Elizabeth mGPU
@icetigris.bsky.social
Lead Rendering Engineer at That's No Moon. Prev: Epic, Unity, Disbelief, PlayStation, Intel. Agender GPU goblin. They/Them
Crow jack o lantern (I grew the pumpkin too)
November 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Crow jack o lantern (I grew the pumpkin too)
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Idiot Buys Blackberries at the Store: tinyurl.com/bde2d4ft
August 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Idiot Buys Blackberries at the Store: tinyurl.com/bde2d4ft
Quantum teleportation lab: pick a 4 digit number to send to your buddy!
Me, doing quantum teleportation for the first time: 69...42...
Me, doing quantum teleportation for the first time: 69...42...
August 14, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Quantum teleportation lab: pick a 4 digit number to send to your buddy!
Me, doing quantum teleportation for the first time: 69...42...
Me, doing quantum teleportation for the first time: 69...42...
god quantum computing is so cool
August 12, 2025 at 12:58 AM
god quantum computing is so cool
Meet me in West Hall of triangle con if u want an ass kicking
August 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Meet me in West Hall of triangle con if u want an ass kicking
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Most of the slides and course notes for the SIGGRAPH 2025 Physically Based Shading in Theory and practice course are now online, with more to follow:
blog.selfshadow.com/publications...
blog.selfshadow.com/publications...
SIGGRAPH 2025 Course: Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice
blog.selfshadow.com
August 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Most of the slides and course notes for the SIGGRAPH 2025 Physically Based Shading in Theory and practice course are now online, with more to follow:
blog.selfshadow.com/publications...
blog.selfshadow.com/publications...
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Wow, this is such a cool paper! Basically with a surprisingly small modification to existing NeRF optimization, this paper gets a really good direct surface reconstruction technique that doesn't require all of the usual mess that meshing a NeRF requires (raymarching, marching cubes, etc).
Methods like NeRF and Gaussian Splats model the world as radioactive fog, rendered using alpha blending. This produces great results.. but are volumes the only way to get there?🤔 Our new SIGGRAPH'25 paper directly reconstructs surfaces without heuristics or regularizers.
August 8, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Wow, this is such a cool paper! Basically with a surprisingly small modification to existing NeRF optimization, this paper gets a really good direct surface reconstruction technique that doesn't require all of the usual mess that meshing a NeRF requires (raymarching, marching cubes, etc).
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this is from back in May, but while youre calling your representatives about the SCREEN act and KOSA, its worth including a mention about the 'Interstate Obscenity Definition Act' (IODA).
remember, you dont need to go into great detail, you just need to be another tally of citizens saying "no"
remember, you dont need to go into great detail, you just need to be another tally of citizens saying "no"
This bill would criminalize pornography by legally redefining what it means to be obscene.
Period. Full stop. No more porn legally. If you post porn whether free pics or paid vids. this affects you!
Period. Full stop. No more porn legally. If you post porn whether free pics or paid vids. this affects you!
August 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
this is from back in May, but while youre calling your representatives about the SCREEN act and KOSA, its worth including a mention about the 'Interstate Obscenity Definition Act' (IODA).
remember, you dont need to go into great detail, you just need to be another tally of citizens saying "no"
remember, you dont need to go into great detail, you just need to be another tally of citizens saying "no"
Went to a session on sustainability in GPU usage and that alone was worth the price of admission
August 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Went to a session on sustainability in GPU usage and that alone was worth the price of admission
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"Günther Thallinger, a board member at Allianz, one of the world’s biggest insurers, recently outlined how the world is fast approaching temperature levels where insurers will no longer be able to offer cover for financial services, such as mortgages and investments."
seems problematic.
seems problematic.
"“If this volume just grows even more, we simply have a societal situation that is not bearable anymore because it is just too much risk that is no longer covered,” Thallinger told CNBC..."
whatever politicians pretend to believe about climate, this is what they know
www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/c...
whatever politicians pretend to believe about climate, this is what they know
www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/c...
Why insurers worry the world could soon become uninsurable
Günther Thallinger, a board member at Allianz, one of the world's biggest insurers, says the climate crisis could make adaptation economically unviable.
www.cnbc.com
August 10, 2025 at 10:44 AM
"Günther Thallinger, a board member at Allianz, one of the world’s biggest insurers, recently outlined how the world is fast approaching temperature levels where insurers will no longer be able to offer cover for financial services, such as mortgages and investments."
seems problematic.
seems problematic.
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"why would they do this" for information control and to privatize the data via a crony system this is just the postsoviet russian playbook
Head of NASA Sean Duffy intends to destroy a satellite that collects key data on carbon dioxide and plant health, by causing it to burn up in the atmosphere. The U.S. Dept of Agriculture and private agriculture firms use the data to forecast crop yield, drought conditions and more.
Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose
The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.
www.npr.org
August 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
"why would they do this" for information control and to privatize the data via a crony system this is just the postsoviet russian playbook
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I think that as an indie game dev without a large publisher, your target audience is not gamers in general, it is sickos.
It's hardcore sickos that will be diving the depths of your genre and finding your game, and it is sickos who will be spreading it.
Please the passionate, not the masses.
It's hardcore sickos that will be diving the depths of your genre and finding your game, and it is sickos who will be spreading it.
Please the passionate, not the masses.
August 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I think that as an indie game dev without a large publisher, your target audience is not gamers in general, it is sickos.
It's hardcore sickos that will be diving the depths of your genre and finding your game, and it is sickos who will be spreading it.
Please the passionate, not the masses.
It's hardcore sickos that will be diving the depths of your genre and finding your game, and it is sickos who will be spreading it.
Please the passionate, not the masses.
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If you just really want to hear me explain why so many publishers are just utterly useless now, here's a talk for you.
NEW INDIGO 2025 TALK AVAILABLE ONLINE!
Rami Ismail (@ramiismail.com) – Games Industry Studio & Project Advisor, Agent and Mentor
Talk: Rami’s Talk
Video: youtu.be/tb-gcg6g-FY
Rami brings sharp and practical (business) advice for developers.
#techtalk #gamedev #indiedev #gameevent #indigo2025
Rami Ismail (@ramiismail.com) – Games Industry Studio & Project Advisor, Agent and Mentor
Talk: Rami’s Talk
Video: youtu.be/tb-gcg6g-FY
Rami brings sharp and practical (business) advice for developers.
#techtalk #gamedev #indiedev #gameevent #indigo2025
Rami Ismail - Rami's Talk - INDIGO 2025
YouTube video by INDIGO Showcase
youtu.be
August 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
If you just really want to hear me explain why so many publishers are just utterly useless now, here's a talk for you.
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This is at least the second method discovered in the last year to help break down harmful PFAS. Given their ubiquity and significant health impacts, it would be really nice to implement some fixes sooner rather than later.
Sunlight-activated material turns PFAS in water into harmless fluoride
Researchers at the University of Adelaide have developed a sunlight-activated material that can degrade per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in water, breaking down the pollutant into harmless c...
phys.org
August 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
This is at least the second method discovered in the last year to help break down harmful PFAS. Given their ubiquity and significant health impacts, it would be really nice to implement some fixes sooner rather than later.
Omw to SIGGRAPH and I'm thinking about...spectral rendering
August 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Omw to SIGGRAPH and I'm thinking about...spectral rendering
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I can’t say it enough: U.S. culture is scam culture. It pervades everything we do. We don’t notice it because it’s the water we swim in. A party would do well to remind everybody how awful this is and propose to fix it.
I think Democrats should offer voters a broadly defined anti-fraud platform. Yes, obviously, start with Trump’s influence peddling, but don’t stop there. Online fraud is massive, almost every phone call you get is a scam, and the solution has to be federal or it just won’t work.
Still, more than 7-in-10 U.S. adults have been a victim of an online scam or attack like credit card fraud, ransomware or online shopping scams. www.pewresearch.org/...
August 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I can’t say it enough: U.S. culture is scam culture. It pervades everything we do. We don’t notice it because it’s the water we swim in. A party would do well to remind everybody how awful this is and propose to fix it.
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Reminder that the measles vaccine was the most successful in history and was considered to have entirely eliminated infections until the funded anti-vax movement was fueled by RFK Jr & others to concentrate capital with more pandemics.
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bsky.app/profile/bgru...
August 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Reminder that the measles vaccine was the most successful in history and was considered to have entirely eliminated infections until the funded anti-vax movement was fueled by RFK Jr & others to concentrate capital with more pandemics.
bsky.app/profile/bgru...
bsky.app/profile/bgru...
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I think a lot of people have forgotten or were never taught in the first place that these kinds of actions need to be an endurance strategy.
If they know you'll give up in 2 days they'll just try to wait you out.
You have to make them understand that this is their life now if they don't fix things
If they know you'll give up in 2 days they'll just try to wait you out.
You have to make them understand that this is their life now if they don't fix things
It’s important to remember that this is not going to be fixed in 24 hours. We might have to do activist work on this for a hot minute. But, if we all stay focused and support each other, we can keep this going for a really long time. Longer than any of these companies have the patience for.
we are going to need to keep up this 'yelling at payment processors' energy for more than just today
Ideally, we will need to keep up this pressure over a span of a few weeks
As many people as possible, each making 2-4 calls a day, for a few weeks, is going to make the biggest impact
Ideally, we will need to keep up this pressure over a span of a few weeks
As many people as possible, each making 2-4 calls a day, for a few weeks, is going to make the biggest impact
July 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I think a lot of people have forgotten or were never taught in the first place that these kinds of actions need to be an endurance strategy.
If they know you'll give up in 2 days they'll just try to wait you out.
You have to make them understand that this is their life now if they don't fix things
If they know you'll give up in 2 days they'll just try to wait you out.
You have to make them understand that this is their life now if they don't fix things
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I'm seeing less posts about the Visa and Mastercard situation and I want to make it plain as day. You need to keep calling and bothering them, and losing them money.
Because if we lose this, they are going to cut more and more from what's available until you can only buy what they approve of.
Because if we lose this, they are going to cut more and more from what's available until you can only buy what they approve of.
Spoke with an anon source who had an interesting insight into Visa policy. Per a convo with their bank on the Steam/itchio situation today, Visa put new restrictions into place due to a new "government policy." The exact phrase used by Visa. No specific country was listed as the source of the policy
August 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I'm seeing less posts about the Visa and Mastercard situation and I want to make it plain as day. You need to keep calling and bothering them, and losing them money.
Because if we lose this, they are going to cut more and more from what's available until you can only buy what they approve of.
Because if we lose this, they are going to cut more and more from what's available until you can only buy what they approve of.
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Hey Americans, if this passes you'll be uploading your ID to every social media and website to access it.
Be aware that another shitty bill has been introduced: The SCREEN Act.
If passed, it would require Full. Age. Verification.
Like KOSA, call all your reps & tell them what a horrible idea this is.
Spread this pls.
Link: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
#screenact #badinternetbills
#stopkosa
If passed, it would require Full. Age. Verification.
Like KOSA, call all your reps & tell them what a horrible idea this is.
Spread this pls.
Link: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
#screenact #badinternetbills
#stopkosa
www.congress.gov
August 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Hey Americans, if this passes you'll be uploading your ID to every social media and website to access it.
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this is going to be very, very unpopular
White House just ended the de minimis exemption for all commercial shipments.
www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
July 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
this is going to be very, very unpopular