Is it wise to budget for a vacation assuming it’ll be subsidized by a top 3 place on the leaderboard?

I know my brain has begun to rot because my first thought on seeing this cast was "nothing beats a Jet2 holiday and right now you can save £50 per person..."

Saw a bunch of guys doing ~6 minute miles on my run this morning. Saw them again a few miles later, sitting on the grass, beers in hand, ripping cigs.

Goals. 10/10, no notes. Perfect balance of the Apollonian and the Dionysian.

Yearning for the mountains, 4 images at a time

Re-visiting this oldie but goodie.  

Blows my mind that a simple approximation (variation posterior ≈ true posterior) and optimization objective (KL via ELBO) is behind so much cool image generation tech

Re-visiting this oldie but goodie.  

Blows my mind that a simple approximation (variation posterior ≈ true posterior) and optimization objective (KL via ELBO) is behind so much cool image generation tech

https://farxiv.org/abs/1601.00670

Running

My plan this morning was to run the Citizen Queens 10k at an easy pace in lieu of my Saturday long run.

Vibes (and caffeine) got the better of me and I hit a PR instead.

the internet surfing has become much more fun with the LLMs

the last time I had this much fun was StumbleUpon

math

Followed the math bait on my X feed, expecting this to end in the Taylor Series expansion of the exponential. Turns out it was about the limit approximation of irrational numbers, which IMO is less interesting

The way you think about the exponential function is (probably) wrong.

Don't think so? I'll convince you. Did you realize that multiplying e by itself π times doesn't make sense?

Here is what's really behind the most important function of all time. https://t.co/FgC1jc8sDk

Tivadar Danka

Followed the math bait on my X feed, expecting this to end in the Taylor Series expansion of the exponential. Turns out it was about the limit approximation of irrational numbers, which IMO is less interesting

https://x.com/TivadarDanka/status/1932740105112072584

If liquid glass is Apple’s way of training us for glasses / transparent phones / holograms or whatever, consider me trained

The Apple Music AutoMix feature on iOS26 is surprisingly good. Transitions are really smooth in the best cases, inoffensive in the worst cases.

Not new tech, Pioneer has had “smart faders” on some of their newer controllers for a while now, but this feels better.

Aerospace

For my fellow preprint-piled researchmaxxers: You can now share rich previews of Arxiv papers and read paper abstracts inline with a frame I made. Just replace 'arxiv' with 'farxiv' in any Arxiv paper url ✨

https://www.farxiv.org/abs/2402.04494

I brought Farxiv back as a mini-app!

You can now read papers *in feed* without leaving Farcaster. Replace arxiv → farxiv in any paper url. (composer action soon?)

I brought Farxiv back as a mini-app!

You can now read papers *in feed* without leaving Farcaster. Replace arxiv → farxiv in any paper url. (composer action soon?)

https://farxiv.org/1706.03762

emotional

Me when ChatGPT is rambling and the stop button doesn’t work

Every so often I have the inexplicable urge to write C++ again

Tempted to yeet $1890 into vast.ai and train a text-to-image diffusion model from scratch

Tempted to yeet $1890 into vast.ai and train a text-to-image diffusion model from scratch

https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.15811

Music

QC an album that gets 0 skips

Watch the Throne still one of the best bodies of work i’ve heard

akshaan

@akshaan

Mini Apps

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