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All I can think of this Christmas is that last Christmas, between 70,000 and 120,000 Palestinians were alive that have since been murdered by Israel's genocide. Over half of them were children. That's 500 to 1,000 children murdered per week. Or 82 during a four hour Christmas evening.
December 25, 2025 at 12:26 AM
All I can think of this Christmas is that last Christmas, between 70,000 and 120,000 Palestinians were alive that have since been murdered by Israel's genocide. Over half of them were children. That's 500 to 1,000 children murdered per week. Or 82 during a four hour Christmas evening.
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New article! What do you do when profiling your code shows the slowdown isn't in your code, but deep in the kernel? Why, you grab the kernel source and go spelunking.
How a routine profiling session turned into a Linux kernel patch: rovarma.com/articles/fro...
How a routine profiling session turned into a Linux kernel patch: rovarma.com/articles/fro...
From profiling to kernel patch: the journey to an eBPF performance fix | Ritesh Oedayrajsingh Varma
A story about how an innocent profiling session led to a change to the Linux kernel that makes eBPF map-in-map updates much faster.
rovarma.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
New article! What do you do when profiling your code shows the slowdown isn't in your code, but deep in the kernel? Why, you grab the kernel source and go spelunking.
How a routine profiling session turned into a Linux kernel patch: rovarma.com/articles/fro...
How a routine profiling session turned into a Linux kernel patch: rovarma.com/articles/fro...
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🌶️ Hot take: ML-based graphics makes some graphics researchers unhappy for the same reason diffusion models make artists unhappy.
Both automate the interesting and beautiful parts of the work and both deskill the worker. Both result in questionable quality and both are being adopted regardless.
Both automate the interesting and beautiful parts of the work and both deskill the worker. Both result in questionable quality and both are being adopted regardless.
The best quote I’ve heard about AI was a half-joke by a coworker: “is there anything that classical techniques can do that AI can’t pretend to do better?” Sometimes pretending is good enough and sometimes it’s really not! That seems largely lost in the pro/anti AI discourse.
December 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
🌶️ Hot take: ML-based graphics makes some graphics researchers unhappy for the same reason diffusion models make artists unhappy.
Both automate the interesting and beautiful parts of the work and both deskill the worker. Both result in questionable quality and both are being adopted regardless.
Both automate the interesting and beautiful parts of the work and both deskill the worker. Both result in questionable quality and both are being adopted regardless.
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"On the Edge" Max Payne 2 edition, because that first painting needed a matching MP2 companion piece (or maybe I just needed to paint it idk) #maxpayne2 #timothygibbs
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"On the Edge" Max Payne 2 edition, because that first painting needed a matching MP2 companion piece (or maybe I just needed to paint it idk) #maxpayne2 #timothygibbs
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We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame.
tinyurl.se/crR
tinyurl.se/crR
Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”
– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar
www.aftonbladet.se
October 15, 2025 at 12:08 PM
We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame.
tinyurl.se/crR
tinyurl.se/crR
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ONE WEEK FROM TODAY: Make your voices heard. Join us in a peaceful protest across our country against the most corrupt, deceitful & criminal Administration in U.S. History. We say NO KINGS, NO CROOKS, NO SPRAY-TAN CONMAN! 👎
Check for a location near you at: www.nokings.org
#BeThere 👍
Check for a location near you at: www.nokings.org
#BeThere 👍
No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
www.nokings.org
October 11, 2025 at 7:18 PM
ONE WEEK FROM TODAY: Make your voices heard. Join us in a peaceful protest across our country against the most corrupt, deceitful & criminal Administration in U.S. History. We say NO KINGS, NO CROOKS, NO SPRAY-TAN CONMAN! 👎
Check for a location near you at: www.nokings.org
#BeThere 👍
Check for a location near you at: www.nokings.org
#BeThere 👍
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CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
October 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
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New blog post! In "Billions of triangles in minutes" we'll walk through hierarchical cluster level of detail generation of, well, billions of triangles in minutes. Reposts welcome!
zeux.io/2025/09/30/b...
zeux.io/2025/09/30/b...
September 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
New blog post! In "Billions of triangles in minutes" we'll walk through hierarchical cluster level of detail generation of, well, billions of triangles in minutes. Reposts welcome!
zeux.io/2025/09/30/b...
zeux.io/2025/09/30/b...
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Airbags are terrible for hearing.
~170db explosions of air aren't exactly pleasant.
Yet, milliseconds before impact, a clever blast of pink noise can reduce hearing loss 40%!
Mercedes solved it with software 10+ years ago. Still, no one has copied it:
~170db explosions of air aren't exactly pleasant.
Yet, milliseconds before impact, a clever blast of pink noise can reduce hearing loss 40%!
Mercedes solved it with software 10+ years ago. Still, no one has copied it:
September 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Airbags are terrible for hearing.
~170db explosions of air aren't exactly pleasant.
Yet, milliseconds before impact, a clever blast of pink noise can reduce hearing loss 40%!
Mercedes solved it with software 10+ years ago. Still, no one has copied it:
~170db explosions of air aren't exactly pleasant.
Yet, milliseconds before impact, a clever blast of pink noise can reduce hearing loss 40%!
Mercedes solved it with software 10+ years ago. Still, no one has copied it:
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“Meta has used back-to-school pictures of schoolgirls to advertise one of its social media platforms to a 37-year-old man, in a move parents described as “outrageous” and “upsetting.”
Meta has 100% stopped even *pretending* not to be astoundingly evil.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Meta has 100% stopped even *pretending* not to be astoundingly evil.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man
Exclusive: Instagram pictures of girls as young as 13 were posted to promote Threads site ‘as bait’, campaigner says
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
“Meta has used back-to-school pictures of schoolgirls to advertise one of its social media platforms to a 37-year-old man, in a move parents described as “outrageous” and “upsetting.”
Meta has 100% stopped even *pretending* not to be astoundingly evil.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Meta has 100% stopped even *pretending* not to be astoundingly evil.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Microsoft gave guidance on H1Bs to its employees last night
September 20, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Microsoft gave guidance on H1Bs to its employees last night
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It's been a while.
Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs.
store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...
Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs.
store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...
Australia Did It - Reveal Trailer
YouTube video by MysticForge
www.youtube.com
September 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It's been a while.
Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs.
store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...
Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs.
store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...
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Derivatives, Gradients, Jacobians and Hessians – Oh My!
New mathy blog post to try and make some scary sounding terms less scary.
blog.demofox.org/2025/08/16/d...
New mathy blog post to try and make some scary sounding terms less scary.
blog.demofox.org/2025/08/16/d...
August 17, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Derivatives, Gradients, Jacobians and Hessians – Oh My!
New mathy blog post to try and make some scary sounding terms less scary.
blog.demofox.org/2025/08/16/d...
New mathy blog post to try and make some scary sounding terms less scary.
blog.demofox.org/2025/08/16/d...
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Letter of the day (in the Times)
August 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Letter of the day (in the Times)
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I had an enlightening conversation with mathematician Hannah Cairo about how she broke a huge conjecture in Harmonic Analysis at just 17 years old, what being a transgender mathematician means to her and how math has supported her along her journey! 🏳️⚧️ 🌊 ✨
Read the Q&A here:
Read the Q&A here:
Teen Hannah Cairo's Mathematical Discovery Sends Ripples through Harmonic Analysis
When she was just 17 years old, Hannah Cairo disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, breaking a four-decade-old mathematical assumption
www.scientificamerican.com
August 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I had an enlightening conversation with mathematician Hannah Cairo about how she broke a huge conjecture in Harmonic Analysis at just 17 years old, what being a transgender mathematician means to her and how math has supported her along her journey! 🏳️⚧️ 🌊 ✨
Read the Q&A here:
Read the Q&A here:
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There's no anomaly here. People, globally, volunteer their time to powerful public goods the moment they're not actively terrified that they'll lose their home, their food, and their freedom. Which means that capitalism requires us all to live in fear, always - because it can't compete with free.
“Wikipedia is this economic anomaly. In many ways, it’s sort of magical that people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create artifacts that are meant to share knowledge with everyone in the world”
July 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
There's no anomaly here. People, globally, volunteer their time to powerful public goods the moment they're not actively terrified that they'll lose their home, their food, and their freedom. Which means that capitalism requires us all to live in fear, always - because it can't compete with free.
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I wrote this column and I'll just say that the original headline was much meaner. The piece itself, though, is still very angry and very mean, I assure you.
I’m Starting To Worry This Industry Has No Respect For The People Who Work In It
Once your stock options were fully vested, did you sell off all the shares in your humanity?
www.thegamer.com
July 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I wrote this column and I'll just say that the original headline was much meaner. The piece itself, though, is still very angry and very mean, I assure you.
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Apple is delisting Wheels of Aurelia from the App Store, because it's... "obsolete". Our statement:
July 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Apple is delisting Wheels of Aurelia from the App Store, because it's... "obsolete". Our statement:
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NEW: EA CEO Andrew Wilson was paid $30.5 million in cash and stock this past year, up about $5m from a year ago
Since the U.S. requires companies to compare CEO pay to employee pay, I made an EA pay chart
To make it work, I had to make it VERY TALL
Take a look: www.gamefile.news/p/ea-ceo-and...
Since the U.S. requires companies to compare CEO pay to employee pay, I made an EA pay chart
To make it work, I had to make it VERY TALL
Take a look: www.gamefile.news/p/ea-ceo-and...
EA CEO’s pay is up, as EA worker median income drops
Behold, the tallest chart in Game File history. PLUS: EA execs were paid (a little) more for boosting generative AI
www.gamefile.news
June 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
NEW: EA CEO Andrew Wilson was paid $30.5 million in cash and stock this past year, up about $5m from a year ago
Since the U.S. requires companies to compare CEO pay to employee pay, I made an EA pay chart
To make it work, I had to make it VERY TALL
Take a look: www.gamefile.news/p/ea-ceo-and...
Since the U.S. requires companies to compare CEO pay to employee pay, I made an EA pay chart
To make it work, I had to make it VERY TALL
Take a look: www.gamefile.news/p/ea-ceo-and...
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Computer Graphics as a field avoids gatekeeping. Practitioners come from many disciplines, origins and beliefs.
SIGGRAPH has historically carried this practice.
I am thus outraged at the decision to hold SIGGRAPH Asia 26’ at a venue unsafe to many.
Adding my signature. I encourage you to do too:
SIGGRAPH has historically carried this practice.
I am thus outraged at the decision to hold SIGGRAPH Asia 26’ at a venue unsafe to many.
Adding my signature. I encourage you to do too:
Open Letter to the SIGGRAPH Leadership
RE: Call for SIGGRAPH Asia to relocate from Malaysia and commit to a venue selection process that safeguards LGBTQ+ and other at-risk communities. To the SIGGRAPH Leadership: SIGGRAPH Executive Commit...
docs.google.com
June 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Computer Graphics as a field avoids gatekeeping. Practitioners come from many disciplines, origins and beliefs.
SIGGRAPH has historically carried this practice.
I am thus outraged at the decision to hold SIGGRAPH Asia 26’ at a venue unsafe to many.
Adding my signature. I encourage you to do too:
SIGGRAPH has historically carried this practice.
I am thus outraged at the decision to hold SIGGRAPH Asia 26’ at a venue unsafe to many.
Adding my signature. I encourage you to do too:
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The games business is about games. If you’re in the games business, and somehow (as often happens) your company somehow is now focused on something else (AI, XR, “IP,” acquisitions, etc.) you’re in for a period of struggle. Everyone will wonder what’s wrong. But you know. It’s about games. Gameplay.
June 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The games business is about games. If you’re in the games business, and somehow (as often happens) your company somehow is now focused on something else (AI, XR, “IP,” acquisitions, etc.) you’re in for a period of struggle. Everyone will wonder what’s wrong. But you know. It’s about games. Gameplay.
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Part 2 of "Problem Solving of Filmmaking" by ponysmasher (David F. Sandberg). IMO nothing can touch the greatness of part 1, but still interesting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2nX...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2nX...
June 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Part 2 of "Problem Solving of Filmmaking" by ponysmasher (David F. Sandberg). IMO nothing can touch the greatness of part 1, but still interesting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2nX...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2nX...
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Updated this piece about how the Trump admin removed images of women and persons of color from websites.
The good news is that the webpage about a NASA employee overcoming adversity was restored after she posted about it.
The bad news? NASA then fired her.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...
The good news is that the webpage about a NASA employee overcoming adversity was restored after she posted about it.
The bad news? NASA then fired her.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...
May 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Updated this piece about how the Trump admin removed images of women and persons of color from websites.
The good news is that the webpage about a NASA employee overcoming adversity was restored after she posted about it.
The bad news? NASA then fired her.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...
The good news is that the webpage about a NASA employee overcoming adversity was restored after she posted about it.
The bad news? NASA then fired her.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...
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I recently had the honor of interviewing Zen’s chief architect Mike Clark! I tried to fit in as many microarchitecture questions as I could, including x64 vs ARM ISA power efficiency, 4k vs larger page sizes, 64-byte cache lines, scatter/gather and more:
www.computerenhance.com/p/an-intervi...
www.computerenhance.com/p/an-intervi...
An Interview with Zen Chief Architect Mike Clark
Zen is one of the most important microarchitectures in the history of the x86 ecosystem.
www.computerenhance.com
March 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I recently had the honor of interviewing Zen’s chief architect Mike Clark! I tried to fit in as many microarchitecture questions as I could, including x64 vs ARM ISA power efficiency, 4k vs larger page sizes, 64-byte cache lines, scatter/gather and more:
www.computerenhance.com/p/an-intervi...
www.computerenhance.com/p/an-intervi...
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“TAID: Temporally Adaptive Interpolated Distillation for Efficient Knowledge Transfer in Language Models” has been accepted at #ICLR2025 as a Spotlight Paper ✨
Blog post (English): sakana.ai/taid/
Paper (OpenReview): openreview.net/forum?id=cqs...
Blog post (English): sakana.ai/taid/
Paper (OpenReview): openreview.net/forum?id=cqs...
February 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
“TAID: Temporally Adaptive Interpolated Distillation for Efficient Knowledge Transfer in Language Models” has been accepted at #ICLR2025 as a Spotlight Paper ✨
Blog post (English): sakana.ai/taid/
Paper (OpenReview): openreview.net/forum?id=cqs...
Blog post (English): sakana.ai/taid/
Paper (OpenReview): openreview.net/forum?id=cqs...