Niall Horn

17 months spent fighting for my rights and my life as a human to be accepted for disabilities I never chose to have. Time I've lost, not working on R&D, tech and myself.

However, this time was not wasted.

#tech #autism #disabilityrights #equality

Just finished watching Pantheon from AMC/Netflix. One of the best shows I've ever seen, combined with all my interests! Great technical consultation, which is kind of rare for sci-fi these days. #Pantheon

I thought someone else asked Meta for an OpenXR Runtime on Linux. Then realised it's my own post from 2 years ago lol:

communityforums.atmeta.com/discussions/...

Monado is great and all, and it's a super cool project, but it's never gonna be able to implement your vendor features/extensions.

Meta, please please release a Linux OpenXR runtime!

Really cool cumulonimbus cloud trying to eat the village I live in. Almost formed a mini anvil before swept SW by the strong winds in the UK. Looking on sat data, this covers around 70 square miles.

I'm basically a ghost in my career for over a year now... It's a rotten feeling when there is so much cool stuff all around you.

Nonetheless, I'm not one to just take erasure and walk away. I'm planting the seeds for a return soon.

I'm a huge, fan and user of ChatGPT, especially 4o for non data sensitive use cases. But Gemini Pro 2 is beyond impressive. I am constantly blown away by the small details it catches and not only that, but questions my own objectives and helps reframe them, without needing to prompt as such.

I miss the days when tech was full of the 'outcasts', the people whom found escape in working on challenging problems, that were free to be themselves and supported to do so.
Sadly that idealistic orchard is closed to people like myself it seems :/

Rendering 'Assassin's Creed Shadows' Assassin's Creed Shadows is a large systemic open world game with dynamic time of day cycles, a systemic weather system, and seasons. it is the first next gen only Assassin's Creed game. It's built on...

“Rendering Assassin’s Creed Shadows” slides are available on GDCVault. gdcvault.com/play/1035526...

Play for Dream Expects to Adopt Android XR for Standalone OS and Bring New Focus to US Market China-based Play for Dream, the company building a Vision Pro-like standalone MR headset, says it expects to adopt Android XR as its standalone operating system. The Play for Dream MR headset has been...

Myopia correction lenses, external compute unit for display connection. More interesting is their plan to move to AndroidXR once public:
www.roadtovr.com/play-for-dre...

Play For Dream MR Headset | 8K Mixed Reality with Snapdragon XR2+ Gen Experience next-gen mixed reality with Play For Dream MR. Featuring 8K Micro-OLED displays, 103° FOV, ultra-low 14ms latency, and multimodal interaction. Perfect for gaming, entertainment, and product...

Wow, how did I miss this beast, and it has an OpenXR Runtime with its own extensions...
pfdm.ai?srsltid=AfmB...

I'm the same with DCS hah, VTOL VR + Nuclear Option are proxies until I can get built up to do DCS :)

An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Thinks My Daughter Is a Tragedy Dear Mr. RFK Jr., (The “dear” is tradition. Don’t mistake it for affection.) You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That...

“Autism doesn’t erase potential. It reshapes it. Sometimes it’s quiet. Sometimes it’s nonlinear. Always, it’s human.”

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...

For the record yes I am tall, skinny, have eye issues, have heart issues. How fun.

I've been concerned I had #MarfanSyndrome for the past 5 years. After moving to a new GP, I have been referred for an assessment. Yesterday I was waiting in the pharmacy for my medication and some random guy comes up and asks me if I have Marfan syndrome. Very odd glitch in the matrix type stuff!

Light & Magic Season 2 Lucasfilm’s “Light & Magic” Season 2 is a three-part series produced by Imagine Documentaries that follows Lucasfilm’s...

It's so nice to see ILM get more recognition with a season 2 of Light and Magic. I really enjoyed my short time working there, a company with true values for equality, and not just a façade of virtue signalling. So much cool VFX tech :) I wish it was longer!
ondisneyplus.disney.com/show/light-a...

I'm suddenly interested in GDPR / Data protection because sadly this conduct has had a very big impact on my life :(

The National Institutes of Health will illegally gather personal medical data so autistic people can be terrorized by the federal government. (There. Fixed it for ya, NPR.)

The fact M&S and Co-Op cyber attacks are not a daily occurrence is nothing short of a miracle.

It terrifies me how vulnerable data of patients and consumers is in the UK. The amount of so-called 'DPO's' who cannot even follow UK GDPR / DPA and even the ICO's own guidance is concerning.

Beware phony IT calls after Co-op and M&S hacks, says UK cyber centre The NCSC urges firms to check IT help desk

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The ICO need to put the foot down on this.

Thank you for your service @proton.me :)

@niallhorn.bsky.social Super glad I used Proton to generate fake credentials for M&S and the Co-Op, now we know user details have been stolen :)

As an ex VFX -> Graphics/Simulation/ML guy, I never cared about NLP and found LLM's pretty boring and totally fell for the whole stochastic parrot == useless fallacy. 2 years later and I am totally enamoured by these models and use them in my daily life including a local setup in the works !

I hope a lot of fellow Graphics, ML and other R&D people will move over to here or Threads. It's kind of sad how many people still use X with the daily headlines about it's owner.
I hold myself to the same account, I wish I'd deleted it sooner.

Been pretty quiet on here for a while due to life issues. Hoping to get posting some more dev stuff and announce my new blog.

Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit The most affordable generative AI supercomputer.

Bought one of these bad boys to experiment with. I have some CUDA projects already running on Ampere (GA102) so gonna be interesting to see how it runs on this tiny dev kit!
www.nvidia.com/en-gb/autono...

Oh man, I forgot you were behind the Exocortex tools too ! I did work experience at a local VFX house using XSI and spent my whole time playing with your plugins and Lagoa/ICE !

Awesome I have fond memories of Krakatoa from my early FX TD days :) I remember seeing the work by Frantic on GI Joe and been blown away !