David Yan
david-yan.bsky.social
David Yan
@david-yan.bsky.social
undergrad @ princeton doing computer vision stuff
https://david-yan1.github.io
Don't think Safari handles PDF figures well - usually is fixed by switching to .png ime.
December 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Anything by qntm! He has several full-length novels and some free short stories to read on website:

qntm.org/vhitaos
October 19, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Another good example from mono depth: DepthAnythingV2 uses a teacher supervised only on synthetic data (600k) and students are distilled from its predictions on web images (62M).
Real-world GT is noisy, so fitting to limited, but perfect synthetic data is better for teacher accuracy.
July 16, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Threw it at o3 and after thinking for 12 min (!!) it gave “O Canada” and A major. You can take a look at the full chain of thought here (chatgpt.com/share/6871b3...). Some highlights:
July 12, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Maybe I'm not familiar enough with tokenizers, but is this different than just using a very small bottleneck dimensionality in SiamMAE? There seems to be something special about using precisely one token (specifically the [CLS] token?), but it's not immediately obvious why.
July 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM