evan wallace is a once in a generation engineer... - makes gpu-based web experiments for fun (before it was cool) - starts Figma as a fresh grad from brown in 2012 - invents Figma's core rendering engine - later creates esbuild which basically helped fix the JS ecosystemshow more

how based are you? it’s nice to see how... more and more new apps are appearing inside the base app every day. it’s a great opportunity for users to get in early and earn rewards it’s also a big boost for the base ecosystem as a whole: active users get rewarded, the ecosystem grows, developers earn, users earn. a real win-win that’s what “base is for everyone” is all about “base me” is a fun app from the creator Fokki. you can spin the wheel and find out just how based you are. i got lucky and ended up being as based as jesse.base.eth you can join and try it yourself using the link belowshow more

Plato describes repeated catastrophes in which only mountain populations... survive, and he portrays later civilizations as being rebuilt from those survivors. In Timaeus: "..whenever, again, the gods, purifying the earth with waters, inundate it, those who dwell in the mountains are preserved as herdsmen and shepherds... there is always a smaller race of men..." "..your whole city, as it now exists, has sprung from a small seed once left behind..." In Critias: "For the race that remained, as was said before, was always left as a mountain-dwelling and unlettered people." An ancient Hellenic tradition holds that the Arcadians were the oldest inhabitants of Greece and were called Proselenes ("before the Moon"). Today, the elites are building doomsday bunkers, and some of them are built within high mountains. They know that the same event is coming again.show more

A guy in Vancouver built an entire operating system... inside a Chrome tab. By himself. Over six years. His personal website is the OS. You open and a Windows-style desktop loads. File explorer. Start menu. Taskbar. You can drag in a zip and extract it. You can play DOOM. You can play Quake III Arena. You can boot Linux from an ISO. You can run Stable Diffusion locally for image generation. You can open a Python terminal. You can edit code in Monaco, the same engine that powers VS Code. All of it runs in your browser tab. Nothing installs. His name is Dustin Brett. Self-taught engineer. Father. Husband. 4,473 commits. All his. He had to swap the Windows icon for the π symbol because of legal pressure. The repo has 12,883 stars. MIT license. His hosting bill is one dollar a month. A single Cloudflare CDN does the rest. This is what the open web was built for. (Link in the comments)show more

Introducing Kaleido💮 from AI at Meta — a universal... generative neural rendering engine for photorealistic, unified object and scene view synthesis. Kaleido is built on a simple but powerful design philosophy: 3D perception is a form of visual common sense. Following this idea, we formulate rendering purely as a sequence-to-sequence generation problem, successfully unifying neural rendering with the architecture principles behind modern language and video models. Unlike traditional neural rendering methods, Kaleido learns 3D purely in a data-driven way, without explicit 3D representations or structures. It acquires spatial understanding directly through large-scale video pretraining, then multi-view 3D data finetuning, inspired by how LLMs acquire textual common sense from large corpora before specialising in domains like coding. Through extensive ablations, we progressively modernised the architecture design and training strategies and tackled key scaling challenges in sequence-to-sequence generative rendering, arriving at a design that’s simple, versatile, and scalable. Kaleido significantly outperforms prior generative models in few-view settings, and remarkably is the first zero-shot generative method matches InstantNGP-level rendering quality in multi-view settings. We view Kaleido also as an alternative step towards world modeling that flexibly spans a spectrum of “realities": with many views, it faithfully reconstructs grounded reality; with fewer views, it imagines plausible unseen details. 🔗 Explore more results and paper:show more

Details on Michigan MiG-23 Fighter Jet Crash At approximately... 4:15 PM local times a MiG-23 fighter jet lost control as the two pilots ejected during the 'Thunder over Michigan' airshow demonstration at Willow Run Airport. Details: - "The pilot and backseater successfully ejected from the aircraft before the crash," Wayne County Airport Authority stated. "While it did not appear they sustained any significant injuries, first responders transported the pair to a nearby hospital as a precaution." - The aircraft then went on to crash, as seen in the video, into vehicles at the Waverly on the Lake Apartments in Belleville. No one was inside the vehicles. - It looked as if the engine experienced a compressor backfire before it went down, which could possibly be related to a bird in the engine. - The airshow was halted due to the incident. Video from Sherlyn Johnsonshow more

A Russian boy said it felt strange at first... to shoot, but his father told him to imagine he was killing Ukrainians. That hatred he’s been exposed to helped. Now the boy wants to follow in his father’s footsteps and kill innocents. Russia is raising a generation of killers, and it is not just about fathers coming back from the front. These lessons are mandatory in schools and later broadcast on state TV.show more

❗️It is claimed that the 🇺🇦Ukrainian kamikaze drone based... on the A-22 light aircraft is towing another UAV. It was this combination that attacked the Russian Shahed kamikaze drone production plant in 🇷🇺Yelabuga (Tatarstan) yesterday. Such a glider can have a small engine of its own for flight and maneuvering in the final section, and also carries another warhead. Thus, at the expense of one drone, another is delivered to the target, which, after uncoupling, plans independently.show more

🎬 Meet Joe Black (1998) 💡Fun Fact: Meet Joe... Black is a 1998 romantic fantasy film starring Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins, based on the 1934 film Death Takes a Holiday. Fun facts include that many Star Wars fans attended screenings solely for the first trailer of The Phantom Menace and then left. Additionally, Eli Roth was briefly hired as a stand-in but was fired by director Martin Brest for an awkward walk, though Roth was later re-hired in a different role without Brest's knowledge.show more

Introducing Auto Clips: a new feature that automatically creates... Clips based on the best parts of your stream using a variety of signals from the broadcast. You can also pick these moments while streaming by saying “Clip That.” Auto Clips is still in development, and we’ll have more to share on it later this year. Sign up for Alpha access here:show more

An update for everyone who is not in our... Discord... Obviously we are still early in development, and our team has been working hard to release updates for everyone to see. We have a peak at the terrain, which is this picture is based of the North Dakota drift prairie, Great care, time and effort was put into the terrain to create smooth rolling hills, the road network in this region will be challenging, just as it is in real life. From Will The current state of the TIV2 model, which will include a lot more in depth details, From Jlkillen03 The stages of damage to a Blender made house, From Kunahic And how texturing will be used for assets like the interiors! From BSPshow more

According to NASA, a lunar eclipse occurred today exactly... 1,993 years ago, on a Friday, which many believe was the day of the crucifixion of Jesus. ( April 3, 33AD) This year, Easter falls on the same Sunday as in the year 33, if that was really the date of the resurrection. This is an interesting coincidence. Donald Trump was born on a blood moon, the war with Iran started a few days before a blood moon in Leo, and the operation is called “Roaring Lion.” I will tell you my date for the crucifixion and the resurrection later today, in my opinion, it is connected to a solar eclipse.show more

As a graphics engine coder I think when you... look at a flickering bug like this one in the video below it’s not immediately obvious what is going on. The key here is observation - to study this flickering/bugged render carefully - what do we see? Firstly for me it was very obvious that nearly all of the scene shadows were flashing on and off - but (but!) there was a secondary issue where some buildings and parts of the sky were also flashing purple. Hmmmm. Interesting. I initially thought then this might be two separate bugs - but because the sky purple element could only based on full screen post fx and not 3D rendering I looked at this first with a few GPU captures to step through all our post processing to find the rendering stage which made these pixels turn purple: When I did this I found the colour 3D texture LUT grading that makes our different biomes have unique colour palettes was going very wrong - colours near 0 or 1 were wrapping and making the purple elements that we see in the said sky and base parts. The only way this could happen was if the texture was corrupt (which it was not) or if the 3D texture sampling was wrapping and not clamped as intended. That was the Eureka moment - because if the post fx had the wrong texture sampler then the disappearing shadows which also require an exact texture sampler for comparing depth might be also wrong because of the same kind of texture sampling issue! So with this idea that the engine was using the wrong texture samplers, but only in very high draw call scenes like the big base here I the looked at some engine limits and found the bug very quickly - a circular dx12 descriptor buffer for samplers running out over multiple frames, reusing the wrong data for new scenes inflight. Hence the flickering, as the GPU randomly got wrong samplers for some post textures or shadow depth. Easy to fix with triple limits for future expansion and also adding an assert/debug spam in case this limit is ever reached again - QA testers would see this message and report if they ever saw a flicker with this style of bug. My bug and my bad from 2017 porting NMS to DX12 without foreseeing how massively complex bases and our game would grow.show more

A Midjourney engineer just open-sourced a way to lay... out entire web pages without CSS. Not a framework. Not a library that wraps the DOM. A pure TypeScript text measurement algorithm that bypasses browser reflow entirely. 600x faster. Why it matters: AI-generated interfaces need to lay out text dynamically. The browser wasn't built for that. CSS reflow was designed for humans writing static pages, not agents generating UIs on the fly. This exists because agents need rendering that doesn't depend on a 30-year-old pipeline. The AI-era stack is being rebuilt from scratch. One library at a time. P.S. Such a fun to play with that!show more

One of the most special days I have ever... had at a race track with Ollie Bearman …. Getting to drive the 1985 Lotus 97T in which Ayrton Senna won his first ever GP in Estoril. Being in the same chassis & seat as Ayrton was a really overwhelming feeling even before the remarkable turbo engine kicked in. What a car! What a day! Big thank you to everyone at Classic Team Lotus , Sky Sports F1 & Silverstone for making it happen 🙏🏽🔥show more

In case folks are wondering: Brown is screaming for... KAT to blitz this Ja P&R (“GET EM”) which is maybe the first blitz we’ve seen from KAT all year. Awesome call - it forces the jump ball. Had a feeling this was the play, confirmed by the scoreboard base drum in background.show more

On 25 July 2024, Paank and Baam reported Sohaib... Langove as a “missing person.” Less than a year later, he's reappeared, not in some secret cell, but in the BLA’s own press release, killed as a terrorist in an intelligence-based operation in Kalat. Sohaib wasn’t missing. HE WAS ACTIVE. ARMED. EMBEDDED. What makes this more explosive is that it was Mahrang Ghaffar Langove who shielded him in her narratives. Why? Because he was her bodyguard at sit-ins. Now exposed as a registered BLA militant, Sohaib Langove wasn’t some innocent abductee, he was a foot soldier of BLA, whitewashed as a human rights case. What's interesting is that Shoaib was an active member of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee, whose leadership is currently arrested under terrorism charges and have long pushed anti-state narratives under the garb of activism. Sohaib was no victim. He was an operator. His "disappearance" was a PR stunt. And Mahrang Ghaffar stood at the center of it, lying, shielding, enabling. #Balochistanshow more

This is the stuff that makes you excited for... Tyler Kolek as a back-up PG one day soon. This is an advanced read from a rookie. Watch how fast he identifies Scottie Pippen Jr. collapsing before kicking it out to Landry Shamet, who needed to see that go in.show more

According to Education Minister Dharmedra Pradhan – The "root... cause" of NEET paper leaks is the OMR-based exam. So, from next year, NEET exam will switch to CBT (Computer Based Test), currently used for JEE Main. Disadvantages of the OMR based exam- Question paper is printed in bulk, transported, sorted, distributed to 1000s of centres – thus creating multiple leak points. Advantage of CBT system- - No physical question paper exists - Questions are delivered encrypted & just-in-time - The paper is randomized from a large pool of Questions - Software algorithms shuffle Q&As to assemble a unique paper for each candidate - There is no single paper which can be ‘leaked.’ NOTE: Although CBT is a much better system, it is not fool proof. In 2021, a JEE Main cheating racket came to light, in which a hacker solved questions for paying candidates live during the exam.show more