Growing Bonsai Networks with RNNs

I took part in Advent of Code 2024 this year. It's a yearly event where a new holiday-themed programming puzzle is released every day of December through Christmas, and people from all across the internet compete to see who can solve them the fastest. It's a great place to experiment around with writing low-level, high-performance Rust - as well...

I recently finished up the process of fixing a bug in the Chromium/Google Chrome web browser. It was my first time contributing to the Chromium project or any other open source project of that scale, and it was a very unique experience compared to other open source work I've done in the past. I figured that I'd write up an overview of the whole...

For a couple of years now, I've been working on and off on some 3D scenes and levels that run in the browser. It started off as a scattering of self-contained demos for some custom shaders or similar that I wanted to try out, but over time the project has grown into a pretty substantial interconnected game-like thing. One of the unifying themes...

There's been a fair bit of buzz about Kolmogorov-Arnold networks online lately. Some research papers were posted around claiming that they offer better accuracy or faster training compared to traditional neural networks/MLPs for the same parameter count. I was compelled by these claims and decided to test them out myself. Here are my main...

Overview When I started off, my goal was simply to subdivide 3D meshes. I wanted to add more geometry to simple meshes so that I could apply programmatic deformation like greebling and noise to give them increased detail and realism in procedurally and semi-procedurally-generated scenes. It turns out that basic mesh subdivision is indeed very...