‼️ = Must read!
🧐 = Interesting, curio.
Videogames.
- Gaming Couch.
Local coop, a television and phones as controllers. Neat.
- Stealth crossword.
Amazing and unexpected!
- Enclose.Horse.
If you like the NYT games, you'll probably like this one.
'AI' - Machine learning, deep or not.
- The most complex model we actually understand. ‼️
Another data point on the debate of whether or not deep models understand or regurgitate.
- TurboDiffusion - speeding up video generation. 🧐
AFAIU, this is not per-se a single new technique, but a mix of state of the art methods combined to yield a significant gain. Interesting example of how models can be optimized today!
- Reimplementing FlashAttention. 🧐
Another interesting example of performance optimization of ML models, again, not novel stuff, but great for someone like me who's still a n00b when it comes to genAI.
- Apple's Sharp-ML. ‼️
Apple model for 2d->3d (gaussian splatting, not a full 3d scene, but enabling view synthesis around the original photo POV). Great, both because it's state of the art, and because it signals Apple understands that their best bet for AR/VR is to record and replay immersive photos/videos (memories).
- MeshSplatting.
Not the first variant of Gaussian Splatting that enforces the concept of surfaces over volumetric splats, 2dgs did the same, but this adds the enforcement of topology to yield a "conventional" triangle mesh. I'm persuaded that there are many similar ideas along these lines, using first more degrees of freedom to gradient descent gracefully, and then imposing more constraints on the representation to gradually remove them. I'm quite sure that similar techniques can be used also to de-light and force splatting to be more similar to photogrammetry, especially knowing that ML models can be trained to understand the structure behind images.
Miscellanea.
- #rtr State of GPU hardware feature support (for graphics).
Great work. Imho a bit optimistic on what % of users people can afford to lose to a minspec today, but good analysis.
- #rtr Siggraph 2025 advances videos... ‼️
...starting to appear on Natasha's channel.
- #retro AI for a z80.
Using real neurons. Generates a CP/M executable.
- #retro Hacking Amiga OpenGL.
Someone made a remote rendering server for OpenGL commands originating from an Amiga client. Why? Why not!
- FexEmu: x64 to Arm translation for Linux.
Same as Rosetta and Windows Arm emulators, but opensource.
- Street Fighter II, the World Warrier.
How to patch a typo when you can't change the graphics anymore.
- Steam calculator.
Did not know this existed, if your steam profile is public, you can see how much money you wasted on games you never played :D