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WILL DEPUE


just trying to have a net-positive effect on the world
Video Generation @ OpenAI


@willdepue on every platform will@depue.net and +1 (***) *** **** (just email
me)

Prev. CS at UMich 25' (dropped out, on leave). First graduating class at Geffen
Academy of UCLA (2021, Salutatorian). Eagle Scout (SPL). Born in 2003.


Projects

Sora

I contributed to Sora, OpenAI’s first text-to-video model. Read more about Sora
in the technical report “Video generation models as world simulators.” I’ve
attached some of my favorite samples (which I created) below.

Sora: Creating video from text
Sora is an AI model that can create realistic and imaginative scenes from text
instructions.
https://openai.com/sora

Video generation models as world simulators
We explore large-scale training of generative models on video data.
Specifically, we train text-conditional diffusion models jointly on videos and
images of variable durations, resolutions and aspect ratios. We leverage a
transformer architecture that operates on spacetime patches of video and image
latent codes. Our largest model, Sora, is capable of generating a minute of high
fidelity video. Our results suggest that scaling video generation models is a
promising path towards building general purpose simulators of the physical
world.
https://openai.com/research/video-generation-models-as-world-simulators

In this sample, I use SDEdit and some prompting tricks to transform a
Sora-generated video of a car driving up a mountain road and through a tunnel
into new environments while keeping the core movement and physics the same.

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This is the base video, which, by the way, is also entirely generated by Sora.
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“Change the setting to be in a lush jungle”
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“Let’s move outside of a forest, perhaps Joshua Tree?”
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“Make the video in a pixel art style”
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“Recreate the video in a medieval style”
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In this sample, I inpaint a DALLE-3 generated image as the first frame of a
video and bring it to life with Sora.

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I created this sample when working on video inpainting, where I chose to inpaint
the start of a Sora-generated video of someone mountain biking at both the start
and the end of the video, forcing Sora to create a perfect loop. Unfortunately,
Notion seems to break the video and cause a skip. Will fix ASAP.

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Ephemeral Notes

This is an experiment in trying to provide the great benefit of mental tools,
like typing out thoughts or sketching on a whiteboard, without offering the
often misleading nature of such, whether infinitely branching different ideas
without penalty, leaning on visual structure and organization as a substitute
for true clarity, or the danger of accidentally only copying down instead of
thinking.

Ephemeral is a disappearing notepad: where all of your notes slowly fade over
time. This tool is intended to be used as you are deep in thought and want to
boost your working memory, need to sketch something out when you can’t picture
it in your head, or need to channel your stream of consciousness. All words take
60 seconds to fully disappear. If you want to keep something, feel free to write
it again - the same way you would call a thought back from memory.

Ephemeral Notes
Impermanent thoughts, impermanent notes.
https://ephemeral-notes.com/


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FIGMA-OS

The first Turing-complete computer built entirely in Figma. 8-bit architecture,
512 bits of RAM, 16 bytes of Program Memory, MISC instruction set of 16 OPCODES,
10HZ clock speed, 4 fast access registers, binary-tree RAM/ROM memory.

I was scrolling Twitter at 1 AM on Wednesday night when I saw Figma had released
new prototyping tools: which included conditionals and integer/binary variables.
I realized that Figma was now probably Turing complete and knew I had to be the
first to build a full computer on the platform. Stayed up till 6 AM ‘coding’
along with a couple other late nights, super fun.

FIGMA-OS: TURING-COMPLETE COMPUTER IN FIGMA
Figma Community file - FIGMA-OS IS THE FIRST TURING-COMPLETE 8-BIT COMPUTER
BUILT USING FIGMA PROTOTYPING TOOLS. FIGMA-OS HAS STATE-OF-THE-ART SPECS WITH
512 BITS OF RAM, 16 BYTES PROGRAM MEMORY, 10 HZ CLOCK SPEED, AND A MISC
INSTRUCTION SET OF 16 OPCODES. BUILT BY @WILLDEPUE
https://www.figma.com/community/file/1255013656417946962/FIGMA-OS:-TURING-COMPLETE-COMPUTER-IN-FIGMA


will depue on Twitter
do you have any hobbies?yeah making computers out of things that shouldn't be
computers. watch me be the first to bring turing completeness to figma(edit
going to build this tonight so scroll for my live tweeting of a computer)
https://t.co/a07l9Ib0Qn— will depue (@willdepue) June 22, 2023
https://twitter.com/willdepue/status/1671792645516197888?s=20

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The Alexandria Index

Most of my projects come from me building what I wished already existed in the
world. I was surprised that, given the low cost and high value of embeddings,
there were very few open embedding datasets to be found. What started as a joke
of “why don’t we just embed it all ourselves” quickly became a reality.

Alexandria is a project to build free, open-source, up-to-date embedding
datasets from public information. To start, we released the embeddings for every
research paper on Arxiv.org: over 4m items, 600m tokens, and 3.07 billion vector
dimensions.

We’re planning on embedding other large datasets, as well as launching free
embedding search products for each in the following weeks. Download/vote for new
datasets ↓

THE ALEXANDRIA INDEX
From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to
barbarism needs but a day.
https://alex.macrocosm.so/


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WebGPT After looking around for a project that would require me to learn and
fully understand some part of the AI space, I stumbled upon implementing a GPT
model in the browser with the new WebGPU API. Knowing nothing about how
transformers/kernels/training worked, it was a perfect project.

WebGPT lets you run GPT models completely natively on the browser with WebGPU.
It’s also an implementation of GPT inference in less than ~1500 lines of vanilla
Javascript, intended as a proof-of-concept as well as an educational resource.

Currently has ⭐️ 2.7k stars on Github. Announcement kinda went viral. I built
this project in less than two weeks, starting from no prior knowledge.

GitHub - 0hq/WebGPT: Run GPT model on the browser with WebGPU. An implementation
of GPT inference in less than ~2000 lines of vanilla Javascript.
Run GPT model on the browser with WebGPU. An implementation of GPT inference in
less than ~2000 lines of vanilla Javascript. - GitHub - 0hq/WebGPT: Run GPT
model on the browser with WebGPU. An imp...
https://github.com/0hq/WebGPT?stop=1


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Hyperlocal: Peer-to-Peer Bluetooth Messaging

When the internet goes down from war, disaster, or gov. shutdowns, Hyperlocal
restores communication by building a distributed network of Bluetooth-connected
mobile phones. This form of mesh-network messaging is uncensorable, untraceable,
and universal.

We’re partnering with activist organizations, humanitarian non-profits, and
world governments to bring connectivity to those who need it most. This is
InternetActivism’s first infrastructure-level project, which I’ve led from start
to finish.

Hyperlocal
Peer-to-peer Bluetooth messaging.
https://www.usehyperlocal.com/



InternetActivism, a non-profit organization.

There exist countless organizations around the world who focus on creating
invaluable localized impact, but they are not set up to work well with the fast
response, low-risk, and experimental nature of digital technology.

InternetActivism is a new generation of activist organization, capable of
instantly deploying digital solutions from thousands of miles away, on the
fraction of the budget of similar organizations.

We need your help:

InternetActivism
We are building a future where, when crises strikes, those in need immediately
have access to crucial digital humanitarian tools. Learn more We launched an
online housing platform for war-displaced Ukrainian refugees. Learn more Catch
the latest updates & launches from IA on social media! Twitter We're
open-source!
https://internetactivism.org/



DeepResearch

What started as me poking around Discord’s API and playing with downloaded
server message data became DeepResearch, the leading analytics platform on
Discord.

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The first relationship graph I rendered, used the Gen Z Mafia server history.
(Sep 2021)
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Rendered two distinct communities together. You can see intersecting community
members & cross-server friendships.
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I started by screwing around with Discord’s shockingly relaxed API, seeing what
I could create. After my relationship graphs received a surprising amount of
attention, I recruited three of my friends to turn what was a local Python
script into a product. Over the course of the first 6 months, DeepResearch had
analyzed 36 million unique community users and stored over 100 million data
points.


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This was our main analytics overview paged, designed to give the user an
at-a-glance understanding of their community health, something we found far
better than overly-specific breakdowns of esoteric metrics.
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Relationship analysis was a big part of our product. Unlike any other product on
the platform, we had the ability to give you near-live relationship graphs of
your entire community (even up to 500k+ members). I’m quite proud of the
analytics pipeline we built to scalably calculate these graphs.
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We had to teach ourselves nearly everything from scratch: I taught myself
front-end and back-end development in a month, learned Figma to design every
part of the app, as well as build a server architecture that scaled to extreme
throughput through pure trial-and-error. I naively wrote the first version of
our analytics aggregation stack entirely by hand.

DeepResearch received an acquisition offer from Commsor less than six months
after being incorporated. We closed the deal in February 2022, and worked to
bring the product to enterprise customers over the following year.

The Human Colossus

I once helped manage a community of young builders and creators called the Gen Z
Mafia, the community which helped me get started building and ultimately found
my cofounders for DeepResearch. I jumped when the opportunity came to help
restart and upscale its mission.

The Human Colossus
Expose ambition. Recruiting incredible young builders, starting 2022.
https://www.colossus.fyi/



Speaking at V1 Michigan

Feel pretty good about this talk I gave at Michigan last year. Discuss a lot of
my building philosophy and my advice to people in high school/college who want
to create.

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Plagiarism.fyi One-week Project

Broke MOSS, the code plagiarism detection algorithm used across every college.
MOSS was so trivial to beat that I was worried about publishing my findings.
Considering there were others who had heard about my project, I found a more
constructive way to release this project.

Launched plagiarism.fyi a tool to help students beat MOSS: But there's a catch:
every user is also quietly helping us build a dataset on which to build a better
system.

A new system and research paper is releasing in early to mid 2023 (sorry
coordinating group research is slow). There’s serious ethical concerns regarding
this project which I’ve discussed on the site - the domain is intentionally
satirical - and I stand by my work.

Read the article: How code plagiarism checking works… and how to beat it.

Plagiarism.fyi - Beat your school's code plagiarism checker
Complete immunity from code plagiarism detection, with a catch: we use you to
build a stronger system. The prisoner's dilemma: use us and betray your
classmates.
https://www.plagiarism.fyi/



ChessEngines.org One-week Project Built a chess engine over a week using JS
first, then learned Golang. Stopped early, but engine is rated 2100+ ELO.

Built chessengines.org, an interactive guide to Chess AIs. Website has over 2.1
million hits so far, hit the top of HackerNews and was in a bunch of
newsletters. Recently, it won top #25 in the 3Blue1Brown math communication
competition, and the top #5 written submissions. Pretty cool!

Chess Engines: A Zero to One Guide
Everything you need in order to build a Chess engine from scratch. From the
basics to the best practices, from the theory to the implementation.
https://www.chessengines.org/


GitHub - 0hq/antikythera: An instructional parallelized chess engine written in
Golang. Starts simple, ends complex.
An instructional parallelized chess engine written in Golang. Starts simple,
ends complex. - GitHub - 0hq/antikythera: An instructional parallelized chess
engine written in Golang. Starts simple, e...
https://github.com/0hq/antikythera?stop=1



CanvasOfBabel.com One-hour Project

One-off project I built in an hour or so. A friend tweeted about building a
visual version of the Library of Babel, the infinite random letter library that
contains all written word, so I did. Not searchable, yet. Built using p5.js and
threw it on Vercel.

This is the #1 result on Google lol.

The Canvas of Babel
An infinite array of every possible arrangement of pixels. Contained images: the
moment of your death, every frame of Shrek 2, the inside of a black hole, your
bank password...
https://www.canvasofbabel.com/


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CollegeTunnels.com One-week Project Restored an old internet library for
underground university tunnels. Recovered from the internet archive. Hosts maps,
guides, stories and more about students exploring the tunnels under nearly every
college campus. Fun mini project.

Send me your tunnel stories @ librarians@collegetunnels.com!

The Library of University Tunnels
The old "College Tunnels" website used to live on a Tripod site back in 2004.
Maintained until around 2015, this site hosted and curated hundreds of stories
and guides around exploration on college campuses. Tunnels.tripod.com received
hundreds of emails from students across the globe recalling old memories of
exploring their school grounds.
https://www.collegetunnels.com/



Recompiled.fyi One-week Project Built a paid newsletter service that offloads
onboarding friction away from writers. Allows anyone to pre-pay for a monthly
subscription, giving incentive to people too busy to start a newsletter. Shut
down because Stripe thought it was money laundering. Unfortunate.

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Recompiled
An incentive platform for builders too busy to write. Pay $5 monthly to someone
incredible. Get updates. Ask questions. Access opportunity.
https://www.recompiled.fyi/


Original idea came from this tweet:

will depue on Twitter
I wish I could pay people to keep me updated on their projects:Pay $10 a month
to follow the idea and get normal updates. No expected return, just keep me in
the loop. No chance I'll miss an opportunity + can comment and offer help if
needed. Patreon/substack for project-stage.— will depue (@willdepue) April 25,
2022
https://twitter.com/willdepue/status/1518417858761428992


MyFirstNDA.com My magnum opus.

A non-disclosure agreement template for teenage girls who need to legally
silence their friends from spreading rumors. Fill it out and print in less than
2 minutes. Completely valid one-way non-disclosure contract that I’ve used
before (disclaimer: is very pink).

MyFirstNDA
The first legal service aimed at tweens. Get your friends to sign and establish
a legally binding agreement to keep your lips sealed.
https://www.myfirstnda.com/


Topics: Figma, ReactJS.

Polaroid

A game that plays with physics and perspective. Took an intro CS course in high
school, decided to go all out for the final project. Still one of the hardest
projects I’ve completed, quite difficult to engineer complex 3-dimension
transforms in Processing.

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A fun fact is that I couldn’t render both 2D and 3D objects, so the viewfinder
in front of your face is actually a 3D transparent rectangle. You can see it
clip into walls haha.


ConstitutionDAO

Failed to buy the constitution with 42 million dollars with the ConstitutionDAO.
Weirdest couple days of my life.

ConstitutionDAO
ConstitutionDAO (2021-2021) was a beautiful experiment in a single-purpose DAO.
We now believe this project has run its course. The community has taken all
actions that it was organized to accomplish: we raised capital, we bid at
Sotheby's, and upon losing, we made full refunds available to the community as
promised.
https://www.constitutiondao.com/



Gen Z Mafia Helped build the Gen Z Mafia community. Ran events, built the
community to over 6000 members, led admissions.

Gen Zers Say Silicon Valley Is Elitist and Exclusive. Can They Build a New
System?
A group of young tech enthusiasts are carving their own path on Discord. For
young people, breaking into the cutthroat tech industry - or any industry,
really - has become far more difficult during the pandemic.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/style/gen-z-tech-mafia.html



Divorcify.org One-week Project A photoshop service that digitally removes your
significant other from old pictures. Somewhat joke project, somewhat not. Shut
down, didn’t have time to manage.

Divorcify - Erase Your Undesirables
We're not joking when we say we'll remove your ex from photos. We'll make sure
he's 100% gone from every pixel - no more Steve! See some last remnants of
Steve? Don't worry, we have a 100% money back guarantee if we miss anything.
Steve can run, but he can't hide.
https://www.divorcify.org/



Minecraft Computers Got into building computers in Minecraft and accidentally
ended up teaching myself computer architecture. Hard to understate how much I
learned in this project. Built the first Redstone computer only using pistons.
Proudest achievement.

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First Piston-Only Minecraft Computer - (Not a single redstone torch or
comparator)
73.8k members in the redstone community. A subreddit dedicated to redstone
https://www.reddit.com/r/redstone/comments/iaxnev/first_pistononly_minecraft_computer_not_a_single/





Startups Community infrastructure doesn't exist, let's build it. Analytics,
tooling, and more for community builders: altr.fyi (2021-2022) (Acquired by
Commsor) Built an 4 person engineering team from scratch (fully remotely), did
all design & product work, created an analytics product with 2.5 million tracked
users & 30 RPS. Co-Founder and CEO. Started in high school and sold the startup
from my dorm room in a seven-figure acquisition. Raised $0. Email sucks for
teacher → student communication in high schools, replace it with instant
messaging: thrive.fyi (2020-2021) Raised, built and launched messaging product
for high school communication. Hired 2 engineers. Founder, started in high
school.


Design

Hyperlocal

Building Hyperlocal was equal parts a technical and design process, requiring
careful planning of an interface that made Bluetooth mesh messaging intuitive,
even to those unfamiliar with technology. Hyperlocal is by far the best designed
and most user-friendly offline messaging app on the market.

Read more about the Hyperlocal design process.

Hyperlocal
Peer-to-peer Bluetooth messaging.
https://hyperlocalapp.org/


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DeepResearch

DeepResearch’s success was closely related to our visual design and our
carefully crafted set of products, differentiating ourselves from our
competitors’ often weak user experience. We spent a considerable amount of time
designing a visually appealing product that went beyond raw data to provide
real, actionable insights to our users.

Read more about the DeepResearch design process.

DeepALTR - Community Analytics
Your community, reinvented. We're building the next generation of
visualizations, analytics, and tools for chat-based communities.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220626072328/https://www.deepresearch.fyi/



I’ve included renders of our analytics platform above (not of real user data, of
course), which you can find here. Here are some more!

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This is one of our users’ favorite features, being the ability to break down a
user and see all of their past history of messages, individual friendships and
connections within the community, as well as their place in the community in
terms of activity.
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This page was our attempt at demystifying and translating metrics from ‘just
numbers’ into actionable insights. An easy feature which our users enjoyed was
Server Ranking, where we simply aggregated metrics from all of our communities
and gave you an estimate on how you compared.
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The Human Colossus

The mission of The Human Colossus is to build a world-wide community of
incredible builders under the ages of 22. With that in mind, I started working
on a design language that would echo our community values: institutional yet
innovative, legitimate yet playful, and impressive yet approachable.

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I love using topographic map patterns. Great way to add non-uniform organic
patterns to anything.
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Youtube interview series thumbnails.
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Be sure to check out the platform!

The Human Colossus
Expose ambition. Recruiting incredible young builders, starting 2022.
https://www.colossus.fyi/



Personal Branding

I designed my personal branding around a 1930s nuclear waste deterrence report,
or how the government almost built giant 200ft spikes in the New Mexico desert.
Read more here: Explaining my personal branding.

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High School

Here's some work I did in high school.

Thrive - Discord for High Schools
No more green bubbles in the math class group chat. Stop using outdated chat
platforms for school - start using a platform custom built for high schoolers,
by high schoolers.
https://www.thrive.fyi/


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Eagle Scout. Senior Patrol Leader, led a 200+ person troop. Hiked over 175+
miles in over 10 multi-week trips. Learned leadership through experience. If you
want to know how to lead, learn how to lead people who don't want to be led I.E.
5th → 10th graders. Troop 223, Class of 2018. Emergency Medical Responder
(Certified 2020 → 2022) Certified lifeguard and EMR.


Born in Seattle, Washington. I used to live in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I speak
Spanish semi-fluently.









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