# first light (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 8 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover first light. Page: Feed: --- ## [Politics is ruining fiction](https://epicindie.substack.com/p/politics-is-ruining-fiction) _2026-08-13 · M.S. Olney · EPIC Indie_ Written By Tyler Tarter ## [Tv review: The Pendragon Cycle](https://epicindie.substack.com/p/tv-review-the-pendragon-cycle) _2026-08-11 · M.S. Olney · EPIC Indie_ Written By Matthew Olney ## [Book Review: History’ Prime: Renaissance Paradox: 1 by K A Wood](https://epicindie.substack.com/p/book-review-history-prime-renaissance) _2026-08-06 · M.S. Olney · EPIC Indie_ Written By Nick Child ## [Movie Review: Spiderman Brand New Day](https://epicindie.substack.com/p/movie-review-spiderman-brand-new) _2026-08-04 · M.S. Olney · EPIC Indie_ Spider-Man: Brand New Day delivers exactly what a good Spider-Man film should: spectacular action, genuine emotion and a deeply human story beneath the superhero spectacle. ## [Can You Get Away with Jumping the Shark?](https://epicindie.substack.com/p/can-you-get-away-with-jumping-the) _2026-07-30 · M.S. Olney · EPIC Indie_ Written By Tyler Tarter ## [Book Review: Murdergirl in the Valley of the Bones by Jonathan-David Jackson](https://epicindie.substack.com/p/book-review-murdergirl-in-the-valley) _2026-07-28 · M.S. Olney · EPIC Indie_ Written By Nick Child ## [The return of personal media](https://myna.bearblog.dev/2026-the-return-of-personal-media/) _2026-07-23 · myna · Myna_ In December last year, just before a large hike in the price of electronics, I made the lucky purchase of a minipc with 5TB (1+4) of storage. I set it up, but other than Forgejo and FreshRSS, I didn't do much with it. Last week, I finally renewed my effort to self-host things again. I updated the existing software, and installed a bunch more: Kavita: Book and comic library and reader Jellyfin:… ## [Book Review: Red State Mars by Travis J.I. Corcoran](https://epicindie.substack.com/p/book-review-red-state-mars-by-travis) _2026-07-23 · M.S. Olney · EPIC Indie_ Are you ready for a sweeping story about the fight for Mars’ freedom? ## [150 indie fantasy and sci-fi books. One massive sale. What are you waiting for?](https://epicindie.substack.com/p/150-indie-fantasy-and-sci-fi-books) _2026-07-20 · M.S. Olney · EPIC Indie_ Every so often, a sale comes along that reminds you why indie publishing is such an exciting place to be. ## [The Lost Company by Michael Maguire](https://epicindie.substack.com/p/the-lost-company-by-michael-maguire) _2026-07-16 · M.S. Olney · EPIC Indie_ Written By Tyler Tarter ## [100,000 Bonus Points Await You (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/PGemdceUMaOD) _2026-07-16 · **Sponsored**_ Earn 100,000 bonus points after spending $5,000 in the first 3 months. ## [007 First Light](https://myna.bearblog.dev/007-first-light/) _2026-07-16 · myna · Myna_ A few days ago, I finished 007 First Light . I loved it. It took about sixteen hours to get through, which I binged over two days, a first for me. I was initially skeptical of the game, even with its high ratings. I compared it to the Hitman games, which I enjoyed, but many reviews said they were nothing alike. 007 First Light is a linear narrative experience—you're playing through a movie.… ## [Book Review: Forgotten Allegiance by Tyler Tarter](https://epicindie.substack.com/p/book-review-forgotten-allegiance) _2026-07-14 · M.S. Olney · EPIC Indie_ Written By Nick Child ## ["On Writing Well" and the last two weeks](https://myna.bearblog.dev/on-writing-well-and-last-two-weeks/) _2026-07-07 · myna · Myna_ I've been struggling to do things in the last few weeks. I drafted up two posts that are already obsolete, and I felt the need to get something out there so I don't lose momentum. A reader of my previous blog post, scribblypam , sent me a recommendation for the book "On Writing Well" by William Zinsser. I'm almost through the book—only about 20% left—and there's a particular chapter that I feel is… ## [First light](https://paulisaris.com/posts/first-light/) _2026-07-06 · Paul Isaris - Παύλος Ίσαρης — Posts_ A short note on chasing the early morning — and the first post on this new site. ## [From Primal Politics to Civil Politics: Transcending Populism and Extremism](https://eeasalon.substack.com/p/from-primal-politics-to-civil-politics) _2026-06-29 · Enlightened Enterprise Academy · The Salon_ Paul Barnett - Founder, Enlightened Enterprise Academy ## [Avogadro’s Number and the Stars: An Anthropic Near-Miss](https://aleph.se/andart2/physics/avogadros-number-and-the-stars-an-anthropic-near-miss/) _2026-06-28 · admin · Andart II_ Avogadro s number — the count of atoms in a mole — is about . The number of stars in the observable universe is, depending on whose galaxy survey you trust, somewhere between and . These are, to within the squint of an order of magnitude, the same number. Sean Carroll asked if this is a \[ \] ## [High on Life and life](https://myna.bearblog.dev/high-on-life-and-life/) _2026-06-23 · myna · Myna_ For three days, I have been struggling to find a subject to write about, and then getting stuck writing about things that are much too complicated for my meager skills, and effortful. I was placing the bar too high; a habit I often have. Writing about myself is comparatively easy, and here we are! I'll throw you, my most cherished reader, down the deep end of this short article: Lately, my mood… ## [Slow Days](https://myna.bearblog.dev/slow-days/) _2026-06-19 · myna · Myna_ There's times where nothing feels worth doing. Where the whole world is painted in darkness. Where my field of view is narrowed. Where I do everything with a sense of unease, like there's a project I want to get to, something, anything, but everything that comes to mind is repulsive. Some say the opposite of depression is curiosity. Everything is interesting to me. You could talk to me about any… ## [First Light](https://aleph.se/andart2/computer-science/first-light/) _2026-03-28 · admin · Andart II_ Today s project: First Light , a metal concept album about extreme ultraviolet lithography in technical detail. A fun collaboration between me and Claude 4.6 generating music using Suno 5.5. SIDE A — FROM SAND TO SUBSTRATE Czochralski 13.5 Nanometers The Droplet The Mirror SIDE B — PATTERNING THE IMPOSSIBLE The Sequel Chemically Amplified Etch The \[ \] ## [Beyond Reason and Material Progress](https://eeasalon.substack.com/p/beyond-reason-and-material-progress) _2026-03-01 · Enlightened Enterprise Academy · The Salon_ How a 21st Century Civil Economics Can Shape a New Enlightenment of Dignity, Meaning, and Civic Sovereignty ## [Try Before You Buy, Risk-Free (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/QW1kKVfQ9iZJ) _2026-03-01 · **Sponsored**_ Free trial hosting plus refunds processed in 12-24 hours, guaranteed. ## [Device/GPU side sorting in OpenMP (ie, with #prama omp target)](https://ingowald.blog/2026/01/23/device-gpu-side-sorting-in-openmp-ie-with-prama-omp-target/) _2026-01-23 · Ingo Wald · Ingo's Blog_ I ve been playing a bit with OpenMP recently in particular, with the pragma omp target based device offloading that OpenMP 5.0 and newer are offering. Overall I really like it, but one of the things I found is that whereas classical GPU languages have lots of helper libraries for common things like sorting, this Continue reading Device/GPU side sorting in OpenMP (ie, with #prama omp target) ## [A somewhat delayed annual review](https://aleph.se/andart2/personal/a-somewhat-delayed-annual-review/) _2026-01-08 · admin · Andart II_ Looking back at 2025 and forward to 2026, here are some notes. Changed mind about The thing I changed my mind most about in 2025 was group agency and other collective properties. I have long declared myself an methodological individualist in social science, and I still think that group properties supervene on individuals. That groups \[ \] ## [JOIN ME TODAY FOR THE BOOK LAUNCH TALK](https://eeasalon.substack.com/p/join-me-today-for-the-book-launch) _2026-01-08 · Enlightened Enterprise Academy · The Salon_ If you can please join me online tomorrow for the first book launch talk for Strategic Learning Our Way Through Complexity, Uncertainty and Crises. ## [REMINDER - BOOK LAUNCH TALK TOMORROW](https://eeasalon.substack.com/p/reminder-book-launch-talk-tomorrow) _2026-01-07 · Enlightened Enterprise Academy · The Salon_ If you can please join me online tomorrow for the first book launch talk for Strategic Learning Our Way Through Complexity, Uncertainty and Crises. ## [Just Published](https://eeasalon.substack.com/p/just-published) _2025-12-16 · Enlightened Enterprise Academy · The Salon_ I am delighted to announce that my book is now available to purchase on Amazon as a paperback. ## [Digital Scar Tissue](https://aleph.se/andart2/computer-science/digital-scar-tissue/) _2025-11-11 · admin · Andart II_ I have digital scar tissue. My first email address, nv91-asa@nada.kth.se is still haunting the net. I got it in 1991 when I started at university and it was valid for more than 15 years. During this time, I wrote many documents, websites, and academic papers, ensuring that it will be out there. Of course, it \[ \] ## [Don’t Worry – It Can’t Happen](https://aleph.se/andart2/future-studies/dont-worry-it-cant-happen/) _2025-11-07 · admin · Andart II_ (Originally a twitter thread) When @fermatslibrary brought up this 1940 paper about why we have nothing to worry about from nuclear chain reactions, I first checked that it was real and not a modern forgery. Because it seems almost too good to be true in the light of current AI safety talk. Yes, the paper was real: Harrington, \[ \] ## [Update: OWL now (finally) hosted on https://github.com/NVIDIA/owl](https://ingowald.blog/2025/11/04/update-owl-now-finally-hosted-on-https-github-com-nvidia-owl/) _2025-11-04 · Ingo Wald · Ingo's Blog_ I m aware that not everybody does (yet) know what OWL actually is, but for those that do, and for those: yes, I know I have to write a blog article about OWL at some point in time to introduce it but this is not the blog post that ll do this. For those that do Continue reading Update: OWL now (finally) hosted on https://github.com/NVIDIA/owl ## [Quick Update: Just Updated github ‘optix7course’](https://ingowald.blog/2025/11/03/quick-update-just-updated-github-optix7course/) _2025-11-03 · Ingo Wald · Ingo's Blog_ For a while now I ve been telling everybody that my original optix7course repo on github (ie, https://github.com/ingowald/optix7course) is a bit deprecated, and everybody should instead look at OWL (which since last week can be found at a new location, at https://github.com/NVIDIA/owl, but that s a topic for another post ), but since that repo still has a Continue reading Quick Update: Just… ## [Beyond The First Light: A Contribution from Albert Camus](https://eeasalon.substack.com/p/beyond-the-first-light-a-contribution-9b0) _2025-09-27 · Enlightened Enterprise Academy · The Salon_ Beyond The First Light: A New Enlightenment Is Called For”, features twenty-one names, ranging from George Orwell, Virginia Woolf, and Albert Camus to Rachel Carson, W.B. ## [International money transfers (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/HCeSv12VzxMm) _2025-09-27 · **Sponsored**_ Send money to other countries and manage multi‑currency balances online. ## [Beyond The First Light: A Contribution from George Orwell](https://eeasalon.substack.com/p/beyond-the-first-light-a-contribution) _2025-08-11 · Enlightened Enterprise Academy · The Salon_ From Part 1, Chapter 1 of the Book. ## [Beyond The First Light: Author's Note on the Use of AI](https://eeasalon.substack.com/p/beyond-the-first-light-authors-note) _2025-08-10 · Enlightened Enterprise Academy · The Salon_ Paul Barnett ## [In the Company of Giants: Toward a New Enlightenment](https://eeasalon.substack.com/p/in-the-company-of-giants-toward-a) _2025-08-10 · Enlightened Enterprise Academy · The Salon_ By Paul Barnett ## [A New Book: "Beyond the First Light A New Enlightenment is Called For"](https://eeasalon.substack.com/p/a-new-book-beyond-the-first-light) _2025-08-10 · Enlightened Enterprise Academy · The Salon_ Serialised for The Salon and in print from September ## [Multi-GPU (but non-MPI) Data-Parallel Rendering in Barney/ANARI](https://ingowald.blog/2025/07/31/multi-gpu-but-non-mpi-data-parallel-rendering-in-barney-anari/) _2025-07-31 · Ingo Wald · Ingo's Blog_ This article is about a capability and in particular, about the how do you actually use that that i recently added to Barney, namely, to do data-parallel multi-GPU rendering through Barney s ANARI interface layer. This is not a comprehensive discussion about barney, or data-parallel rendering in Barney, but enough people asked about this Continue reading Multi-GPU (but non-MPI) Data-Parallel… ## [Consonance, dissonance, eigenvalue spectra and other universes](https://aleph.se/andart2/uncategorized/consonance-dissonance-eigenvalue-spectra-and-other-universes/) _2025-07-23 · admin · Andart II_ Why do some musical tones sound consonant, and others dissonant? And how does this change with different musical instruments or universes? William Sethares has a great overview of this topic, from which I will borrow a lot (including his code). This thread was primed by this very good video, which got me thinking about \[ \] ## [New release: pynari 1.2.8](https://ingowald.blog/2025/04/13/new-release-pynari-1-2-8/) _2025-04-13 · Ingo Wald · Ingo's Blog_ After a lot of fixed, pynari 1.2.8 was finally released earlier this week. Biggest update: Milan Jaros (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Milan-Jaros-3) provided some first interactive samples using a 3D volume viewer he wrote: Other updates: ## [“First light” of Barney Rendering of Drosophilia Brain Data](https://ingowald.blog/2025/04/11/first-light-of-barney-rendering-of-drosophilia-brain-data/) _2025-04-11 · Ingo Wald · Ingo's Blog_ I ll have to write a bit more later on the how of it, but for now, just a quick first light of barney rendering the latest Drosophilia Brain data set (using four H100 GPUs). That droso data set is from the Virtual Fly Brain project https://www.virtualflybrain.org/, and was recently used by/featured in multiple major articles Continue reading First light of Barney Rendering of Drosophilia Brain… ## [First Light](https://synapticism.com/posts/first-light/) _2025-03-04 · Synapticism_ Dreaming something new into being. Let’s also make this description a bit longer. ## [Funny Image of the Day…](https://ingowald.blog/2025/03/03/funny-image-of-the-day/) _2025-03-03 · Ingo Wald · Ingo's Blog_ One of the best things about working in graphics is that at least some of the bugs one encounters are in some way, shape, or form funny. I ve always liked the accidental art that often comes out of this, and had my fair share of that myself and every time I tell Continue reading Funny Image of the Day ## [Why-chain](https://aleph.se/andart2/fiction/why-chain/) _2025-01-16 · admin · Andart II_ By Anders Sandberg I manifested on a hillside lit by the everlasting sunset, overlooking the dry western plains. A little girl was poking around a tangle of flowers in the terra cotta light. Her clothes were made of felt lizards, quietly and slowly moving around her body. She was manipulating the plants like a well-learned \[ \] ## [pynari 1.1 coming up: Support for system-level ANARI installs, and CPU fallback](https://ingowald.blog/2024/12/22/pynari-1-1-coming-up-support-for-system-level-anari-installs-and-cpu-fallback/) _2024-12-22 · Ingo Wald · Ingo's Blog_ Good news; getting closer to the next version of pynari: Feedback to 1.0 was overwhelmingly positive, but two things stood out: First, there seems to be some demand for having a CPU-fallback for the kind of hardware that doesn t have any CUDA capable GPUs (MacBooks in particular seem to be en vogue here :-/). I Continue reading pynari 1.1 coming up: Support for system-level ANARI installs, and CPU… ## [Motivational Poster](https://aleph.se/andart2/math/motivational-poster/) _2024-12-17 · admin · Andart II_ My own exceedingly nerdy motivational poster. (See Goodstein s theorem, which is one of the most awesome uses of let s complicate things a bit in order to suddenly get a very simple and obvious answer .) ## [pynari (Ray Traced ANARI rendering in Python) – First Light!](https://ingowald.blog/2024/12/13/pynari-ray-traced-anari-rendering-in-python-first-light/) _2024-12-13 · Ingo Wald · Ingo's Blog_ I haven t written much for a while partly because I was too busy, partly because some of the stuff i worked on I couldn t write about, and mostly, because much of the stuff that I could in theory write about wasn t exactly ready enough to do so. Much of that is now slowly falling Continue reading pynari (Ray Traced ANARI rendering in Python) First Light! ## [New Paper Preprint: Data Parallel Ray Tracing in Object Space](https://ingowald.blog/2024/12/13/new-paper-preprint-data-parallel-ray-tracing-in-object-space/) _2024-12-13 · Ingo Wald · Ingo's Blog_ (sorry for the delay, this is a bit outdated this was apparently stuck in my Draft folder, and never sent out ) Finally . I can share this paper. I m actually super-happy that this paper is finally out I ve now been working on this particular problem/idea on and off for at Continue reading New Paper Preprint: Data Parallel Ray Tracing in Object Space ## [Additive, multiplicative, and exponential economics](https://aleph.se/andart2/uncategorized/additive-multiplicative-and-exponential-economics/) _2024-10-08 · admin · Andart II_ (Based on this Twitter thread. Epistemic status: fairly plausible, I would teach this to kids) A simple, and hardly unique economic observation: when you are poor, money is additive. As you get more, it becomes multiplicative. And eventually exponential. To a kid or a very poor person every coin is a treasure, worth something just \[ \]