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Pixel Pusher and Digital Illusionist @ Nvidia All opinions my own
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Recordings from Vulkanised 2025 have been posted! I did a little deeper dive on how autodiff enables gradient descent, and introduced SlangPy, in my talk here: youtu.be/Wg75trbSqg0?...

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I just pushed a new paper to arXiv. I realized that a lot of my previous work on robust losses and nerf-y things was dancing around something simpler: a slight tweak to the classic Box-Cox power transform that makes it much more useful and stable. It's this f(x, λ) here:

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For those interested: Alexey Panteleev will be giving a presentation about his work on Neural Texture Compression at Vulcanized 2025 on Thursday, February 13th at 9:30. www.vulkan.org/events/vulka...

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I'm very proud to announce that today NVIDIA has released our first public SDK for Neural Texture Compression (NTC)! github.com/NVIDIA-RTX/R... NTC exploits neural techniques to achieve 12-24x compression of PBR material textures with quality comparable or better than BC formats.

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Hurrah, I'm pretty excited about this: Slang has landed support for cooperative vectors! shader-slang.org/blog/2025/01...

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WIth the Blackwell Whitepaper we are getting more detial about Mega Geometry - long live the CLAS! I have been looking at the added performance (and fidelity) from its usage in Alan Wake 2 and even on older classes of RTX 2000 hardware it is basically "free performance".

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Go spend a summer with the brightest people north of the 60th tropic. I would

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This announcement was a bit buried in the news, but soon, you will be able to use Tensor Cores in graphics shaders. devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/enab... developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-... The API is super elegant, neural and non-neural stuff, a very impressive work of my colleagues, stay tuned.

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I'm sorry why did no one tell me people are making entire synthesizer systems in *Desmos* of all things www.desmos.com/calculator/f...

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Ah this is neat! An open source library for accurately simulating colour mixing in pigments scrtwpns.com/mixbox/ Video below from the author explaining how/why every digital painting app gets this wrong by mixing colours additively, like lights

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4 checks to help recognize misinformation: (from Alex Edmans's “ladder of misinference”)

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