Sebastian Sylvan

BILL OF RIGHTS STATUS

❌ First Amendment
✅ Second Amentment
❔ Third Amendment
❌ Fourth Amendment
❌ Fifth Amendment
❌ Sixth Amendment
❔ Seventh Amendment
❌ Eighth Amendment
❌ Ninth Amendment
❌ Tenth Amendment

Things are about to get very, very dark in the US.

It’s a free speech issue when it’s done so blatantly at the behest of the government.

Big release! Congrats!

Did someone say Journey?

I hope you’re exited about AI!

I’m pretty sure that suppressors are mandatory in like Norway or something. And I agree, all firearms should be NFA items. It’s not particularly hard to do, but hard enough to limit things to people who actually use it for hunting or sport or whatever.

Wait what? What’s vulkan doing?

That’s some good looking grass though.

TLDR rendering isn’t what’s cool about splats IMO. It’s the optimization part where they shine. We “just” have to find a way to convert to a more easily rendered rep.

Some kind of learned spherical function per texel combined with a triangle mesh extracted from splats perhaps?

Ie use the super flexible but inefficient representation to find a high quality scene. But then find a way to convert to an efficient representation (possibly with a final optimization pass on material parameters once structure is frozen). No idea what that would look like in practice tbh!

I think these kinds of splatting approaches are amazing for the optimization part. And of course you need a way to render to optimize the representation. But IMO it’s a mistake to assume that the final render needs the same representation.

It’s because Russia doesn’t want the war to end. The only way this ends is if Russia is punished enough that they want peace. Which means arming Ukraine to the teeth.

But. Circles have both a circumference and an area. How do they get around pi?

Mous is pretty solid. It s backpack, lots of pockets and two slots for laptops etc. Not huge but enough for a few days of clothes and tech etc.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Oh wait. True Lies is even better.

Not super early but The Sixth Day is peak Arnold.

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You can turn that off. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet...

You could use frame N and frame N-1 to compute optical flow, and use that to forward predict to frame N+1. Definitely not as straightforward (eg disocclusion artifacts) but 4 frames of interpolation seems a bit silly

Mrs Doubtfire

Ooooh. Weird!

I don't think that's what they're doing? The left half is without ray tracing, and the right side is with ray tracing.

Similar with vehicles. In theory quite variable in size but for something 500m away you don’t really care that much as long as it’s in the ballpark.

The distance between the left side of a lane and the right side is approximately constant over distances you care about. And by the time you care about more accuracy you’ll be closer and can do easier things.

Roads kinda do this implicitly too. You know how wide the road is nearby so you can use to infer distant depth (taking lane changes etc into account)

(0.5+0.1)*15= 7.5+1.5=9

Reposting the SLAM Handbook again for the robotics people arriving here :)

He has a ton of fun lectures, all of which with the same great explanations and examples. The sparsity stuff for example. Worth browsing if you like it.

Control Bootcamp - YouTube This course provides a rapid overview of optimal control (controllability, observability, LQR, Kalman filter, etc.). It is not meant to be an exhaustive trea...

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