research @ midjourney

Joined January 2010
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I've just published "Windfoil: Closed-Form Coverage for Real-Time and Differentiable Vector Graphics" — 📎 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2610.02468 🔧 Code: github.com/texel-org/windfoi… It is substantially faster than current differentiable renderers, and runs in WebGPU (browser + server).
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Taking a short break from LLM research to go back to my roots. Introducing... Concept Lenses! A training-free way to do similarity search along whatever concept you care about. Typically, embedding-based similarity search is constrained by whatever notion of similarity the model learned in training. This means that if the model is primed for semantic similarity, but you actually care more about visual appearance, you'd need to switch models. Under a Concept Lens projection, though, distance between embeddings means distance only along the concept you care about. Blog post: jasperlu.com/blog/prompted-s… Demo: jasperlu.com/projects/concep…
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Prototype of a map with seamless zoom transition. The idea is to have geometry get refined as you zoom. it's basically 4D geometry interpolated as you zoom. Try it here: 3dscenes.qualityf2p.workers.…
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asked gpt6 to draw a portrait in google calendar
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The Growing Map of Open Mathematical Problems. We mapped 15,000+ conjectures from UnsolvedMath to show potential links between concepts. It also shows how under formalized the frontier is (less than 10%).
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The McManifold (2216 burger recipes as 146-dimensional ingredient vectors)
Using burgers as a model system, a generative AI system rediscovers the classic Big Mac without explicit supervision and generates novel burgers optimized for deliciousness, sustainability, or nutrition, according to a paper in npj Science of Food. go.nature.com/3SU7JDQ
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exploring the 8-dimensional latent space of ~10K colour terms—
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Mean Elevation, by County.
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a soft morning, engineered with shaders in san francisco time farayan.me/sanfrancisco
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real-time color naming in the browser with a lightweight model distilled from CLIP embeddings—
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Lot of dystopian AI discussion on here as usual. Much is out of my control on that front, but I did use AI to build nice map of (imo) best 80,000 books of all time: bookscape.site
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Select your cell: I'm prototyping an interactive sc RNA-seq portal where the UMAP is dynamically linked to morphing 3D artistic renders of each cell type. You can play with the initial build below.
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Explore Wikipedia through a data map. Pages are grouped by semantic similarity, for topic clusters. Hover to see details, zoom to explore fine-grained topics, click to go to a page. Search page names to find interesting starting points for exploration.🧵 lmcinnes.github.io/datamappl…
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mapping out the visual language of film using a multimodal llm: i fed frames of a short film to a vision-language model and mapped out its ratings of surrealism and presence of human figure in each moment along the timeline. the result is an interactive playback interface based on these 2 dimensions:
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My new favourite thing to do is to just watch GPT2 think and attempt to answer the meaning of life
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"Find visually similar images." Ok but which feature space?
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Open Syllabus is proud to launch the Course Matcher, which will make it easier for the roughly 1 million US college students who transfer schools every year to receive credit for their classes. coursematcher.opensyllabus.o…
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Amazing graphical representation of a neural net, never seen anything like it.
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