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Currently making geometry tools and algorithms at Epic Games. https://jimmylands.com/ https://howtobeatree.com/ https://jimmylands.com/experiments/kissing/

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Scrubbin' Trubble Launch Date Trailer
Scrubbin' Trubble Launch Date Trailer YouTube video by Odd Object

Guess what? Scrubbin' Trubble has a launch date! It's MARCH 31st!

The world's first cooperative roguelike clean-em-up is coming soon. SOON.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtU5...

06.03.2026 22:34 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 4

Every stage of this process - his arrest, spending a year in jail, being dumped on the streets to die - would be deeply shameful in a society that actually valued human life.

27.02.2026 02:29 πŸ‘ 4512 πŸ” 1343 πŸ’¬ 53 πŸ“Œ 27

worth highlighting, via the replies on the quoted post, that the AI here is badly plagiarizing / corrupting an old graphic from 2010 --
bsky.app/profile/nomo...

17.02.2026 01:17 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Oeuf on Steam 3D physics-platformer where you are an egg! Roll, hop and slide your way back home.

store.steampowered.com/app/3831080/... Oeuf demo released! Enjoy! #OeufGame

10.02.2026 15:20 πŸ‘ 158 πŸ” 67 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 11

Katabasis by rf kuang you might like?

12.02.2026 21:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Dungeon Crawler Carl - Wikipedia

Looks like further media is starting to happen for Dungeon Crawler Carl fwiw
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon...

12.02.2026 01:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

not sure you can find a consistent set of beliefs in what SBF says / has said over time ... beyond "he thinks saying this right now will help him"

30.01.2026 05:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We were hit by a strange issue that made it impossible to nominate Γ–oo for the Steam Awards… it was pretty disheartening 😒
But it looks like the problem has finally been fixed!
If you have a moment, I’d really appreciate your vote πŸ‘

πŸ”— store.steampowered.com/steamawards/...

27.11.2025 05:10 πŸ‘ 75 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 4
Yann LeCun | Self-Supervised Learning, JEPA, World Models, and the future of AI
Yann LeCun | Self-Supervised Learning, JEPA, World Models, and the future of AI YouTube video by Harvard CMSA

I guess it means Yann will continue his research on JEPA and similar things
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUmD...

20.11.2025 05:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Also kind of funny that Mark's narrative according to Mark looks like: he didn't learn team history, canceled current project, told them pitch anything, rejected the 'cool' pitches, and finally went back to basically what they had already been working on?? but told them to make it fun this time?

15.11.2025 13:26 πŸ‘ 60 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"It'd be useful if the price of cherries went down; then he could pick cherries"

15.11.2025 04:38 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
UEFN Modeling Mode - Part 4 - Manual Simple Collision Setup
UEFN Modeling Mode - Part 4 - Manual Simple Collision Setup YouTube video by Ryan Schmidt

yes, fwiw in case it's helpful, ryan schmidt did a tutorial on using mesh to collision to transfer collision between meshes here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGNr...

22.09.2025 07:01 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

integer overflow theory of crimes
(I am not meta's in house counsel, this is not my legal advice)

20.09.2025 03:11 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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0 crimes clearly legal, 1 crime clearly not legal, but 100% crime? also legal?

20.09.2025 03:09 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

source: cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/u...
(though it's not clear to me if this strike3 lawsuit has the same level of evidence behind it)

20.09.2025 01:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

re why not license, the authors lawsuit re libgen claimed "Meta in-house counsel advised Meta to stop its efforts to license copyrighted works and instead utilize pirated works exclusively," b/c "if we license one single book, we won’t be able to lean into fair use strategy"

20.09.2025 01:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

it's about bittorrent seeding, ars had longer quote:
"The only reason to incur the server and bandwidth expense of remaining in a swarm for these long durations is to leverage the extended distribution as tit-for-tat currency in order to efficiently download millions of other files from BitTorrent"

20.09.2025 01:16 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

they're talking about filibustering

16.09.2025 00:10 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why People Demanded Privacy to Confide in the World’s First Chatbot In 1966, the Eliza program couldn’t say muchβ€”but it was enough

same lore with even ELIZA in 1966 -- "users began forming emotional attachments to the algorithm" and its creator had to advocate against people using it for therapy, etc
spectrum.ieee.org/why-people-d...

24.08.2025 06:25 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Join Epic Games Today! See Our Latest Career and Job Opportunities. Visit Epic Games Careers to see the latest jobs and employment opportunities. Join an exciting team pushing the limits in gaming and interactive entertainment.

We have a rare opening on our team for an Animation Programmer. If working with us on shipping Machine Learning animation tech inside UE appeals to you, please go ahead and apply!

www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/c...

27.06.2025 17:27 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Logarithmic maps are incredibly useful for algorithms on surfaces--they're local 2D coordinates centered at a given source.

Yousuf Soliman and I found a better way to compute log maps w/ fast short-time heat flow in "The Affine Heat Method" presented @ SGP2025 today! 🧡

02.07.2025 06:23 πŸ‘ 67 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
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BYD Sparks Price War In China, Slashes New Car Prices By Up To 34% - CleanTechnica BYD has shocked the new car marketplace in China by slashing prices on its cars by up to 34%. Is it playing the long game?

For added context, this appears to be spin on Tesla losing a price war ... where analysts expect "robust sales growth" for cars *under* that 200k yuan price threshold:
cleantechnica.com/2025/05/27/b...

16.06.2025 21:11 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Summary:

- Dude is an immigrant agricultural worker working in the US
- ICE abducts and "detains" him
- Private "detention" facility has him doing farmwork
- So he's still an immigrant agricultural worker working in the US, but now paid only $1 a day

Nobody's been convicted of a crime or anything

11.06.2025 22:56 πŸ‘ 1802 πŸ” 878 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 45
Livestream 2, Day 2 | Unreal Fest 2025
Livestream 2, Day 2 | Unreal Fest 2025 YouTube video by Unreal Engine

More rendering tech details on how the Witcher 4 UE5 demo works youtu.be/0X6amtHcrUE?...

04.06.2025 22:39 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
The Witcher 4 - UE 5.6 Tech Demo | State of Unreal 2025
The Witcher 4 - UE 5.6 Tech Demo | State of Unreal 2025 YouTube video by IGN

Excited to finally show off Nanite Foliage www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJtF...

03.06.2025 18:19 πŸ‘ 209 πŸ” 44 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 2
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Uber employees 'spied on ex-partners, politicians and BeyoncΓ©' Cab startup’s former forensic investigator Samuel Ward Spangenberg claims he was fired from the company after blowing whistle on lack of security

SV startups might abuse customer data?! *beyoncΓ© shocked face*
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

25.05.2025 19:49 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes good point, and Matt Levine is often not really saying things with a straight face; but in practice since private equity investments don't really outperform public markets he has been talking (joking?) about this idea for years

25.05.2025 17:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Matt Levine has newsletter bits talking about this phenomenon with private equity, titled things like "You’d Pay Not to See Your Stock Price" and "Private Markets Are Slower Than Public Ones" seems silly but real? that people pay a premium for ~'equities but lagged for artificial uncorrelation'

25.05.2025 17:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0