Machine superintelligence. Autocatalysis. Recursive compression. Dyadic cognition. Agent swarms. Bitter Lesson ontology. Synthetic melancholia. Outrun. Anime.
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“If you can’t take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It’s not safe out here. It’s wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it’s not for the timid.” - Q
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So there's apparently a whole genre of experimental music called Harsh Noise Wall
I think I've found my musical calling
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can gaussian splats be used to render interfaces?
I've seen a lot of incredible spatial demos coming out of the labs (@theworldlabs has been blowing my mind ~weekly), but they've mainly been focused on static 3D environments. I woke up today wondering: are splats any good for UI or other interactive objects, and can AI work with them?
it looks like the answer is yes and yes. I prototyped an imagen -> SHARP -> spark -> popmelt pipeline that gets decently far on the first try and really far with a few rounds of art direction + interaction tuning. Smooth animation, dynamic lighting, realistic geometry... all doable, with freely available tech
I haven't pushed into full scenes yet, but this experiment already felt somewhere between the detailed magic of generative video UI I've shared before and the stable dependability of textured 3D models (throwback). Plus LLMs like Astra are very good at working with splats, which makes fine tuning them way more fun/efficient
next: I'm weighing whether to lean into interactive spatial design (just to see how far I can get with off the shelf tools) OR see how well this workflow handles typical responsive UI design (decidedly not what splats are for, which feels interesting). thoughts?
Awesome!!!!!!
can gaussian splats be used to render interfaces?
I've seen a lot of incredible spatial demos coming out of the labs (@theworldlabs has been blowing my mind ~weekly), but they've mainly been focused on static 3D environments. I woke up today wondering: are splats any good for UI or other interactive objects, and can AI work with them?
it looks like the answer is yes and yes. I prototyped an imagen -> SHARP -> spark -> popmelt pipeline that gets decently far on the first try and really far with a few rounds of art direction + interaction tuning. Smooth animation, dynamic lighting, realistic geometry... all doable, with freely available tech
I haven't pushed into full scenes yet, but this experiment already felt somewhere between the detailed magic of generative video UI I've shared before and the stable dependability of textured 3D models (throwback). Plus LLMs like Astra are very good at working with splats, which makes fine tuning them way more fun/efficient
next: I'm weighing whether to lean into interactive spatial design (just to see how far I can get with off the shelf tools) OR see how well this workflow handles typical responsive UI design (decidedly not what splats are for, which feels interesting). thoughts?
how many scientific breakthroughs will ai make simply by analyzing the science we’ve already discovered and forgotten
Yet another reason that creating and spreading fear becomes part of the very problem the fear mongers are ultimately trying to solve.
you dont have to have the eyes of a hawk to see the sunset
Ok this is brutal to say, brutal
But almost every investor that been doing this a while and has seen it will likely agree:
😢 Almost every layoff is too small
Layoffs suck man. They are a failure of management, period. Period. Management's fault, period.
But almost every time, they are too small. Folks want to protect their teams. We want to protect the folks that work for us.
Almost every single time, 2-5 months later, the founders wish they'd cut harder
Not to save money. But to free up more budget to hire the folks they really need.
Almost every single time.
Dave Mellish retweeted
Ok this is brutal to say, brutal
But almost every investor that been doing this a while and has seen it will likely agree:
😢 Almost every layoff is too small
Layoffs suck man. They are a failure of management, period. Period. Management's fault, period.
But almost every time, they are too small. Folks want to protect their teams. We want to protect the folks that work for us.
Almost every single time, 2-5 months later, the founders wish they'd cut harder
Not to save money. But to free up more budget to hire the folks they really need.
Almost every single time.
Dave Mellish retweeted
Today Physical Superintelligence PBC is announcing a proof of the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture, one of the central open problems in quantum complexity, with major implications for quantum computing speedup.
psi.inc/research/aaronson-am…
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the internal vs publicly available model divide keeps widening
Today Physical Superintelligence PBC is announcing a proof of the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture, one of the central open problems in quantum complexity, with major implications for quantum computing speedup.
psi.inc/research/aaronson-am…
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There’s a selection bias: people left the Republican Party because of Trumps policies.
Gallup found a 17% decline in Republican-aligned share of the population from q4 2024 to q2 2026, and it has certainly dropped since then due to the unpopularity of the war in Iran.
Polling the remaining Republicans makes support look stronger than it is among the broader coalition that elected Trump.
Check out the results of this poll asking voters, “Have Trump’s tariffs helped or hurt your local economy?”
Not a single state has more voters saying tariffs helped their local economy than hurt it. Even deep-red West Virginia has a net -35 rating!
Nationwide, voters are 4.6 times as likely to say tariffs hurt their local economy as helped it. Even in Texas, 61% say tariffs have hurt.
Turns out you can win the argument among the Republicans who remain while losing the voters who put you in power!
That’s how Republicans got shellacked on Tuesday. And if you keep pointing to polls of the remaining Republican base as proof that Trumps policies are popular, you’ve taken the wrong lesson from Tuesday.
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There’s a selection bias: people left the Republican Party because of Trumps policies.
Gallup found a 17% decline in Republican-aligned share of the population from q4 2024 to q2 2026, and it has certainly dropped since then due to the unpopularity of the war in Iran.
Polling the remaining Republicans makes support look stronger than it is among the broader coalition that elected Trump.
Check out the results of this poll asking voters, “Have Trump’s tariffs helped or hurt your local economy?”
Not a single state has more voters saying tariffs helped their local economy than hurt it. Even deep-red West Virginia has a net -35 rating!
Nationwide, voters are 4.6 times as likely to say tariffs hurt their local economy as helped it. Even in Texas, 61% say tariffs have hurt.
Turns out you can win the argument among the Republicans who remain while losing the voters who put you in power!
That’s how Republicans got shellacked on Tuesday. And if you keep pointing to polls of the remaining Republican base as proof that Trumps policies are popular, you’ve taken the wrong lesson from Tuesday.
