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Principal Programmer @ Media Molecule
Creative Coder
Musician/Producer + Live Coding
making fluff and voxelchant in my spare time
https://boggo.codeberg.page/voxelchant/
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Spent last few days on a farm live coding, deep listening, meditating, hanging out with sheep and jamming with some very wonderful and creative people I feel very lucky to have gotten to know. 🤩
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@mtrc@mastodon.social
@mtrc Do you think I'll be able to pick this up in the local Waterstones?
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@boggo@mastodon.gamedev.place
Also I absolutely thought this was today and I brought my laptop and everything 😂
Aiming to deliver some beeps, boops and visuals and stuff at Algorhythms tomorrow!
I start recording something
*discord plinging on my laptop, turn off discord*
try record again
*discord plinging on my phone*
TURN OFF PHONE
*discord plinging on my desktop PC*
raargh turn off the PC
*discord notifs plinging on my watch pling pling pling*
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@boggo@mastodon.gamedev.place
Dyson sphere for the AI slop bro, good clean coal for me.
AI companies will be like "we must construct the nuclear fusion dyson sphere to power our orbital data centres" while teaming up with the US government that says "drill baby drill", "let's go get the oil" and "good clean coal".
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@TodePond@mas.to
@TodePond@mas.to well at some point in the time between algo events I have some kind of idea, and I'm like "that might be cool to try", then I leave it way too late to explore.
It's been an "oh crap I need to prepare something for algorhythms" morning.
Some success setting up my languishing analogue synth setup
Techno jam from this morning when I was messing around kabelsalat in strudel and just sort of kept going.
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@fsinn@mas.to
@fsinn Illegal to drive my electric scooter on the road, but clankermobiles can door you in a cycle lane.
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@hellocatfood@post.lurk.org
@hellocatfood They are actually widely used in audio! The main reason people use them actually is analysing structure of audio signals and music.
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@boggo@mastodon.gamedev.place
@hellocatfood
https://boggo.neocities.org/poemsquare
Basically you just take every data point and compare it with every other data point using some kind of useful distance metric. In this example you can kind of see the repetition of the blank lines + the repetition of the final stanza.
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@hellocatfood@post.lurk.org
@hellocatfood Have you ever looked into self-similarity matrices? I've been mildly obsessed with them for visualising arbitrary data in a 2D image.
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@boggo@mastodon.gamedev.place
Last main bits to do before release I think:
- Add some options for resolution scaling as currently it assumes you're in 1920x1080, but I added a lot of plumbing to support this, just haven't exposed the options.
- Add some options to turn off GI and reflections as they're kind of expensive.
- Make either one example starter sketch or a few you can randomise between to learn a bit.
- Delete tons of stuff that's in the project folder that is nothing to do with fluff at all lol.
This was FAFF, but I reworked the hacky bit of code where I defined all the base fluff functions to be both function definitions/parser stuff and documentation in one place, which means it now auto-populates a docs panel...
It's honestly very strange to have these semi-magic invocations I've been jamming for months explained in some form that isn't just in my brain. They need to also explain the args though.
My friend just released this mind-bending puzzle game. It's a real labour of love, AFAIK starting off as a creation in Dreams. Give it a look!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3485300/A_Little_Perspective/
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@Rycaut@mastodon.social
@Rycaut @nnenov I had basically no friends using fedi when I moved here and my presence on mastodon has been more useful for me overall than anything I ever did on twitter especially when I would post something and the response would be 2 AI bots and 4 tech guys quote tweeting how I'm woke.
User experience may vary though 😀
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@Violet@chitter.xyz
@Violet Hell yeah I wasted my life away on the demo of this, now let's waste again.
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@boggo@mastodon.gamedev.place
I think a lot of people have almost some kind of cognitive blindness to idea that technology can be community run. It's not enough to explain or show or take them to it, they'll keep excusing how it can't possibly be a thing, and if it is than surely it will "fail" or has already failed.
People regularly explain to me how they wish something exactly like mastodon existed, and then I explain mastodon exists and then they're like "I don't get it, sounds weird, anyway I wish this thing existed" and they explain mastodon again.
Still processing the coolness of having been to an algorave the V&A museum this evening...
Here are some visuals I cooked up today for the show, using Fluff+Hydra. It's some kind of eyeball stalk creature called an animoid that flops around in a glitch void. Highly anomalous.
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@adelfaure@mastodon.art
@adelfaure This is what they would live code with on the analogue VHS computer terminals from Alien. 🤩
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@aras@mastodon.gamedev.place
@aras@mastodon.gamedev.place It's not just you, this is basically just an AI slop filter for games.
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@JulianOliver@mastodon.social
@JulianOliver@mastodon.social Why would anyone go to buzzfeed to look at slop when they can already generate slop for free themselves?
Maybe this will change when prompt tokens cost like £5 a prompt lol. "Come to buzzfeed for mass slop with ads".
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@BubblegumYeti@mastodon.social
@BubblegumYeti It's for the most part just a pure WebGPU thing, running in the browser.
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@BrianJopek@mastodon.world
@BrianJopek@mastodon.world That IS fucked up, but I've been trying to find any source for this other than this one random blog and there doesn't seem to be one other than sites citing this blog...
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@boggo@mastodon.gamedev.place
It kind of does what it looks like - draws lines between nearby particles using the same fluffy microsplats as the normal splats. It's very slow at the moment because I need to make an acceleration structure for the nearest-neighbour, but that's probably just going to be a spatial hash grid of some kind.
Fluff spinny particle torus with new render style I'm exploring called webs.
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@petergleick@fediscience.org
@petergleick@fediscience.org These LLMs don't really simulate anything they just predict the next token, they are basically just telling stories.
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@demofox@mastodon.gamedev.place
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@boggo@mastodon.gamedev.place
@fedifox@ohai.social @caseynewton@mastodon.social
My take when I read it was "I need to see literally evidence at all this is true".
Top red flags:
- Story written very dramatically to stir up emotions
- Written in redditor voice
- Nothing to back it up other than anon post on an internet board (lol), ok I can also make an account and start whistleblowing.
- Sounds like the plot of a movie, e.g. it's very superlative "it's the worst possible thing ever, it's all real" vibes.
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@fedifox@ohai.social
@fedifox@ohai.social @caseynewton@mastodon.social yeah absolutely, I wasn’t born yesterday. It doesn’t mean I immediately say it’s not true, but I read that thread and my immediate reaction to it was “this sounds like bullshit”. And yeah absolutely I think in the ai slop age your human intuition is your most powerful weapon.
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@caseynewton@mastodon.social
@caseynewton@mastodon.social
I read that thread on reddit and immediately thought this is the most "le redditor" thread ever and completely made up.
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@boggo@mastodon.gamedev.place
You get ads for jobs in the mining colonies on Titan every 10 prompts, apply now for free scrip.
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@boggo@mastodon.gamedev.place
Pay £99 a month to use computer.
RAM is gonna be short because tech guys think your computer should be a thin client that you prompt GPT on, and it doesn't need no RAM.
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@ZebKing@mastodon.online
@ZebKing I go on about it a lot but I don't think I've convinced a single person to join - in reality most of the people I know who used to be on social media have just left it entirely.
Out here live coding trees.
Ok big moment. Here's my new album of extremely boggo music. Tracks made over something like 6 years in completely different conditions, but generally describable as some sort of "16-bit romplercore progslop".
Enjoy! And please share if you like it for some reason.
P.S. I do suggest an in-order listen through because I was being very clever and there's like motifs and stuff.
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@a2_4am@mastodon.social
@a2_4am@mastodon.social @LaineNooney@mastodon.social they were office mates! 🤩