if you do gaussian splatting but you use a toroidal kernel instead of a gaussian kernel you can get a true SDF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCSrsX4camM

gpt6 is tied with grok lol

the vast majority of the capital that gets put into companies, even companies run by people like elon musk, don't come from capitalists. they come from pension funds, mutual funds, retirement funds, university endowments, etc. the capital allocation decisions that lead to that money ending up in […]

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the trade you make with fediverse is instead of having a single entity that can totally ban you or restrict your visibility there are thousands of entities that can restrict your visibility to their small fraction of users. I'm pretty sure I'm blocked by types.pl and I have no idea why, but I'll […]

I'm having trouble finding a proof for something that isn't a blog that looks like it was generated by claude I ask chatgpt it tells me to go buy a book that it swears definitely has the proof in it I ask it for a paper it invents a citation

thinking about a way to give non-technical people an intuition for how LLMs work (and the sort of errors they make) by going: imagine shredding a library of books into little snippets and repeatedly picking them at random from a hat to generate text -> ngram markov chains -> skip grams -> […]

claude still hasn't solved the old autoregressive language model problem of meandering off topic (especially if the topic is technical or obscure), but the conversational RL means now when it does so it accuses you of going off topic instead

what really annoys me about DSA-types is that they're bad marxists. they hardly talk about material conditions at all and when they do they act like we can retvrn to 1900s-style industrial production that doesn't even exist in china anymore. and that also flows into their class analysis; they […]

I had no idea that simons was doing this workshop when I started thinking about random walks and graph spectra a few weeks ago, this is a weird coincidence https://simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/icm-2026-satellite-conference-spectral-theory-high-dimensional-expansion-pseudorandomness#simons-tabs

how to write like david foster wallace: pick random tweets and stick them in-between all the paragraphs

the biggest area of low hanging fruit for making LLM inference cheap is cache efficiency (most of the cost of the absurd datacenters is memory and memory bandwidth) I've been doing a lot of spectral graph theory so I'm inclined to frame this as minimizing the connectivity of the graph whose […]

I've been listening to this on repeat all day. headphones are absolutely required, probably at full volume (it's dense) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-J3OeSLlH0 #np

jintai is the only example of solarpunk in mass media

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this is the only group theory course that my engineer brain really clicked with. "applied group theory" isn't as much of an oxymoron as I thought https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLPD0VG6VRw&list=PLFQRaGYIjleIyi0B3XRA8NMSb667OFHn_

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alternate history where the lesswrong guys fixated on SAT solvers as "AI" instead of LLMs

there are a lot of science fiction stories where the characters live in an artificial dream world (the futurological congress, the matrix, etc). in all of those the dream world is a sort of utopia, or in the case of the matrix the closest thing to a utopia that people are willing to tolerate […]

university administrations pushing AI that they don't understand makes a lot more sense when you consider how much of their endowments are in datacenter debt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz5ysfMtbcQ #np

I'm streaming working on a more modern version of the interactive social network dataviz thing https://www.twitch.tv/tptsm

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ok I think I'm happy with this

I think this could work I just need to 10x the frame rate