I joined Roblox at the end of 2012 as a rendering engineer; I had just spent more than a year working on various titles from FIFA franchise after years of console game development and was becoming a bit tired of the “big game development”. My work on FIFA was as a contractor and I got an offer for a full-time position, but I also had a friend who worked at Roblox reach out and offer me to move to California and work on Roblox. I knew absolutely nothing about Roblox, but California was nic...| zeux.io
Machine learning is taking the world by storm. There’s amazing progress in many areas that were either considered intractable or had not reached a satisfying solution despite decades of research. A lot of results in machine learning are obtained using neural networks, but that’s just one class of algorithms. Today we’ll look at one key algorithm from meshoptimizer that was improved by getting the machine to find the best answer instead of me, the human1. A necessary disclaimer: I’m no...| zeux.io