Maxime Chevalier

NoiseCraft: a Browser-Based Visual Programming Language for Sound & Music pointersgonewild.com/2021/12/05/noi…

@sungleeiq @matiasgoldberg Try tens of thousands of crew?

NOBODY KNOWS HOW FUCKED THE SITUATION IN THE PERSIAN GULF ACTUALLY IS. 3,200 ships are TRAPPED in the Persian Gulf right now. Crews are running out of drinking water. One ship called the local port authority and BEGGED for permission to dock — just to get water. They were DENIED. 💀 Let that sink in. These aren't military ships. These are commercial vessels — carrying oil, grain, electronics — with civilian crews who are now stranded with NO supplies and NO way out. – 3,200 ships STUCK ⚠️ – Crews running out of WATER 💀 – Port authorities REFUSING to let them dock ⚠️ – Multiple ships reporting the SAME situation 💀 ⚠️ For context — the Suez Canal crisis in 2021 blocked 400 ships. This is EIGHT TIMES worse. And nobody is talking about it. They're showing you missile interceptions and oil price charts. They're NOT showing you thousands of crew members slowly running out of drinking water in the middle of a war zone. If these ships start getting abandoned, the environmental disaster alone would be catastrophic. Thousands of tons of fuel, cargo, chemicals — just sitting there. This is not a shipping disruption. This is a HUMANITARIAN CRISIS unfolding in real time. Prepare accordingly. 🚨🚨🚨 X is hiding this. Follow + RT before it disappears. 🔥

@catalinmpit I've had those kinds of issues with Gemini, but haven't yet seen it with Claude.

Lately, Claude makes some shocking mistakes. ⟶ Implements overly complex code ⟶ Ignores the codebase's code style ⟶ Removes working code for no reason ⟶ Replaces code that's out of scope from the task at hand It feels like it needs 100% supervision. At this point, you're better off writing everything yourself.

@miketuritzin Your project is the first time I saw someone build a game engine with SDFs.

@Love2Code Cool project, look forward to seeing how it develops! And warms my heart to see that my project/video were an inspiration. I currently have an unoptimized analytic SDF renderer in my engine that is used only for testing the grid-caching one, but your video is inspiring me to ...

I'm building a toy game engine based on Signed Distance Fields (SDFs), inspired by Mike Turitzin! 🔧

@lemire @Reaktorrr1 Meta VR was led by John Carmack for a long time. He knew what he was doing and actually cared about quality. That's the difference, but even he got fed up with the corporate bullshit eventually.

@Reaktorrr1 Meta does not have 50,000 engineers... maybe you mean employees? I have seen a lot of strong technical results coming out of Meta. Their VR headsets are fantastic achievements. They have made decent software over the years. Non trivial stuff.

Two news items at the same time: Meta plans to lay off 20% of its staff due to AI, and they are delaying the release of their next AI models. They justify the upcoming cuts by saying they need to invest heavily in AI. Yet Meta is highly profitable—a true money-making machine. There is a hint that they are letting people go because AI will enable more work with fewer employees. Or perhaps it is just an excuse, and they realize they are overstaffed relative to what they actually need. Having more people than necessary is never positive—even when those people seem “effectively free.” Meta’s failure to lead in AI is interesting. It is the only major AI lab that bet heavily on one of the academic fathers of the field (in this case, LeCun). LeCun famously mocked @elonmusk and xAI, saying he was doing “research” and pointing to the many papers he had recently published. I have argued for two decades that research is not the process of publishing papers. Research is about discovery, not paper production. Confusing the two is a red flag. To be clear, peer-reviewed publishing papers is not even a necessary component of research. Peer review became a dominant paradigm during the cold war, long after Darwin, Einstein, and much of the great scientists had done their work. People typically object that I am conflating research and engineering. I am not. It would have been obvious to Turing that people building increasingly advanced systems to emulate intelligence are doing research—just as building better cancer therapies is research. Meta did not fail to lead because of a lack of talent or money. Nor is it short on engineering talent. That is not why they failed to lead. By many accounts, Meta’s AI spending is several times larger—and over a longer period—than xAI’s. It is also true that Meta has published far more papers than xAI. So what to make of it? Is Meta about to double down on AI? Will they succeed?

@lemire Money doesn't fix bad management... Chinese companies have also shown us that they can produce kick-ass models with much less people and hardware. Going on a spending frenzy to buy a million GPUs is not going to make better models automatically happen. You need an actual vision.

@elonmusk They're trying to deflect the responsibility to another party... And keep smaller players out.

Hmm

@Pranit FYI you can configure Claude code to use an Anthropic API key. That should allow you to monitor pricing and usage?

Here’s what should bother you even more: Check Claude’s pricing page. API pricing? Crystal clear. $5/MTok input, $25/MTok output. Consumer plan pricing? “More usage.” “5/20x more usage.” More than what? They never say. It’d be trivially easy to put “X tokens per month” on that page. They do it for the API. They choose not to for subscriptions. That’s not an oversight. That’s a strategy. Undefined limits = unlimited flexibility to quietly adjust the ceiling downward. And you’d never know because there was never a number to compare against. You can’t accuse someone of moving the goalposts when they never told you where the goalposts were. That’s the whole point.

@Enhex People have used it for clay-style modeling AFAIK, like in that Claybook game.

@Love2Code i wonder if 3D modeling non basic shapes (humans, monsters, etc) with SDF isn't practical

@_builtin_katie Depends. Collision detection against spheres or points is super easy. For a simple game, I think I could represent the player as 3 stacked spheres as far as collision detection is confirmed.

@Love2Code Do SDFs make collision detection super easy

@Fudmottin Objective C is pretty awful. I'm with you regarding avoiding vendor-specific APIs. wgpu seems to work pretty well. Fair amount of boilerplate, but that's expected with everything except CUDA. The LLMs help a lot with boilerplate.

@Love2Code Cool. I'm an unfashionable C++ user. But what I've seen of Rust isn't too alien. I mainly want to avoid using CUDA and Metal because they are proprietary. Also I'm not a fan of Objective-C which kind of also hurts using Metal. The Raspberry Pi also has a different GPU from the M1

I'm "vibe coding" some raymarching code using wgpu. Already had some experience with GLSL, so not unfamiliar territory, but it's really nice to have a coding assistant that can allow me to test a lot of ideas very quickly. "Ok, now make this spatial grid a 3D texture".

I've found this cursed tagged union implementation with automatic pattern matching and unwrapping in C, so now you have to witness it too!

@Fudmottin Yes it's a compute API as well and it's trying to be portable. The shader language has a Rust-like syntax. I'm using it on a Mac M1 in Rust, but AFAIK this is based on webGPU so it would work on the web and on Linux as well.

@Love2Code I'm not familiar with wgpu. Does it allow general purpose compute as well? Is it portable?

@joelcompiles Gemini CLI because there's a pretty good free tier

@Love2Code with codex or claude?

@valigo Star Trek TNG is an enjoyable amount of morally grey. It has some realistic moral dilemmas, but you can also rely on the crew being good, mature people. Also avoids bullshit story arcs about "fate" and that kind of shit.

Becoming an adult is realizing that morally grey storytelling is a middle of the midwit meme. And good vs evil is actually always were, and always will be the best

@josephdviviano Special request: can you ask it go generate a video in the style of the Evangelion computer UIs? 😆

me: "can you use whatever resources you like, and python, to generate a short 'youtube poop' video and render it using ffmpeg ? can you put more of a personal spin on it? it should express what it's like to be a LLM" claude opus 4.6:

@SchmidhuberAI Sometimes the technology is just not ready.

LeCun’s new company on physical AI with world models [9] looks a lot like our 2014 company on physical AI with world models [1] 😀 See also [2-8] - all references in the reply!

@CWhiting_15 A friend suggested that gemini could actually have private repo names in its training data e.g. through gemini code, I'm using it on private repos, but if it makes up github usernames that would suggest this isn't the case.

@Love2Code Yeah, it appears so. I will let you know if I happen to find any great success in getting around it, or improving it.

Whoa... I was just using Gemini to try to look for GitHub projects in a specific domain area, and it completely fabricated six open source projects, complete with a description and GitHub URL for each... None of those projects exist. Never seen it hallucinate this bad.

@josephdviviano Now now, let's try not to cause our superintelligent AI fields an existential crisis.