the way Óscar Restrepo in Un Poeta (2025) goes on a vitriolic rant about how José Asunción Silva is the best ever Colombian writer, far better than Garcia Marquez 'who was thirsty for recognition'—is lowkey how i saw Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo juxtaposed with the negritude poets
Set in a dystopian Los Angeles on the eve of the new millennium, Kathryn Bigelow’s Strange Days (1995) is one of the rare gems of the ’90s. The film imagines a world where SQUID technology lets people record and experience someone else’s memories.
Creating its visceral first-person sequences required nearly a year of work on a custom 35mm camera. Weighing about eight pounds, it was designed to move like the human eye. The production was also almost entirely nocturnal, with 77 of its 80 shooting days taking place at night.
The film’s volatile vision of Los Angeles was partly shaped by the 1992 riots, whose aftermath Bigelow witnessed while helping with the cleanup. James Cameron had conceived the story years earlier, while Bigelow and screenwriter developed it into the darker, more political film that reached theaters.
Critics were divided upon release. Roger Ebert gave it four stars, calling it “a technical tour de force” and praising Bigelow for using SQUID to make viewers confront the action rather than simply consume it as spectacle.
Despite its $42 million budget, the film was a commercial failure upon release, but it gained much more appreciation over the years.
We need more examples like this in the open-source RL ecosystem
Very well-written and articulated blog by @lu_jasper on training search agents with GRPO was a nice weekend read !!
Being a computer scientist who refuses to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like being a geneticist who refuses to find anything interesting about the recently opened Jurassic Park
https://t.co/iSvjfX0Hxn
Solved without knowing any electronics concepts ,used my lifter's symbolic execution API to test how good it would be (which solves constraints by representing as based on V8's sea of nodes and partially inspired from Angora a taint tracking fuzzer )