Published on: 2025-06-10 00:44:43
Ray Tracing in J 2020-04-18 I've been reading up on J and decided another small project was in order, this time I've written a minimal ray tracer. Brevity J is, perhaps infamously, a terse language. I think it may sometimes get unfairly discounted for this brevity because of the flavor of the syntax (namely, ASCII). It can be a little hard to describe, but the syntax isn't the hard part of learning J, the jarring parts are a result of the paradigm differences in array programming. By the tim
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Palette lighting tricks on the Nintendo 64 This article is a continuation to my Bluesky thread from April. We made a Nintendo 64 demo for Revision 2025! It has baked lighting with normal mapping and real-time specular shading, ahem, well sort of. More on that later. The beautiful song was made by noby with guitar performed by Moloko (https://soundcloud.com/sou_andrade). Below I have some notes on the directional ambient and normal mapping techniques I developed. They are both pretty simple i
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A California-based fusion company thinks it’s cracked one of energy’s toughest problems: how to make fusion efficient, powerful, and not absurdly expensive. TAE Technologies, along with researchers from the University of California, says its reconfigured prototype—cheekily named Norm—could deliver 100 times the power of other fusion devices while running at half the cost of older designs. The team’s research, published in Nature Communications, focuses on improving something called a field-rev
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In the fall of 2019, I came to a decision: it was time to leave modern macOS behind. A decade prior, switching to OS X had been a revelatory experience, as though the software was working in perfect sync with my mind. That feeling had long since disappeared. I surveyed the computing landscape. Windows was still fine, and Linux was still Linux. A normal person would have just picked one, but I was apparently not a normal person. I cared far too much about having the perfect computer, and I coul
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This is a bit more complicated. Verizon used to be our pick with its Play More plan that bundled in the Disney Bundle (ad-free Disney Plus, ESPN Plus and Hulu with ads) and services like Google Play Pass or Apple Arcade into the plan's sticker price. Now the carrier has updated its wireless plans to remove perks like the Disney Bundle or Apple Arcade and Google Play Pass from being automatically included with its service. Even with its new plans, it's still our pick for best perks, but this wil
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This is a bit more complicated. Verizon used to be our pick with its Play More plan that bundled in the Disney bundle (ad-free Disney Plus, ESPN Plus and Hulu with ads) and services like Google Play Pass or Apple Arcade into the plan's sticker price. Now the carrier has updated its wireless plans to remove perks like the Disney bundle or Apple Arcade and Google Play Pass from being automatically included with its service. Even with its new plans, it's still our pick for best perks, but this wil
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Abstract Normalization layers are ubiquitous in modern neural networks and have long been considered essential. This work demonstrates that Transformers without normalization can achieve the same or better performance using a remarkably simple technique. We introduce Dynamic Tanh (DyT), an element-wise operation $$\mathrm{DyT}(\boldsymbol{x}) = \tanh(\alpha \boldsymbol{x}),$$ as a drop-in replacement for normalization layers in Transformers. DyT is inspired by the observation that layer normali
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The Normatec Go is Hyperice's portable air-compression wearable device. It's designed to boost circulation to your legs to help your muscles recover faster and reduce any swelling. What I love about this product is how lightweight and easy it is to use at home, as well as carry on the go. Unlike the full-body Normatec boots ($699), these only cover your calves, and there's no need for additional hoses or attachments as you decompress after a day of activity or being on your feet. All you have to
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VSC "I might have to wait, I'll never give up. I guess it's half timing, and the other half is luck..." -Michael Buble VSC (VOUGA-SHREINER-CANTH) Verified is A real-time 3D rendering engine written entirely using software with the intention of being portable. Inspired by DoomGeneric with its rather novel approach to separating the backend from the frontend. Also self-inspired by my (NormalExisting's) other C++ backends mostly for games/clones such as The Witness and Chess. This is a rasteriz
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Last year marked the 35-year anniversary of Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman film, which got a new follow-up in the sequel novel Resurrection. Turns out, that’s not the end of the ’89-verse, or whatever we’re calling it, because there’s another novel on the horizon telling another tale for Michael Keaton’s Caped Crusader. That would be Batman: Revolution, penned by Resurrection author John Jackson Miller. It’s the summer, Joker’s dealt with for good, and there’s an incoming Fourth of July festival mean
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Deriving Muon Particle tracks in a bubble chamber. Fermilab. We recently proposed Muon: a new neural net optimizer. Muon has garnered attention for its excellent practical performance: it was used to set NanoGPT speed records leading to interest from the big labs. What makes Muon particularly special to me is that we derived the core numerical methods from an exact theoretical principle. This is in contrast to popular optimizers like Adam, which have more heuristic origins and often converge
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