17 April 2024

32 links · Wednesday

Diffusion Models for Video Generation

Diffusion models have demonstrated strong results on image synthesis in past years. Now the research community has started working on a harder task—using it for video generation. The task itself is a superset of the image case, since an image is a video of 1 f…

Feedback Loop, Singularity and Ethics

Trying to justify my use of ChatGPT, I thought it would be funny to use it to problematise itself. Previous attempts to get it to tell m...

Big Integer in Zig

Previously on Dragon Ball Z, ahem, I mean in my quest to start working on ScarletDME with Zig I wanted to port my BigInt/BigNum/BigWhatever logic to use the zig standard library.

Transitioning from Engineers to Founders -- How YC Shaped our journey

As some of you may know, Skyvern is actually our third attempt at building a startup, and we’ve made every mistake under the sun in our path to get to where we are. I’m happy to say that applying to YC was not one of them, as YC

Thinking About The In-between Design Cases

Often times, we forget about the in-between design variation, and we end up with a component or section being too wide or narrow.

#ChatControl: EU ministers want to exempt themselves

According to the latest draft text of the controversial EU Child Sexual Abuse Regulation proposal leaked by the French news organization Contexte, which the EU member states discussed, the EU interior ministers want to exempt professional accounts of staff of …

Building Something Real in your spare time

Starting a new pet project is easy. But finishing it? That's a different story. Many programmers love to tinker with side projects. I'll argue that most of the decent ones do, anyway. Learning new tools makes us want to build things. Innovative technologies, …