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Our voxel GPU renderer is out (paid) and we published more GPU vs CPU path tracing data
https://www.patreon.com/posts/avoyd-0-21-1-103570270
I've been thinking about restarting work on #Tapir. Development stopped because I hit a wall with the database system. Writing Tapir in #Deno was a long sequence of yak-shaving without much payoff; most of my dev time was spent implementing JSON-LD, Web Signatures, and a database layer that *should* have been a library if Deno had better Node compatibility at the time.
@milesmcbain @coolbutuseless @eitsupi Thanks, new phobia unlocked.
@OccuWorld Not downplaying the issue, but this would be trivial to resolve with better web server settings.
tfw you have stuff lined up to cook and you're waiting for the Octopus power up
A long time ago, back when CUDA was pretty new, I was angry at how complicated it was to write a performant RMSE implementation.
I banged my head for a while trying to get a high-level expression template array language in C++ to compile with nvcc, but an endless stream of internal compiler errors blocked that.
So of course I spent 2 years working on an array-based programming language with an optimizing compiler for GPUs. Written in Haskell! It was cool. It _did_ generate some BLAS function implementations that performed better than cuBLAS...
A few months after that, I ended up chatting with a couple folks at NVIDIA who had gotten the expression template approach to work! They had early access to nvcc 3.0, and a direct line to the compiler teams. They laughed when I told them what I had tried to do with templates, saying something like, "oh yeah. C++ support was totally broken in the version of nvcc you were using."
I kind of have an urge to play Fallout 4 again (just reached the point of New Vegas where you have to decide which side to take).
I'd like to try the VR version.
But it's $89.95au!
I don't trust Bethesda to do good game UI.
I definitely don't trust Bethesda to do a playable VR UI, at least not enough to spend $89.95, when the base game itself is $24.95.
If VR was like a $10 addon, I'd give it a go. But buying the same game again at full price 7 years after it released, no thanks.
Rabbit hold is like worse than a rabbit hole cos it has a moat and stone walls