It's Not Just a Trend, It's a Phenomenon Uses of the "not just a __ it's a __." sentence structure roughly doubled in large U.S. company documents in both 2024 and 2025. The chart grows from ~30-50 between 2015 and 2023, then exploding to 200 in 2025.

Anytime I see "it's not just a, ..." pattern in writing from a person I know, I immediately lower my opinion of them.
When it's "it's not just x, not even y, ...", I assume they are a 100% idiot.
(Or worse, spamming me and treating me like an idiot by direct copy/pasting unfiltered LLM output)

No. Because he's a professional hit piece writer for tech. He didn't even ask me for comment before publishing.

If anyone is having trouble interpreting something in a particular paper and reaches out in good faith, I'm happy to help.

Windows 11 has "clipboard history" (Win + V). On older Windows, PowerToys have a similar tool for that. :)

From all the people I talked with who say "I tried those tools, it was crap", they tried them a while ago. And this would be a reasonable conclusion with most regular software, but coding agents and tools evolve and get better at an unprecedented pace. Today is different than even a month ago.

One thing most don't realize is how quickly those tools evolve and get insanely better. First Copilot was kinda crap, just a slightly better autocomplete/intellisense. Then Cursor was already super useful - a gigantic productivity boost for me, "magic". Now, agents have changed *everything*.

Introducing LoMa-R! A rotation invariant version of LoMa.

Code: github.com/davnords/loma
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2604.11809

INTRODUCTION TO SPHERICAL HARMONICS FOR GRAPHICS PROGRAMMERS

finally done.

gpfault.net/posts/sph.html

We would first like to observe that one valid answer would be: It just is OK? (Shazeer 2020) wbaeks. We offer no explanation as to why these architectures seem to work; we attribute their success, as all else, to divine benevolence. But, for a theoretically-flavored motivation descending from Bernstein & Newhouse (2024)'s analysis of Shampoo (Gupta et al. 2018), see the relationship to Shampoo section. And for an empirically-flavored motivation, we observe that based on manual inspection, the updates produced by both SGD-momentum and Adam for the 2D parameters in transformer-based neural networks typically have very high condition number. That is, they are almost low-rank matrices, with the updates for all neurons being dominated by just a few directions. We speculate that orthogonalization effectively increases the scale of other "rare directions" which have small magnitude in the update but are nevertheless important for learning.

I know you will appreciate this - something even crazier. There is a new optimizer, Muon, that orthogonalizes the gradient update matrix in each layer. Works super well in transformer models 🤯
kellerjordan.github.io/posts/muon/

This paper is a joint effort between
@davnords.bsky.social and me, and supported by many more!

Code: github.com/davnords/loma

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2604.04931

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 435 - April 5th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

The Future of Path Tracing | Best Practices, Optimizations & Future Standards YouTube video by NVIDIA Game Developer

youtu.be/6pFNyscvz_w Some more details on the recently shown forest path tracing can be found in this presentation, as well as other useful tips on path tracing integration. In general a lot of NVIDIA GDC 2026 presentations are now public

Israel prohibiting Palm Sunday Mass in Jerusalem is just a reminder that Israel is an ethnosupremacist genocidal apartheid state - they've started with Palestine and Lebanon and Iran but they won't stop to destroy you, wherever you are, whatever you are - unless you are an Israeli Zionist.

Opinion | Trump Said This Policy Would Make Manhattan a ‘Ghost Town.’ He Was Wrong.

"The triumph of congestion pricing also offers a larger reminder: Government, done right, has immense power to improve people’s lives."
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/o...

From: zoe Lily <zoelilydataproviders@gmail.com> Hi, I hope this message finds you well! I’m reaching out to follow up and confirm if you’re interested in acquiring the Visitors/ Attendees list. Event Details: Event Name: Eurographics EG 2026 Date: May 4 - 8, 2026 Location: Aachen, Germany Total Contacts: 18,643 The list includes Contact Name, Email Address, Company Name, URL/Website, Phone No, Title/Designation. Please let me know how you’d like to proceed: · I’m interested – Please share pricing/I’d like to learn more. · I’m not interested If you are interested in acquiring the list, we can send you the Discounted cost and additional details We are looking forward to hearing from you. Thanks & Regards Zoe

I got some most bizarre spam email, someone proposing to sell me the attendee list for Eurographics with sensitive PII. O_o
Clearly illegal, clearly spam/scam, possibly there was a leak?
Why the hell would anyone want that, recruiters?

I would bet on Google winning the space for that exact reason. They have real products, multiple of them, and with actual UI/UX. Just connect AI properly! But only "would" because, a) regulatory stuff, they will be force-separated, b) I worked at Google ~5y and aligning teams to do anything was 🫠

Yeah, I don't know anyone who used it beyond the novelty. No clear path to monetization. Huge cash burn. Bad PR (slop, deepfakes).
Also, the quality difference between the cherry-picked announcement examples and the final product was shocking and felt deceitful...

I encountered this in use in some audio modulator LFOs, like Ableton's some devices have "wander" mode where it smooth steps between new random sample-and-hold values. Much better/less chaotic than other smooth random alternatives. Some Eurorack modules have similarly behaving LFOs as well.

GitHub - meodai/skill.color-expert: Agent skill for color science expertise. 113 references covering color spaces, accessibility (APCA, WCAG), palette generation, pigment mixing, and historical colo... Agent skill for color science expertise. 113 references covering color spaces, accessibility (APCA, WCAG), palette generation, pigment mixing, and historical color theory. Works with Claude Code,...

I've been building a skill that turns Claude (or your LLM of chice) into a color science expert.

tons of reference files. 300K+ words. From Helmholtz (1856) to Björn Ottosson (OKlab).

Install it and build a color thing: git clone github.com/meodai/skill... ~/.claude/skills/color-expert

Here's a write-up of my investigations into a technique called "Inertial Easing" - an interesting idea on how to use easing functions for spring-damper-like applications.

theorangeduck.com/page/inertia...

You should be able to achieve it through the merit of your arguments and convincing others, not petty comments wishing something dies. Again, this is toxic.
And btw if you cannot and millions of developers disagree, have you considered that maybe you are wrong about the productivity claims?

Example, let's say someone wrote "all those kids jerk off by rewriting everything pointlessly in Rust, the language is terrible and unproductive, I wish it dies quickly and they are forced to write in a real language". Is that ok? Is that constructive approach to point out some real problems?

I have stronger criticisms of Python (as a daily user), this list seems pretty "light" and I agree with most points. How do we get from it to wishing something "die" (and wishing I'll to people who use it and would lose it), this is a super toxic behavior and discourse and not ok.

there's no need to wish "death" to something you dislike (yet is beloved by many 🙄)

High-Performance Graphics 2026 CFP High-Performance Graphics 2026 Call for Participation

The papers deadline for High-Performance Graphics 2026 is 3 weeks from now and the abstract deadline is 2 weeks from now (April 1 AoE).
If you want to submit, but have concerns about traveling to LA, please contact the paper chairs for options.
www.highperformancegraphics.org/2026/call-fo...

Four weeks to the EGSR papers deadline! (I'm so excited to be on the Program Committee this year - cannot wait to see all the amazing papers submitted!) So - submit away!

Important dates:

Abstracts deadline: 4/8

Papers deadline: 4/15

Submit your work, and join in Bordeaux!

egsr2026.inria.fr

On linked in a founder bro posted he got a pi tattoo because “unlike most numbers that end or repeat, pi keeps going, much like founders” and I have not been able to get it out of my head how it has been proven in the 1800s that the set of irrational numbers is VASTLY larger than rational

I started coding in Logo and Turbo Pascal when I was 7, not because I liked to type code. I always hated it.:)
But the first time I "told" the computer what I wanted and saw it happen... Felt like absolute magic. Ideas, iteration, algorithms, experimentation... Coding agents only amplify this magic.

I started coding in Logo and Turbo Pascal when I was 7, not because I liked to type code. I always hated it.:)
But the first time I "told" the computer what I wanted and saw it happen... Felt like absolute magic. Ideas, iteration, algorithms, experimentation... Coding agents only amplify this magic.

Billionaires are morons who got lucky. They have no better idea what will work than anybody else. See also: every overpaid CEO.

I absolutely hate typing and C++ for writing headers cc files etc. I believe in value of testing, but hate writing tests, repetitive boring stuff. This is why I switched to Python. And this is why I love coding agents. I am interested in iterating on algorithms, not looking through interfaces.