bs-loss classifier-fooling collage: v1h satisfies the critic numerically while the rendered face barely moves and identity drifts. The visible-vs-numeric gap that arc anchoring closes.

May 3, 2026 11 min read

Why the squint slider needed an ArcFace anchor — the v1c → v1k failure ladder

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May 4, 2026 16 min

From Essay to Operating System: A Framework for Working With AI Without Losing What You Need to Know

A day after publishing Renting Competence, I sat back down with the same question and pushed on it harder. The essay had a thesis: if you let an LLM hold the model of your system, you keep shipping bu

May 4, 2026 22 min

Renting Competence: A Framework for Working With AI Without Losing What You Need to Know

Here is a question I have been asking developers a lot lately:

v7 step 1200: nine prompts × eight strengths. Glasses appear from s≈0.75, lock by s≈1.5, identity holds across most cells.

Apr 27, 2026 15 min

From FluxSpace edits to a working glasses slider — what five days taught us

Worked demo: a smile composed on an elderly man via iterative FluxSpace attention editing with age-drift correction — the face stays the face.

Apr 24, 2026 10 min

Composing a smile without losing the face it belongs to

Eleven NMF atoms with top-3 most-activating corpus images per atom — #00 mouthSmile+mouthUpper through #10 mouthPucker, with activation magnitudes shown per sample.

Apr 22, 2026 17 min

Looking for AU atoms in Flux's attention cache

Two 6×5 stacks of portrait edits. Top: six demographics on the glasses axis, pair-averaged at mix_b=0.5 with predicted safe windows gold-bordered. Bottom: same six bases on the smile axis, same recipe, zero retuning. s=+1.0 is the measurement slot (blue border, first cell); upper cells are edge-of-window straddles that usually collapse.

Apr 22, 2026 10 min

FluxSpace, End to End: One Recipe, Two Axes, Six Demographics, and a Geometry That Travels

Date: 2026-04-21 Series: Follows Demographic-PC Extraction, End to End. That post ended with a warning: our ridge-direction edits collapsed into solid colour or noise well before the published FluxSpa