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01BUILD LOG

WHAT?! Did Opus 5.5 Actually Build a Working Computer?

One prompt, thirty hours, 277,248 NAND gates: taking apart the computer Opus 5.5 designed, from logic to games.

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CRAZY! Chinese Labs Double VRAM on NVIDIA Cards!

Inside China's 48GB RTX 4090 labs: the clamshell trick, reballing by hand, prices, and what to check before buying.

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Why the Internet has Gone INSANE Torturing a Fruit Fly Brain

The complete male fruit fly connectome, what the internet made it do, and why most demos come with an asterisk.

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04MODEL NOTES

The Only Video You Need to Understand Generative AI

From U-Nets to diffusion transformers: latents, attention, conditioning, and why image models changed.

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INSANE ONE-SHOT! Opus 5.5 made this entire video in 30 min.

Building animations with code: Opus 5.5, HyperFrames, five visual styles, setup, costs, and licenses.

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Jev: A Cursory Look and What Makes It Unique

Where a bounded decision model fits beside ChatGPT, ordinary code, and human review.

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07AUDIO NOTES

SheetSage2: A Primer on ABC Transcription in Generative Audio

How a recording becomes an editable lead sheet and how symbolic scores can guide music models.

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How to Use the YuE2 Hum-to-Song Adapter

How a short hum becomes melody guidance and a trained adapter refines timing and articulation.

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What Is Flow Matching in Generative AI?

A visual explanation of velocity fields, training paths, and generation from noise.

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