You can call it Wanxiang (万相, ten thousand pictures) if you want. Similarly, Qwen is Qianwen (千问, one thousand questions).
Its original name was WanX, but the gen ai community found that to be too funny / unfortunate, so they changed it to just Wan.
Readit NewsCapsAdmin commented on Wan – Open-source alternative to VEO 3 github.com/Wan-Video/Wan2... · Posted by u/modinfo
> User-Extensible Rank Polymorphism
> IMO this is what makes something an array language.
Great to hear. So what is it?
game math libraries often have this (and glsl gpu shader language), like "2 * vec3(1,2,3)" results in "vec3(2,4,6)"
There are other cases like adding vectors to matrices and so on, but in the end this logic is defined in some custom add operator overload on a class or object in the language.
(I had no idea what it meant either until i searched for examples..)
CapsAdmin commented on Why I'm Leaving NixOS After a Year? rugu.dev/en/blog/leaving-... · Posted by u/kugurerdem
I've been using it for a few years now and I still feel a little confused, but asking llms explain nixos has been immensely helpful.
If I'm feeling really lazy, I just ask claude to generate the specific nix code for whatever I need that doesn't work or exist in nixpkgs.
CapsAdmin commented on Return of wolves to Yellowstone has led to a surge in aspen trees livescience.com/animals/l... · Posted by u/geox
I’ve always found the idea of “restoring” ecosystems a bit philosophically tricky. When we say that reintroducing wolves led to ecological improvements, what’s our reference point? Are we comparing it to Yellowstone 100 years ago? 500? Pre-human settlement?
Ecological baselines are inherently arbitrary—there’s no objectively “correct” state of nature to return to. The systems we call degraded are often just different, not necessarily worse. So when we talk about progress in this context, we’re really measuring against a value-laden idea of what we think nature should look like, not some neutral truth.
That doesn’t mean rewilding is bad—but I do think we should acknowledge that we’re shaping nature to fit human values, not restoring it to some pure, original state.
When I wanted to get into aquariums, I stumbled upon some old man calling himself "father fish"
Basically his take on the whole hobby is that we should stop measuring, changing water and generally stressing about keeping the system as is.
Instead you create a good substrate, add lots of plants and just watch how life will evolve. Fish and plants might die, but that's ok because it's part of the natural process.
I've seen countless analogies that explain the size of space, but this was really something else. Especially how frustratingly slow the speed of light felt.
CapsAdmin commented on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts fly.io/blog/youre-all-nut... · Posted by u/tabletcorry
I tried the agent thing on:
- Large C codebase (new feature and bugfix)
- Small rust codebase (new feature)
- Brand new greenfield frontend for an in-spec and documented openAPI API
- Small fixes to an existing frontend
It failed _dramatically_ in all cases. Maybe I'm using this thing wrong but it is devin-level fail. Gets diffs wrong. Passes phantom arguments to tools. Screws up basic features. Pulls in hundreds of line changes on unrelated files to refactor. Refactors again and again, over itself, partially, so that the uncompleted boneyard of an old refactor sits in the codebase like a skeleton (those tokens are also sent up to the model).
It genuinely makes an insane, horrible, spaghetti MESS of the codebase. Any codebase. I expected it to be good at svelte and solidJS since those are popular javascript frameworks with lots of training data. Nope, it's bad. This was a few days ago, Claude 4. Seriously, seriously people what am I missing here with this agents thing. They are such gluttonous eaters of tokens that I'm beginning to think these agent posts are paid advertising.
This is my experience too most of the time. Though sometimes it does work, and sometimes a solution is found that I never thought of. But most of the time I have to change things around to my liking.
However, a counter argument to all this;
Does it matter if the code is messy?
None of this matters to the users and people who only know how to vibe code.
I find that these complex types often reflect the underlying complex code. This usually happens when you interact with something that is explicitly written for javascript and takes advantage of its dynamic nature. (usually the base javascript api)
window.addEventListener(event, callback), dispatchEvent(event) and removeEventListener(callback) is a good example. In a dynamic language, this api is at least unsurprising. It's easy to understand.
In a typed language, although strategies could vary, one would probably not write the api like that if you prefer to have simpler types.
Something like this would make more sense in a typed language:
import { onChange } from 'events'
const event = onChange.Add((event) => {
})
event.Remove()
// ..
event.onChange.Dispatch({value: "1,2,3"})
CapsAdmin commented on The Future of Compute: Nvidia's Crown Is Slipping mohitdagarwal.substack.co... · Posted by u/wilson090
Seems like another article based on the assumption that Nvidia just sits there doing nothing while everyone who has so far proven unable to compete suddenly figures it out and steals their lunch.
At some point one of these Nvidia doomers will be right but there is a long line of them who failed miserably.
I guess some people just want to doom, but after getting into stocks late in life, I can't shake the feeling that some do it for a purpose.
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CapsAdmin commented on Nvidia adds native Python support to CUDA thenewstack.io/nvidia-fin... · Posted by u/apples2apples
Slightly related, I had a go at doing llama 3 inference in luajit using cuda as one compute backend for just doing matrix multiplication
https://github.com/CapsAdmin/luajit-llama3/blob/main/compute...
While obviously not complete, it was less than I thought was needed.
It was a bit annoying trying to figure out which version of the function (_v2 suffix) I have to use for which driver I was running.
Also sometimes a bit annoying is the stateful nature of the api. Very similar to opengl. Hard to debug at times as to why something refuse to compile.