What;s up with those empty renders in rendering research papers? The white furnace test, one of my favourite rendering debug tools. It can be used to check several levels of implementation, not just the BRDF, but also the sampling and the Monte Carlo integration…

Make Inkscape a professional Cloud Visualization Studio for Cloud Architects - mipmip/inkscape-cloud-architect

The Pan-American Highway began a century ago with a vision of unfettered motor-vehicle access between Alaska and Tierra del Fuego. What happened to the dream?

a 3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec Empire

My thesis on Amiga ASCII art translated to English.

A compilation of evidence that Hal Finney and Satoshi Nakamoto were different people.

Soft language is a phrase coined by comedian George Carlin to describe euphemistic expressions that "take the life out of life."

ABSTRACT. Chaos is present in most stellar dynamical systems and manifests itself through the exponential growth of small perturbations. Exponential diverg

The Senate Finance Committee has begun looking into a national framework for a guaranteed basic income for everyone in Canada over 17.

Modular networking for Go with pluggable transports, RPC, WebRTC, WebAssembly support. - aperturerobotics/bifrost

The latest development version of Zig can now compile (and cross-compile) Windows resource files and embed manifest files

Dozens of parking lots have opened across the country for working people who can afford a car but not rent.

Uber moved most of its containerized microservices from µDeploy to a new multi-cloud platform named Up in preparation for migrating a considerable portion of its compute footprint to the cloud. The company spent two years working on making its many microservices…

Dave Cutler, the designer and architect of Windows, RSX11m, and VMS. For information on my book on Autism and ASD: https://amzn.to/45ZzcFW

Dave Cutler is a seminal figure in computer science, renowned for his contributions to operating systems. Born in…

This essay isn’t about World War II. But like any historical fiction writer publishing in 2023, it’s impossible to ignore the recent wave of WWII novels that fill bookstore shelves at the moment. A…

Hint: it isn’t big pharma