Sandilya Jandhyala

I tried out these LLM things.

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I almost completely stopped posting because I don't feel it is valued or enriches my worldview anymore. I try to go nuanced and engage in a discourse and I get more attacks. I praise responsible use of AI while having a strong pro-artist stance? I end up on blocklists by close-minded zealots. 1/2

Immigration Legal immigration is a fugazi.

In which I argue that the legal vs. illegal immigration debate is largely a distraction. In reality, it comes down to a colder truth: who we are willing to accept and who we are not. That line is drawn by taste — taste changes. dark.ronacher.eu/2025/12/30/i...

I just released my video about the engine (and game) I've been working on.

The engine is based on dynamic SDFs, and the video describes how it works and what it makes possible.

Link in the reply!

This is my first YouTube video and it took forever - please repost!

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I gave an internal talk at UCSD last year regarding "novelty" in computer science research. In it I "debunked" some of the myth people seem to have about what is good research in computer science these days. People seemed to like it, so I thought I should share.

Goofing off with this project again

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No Graphics API — Sebastian Aaltonen Graphics APIs and shader languages have significantly increased in complexity over the past decade. It’s time to start discussing how to strip down the abstractions to simplify development, improve pe...

My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :)
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I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".

Heater, an orange cat with BIG eyes, nestles herself in a sea of grey blankies.

Just want to remind everyone that little moments of joy are so important right now.

For instance, my cat does not understand the human concept of kisses beyond Incoming Nose = Love. So every time she’s happy, she’ll smush her face or shove her nose into ours.

Please share your joys with us.

why does the largest yaml file simply not eat all of the smaller yaml files

It’s official: EA is going private.

The leveraged buyout will be financed by a staggering $20 billion of debt, which likely means some *aggressive* cost cutting is ahead for EA in the coming months and years.

www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

software programming

YouTube video by Sandilya Jandhyala Interval Shaded Volumetrics - 21/7/25

cooked up something new: youtu.be/OohD9MdUksg

Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party.

Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.

Join us. The time is now.

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The SIGGRAPH Physically Based Shading course is back this year: blog.selfshadow.com/publications...

Cooking up something new!

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GPU frustum culling leaves using mesh shaders

Instancing Leaves with Mesh Shaders
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In this post, I talk about how I used mesh shaders to draw foliage and the benefits it provides over the conventional vertex shader pipeline.

Quality, and the cutlets of enthusiasm Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance was on my reading wishlist for a while. From the title, I assumed the book would be something like a tasteful self-help book, a quirky blend of kōanic mystici...

Quality, and the cutlets of enthusiasm
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gilbetron 60 days ago | next [=] I get so confused on this. I play around, test, and mess with LLMs all the time and they are miraculous. Just amazing, doing things we dreamed about for decades. I mean, I can ask for obscure things with subtle nuance where I misspell words and mess up my question and it figures it out. It talks to me like a person. It generates really cool images. It helps me write code. And just tons of other stuff that astounds me. And people just sit around, unimpressed, and complain that ... what ... it isn't a perfect superintelligence that understands everything perfectly? This is the most amazing technology I've experienced as a 50+ year old nerd that has been sitting deep in tech for basically my whole life. This is the stuff of science fiction, and while there totally are limitations, the speed at which it is progressing is insane. And people are like, "Wah, it can't write code like a Senior engineer with 20 years of experience!" Crazy.

I agree 100%. It's one thing to criticize corporate practices, the social impact, ethics, or future risks.
But I watch in total awe how it writes in a few seconds a well documented program in a language/API I don't know, while they complain "but it might have a bug and requires a pass or two" O_o

GTAO, distance fog and improved indirect lighting: before vs after

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Graphics papers be like

Are Labour right to cut migrants’ rights to citizenship?

Is this latest attempt to signal xenophobia finally going to see off Reform?

Am I in line to be the next Pope?

3 questions, 1 simple answer🤦‍♀️

Another project I've been working on - coming soon to itch.io!

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A few million leaves later…
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I generated a forest from code!

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Procedurally generated trees - blog post coming soon!

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