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Designing a Fintech Startup Alone From Bali
A solo designer shares lessons from building a fintech product remotely while traveling through Thailand, Vietnam, Bali, and the C...
I'm Not Going Back to Working for an Agency: Agencies vs Product Design
I spent almost two years at Spacecode in Moscow before joining VALK. Lead UX/UI, team of five or six designers, somewhere over fif...
The Design Work Nobody Posts on Dribbble
Five years into product design at a fintech, the majority of my work is documentation, edge cases, and maintenance.
What to Do When Your Design Work Stops Mattering: How to Adapt
I don't think I have a tidy takeaway from this year. The honest version is: when your company pivots significantly, and you're the...
The Hidden Auditory Knowledge Inside Language Models
Text-only LLMs may already know enough about sound to predict downstream audio model performance before an encoder is ever attache...
The Hidden Audio Bias Inside Audio-Visual Speech Recognition
Shapley analysis reveals why AVSR models keep trusting corrupted audio, exposing a hidden bias in multimodal speech recognition.
The Missing Data Problem Behind Broken Computer-Use Agents
Sparse screenshots miss the motion, recovery, and reasoning computer-use agents need to navigate pro desktop software effectively.
Huihui-Qwen3.5-9B-Abliterated: What This Uncensored Model Does
Explore Huihui-Qwen3.5-9B-Abliterated, an uncensored Qwen variant built for research, testing, and studying safety filter removal.
A New AI Approach to Surgical Navigation Skips Reconstruction
A new AI approach tracks endoscopic camera motion directly from video, avoiding the brittle 3D reconstruction pipelines used in su...
Forget the Average User. Design for the Edges
The idea of the “average” user is holding design back. When you embrace edge cases, you create better experiences for everyone. Ac...
PixelSmile Solves the Ambiguity Problem in AI Emotion Editing
PixelSmile tackles AI emotion ambiguity with continuous labels, symmetric training, and precise facial expression control.
The Case Against Text Prompts for AI Sound Generation
AC-Foley shows why text prompts limit video-to-audio generation and how reference audio enables finer control, timbre transfer, an...
