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Tim Soret
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Tim Soret
@timsoret
Founder @oddtalesgames Creative Director @TLN_Game Art Direction, Cinematography, Tech Art. Atoms, Bits, Memes, Genes. Courage, Freedom, Futurism, Humanism.
🇬🇧 London / 🇫🇷 Paris Katılım Haziran 2008
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It's possible to be tasteful without going prudish.
Witnessing the male & female bodies at their absolute peak performance is part of the appeal of the olympic games.
We admire these athletes & their perfect biomechanics, and yes, health is inherently beautiful & sexy.
civilization enjoyer@civ_enjoy
European Athletics have released new photography guidelines. It's a pity our sport our sport is going from celebrating the athletic physique to hiding it.
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@kiaran_ritchie Completely. Better signal to noise ratio. Also perfect use of AI, given the scale of the task. Even better if it had the same horizon curvature for @wickedgame. All of these would be huge improvements.
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@timsoret That would be a big UX upgrade actually. Highlighting significant landmarks would make the maps more readable at a glance.
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Oh my god. Stylized maps would be such a success.
Aurelien@Aurelien_Gz
apple maps on ios 27 needs one more thing to go fully wild.. a ghibli mode
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This js a good approximation of how a neon feels in person. The only way to properly represent them on non-HDR displays is to underexpose.
Too often in games, photography & cinema, only the glow appears colored, the neon glass tubes themselves appear desaturated if not white.
Teemu.jpeg@teemusphoto
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Interesting how there was nothing organic about it.
It was purely engineered from crafty militants who recruited 50 useful idiots via social engineering & coercion, infiltrating every strata of a society which struggled to defend its values against new rhetorical weapons.
Paul Graham@paulg
The rise and fall of wokeness: DEI commitments in corporate securities disclosures filed with the SEC. To me this seems a trailing indicator; most other measures of wokeness take off well before 2019 and peak in 2020 or 2021. But the shape! That's what a moral fashion looks like.
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Instant follow.
Alex Harri@alexharri_
Hello! It's about time I started posting here. I'm Alex Harri. I write technical posts -- typically deep dives -- on alexharri.com. I joined @paper recently. I built their pen tool; lots more in the works. Excited to share behind-the-scenes videos and ideas here!
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4k bandwidth chokes most CPUs, but for any urban game with hundreds or thousands or lights, deferred is still undefeated to reduce draw calls & it opens up so many interesting screen-space techniques: decals, GTAO, post process global wetness, smooth bevels, SSR, etc… no real great solutions for 4k gaming apart from upscaling.
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one of my hottest takes is that deferred rendering's benefits flip sharply once you cross a certain resolution threshold as bandwidth consumption begins to choke your performance and games should have explored things like clustered forward rendering as we approach 4K.
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Yuji Tachikawa, one of the most respected mathematical physicists in the world, reports that Fable solved a problem that he and his collaborators were stuck on.
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Ok, I investigated and I confirm that frontier models (tested on Sol) can do GPU low level optimizations when instructed by profiler, like @yacineMTB has proven (attached my before and after for comparison).
Unfortunately for gamedev, using generic shader languages other than CUDA, we have to manually screenshot NSIGHT heatmap for it to work best. So there's a place for a loop improvement, but before that it is still very interesting way for quick optimizations.
But have your deterministic frame hashes ready :).
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if you only learned about jevons paradox primarily wrt software demand in the age of agentic engineering, you may not have fully internalized jevons parodox’s impact under the conditions of:
- humans who can wield coding agents well*
- coding agents breaking containment to all other knowledge work
as the efficiency of labor goes up/unit cost of knowledge work goes broadly down, the demand for total work and better knowledge goes up, not down.
what happened to coding isnt the exception; it’s the herald.
*aka AI Engineers
Sam Altman@sama
so far at least, i'm pretty sure AI has been net job-creating. this was not what i expected--although i was much less pessimistic than others, i thought by this level of capability we'd have seen some impact. it is possible this direction keeps going!
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Improving my tech art with Codex GPT 5.6 Sol is such a profound & moving experience.
After years of work pushing state-of-the-art visuals, cinematography & simulations to make sure I can deliver something absolutely unique, suddenly I have this mind lifting me up & sharing the weight, meticulously checking every single part, getting them even closer to my vision after inferring my intentions, while noticing the many half-abandoned dreams left along the way and suddenly bringing them back & making them real for me.
Often times I was just 100-300 lines of code away from results I've dreamed about for years. I just couldn't figure out the right maths, or the proper GPU pipeline trick, or the right data format. I was often so close, but only needed the last 3-5% for a promising test to become truly viable & production ready.
It's just beautiful.
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To me, Bowie accurately sensed that internet was going to become a fertile substrate for something much bigger than just connecting humans to each other. His intuition turned out correct.
Tim Soret@timsoret
@Peter_shirley Bowie, 1999, on Internet: "I don't think we've even seen the tip of the iceberg" "The potential [...] - both good & bad - is unimaginable." "We're on the cusp of something exhilerating & terrifying" Journo: "But it's just a tool isn't it?" "No it's not. It's an alien lifeform."
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This zero-sum thinking is probably the most destructive mindset possible, both at personal scale & civilizational scale.
Alexander Dugin@AGDugin
The very concept of the success is deeply immoral. If you are successful the other is loser. We shouldn’t accept it. We should prosper or suffer together. Otherwise it is satanic.
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