dfarmer

Computer Vision @ Magic Leap though I only speak for myself.

[Rohan Sawhney @rohansawhney1]

Releasing Walk on Spheres Extensions (WoSX): a GPU-accelerated C++/Python library for Monte Carlo physics simulation on complex geometry

Think path tracing but for physics beyond light transport: heat, electrostatics, potential flow, deformation & more!

https://t.co/1F59rys9tw

[dfarmer @dfarmer]

Wow, the Play store is full of crappy ad-laden FFMPeg wrappers, but there is actually an excellent video compressor app https://t.co/2O9gFQNZWm (I was writing up how you needed to get F-droid to get it and then discovered it is actually on the Play store too, just hard to find).

[Noam Brown @polynoamial]

After AlphaGo, the skill of human Go players noticeably improved. I suspect we will see a similar pattern in math.

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

Most important quote about politics in the last 15 years

[Jack @tracewoodgrains]

look I get what they're saying and all but it's very funny to see a restaurant built around gluttony complain that another deadly sin outcompeted them in the vice capital of the world

[Jiawei Yang @JiaweiYang118]

Two months ago, I vaguely posted a number: 0.9 FID, one-step, pixel space.

Now it is 0.75, and can be even lower.

Many wonder how.

I thought it might end as a small FID prank: simple and deliberate.

It started with one question: can FID be optimized directly, and what does it reveal?

Introducing FD-loss.

[dfarmer @dfarmer]

@drscotthawley 🎯 Oh, I'm so mad I didn't write this tweet 😅

[Sarah Isgur @whignewtons]

“There are no maverick molecules in the universe.”

Haven’t seen a conversation like this—intellectual, philosophical, big picture—on tv in decades. It’s incredible.

[Chris Chavez @ChrisChavez]

OMG.

🇰🇪 Sabastian Sawe becomes the first man ever to break 2 hours in a marathon (legal conditions) in 1:59:30 at the London Marathon!

Yomif Kejelcha 🇪🇹 runs 1:59:41 in his DEBUT.

Jacob Kiplimo 🇺🇬 takes third in 2:00:28

All under the previous WR.

[Google Research @GoogleResearch]

Introducing TurboQuant: Our new compression algorithm that reduces LLM key-value cache memory by at least 6x and delivers up to 8x speedup, all with zero accuracy loss, redefining AI efficiency. Read the blog to learn how it achieves these results: https://t.co/CDSQ8HpZoc

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Just five minutes before Trump's announcement to halt the attacks on Iran, massive trades reportedly hit the market.

In one move, $1.5 billion in S&P 500 (ES) futures was bought while $192 million in oil (CL) futures was sold.

These orders were 4–6x larger than anything else at the time.

The trader seemingly made huge gains.

Unusual.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Imagine working for @TheOnion and having to compete with this.

[Chris Hadfield @Cmdr_Hadfield]

Today, high above your head, 2 human beings will be working outside in the eternal emptiness of the universe.
@Astro_ChrisW (1st spacewalk) & @Astro_Jessica (4th) are improving solar arrays. Needed, as the International Space Station will be up & working through at least Fall of 2032.
Wishing them success - it's one of humanity's most amazing experiences.
Watch live here: https://t.co/lUpKE2dr8r @NASA

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.

I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.

It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.

May God bless America.

[tangentstorm @tangentstorm]

Glamorous Toolkit (amazing moldable development environment) now provides LLM tools for reading its documentation system and working with the underlying Pharo Smalltalk system.

It comes with support for OpenAI and Anthropic API keys out of the box, but I want a custom connection for work. I had no idea how to add a new provider, so I just connected my personal Claude key and asked it to go read the docs and figure it out.

[Hex-Rays SA @HexRaysSA]

⚡Check out what we have in store for IDA in 2026...

We’re expanding technical depth, improving performance, strengthening collaboration, and introducing a new generation of scalable RE tools.

Read our 2026 Product Vision: https://t.co/EKPiivHN8j

[Jon Barron @jon_barron]

One of the more interesting and thought provoking research papers I've seen in a while. A system for reading and reimplementing NeRF papers, and it seems to work very well. Pretty easy to extrapolate out from here to what CVPR 2027 papers will look like. https://t.co/gokzG27mIT

[Dimi Reider | dimireider.substack.com @reider]

Gotta say, did not have "Greece sends warships to defend island from Persian attacks" on my bingo card for this millennium, yet here we are.

[Andrew Gelman et al. @StatModeling]

Remembering David MacKay
https://t.co/4WltxYnUwW