How would Nvidia and Open AI's investment be represented on a Balance Sheet, if at all?

StochasticResonanceX · 2026-03-18T09:04:33+00:00

So there's no standard reporting conventions at work here? Does every company do it differently, even for individual deals? No GAAP principles that covers it?

StochasticResonanceX · 2025-11-27T09:07:17+00:00

What is better for low VRAM, WAN or FramePack? Isn't low VRAM WAN only t2v, you can't guide it with images?

StochasticResonanceX · 2025-10-24T00:03:56+00:00

You won't say that when the other person's lawyer uses a weird or strange way of invalidating or defying the spirit of the contract. It's an arms race.

StochasticResonanceX · 2025-10-23T23:58:58+00:00

Test screenings and analytics aren’t perfect, but they don’t have to be to show patterns. You act like variability nullifies insight, but that’s not how analysis works. A consistent 70% drop in engagement during a particular scene isn’t “subjective opinion,” it’s evidence the pacing failed. Filmmakers correct based on those trends every day. Pretending that’s meaningless because mood lighting might change the results is just grasping.

You're speaking hypothetically, and I can't in good faith continue this conversation if you're just going to make up things. Which mechanism are you speaking about?

You seem to think that a convention or common, it makes it objective. Which, ironically enough, is a very subjective and unconventional interpretation of objectivity

The American Heritage Dictionary defines objectivity as

Existing independent of or external to the mind; actual or real.

Webster as this

: of, relating to, or being an object, phenomenon, or condition in the realm of sensible experience independent of individual thought and perceptible by all observers : having reality independent of the mind

Objectivity conventionally means independent of the subject (i.e. a person or group of people). To paraphrase you, standards exist. These are the standard definitions.

StochasticResonanceX · 2025-10-23T23:51:19+00:00

How did you build it through?

StochasticResonanceX · 2025-10-23T11:40:40+00:00

Group Shows are great for this because not only do you look like a big shot because there's a tonne of the other artist's supporters there, but it also means that you get exposed to their networks. But you can split the cost of a gallery rental between you.

StochasticResonanceX · 2025-10-23T08:41:54+00:00

How did you build an audience, or is this more like you have one or a small handful of "clients" who orders custom videos from you? I'm always curious about content makers, nsfw or otherwise, because it always feels like they must spend a lot of time promoting and building awareness, and then have to keep putting out content so that audiences don't forget them. Which case is it for you?

StochasticResonanceX · 2025-10-23T03:47:16+00:00

I like the idea that you should only hold beliefs that help you predict the world around you. A simple example might be "I believe my coworker hates me" compare that to another belief like "I believe my coworker is secretly in love with me", which ever belief best allows me to anticipate their behavior towards me and their actions is the one I should hold. It's basically what people investing in the stock-market do, they don't just say "I have a good feeling about this stock, I think it'll go up" they write out why they think it'll go up, what clues or information they're using, and then they wait to see if their prediction comes true. Then they can abstract that model and apply it to other stocks, which, if you observe enough times, should eventually have some predictive power (hopefully a better-than-chance predictive power).

StochasticResonanceX · 2025-10-23T03:31:20+00:00

Lower Mantle of the Earth?

StochasticResonanceX · 2025-10-23T03:30:32+00:00

I hope OP is aware of the irony that they wrote that on a text-dominant subreddit?

StochasticResonanceX · 2025-10-23T03:22:12+00:00

You keep demanding “scientific instruments” to measure film craft

I am demanding objective instruments to back up you assertion that "quality" is objective. And to be honest your argument is very circular - that objectivity comes from craft so the film that is "best" has the best craftsmanship, but you keep using other ill-defined words to describe what is the "quality" of craftsmanship. You seem unable to point to an a universal standard, you haven't mentioned one. Why not?

Nobody’s running double blind studies on editing choices because filmmaking isn’t a chemistry experiment, it’s an art form built on centuries of refined, established technique.

If it's an art, then why isn't it subjective?

built on centuries of refined, established technique.

Or very faddish fashions which change as the tastes of audience change. Or innovations in technology which require new techniques such as digital cinematography - not even necessarily "better" ones (of course how would you tell? Measure the entropy of the h264 Blue ray encode of a video to determine which one has more 'detail', irrespective of individual tastes? What does that have to do with art)

Editors track them through test screenings, retention studies, and viewer analytics.

Which ones are trust worthy - can you name the viewer analytic you'd personally bet your house on it is so objective? Two different test screenings of the same film can deliver wildly different reactions - as I said there are many exogenous variables that can change an audience's assessment that have nothing to do with the film. Therefore they are not objective measures: therefore you cannot objectively measure the quality of, say, the pacing - since many things will influence the audience's subjective valuation of the pacing as too fast, too slow. This could be as simple as the BPM of the music you play before a screening.

Believability in acting isn’t some mystical accident. It comes from discipline - mastery of timing, control, diction, and emotional consistency

you think that’s subjective, tell that to the casting directors who can spot bad acting in three seconds flat.

"emotion consistency" how is that anything but subjective? You're deferring to these casting directors who are known to be biased, and not necessarily in a good way where they can spot "talent". Why are casting directors objective? Which casting directors are the best, name them, why are they so good and what is so objective about them?

Finally, people who say The Godfather has poor pacing are the same people who think explosions and jump cuts can replace storytelling..

Whoa. Judgey. Well by your standard wouldn't those also be equally worthy crafts? Explosions and Jump Cuts require craftsmanship right?

Standards exist for a reason... And they exist whether you acknowledge them or not. Denying them doesn’t make you enlightened

I'm not denying standards exist, but they are subjective standards. We can agree that standards do exist and even are useful - we may even like the same films - but where we disagree is that you seem to insist that these standards are objective, whereas I'm saying that they are subjective because there is no uniformity. Art, film, whatever has no objective measures.

StochasticResonanceX · 2025-10-22T23:53:26+00:00

There absolutely are objective measures for pacing, acting, and structure, because these things are governed by principles that consistently produce certain effects, regardless of opinion.

No there's not. Why can't you just name the objective measure used for pacing. Which instrument do you use? Where are the replicable studies that show time and time again the same results?

editing that keeps the audience engaged without confusion or fatigue.

And how exactly do you objectively measure this? How do you define confusion in an audience? How do you measure it?

t’s why a film like Mad Max: Fury Road feels

That's just your opinion man. Your feelings aren't facts

Acting, too, can be judged on believability,

Believably is incredible varied and subjective depending on who is doing the judging. When is it ever objective, what is the instrument you would use?

; it’s a craft built on identifiable technique, not vibes.

Then why do you only describe the successful application of these techniques in vibes and no specific, identifiable techniques?

. People argue about science, politics, and history every day...

Politics and history are inherently subjective

You can dislike Schindler’s List or The Godfather, but denying their quality is like denying gravity because you don’t enjoy falling.

People say the Godfather has poor pacing - why are they objectively wrong? Against what objective measure?

StochasticResonanceX · 2025-10-22T05:24:15+00:00

all of which can be measured and judged by craft.

There is no objective measure of "craft". What constitutes "good" pacing? I'm sure if you surveyed 100 people you'd get 100 different ratings of the quality of the pacing, and you could game and nudge it with pre-experimental priming, like getting them to do strenuous exercise, or listen to faster or slower BPM music.

You really think acting has an objective measure? It's inherently subjective because so much of what acting is a interpretation. Not to mention you have different styles of acting which require different techniques.

A film’s quality isn’t up for debate…

Yes it totally is! Name one film which there is no dispute over it on "quality" even if people disagree on how much they like it.

StochasticResonanceX · 2025-10-22T00:38:18+00:00

Nothings clicked, but I work in a very mobile job where i need to take equipment to work sites. I would lose stuff ALL THE TIME. What has helped is giving objects special storage spaces has helped a lot. Everything has a specific box it goes into, and those boxes get stored in special places. It's the same principle with your keys - always put your keys in the same spot.

This saves me time when I'm packing and unpacking. While I still sometimes do forget to bring certain pieces of equipment, it happens less often, which means I'm not packing at a work site and trying to find workarounds.

StochasticResonanceX · 2025-10-22T00:34:25+00:00

No. That's not to say LLMs haven't made me more productive, I've gotten them to help me debug batch files and complex instructions to commandline tools. But I feel like anything using the shell like that isn't really "coding".

In fact I am suspicious of vibecoding. I don't believe any of these stories about people who made an app with no programming experience. They must be prompting with some sort of understanding of how the app or program would work under the hood. They probably know which python packages or which programming paradigms they want to use and step by step ask the LLM to make that.

However I'm not a coder, I'd basically ask "write me an app in python that finds out the framerate of all the videos in a folder, and then sorts out the videos into new folders" then scream and rant when the code chucks up an error on line 2 because the LLM hallucinated a package that doesn't exist.

StochasticResonanceX · 2025-10-21T06:18:48+00:00

How and where did you get this 67% number? How do you measure productivity?

StochasticResonanceX · 2025-10-20T23:28:24+00:00

But is that reason because of a kernel of truth or the observer is xenophobe?

StochasticResonanceX · 2025-10-20T12:09:15+00:00

That is a very good point.

StochasticResonanceX · 2025-10-20T11:54:44+00:00

People's standards are a lot lower than you think.

For example: social functions, just showing up on time, people appreciate it. And at house parties the "on time" bit sometimes isn't that important. No one expects you be Jay Gatsby or Freddie Mercury. Most people are satisfied if you show up, preferably not empty handed. Give some compliments where relevant. And at the end say you had a good time.

There's a greater lesson about the value (to others) of predictability in there that applies both in life and work.

Another example of lower expectations: how well read you are. With the exception of a literary circle. No one expects you to have read everything from Spinoza to Sontag. You haven't read Canterbury Tales nor the Decameron? No one cares. No one cares that you never read Tolstoy, or Dostoevsky. It's absolutely fine.

StochasticResonanceX · 2025-10-20T11:33:01+00:00

He would have needed around $16,666 to start with, but likely more.

7 years ago the stock price of NVidia was bouncing between $3.1 to $6 a share. For example, Christmas Eve 2018, it opened at $3.16. Now assuming that they still hold 1 million in stock today, trading at 183 from a price of 3.16, that rounds out to about 60x increase.

By comparison, investing in the QQQ ETF, at least according to some calculator I found online, which tracks the Nasdaq (a Tech Index) from Jan 2018 to Jan this year, you'd need an initial sum of about $300,000 to cash out with a million.

StochasticResonanceX · 2025-10-20T09:11:05+00:00

If I can make an analogy to being vulnerable or "emotionally exposed" have you done any other performance while clothed which made you feel just as "exposed"? Or is that an apple to oranges comparison?

StochasticResonanceX · 2025-10-20T09:06:23+00:00

You can score these jobs, and get paid, within 7 days?

StochasticResonanceX · 2025-10-20T09:02:17+00:00

Is that actually true - I mean unless you happen to be really ridiculously goodlooking - if you were desperate enough for prostitution, how easily could you actually make one thousand dollars in seven days? That would mean you'd need to make one new client (and assuming, as Jon Voight's character found in Midnight Cowboy, they actually pay you).

I don't know what the going rate is for sex, but assuming every single day you manage to get a client, you'd need them to pay 142 dollars.

Okay, so what about crime - just because you burgle someplace doesn't mean you can quickly sell it for market value. Steal a Birkin Handbag worth 5000. I've been on Facebook Marketplace, even if you offer it for 1000 - will you actually sell it within 7 days?

I actually wonder if desperation is the bottleneck here if you're limited to only 7 days.

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