An RTX 5090 for 20-30fps for the small model: That is not as unreasonable as I had feared :D
Readit NewsPlankaluel commented on Waypoint-1: Real-Time Interactive Video Diffusion from Overworld huggingface.co/blog/waypo... · Posted by u/avaer
Plankaluel commented on What an unprocessed photo looks like maurycyz.com/misc/raw_pho... · Posted by u/zdw
This is a great article but I was surprised how anemic the tree was :)
Really good article though
Yeah, that was my first reaction as well
Plankaluel commented on The "Mad Men" in 4K on HBO Max Debacle fxrant.blogspot.com/2025/... · Posted by u/tosh
I think this is just another case of "over-optimization to make shareholders happy in the end ruins everything". I.e., the normal enshittification problem.
Pretty sure all of that does make financial sense: - Being able to write 4k will bring people in to re-watching/watching the show for the first time. - Redoing the CGI, etc., would have cost a lot of money. - Very few people will cancel their subscription or stop watching because of stuff like that - So in the end, no one cares
I.e., it makes financial sense to do the minimum possible. Sure, if this were a project you care about, if it were your company that you are also emotionally invested in and maybe proud of, etc., things might look different. But your actual customers are shareholders, which in the end are predominantly giant ETF brokers and pension funds, that don't care about anything else but what your stock price looks like and whether you are in the S&P500. They probably don't even know what your company is doing.
Sorry, rant over ;P
Plankaluel commented on Alleged Jabber Zeus Coder 'MrICQ' in U.S. Custody krebsonsecurity.com/2025/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Those 2 pictures were of a different hacker, not of MrICQ.
See, that's why you should read the article, I guess :D
So the influence is even worse than I thought ...
Plankaluel commented on Alleged Jabber Zeus Coder 'MrICQ' in U.S. Custody krebsonsecurity.com/2025/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
It's shocking how much pictures influence judgment: Without reading much, at first, I thought: Poor guy, maybe he got pulled into something, ...
Then I saw the pictures of him in a leopard fur pajama and indoor sunglasses, and with his (an assumption on my side) trophy wife, and thought: "Naah, he probably deserves it"
Plankaluel commented on Low-dose radiation offers relief to people with knee osteoarthritis astro.org/news-and-public... · Posted by u/geox
For centuries, in Bulgaria, since Roman times, people have been bathing in slightly radioactive water to treat osteoarthritis. I'm not sure how this is news or an invention when it's been around for centuries and has been the standard of care in Bulgaria for decades. There are sanatoriums and spa centers in Pavel Banya, Bulgaria [0], and I know many friends who go there once or twice a year for treatments and swear they couldn't live without them!
[0]: https://pavelbanyagrand.com/en/the-healing-mineral-water-in-...
Just because something has been done for hundreds of years does not mean it has been scientifically shown to actually do more than placebo.
A lot of people do a lot of stuff that has been proven to do nothing detectable, and they still swear by it.
"It has been done for hundreds of years" isn't a good argument. There is a reason "Appeal to tradition" is one of the more famous logical fallacies.
Also: The radiation doses used in this trial are very likely much, much higher than what you would get from such a bath in radioactive water (otherwise the water would be so radioactive that staying in there or even drinking it would kill you very quickly), so this doesn't really tell us anything about whether the traditional modalities do anything or not. And yes, stuff like that also exists in Austria with Radon caves, and many other places.
Plankaluel commented on Why Romania excels in international Olympiads palladiummag.com/2025/08/... · Posted by u/collate
I have to say:
After all the talk in the article how the Romanian system makes part of the population perform higher by throwing a lot of the resources at them, lowering the performance of the people that are already below average. Which is a problem for Romania because a lot of the highly educated people leave the country afterwards ...
I was not really prepared for the final sentence where the author recommends as a solution that more countries should do it like that.
If only someone could create an app or website to help us uninformed out with common phrases to use. Sentences like:
"Did you see that ludicrous display last night?"
The thing about Arsenal is they always try to walk it in.
This seems to intentionally omit the details required to reproduce the experiment; therefore we should not treat it as good-faith research. Irreproducible research isn't.
Yeah, it's a typical "startup research post", mainly there to have stuff to show to potential investors and customers.
Plankaluel commented on Obscure islands I find interesting amanvir.com/obscure-islan... · Posted by u/venusgirdle
A related, really excellent book: Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky. I see that the hardcover is now $66, which is unfortunate because that's the way to read it. It's beautiful!
Thank you for the tip! I just bought the (german) original which is fortunately still in print and very affordable as a hard cover.