David Neto 🇨🇦
@dneto.dev
WebGPU and Vulkan shader language standards and tooling.
I work at Google, on the Chrome team.
I'm also on Mastodon.
@[email protected]
Canadian, eh
He/him
I work at Google, on the Chrome team.
I'm also on Mastodon.
@[email protected]
Canadian, eh
He/him
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My colleague Antonio Maiorano added some basic support for capturing Chrome #WebGPU content with RenderDoc recently! I wrote a brief article about how to use it. It's pretty primitive right now, but I have high hopes that we can improve the ergonomics in the future.
Profiling WebGPU with Renderdoc
Brandon Jones - Graphics and XR on the web
toji.dev
November 11, 2025 at 3:30 AM
My colleague Antonio Maiorano added some basic support for capturing Chrome #WebGPU content with RenderDoc recently! I wrote a brief article about how to use it. It's pretty primitive right now, but I have high hopes that we can improve the ergonomics in the future.
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It’s bizarre to see all the snow in Ottawa and Toronto but hardly any in Winnipeg (yet).
This goal will be shown around the world.
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
It’s bizarre to see all the snow in Ottawa and Toronto but hardly any in Winnipeg (yet).
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On this day in 1861, the first documented game of what became Canadian football was played at the University of Toronto. It was a practice game between students and it predates the first recorded American football game by eight years.
November 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
On this day in 1861, the first documented game of what became Canadian football was played at the University of Toronto. It was a practice game between students and it predates the first recorded American football game by eight years.
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Today is the day…
November 9, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Today is the day…
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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CN Tower / Tour CN
@tourcntower.bsky.social
Tonight the #CNTower will wear poppies for Indigenous Veterans Day to honour the important contributions made by First Nations, Inuit and Métis Veterans in service to Canada
@tourcntower.bsky.social
Tonight the #CNTower will wear poppies for Indigenous Veterans Day to honour the important contributions made by First Nations, Inuit and Métis Veterans in service to Canada
November 8, 2025 at 11:54 PM
CN Tower / Tour CN
@tourcntower.bsky.social
Tonight the #CNTower will wear poppies for Indigenous Veterans Day to honour the important contributions made by First Nations, Inuit and Métis Veterans in service to Canada
@tourcntower.bsky.social
Tonight the #CNTower will wear poppies for Indigenous Veterans Day to honour the important contributions made by First Nations, Inuit and Métis Veterans in service to Canada
A lot of wisdom here about exercise and fitness.
i go brrrrr i kick so fast it’s hard to get a not blurry frame exported hieueuueuheheuehhehehehe
the way to fixing a bad day is a good exercise session
even if u don’t feel healthy enough, light workouts/stretches do the job too! 5 counter push ups and 3 squats count as working out!!
the way to fixing a bad day is a good exercise session
even if u don’t feel healthy enough, light workouts/stretches do the job too! 5 counter push ups and 3 squats count as working out!!
i also highly recommend ppl get trained for a martial art for self protection and grounding. it is extremely helpful for mental health to be in touch with your body, empowering to feel in control,it also is a good skill to have. but of course we train for deescalation and restraining not for attack.
November 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
A lot of wisdom here about exercise and fitness.
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The Vancouver Ruby Meetup is looking for speakers either remote or in-person. Curious? Want more details? Contact the organizers for more details.
vanruby.ca
vanruby.ca
VanRuby - Vancouver Ruby on Rails Group
vanruby.ca
November 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The Vancouver Ruby Meetup is looking for speakers either remote or in-person. Curious? Want more details? Contact the organizers for more details.
vanruby.ca
vanruby.ca
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#OTD November 7 2020, the Four Seasons Total Landscaping press conference
this video never fails to make me cackle no matter how many times i've seen it
www.youtube.com/shorts/UPOrB...
this video never fails to make me cackle no matter how many times i've seen it
www.youtube.com/shorts/UPOrB...
Carly Aquilino on Trump's Four Seasons Total Landscaping fiasco 😀😀😀😀😀
YouTube video by UTubeVideoChannel
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
#OTD November 7 2020, the Four Seasons Total Landscaping press conference
this video never fails to make me cackle no matter how many times i've seen it
www.youtube.com/shorts/UPOrB...
this video never fails to make me cackle no matter how many times i've seen it
www.youtube.com/shorts/UPOrB...
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The PLDI'26 deadline is right around the corner on Nov. 13. We look forward to your submission(s)! See the call for papers for more information: pldi26.sigplan.org/track/pldi-2....
November 8, 2025 at 2:24 AM
The PLDI'26 deadline is right around the corner on Nov. 13. We look forward to your submission(s)! See the call for papers for more information: pldi26.sigplan.org/track/pldi-2....
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Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
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One thing to like about this chart is that you can try and spot the transformative technologies in the past
AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
November 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
One thing to like about this chart is that you can try and spot the transformative technologies in the past
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it is weird that it is currently a counterintuitive take on "AI" to say "what if it just sort of works the way that new automation technology in the past worked, for good and ill?"
"weve invented a new way to store labour as capital and this will create paradise and infinite power for me and my company you should invest in"
Always turns out to be 2-3% rgdp growth. Economy is just a fungal organism with a set uptake of 2-3%
Always turns out to be 2-3% rgdp growth. Economy is just a fungal organism with a set uptake of 2-3%
November 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
it is weird that it is currently a counterintuitive take on "AI" to say "what if it just sort of works the way that new automation technology in the past worked, for good and ill?"
It's bread making day.
Updates in this thread. Started the ploosh last night.
Updates in this thread. Started the ploosh last night.
November 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
It's bread making day.
Updates in this thread. Started the ploosh last night.
Updates in this thread. Started the ploosh last night.
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Yesterday: Ontario huffy that federal budget didn’t include commitment to idea of tunnel under Hwy 401
Today: Ontario announces award of $9M contract to see if the idea of this 60km dig is even feasible
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Today: Ontario announces award of $9M contract to see if the idea of this 60km dig is even feasible
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Taxpayers on the hook for $9M to study Doug Ford's Highway 401 tunnel idea | CBC News
Ontario taxpayers are set to spend $9.1 million to learn if or how it is feasible to build a tunnel under Highway 401
www.cbc.ca
November 7, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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“We conduct the largest pretraining poisoning experiments to date, pretraining models from 600M to 13B parameters on chinchilla-optimal datasets (6B to 260B tokens). We find that 250 poisoned documents similarly compromise models across all model and dataset sizes…”
arxiv.org/abs/2510.07192
arxiv.org/abs/2510.07192
Poisoning Attacks on LLMs Require a Near-constant Number of Poison Samples
Poisoning attacks can compromise the safety of large language models (LLMs) by injecting malicious documents into their training data. Existing work has studied pretraining poisoning assuming adversar...
arxiv.org
November 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
“We conduct the largest pretraining poisoning experiments to date, pretraining models from 600M to 13B parameters on chinchilla-optimal datasets (6B to 260B tokens). We find that 250 poisoned documents similarly compromise models across all model and dataset sizes…”
arxiv.org/abs/2510.07192
arxiv.org/abs/2510.07192
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“Shut up!” screamed Toad.
November 7, 2025 at 2:37 AM
“Shut up!” screamed Toad.
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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Look, I don't want to say that my theory of "Toronto sports teams are powered by the sadness of other Toronto sports teams" is 100% accurate, but the Leafs and Raptors are a combined 6-0 since the Jays lost game six.
November 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Look, I don't want to say that my theory of "Toronto sports teams are powered by the sadness of other Toronto sports teams" is 100% accurate, but the Leafs and Raptors are a combined 6-0 since the Jays lost game six.
I always rooted for the coyote.
I think it was a nerds vs. jocks vibe.
I think it was a nerds vs. jocks vibe.
I went a third of a century accepting, on the testimony of a cartoon, that coyotes chase roadrunners before I ever saw the real thing.
Wonder why this scene looks so familiar...
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
November 6, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I always rooted for the coyote.
I think it was a nerds vs. jocks vibe.
I think it was a nerds vs. jocks vibe.
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I went a third of a century accepting, on the testimony of a cartoon, that coyotes chase roadrunners before I ever saw the real thing.
Wonder why this scene looks so familiar...
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
November 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I went a third of a century accepting, on the testimony of a cartoon, that coyotes chase roadrunners before I ever saw the real thing.
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Do I know anyone on here who is teaching public high school in the U.S. right now? I have a brief and specific question.
November 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Do I know anyone on here who is teaching public high school in the U.S. right now? I have a brief and specific question.
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Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.
November 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.
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There are more of us than there are of them.
November 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
There are more of us than there are of them.