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A few weeks ago the only thing we wanted from a "talking-head avatar" was for it to look like the person in the input photo and to blink at roughly the right moments. By this week we wanted to grab th
A production Android RN/Expo app crashed on launch with the canonical message:
PersonaLive is a recent portrait-animation diffusion stack — reference UNet, denoising UNet with a temporal module, motion encoder, pose guider, VAE — that ships at ~10 FPS on an RTX 5090 with stock S
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
Date: 2026-04-20 Series: Follows Perception Before Training. That post framed a six-level perception curriculum gated on a Level-0 engineering task: build a demographic subspace in Flux conditioning s
Date: 2026-04-20 Series: Sits between Part 2: The Math of Pattern Preservation and whatever Part 3 turns out to be. Part 2 argued for a training pipeline that preserves patterns from text through face
Date: 2026-04-16 Series: Part 2 of 2. Part 1 here covered positioning — why faces, why a game, why co-discovery. This post covers the math: how we know when a built pipeline actually preserves the pat
Date: 2026-04-16 Series: Part 1 of 2 — positioning. Part 2 covers the math of pattern preservation. Audience: technical readers who know embeddings, neural networks as black boxes, and basic ML, but n