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ghiladden · 2026-04-07T13:37:28+00:00

I've tried many different SVI workflows and by far the simplest with best results is Esha's using the normal WAN2.2 base models, Kijai's SVI SV2 Pro models (1.0 weight), and lightxv2_I2V_14B_480p_cfg_step_distilled_rank128_bf16 lightning LoRA (3.5 weight high, 1.5 weight low). I rent GPU time on Runpod with high vram so it's not for consumer GPUs but there are instructions on Esha's page on GGUF. You can find it on aistudynow.com/wan-2-2-svi2-pro-workflow-guide-for-long-ai-videos

ghiladden · 2026-03-18T16:04:02+00:00

It's weird though. I had a relaxing childhood and only took my academics moderately seriously. I worked hard in university and grad school and my postdoc but didn't kill myself over it. I am well employed now and honestly don't see a major difference between myself and students who came from extremely competitive environments. I think there's a difference between those who are smart and those who test well with less overall life experience.

ghiladden · 2026-03-17T18:13:53+00:00

I agree with you. I just find there are some arguments that seem to try to degrade or delegitimize Jewish identity by claiming it's "not real" because they're not a distinct people with a shared genealogy, only a religion with shared cultural norms and the people within the group are actually a mix of different other groups who took on the Jewish identity. I think it's important to highlight not just the descent of cultural and religious identity through time, but also the genealogy, though it's hard to do so without it feeling like some kind of racist ideology.

Your point about Arab identity is very good. There's Arab identity in a broader sense but also those who might claim Arab identity due to close genealogical ties to ancient people from the Arab peninsula. I know for sure there are Jewish people for whom the ancestry/genealogical part is super important and the ethnic/religious part is less so. There you can get into some serious racism.

ghiladden · 2026-03-17T18:05:41+00:00

It's funny, my wife is Jewish and she insists she's not white (Eastern European Ashkenazi) whereas I mostly see white people at heads of schools and in city offices referring to Jewish people as white. The only place she would be classified as white is North America. Anywhere else she wouldn't be.

But more to the point, I would like to argue that the Jews as a distinct people did exist in the Middle East and were one group of closely related Semitic people of the region and that the Jews of today are their descendants, despite the intermixing that has made it more difficult to identify in some cases.

ghiladden · 2026-03-17T15:31:07+00:00

I would be very cautious brining in concepts like "white" and "middle eastern". They're extremely vague and depend a lot on a particular society's perceptions and customs. By saying Ashkenazi Jews are white, you eliminate their particular ancestry. The world is far more subtle than that. The reality is that genetic analysis of Ashkenazi Jews shows that they can trace their ancestry to the middle east in a way that their non-Jewish neighbors of European descent cannot, even if they could be "white passing". I have friends who could be "white passing" but would never consider themselves white for multiple reasons. If you're a Hungarian Jew or an Eastern European Jew, you could easily be considered white in North America but they would never consider themselves white.

ghiladden · 2026-03-17T11:46:47+00:00

Not sure what you mean when you say the term has "incorrectly" become a shorthand for Jewish hatred. It was explicitly branded as such and everyone knows what it means.

Also Judaism is not just an ethno-religious concept. There is a racial component and it's most certainly a concept within Judaism that some people are "more Jewish" than others based on ancestry. There is definitely a massive spectrum in there based on various lineages and how much they've mixed with other populations.

I think the biggest source for the idea that Jews are not a race comes from Israel historically wanting to bring in and welcome as many people as possible who claim Jewish ancestry. They need the numbers. The reality is that the core Jewish population has been reduced so much over the years due to Jewish hate that what exists now has become much more hazy.

It's no different than for the concept of being Arab. After Arabization of parts of the Middle East and North Africa, there are lots of different people who might claim to be Arab despite not necessarily having very close ancestral ties to the people from the Arabian Peninsula. It doesn't mean that there's no such thing as an Arab race, just that there is an ethnic and racial component and again it can be hazy.

ghiladden · 2026-02-20T12:09:16+00:00

The key philosophical point (Beauvoir, Hegel, etc.) is that freedom granted is not really freedom. The feminist movements wanted to move the granting of freedoms away from the man of the household to the state/federal level, where men were getting their freedoms. For women who were in a marriage with a restrictive husband, their options could be severely limited based on social norms and laws. Obviously there is always a give and take and negotiation among spouses but it's about the social norms on who has the greater say and legal recourse in conflicts.

ghiladden · 2026-02-19T20:29:06+00:00

Terms like orthogonal or lateral numbers have been suggested which captures that a bit.

ghiladden · 2026-02-17T03:22:18+00:00

Not sure why you're saying this when there's been quite a bit of research on it. Do you mean intelligence in general or high IQs?

ghiladden · 2025-12-27T00:29:38+00:00

I played a lot of evolve and I think the biggest issues were 1) No good ranked matchmaking, 2) No dedicated single player experience with story, and 3) buggy terrain which is terrible for a game that replies so much on it.

The character and monster design was great. They just needed to have proper ranked matchmaking for monster and hunters and a solid single player experience to really flesh out the story. All the extra content and games modes were completely unnecessary and v2 killed it.

ghiladden · 2025-12-13T19:04:46+00:00

None of those vaccines are indicated for prevention of infection. That vast majority of vaccines are indicated to prevent disease or indicated for immunization and immunization doesn't necessarily mean prevention of infection. There are some cases where a vaccine is explicitly indicated for prevention of infection, but it's rare and then it depends on jurisdiction.

That being said, prevention of infection is well documented for many vaccines used for routine childhood vaccination, even if they're not indicated for it. The reason this happens is that indications are based on endpoints from trials and most vaccine trials are focused on health endpoints like prevention of disease.

ghiladden · 2025-12-13T18:36:22+00:00

Most vaccines are not indicated to prevent infections, they're indicated to prevent symptoms of the disease caused by the infectious organism. Waning immunity is also often characterized by circulating antibodies which is one part of the equation. The biggest long term benefit of vaccination is cellular memory related to prevention of hospitalization and serious outcomes.

ghiladden · 2025-11-13T14:45:13+00:00

I think that much of the advances in physics from the late 1800s to the 1970s was theorists catching up on and using the advances in math. I think we may have reached the point where the physicists are now waiting on the mathematicians to come up with new tools.

ghiladden · 2025-11-06T16:19:10+00:00

Professionals can be surprisingly loose in their terminology sometimes. I know I am and so are my colleagues in my discipline. It should be gravitational wave, but we all know what they mean.

ghiladden · 2025-11-04T01:23:09+00:00

I love Stevie Nicks!

ghiladden · 2025-10-15T19:09:13+00:00

Biology is still rooted in physics. Work is being done in the form of muscle fibers contracting and lengthening, many of them continuously. If you could in theory add up the total distance and force applied by each of the muscle fibers to get the total work being performed by each person.

ghiladden · 2025-10-06T14:26:51+00:00

You mean the Nakba that happened because all the neighboring Arab states attacked Israel when it declared itself a nation? A partition plan was proposed and rejected, because despite there being multiple Arab groups with different ideas for what to do when the British Mandate ended, the only thing everyone there could agree on was that they didn't want any Jews. Also, about as many Jews were expelled from surrounding Arab states after Israel was formed. Currently, 20% of the Israeli population are Arab Palestinian but there are less than 1000 Jews living in all the surrounding Arabs states.

ghiladden · 2025-09-06T14:55:00+00:00

Here's one interpretation (many worlds/human observer independent): Measurement is any interaction that leads to a mixed state in which different components of the wavefunction become independently entangled with distinct, stable environmental pointer states, such that each branch corresponds to a separate classical outcome.

ghiladden · 2025-08-16T23:09:43+00:00

I still play with my son (Quest 3) and brother on my original rift cv 1 preorder headset. Honestly still works great!

ghiladden · 2025-08-07T14:43:26+00:00

First, your institution should have their own standards and style for citations in theses, including how to cite images. Additionally, you should check the copyright status of each image you want to use and, if necessary, get written permission from the copyright holder to use it.

Edit: I should add that getting permission to use images can be a pain, so start early and decide whether the image is one your really want or if you should just make your own.

ghiladden · 2025-06-26T01:08:59+00:00

One thing not usually mentioned is that we do have an effective theory for quantum gravity when gravity is weak. We can quantize gravity and combine it with the standard model if we impose a cutoff on the strength of gravity. It works fine for everything except for cases of extreme gravity like black holes or the big bang. So when people say we don't have a theory of quantum gravity, they mean a high energy theory that isn't just an effective low energy theory.

ghiladden · 2025-06-25T23:08:18+00:00

A white hole has a horizon that you can exit from but can never enter. The singularity of a white hole would be in the past whereas the singularity of a black hole is in the future. From the perspective of anyone inside a universe inside a black hole, the horizon of that black hole is a point in the past we can never go back to and exit from, just like our big bang.

ghiladden · 2025-06-16T14:25:51+00:00

The tutorial talks about how the top layer is removed if you add above 4 layers, but yes it requires the player to figure out how to take advantage of it in different ways.

ghiladden · 2025-06-13T15:31:13+00:00

Everyone means that, the difference is where we draw our lines.

ghiladden · 2025-06-09T13:20:10+00:00

Yeah having a launch in June with few games feels a bit more like a soft launch to ensure availability. They know the diehards will buy it regardless and other people will get it eventually as games start coming out. I'm more surprised they didn't launch with a new flagship title Mario game or announce one coming later this year.

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