HackerTrans
TopNewTrendsCommentsPastAskShowJobs

lacedeconstruct

97 karmajoined قبل 3 سنوات

comments

lacedeconstruct
·قبل 16 ساعة·discuss
I feel like the actual core mechanic at improving is the actual act of "recall", it doesnt matter what you do if its a form of recall it is effective and very awkward in practice because you just sit there waiting for your brain to do a mysterious thing
lacedeconstruct
·أول أمس·discuss
I am sorry but andrew is no where near the level of Evan imo
lacedeconstruct
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
The difference between 20 cycles and 1 clock cycle in a hot loop is very noticeable
lacedeconstruct
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
> Also, you should use SIMD. ironically no clang is better at auto vectorizing
lacedeconstruct
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
What are you talking about in a hot loop in my software renderer this is like 10x faster

    // color4_t result = {
    //     .r = (src.r * src.a + dst.r * inv_alpha) * INV_255,
    //     .g = (src.g * src.a + dst.g * inv_alpha) * INV_255,
    //     .b = (src.b * src.a + dst.b * inv_alpha) * INV_255,
    //     .a = src.a + (dst.a * inv_alpha) * INV_255
    // };

    // 1/256 but much faster
    color4_t result = {
        .r = (src.r * src.a + dst.r * inv_alpha) >> 8,
        .g = (src.g * src.a + dst.g * inv_alpha) >> 8,
        .b = (src.b * src.a + dst.b * inv_alpha) >> 8,
        .a = src.a + ((dst.a * inv_alpha) >> 8)
    };
lacedeconstruct
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
yes but >> 8 is so much faster
lacedeconstruct
·قبل شهرين·discuss
It doesnt have to able to generate original things, its enough to be able to detect what makes it original and replicate the original thing with enough variations in different contexts to be able to be destructive and render the true original thing completely useless
lacedeconstruct
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Depends on how good the slop fork machine is, the act of true original creation is a messy and long process if it can be replicated to death immediately basically for free its not viable anymore
lacedeconstruct
·قبل شهرين·discuss
*Make anything "new"
lacedeconstruct
·قبل شهرين·discuss
A slop fork machine is way different though, I dont know why authors never thought about this but imagine a machine that can detect the features and replicate whatever it sees, show it how to make bread once and it can do it infinitely, make it listen to a song and its able to find why it sounds the way it does and just spam variations, even if it doesnt make anything original it demotivates any attempt to push the boundaries or make anything new
lacedeconstruct
·قبل شهرين·discuss
I bet you will learn alot doing that though
lacedeconstruct
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Going through books after this one was a breeze
lacedeconstruct
·قبل شهرين·discuss
It was a never a velocity problem though, rapid progress comes mainly from designing better systems and building tight abstractions not by writing using the same primitives faster
lacedeconstruct
·قبل 4 أشهر·discuss
I dont want that though, I want someone to spend much more time than I can afford thinking about and perfecting a product that I can pay for and dont worry about it
lacedeconstruct
·قبل 5 أشهر·discuss
> evolved into something else that was all about money and growth and image

I feel like this happened long before LLMs became a thing
lacedeconstruct
·قبل 7 أشهر·discuss
rare occasion where he gained a legendary status based purely on his work, I dont think I ever saw even a written interview with the guy