As someone who likes to understand how things work, I don't really find ML interesting, but I do like to dabble to understand what's going on. Wife and I were stuck on the last word in Spelling Bee yesterday, so I was curious how it would go...
It's a little weird that "QuickTime Player" is still a thing. Who remembers QuickTime as a thing outside of us old people who lived back in the days before h.264 won? I should rename it "Smacker Player" or something.
Also it's a bit weird that it doesn't support modern features like... advance 30s, reverse 15s, etc. I feel the same way when I'm listening to music in the Apple ecosystem and want to use podcast style +/- time features to relisten to something, when I'm pedantically pointing out how great Nas is to my children.
@mtothevizzah quicktime player is odd, but i guess all os have these quirky legacy things. It is much more than a player, it can record screen and other stuff too
Thank you to the @i3d committee and @BartWronski for a wonderful I3D 2024, was great to attend and help in a small way. And Patrick Cozzi and Cesium for being such good hosts, including letting me take two hours of calls in their offices after the conference finished :).
@aras@mtothevizzah@i3d it's an amazing conference—single-track, relatively small (~80 attendees). I get exposed to ideas and areas I wouldn't otherwise consider and get to chat with most attendees, many of whom I didn't know before or knew only "online."
There were also really high-quality papers, keynotes, and invited talks, all focused on various kinds of "interactive" and "graphics."
Also, a shout-out to @sylefeb for an amazing keynote talk on making Doom (and many more!) run on FPGAs.
Please join us for the 2024 edition of the Rendering Engine Architecture Conference, which will take place remotely but live on the mornings of June 3rd and 4th. Registration is open, we look forward to sharing some wonderful talks from EA, Remedy, 4A, Santa Monica Studio, Blizzard, and Godot!
Random thing I ran into in London was seeing this logo on a door and remembering always eating here when visiting SF for GDC. Turns out it’s a weirdly sprawling high end chain with owners including an Abu Dhabi investment firm, good times.
Setting up the website for the Render Engine Architecture Conference 2024 (https://www.enginearchitecture.org) is a surprising amount of work even with a simple website and turn-key web hosting. Dealing with email and mailing lists is like the worst thing in the world given all the anti-spam systems you need to setup: SPF, DKIM, DMARC, etc.
Today's jam, Horace Silver Quintet, Song for My Father. Yes, that is Billy Cobham on drums. And yes, Steely Dan stole that piano bass line for a famous intro line.