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Neat! You might be interested to know then that at the same conference, HPG 2026 [1], that this tetrahedral animation ray tracing work was presented at, the last of the 14 papers p…

Disclosure: I work with the authors of this paper. I'm going to answer this in two parts. First, you absolutely can update the BVH, keeping the tree topology the same, and just upd…

"What do you call the person who graduated bottom of their class in medical school?" (At least that's how I've heard it phrased before.)

From what I've read, lefties are typically classified into "over-writers", "side-writers", and "under-writers". That video caught my attention too, as it shows pretty clearly that …

I've seen that sort of thing before - I told it I was going to go take lunch or dinner, and it told itself this would be a great opportunity to try to keep plugging along while I w…

Once on a late-night session, I had Cline!Claude spontaneously point out the time to me and suggest that I get to bed and come back fresh the next day. I don't think it's in the sy…

I became a fan of Kaitai Struct [0] when doing some amateur sleuthing last year. It has a web-based IDE [1] for writing and testing structure definitions against hex dumps, and can…

Off topic, but that photo is amazing , and got a good laugh out of me. It definitely falls in the "pets and owners who look alike" category.

I do like that general idea. I bet it would be possible wrap in a handy elisp macro.

Yep. `C-h k` to look up what a key does, `C-h f` to look up a function, and `C-h v` to look up a variable/setting will get you pretty far. I'd also add `C-h b` to show you the key …

> The only problem is that, in the name of not breaking backwards-compatibility (or something like that), the archaic defaults have remained. As a user since '97, I've often felt t…

On the other hand, crafts like knitting and other fiber arts can be very repetitive and people still enjoy them. (Personally, I've also enjoyed unit origami, which involves folding…

I loved the keyboard on my HP-48G. It had such a nice crisp tactile feel to the key presses - a bit of snap - that I got to where it could usually operate it by touch without looki…

I had that experience with the last house we rented before we bought. We were quiet, predictable, don't-rock-the-boat tenants, and the rando owner mentioned that they valued that e…

Yes, I get that and meant to imply it with "frontier". But my question was more about how my biggest uses by far of data center-provided AI in terms of tokens have been in things l…

Analogous to that, this is something that I'd been wondering about with respect to hardware prices as silicon is reallocated from consumers to data centers: how am I to make heavy …

I'm reminded of The Hobbit with the phrase "Good morning" in the first chapter: > "Good Morning!" said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. Bu…

From the linked post, it didn't read like a separate KV cache was needed: > The draft models seamlessly utilize the target model's activations and share its KV cache, meaning they …

Ah. We're back to the days of Emacs' old `M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead`, then. (Psychoanalyze-pinhead ran the Eliza chat-bot and fed it bizarre quotations collected from the Zippy the…

At least for the CPU/GPU split, llama.cpp recently added a `--fit` parameter (might default to on now?) that pairs with a `--fitc CONTEXTSIZE` parameter. That new feature will auto…

From my recollection of doing fun palette stuff back in the DOS VGA days, I'm betting it was more like: pal.r = pal.g = pal.b = (77 * pal.r + 150 * pal.g + 29 * pal.b) >> 8; Hardwa…

I think the point the GP was trying to make is that the GitHub UI ought to be able to allow you to submit a branch with multiple well-organized commits and review each commit separ…

Cave Johnson here. I'll be honest, we're throwing science at the wall here to see what sticks. No idea what it'll do. Probably nothing. Best-case scenario, you might get some super…

I've been using the 1M window at work through our enterprise plan as I'm beginning to adopt AI in my development workflow (via Cline). It seems to have been holding up pretty well …