The universe is a big and numerically-unstable video game | Weeknotes
Week 43 of 2024. Week 11 of RC.
Software
Cargo build and SpaceX-inspired graphics | Weeknotes
Week 42 of 2024. Week 10 of RC.
DevLog: llmpossible
How I built a command-line LLM on Apple Silicon for RC’s ‘Impossible Stuff Day’
Make games people play
What Paul Graham doesn’t tell you about delighting 7 year olds.
Raytracing from scratch in pure JS
A dynamic realtime raytracer in pure JavaScript you can run in your browser.
Yesterday's cutting edge is today's table stakes
The past 18 months in AI have been a whirlwind-clusterfuck of acceleration, innovation, and chaos.
Optimising cost, quality, latency
There is a trifecta of variables that just about everyone building generative AI systems cares about — cost, quality, and latency. As is often the case in computing, there is a trade-off between these properties. And all three are bought with the currency of performance.