Christopher Fraser

Introducing the US Gov Graph - a complete map of the people and positions of power in the federal government. To fix our institutions we must understand how they work, so we are using AI to model and monitor every government in America. This is Palantir for The People. Check it out here: graph.civlab.org/us We exist to set the conditions for an era of civic excellence unmatched since the Founding. We will need nothing less to navigate the age of AI. I'm looking for exceptional engineers and designers to work with me in San Francisco. If that's you, inquire here: tally.so/r/KY97RK. Self-governing civilization is counting on you.

the staircase has an aura.

AgentSTAR is an agentic method for both reconstruction and tracking of articulated objects from monocular videos. We can now track through rapid motion, severe occlusion and thin objects! 

There’s no spoon but we can still track it 🥄

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent, and original manner possible.” — Richard Feynman

> be Alyssa Rosenzweig > look at Apple's M1 GPU and see a black box > Apple provides almost no public hardware documentation > decide to figure out how the GPU works anyway > start reverse-engineering Apple's GPU interfaces in 2021 > use macOS itself as the closest thing to documentation > get a triangle rendering on the M1 within weeks > realize the impossible-looking problem might actually be solvable > join forces with the Asahi Linux community > build an open-source graphics stack from scratch > keep reverse-engineering hardware Apple never documented publicly > eventually reach conformant OpenGL 4.6 and Vulkan 1.4 > make Apple's M1 and M2 GPUs work properly under Linux > turn a completely closed GPU into an open platform > prove that undocumented hardware can still be understood > become one of the leading voices in open-source graphics