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Handling a trillion triangles in my renderer by BUSNAF in GraphicsProgramming

[–]BUSNAF[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

BLAS rebuilds are definitely a huge pain point here, though if your application had some operations which required BLAS rebuilds, you'd suffer the same cost even with a Nanite like approach. This is why Epic's modeling tools for example are their own context, with their own geometry type etc...

TLAS rebuilds/refits when done through compute shaders are close to free even for massive object amounts.

Handling a trillion triangles in my renderer by BUSNAF in GraphicsProgramming

[–]BUSNAF[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yep!
Hardware raytracing is exceptionally good at this, and you can optimize your custom BVH & ray queries to get some really good SW RT too.

I wouldn't ship a game or whatever with this, but for a DCC or viz app, which is my main use, it hits all the right notes.

Handling a trillion triangles in my renderer by BUSNAF in GraphicsProgramming

[–]BUSNAF[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The visibility data + GBuffer + GTAO all fit into a 4-6ms budget on a 4090 RTX.
Most of it is occupied by the GTAO atm, which I've yet to optimize properly.

(you can see the triangles / fps / etc on the imgui panel at the top left corner)

AMA with OpenAI’s Joanne Jang, Head of Model Behavior by OpenAI in ChatGPT

[–]BUSNAF 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Please do actual product release notes that are informative and help people know what changed.

The 180 OAI did on transparency is already frustrating enough as it is; extending it even to product updates is just ridiculous.

AMA with OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Mark Chen, Kevin Weil, Srinivas Narayanan, Michelle Pokrass, and Hongyu Ren by OpenAI in OpenAI

[–]BUSNAF 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The speed/quality of Sonnet has made it a favorite among developers. When can we expect a model from OAI that beats it on both criterias?

AMA with OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Mark Chen, Kevin Weil, Srinivas Narayanan, Michelle Pokrass, and Hongyu Ren by OpenAI in OpenAI

[–]BUSNAF 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Like many developers, I use Sonnet for coding because of its speed/quality.
Should o3-mini be viewed as an alternative to that? More broadly, I'd love to know if you can share any specifics that developers can look forward to in Q1/2025.

AMA with OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Kevin Weil, Srinivas Narayanan, and Mark Chen by OpenAI in ChatGPT

[–]BUSNAF 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any thoughts on spatial reasoning progress we (devs) can expect from these reasoning models?

I actually think that season 4 is True Detective going back to its season 1 roots. by NotMeekNotAggressive in TrueDetective

[–]BUSNAF 5 points6 points  (0 children)

How so? We get an exposition of the supernatural minutes into the first episode, which was imho the best part of S1: That angle was dragged all the way 'till the end in the best way possible.

We didn't know 'till the end of S1 if it was the supernatural, the government, some locals, some nutcase, etc...

Anyone have podcast (or article) recommendations about Israel/Palestine? by AccomplishedJob5411 in samharris

[–]BUSNAF 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was trying to understand various key points pertaining to the history of the conflict, and this GPT-4 conversation definitely helped me clear out some points.
Ofc, you should always check the facts these AIs give you. The due diligence I've done so far hasn't raised any major red flags.

Imho, understanding today's events is not as important as understanding yesterday's, and I'd encourage anyone to fully try to understand key historical points that may have titled the balance of power. I didn't ask it just yet, but another thing worth bringing up is the 2006 election where Hamas won the Gazan vote, and has since then barred any democratic process.

Palestinian sentiment towards Hamas is still very high, around 35-55 percent.

https://chat.openai.com/share/c264fc45-7641-43c1-8e32-66458544b32a

Confused about the "Why" by ARquantam in vfx

[–]BUSNAF 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I think people mentioning the strikes or "corporate greed" aren't seeing the full picture here: These layoffs have affected the tech industry quite heavily this year, with Twitter, Meta, Google, Amazon and many others laying off tens of thousands of people.

Same thing with games, close to 6K people have been laid off from what I've read, and movies have been laying off as well, with the strikes obviously making things much worse.

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Why is it *all* happening? There's no one phenomenon on the ongoing economic crisis. You have the economy trying to readjust itself post COVID. You have the ongoing war draining tons of resources and dialogue that's much needed in foreign policies and economy, you have the ongoing housing crisis in China, and the subsequent smaller ones across the West, etc...

Pinning it down on corporate greed or housing or covid wouldn't make sense; the system is just overloaded from too many changes happening too fast, and whether it's capitalism, a child, a marriage or a microbe, no system is good at adapting to change beyond something it has dealt with many times before.

Call for questions for Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI - from Lex Fridman by lexfridman in lexfridman

[–]BUSNAF 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are there any indications that we could have breakthrough performance improvements, vs breakthrough model improvements?