AlanZucconi

I agree! For many games (especially the ones running on old devices), xorshifts are pretty good! Not all applications need cryptographically safe generators! And sometimes it's ok to trade complexity for speed!

But I agree that if you're building something new aimed for modern devices, Marsaglia's xorshift128 wouldn't be my first choice! But I'd definitely want it in my RNG library for backward compatibility!

I could have never imagined that my long love for em dashes would have been my downfall! :)

I think your sentiment is totally understandable. The internet is flooded with AI slop. But not all AI content is automatically slop.

We're moving into a new phase of the Internet were most (all?) content will eventually be touched by AI in some ways. Whether it's Grammarly fixing the grammar, ChatGPT coming up with content corrections, Claude helping with the code, and Copilot writing the integration tests.

And I don't necessarily see a problem with 100% AI content either, when it's actually good. Let's be honest: most people can't even write as eloquently as ChatGPT does! XD I think what I'm NOT ok with is someone pretending they didn't use AI when they did. But as long as the contribution is clearly labelled, I think I'd be ok with that!

The problem is that, like all "witch hunt"-adjacent phenomena, it inevitably gather momentum from haters and so-called "content destroyers". And this, paradoxically, will make creators (like me) less likely to make new original content.

Thanks, I really appreciate it! <3

I understand that a big portion of online content is now 100% AI-generated, and that can be somewhat problematic. But for creators like me, who have been publishing articles and books for over 10 years, this AI witch hunt can be quite demotivating.

I worked on this project for over one year. I wrote an entire distributed framework to calculate maximal triplets, and I have 130+ machines running 24/7 for 12 weeks on N=8192. This article is an extended version of the script for the video documentary that will be released before the end of the year.

If you look back at my website, I used to publish two small articles a week. I've since reduced to 1 or 2 large pieces a year. And one of the reasons was exactly to rise above the many blogs that post small, fragmented articles, which could be generated in 2 minutes by ChatGPT. If I wanted to continue in that direction, I could be publishing 100 short articles a week with ChatGPT.

I started writing practical shader tutorials back in 2014 because there were not enough good, accessible resources online. I'm now focusing on large, in-depth pieces with original research, because that's what's valuable right now that ChatGPT has replaced StackOverflow.

If you appreciated this article, I hope you'll appreciate it even more knowing that YES, it was written by a human (it's me, hi!). <3

Thanks! The traffic has been wild today!

Try now!

I should be faster next time then: my entry got tagged as [dupe] ahah! Also: I somehow got 10x the usual amount of traffic today, and my website is sort of on fire!

I'm really curious... How did you manage to post this link before I did?