Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse

Planet that looks like the royalty-free texture on the back side of the lanyard badge at a weird conference you went to in 2014.

Cursed/blessed to live on a planet made out of someone’s car dealership owning uncle’s custom kitchen counter material.

Like if you inherited a glass table with chunky triangular legs made out of peridotite, you would roll your eyes and make a joke about what people thought was classy in 1991. And if you look up at the space station at night, a distance much greater than that in the other direction is almost all solid tacky table-leg.

Always a pleasure to think about how a substantial part of our planet, an unimaginably large mass and volume, is a kind of mildly dated-looking jade/moss-green rock. https://www.science.org/content/article/long-last-ocean-drillers-exhume-bounty-rocks-earth-s-mantle

Looks like some tiny, cow-shaped bugs got in the lens. Very embarrassing for them. https://onewilshire.la/@CALandscapeBot/110415940706902447

Slowly and systematically convinced myself that denoising diffusion models are basically as close as we know so far to The Right Way to do generative and restorative models today. Unfortunately, that means I talked myself out of my own GPU.

Thought of the perfect unimportant programming problem to think about while falling asleep, then forgot it, and will now be falling asleep grumpily trying to remember it.

@kwh @allafarce Really interesting! Thank you for clarifying. And I certainly wouldn’t have expected any ill intent.

Very mad at whoever did this to me.

Went back and read the main DDPM paper to check for clues.

And found this spot on page 4 where they specifically say that what I put all that effort into trying is a bad idea.

So that’s neat.

@sillygwailo What does an optimistic next 10 years for online social media (in a broad sense) look like?

This hacky lightweight 4× super-resolver has learned that I want things to look sharp but not too sharp, so it sort of scatters edges around the image like spice in a sauce.

@robinsonmeyer @kissane tl;dr: the falcon has a parasocial relationship with the falconer; things converge

@robinsonmeyer @kissane feeling glib, might delete

@robinsonmeyer @kissane ok so

Turns out the derivative of sqrt(x) does some colorful things around x=0. I prefer not to pry, but it seems not to want to be bothered around there. I’m going to leave it be.

Spent several days working out a cool optimization for a denoising diffusion model (addressing the noise continuously, modeling its full distribution at every step of t instead of working with quantized cumulative sums) and have now discovered why people don’t do it this way.