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  • And I just want to add as a physicist: The most interesting manifolds are the differentiable ones, because there you can do general relativity! But manifolds are also relevant in other, more unexpected places, like a pendulum: It moves on a submanifold of R^3 due to the constraint of the string.











  • That reminds me of a story my bachelor’s supervisor in astrophysics told me: One of his best PhDs applied at an insurance company. They got an Excel sheet with data that they had 1 week to analyze. All the other applicants took the whole week. He just put it in Python, solved it in a few hours, and got the job.





  • From what people have gathered, the CPU calls from Switch 1 games are converted to Switch 2 calls, and the GPU calls are emulated. Shaders are probably de- and recompiled for the new GPU.

    What people forget is that GPUs are generally not binary compatible between generations, even from the same brand. That’s why PCs usually take time compiling shaders. On consoles, the games distribute the compiled shaders for the console, which means it won’t work on other GPUs without emulation.

    I’m not an expert on game development, so please correct me if I misunderstood something.