I still feel pretty good about the commencement speech I gave a few years ago: youtu.be/YOZnqjHkULc?t=…

BASIC launched on this day in 1964.

This is wild: DraGAN: Interactive point-based manipulation of images using AI. This gives you controllability of the pose, shape, expression, and layout of the objects in your images.

Amazing 2023 gathering of many of the founders of the computer graphics field in the 1960’s and 70’s! The PC 3D revolution was spawned in the early 1990’s as John Carmack and others found tricks to make the elder generation’s algorithms run fast on x86. spectrum.ieee.org/history-of-com…

Please remind me how we are moving forward. In this video, a machine from the year ~2000 (600MHz, 128MB RAM, spinning-rust hard disk) running Windows NT 3.51. Note how incredibly snappy opening apps is. 👇

Casey Muratori Surely this is the time to dig out the Grace Hopper nanoseconds video... youtu.be/9eyFDBPk4Yw

The famed Stanford Smallville is officially open-source! 25 AI agents inhabit a digital Westworld, unaware that they are living in a simulation. They go to work, gossip, organize socials, make new friends, and even fall in love. Each has unique personality and backstory.

“Kids these days are just clicking buttons on a computer…” Kids these days:

Roboticists from Robotic Systems Lab and NVIDIA Embedded are teaching four-legged robots climb and jump. After training in simulation, the robots can autonomously decide how to scramble over and under obstacles, which will help them do dangerous jobs so that humans don't have to.

With the Wheel Reinvention Jam starting in just five days (!) I wanted to share why we do this jam every year. In episode 1 of Handmade Hero, a viewer asked Casey Muratori "Why not use an engine? Why reinvent the wheel?" Casey's answer is SHOCKINGLY relevant right now.

Introducing Pika 1.0, the idea-to-video platform that brings your creativity to life. Create and edit your videos with AI. Rolling out to new users on web and discord, starting today. Sign up at pika.art

Exclusive Hands-on Preview: Outcast a New Beginning | A stunning Retu... youtu.be/HncH4PIficI?si… via YouTube

If you want to understand (some of) why the game industry is in trouble, this article is pretty good: matthewball.vc/all/gaming2024 h/t Raph Koster Raph Koster (Hey remember when people on Twitter did h/t all the time, and also the Fail Whale?)

OpenAI + Figure conversations with humans, on end-to-end neural networks: → OpenAI is providing visual reasoning & language understanding → Figure's neural networks are delivering fast, low level, dexterous robot actions (thread below)

Bring your words to life with expressive vocals in any style. From soaring gospel to gravelly blues, from dreamy pop to silky rap, Udio has it covered. 2/11

I'll tell you this one right now. Most companies are breathtakingly inefficient. Because no one gets fired for doing what "we have always done". Because boomer middle managers hate engineers, and most their interactions with them are for the purpose of micromanaging them or

🎉 Pour les 40 ans de l’#Amiga, le NAM-IP et MadeInPixels vous invitent à une expo ce 4 octobre ! 👉 matériel, jeux, applications et art emblématiques, avec la présence de Franck Sauer dev et artiste pionnier sur cette plateforme ! 📍 Namur ⬇️+ infos ⬇️ facebook.com/events/1486021…

pikuma.com The nice thing about getting old is your eyes just become bad enough that the pixel art looks good.

Gotta love #unity3dgamedevelopment

Psychology of People Who Grew Up in the 1970s youtu.be/Sbi0UNdCxB4?si… via YouTube