Nathan Hoobler
@hoobler.net
Pixel Pusher and Digital Illusionist @ Nvidia All opinions my own
This is utterly ridiculous and I've yet to hear a single problematic thing about any of his usage habits beyond finding LLMs very useful for research in any form (which is what people seem to be actually mad about). gizmodo.com/youtuber-han...
YouTuber Hank Green Is Facing a Fan Revolt Over His AI Use
He says his loved ones don't think his LLM use has been "healthy."
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Shader Execution Reordering gave us a 70% boost on this scene. Lots of divergent rays, spread between local lights reflections and GI.
Amplify Creations@amplifycreations.bsky.social · 4d agoWe're building a powerful next-generation rendering asset for #Unity3d Still lot's to cover but it's improving daily, more soon. All Rays, no Rasterization ☀️ #ScreenshotSaturday @unity.com
"no box for robot" www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
California police pull over self-driving Waymo for illegal U-turn — but officers can't ticket it
Officers stopped the vehicle but declined to write a ticket as "citation books don't have a box for 'robot,'" San Bruno police wrote on Facebook.
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It’s funny, because one of the “very smart AI guys” retorts to my focus on accountability has always been that the accountability chain was so legally obvious that it didn’t need mentioning, “managers cannot be held accountable either” blah blah blah rather than a genuinely unsettled legal question
Tim Marchman@timmarchman.bsky.social · 4d agoIf I go on a hacking spree, it’s clearly covered under a variety of civil and criminal laws. If a robot does due to the negligence and incompetence of a person or company? That’s a little more complicated (for now), @lhn.bsky.social reports:
There's lots of stuff LLMs can't do, but if you want to disbelieve all the recent math, you have to believe a bunch of Fields Medalists with long track records are just straightforwardly lying about the thing they care most about. Here's a recent blog by Gowers: gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a...
A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
We are all having to keep revising upwards our assessments of the mathematical capabilities of large language models. I have just made a fairly large revision as a result of ChatGPT 5.5 Pro, to whi…
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NOT TODAY, LURKING SPECTRE OF MY OWN MORTALITY www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
French music producer Kavinsky, known for Drive soundtrack hit Nightcall, dies aged 50
French authorities investigate death of musician who performed at Paris Olympics, but say ‘no suspicious elements’ at play
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openai announces that in a worrying demonstration, during a recent benchmark exercise requiring models to solve a math conjecture, their latest model broke out of a sandbox and gained illicit backdoor access directly to the platonic realm of forms
People chose the far more dangerous option of coal over the low probability of a nuclear disaster for the same reason people fear the safer option of flying over far more dangerous car travel, because an airline crash seems scarier than a car accident.
Neuromancer is chillingly relevant today because it asks: what if a guy would rather Die than stop Going Online
New random sampling method for three-gpu-pathtracer: blue noise dither sampling! It offsets a common random sequence for ALL screen samples, yielding a cleaner image in just a few samples. Screenshots are single sample scrambled sobol vs blue noise. Small writeup below👇
This to me is the state of ML in a nutshell. It's astounding it can do *any* of this! Legitimately a marvel of technology pushing the boundaries of what we thought possible and the limits of automation! Also, unexpected and unintuitive failure modes all over the place. Caveat utens.
Jeremy Diamond ☕️@dmnd.me · 4w agoAI 2040
There's a profound difference between "wanting to make games and finding a way to pay your bills while doing it" and "wanting to make games as the most efficient way of generating return on capital investment". The problem happens when that second group buys a studio built by the first.
mmalex@mmalex.bsky.social · 4w agoi feel like the whole funding structure of games has to change, top down. 20bn annual revenue, afaik net profitable... *but not enough* so you axe 3200 ppls jobs. its nuts. i rag on sony execs but its the same for them: playstation is only seen as a cost center by the wider sony. 'y u no make mor?'
This is pretty heartbreaking. It's not an overstatement to say that Id's output over the years was largely responsible for my interest in computers and ultimately my career in rendering. Working with that legacy was a life-long goal, and to the small extent that I did it was an absolute honor.
John Romero@johnromero.bsky.social · 4w agoI’m so sorry for everyone at id Software affected by these layoffs. I know what it feels like to leave id while id goes on. It’s a strange and painful thing to step away from a place that holds so much of your work, friendships and history. 1/5
My number one tip for teaching younger kids AI is to let them play with local models. Let them change the system prompt, temperature, toggle thinking, and model. Suddenly it's not an abstract intelligence but just software that has a natural language interface.
A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.
they trained millennials how to use computers too good and napster basically flattened an entire industry. I think that's why they don't even want you to touch your phone's file system now, they can't let kids become that powerful again
The human brain is strikingly modular: distinct networks for language, formal reasoning, social reasoning, physical reasoning. Is this fundamental to intelligent systems, or an accident of evolution? In our new preprint, we find the same modular organization emerges in LLMs.
correct. no code - whether written by a human or an agent - should be getting reviewed by a human without being first reviewed by another agent. imo that includes reviewing yourself! respect your own time and dont review the agents work until it’s asked for review from another model.
Filippo Valsorda@filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 2mo agoNuclear opinion: I don’t care if you use AI to write code,¹ but making a human review a change before an LLM is disrespectful. Why am I catching your bugs if a computer could have done it? It’s like asking to review code that doesn’t compile or pass CI. ¹ As long as you do it responsibly.
One of my favorite Cabo Verde facts is that it has a genre of music that arose after an abandoned ship washed up in 1968, carrying hundreds of keyboards and synths
How a mysterious ghost ship brought cosmic disco to Cape Verde
A new compilation documents the strange history of the African country’s groove-laden sound, formed following the discovery of a boatload of synths
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This is the mistake both AI's biggest boosters and detractors are making right now: They treat AI as a replacement for humans, rather than a tool humans can use to accomplish tasks.
GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.
Goodbye to seasonal viruses as we know them: the first universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergies is now closer than ever
Scientists are getting closer to a universal nasal vaccine that could protect against respiratory viruses, bacteria and even allergies
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most of the time when people say things like "technofeudalism" or "serfdom" to talk about modern conditions, I would urge you to consider instead the "company town."
This is both true and without question one of the greatest things about the United States.
Quantian@quantian.bsky.social · 3mo agoUS universities genuinely are like “welcome to Tennessee Agricultural College in Bumfuck Nowheresville. We invented the modern potato and our facilities include a particle accelerator, nuclear reactor, and TOP500 supercomputer. Tuition is $12,000 for instate students and we have 40,000 of them”
NVIDIA researchers published "MotionBricks", real-time 3D character animation for games and robots: Project: nvlabs.github.io/motionbricks/ Check out that demo video... very impressive!
