When vision people do graphics, they call it "image synthesis." When graphics people do vision, they call it "inverse rendering". ;)

Where can one order the Unitree R1? The website doesn’t seem to have it yet.

RT @kalomaze: "its not intellectually stimulating, so its not worth doing. i'm above working on this" is a trap that smart people seem to h….

RT @BlackHC: The reason for this: when priors are concentrated in different regions, new evidence can initially strengthen these differing….

The “attention is all you need” economy in a nutshell. Such efficient resource allocation.

RT @pli_cachete: Terence Tao on the supposed Gold from OpenAI at IMO

RT @r2djo: @_sonith Touch some grass, read some lotr- the best weekends 😌.

I’ll have what he’s having.

RT @mike64_t: I have to say in many respects I've had more quality conversations in Berlin than in SF. Never has it happened in SF that peo….

That’s how formerly high-skill artisanal jobs get turned into mind-numbing assembly line work.

“I really care about the competence.” You and I care but our boss may not. They don’t care whether you become strong enough to lift the rock or just use a tool for it. In fact, the latter is usually faster and cheaper once the tool is sufficiently (which can be <100%) reliable.

I agree with this clip but the real question is: How long will your boss allow you to gain competence, and to really learn something, once really fast iterations with the “decent-probability slot machine” gives them greater productivity for most tasks?.

RT @norpadon: You only really understand some concept if you notice when a frontier reasoning model tries to bullshit you on the topic. May….

RT @tychovdo: This past spring, I spent time with the @exolabs team to work on a new DL optimizer and wiring up clusters of Macs for distri….

RT @opdroid1234: Now that Ive been sitting in hardware meetings for a while, think it would be great if us software folks discussed every b….

RT @vitrupo: Jonathan Zittrain says we're sleepwalking into a WALL-E future. “I worry that the more agentic we make the systems, the less….

"All this doesn't just happen. It's because we know to put family first, instead of chasing one's passion."

The critique of Western liberal hedonism in "Crazy Rich Asians."

How do I deal with this while maintaining high performance at challenging brain work? If I work out at high intensity (=to exhaustion) in the mornings, my concentration and willpower is noticeably diminished for the rest of the day. But now working out in the evening is also bad?.

“[R]especting web crawling opt-outs during data acquisition produces virtually no performance degradation.”

RT @EugeneVinitsky: How can you be actively working on an AI girlfriend and not think less of yourself? What is your moral justification fo….