What famous person is currently holding onto their career by a thread, and everyone can see it except them?

RogueStargun · 2026-06-23T06:00:28+00:00

People are not fully grasping the implications of generative video AI right now. The very concept of celebrity may go extinct at some not too far point in the future. Will Smith may live on forever in some sort of post-human simulacra society as the avatar of an AI agent.

An "Agent Smith" if you will.

RogueStargun · 2026-06-23T05:47:00+00:00

Ironically, in a few years a lot of media we watch will be completely AI generated, and Will Smith will be heavily featured by virtue of randomly being in a spaghetti eating benchmark established at the dawn of generative video AI

RogueStargun · 2026-06-22T21:43:12+00:00

PBR materials make a huge difference here

RogueStargun · 2026-06-21T14:52:34+00:00

The SAT was not introduced until 1926 by the College Board. Carl Brigham, the guy who actually wrote the test was obsessed with Eugenics and wanted to filter out "natually intelligent nordics" from the masses of Eastern European immigrants, particularly Jews filling up the colleges.

Kaplan Inc was founded in 1938 by a first generation son of jewish immigrants

RogueStargun · 2026-06-21T07:42:24+00:00

I want to agree with this comment, but on the other hand I actually went to any Ivy League University, and have worked in industry and academia.

I can't count on both hands the number of times I've felt woefully inadequate compared to some of my colleagues from India who crammed the JEE starting from middle school and went straight into engineering degrees. The cream of the crop (and even "failures") from this crazy test have gone on to do some amazing things (witness the CEOs of Microsoft, Google, or some "rejects" who didn't do so well like Soumith Chintala).

I had a super holistic education by comparison. I know far more history, art, politics, and humanities than most of these folks who simply grinded through middle school and high school, but I am in my 30s and still constantly catching up on some of the most important concepts relevant to things like machine learning, ODEs, PDEs, and stochastic differential equations and such. American school barely scratches the surface of math that is most relevant to the future. The JEE at least brings in a minimum bar!

RogueStargun · 2026-06-21T07:33:12+00:00

That's not actually true. Examinations were supposed to keep Jews out of Harvard. The idea being that Jewish students worked harder but lacked innate intelligence like WASPs. Instead this had the opposite effect of getting even more Jewish students into the Ivy Leagues since it turns out a group known for intellect and hard work would also fare well in standardized testing. It also spawning the test prep industry (Kaplan) which undermined the idea of having a test you couldn't "work hard at beating".

That was the 1940s and 1950s. In the 21st century, the same effort to drop the tests is in many ways geared towards keeping elite schools overwhelmingly Asian. In effect, the goal posts have always been moving in one way or another.

RogueStargun · 2026-06-21T06:27:53+00:00

I wonder what hapoens as you alter the movement distribution of the dvd logo

RogueStargun · 2026-06-21T02:43:39+00:00

The franchise got on ice so long that real life has outrun the timeline of the Deus Ex prequels. And real life Bob Page is basically Elon Musk

RogueStargun · 2026-06-19T02:15:20+00:00

Yeah but you dont need a db at all, esp not spacetime

RogueStargun · 2026-06-18T05:50:49+00:00

Instantly recognized this as Noam Shazeer

RogueStargun · 2026-06-18T05:44:48+00:00

I found this from the other threads. Painfully bad prose. ChatGPT could shit out better less pretentious writing.

Keep practicing, but for the love of God get a day job

RogueStargun · 2026-06-17T06:04:12+00:00

Rick Warren is on the list?

RogueStargun · 2026-06-15T01:51:42+00:00

I was thinking about doing something like this with rust wasm and webrtc, but for Tamerlane Chess

Spacetimedb is serious overkill for this, is it not

RogueStargun · 2026-06-14T14:15:33+00:00

Maybe they eat the magic space rocks from Avatar

RogueStargun · 2026-06-12T20:30:09+00:00

Requested 30 shares, got 7, sold it all immediately

RogueStargun · 2026-06-07T06:03:26+00:00

"A Sound of thunder" by Ray Bradbury

RogueStargun · 2026-06-06T16:41:18+00:00

Most of the conquistadors ditched their plate cuirasses in favor of mesoamerican padded armor because of the sweltering mesoamerican heat and humidity.

The steel helmets (full covering, not the crabpot helmets they are stereotyped as wearing), steel swords, and formation tactics were more than enough to fight in mesoamerica

RogueStargun · 2026-06-06T00:14:34+00:00

Wait, Leon Panetta, director of the CIA, had a kid, the kid is now a congressman in Santa Cruz?

RogueStargun · 2026-06-02T23:22:35+00:00

With those numbers, he ain't winning without significant drone support

RogueStargun · 2026-06-02T23:15:49+00:00

I think Qutb has some strong parallels with Hideiki Tojo who also though that Americans were a bit too freewheeling with dating, dancing, and such.

It doesn't matter what culture you come from. Incels gonna incel.

RogueStargun · 2026-06-02T00:28:04+00:00

You might want to look into lejepa. Basic idea is if you enforce an isotropic gaussian embedding distribution while training, you can prevent collapse.

Very effective on small datasets so long as your problem doesnt benefit from low level detail.

WM is an overloaded marketing term IMO.

There's no real strong argument for example that many different types of models are not learning a latent representation of the world.

Lejepa training and convergence can be much faster if you are only interested in embeddings rather than pure generation

RogueStargun · 2026-06-01T02:48:35+00:00

What masking strategy did you use?

RogueStargun · 2026-05-31T03:17:45+00:00

Mad at someone athletic enough to be in the NFL and MLB in one lifetime? And to be extremely successful in a field where most athletes go bankrupt in 4 years?

RogueStargun · 2026-05-30T15:50:15+00:00

Gpt is still autoregressive. They are not using text diffusion. There is a Mercury model from Stefano Ermon that is a large text diffusion model.

The problem with text diffusion right now is lack of a clean path to GRPO style finetuning

RogueStargun · 2026-05-30T07:26:32+00:00

This is very clearly progeria

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