LookingGlass' small portrait display is more like (2D) lenticular. Their larger displays use a micro lens system that directs pixels out in beams in different direction. So you also get parallax in the up & down direction.
This is my question as well. What's the input required to generate these 3D scenes? Is RGB video enough or does it also require spacial data? Is planning around the same scene enough or does it require multiple cameras?
But usually a JIT is made in a way that you can then move forward with your optimizations in small tested steps. So it makes sense for JITv1 to have a very similar performance as the non-JITed version. It probably generates highly familiar code. First make it do the same, then optimize.
Seemingly the only relevant reply in this comment section. That said, the article is kind of vague and has a few big misunderstandings unrelated to Tononi's Phi and Information Integration Theory.
Phi is basically a complexity metric that tries to put a number on the effect of memory in a system. I'm unsure wether this has any relation to 'consciousness', but it's at least interesting to measure effects of having a low or high Phi.
For example functional programming languages favor a low Phi. Everything is defined by the input, memoization is possible (sort of what you call 'mocks' in other programming languages). There are no side-effects (memory of past events elsewhere), or at least they have to be invoked explicitly as 'unsafe' operations.
Chris Granger (of Light Table fame) and his bunch at Eve are working on something like that. There are a bunch of presentations on YouTube. They are more looking at it abstractly as a possible programming / data model, than purely 'compile an Excel sheet to a programming library'.
That's interesting but I think it addresses a different problem. It seems to be directed at having a more natural and intuitive way to construct and analyse data.
The thing is most business users are already familiar with pivot tables in Excel, for as clunky as they are. But Excel is not only used for data, it is also largely used for a complex business logic. And that's where you have a logic which IT will struggle to understand and therefore should rather not own, and that the business needs to set up and maintain. Think complex tax calculations, or a business plan, or the logic for a quote on a big project, etc. These will be highly non trivial in term of the logic the spreadsheet will follow, and that's where a library that could just reliably swallow a spreadsheet and make it a function IT can use but the business can maintain has a lot of value.
