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Thursday, June 10, 2021
CONTINUITY: A Quick Look at Unreal Engine 5 Early Access
Here is more information on Unreal Engine 5 from the developer, including links where you can download your own copy, which is free for non-commercial use. The high profile features, Nanite and Lumen, are currently only supported on high-end gaming consoles and legacy Windows systems.
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THE HAPPENING WORLD: Artificial Intelligence Surpasses Humans in Chip Layout
Chip layout on the left designed by a human; on the right, by an AI system—and it performs better https://t.co/r6QjWfbinb Welcome to the goopy, asymmetrical AI future 🤨 pic.twitter.com/O4S5lf5wMy
— Robin Sloan (@robinsloan) June 9, 2021
The resulting designs have a chaotic, almost organic, appearance compared to the regimented rectangular layouts most human designers produce. The paper is “Chip Placement with Deep Reinforcement Learning”.
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THE HAPPENING WORLD: There's a Little Bite Out of the Sun Today
There's a little bite out of the Sun today…. Partial solar eclipse photographed from Fourmilab near maximum eclipse (~14.8%) at 10:17 UTC on 2021-06-10. Nikon D600, 28-300 mm zoom at 300 mm, f/6.3, 1/1000 sec., Orion full-aperture solar filter. pic.twitter.com/LulYKbkOjX
— John Walker (@Fourmilab) June 10, 2021
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