If I sound lazy just ignore my tone cause I’m always gonna answer when you call my phone
May 12 • 19 tweets • 8 min read
Google has been quietly working on an skunkworks research project: to create the first ever massively-parallel 2D renderer!
Interested? I got an exclusive interview with Raph Levien, a lead engineer on the project, and the world's foremost expert on parallel 2D graphics. 🧵
You heard him mention that he's going to "SIMD accelerate the hell out of that".
SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) refers to a newer class of CPU instructions that work on multiple data points simultaneously. It's the secret sauce behind the new "hybrid" renderer
Apr 6 • 17 tweets • 7 min read
Hacker news has some of the smartest minds in tech.
I've been browsing HN and separating the cracked from the mid, to collect all the best comments into one super-dump of pure knowledge.
The best comments on physics, ML, music, and productivity. 🧵 👇
First, we have an amazing explanation from archgoon about the meaning of potential energy, and what it means for a force to be conservative.
> "The big takeaway point here is that energy, as a concept, is built on top of (at least classically) the more primitive concept of 'force'."