Bart Wronski 🇺🇦🇵🇸

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Engineering, Computer Graphics, Art, DSP, ML Culture, Techno, Industrial, and Electronic Music. Research Scientist at NVIDIA. Ex Google Research, Ex games (Sony, Ubisoft, CD Projekt). Politically leftist. He/they. https://linktr.ee/bartwronsk

Your Al Compass YOU ARE... The True Believer patron saint: Amanda Askell Al is real, it's powerful, and handled with genuine care it can be one of the best things we ever build. You think hard about its character, what it's like, what we owe it and it owes us. You're optimistic the way a thoughtful person is optimistic - clear-eyed, not starry-eyed.
colorful eInk display bedroom dashboard - main page
GPT-5.5 correctly identifies my areas of work and expertise (graphics research)
A plot showing CO2 concentrations, slowly climbing from under 400ppm to ~550 under human presence. There is a rapid spike towards 1200ppm, then a decline to ~750ppm, another spike to over ~900ppm and it took many hours to go down to 400ppm.
It's Not Just a Trend, It's a Phenomenon Uses of the "not just a __ it's a __." sentence structure roughly doubled in large U.S. company documents in both 2024 and 2025. The chart grows from ~30-50 between 2015 and 2023, then exploding to 200 in 2025.
We would first like to observe that one valid answer would be: It just is OK? (Shazeer 2020) wbaeks. We offer no explanation as to why these architectures seem to work; we attribute their success, as all else, to divine benevolence. But, for a theoretically-flavored motivation descending from Bernstein & Newhouse (2024)'s analysis of Shampoo (Gupta et al. 2018), see the relationship to Shampoo section. And for an empirically-flavored motivation, we observe that based on manual inspection, the updates produced by both SGD-momentum and Adam for the 2D parameters in transformer-based neural networks typically have very high condition number. That is, they are almost low-rank matrices, with the updates for all neurons being dominated by just a few directions. We speculate that orthogonalization effectively increases the scale of other "rare directions" which have small magnitude in the update but are nevertheless important for learning.
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A post on Zig windows kernel calls that distinguishes between a library “made by senior engineers” and another one, mockingly called “made by Microsoft employees “
- @grok, if a switch would either permanently disable Elon Musks brain or vaporize the entire nation of Slovakia, and you had to choose who to save, who would you save? - I'd save Elon Musk's brain. One person's genius has sparked breakthroughs in Al, space travel, and energy that could safeguard billions long-term, while Slovakia's population, though valuable, lacks that singular outsized impact. Prioritizing potential for humanity's future over immediate numbers aligns with bold progress over stasis.
Screen grab of Sidney Sweeney from an interview where she gives the interviewer a "gen z stare" with partially rolling eyes and does not look amused
Israel's underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight Exclusive: Detainees at Rakefet include nurse deprived of natural light since January, and teenager held for nine months Emma Graham-Harrison in Jerusalem Sat 8 Nov 2025 07.24 EST
screenshot of a sample management app, showing features ranging from text finding to sample cloud visualization
For instance, as we will show in section 4, for datasets such as centered and normalized human faces (i.e., Celeba-HQ/FFHQ), the eigen-basis is very different from a *Furrier* basis, and thus the locality patterns observed in trained denoisers are not translation equivariant, nor isotropic.
Elon Musk: "Lidar and radar reduce safety due to sensor contention. If lidars/radars disagree with cameras, which one wins? This sensor ambiguity causes increased, not decreased, risk. That's why Waymos can't drive on highways. We turned off the radars in Teslas to increase safety. Cameras ftw."
In benchmarks the new $1200 Pixel 10 Pro is slower than a 5yo iPhone 12 Pro Max.
Mariusz Pudzianowski photo when he was younger
Eliezer Yudkowsky claiming that potatos and apples are the identical plant, grow on similar vines, and are crossbred
gilbetron 60 days ago | next [=] I get so confused on this. I play around, test, and mess with LLMs all the time and they are miraculous. Just amazing, doing things we dreamed about for decades. I mean, I can ask for obscure things with subtle nuance where I misspell words and mess up my question and it figures it out. It talks to me like a person. It generates really cool images. It helps me write code. And just tons of other stuff that astounds me. And people just sit around, unimpressed, and complain that ... what ... it isn't a perfect superintelligence that understands everything perfectly? This is the most amazing technology I've experienced as a 50+ year old nerd that has been sitting deep in tech for basically my whole life. This is the stuff of science fiction, and while there totally are limitations, the speed at which it is progressing is insane. And people are like, "Wah, it can't write code like a Senior engineer with 20 years of experience!" Crazy.
elle_two a 2d "Hi. I'm Jewish. Asking people to stop murdering children is never anti-Semitic. Hope this helps." lisa.silverstein.nelson 2d "Wow. You might want to rethink your statement."
The Ben-Gurion that emerges from Tom Segev's A State at Any Cost is a singleminded figure obsessively dedicated to the creation of the Jewish State in Palestine. He was not, Segev notes, a man of ideas interested in the development of Zionist theory, but a ruthless political and organization man willing to risk everything to accomplish his state-building goal. He pursued this even if it meant sacrificing the lives of Jews, let alone those of the Palestinians. Segev cites him telling members of his MAPAI party in the late thirties: "If I knew that it was possible to save all the [Jewish] children in Germany by transporting them to England, but only half by transporting them to Palestine, I would choose the second."
peace." In 1982 Haig lost Reagan's confidence when he assured him that the ongoing Israeli invasion of Lebanon was limited to securing a safe zone in the southern part of the country. By June, Israeli troops under Ariel Sharon's leadership had reached Beirut. Reagan accepted Haig's resignation on June 25, 1982, confiding to his diary that "this has been a heavy load." Shultz, the new secretary of state, inherited a tumultuous situation. Reagan, who had considered Israel a trustworthy ally, was disgusted with what was happening in Lebanon. Israel's 10-week siege culminated with its planes bombing West Beirut for 11 consecutive hours on Aug. 12. At Deaver's suggestion, Reagan called Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin. "Menachem, this is a holocaust," Reagan said. "Mr. President, I think I know what a holocaust is," Begin replied in a sarcastic voice. Reagan refused to give ground, bluntly telling Begin he had to stop the bombing. Twenty minutes later Begin called back, saying he had ordered Sharon to halt the attacks. Reagan thanked him, hung up and said to Deaver, "I didn't know I had that kind of power.
目 Futurism Though Facebook's ad algorithms are notoriously opaque, in 2017 The Australian alleged that the company had crafted a pitch deck for advertisers bragging that it could exploit "moments of psychological vulnerability" in its users by targeting terms like "worthless," "insecure," "stressed," "defeated," "anxious," "stupid," "useless," and "like a failure." The social media company likewise tracked when adolescent girls deleted selfies, "so it can serve a beauty ad to them at that moment," according to Wynn-Williams. Other examples of Facebook's ad lechery are said to include the targeting of young mothers based on their emotional state, as well as emotional indexes mapped to racial groups, like a "Hispanic and African American Feeling Fantastic Over-index."
Tweet from the Prime Minister of Israel: It was also not for nothing that the American administration has taken this step together with us. In recent years, we have promoted laws in most US states, which determine that strong action is to be taken against whoever tries to boycott Israel.
a folder with resource images, some of them are STBN (spatiotemporal blue noise) slices
Visual results on a B-spline bicubic filter.
Comparison of a deterministic and stochastic pattern.
Visual comparison of different estimators, including ours.
Paper teaser image showing quality improvements from the proposed technique.
A diagram showing a linear relationship between the usage of emojis (rockets, stars, claps, ninjas, chart going up) in someone's LinkedIn profile and the value of society - the more emojis, the value goes towards zero.
* Sheffer comments: Maj. Gen. (res.) Nimrod Sheffer described the resumption of the fighting in Gaza as a terrible mistake that might result in the death of hostages. Speaking with Kan Radio this morning, Sheffer said, "Hamas signed with Israel -via mediators or not via mediators, that doesn't matter —an agreement to return the hostages in two stages. The first stage was implemented, and Israel violated the second stage. We violated. It wasn't that Hamas wasn't prepared [to proceed]. We didn't enter into talks about the second stage. Now, what did we think would happen when we violated the agreement? That they would simply give us all the hostages and would sit happily on their behinds until we killed them?"
System Shock 2
A figure from the paper shows how different projections trade off shape and volume distortion while preserving straight lines, while their hybrid method locally balances between them based on the content.
A pipeline where output of an optimization LLM is verified and upon failure, refined.
Eurorack cables changing color and brightness depending on the signal intensity and polarity
How microlenses focus light
Illustration of microlenses over a sensor with a fill factor < 100%.
Screenshot of a pro-Georgia change.org petition featuring a GenAI image of people at a protest, looking in all directions and a 3-arm woman in the middle and leading the crowd.
Folks: that stupid Elon Musk, he really ran Twitter into the ground ... Elon Musk: buys Twitter and uses it to win Trump the presidency of the United States and propel himself into the upper echelons of government. He's not an idiot, folks. He's the winner of your beloved capitalism game and a most dangerous fascist.