or my sense of taste will get back to normal.
🌸 Mon, May 6, 2024 🌸
I’ve got an idea for a horror game where the player is an AI assistant, similar to Alexa or Google Mini. Initially, everything seems innocent, with tasks like telling the time or reporting the weather. However, things take a turn as the game starts to gaslight the player into thi…
🌸 Sun, May 5, 2024 🌸
I just noticed I accidentally switched ChatGPT from 4 to 3.5. I literally got angry with ChatGPT earlier today because of how stupid 3.5 is.
🌸 Sun, May 5, 2024 🌸
What’s going on with UI lately? The X and Y coordinates have to be exactly the same on mouse button down and mouse button up. It’s impossible to click on buttons using my Wacom tablet. I remember having struggles on Samsung’s website once, with emoji selection on KDE, and with so…
🌸 Sun, May 5, 2024 🌸
Elon Musk was advocating for governmental regulation around AI development. I’m not sure what his current stance is. In general, I disagree. Even if he’s right about regulations, if we’re going to have them, they should be worldwide. Again, I want to emphasize that I disagree wit…
🌸 Sat, May 4, 2024 🌸
I want to have an app that consolidates feeds from multiple microblogging platforms. X is fun, but sometimes it feels one-sided, with everyone praising Elon, dismissing white male privilege, and trolling woke people. At some point, I might get brainwashed. I need some other sourc…
🌸 Sat, May 4, 2024 🌸
Use Git, Luke.
🌸 Fri, May 3, 2024 🌸
I have an idea for a game called “Backend Engineer.” The gameplay would be similar to a backrooms experience, but you’d get lost in a data center.
🌸 Fri, May 3, 2024 🌸
Another reminiscence of the early Windows days: We had a “hello world” example for Windows, and everybody was mocking that example for having an extremely heavy amount of boilerplate code. Question to Khronos: Why did you do the same thing to Vulkan?
🌸 Fri, May 3, 2024 🌸
Back in the mid-90s, I heard rumors that Microsoft was adding 3D capabilities to the Windows OS. Retrospectively, we know now that they were working on DirectX, but at that time, I did not understand the motivation behind it. It sparked my imagination; maybe Microsoft was going t…
🌸 Fri, May 3, 2024 🌸
I propose an amendment to the Constitution: Congress shall make no law that abridges the freedom of not listening. 😛
Seriously speaking, sometimes I just want to save my time. I have other priorities in my life. So, I appreciate the ability on the internet to mute or ban peop…
🌸 Thu, May 2, 2024 🌸
Look at this from that point of view. Evolution optimized brain consumption to 20W because the source of energy—food—was the main challenge for millions of years. AI systems are not bound by energy consumption, and we know it is physically possible, as demonstrated by biologi…
🌸 Wed, May 1, 2024 🌸
It is midnight. Doom-scrolling on X. I should stop doing it.
🌸 Wed, May 1, 2024 🌸
Back in the day, I was trying to understand the meaning of life. It felt like there was no meaning because once you find a meaning, you need to find the meaning of that meaning. For example, if you decide that the meaning of life is to survive, you’ll be stuck with the next quest…
🌸 Wed, May 1, 2024 🌸
The average human brain consumes 20 W, which equates to 20 Wh per hour, 480 Wh per day, 175 kWh per year, and 3.5 MWh over 20 years. Thus, we have a baseline for training AGI; it should be feasible to train a model using 3.5 MWh of energy, since this is the amount required to sup…
🌸 Wed, May 1, 2024 🌸
The full self-driving (FSD) trial has ended. It feels like the car has lost its soul. One pull down and she comes alive; she has her personality; she makes mistakes, being overly enthusiastic in some cases or extremely cautious in others. Now, it just feels like the car is a soul…
🌸 Wed, May 1, 2024 🌸
4.3 in Corona, CA earthquake. The punch was significant.
Just keep swimming…
In Unreal Engine, you can hold Alt and drag the right mouse button to zoom in and out. This method works in the viewport, blueprint designer mode, blueprint graph, and possibly many other areas. ChatGPT does not know this, so hopefully, they will include this piece of advice in f…
It is really nice here. 83F. But my laptop overheated twice in a row.
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