Nathan Hoobler

Couldn't be prouder of my intern @bingxxu.bsky.social
for leading this work! 🚀

It took immense persistence to turn the initial hunch, that an attention mechanism could model long-range interactions in light transport, into a robust, working system. Huge congrats to the entire team! 🎉

it would probably be fun to calculate the effective annual ROI on that deposit

He's right, could be anything /s

This feels very true. With copilot I kinda want a sub-PR mode (that it doesn't have). I want it to create a tiny change, show it to me as a difference, chat with me about it, iterate. Then at some point I'd accept it, and commit.

This granularity doesn't exist, sadly. Either tab-complete, or a PR

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

Yup real and for me as important for the skin underneath as anything else. Also you get to feel like a Persian king putting it on

"What if we created some bullshit tech hustle to milk the VC crowd, but then it turns out it is not only very real but critical to society and we have to get our shit together to deal with it?"

But also Venkman was also basically a con man who never fully believed in or understood the science, except that it turned out it was actually all real. There's an SV analog there to be sure, but it's probably more of a funny one than some piece of slick libertarian VC propaganda.

I mean they do have a point, if only as an interesting window into how medias relation to political culture was very different!

The Longhouse (laudatory)

Ham or no

... But that difference also means an AGI mind would just be so alien in terms of its relationship with the time and physicality that I'm not sure we'd recognize it if it existed? And as a thought experiment I wonder if the the same would be true about an emergent "societal mind".

It's an interesting contrast. What role does embodiment have? A hypothetical AGI model exists as an architectural is conceptual and mathematical that could be realized on whatever substrate can crunch the numbers. It seems undeniable dualistic. The human mind is not, as far as we can prove.

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I do find it interesting that we evaluate computer model cognition at the interconnected core/data-center level, but not human cognition. You can make human-cognition-with-unbounded-energy! It's called a society! But there's a phase shift there that causes new constraints to dominate.

Relatedly I found this graph on some tech progress for computers, just to show how things don't always just go up forever necessarily.

To be fair I think that Trump would take a UK-style "largely ceremonial head of state with official if perfunctory oaths of fealty generous holdings and stipend" deal in a heartbeat, so in this *specific* instance the "no kings" part is actually important vs decrying general executive overreach.

this is fascinating. It's like they're doing the physics meme!

Sure, I mean *gestures broadly at the entire Russian economy since 2022*

I think the efficacy is somewhere between "iron clad lockdown" and "literally does nothing". The friction restrictions could impose is probably substantial, depending on how motivated the state is to investigate and enforce.

I have to imagine that, due to the nature of the business, provence and chain of custody for certifying repair parts is pretty important. You're not buying knock off turbine blades off the grey market

Problem is it literally doesn't matter... You either choose to stand on this and risk fighting the messaging battle, or you demure in search of more favorable terrain and cede the entire war for the legitimacy of constitutional checks on power.

Path tracing can handle this algorithmically but the problem is that it would take an impractical number of rays to evaluate without a ton of noise. Specular-Specular paths (like caustics) are very hard to importance sample effectively. Bidirectional techniques can help, but aren't used in RT yet.

Thank you!

What about the Supremacy Clause? Can state police intervene in the execution of federal duties (even if that execution is questionable)? I assume there's good precedent there.

How does qualified immunity factor into that?

This is, like, Aphex Twins entire *thing* right? Certainly Autechre. Aesthetically you could probably trace it back to procedural visual artists like some of Jackson Pollock's work, or various forms of "Pop Art" in the other direction.

Inside NVIDIA GPUs: Anatomy of high performance matmul kernels - Aleksa Gordić From GPU architecture and PTX/SASS to warp-tiling and deep asynchronous tensor core pipelines.

"Inside NVIDIA GPUs: Anatomy of high performance matmul kernels", includes a great intro to GPU architecture and PTX/SASS: www.aleksagordic.com/blog/matmul

This is up there with that Barry Lyndon dub

My absolutely favorite paper in this space I recommend to anyone working on reconstruction or inverse tasks (or even any machine learning): arxiv.org/abs/1711.06077 "Perception-Distortion Tradeoff". Goes beyond quantifying the error/distortion of the reconstruction statistically, 2/

Makes perfect sense. I avoid TikTok because (a) I'm not putting the app on my phone and (b) I've found short form video to be a pretty poisonous thing for me personally, but I really enjoy his YT content

I'm curious what platform(s) you do find most useful and why, if you have the time.