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I've put together an updated version of the Sponza scene with uncompressed PNG and compressed AVIF textures. I wrote about the process and compared the results against KTX.
โThe Queensland government has emphatically declared a crocodile-inhabited river prone to flooding will host Olympic rowing and canoeing events in 2032โ
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I'm the author of popular Python books and currently writing a book on AI and learning to program. Is anyone willing to export their ChatGPT or other AI accounts to let me see the raw prompts they give? I will give absolutely every privacy and judgement-free accommodation I can give and will not share this with anyone, nor submit any prompts either. But I'd like an unfiltered look at how people use AI. DM me for more details.
Honestly, Iโm pretty happy with the Discord news. Maybe we can go back to having proper documentation for things. Even just wikis and forums would be a massive improvement.
Whatever the output gains promised by LLMs, their initial productivity surge is erased over time, and replaced by heavier workloadsโand that leads to workers experiencing โcognitive fatigue, burnout, and weakened decision-making.โ
LLMs have no model of correctness, only typicality. So:
โHow much does it matter if itโs wrong?โ
Itโs astonishing how frequently both providers and users of LLM-based services fail to ask this basic question โ which I think has a fairly obvious answer in this case, one that the research bears out.
(Repliers, NB: Research that confirms the seemingly obvious is useful and important, and โI already knew thatโ is not information that anyone is interested in except you.)
Everyone's going to keep complaining about discord but no one is going to stop using it because nothing exists that could take it's place, nothing is even close, and to delete discord is to forfeit your online social life. This is why we should have had alternatives to discord like a decade ago.
Thinking about how a white woman recently told me she was specifically trying to get her Instagram algorithm to never show her anything political. And isnโt that just the whole problem summed up right there
the challenge of 2026, for me, is going to be getting my unfinished projects and mandatory administrative paperwork to annoy me as much as people strutting around being confidently wrong about the possibilities of AI