Peter McEvoy
@mcpete.bsky.social
Software engineer currently pursuing a PhD in passive microwave remote sensing. Gothenburg, Sweden. I like pretty things and understanding how things work. Computer Vision, Graphics, Physics, and Tinkering. http://peter.mcevoy.se
It's real stupid that this is legal and the Internet Archive non-destructively scanning and creating a library out of books was found to be illegal.
Shiro Sirius@shirosiri.us · 3mo agoI don’t want to be too sensationalist about this but also I’m the least violent person in the world and I think if someone said this to my face I’d hit them
The recording of my talk from Software Should Work is now up. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BXu...
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Constructive Data Modeling - Alexis King | SSW 2026
YouTube video by Software Should Work
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More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕
Here's the Shadertoy where you can paint eroded mountains and islands with your mouse, right in the browser: www.shadertoy.com/view/sf23W1 #ProcGen #vfx #GameDev
This is a great introduction to differentiable / inverse rendering - rasterization specifically. I've read through it and am currently working on implementing some things. jjbannister.github.io/tinydiffrast/
TinyDiffRast
A tiny course on differentiable rasterization.
jjbannister.github.io
Ask yourself if kids prefer toys, or stores. Games from a generation ago were allowed to be toys. Games today are forced to be stores.
Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 11mo agoWhy do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
This meme is getting out of hand, but it's actually not far from reality 🤣
In November 1999, Eric Jordan, Tony Novak, and John Carrol founded a digital creative agency called 2Advanced Studios. The agency was renowned for its innovative, high-end design using Flash technology. 2Advanced Studios v3 flash website in 2001 #WebDesignHistory
There's no shame in being wrong about something. There is shame in choosing to be wrong.
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
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The WORLD WIDE WEB was invented in Switzerland (by a Brit), the INTERNET was not invented there. I demand a full apology from Eurovision, the BBC, and the nation of Switzerland.
I made a video essay! It's a love letter to 3d software crammed in between several hate notes about 3d software companies. Maybe it can be something you put on in the background while you do art. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4md...
For-Profit (Creative) Software
YouTube video by EndVertex
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Wow. it must feel terrible when someone takes something you made and uses it without permission or payment
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2y agoOpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor https://www.ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-5255-4fa9-8ccc-1fe01de87ea6
Great video of making a mechanical calculator: youtu.be/E0pJST5mL3A?...
How I built a Mechanical Calculator
YouTube video by What Will Makes
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Here's a recording of my Tiny Glade presentation from the Graphics Programming Conference 2024: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jusW... It's an any% speedrun of our GPU-driven rendering, shadows, global illumination, water, and DoF, involving a few weird tricks.
Rendering Tiny Glades With Entirely Too Much Ray Marching
YouTube video by Graphics Programming Conference
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Very good of @karpathy.bsky.social to state this explicitly!
Chris Offner@chrisoffner3d.bsky.social · 2y agoWhenever AI "generates" something impressive, the first question we should always ask is: "What does the closest sample in the training data look like?" LLMs are amazing interfaces for accessing the world's information but they need to be treated as the "search and synthesis" tools they are.
Gorillaz - Demon Days but it's in the Mario 64 Soundfont youtu.be/8fDosBRkBV8?...
Gorillaz - Demon Days but it's in the Mario 64 Soundfont
YouTube video by More Tsua
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I wanted to do a side-by-side comparison of my #procedural animation to hand-authored animations on some models I bought. This is so I can better study what I need to improve. When I got my comparison tool running for the first time, this is what I was greeted with! Step-height glitch I think. 😅
Bluesky’s captured tech twitter because it appeals to our innate desire to buy a new domain name.
